Court Filing: Improper Prep Before Failed Ohio Execution

Posted on 10. Jan, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Events, Race, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

Lawyers for a condemned inmate who survived a botched execution last year says one of the executioners failed to attend all the required rehearsals for the execution.

Attorneys Timothy Sweeney and Adele Shank say the executioner known as Team Member 21 did not attend all the rehearsal sessions for the Romell Broom execution that was to [...]

Latinos scramble to ensure a ride, Many leaving state, advocates say

Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Immigration, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

“Necesitas ride?” one asks in a mix of English and Spanish. “I’ll take you wherever you want.”
For a fee, the impromptu taxi services offer transportation to undocumented immigrants who were forced to park their cars because they could not prove legal U.S. residency.
Some are transferring “ownership” of their cars to family members or friends who [...]

Broom asks judge to stop 2nd attempt at execution

Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Hidden Crimes, Race

A federal judge said he’d start hearing arguments Wednesday on the case of inmate Romell (roh-MEL’) Broom, who was sentenced to die for raping and killing a teenage girl.
The state bungled Broom’s Sept. 15 execution when it couldn’t find a usable vein for injection and wants to try again.His attorneys say that would constitute cruel [...]

Ohio executes inmate with 1-drug lethal injection

Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Events, Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Race, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

Biros was sent to death row in 1991 for killing and dismembering the body of 22-year-old Tami Engstrom, leaving her body parts scattered in parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania.Suspect in Dismemberment Held. . . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Feb 16, 1991
Ohio executed a killer Tuesday by performing the nation’s first lethal injection using a single drug, [...]

Anti-terror laws hinder Somali immigrants

Posted on 27. Oct, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Business & Finance, Economy, Events, Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Immigration, Israel & Jewish Issues, Politics, Race, Religion, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

Banks close accounts used by local refugees to send money to homeland

For months, Somalis living in Columbus have complained that it has become increasingly difficult to send money home to family members because of banking-industry fears that the funds could end up with terrorists.
Huntington, JPMorgan Chase and Charter One are among the banks that [...]

Courts examine Ohio’s lethal-injection procedures

Posted on 06. Oct, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Events, Feedback, Health, Politics, Shera Crossan

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The national impact of the unprecedented halting of a rapist’s execution after two hours and temporary reprieves for other condemned inmates likely will become clear over the next few months as courts examine the state’s lethal-injection procedures, experts say. Gov. Ted Strickland ordered the five-month reprieves to give the prisons department [...]

Don’t Mess With The Elderly In Ohio

Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Commentary, Education, Events, Feedback, Gun Control, Hidden Crimes, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

Two elderly Ohio concealed handgun license-holders defend themselves in separate attacks
Under Ohio law, the Castle Doctrine protects citizens who act in self defense against an intruder who is inside or attempting to get inside of their residence or their vehicle. Thanks to that law, the target of this crime likely will not be further victimized [...]

Got Rope?

Posted on 19. Sep, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Events, Feedback, Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Health, Opinion, Politics, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

“I have heard that death row candidates purposely dehydrate themselves so a vein is difficult to find for use of the lethal chemicals. Anybody else ever hear of that, and is it true that dehydration would make it hard to find a vein? “comment

A death row inmate who was the first to have survived an [...]

As State of Ohio sat, illegals got OKs to drive

Posted on 13. Sep, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Events, Feedback, Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Hidden Crimes, Immigration, Politics, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

Undocumented workers should be allowed to register their vehicles, stay on the road and help support the American economy, Robledo said. “Who’s going to cook in the restaurants? Who’s going to be cutting the yards?”

A loophole in an Ohio policy allowed thousands of undocumented immigrants to register cars and get license plates even though many [...]

Now taxpayers pay others’ phone service

Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Business & Finance, Economy, Editorials, Events, Feedback, Free Speech, Health, Hidden Crimes, Immigration, Opinion, Politics, Race, Shera Crossan

I understand this has been going on for a while now but this is insane.  I’ve seen and heard the commercials about both ‘Landlines and now Cell Phones’.  Why should Non-working, Non-tax paying, Non-Citizens receive the ability to have a Comfy Cozy life, and be able to talk, text on Our Tax Dollar?   I [...]

Homeless man arrested 146 times

Posted on 16. Aug, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Economy, Events, Health, Hidden Crimes, Politics, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

Bennie Crabtree wandered into the Greystone Nursing Home in Westwood on Jan. 28, disheveled and dirty.Employee Daphne Albrecht told him to leave. Crabtree refused, telling Albrecht he would shoot her if she called police. Crabtree got a 180-day jail sentence for his threat, was released early because of jail overcrowding and has been arrested twice [...]

