Times-Gazette from Hillsboro, Ohio (2024)

November 23, 2010

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Times-Gazettei

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Hillsboro, Ohio

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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

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Tuesday November 23 2010 Tlmes OMette Page 3A StateNation State Digest The Associated Press could be a discount on pre The Associated Press 5 plant foundry 2132414 plans in their area spend on medical care have to governing farm animals The agreement calls for banning certain crates and cages and strangulation as a form of euthanasia for sick or injured animals Republican Gov elect John Kasich has tapped for mer poultry farmer and cur rent state lawmaker James Zchringer to be the next agriculture director Zehringer says not sure whether be any changes to the deal But he says incoming ad ministration want to let out of state animal ac tivists to dictate policy in Ohio The agriculture leaders agreed to a compro mise bn the animal rules be cause they wanted to avoid a costly ballot fight New Ohio ag director will review animal care deal TOLEDO next agriculture director wants to review at a deal arranged by the outgoing governor and animal rights activists Remains believed those of missing woman found BELLAIRE Authori ties believe they have found the remains of an elderly woman who disappeared from an Ohio retirement fa cility in April The Times Leader of Martins erry reports that a civilian organized search team found the remains Sat urday in a wooded area less than a mile from the Coun try Club Retirement Home near Bellaire Eighty year old Luella Edge was re ported missing from the facility April 30 Civilian volunteers joined police in searching for Edge when she was reported missing That search ended in May after searchers found no trace of her Investigators say they be lieved Luella Edge climbed out a window of the retire ment home her first night there Belmont County Sheriff red Thompson says a coroner will perform tests for identification and cause of death Smoke at brake plant sends 7 to hospital INDLAY Authorities say seven people were taken to a hospital with respiratory problems after molten alu minum overflowed and cre ated smoke at a brake plant in northwest Ohio 'ire Chief Thomas Lonyo says about 1 8 others were evaluated Monday morning at the Nissin Brake Ohio Inc plant in indlay The Courier newspaper re ports that the employees were taken to Blanchard Valley Hospital A message seeking their conditions was left at the hospital Plant spokesman Wilson Schroeder says the employ ees were taken to the hospi tai as a precaution Schroeder says a small amount of molten aluminum created the smoke after it overflowed onto hydraulic 215 High St Hillslwro Oh 45133 (937)393 4558 (Across from Amory) Hours: iw a Closed 12 1 PM AAA: Ohio gas falls 11 cents to average $279 Prices at Ohio gas pumps have fallen 11 cents going into one of the busiest travel weeks of the year A survey from auto club AAA the Oil Price Infor mation Service and Wright Express shows aver age price for regular grade gasoline has gone down to $279 a gallon from $290 last Monday wound up being more man ageable than investors ini tially feared Analyst Les untleydcr who covers the industry Tor Miller Tabak noted that HHS has wide lat itude to adjust the rules to care expenses directly hiring prevent market disruptions an expectations point of view these are that managed care can live with in 201 1 he said Currently there is no uni form requirement that health insurers spend a minimum share of premiurrjs on med ical care Consumer groups say somewhere between 80 to 85 cents on the dollar rep resents good value but many plans spend in the range of 60 to 80 'cents That will change Jan 1 VT7T7 WASHINGTON Health insurance premiums should go for actual medical care not over head and profits the Obama administration said Monday in rules that for the first time require the compa nies to give consumers a re bate The regulation unveiled by the Health and Human Services department calls for insurance companies to spend at least 80 cents of the premium dollar on medical care and quality or em ployer plans covering more than 50 people the require ment is 85 cents Insurers that fall short of the mark will have to issue their customers a rebate Part of the new health care law the rule is meant to give consumers a better deal Administration officials said it will prevent insurers from wasting valuable premiums on admirjistratipn marketing and bXCditive bonuses' some level of admin istrative cost is certainly nec essary we believe that they have gotten out of said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen when the rule goes into ef Sebclius feet Starting in 2012 as Some insurers have com many as 9 million customers stered his case He persuaded the other scientists to wait a bit The government waited six hours then a day Noth ing happened The cap held Hsieh Turned out to be right Hsieh told The Associated Press that he was that I was portrayed well" but said others including En ergy Secretary Steven Chu who headed 'the scientific team deserve the credit The picture Hsieh exam ined was game said University of California at Berkeley professor Bob Bea who analyzed the report for the AP also shows how in dis array we Bea said plained the approach is heavy could get rebates averaging handed and take into $164 officials estimate It account costs of marketing to individuals and small cm miums or a payment by ployers Indeed some are check or credit card threatening to pull out of the Consumers shopping for individual market and four health insurance in the future states Georgia Iowa will be able to compare what Maine and South Carolina have already asked for an ex emption from the federal learn some new jargon: the rule fearing it could lead to proportion insurers spend on loss of coverage care is termed the But industry watchers loss Overall the new said the final regulations requirement applies to plans that cover about 75 million people One major exception in volves large employer plans Generally major companies pay their