Ohio news digest

DEATH PENALTY-OHIO

COLUMBUS — The low-key announce­ment that Ohio’s pris­ons agency wants a law to pro­tect phar­ma­cies that might mix exe­cu­tion drugs under­scores a high-profile prob­lem: Ohio has enough of its cur­rent lethal drug to exe­cute four inmates, but has six exe­cu­tions sched­uled after that, includ­ing one announced Fri­day. By Andrew Welsh-Huggins.

PAYING FOR SCHOOLS-SUPERINTENDENT PROBED

LEBANON — A school super­in­ten­dent who called on par­ents to cam­paign against Gov. John Kasich over his new school fund­ing plan is being inves­ti­gated by a south­west Ohio pros­e­cu­tor for pos­si­ble improper use of pub­lic resources for pol­i­tics. Ohio Democ­rats say the move is meant to intim­i­date the Repub­li­can governor’s critics.

CLASSROOM BRAWL-PARENT

CINCINNATI — A mother denies help­ing her 15-year-old daugh­ter beat another teenager at a high school, say­ing the other girl was the attacker and the mother was try­ing to break up the fight.

DEPUTY KILLED-LEGISLATION

SPRINGFIELD — An Ohio bill would require courts to report cer­tain men­tal health infor­ma­tion for inclu­sion into a law enforce­ment data­base, let­ting author­i­ties know about men­tally ill peo­ple with a crim­i­nal his­tory in their com­mu­ni­ties. The leg­is­la­tion is named after a sheriff’s deputy who was shot and killed two years ago.

GAS DRILLING-MARCELLUS PRODUCTION

PITTSBURGH — Energy experts say the boom in Mar­cel­lus Shale nat­ural gas pro­duc­tion will slow this year but not because there’s any lack of sup­ply. The slow­down is hap­pen­ing because drillers are wait­ing for pipelines to expand, new mar­kets to develop and whole­sale prices to rise.

Posted by Matt Echelberry on Feb 15 2013. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.