‘Call Me Commander’ tells the rest of the true story of a con man Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times
When Jeff Testerman rolled up to a ramshackle Ybor City duplex one August morning in 2009, he didn’t think he was walking into one of the biggest stories he’d ever write.
Testerman was more than 30 years into his career at the then-St. Petersburg Times, with a reputation as a relentless investigative reporter. That day, he was looking into the questionable military background of a local politician, and he had come to the Ybor City address hoping to grab a quick quote from an officer of a group that had made a campaign donation to the politician, the U.S. Navy Veterans Association.
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On Wednesday, the number of people vaccinated for COVID-19 in Ohio exceeded the total number of people who have tested positive for the disease. Slightly more than 908,000 people have received at least one dose of the vaccine so far, which is just over 7% of the population.
Here are your morning headlines for Thursday, February 4:
Vaccinations surpass total COVID-19 cases
Ohio paid $330M in fraudulent unemployment claims in 3 months
Fired Columbus police officer indicted for murder of Andre Hill
Ohio Democratic Senator leaves hearing over lack of masks
Californians charged for pandemic loans to fake Ohio farms
DeWine proposes $10 million for police body cameras
Columbus clergy members want former police Chief Thomas Quinlan out of the department entirely, but Mayor Andrew Ginther isn t budging.
A small but outspoken group of faith leaders delivered a petition to Ginther s office at City Hall on Monday morning with more than 300 signatures on it.
The petition calls for Quinlan not just to be demoted from chief to deputy chief, as he was Thursday, but to be removed from the department as a whole. For him to step down to deputy chief is an egregious insult to our integrity, said the Bishop Donald Washington, senior pastor at Mount Hermon Missionary Baptist Church on the Northeast Side, during a press conference before faith leaders delivered the petition. He needs to go. He needs to go now because a leopard never changes its spots.
Updated: 10:37 AM EST February 1, 2021
ADA, Ohio A man was stabbed and killed during a fight in the city of Ada in Hardin County early Monday morning.
Ada Police Chief Michael Harnishfeger said officers were called to a home on West Montford Street for a disturbance involving a knife at 12:15 a.m.
When officers arrived, they found 49-year-old Rodney Slechter of Lima stabbed.
Officers rendered first aid to Slechter, but he died at the scene.
Police said the man accused of stabbing Slechter was still in the home when officers arrived. He was taken to Lima Memorial Hospital to be treated for injuries sustained during the fight with Slechter.
Credit columbus.gov
A group of local faith leaders is delivering a letter to Columbus Mayor Andy Ginther this morning, calling for former Police Chief Thomas Quinlan to be fired.
Ginther last week demoted Quinlan to Deputy Chief. But the members of Faith In Public Life say Quinlan s handling of citizen protests last summer, his failure to immediately call in the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation after Casey Goodson s shooting death at the hands of a Franklin County deputy, and the shooting of Andre Hill by a Columbus cop, are perpetuating a culture of racism and vilence against Black people. Ginther says hiring Quinlan was his decision: