Selling youth on Lima’s future
By Josh Ellerbrock - jellerbrock@limanews.com
(From left to right) Lima Pallet President Tracie Sanchez, Lima Allen County Chamber of Commerce President & CEO Jed Metzger, Allen Economic Development Group President/CEO Dave Stratton participate in the first of the day’s roundtables. Pipefitter and Musician Chris Henderson, who is watching the conversation on the right, was featured in a subsequent segment with Apollo Career Center’s Adult Program Director Tara Shepherd. Other community leaders slated to participate in a later segment focusing on MLK’s leadership included Pastor Sherri Pace, Police Chief Kevin Martin, Lima Chief of Staff Sharetta Smith and Judge Tammie Hursh.
Supreme Court upholds 2018 conviction of Bluffton doctor for groping female patients
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COLUMBUS The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the 2018 conviction in Lima Municipal Court of a Bluffton doctor charged with inappropriately touching female patients.
The state’s high court on Dec. 15 reversed an opinion issued by the Third District Court of Appeals. It ruled a state medical board investigator did not violate the constitutional rights of Dr. James Gideon by providing police with the doctor’s admission that he inappropriately touched patients.
In a 6-1 decision, the court reversed the appellate court’s decision which would have barred the statements Gideon made to a State Medical Board of Ohio investigator from being used in his trial for sexual imposition.