The
Hill… The
Republicans' strategy
to block Obama’s regulations, By Tim Devaney
and Lydia
Wheeler
The GOP is preparing to mount a full-scale assault on President Obama’s
regulatory agenda, using the party’s strengthened hand in Congress to
delay, soften or block contentious administration rules at every turn.
As long as Obama sits atop the executive branch, Republicans’ power to
derail scores of rulemaking efforts now under way is limited. But
control of both the House and Senate in the next Congress will enable
GOP lawmakers to ratchet...
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Three
vehicles involved in weather-related
accident
On December 2, 2014 at approximately 7:37 AM Darke County Deputies
along with Greenville City Fire, Greenville Township Fire, Greenville
Township Rescue, Union City Rescue and CareFlight were dispatched to
the 3600 Block of State Route 571 West near White Springs Golf Course
in reference to a serious injury accident. Preliminary investigation
revealed a black 2011 Toyota Camry...
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Driver in
critical condition following
single-car accident
On December 2, 2014 at approximately 8:58 AM Darke County Deputies
along with Liberty Township Fire, Tri-Village Rescue and CareFlight
were dispatched to the 3500 block of Palestine-Hollansburg Road in
reference to a one-vehicle injury accident. Preliminary investigation
revealed a blue 2007 Ford Fusion, driven by Michael B. Karns, 20,
Greenville, Ohio was southbound on Palestine-Hollansburg...
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| Dayton
Business Journal… Hagel
resignation leaves big questions for Wright-Patt, Dayton,
by Joe Cogliano -- Nov 24, 2014 -- The resignation of Defense Secretary
Chuck Hagel on Monday could be a setback to local advocacy efforts for
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Hagel understands the role that
Wright-Patt plays in national defense because of his military
background, former U.S. Rep. Dave Hobson told me Monday morning. So
Wright-Patt leadership, as well as the community here, may have to
start their relationship with his...
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Attorney
General Mike DeWine… Ohioans
Losing Money to Job Scams
(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today warned Ohioans
to be cautious of opportunities to make extra money this holiday
season. Some job offers and work-from-home opportunities are scams. In
2014, the Ohio Attorney General’s Office has received nearly 100
complaints involving job or business-opportunity potential scams. The
average reported loss is more than $1,300. “It’s a time...
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FBI…
In the
Line of Duty: Annual ‘Officers Killed’ Report
More Than a
Tally of Losses
11/26/14 -- The FBI’s annual Law Enforcement Officers Killed and
Assaulted (LEOKA) report that was released earlier this week details in
chilling narratives and statistics how 76 law enforcement officers were
killed in the line of duty in 2013. While the LEOKA report offers a
stark reminder of the dangers police face every day, the main reason
for gathering the comprehensive data...
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Rasmussen…
What
They Told
Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
Saturday, November 29, 2014 -- Did Thanksgiving come just in time?
After outrage over the expected yet controversial grand jury decision
in Ferguson and contention over the president’s executive action on
immigration, perhaps Americans needed a day to step back and reflect.
On Monday, the St. Louis County Grand Jury decided not to indict
Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson...
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The
Hill… Five
things to watch in
Ferguson,
By Peter Sullivan
Protests are likely to quiet as families gather around the table to
celebrate the holiday — with many discussing the grand jury’s decision
in Ferguson, Mo., to not bring an indictment against police officer
Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old
African American. The political world has taken notice of Ferguson,
particularly with demonstrations spreading across the country. The
degree to which the story continues...
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Stolen vehicle pursuit
Greenville- On November 27, 2014 at 6:24 p.m. Darke County 911 received
a call from a subject reporting that his vehicle was just stolen in
Union City, IN and that the vehicle was eastbound on SR571 from Union
City. Darke County Deputies responded to the area to attempt
to
locate the vehicle. The vehicle was reported as being a black
Kia
with an Indiana registration. Darke County Deputies located...
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FBI…
Honoring
the Fallen: 20
Years Since Shooting Killed Two Agents,
Police Sergeant
11/21/14 -- Two decades ago, on November 22, 1994, a lone gunman
entered the headquarters building of the Metropolitan Police Department
(MPD) in Washington, D.C. and opened fire in a squad room, killing a
police sergeant and two FBI agents. For those close to the fallen, who
gathered today for a memorial service marking 20 years since the tragic
event, it’s as if it happened yesterday...
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FBI…
Be
aware of
cyber scams this holiday season; If the deal sounds too good to
be true, it
probably is.
The FBI reminds shoppers in advance of the holiday shopping season to
beware of cyber criminals and their aggressive and creative ways to
steal money and personal information. Scammers use many techniques to
defraud consumers by offering too good to be true deals via phishing
e-mails advertising brand name merchandise, quick money making offers,
or gift cards as an...