What Ohio Thinks of U.S. Immigrants

Posted on 15. Aug, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Economy, Editorials, Education, Events, Feedback, Free Speech, Health, Immigration, Opinion, Politics, Real History, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

Being from the State of Ohio and seeing this article and what it says is crazy.  Apparently ‘Timberlake and Rhys surveyed more than 2,100 Ohioans about their attitudes toward four groups: Europeans, Asians, Middle Easterners and Latinos, specifically’  they didn’t interview the right 2,100 Ohioans that live in Cities where Immigrants are destroying cities(job losses, [...]

Explosion at Austin Powder Company

Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Business & Finance, Economy, Events, Gun Control, Health, Hidden Crimes, Politics, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

There was an explosion at the Austin Powder Company at 430 Powder Plant Rd., in McArthur, according to Sgt. Brown with the Vinton County sheriff’s office.
Initial reports indicated the explosion happened before 10:29 a.m. when the first 911 call came in from an area resident.
Several agencies were called to the scene, including the Emergency Management [...]

Ohio GOP, no friend to gun owners

Posted on 25. Jul, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Feedback, Gun Control, Opinion, Politics, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

A lot has been made recently in Ohio’s pro-gun community about Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich’s congressional vote in favor of the 1994 Clinton Assault Weapons ban. As it stands, Mr. Kasich refuses to disavow the vote on the record, and will only go so far as to state the bill didn’t have the intended [...]

Canton councilwoman wants to target droopy pants

Posted on 10. Jul, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Fashion, Politics, Shera Crossan

A local lawmaker wants her city to use its law against indecent exposure to go after young people in low-riding pants.
Canton City Councilwoman Mary Cirelli says constituents have raised concerns about how the fashion trend leaves underwear and sometimes bare rear ends visible. The 70-year-old Democrat says that’s rude, and she has sent a memo [...]

Teen Says He Was Dragged With Noose On Neck

Posted on 17. Jun, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Commentary, Events, Race, Shera Crossan

Robert Cantu said four people put a noose around his neck and dragged him from the sidewalk on South Main Street to an adjacent parking lot Saturday, May 30. “These guys were in the back of a truck with a noose and they jumped out and said, ‘Get the black kids’ and they all ran [...]

Toledo police layoffs leading to gun buying

Posted on 30. May, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Economy, Events, Feedback, Gun Control, Shera Crossan

“I just don’t feel safe with the amount they’re laying off,” says Jonna Ewing. “I think it’s going to be a longer respond time.”
She is spending the day at a conceal carry class.  She’s been thinking of getting a gun for awhile, but feels now’s the time due to the recent layoffs.
She’s not alone. Case [...]

Ohio Christian school tells student to skip prom

Posted on 09. May, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Arts/Entertainment, Education, Events, Hidden Crimes, Religion, Shera Crossan

A student at a fundamentalist Baptist school that forbids dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing will be suspended if he takes his girlfriend to her public high school prom, his principal said.
Despite the warning, 17-year-old Tyler Frost, who has never been to a dance before, said he plans to attend Findlay High School’s prom Saturday.
Frost, [...]

Another Black Gang that Attacked Whites

Posted on 02. May, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Events, Feedback, Free Speech, Hidden Crimes, Opinion, Politics, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

WESTWOOD – Baby gangster, gangster, old gangster, prince and finally, king.
That was the Westwood youth gang’s hierarchy.
Anyone who wanted to advance through those ranks had to randomly attack someone. Depending on what happened, points would be awarded. An attack earned one point, a robbery six.
A boy had to be invited into the gang. Every six [...]

Holocaust ‘began with words’

Posted on 29. Apr, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Events, Feedback, Free Speech, Israel & Jewish Issues, Opinion, Real History, Shera Crossan

“Starvation, forced labor, deprivation, death and despair, separation.”  Mr. Silberman, don’t you think the Children of German, English or any other country that was effected by this war and other wars had or have much of the same feelings?
When Leo Silberman was just 14, the Nazis separated him from his parents, two brothers and [...]

NAFTA reopening unlikely

Posted on 21. Apr, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Business & Finance, Economy, Events, Feedback, Politics, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

Speaking in a teleconference with reporters, Trade Representative Ron Kirk said Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon “have both said they don’t believe we have to reopen the agreement now” to address labor and environmental side agreements.
Obama himself backed off his election-year call for renegotiation after meeting with Calderon in Mexico last week in advance [...]

Asked for a cigar, left with the money

Posted on 21. Apr, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Events, Shera Crossan

He went to the register and asked for a cigar.
When the clerk handed him the cigar, the suspect, with his hand in his pocket, indicated that he had a weapon, CPD said in a report.
He allegedly ordered the clerk to give him everything in the cash drawer and not to touch anything or try to [...]

Court seeks information on Demjanjuk deportation

Posted on 16. Apr, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Events, Feedback, Israel & Jewish Issues, Real History, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

A U.S. court on Thursday demanded a doctor’s report on the health of suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk and other information, delaying for at least a week his deportation to Germany for trial.
The appeals court, which ordered a halt to Demjanjuk’s deportation on Tuesday just hours after he was carried from his home [...]

