Tag Archives: Ohio

No Labels To Hold Event With GOP OH Senate Candidate

NBC News reports: In a Monday email obtained by NBC News, No Labels co-executive director Liz Morrison invited recipients to a Zoom call Tuesday evening with Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, who is running in a heated Republican Senate primary scheduled for March 19. LaRose, a former state senator, has been involved with No Labels programs in the past, …

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Ohio QAnon Extremist Drops Out Of US House Race

Toledo’s ABC affiliate reports: J.R. Majewski, who was running to be the Republican candidate to face U.S. Representative Marcy Kaptur (D, Toledo) in November, has suspended his campaign. The announcement came weeks after Majewski made headlines for a comment he made during a conservative podcast in February in which he compared arguing online to competing in the Special Olympics in …

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Ohio Man Charged For Pissing On Home’s Pride Flag

The Columbus Dispatch reports: An Ohio State University student is facing ethnic intimidation and other charges after he was caught on surveillance camera earlier this month urinating on a gay pride flag hanging on a home’s porch in Columbus’ Weinland Park neighborhood. Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein announced Tuesday his office has charged 20-year-old Trey Samuel Fetzer in Franklin County …

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Ohio Video Shows Two Men Pissing On Home’s Pride Flag, Banging On Door, Shouting Homophobic Slurs

Columbus’s CBS affiliate reports: Columbus police are looking into a hate crime that happened last week near The Ohio State University’s campus last Thursday. Two men were caught on camera saying homophobic slurs and vandalizing a pride flag in front of a home in the Weinland Park area of Columbus. “It was shocking but not surprising,” Sarah, who lives at …

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Ohio Megachurch Pastor Literally Kicks Bible From Stage As Part Of Super Bowl Sunday Themed Service [Video]

The Christian Post reports: With play-by-play announcers, color commentary, a referee, and a stage covered in AstroTurf, the Crossroads pulpit resembled Allegiant Stadium more than any church on Sunday morning as Senior Pastor Brian Tome and Pastor Alli Patterson sported football jerseys as they took the stage for the “pregame” coin flip. After Tome wins the flip, the referee asks, …

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Ohio GOP Senate Candidate Deletes Anti-Trump Posts

CNN reports: Bernie Moreno, a Republican businessman running for the US Senate in Ohio, once said there was “no scenario” in which he would support Donald Trump. He’s called Trump a “fake Republican” who stokes “hatred and fear” and suggested that the former president’s popularity is the result of “ignorance in our society.” But Moreno has since come to praise …

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Ohio GOP Intros Bill Allowing Execution By Nitrogen

ABC News reports: Ohio lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow execution by nitrogen gas, a controversial practice critics call untested and lacking in evidence that it’s more humane than lethal injection, after Alabama became the first state to execute someone with nitrogen gas. Ohio state Reps. Phil Plummer and Brian Stewart, both Republicans, introduced legislation during a press …

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Ohio AG To Consider Adopting Execution By Nitrogen

The Associated Press reports: Republican state Attorney General Dave Yost scheduled a news conference Tuesday to discuss “next steps to kickstart” Ohio’s capital punishment system. He has expressed support for the nitrogen gas method used for the first time in Alabama last week, when convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was put to death with nitrogen gas administered through a …

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Cultist OH Senate Candidate Shredded Wage Theft Docs

The Insider reports: Former car dealership owner turned GOP candidate Bernie Moreno, whose Ohio Senate race could determine whether Republicans regain control of the chamber, settled over a dozen wage theft lawsuits in the months before launching his campaign last year, according to court documents reviewed by Business Insider. Those settlements came after a jury ordered Moreno to pay over …

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Ex-Rep. Dennis Kucinich Files Ohio Bid For US House

Cleveland.com reports: He’s baaack. Former Democratic Cleveland mayor, congressman and longshot presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich filed paperwork at the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday that indicates he’s running as an independent for the congressional seat held by Rocky River Republican Rep. Max Miller. Kucinich has previously run for office as a Democrat. He missed the December deadline to run in …

