Andrew Welsh-Huggins And John Seewer
Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation agents work the scene of an officer-involved shooting on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020 at the 1000 block of Oberlin Dr. in Columbus, Ohio. A police officer who shot and killed a Black man holding a cell phone in Ohio s capital city early Tuesday did not activate his body camera beforehand, and dash cameras on the officers cruiser were also not activated, city officials said. (Joshua A. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch via AP) December 31, 2020 - 1:31 PM
COLUMBUS, Ohio - In the minutes that ticked by after a police officer shot Andre Hill inside his friendâs garage, officers scoured the driveway for shell casings, strung crime scene tape around the house and blocked off the street.
Mark Gillispie December 30, 2020 - 5:20 AM
CLEVELAND - Ohioâs largest electric utility, its reputation battered by scandal, has been besieged by more than a dozen lawsuits filed by angry shareholders who include some of the countryâs biggest institutional investors.
And, if history is a guide, FirstEnergy Corp. and its insurers could find themselves paying millions to settle those complaints, as the company did more than 15 years ago when confronted by lawsuits for lying about a dangerous hole in a reactor head at a nuclear power plant and for contributing to the largest blackout in U.S. history.
FirstEnergy and insurers for its corporate officers and board of directors paid out more than $100 million to settle lawsuits in 2004. It is far too early to estimate what settlements of the new lawsuits might total, but the potential payouts could far exceed those from 2004, given the losses shareholders claim to have suffered.
by Mark Gillispie, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 30, 2020 8:20 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 30, 2020 at 8:26 am EDT
FILE – In this April 12, 2005, file photo, operator Kevin Holko monitors the control room during a scheduled refueling shutdown at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in North Perry, Ohio. A federal court docket showed that plea agreements were filed Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020 for defendants Jeffrey Longstreth, a longtime political adviser, and Juan Cespedes, a lobbyist described by investigators as a key middleman in a $60 million bribery case also involving ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder alleged to have helped prop up this aging nuclear power plant and the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
The Ohio Supreme Court on Monday issued a temporary stay to stop collection of a fee from nearly every electric customer in the state starting Jan. 1 to subsidize two nuclear power plants, a provision included in a scandal-tainted bill approved by the state Legislature in July 2019.
Common Pleas Judge Chris Brown in his ruling from the bench last Monday said, “To not impose an injunction would be to allow certain parties to prevail. It would give the OK that bribery is allowed in the state of Ohio and that any ill-gotten gains can be received.
The Ohio Manufacturers’ Association appealed to the Supreme Court earlier this month after the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio in August cited the legislation known as HB6 in issuing an order approving collection of the fees and then refused to reconsider the group’s request for a new hearing.
A crippling pandemic, a racial injustice reckoning, a statehouse scandal and a divisive election. In any other year in Ohio, just one of those would have been the biggest story of the.