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Injury accident on SR121
Greenville - On November 27, 2014 at approximately 4:22 a.m. Darke
County Deputies, along with New Madison Fire and Tri-Village Rescue,
was dispatched to SR121 just north of US36 W reference to a single
vehicle roll over accident. Preliminary investigation revealed that a
2007 Toyota Yaris, driven by Monica C. Jones (24) of Palestine, OH, was
southbound on SR121 just north of US36 when...
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Bluebag
Media… County
bridge burden
great; resources insufficient
GREENVILLE – “I have always known our bridge burden is great, but I
didn’t know how great,” said Darke County Engineer Jim Surber. He is
referring to a recent report by the National Association of Counties in
which Darke County is noted as being 10th in the nation for the number
of county-owned bridges. “The counties with more bridges than Darke
include Harris (Houston, TX)...
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Ohio
and U.S.
Employment Situation (Seasonally Adjusted)
Ohio's unemployment rate was 5.3 percent in October 2014, down from 5.6
percent in September 2014. Ohio's nonfarm wage and salary employment
increased 1,000 over the month, from a revised 5,306,300 in September
to 5,307,300 in October. The number of workers unemployed in Ohio in
October was 305,000, down 14,000 from 319,000 in September. The number
of unemployed has decreased by 119,000 in the past 12 months from...
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FBI… In the
Line of Duty - 2013
Statistics on Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted
- November 24, 2014 - A Florida sheriff’s officer, responding to a
report of a domestic disturbance at a residence, was shot and killed by
someone inside the home. An Iowa police officer was shot and killed
while attempting to serve an arrest warrant. A Michigan state trooper
was fatally shot during a routine traffic stop. And a West Virginia
sheriff was ambushed and...
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Accident at U.S. Route 127 and
Horatio-Harris Creek Road
On 11-24-2014 at approximately 6:38 p.m., Darke County Deputies, along
with Greenville Township Fire and Greenville Area Rescue, were
dispatched to US RT 127 and Horatio Harris Creek Road in reference to
an injury accident. Responding units were advised flames were
showing from one of the vehicles. Preliminary investigation has
revealed a 2014 Freightliner, driven by Charles P. Baughman, Ansonia,
was heading north and attempting ...
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House Files Litigation Over
President's
Unilateral Actions on Health Care Law
WASHINGTON, DC -- Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) today
announced that the House of Representatives – consistent with the
House-passed resolution H.Res. 676 – has filed litigation over
President Obama’s unilateral actions on his health care law: “Time
after time, the president has chosen to ignore the will of the American
people and re-write federal law on his own without a vote of
Congress. That’s not the way our system...
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Edison Begins Presidential Search
Edison Community College’s Board of Trustees has selected Academic
Search, Inc. as the firm to lead the College through its next
presidential search. The national search firm will implement a proven
search strategy in which they will guide Edison toward a successful
hiring decision. Built upon years of experience, Academic Search, Inc.
will implement a search strategy, which will align the...
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Attorney General Mike DeWine… Southwest
Ohio Violent Crimes Task Force Successful in First Year of Operation
-- (CINCINNATI) -- Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, Hamilton County
Sheriff Jim Neil, Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell, Woodlawn
Police Chief Jeffrey Witte, Lockland Police Chief Jim Toles, and the
FBI announced today the success of the Southwest Ohio Violent Crimes
Task Force following its first year in operation. "The detectives
assigned to this task force have been working covertly...
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Private property ATV injury crash
On Sunday November 23, 2014 at approximately 12:38 PM, Darke County
Sheriff Deputies along with Gettysburg Rescue, Bradford Fire Dept. and
CareFlight were dispatched to the 6600 block of Smith Rd on a report of
a private property injury accident involving a 4-wheeler ATV that had
been flipped in a field. Investigation revealed a Polaris 500 Scrambler
4-wheeler ATV was being operated by a 14-year-old female from Bradford,
OH. The 14-year-old ...
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Bluebag
Media… County
salt supplies
adequate, and expensive
GREENVILLE – “We used $12,000 worth of salt yesterday (Nov. 17)… that’s
about 200 tons, give or take,” said Darke County Engineer Jim Surber.
Noting the early start of winter he added he was still comfortable with
the salt on hand, plus that contracted through ODOT (Ohio Department of
Transportation). According to Surber, this will be an expensive year
for snow removal. “You can buy...
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Rep.
Richard Adams Receives Award for Distinguished Public Service
COLUMBUS—State Representative Richard Adams (R-Troy) recently received
the 2014 Paul E. Gillmor Lifetime Public Service Award. He was honored
November 13th during the Ohio Bankers’ League Annual Meeting. The
award, established in 2006, is not granted annually, but rather is
given to select individuals who are especially meritorious, often at
the end of their careers. It is named after Ohi...
