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Paul Disantis, who is the top lawyer for the Ohio secretary of state, explained how Biden can be included on the ballot in a letter to Ohio Democratic Party Chairwoman Liz Walters.
“I believe that the Democratic National Committee needs to change the date of its nominating convention, or the Ohio General Assembly needs to make a new law by May 9, 2024 to make an exception to this rule,” wrote Disantis.
“We are investigating,” said Matt Keyes, who is the Ohio Democratic Party Communications Director, to the media on Saturday.
A person speaking for Biden’s team said they are keeping an eye on what’s happening in Ohio, and they believe Joe Biden will be a candidate in all 50 states.
In 2020, Donald Trump won Ohio by more than eight percent against Biden.
A 49-year-old Black man, Ralph Blaine Smith, who was wrongly imprisoned for more than two decades will receive $1.3 million compensation by the state of Ohio.
According to the Columbus Dispatch, the Columbus resident received a 67-year prison sentence in 2000, after he was accused of carrying out an armed robbery in Lancaster. Prosecutors claimed Smith and another Black man broke into a family home occupied by two adults and their children. The man and woman told police the intruders ordered them to open a basement safe that contained valuable items. The alleged victims said the men ended up stealing rare comic books, jewelry, and about $10,000 in cash.
Though there was no evidence that linked Smith to the alleged crime, the man and woman identified him from a series of photos. He was ultimately convicted of aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, and kidnapping along with a firearm specification.
Smith would spend the next 20 years maintaining his innocence and fighting for his freedom. In 2020, he contacted defense attorney Joseph Landusky and shared the details surrounding his controversial conviction.
“When I read about his case and started getting into it, I really believed that a crime didn’t even happen in this case,” Landusky said, per WBNS-TV.
With the help of Landusky, Smith filed a motion for a new trial. He argued his first attorney did not receive evidence that may have proven his innocence. The motion pointed to a handwritten police report that contained “numerous observations expressing skepticism about whether a crime had occurred.”
“He was sentenced to 67 years in prison for a crime that was not even committed by anyone,” Landusky said. “When first responders showed up, there were no footprints in the snow. It had recently snowed. There was a dog barking right next door when they pulled up, the neighbors said no dog had barked in the last hour.”
In 2021, Fairfield County Prosecutor Kyle Witt declined to pursue a new trial and instead chose to drop all charges against Smith. More than a year after his release, Smith filed a wrongful imprisonment claim against the state, which resulted in the $1.3 million settlement reward.
Smith said he will split the payout with his legal team and use the rest to support his family.
It’s the most ideal way to exact revenge on your crappy ex.
This Valentine’s Day, an Ohio animal shelter is offering to write your ex’s name in a litterbox – and let its adoptable cats go to town.
The Animal Friends Humane Society in Hamilton, Ohio, is offering the unique tribute for just $5. It has already received 480 donations, according to an email sent to CNN.
“Don’t spend thisValentine’s Day down in the dumps!” the shelter wrote on Facebook on Tuesday. “Instead cheer yourself up while making a difference for animals in need!”
On its website, the shelter said that it would accept donations for the fundraiser until Feb. 12th. It’s accepting donations over Venmo and in person.
And on Valentine’s Day, the shelter will post a video showing the litterbox in all its glory, according to its Facebook post.
The shelter currently has around 22 cats available for adoption, according to its website.
The promotion is one of a variety of anti-Valentine’s Day campaigns launched in advance of the romantic holiday. If a litterbox isn’t your style, you can also name a cockroach after your ex at the San Antonio Zoo – and watch it be fed it to an animal.
There is a high likelihood that a toxic gas release will occur, according to authorities in the US state of Ohio, who have threatened to arrest anyone who refuses to leave an evacuation zone near the burning debris of a train derailment near the Pennsylvania state line.
On Monday, residents were preparing for their overnight stays, loading their pets into cars, and looking for hotel rooms as emergency personnel worked to avert a major explosion. As the threat of an explosion grew, police in the town of East Palestine left their communication hub.
“I’m worried about leaving and not getting back,” Mallory Burkett, who lives just outside the evacuation area, said Monday just before her family drove out of town. “I’m definitely going to come back, but I’m not sure when.”
Officials warned hundreds of residents who had declined to evacuate earlier to do so Sunday night, saying a rail car was at risk of a potential explosion that could launch deadly shrapnel as far as a mile.
About 50 cars, including 10 carrying hazardous materials, derailed in a fiery crash on Friday night, according to operator Norfolk Southern Railway and the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). No injuries to crew, residents or first responders were reported.