health Man in past jogger attacks guilty of Levy slaying The Associated Press COLUMBUS Records indicate that death sentences are rare in the cen tral Ohio county where three people were slain and dis membered two weeks ago and their remains stuffed in a hollow tree trunk Over the past three decades only three defen dants in Knox County have faced charges that could re sult in a sentence of death A review of court records by The Associated Press finds just one of those defendants was condemned to die but Jie died in prison of natural causes in 2000 The only suspect in the would bring tougher laws recent slayings is being held on a $1 million bond on a single count of kidnapping I though more charges are ex i peeled next month A Knox I County judge on Tuesday i plans a hearing to weigh the evidence for the kidnapping count against 30 year old i Matthew Hoffman 1 T9T 4 PRIVATE REHAB SUITES cap to remain and the well to stay shut but government science advisers were firm and near unanimous in want ing the cap removed because excruciating of fear of bigger more cata strophic spill the report said One scientist took a cell phone picture and mailed it to a government researcher in Stop in and see Sharon Hughes or All Your Advertising Needs an insurance company to act as an outside administrator To employees it loqks like thev are covered by an in surer but actually their company paying Be cause most big firms pay up front they already have a Strong incentive to be as effi cicnt as possible: Administration officials say they anticipate the kinds of dire disruptions that some health insurance com panies have warned about one is going to lose their said Jay An goff head of the HHS office of insurance oversight WASHINGTON A man already imprisoned for attacking two female jog gers was found guilty Mon day of murdering Washington intern Chandra Levy back in 2001 bring ing legal resolution to a murder mystery that took down a Congressman and drew the rapt at tention a decade ago Ingmar Guandique was convicted of first degree murder for attacking Levy while she exercised in Rock Creek Park in May 2001 Her dis appearance made headlines when she was romantically linked to then Rep Gary Condit Calif Condit was once a suspect but po A lice no longer believe he was involved Speaking outside the courthouse mother said she'll never be free from the pain of losing her daughter A have a lifetime sen tence of a lost limb missing from our family Susan Levy said after the hearing a lifetime of a broken Investigators eventually focused on Guandique an illegal immigrant from El Salvador and brought for mal charges last year Pros ecutors acknowledged they had little direct evidence but said death fit a pattern of other crimes committed by Guandique in the park The defense argued that Guandique became a scapegoat for a botched in vestigation body was found about a year after she disappeared In a telephone interview lawyer Bert ields stiid the verdict represents a vindication that comes too late to repair the damage to his career least Gary Condit can find some measure of closure to this ields said a complete vindication but that comes a little late Who gives him his career ields said his client going to speak to reporters cThe jury deliberated over parts of four days be fore returning with a ver dict shortly before noon Monday Guandique was convicted on two counts of first degree murder one al leging death as part of a kidnapping and one alleg ing the death as part of an attempted robbery Jurors had the option of convict ing him on a lesser charge of second degree murder Guandique could be sentenced to a minimum of 30 years and a maximum of life in prison Sentencing was set for eb 11 Defense lawyer Santha Sonenberg declined com ment on whether Guandique would appeal the verdict The Associated Press President Barack Obama gives a media briefing at the end of a NATO summit in Lisbon Health plans must spend premiums on medical care Spill panel details goofs hero in ending gusher stopped the oil from fiowing tainment capwouldnlblow: was almost pulled a day or so He got more data which bol after it was installed in niid July because pressure read ings looked so low that they indicated a leak elsewhere in Washington a single picture from a cell phone camera may have saved the Gulf of Mexico from a few more weeks if the system BP wanted the not months of oil gushing from the BP well A new study from the presidential oil spill commis sion describes the behind the scenes tension and mistakes behind the three month effort to cap the busted well New details include the story of a lone scientist working from a cell California for advice phone photo who saved the Just using that cell phone day by convincing the gov photo Paul Hsieh a US Geo ernment that a'qap it consid logical Survey scientist ere ered removing was actually aled a model for what was working as designed happening under the cap He working as designed JThe cap eventually was convinced that the con Highland County Hearing Aid Center NEEDYOURHEAKINCAIDREPAIRED? 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BC fflS 209 South High Hillsboro Ohio 393r3j4563( I shughetimesgazcttecom HLaurels Ok Hit i boro or more Information call us at: (937) 393 1925 2136692 Woman gets new trial after toxicologist lied COLUMBUS A judge has granted a new trial for an Ohio woman con victed of killing her husband and'electrical lines in the more than 20 years ago be cause a toxicologist lied during her trial A court document filed Monday in Licking County says Virginia Leever de serves a new trial because veteran toxicologist James erguson lied about his qualifications when he testi fied Leever was sentenced to life in prison after she was convicted of aggravated murder Her attorney said the case hinged on testimony from erguson He says 07 Death sentences rare in county where 3 killed The Associated Press husband murdered but committed suicide after Virginia Leever had filed for di vorce erguson pleaded no contest to falsification and spent 30 days in jail this summer He immedi ately return a message left Monday II ui di WiW 1 fl Im I' a I I I 11' 0 I I PRIVATE REHAB SUITES.

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