COLUMBUS — There currently are no state laws that prevent elected county officials from receiving campaign donations from their employees. State Rep. Bill Batchelder, R-Medina, sees that as a problem.
“It just seems to me that we ought to have it clear that people who work for the public that they not be promoted or punished [...]

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HOWELL TWP., Mich. — A Lafayette Township man died Wednesday morning after a concrete slab fell on him while he was unloading a truck at a construction site in Michigan.
Richard Browand, 61, was hauling the slabs when one fell off the tractor-trailer and onto him at 7:53 a.m., according to the Livingston County Sheriff’s Department, [...]

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MEDINA — When Seville resident Elizabeth Riddell stopped at Buehler’s to get a hot dog Friday afternoon, her daughter, Maegan O’Meara, reportedly told her she wanted to go into the store to check out a new toothbrush.
Medina police Lt. Bob Starcher, referring to a police report, said when O’Meara emerged from the store at 275 [...]

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MEDINA — Don’t mess with the mailboxes on Yorktown Drive.
That’s the message residents sent about midnight Sunday when a spree of mailbox bashing sent several neighbors running down the street in pursuit of three young men who allegedly took two hammers and a wooden pickaxe handle to 12 mailboxes in the 900 block of Yorktown [...]

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BEREA — Derek Anderson kept quiet, Brady Quinn played dumb and Eric Mangini guarded the information like a state secret. The news got out anyway.
Bills receiver Terrell Owens sent well wishes to Quinn on his Twitter.com account Wednesday, “Congrats 2 Brady Quinn 4 starting job w/Cleveland Browns!!” And the Plain Dealer reported Quinn will start [...]

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CLEVELAND — Fausto Carmona is stuck in reverse.
The former 19-game winner appeared to be returning to form following a lengthy demotion, but now he looks as though he could use another trip to the minor leagues.
Looking as bad as he has since he’s been back, Carmona paved the way for a 10-0 loss to the [...]

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Ray E. Beckwith
Ila Jean Leatherman
Kelly Ann McCann
Lloyd M. Blackburn

Read the full obituaries on The Gazette E-dition at:
http://medinagazette.oh.newsmemory.com/

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