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It’s Where You Live! www.troydailynews.com July 22, 2013
Volume 105, No. 172
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Foul odor leads Ohio authorities to grisly find Search for more victims continues
Scrapbooks give peek inside Hemingway’s early life
EAST CLEVELAND (AP) — Authorities responding to a report of a foul odor from a home discovered a body and arrested a registered sex offender who sent police and volunteers through a poor Ohio neighborhood in a search for more victims, officials said Sunday. East Cleveland Police Chief Ralph Spotts said Sunday that searchers should be prepared to find one or two more victims, but he declined to elaborate. Mayor Gary
Norton said the suspect has indicated he might have been influenced by Cleveland serial killer Anthony Sowell, who was convicted in 2011 of murdering 11 women and sentenced to death. It’s the latest in a series of high-profile cases involving the disappearance of women from the Cleveland area. One body was found Friday in a garage. Two others were found Saturday — one in a backyard and the other in the basement of a vacant
house. The three female bodies, all wrapped in plastic bags, were found about 100 to 200 yards apart, and authorities believed the victims were killed in the last six to 10 days. Searchers rummaging through vacant houses in the same neighborhood Sunday were warned by Spotts to brace themselves for the smell of rotting bodies and to look out for trash bags that might conceal a body. He declined to elaborate on his com-
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Sanautica Hicks-Ross, 18, searches an abandoned home Sunday near where three bodies were found in East Cleveland, Ohio. Hicks-Ross is an East Cleveland resident.
Review could help Ohio ID idle property
Long before Ernest Hemingway first wrote a story, his mother was busy writing about him. Grace Hall Hemingway started a series of scrapbooks documenting the childhood of the future Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner by describing how the sun shone and robins sang on the day in July 1899 when he was born. See Page 6.
Matt Heaphy says he has energy to burn, and he is busy burning it — on a bike, in a kayak, on a pontoon boat or in a tai chi class. Having celebrated his 90th birthday last month, Heaphy regularly astounds younger folks by the amount of exercise he does daily. See Page 12.
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Umpire Rick Houseman looks around during a Legion baseball game between Troy Post 43 and Lima Thursday at Duke Park in Troy. It was the final game Houseman umped in his 45-year career.
He’s out! By Colin Foster
Associate Sports Editor colinfoster@tdnpublishing.com
Rick Houseman began his umpiring career in the late 1960s, hoping to stay around the game he loved following his career as a baseball player at Eastern Kentucky University. Needing one more semester to graduate from EKU in the fall, Houseman started umpiring inter-squad games for his old college team, without pay. Then during his first year as a special
Umpire Houseman calls it quits after 45 years
education teacher at Fairborn in 1969, Houseman was approached about umping by the junior varsity baseball coach. The rest is history. After 45 years as an ump — and somewhere between 5,000 to 6,400 games — Houseman has decided to hang up the gear for good. His resume includes 26 state finals, 37 district and 34 regional games, while also doing a two-year stint as a minor league umpire in the
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DAYTON (AP) — A task force to be created under Ohio’s new budget will help determine which of the nearly 36,000 state properties are idle or underused and could be consolidated or sold to generate revenue. That could address longstanding concerns that some state-owned land, potentially worth millions of dollars, serves no purpose other than being nontaxable for local governments, a Dayton-based newspaper reported. The state treasurer has a database of the properties but doesn’t keep tabs on how those buildings and land are used. Updating that inventory would pave the way for renting out or selling assets to bring in more money, Treasurer Josh Mandel said. “This is a great opportunity to generate revenue for the state without raising taxes at all,” Mandel said. The state has nearly 671,000 acres of land, and about two-thirds of that make up parks and preserves around Ohio under the Department of Natural Resources. The Department of Transportation owns the most properties with a total of more than 19,000, thousands of which are small road parcels and rights of way. The budget gives a task force of lawmakers and administration representatives a year to determine which properties aren’t being used productively and make recommendations for consolidating, selling or giving new purpose to such property. In 2007, then-treasurer Richard Cordray’s office studied about one-fourth of the 88 counties and found 446 properties with potential for private or community development and an estimated value of $100 million, the newspaper said. In the years since, the office has received about 500 inquiries regarding different uses for state property. Among those asking is a group hoping to create a museum at a former Ohio National Guard armory in Eaton. It has waited more than a year to learn the state’s asking price for the century-old building, vacated in a Guard unit’s 2010 relocation. “At this point we’re kind of in limbo until we hear back from the state,” said Tina Marker, co-chair of Preble County Heritage. “It’s very difficult to plan anything until you know where that (price) is going to hit.”
Despite outcry, stand-ground law repeals unlikely MIAMI (AP) — Despite an outcry from civil rights groups, a call for close examination by President Barack Obama and even a 1960s-style sit-in at the Florida governor’s office, the jury’s verdict that George Zimmerman was justified in shooting unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin is unlikely to spur change to any of the nation’s stand-your-ground selfdefense laws. “I support stand your ground,” Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said last week.
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“I do not see any reason to change it,” said Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, also a Republican. At least 22 states have laws similar to that in Florida, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Many are conservative and lean toward laws that defend gun owners’ rights. So far, there does not appear to be an appetite in Florida or other states to repeal or change the laws, which generally eliminate a person’s duty to
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