Approximately 50 train cars derailed on Friday night in East Palestine, Ohio [NTSBGov/Handout via Reuters]
Norfolk Southern said 20 of the more than 100 cars on the train were classified as carrying hazardous materials — defined as cargo that could pose any kind of danger “including flammables, combustibles, or environmental risks”.
The cars involved carried combustible liquids, butyl acrylate and the residue of benzene from previous shipments, officials said.
Five were transporting vinyl chloride, which is used to make the polyvinyl chloride hard plastic resin in plastic products and is associated with an increased risk of liver cancer and other cancers, according to the federal government’s National Cancer Institute.
Authorities on Monday did not say what hazardous materials they were concerned about releasing into the air or how imminent that could be.
A statement from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s office warned on Sunday night of “the potential of a catastrophic tanker failure” after a “drastic temperature change” was observed in a rail car.
Police cars, snowploughs and military vehicles from the Ohio National Guard blocked streets leading into the town on Monday morning as authorities began enforcing what had previously been a strongly recommended evacuation zone within a 1.6km (1-mile) radius of the crash site.
East Palestine: Residents living within a mile of the train derailment site who have not yet left their homes are asked to immediately evacuate due to the potential of a major explosion. pic.twitter.com/F2BWmBipPx
Schools and many businesses were closed, and the local high school was turned into a shelter.
Norfolk Southern has opened an assistance centre in the town to gather information from affected residents. But some residents complained about a lack of information regarding the evacuation, which covered the homes of about half the town’s 4,800 residents.
Emergency responders were monitoring but keeping their distance from the fire. Remediation efforts could not begin while the cars smouldered, authorities said.
The three-member train crew received an alert about the mechanical defect “shortly before the derailment”, Michael Graham, a board member of the NTSB, said Sunday. Investigators identified the exact “point of derailment”, but the board was still working to determine which rail car experienced the axle issue, he said.
Mayor Trent Conaway, who declared a state of emergency in the town, said one person was arrested for going around barricades right up to the crash. He warned people to stay away and said they would risk arrest.
“I don’t know why anybody would want to be up there; you’re breathing toxic fumes if you’re that close,” he said, stressing that monitors of air quality away from the fire showed no levels of concern and that the town’s water is safe.
Drone footage shows the freight train derailment in East Palestine on February 6, 2023 [NTSBGov/Handout via Reuters]
Joe Frasure was shot on Monday in the Wyoming town and died in the hospital on Tuesday.
Police have stated that they thought the 28-year-old was a suspect in a burglary and that he drove a van at them.
His family, however, has disputed the account given by the authorities and demanded that the bodycam video of the incident be made public.
Police have said that they arrived at a residence on Durrell Avenue just after midnight on Monday following reports of a possible burglary.
They discovered two men in the back of the house who claimed Frasure did not respond to the officers’ commands and attempted to flee in a minivan. It is unclear whether Frasure was in the van when officers arrived or got in afterwards.
“The minivan reversed at a high rate of speed, before hitting a tree, at which point the vehicle accelerated rapidly at our officers,” said Wyoming Police Chief Brooke Brady.
She added that police fired four shots at the van and that Frasure was hit. The van then hit the building.
Ms Brady said the officers then pulled Frasure from the car and performed life-saving care on him before he was taken to the hospital.
The county coroner has listed Frasure’s cause of death as a police-involved shooting, WLWT news reports.
The second man at the back of the house has been identified as Frasure’s father. According to WCPO 9 News, Wyoming police have said that he is no longer “sought by police,” but would not provide any other details.
His brother has alleged that Frasure was shot in the back of the head, WCPO reports, in an apparent contradiction of what the police have said happened.
“I want to know why they killed my brother,” he said. “My brother was a father, a brother, a son, and a family member. A loving friend.”
Orlando Brown has had another run-in with the law.
According to an online booking record obtained by Complex, the 35-year-old actor was arrested in Ohio for domestic violence. More specifically, the record says he was charged with “domestic violence – cause belief of imminent physical harm by threat of force” on Thursday morning.
TMZ reports that a Lima Police Department spokesperson said they received a call about a physical altercation on Thursday and ended up apprehending Brown for the misdemeanor crime. At first, it wasn’t known who called the cops on Brown, but it was said that he had a confrontation with someone in his family or who was staying in the home.
