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Toledo hopes conduct pact with police will serve as model

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A coalition representing minority groups in Ohio’s fourth-largest city hopes a code of conduct signed with police to improve relations between the two can be a model for other cities. The pact outlines how people in the city should be respectful while dealing police and how officers should limit use of force and spend more time …

Drug issue fails, victims’ rights OK’d

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio voters rejected a proposal Tuesday that sought to curb prescription drug prices paid by the state for prisoners, injured workers and poor people while supporting a crime victims’ rights amendment with no organized opposition. The pharmaceutical industry spent an estimated $70 million to oppose Issue 2, the Ohio Drug Price Relief Act, saying it would …

‘Defenseless people’: Gunman kills 26 at South Texas church

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — A gunman dressed in black tactical-style gear and armed with an assault rifle opened fire inside a small South Texas church, killing 26 people in an attack that claimed tight-knit neighbors and multiple family members ranging in age from 5 to 72 years old. Once the shooting started Sunday at the First Baptist Church in …

Memo details sex harassment by former Ohio state senator Hite

CLEVELAND (AP) — A memo detailing a female state employee’s sexual harassment complaint against an Ohio state senator who abruptly resigned says he repeatedly asked her to have sex with him. The memo concerning complaints against former State Sen. Cliff Hite was written by the director of the Ohio Legislative Service Commission, the agency where the woman is an attorney.

Hite further explains resignation in statement

Cliff Hite

Former Ohio Senator Cliff Hite and his wife, Diane, issued a statement Wednesday morning on the Socialfindlay.com website regarding his sudden resignation on Monday from his seat in the Senate. In earlier explanations, Hite had cited medical concerns within his family as the reason for his abrupt departure. He further explains the situation in the following statement. “I’m not proud …

Some in GOP open to banning gun accessory used in Vegas

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior congressional Republicans say they are open to considering legislation banning “bump stocks” like the shooter in Las Vegas apparently used to make semi-automatic rifles perform more like fully automatic weapons. The comments from lawmakers including the No. 2 Senate Republican, John Cornyn of Texas, marked a surprising departure from GOP lawmakers’ general antipathy to gun regulations …

Clues few and elusive for motive of Vegas gunman

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Those seeking to know the motive of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock have had little more to chase than hints and shadows. Paddock led such a low-key, private life that no one seemed to know him well, and those who did had no sense he was capable of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. …

Trump targets intel committee over probe

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is criticizing the Senate intelligence committee over its investigation into possible collusion between Russia and associates of the Trump campaign. Trump said on Twitter Thursday: “Why Isn’t the Senate Intel Committee looking into the Fake News Networks in OUR country to see why so much of our news is just made up-FAKE!” Leaders of …

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