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Chillicothe High School student tests positive for COVID-19
A Chillicothe High School student tested positive for the coronavirus just three days after the school reopened.
According to a district spokesperson, a high school student’s parents called the school district to inform them of the positive COVID-19 results, and the student was immediately sent home to quarantine. The student was in school for the first time this week on Wednesday and did not ride the bus to school.
“We’ve been working with the Ross County Health District to notify parents of students potentially exposed, as well as our staff,” Superintendent Debbie Swinehart in a statement. “Fortunately, due to the nature of the exposure, proper social distancing and mask-wearing, public health officials have determined that no other students or staff are required to quarantine.”
Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge.
Ryan Gibbs must serve a year on probation, perform 80 hours of community service and donate $100,000 to a federal fund used to provide rewards for tipsters in illegal wildlife trade cases, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Gibbs also agreed to give up a stuffed lion, two stuffed puffins, a panther skin and a sawfish rostrum — the bill or beak of the sawfish — which he owns.
Gibbs, 44, a Cincinnati attorney, tried buying a tiger skin from someone in the United Kingdom in 2018, but was told it was illegal, prosecutors said. That person put him in touch with a seller in Minnesota, who turned out to be an undercover U.S. Fish and Wildlife agent.
Four charged in double homicide at burning Akron house
Police in Akron charged four people in connection to the shooting deaths of two people whose bodies were found in a burning house last month.
Steven Hayes, 20, and Kianna Buckley, 42, were arrested Wednesday and face charges related to the murders of Justin Lee Walker and Melinda Kay Pointer, the Akron police said in a statement.
Hayes is charged with two counts of aggravated murder, and Buckley with robbery and conspiracy to commit murder. Both are in custody in the Summit County jail.
Firefighters responded to a fire at a home on the morning of July 28 and found the bodies of Walker and Pointer inside with bullet wounds to their heads and torsos, Cleveland.com reported.
Walker, 34, was the son-in-law of Pointer, 47.
Police are looking for two other suspects: Dylan Brown, 20, and Gia Alexis Hernandez, 37.
Brown is charged with complicity to commit aggravated murder and conspiracy to commit aggravated murder, the police said. In October, he was sentenced to five years probation after having pleaded guilty to charges related to the murder of an 18-year-old Akron woman, Samantha Guthrie.
Hernandez is facing charges of tampering with evidence and obstructing justice.
Sammy Hagar’s charity concert at rock hall canceled
The first major concert scheduled to take place in Cleveland since the start of the coronavirus pandemic isn’t happening after all.
Last week, it was revealed that Sammy Hagar and the Circle would perform at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. However, representatives for Hagar confirmed that the performance has been canceled “due to city/state regulations on public gatherings.”
Hagar and his band (which features former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, plus drummer Jason Bonham and guitarist Vic Johnson) were supposed to headline the annual “Rockin’ Fore the Kids,” a fundraiser benefiting cancer treatment programs at Akron Children’s Hospital, plus charitable programs at Musicares and local food banks.
Man pleads guilty in shootout that led to girl’s death
A man who prosecutors said was involved in a shootout in Cleveland that left a 9-year-old girl dead has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and other charges.
Body type J: Ce’matizea Andrews, 21, entered his plea this week. He now faces more than 20 years in prison when he’s sentenced Sept. 17.
Andrews was among seven adults and teenagers charged in connection with the June 2018 shootout, and the third to plead guilty.
Authorities have said people traveling in a stolen car drove by the gym and opened fire on a group standing on the corner outside the building. People in the group returned fire, and at least 15 gunshots were fired overall during the shootout.
The shooting occurred shortly after Saniyah Nicholson’s mother had stopped at a gym to pick up her 14-yearold son. Saniyah and her 20-year-old sister were waiting for them in the mother’s car when the shots rang out, and the stray bullet struck the child in the forehead, killing her instantly.
USA TODAY NETWORK, Advance Ohio Media and Associated Press reports
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BLOOD DRIVES
Blood drives are open today at:
Carriage Place Blood Donation Center, 4820 Sawmill Road, 7:15 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Grove City Church of the Nazarene, 4750 Hoover Road, Grove City, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Maranatha Community Fellowship, 6240 Lucas Road, Plain City, 7 a.m.12 p.m.
Polaris Blood Donation Center, 1327 Cameron Ave., Lewis Center, 7:15 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Westbelt Blood Donation Center, 4327 Equity Dr., 8 a.m.-1 p.m.