The outlet later found out that Brown’s brother Matthew claimed that Brown is homeless and didn’t want him to stay in a shelter. So, instead, Matthew let Brown stay in a home that was being fixed up, and at this point, has been in Lima, Ohio for over a month.
However, on Thursday, Brown apparently started verbally attacking Matthew by accusing him of raping his wife—and then Brown physically attacked Matthew by threatening him with a broken-off knife blade and hammer, behavior Matthew said was “crazy.” Matthew said Brown didn’t actually physically hurt him and put them down at some point.
Brown has had several prior bouts with the law and has attended rehab. In 2018, he was arrested for narcotics possession and purported burglary.
Twin boys who were kidnapped earlier this week in Columbus, Ohio have been reunited and the suspect has been taken into custody.
CNN reports that the five-month-old babies had been taken on Monday, when their mother, Wilhelmina Thomass had left them inside her car while picking up a DoorDash order as a driver. Kyair Thomass was found first, on Tuesday and Kason Thomass was later found on Thursday.
“Kason Thomass was found alive & safe in Indianapolis near a Papa John’s pizza location. The five-month-old boy is in good health & being transported to a hospital to be checked out,” the police said in a statement via Twitter.
At around 2 p.m. on Thursday, police apprehended the suspect, 24-year-old Nalah Jackson, who allegedly stole Wilhelmina’s black 2010 Honda Accord while it was still running. When the mother came out, her car was no longer there. Kyair was later found near the Dayton International Airport at around 4:15 a.m.. Kason would be found two days later in the stolen vehicle wearing the same clothes from Monday.
Jackson has been hit with two felony counts of kidnapping. She will deal with federal charges too since she traveled across state lines.
Restaurant employees would later tell police that they witnessed a homeless woman leave the restaurant right after Wilhelmina walked in.
It doesn’t appear that there is any sort of link between Jackson and the Thomass family.
Foxconn, which manufactures iPhones for Apple, says it is increasing its investment in a US electric pick-up truck company that could compete with Tesla’s Cybertruck.
The technology behemoth is investing up to $170 million (£147.8 million) in the loss-making start-up Lordstown Motors.
The large cash infusion comes as the company plans to increase production of its first model, the Endurance.
Lordstown recently began production of the vehicle at a former GM plant in the US state of Ohio.
The world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics purchased a more than 18% stake in Lordstown, making it the company’s largest investor.
“Since announcing our first transaction with Foxconn more than a year ago, it has been our objective to develop a broad strategic partnership that leverages the capabilities of both companies,” Lordstown’s executive chairman Daniel Ninivaggi said.
The two companies also said they would jointly develop an electric vehicle together, although they did not give further details of the plan.
The tie-up came after the world’s biggest electric carmaker Tesla, which is owned by multi-billionaire Elon Musk, was earlier this month reported by the Reuters news agency to be planning to start mass production of its Cybertruck at the end of 2023.
That would be two years after the original target for the highly-anticipated pick-up truck that Mr Musk unveiled in 2019.
Taiwan-based Foxconn’s investment is the latest cash injection into Lordstown as it continues to run at a loss.
Separately on Monday, figures for the three months to the end of September showed a net loss of $154.4m, wider than the $95.8m loss the company reported for the same time last year.
Shares in Lordstown rose by almost 18% in extended trading in New York after the announcements.
Last week Foxconn agreed a deal with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund to produce electric vehicles in the kingdom.
The joint venture will operate under the brand name Ceer, which sounds like the Arabic word for “drive”.
Ceer will license technology from Germany’s BMW and aims to start selling its electric vehicles from 2025.
The deal is part of Saudi Arabia’s push to move its economy away from its dependence on fossil fuels.
Last month Foxconn’s chairman Liu Young-way said he hopes the company will one day make cars for Tesla as it ramps up electric vehicle manufacturing operation.
Speaking at the company’s annual Tech Day, he said the firm aimed to replicate its success in manufacturing consumer devices as it expands into making electric vehicles for major motor industry brands.
On the final day of campaigning, President Joe Bidenwill hold a rally in Maryland, while his predecessor, Donald Trump, will be in Ohio.
An election year that has unfolded against the backdrop of economic turmoil, the elimination of federal abortion rights, and widespread concerns about the future of democracy is coming to a close with a final full day of campaigning in which leaders from both parties will make urgent appeals to their supporters.
President Joe Biden is holding a Monday evening rally in Maryland, where Democrats have one of their best opportunities to reclaim a Republican-held governor’s seat. The appearance is in line with Biden’s late-campaign strategy of sticking largely to Democratic strongholds rather than stumping in more competitive territory, where control of Congress may ultimately be decided.
Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump will hold his final rally of the campaign in Ohio. As he readies another run for the White House, Ohio holds special meaning for the former president because it was one of the first places where he was able to prove his enduring power among Republican voters.
His backing of JD Vance was crucial in helping the author and venture capitalist – and one-time Trump critic – secure the GOP’s nomination for a Senate seat.
With more than 41 million ballots already cast, Monday’s focus will be ensuring that supporters either meet early voting deadlines or make plans to show up in person on Tuesday. The results will have a powerful effect on the final two years of Biden’s presidency, shaping policy on everything from government spending to military support for Ukraine.
In the first national election since the violent January 6 insurrection, the final days of the campaign focused on fundamental questions about the nation’s political values.
Campaigning in New York for Governor Kathy Hochul on Sunday, Biden said Republicans were willing to condone last year’s mob attack at the US Capitol and that, after the recent assault on Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, some in that party made “light of it” or were “making excuses”.
“There’s never been a time in my career where we’ve glorified violence based on a political preference,” the president said.
Meanwhile, during a Sunday evening Trump rally in Miami, a reference to Nancy Pelosi prompted chants of “Lock her up!” – a stark reminder of the nation’s deep political divide.
Trump speaks at a rally in support of the campaign for Florida Senator Marco Rubio on Sunday in Miami [Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo]
Trump was campaigning for Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s re-election, but also focused on his own political future. After telling a crowd in Iowa last week that he is “very, very, very probably” going to run for president again, he again teased the possibility on Sunday and encouraged supporters to watch his Ohio rally.
“I will probably have to do it again, but stay tuned,” Trump said, teasing the Monday event. “We have a big, big rally. Stay tuned for tomorrow night.”
Not attending the Miami event was Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who is running for re-election against Democrat Charlie Crist and is widely considered Trump’s most formidable challenger if he also were to get into the White House race.
DeSantis held his own, separate events on Sunday in other parts of the state where he stuck to the centrepieces of his re-election campaign, including railing against COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The governor’s counter-political programming avoided antagonising Trump – meaning it did not deliver the duelling 2024 events that could be in his and Trump’s near future.
Trump said on Sunday that Florida would “re-elect Ron DeSantis as your governor”. But he was more confrontational during a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday, referring to Florida’s governor as “Ron DeSanctimonious”.
It is a rivalry that has been simmering for more than a year as DeSantis has taken increasingly bold steps to boost his national profile and build a deep fundraising network – even as Trump remains unquestionably the party’s most popular leader.
For national Democrats, meanwhile, the focus is on their narrow control of the House and the Senate, which could evaporate after Tuesday.
Voters may rebuke the party controlling the White House and Congress amid surging inflation, concerns about crime and pessimism about the direction of the country. History suggests the party in power will suffer significant losses in the midterms.
Biden has made the case that the nation’s very democracy is on the ballot and the first lady went to Texas on Sunday to sound a similar alarm. “So much is at stake in this election,” Jill Biden said in Houston. “We must speak up on justice and democracy.”
Travelling in Chicago, Vice President Kamala Harris said, “These attacks on our democracy will not only directly impact the people around our country, but arguably around the world.”
Trump has long falsely claimed he lost the 2020 election only because Democrats cheated and has even begun raising the possibility of election fraud this year. Federal intelligence agencies are warning of the possibility of political violence from far-right extremists.
Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chairwoman, said Democrats were “inflation deniers”, trying to deflect the other side’s branding of her party as anti-democratic for rejecting the results of 2020’s free and fair presidential election simply because Trump lost it.
“If we win back the House and the Senate, it’s the American people saying to Joe Biden, we want you to work on behalf of us and we want you to work across the aisle to solve the problems that we are dealing with,” McDaniel told CNN.
The much-anticipated Heroes of Africa concert will be launched in New Jersey on October 9.
The event which is to honour and expose Ghanaian and other African acts to the world through music will see evergreen musicians like Dada KD and Natty Borax as well as younger music sensations Fameye, Akwaboah, Mr Drew and King Jerry.
Other musicians from the continent have also been billed to perform.
These artistes will be mounting the stage in Ohio for the Concert to thrill fans.
As part of efforts to promote the concert, organisers Abofrem Area Foundation will be having the official launch to outdoor the artistes and give more details about the concert.
The concert is scheduled to come off on October 29 at the King’s Hall in Columbus, Ohio.
