MORNING NEWS DIGEST – February 6, 2012
"NEW" LOCAL
*Police Chase
and Crash
A man is in custody after
leading Toledo police on a chase early this morning. That chase ended when the
driver slammed into a house off River Road near Central Grove Avenue - not too
far from Sherwood.. took off on foot .. and was eventually caught. Police say
the suspect actually ran into several police cars and one officer during the
chase. Police are not yet saying why it began in the first place.
*Gov. Kasich
Talks Taxes in Maumee
Ohio Governor John Kasich
will be in Maumee today hosting a panel discussion with local small-business
owners and economic policy experts. The meeting will take place at noon at the Maumee
corporate offices of Service Spring Corp. This is part of a state-wide tour touting
his tax cut plan.
*ODOT Plans to Expand I-75
The Ohio Department of Transportation
is planning to make more room for drivers in Wood County. ODOT says its slated
to start construction to widen I-75 between McCutchenville and Middleton Pike
either late this summer or early next spring. The $151-million dollar project
will add a third lane to the highway, but that means bridges will have to be
rebuilt in the area.
*Fermi
III Status Stuck on Snakes?
Environmental
and anti-nuclear groups are fighting a new power plant in Monroe County over
snakes. The groups say building the proposed Fermi III plant would endanger the
Eastern Fox Snake. Nuclear regulators say they'll hold a hearing on the issue
but no date has been announced.
"NEW" State News
*OH – Police Shooting Investigation
(AP) - Cleveland civil
rights groups are calling for another independent investigation and appointment
of a special prosecutor in the police chase and shooting that left two people
dead in November. The Plain Dealer reports that the groups - including the
Cleveland NAACP and Southern Christian Leadership Conference - said last night
a state investigation into the shooting didn't address the question of whether
deadly force was justified. The groups say they want another report addressing
that issue. An investigation by the Ohio Attorney General's Office said
leadership and communications failures led to the Nov. 29 chase and shooting
that left the likely unarmed people dead. Some have called the shootings
racially motivated because the suspects were black. A grand jury will determine
if the officers will face charges.
*OH – Free School Lunch Requests Down
(AP) - The number of
lower-income school children in Ohio receiving free or reduced-price lunches
has decreased for the first time in six years. Numbers from the Ohio Department
of Education showed that nearly 820,000 youngsters get subsidized meals this
school year. That's 44.4 percent - a slight decline from the 45.3 percent
enrolled in the program last year. The school-lunch program is funded by the
federal government. It serves students considered to be economically
disadvantaged based on their family income. The Columbus Dispatch reports that
the number of Ohio youngsters in the lunch program has increased by nearly 50
percent in the past decade as poverty has grown. Much of the increase has been
seen in suburban districts, where middle-class families have lost jobs or seen
their earnings decline.
*MI – Michigan Rat Bounty
(AP) - A Detroit-area mayor says officials won't offer a
$5 bounty for every rat caught in the community. The idea was part of a
multi pronged proposal to deal with rats in St. Clair Shores. Mayor Kip Walby
says the decision to scrap the bounty plan came after negative comments on the
city's Facebook page about the issue.
"NEW" NATIONAL/INTERNAT'L. News
*USPS to end Saturday Delivery
(AP) - The U.S. Postal
Service will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to deliver packages
six days a week under a plan aimed at saving about $2 billion annually, the
financially struggling agency says. In an announcement scheduled for later
Wednesday, the service is expected to say the Saturday mail cutback would begin
in August.
*Tourists Raped in Mexico
(CNN) - Mexican authorities
have strong leads in the investigation into the rape of six Spanish tourists in
Acapulco, and arrests could be made as early as this week, a government
official with knowledge of the case told CNN.
(AP) - Authorities in Mexico
say they have information that may lead them to the gang of armed, masked men
who raped six Spanish tourists in the resort of Acapulco. Authorities
say the vicious, hours-long attack happened before dawn Monday at a beach home
also rented by six Spanish men, who were tied up during the attack.
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