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| The
White House… Remarks
by the
President in Address to the Nation on Immigration
- Nov. 20, 2014 - My fellow Americans, tonight, I’d like to talk with
you about immigration. For more than 200 years, our tradition of
welcoming immigrants from around the world has given us a tremendous
advantage over other nations. It’s kept us youthful, dynamic, and
entrepreneurial. It has shaped our character as a people with limitless
possibilities –- people not trapped by our past, but able to remake
ourselves as we choose. But today, our immigration system is broken --
and everybody...
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CNN... Obama:
'You can come out
of the shadows'
By Jim Acosta and Stephen Collinson, CNN - Fri November 21, 2014 -
Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama is ordering the most
sweeping overhaul of the immigration system in decades, despite
Republican claims he is acting illegally by moving unilaterally to
shield five million undocumented immigrants. Obama rejected accusations
by conservatives that he is offering a free pass to undocumented
immigrants and warned in a...
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Recommended House Committee
Chairs for
114th Congress
WASHINGTON, DC – The House Republican Steering Committee today
recommended the following lawmakers to serve as committee chairs in the
114th Congress: Agriculture – Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX); Appropriations
– Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY); Armed Services – Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX);
Budget – Rep. Tom Price (R-GA); Education & the Workforce –
Rep.
John Kline (R-MN); Energy & Commerce – Rep. Fred Upton...
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Darke
County
Cocaine Bust Yields Drugs, Money, Guns
On November 14, 2014, the Darke County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit
executed a search warrant at 6102 State Route 722, Arcanum,
Ohio. Roger L. Large (66) of that address was taken
into
custody without incident and is currently being housed at the Darke...
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Gongwer News
Service… Rosenberger
Elected
Speaker For Next General Assembly
House Republicans, who will have a strong majority in the next General
Assembly, elected Rep. Cliff Rosenberger (R-Clarksville) Wednesday to
serve as speaker of the House for the new term. Mr. Rosenberger, who
will succeed term-limited Speaker Bill Batchelder (R-Medina), was the
favorite in the vote and fended off a challenge mounted by Rep. Jim
Butler (R-Oakwood) and a coalition of more conservative members...
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Majority Caucus Affirms
Leadership Team for
131st General Assembly
COLUMBUS– The Senate Majority Caucus today unanimously reelected its
leadership team to their posts, positioning State Senator Keith Faber
(R–Celina) to serve a second term as President of the Ohio Senate.
Faber has served as the head of the General Assembly’s upper chamber
since January 2013. He has been a member of the leadership team since
2009, having previously served as both Majority Floor Leader...
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Trotwood Man Arrested in Darke
County Drug
Bust
On November 12, 2014, the Darke County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit
executed a buy/bust operation in rural Darke
County.
Antonio Boyd (33) of Trotwood was taken into custody without incident
and is currently being housed at the Darke County Jail where he awaits
formal charges of Trafficking in Drugs and Illegal Conveyance of Drugs
into a Detention Facility. The buy/bust operation involved heroin...
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FBI… Crime
Statistics for 2013 Released; Decrease in Violent Crimes and
Property
Crimes
11/10/14 -- The FBI released Crime in the United States, 2013 today,
which shows that the estimated number of violent crimes in 2013
decreased 4.4 percent when compared with 2012 figures, and the
estimated number of property crimes decreased 4.1 percent. There were
an estimated 1,163,146 violent crimes reported to law enforcement last
year, along with an estimated 8,632,512 property crimes...
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State Expands Services for
Unemployed
Veterans
COLUMBUS, OHIO – Governor John R. Kasich and Lt. Governor Mary Taylor
have proclaimed November Hire a Veteran Month, and the Ohio Department
of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) encourages employers to consider the
skills and abilities of military veterans when seeking new employees.
“According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are approximately 35,000
unemployed veterans in Ohio,” said ODJFS Director Cynthia C. Dungey.
“ODJFS...
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Bluebag Media… Beagle
expresses
thanks; renewal levies pass
DARKE COUNTY – “Today we celebrated by pulling down our big signs,”
said State Senator Bill Beagle (R- Dist. 5). He added he wasn’t
expecting that big a difference in the votes. “We thought we’d be
squeaking through… we feel pretty good!” Beagle expressed his gratitude
to the voters for sending him back to Columbus for four more years. He
wants to continue working on his...
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Two injury accidents NW county
On November 11, 2014 at approximately 1:56 PM Darke County Deputies
along with Union City Rescue, Southwest Mercer County Fire and
CareFlight were dispatched to the intersection of McFeeley-Petry Road
and Light Road in reference to a two vehicle injury accident.
Preliminary investigation revealed a white 1998 Ford F-150 driven by
Dennis W. Brewer, 56, Ft. Recovery Ohio...
