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Citing a crackdown on contraband, a county jail in Columbus, Ohio is banning outside deliveries of underwear and socks. A contractor will be selling the items at the jail store, and inmates who can’t afford to buy their “whites” will have to go without.
Underwear for inmates “is not a minimum jail standard in Ohio,” Dave Masterson, director of administrative services at the Franklin County Jail, told the Columbus Dispatch.
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Ohio's supreme court ruled on Tuesday in a split 4-3 decision that a Munroe Falls ordinance that banned hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the town did not trump state permitting power. Beck Energy had sought to drill on residential property in the town with permission from the owner and with a permit from the state Department of Natural Resources.
Writing the lead majority opinion in the Munroe Falls v. Beck Energy case, Ohio Supreme Court Justice Judith L. French wrote that municipal home rule does not allow a locality "to discriminate against, unfairly impede, or obstruct oil and gas activities and operations that the state has permitted under” a2004 state law that vested regulation of “all aspects,” including permitting, of oil and gas drilling to an agency within the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
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The Ohio bridal shop that a nurse visited mere days before she was diagnosed with Ebola is closing down. Now the owner blames her notorious customer for scaring away brides and other potential clients.
Amber Vinson was among those who cared for the United States’ first Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. In mid-October, she flew to Akron, Ohio to prepare for her wedding, including trying on bridal gowns at Coming Attractions Bridal and Formal. Vinson came down with a fever just days later, on October 14, and was taken into isolation at the Dallas hospital where she works. She was the second of two nurses who contracted Ebola there.
Anna Younker, the shop's owner, told WEWS she had to temporarily close the bridal shop for three weeks after Vinson visited to calm customers’ fears. She also paid a high-tech company out-of-pocket to use ultraviolet light to decontaminate the building. Despite those actions, some customers never returned, others canceled orders and the insurance company denied claims, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported.
In March 2014, hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – caused 77 earthquakes in a small Ohio town that had no previous experience with seismic activity, according to a new study. One quake was large enough to be felt in neighboring areas.
Fracking in Poland Township, Ohio was halted two days after the area was hit with a magnitude-3 earthquake along a hidden fault in rock which was deep beneath a natural gas well in the Utica Shale, according to research published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
A transgender 17-year-old who also identified as gay killed herself Sunday, leaving behind a suicide note that begged for her death to mean something, and serving as a call-to-action for support and acceptance of trans kids.
Leelah Alcorn ‒ born Joshua ‒ was struck by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 71 just before 2:30 a.m. on Sunday in a Cincinnati, Ohio suburb, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. She had walked four miles from her home in King Mills. Ohio Highway Patrol officials said they believed the teenager may have committed suicide.