German roots are not always appreciated . . .

Posted on 02. Apr, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Commentary, Editorials, Events, Feedback, Immigration, Shera Crossan, Tradition

April 1, 2009 1:47 PM

On this day in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a Declaration of War against Germany, a move that would dramatically affect the way of life for German-Americans in our neighborhood and throughout the U.S.
Here in Columbus, German-Americans had been living a prosperous life in a largely German community just [...]

Grandfather On Life Support After Assault

Posted on 26. Mar, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Editorials, Events, Feedback, Free Speech, Hidden Crimes, Opinion, Race, Top Stories

Notice the key word in ” Police WERE searching“   I am close friends with someone who is also great friends with this 57-year-old White Man who was assaulted and is on Life Support and has a DNR order in place.
How can one feel safe when a group of I was told 7 Black Male [...]

Teen’s Legs Amputated After Bacterial Infection

Posted on 24. Mar, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Education, Feedback, Health, Shera Crossan

UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio—A rare bacterial infection can destroy skin and the soft tissues beneath it.
It’s called necrotizing fasciitis or flesh-eating bacteria, NBC 4‘s Amy Basista reported.
Blake Haxton, 18, an Upper Arlington senior and captain of the rowing team has the infection and it was so severe, doctors had to amputate both of his legs.
Dr. Susan [...]

New Foodstamp Rules Called Offensive, By Needy

Posted on 18. Mar, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Economy, Events, Feedback, Opinion, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

– A southwest Ohio county is threatening to ignore new food stamp rules because officials say relatively well off people are getting benefits.
Commissioners in Warren County near Cincinnati said Tuesday they want to go back to the old eligibility standards. They were angry after learning that a woman with $80,000 in the bank, a paid-off [...]

Suspects Arrested In Bus Stop Shooting

Posted on 18. Mar, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Events, Shera Crossan

Thanks Hated and Proud

An 18-year-old man is in custody along with two other people after allegedly spraying a Metro bus stop and bank branch with bullets Tuesday in Roselawn.
Chaz Jones of Bond Hill is one of three people charged in the drive-by shooting, but he’s thought to be the only one over the age of [...]

Commie gang members – The Black Panthers

Posted on 18. Mar, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Events, Feedback, Opinion, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

Thanks Adolphus

Side Note:2008- On the East Side of Columbus, Ohio I had several teenage nigs have folders full of Black Panther cards and lit. They also dawned their Commie blue Black Panther shirts. We must fight these Commie scumbags. This was also the same area that a lady grabbed her kid and told her [...]

Kirkland commits savage murders ,rapes and burn’s 13 yr old white child

Posted on 16. Mar, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Hidden Crimes, Shera Crossan

The man charged with killing a 13-year-old girl this past weekend has confessed to the crime.
Cincinnati police say 40-year-old Anthony Kirkland has admitted to killing Esme Kenney.
Kenney went out for a jog Saturday afternoon but never returned to her Winton Hills home.
Early the next morning, her body was located in the woods near her home.
Kirkland, [...]

Islamic Jihad Final Goal Establishing A Global Islamic State

Posted on 15. Mar, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Commentary, Events, Feedback, Free Speech, Hidden Crimes, Immigration, Politics, Race, Religion, Shera Crossan, South Afrika, Top Stories, Tradition

ISLAMIC JIHAD FINAL GOAL ESTABLISHING A GLOBAL ISLAMIC STATE,PART 1
Islamic Jihad Final Goal Establishing A Global Islamic State, Part 2
watch videos in above links also

Another One Bites The Dust, well a start at least!

Posted on 09. Oct, 2008 by Shera Crossan in Hidden Crimes, Politics, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

Brunner’s ballot policy illegal, judge rules
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is breaking federal law by not giving county elections boards the chance to determine whether new voter registrations are fraudulent, a federal judge ruled tonight.
“It is hard to imagine a public interest more compelling than safeguarding the legitimacy of the election of the president [...]

Ohio voter registration surges: Cleveland-area leads the state with new voters

Posted on 06. Oct, 2008 by Shera Crossan in Hidden Crimes, Politics, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

I just don’t see how they get these numbers, seeing how so many people are leaving Cuyahoga County, Ohio due to loss of Jobs, Factories closing and the Economy.  I wonder how many van loads etc of homeless, non-citizens they are picking up there?
The number of registered voters in Ohio is up at least 485,000 [...]

Homeless People for Obama, Is this happening in your state?

Posted on 05. Oct, 2008 by Shera Crossan in Hidden Crimes, Politics, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

Homeless Ohioans for Obama registering in droves; Plus: Meet Mr. “Good Will” and “Mr. Doodad Pro”
By Michelle Malkin  •  October 1, 2008 12:06 PM
Oh, dear Lord. We are so screwed. Watch this:

The guy promoting the free taxi program to register the homeless in Ohio exults: “It’s a perfect opportunity for them to come in, register at a [...]