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MSN.com… Before
Battling Democrats, G.O.P. Is
Fighting Itself, By Jeremy W. Peters
WASHINGTON — As most Republicans were taking a victory lap the morning
after the elections, a group of conservatives huddled anxiously in a
conference room not far from Capitol Hill and agreed that now is the
time for confrontation, not compromise and conciliation. Despite
Republicans’ ascension to Senate control and an expanded House
majority, many conservatives from the party’s activist wing fear that
congressional leaders are already being too timid with President Obama...
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Home burglaries in Southern Darke
County
Sheriff Toby Spencer is advising citizens and residents of southern
Darke County to be on the lookout for suspicious activity in their
neighborhoods. Several reports of thefts and home burglaries
have
recently been reported to the Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Spencer states
that little or no information has been obtained as to who is committing
these crimes or what they may be driving; however, it is believed that...
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WHIO-TV…
Toddler
in
serious condition after alleged abuse, By News
Staff
A 28-year-old man accused of seriously injuring his girlfriend’s
2-year-old daughter is behind bars. Todd Clark turned himself in around
4:30 p.m. Saturday to the Miami County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies had
been looking for Clark for about seven hours. He was booked without
bond into the Miami County Jail, where he is being held on suspicion of
child endangering, felonious assault and domestic violence, online jail
records show...
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FBI…
Egregious
Case of Health Care Fraud:
Cancer
Doctor Admits Prescribing Unnecessary Chemotherapy
-- 11/06/14 -- Imagine receiving a diagnosis of cancer and then having
to go through chemotherapy or other intensive treatments. Then imagine
finding out that you never had cancer in the first place and that your
doctor—whom you trusted implicitly—merely used you in his scheme to
fraudulently bill the federal Medicare program and private insurance
companies...
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Greenville
Police Department… Body
armor
scam
The Greenville Police Department is not currently collecting monies for
body armor or any type of equipment. If you receive a call from someone
trying to elicit funds for these reasons, please do not give out any
personal or credit card information. Call the
Police
Department at 937-548-4150 to report this type of activity. Anyone with
any information regarding suspicious activity or a crime is asked to
contact the...
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Federal
News Radio… Good
news in the EVS: A well-educated
federal workforce, By Michael O'Connell
Friday - 10/31/2014 -- Not all the news in the 2014 Employee Viewpoint
Survey is bad. In fact, some of it's quite good when it comes to the
education of federal employees. The Office of Personnel Management
surveys more than 400,000 federal employees each year on their level of
satisfaction in the workplace. When OPM released the most recent EVS
report earlier in October, most of the media focus was on the low
scores senior managers received across-the-board from their employees...
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Attorney
General Mike DeWine… Task
Force
Seizes Nearly a Quarter of a Million in Crystal Methamphetamine
- (DAYTON, Ohio)— Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, Montgomery County
Sheriff Phil Plummer, Butler Township Police Chief John Cresie, and
Miami Township Police Chief Ronald Hess announced today the arrest of a
Chicago resident following the seizure of nearly a quarter of a million
dollars worth of crystal methamphetamine...
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Darke County Man Arrested in Meth
Bust
On November 5, 2014, the Darke County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit
executed a search warrant at 503 Beamsville-Union City Road, lot 29,
Union City, Ohio. Rickie Hess, Jr. (40) of Union
City was
taken into custody without incident and is currently being housed at
the Darke County Jail where he awaits formal charges of Trafficking in
Drugs, Possession of...
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NBC
News… Terminally
Ill College Player Lauren Hill
Lives College Hoops Dream, By John Yang
It was over in a moment, but the layup Lauren Hill made 17 seconds into
a college basketball game Sunday was a life-long dream come true. “I
caught the ball turned and looked at the basket and I put it up there.
And I watched it all the way through,” Hill, a 19-year-old student at
Mount St. Joseph who suffers from a rare brain tumor and is predicted
to have only months to live, said of her score 17 seconds into a game
against Hiram College, which was moved up two weeks...
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New Most Wanted Posted
Tavis Hileman - WANTED FOR: July 2014 – Arrest warrant issued by Darke
County Common Pleas Court after being indicted by the Darke County
Grand Jury on 2 counts of Trafficking in Marijuana. Both
counts
are felonies of the fifth degree. Andrew Kaiser - WANTED FOR: March
2014 – Bench Warrant issued by Darke County Common Pleas Court for
failure to appear on original charges...
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FBI…
Cyber
Crime; Purchase
Order Scam Leaves a Trail of
Victims
10/27/14 -- What began as a scheme to defraud office supply stores has
evolved into more ambitious crimes that have cost retailers around the
country millions of dollars—and the Nigerian cyber criminals behind the
fraud have also turned at-home Internet users into unsuspecting
accomplices. FBI investigators are calling it purchase order fraud, and
the perpetrators are extremely skillful. Through online and telephone...
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