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NEW PHILADELPHIA - A judge has denied bail for a former Newcomerstown-area resident who is facing a possible life sentence if convicted of child rape.
Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Judge Michael Ernest decided Tuesday that 27-year-old David Levi Yoder of Westcliffe, Colo. will stay in the county jail while awaiting trial. Yoder has pleaded not guilty to two counts of child rape, four counts of gross sexual imposition and one count of having unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.
The alleged crimes spanned 12 years before ending in June 2019. The first rape is alleged to have occurred when the youngest victim was three years old.
NEW PHILADELPHIA Verrelle Wyatt passed through a lot in the year before he became the first man to cross the finish line at the 14th annual Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital Run for Home half marathon on Sunday.
In the past year, he caught COVID-19, had hernia surgery and became the father to a girl who is now 9 months old.
Since life settled down, Wyatt has been able to run two or three times a week. I m just grateful to finally try to get some peace into my life, a little bit better, and get back to running, he said.
The 34-year-old former collegiate runner from Akron last raced about two years ago.
UHRICHSVILLE Uhrichsville Councilman Robert Baker is recovering at a Canton hospital after having a heart attack during Thursday night s council meeting.
Mayor Mark Haney said Police Chief Vince Beal, Council President Robert Cottrell, and councilmen Ron Miller and Michael Huff put the unconscious councilman on the floor while Haney notified firefighters.
Three city firefighter/paramedics who were down the hall from the council chamber in the fire station responded immediately, Haney said. They were able to stop the cardiac arrest and bring him back, the mayor said.
The mayor said he had spoken with Baker on Friday morning. He wanted to thank the firefighters and paramedics who came, Haney said.
UHRICHSVILLE The city and Council President Robert Cottrell have settled a lawsuit over public records brought by a city service department employee.
The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the case at the request of the Kent attorney who represented Jeffrey D. Morris in the mandamus action. He had sought to have the state high court order Cottrell and the city to give him certain documents.
The case was resolved through mediation, according to Service Director Belle Everett. Drew Piersall of the Columbus law firm Zashin Rich LLC represented the city. Morris and his counsel have agreed that all requested documents have been provided by the city, Everett wrote in an email message to The Times-Reporter. The city provided hundreds of pages of documents, photos and emails to Mr. Morris and his legal counsel.