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Ohio Lawmakers Want To Require ID To View Porn

Cleveland’s ABC affiliate reports: In an effort to crack down on kids and teens accessing porn, a bipartisan group of lawmakers and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted have proposed legislation that would require every porn watcher to provide 18+ age verification. The legislation was introduced by state Sens. Stephanie Kunze (R-Dublin) and Bill DeMora (D-Columbus). It is so new that it …

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Grand Jury: No Charges For OH Woman Who Miscarried

NBC News reports: An Ohio woman who faced a felony charge after she miscarried at home will not be charged, a grand jury decided Thursday. Brittany Watts, 34, had been charged with abuse of a corpse after she miscarried into a toilet on Sept. 22 at her home in Warren, some 60 miles south of Cleveland. Her case has drawn …

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Ohio GOP Rep Suggests Trans Advocates Be Drowned

The Daily Beast reports: The Ohio Republican behind a bill that would ban transgender students from using bathrooms aligned with their gender identity quoted scripture in justifying the legislation on Wednesday, deploying a verse suggesting that her opponents should be drowned in the sea. State Rep. Beth Lear whipped out the reference to Luke 17:2 while answering questions on House …

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Dozens Of Proud Boys Rally At Ohio Capitol [VIDEO]

Columbus’s ABC affiliate reports: Members of the Proud Boys arrived at the Statehouse early on Saturday afternoon, and were met by a group of counter-protesters calling itself JUST, which stands for Justice, Unity, and Social Transformation. The counter-protesters said they were there to combat misinformation. “The memory of what this country is headed to is happening right before our eyes,” …

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7-Term GOP Rep. Bill Johnson To Resign January 21st

Youngstown’s NBC affiliate reports: Valley Congressman and incoming Youngstown State University President Bill Johnson will begin his new job as YSU President beginning January 22. According to a message sent out to YSU’s community by Trustee Chairman Michael Peterson, Johnson has submitted his resignation from Congress on Tuesday and his term as Congressman will end January 21 with him taking …

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GOP Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Vetoes Anti-Trans Bill

The Columbus Dispatch reports: Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday struck down legislation that would have banned transgender girls from female sports and restricted the medical care of transgender minors. House Bill 68, which cleared the House and Senate earlier this month, would have prevented doctors from prescribing hormones, puberty blockers or gender reassignment surgery before patients turn 18. It also …

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Tennessee Pastor Arrested On Child Porn Charges

CBS News reports: Cleveland Police say they got a lead from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children of child sexual abuse material online. Their detectives got a search warrant for Richard Sentell’s home. Sentell was arrested on Tuesday for Sexual Exploitation of a Minor with greater than a hundred images. Sentell is the pastor at Cornerstone Church of …

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Ohio Grand Jury May Indict Woman Who Miscarried

The Guardian reports: A grand jury is set to decide whether an Ohio woman who miscarried a nonviable fetus should face criminal consequences. Brittany Watts, who was reportedly turned into the police after her September miscarriage, has been charged with the fifth-degree felony of “abuse of a corpse” in Trumbull County, Ohio. Her case has been held up as evidence …

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GOP Scrambles To Block Ohio QAnon House Candidate

Politico reports: House Republicans are scrambling to fix a potential nightmare that’s unfolding in a must-win race in northwestern Ohio. The GOP is eager to block J.R. Majewski from winning its nomination to challenge veteran Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur. Majewski lost his previous bid for Congress last year, after a news report on his military records indicated he lied about …

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Nazi Flags Found In Home Of Walmart Mass Shooter

Newsweek reports: Walmart mass shooting suspect Benjamin Charles Jones may have been at least partially inspired by a racially motivated violent extremist ideology, according to the FBI. The 20-year-old is suspected of using a Hi-Point .45 caliber carbine to shoot four people at a Walmart in Beavercreek, near Dayton, Ohio, on November 20 before turning the gun on himself. Officers …

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