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Corrected COVID-19 deaths show how bad December was in Ohio: Overnight News Links
Updated Feb 16, 2021;
Posted Feb 16, 2021
The Ohio Department of Health s correction of COVID-19 death reports has resulted in a near doubling of deaths for December. Reports for more recent weeks are more incomplete.Rich Exner, cleveland.com
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Ohio’s corrected coronavirus death data unmasks how grim December was for COVID-19 (Read more)
Rep. Jim Jordan, in move dismissed by Democrats, questions whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should shoulder blame for Capitol Hill riot security failures (Read more)
Cleveland schools, after call with governor about reopening, will update community on Feb. 19; sports plan to return Feb. 22 (Read more)
North Royalton experiences 16 water main breaks to start 2021, seeks help from Cleveland Division of Water Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com
NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio – The city will ask the Cleveland Division of Water for financial help in replacing main water lines, more than a dozen of which have broken in North Royalton during the first month of 2021 alone.
The issue came up during a Feb. 2 meeting of City Council’s Utilities Committee. Councilmen Vincent Weimer and Michael Wos discussed water main breaks that have occurred in the southwest corner of town, within their Wards 5 and 6, respectively. The breaks have cracked streets and driveways.
7th Circuit Affirms Conviction of Man Who Torched 7 Mobile Homes, Collected $600K
A federal appellate court on Friday affirmed the conviction of an Indiana man who set fire to seven homes in a rural mobile home park over a nine-year period and collected more than $600,000 in insurance money.
A panel of the 7th Circuit of Appeals rejected arguments that a magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court had improperly admitted into evidence accusations that Michael Thomas had set six other fires that were not part of the insurance fraud scheme.
“We conclude the district court properly decided that six of the fires were part of Thomas’s scheme and not ‘other acts’ at all,” the 7th Circuit opinion says. “The district court also properly admitted evidence of another fire that, although too far removed in time to be part of the scheme, was evidence of Thomas’s modus operandi.”