Norwalk has lifted the “do not contact” advisory from its upper and memorial reservoirs.
Water Treatment plant chief operator, Rick Schaffer, says quote “Normal recreational activities may resume at all of the city’s reservoirs.” Tests on Monday concluded that algal blooms in the reservoirs were down to non-detectable levels. The lower reservoir, which is the city’s drinking water source and where no bloom was detected, will remain in isolation until further testing is done, per EPA protocol.
The family of Bryan Jones has asked the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals for a new trial in his 2010 shooting death following a call to the Sandusky County Sheriff’s office.
The Jones family claims the jury heard incomplete evidence last year in their 20 million dollar wrongful death lawsuit against the Sandusky County Sheriff’s office, sheriff Kyle Overmyer and deputies Jose and Mario Calvillo.
Sandusky officials sent a letter to federal authorities requesting full disclosure in their investigation of the city’s decade-old housing scandal, which cost tax-payers 1.4 million dollars and forced residents from their homes.
The letter requests a, quote, “opportunity to discuss the reasons for the determination” that evidence was insufficient to file a Federal criminal charge against potentially corrupt contractors.
A new report finds alternative tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, hookah, and little cigars, is becoming popular among Ohio youth.
A proposal that would have taxed these items was removed from the state budget at the last minute. According to the CDC, between 2013 and 2014, use of electronic cigarettes tripled among US high school students – just over 13 percent use e-cigarettes, while about 9 percent smoke regular cigarettes. Ohio’s two year budget proposal included increased taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products, but the tax on other tobacco products was removed in the final version.
The battle for the legalization of marijuana in Ohio just got a little more complicated.
Just hours after supporters submitted 6 hundred 95-thousand signatures on a petition for the legalization of the plant, state lawmakers approved a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at stopping anyone from creating a quote “monopoly.” The language is aimed at the 10 pre-selected sites around the state the proposed legalization would allow for growing of recreational and medicinal use. Voters will decide in November. If the anti-monopoly issue is defeated and the marijuana issue passes, pot will be legalized in Ohio.