Ohio
Chad Essert Gave Up the Bethel Chief’s Job on a $500,000 Bond With Seventy Felony Counts Still Untried
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July 4, 2026
Chad Essert Gave Up the Bethel Chief’s Job on a $500,000 Bond With Seventy Felony Counts Still Untried
Chad Essert resigned as Bethel police chief after a 70-count indictment from his years as a teacher. The AEGIS Alliance reports the Florida extradition, the bond, and the still-open case.
Cleveland Heights Driver Dorian Pace Got 15 Students Off Burning Bus 21 Thirteen Days After a Clean Inspection
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February 27, 2025
Cleveland Heights Driver Dorian Pace Got 15 Students Off Burning Bus 21 Thirteen Days After a Clean Inspection
Dorian Pace got 15 Monticello Middle School students off Bus 21 on February 27, 2025, after fire broke out behind a rear wheel. The coach had passed a state inspection…
Ohio’s $11.5 Million Opening Week of Legal Marijuana Sales Grew Into an Adult-Use Market Past $1.8 Billion
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August 21, 2024
Ohio’s $11.5 Million Opening Week of Legal Marijuana Sales Grew Into an Adult-Use Market Past $1.8 Billion
Ohio counted $11.5 million in legal marijuana sales in five opening days in August 2024. Adult-use receipts later passed $1.8 billion as lawmakers rewrote the rules.
A Sister’s Surname Tied Raymond Ojeda’s 1991 Killer to the Man FBI Agents Shot Dead in Forest Park, Ohio
Crime News
August 21, 2024
A Sister’s Surname Tied Raymond Ojeda’s 1991 Killer to the Man FBI Agents Shot Dead in Forest Park, Ohio
Investigator John Cary matched Gerardo Aguilar to Gerardo Mulato of Forest Park, Ohio. DNA confirmed the 1991 Foxdale Loop shooter was the man FBI agents killed in 2007.
Mason Grandmother Lashawnda Walters Took a Seven-to-Ten-and-a-Half-Year Ohio Prison Term After a 126-Degree Bath and a Five-Hour Wait
Crime News
May 2, 2024
Mason Grandmother Lashawnda Walters Took a Seven-to-Ten-and-a-Half-Year Ohio Prison Term After a 126-Degree Bath and a Five-Hour Wait
Lashawnda Walters of Mason received an indefinite 7-to-10.5-year Ohio sentence after prosecutors said she scalded her granddaughter in 126-degree water and deleted house video.
Alecia Kitts Was Drive-Stunned on the Logan Bleachers Over a Mask, Fined $350, and an Ohio Senator Later Hurled That Arrest at Anthony Fauci
Crime News
September 24, 2020
Alecia Kitts Was Drive-Stunned on the Logan Bleachers Over a Mask, Fined $350, and an Ohio Senator Later Hurled That Arrest at Anthony Fauci
Alecia Kitts was drive-stunned by a Logan school resource officer on September 23, 2020, after refusing a mask and refusing to leave. She pleaded no contest and paid $350. Senator…
Sandusky’s Hand Jobs Nail Salon Forced Perkins Township to Admit a Vague Indecency Rule Would Lose in Court
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February 17, 2019
Sandusky’s Hand Jobs Nail Salon Forced Perkins Township to Admit a Vague Indecency Rule Would Lose in Court
Dawn Moon's Hand Jobs Nails & Spa sign was denied, then approved, after Ohio had already accepted the name. Months later the Supreme Court barred the government from rejecting scandalous…