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The Department of Justice is searching for Jason Gerald Shenk, a former Georgia resident who allegedly took $33 million from two religious charities and individual donors

The Department of Justice is searching for Jason Gerald Shenk, a former Georgia resident who allegedly took $33 million from two religious charities and individual donors

Wayne County dairy farmer Aaron Amstutz works through Christian Aid Ministries to help those in need.

Nearly 2% of all Ohioans currently have COVID-19; Cleveland’s new mayor has launched COVID-19 task force to address the surge; a federal appeals court has declined to lift a three-state ban on President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors; and more stories.

The 12 members, eight adults and four children, escaped Dec. 15 from the small home where they were held by the 400 Mawozo gang.

The Ohio National Guard and Ohio Department of Health will staff a free, drive-thru COVID-19 testing site starting this morning in Cleveland; Summa Health System is joining other hospitals in postponing nonessential surgeries; all of the Holmes County-based missionaries who spent two-months in captivity by a gang in Haiti are back home; and more stories.

The latest figures from the Ohio Department of Health show Cuyahoga County now has the highest coronavirus transmission rate in the state; the remaining members of a Holmes County-based missionary group who were kidnapped two months ago in Haiti have been freed; a Democrat who helped lead the effort to expel former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder after his federal indictment in a bribery scheme is running for attorney general next year; and more stories.

Christian Aid Ministries in Ohio said on Monday that a violent gang in Haiti has released three more hostages, while another 12 remain abducted.

Two of 17 members of a Holmes County-based missionary group who were kidnapped more than a month ago are safe and “in good spirits” after being freed in Haiti; Ohio enters the week with COVID-19 hospitalizations rising; Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a new map of congressional districts into law; and more stories.

Police in Haiti say the gang that perpetrated the kidnappings, known as 400 Mawozo, is known for such extortions in a country that’s seen kidnappings skyrocket this year amid political instability.