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A former Ohio state representative is pressuring the Butler County Board of Commissioners to create a so-called mask sanctuary that would protect those who do not want to follow Ohio’s mask mandate.
Candice Keller brought up the issue at the board’s meeting on Monday, expressing her frustration with the mask order that is now 10 months old.
“In what universe is it your business what I’m wearing and what I’m not wearing,” said Keller, adding she’s tired of wearing a mask.
Commissioner Donald Dixon said to Keller on Thursday, citing an opinion directly from the Butler County Prosecutor, “We have no legislative authority. None. Zero.”
USA TODAY
Donations are pouring in for two Idaho middle school employees who are being hailed as heroes after a sixth grade girl opened fire in the hallway Thursday.
Three people an adult and two students were injured at Rigby Middle School, Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson said. The victims were shot in their limbs and are expected to survive.
The rampage only stopped when a female teacher took the handgun from the shooter and held her until law enforcement apprehended her, Anderson said. The teacher has been identified in a community Facebook group, multipleGoFundMe campaigns and localmedia as Krista Gneiting, an eighth-grade math teacher.
Cathedral City man accused of robbing Banning bank
City News Service
A 42-year-old man accused of holding up a Banning bank by pretending to have a gun concealed under his shirt was charged Wednesday with robbery.
Aaron Sterling Gefrerer of Cathedral City was arrested Saturday following a Banning Police Department investigation, with assistance from neighboring agencies.
Gefrerer is being held in lieu of $35,000 bail at the Smith Correctional Facility in Banning and is slated to make his initial court appearance Thursday at the Banning Justice Center.
According to police, at about 10:30 a.m. Saturday, the defendant approached a teller at the U.S. Bank branch in the 300 block of South Highland Springs Avenue, just south of Interstate 10, and handed her a note demanding money from the cash drawer.
Trump can play the victim all he wants, analysts said, but Facebook had little choice but to keep him offline given his constant violation of its rules. He has only himself to blame for actively promoting pernicious lies and conspiracy theories and for being an online bully, said Lara Brown, director of the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University.
Brown said Trump can try to start his own social media company, but it is unlikely that he would ever be able to garner the attention or generate the reach that he was able to on Facebook.
Trump aides insisted they can still raise money – his Save American PAC has raised more than $85 million – and his voice will continue to resonate in the 2022 elections and beyond.