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Bessemer City s Central Drug Store closing after 94 years of business A nearly century-old staple of Bessemer City will close its doors for good Monday. During the early years of business, 112 W. Virginia Ave. was home to doctor and dentist offices upstairs, an upstairs beauty parlor, a barber shop in the basement and Central Drug Store on the street level, which opened in 1927. “I guess they called it Central Drug because it was centrally located,” said Robby Putnam, who has owned Central Drug of Bessemer City with his wife, Melissa Putnam, since 1997. Robby’s father, Jesse, filled prescriptions at the store beginning in the late 1950s and bought Central Drug in 1961. ....
Staff, wire report COLUMBUS The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday delayed the execution of a convicted Trumbull County killer whose case federal public defenders said slipped through the cracks of the legal system. Death row inmate David Martin of Warren, 36, had been scheduled to die May 26. Martin went without a lawyer for more than a year after the Ohio high court upheld his sentence in 2018 and missed a chance to make a customary appeal to the federal courts. Justices announced this week they have stayed Martin’s execution until all his legal options are exhausted. Martin was sentenced to die after he was found guilty by jury on charges of aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and kidnapping on Sept. 11, 2014. ....