Circleville woman on trial in murder-for-hire scheme
CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio — Tara Lambert pulled her Lexus into the Kentucky Fried Chicken parking lot, where she met a man and gave him $125 as a down payment for what authorities say was going to be murder. Lambert’s target was Kellie Cooke, the mother of her two stepdaughters. The conversation with the man she thought was a hired gun — who was really an undercover detective with the sheriff's office — was captured on video. And it was played for the jury Monday in Pickaway County Common Pleas Court, ..>> view originalTeens injured after suspect opens fire on vehicle
NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow says she planned a special broadcast on the Flint, Michigan, water crisis out of concern that assignin…>> view originalCircleville woman testifies she was joking when talking to 'hitman'
CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio — The woman accused of hiring a hitman to kill the mother of her stepchildren testified today that the secretly recorded tape of the transaction when she paid the killer had been altered. "There are two parts missing," Tara Lambert said at her trial, where she faces two counts of conspiracy to commit aggravated murder. The second charge is because at the meeting, held in a Kentucky Fried Chicken parking lot on July 28, she told the hitman — who was really an undercover police ..>> view originalConvention Center manager fired after ties to vendor are discovered
The man in charge of day-to-day operations at the Greater Columbus Convention Center has been fired after revelations that he previously had been paid as a consultant for the company that was awarded the facility’s food vending contract in 2014. Rodney Myers, operations director for the convention center, was terminated on Jan. 15 after it was discovered he helped food vendor Centerplate land the Convention Center contract, two sources at Columbus City Hall and one close to the investigation ha..>> view originalViolence declines in Ohio prisons, but trouble spots remain
Violence in Ohio prisons is declining, but some hot spots remain, including the Marion Correctional Institution where infractions rose 73 percent over two years. A report from the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee released today showed overall violent incidents declined 11.8 percent from a peak in 2011. There were 10,277 violent incidents in 2014, the last year for which statistics are available. The most violent prison in the state over three years, according to the report, was the..>> view originalWill 3 goals mean 3 puppies for this Columbus Blue Jackets fan?
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- She must get three puppies, right? this was bound to happen. pic.twitter.com/8phWFUKNdy — Stephanie (@myregularface) January 26, 2016 Monday night, the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-2, and a young girl before the game held a sign up to the glass that claimed if No. 13 for the Blue Jackets scored a goal, her dad would let her get a dog. Cam Atkinson is No. 13 for Columbus. He didn't just score one goal, he scored three for his third career hat trick. "..>> view originalClippers | Meulens elected to IL Hall of Fame
The International League announced the election of former Clippers star Hensley “Bam Bam” Meulens to its Hall of Fame on Tuesday. Meulens, who played part of five seasons with the Clippers, joins former Durham Bulls manager Charlie Montoyo in the 2016 class. The current hitting coach for the San Francisco Giants, Meulens was the IL most valuable player in 1990. He batted .285 that season with 26 home runs and 96 RBI. In 1992, Meulens put together a .275 season for Columbus with 26 home ru..>> view originalNavy finds no sign of shooting at med center
SAN DIEGO — The Navy said Tuesday an initial inspection at Naval Medical Center San Diego found no sign of a gunman or a shooting. The disclosure came after military police had checked Building 26 after a person reported hearing three shots in the basement earlier in the day, Navy spokesman N. Scott Sutherland said. The base remained on lockdown as authorities went from room to room and led personnel out of the facility. TV images showed uniformed Navy personnel walking outside the medical faci..>> view originalAbe Vigoda, sunken-eyed character actor, dead at 94
Character actor Abe Vigoda, whose leathery, sunken-eyed face made him ideal for playing the over-the-hill detective Phil Fish in the 1970s TV series "Barney Miller" and the doomed Mafia soldier in "The Godfather," died Tuesday at age 94. Vigoda's daughter, Carol Vigoda Fuchs, told The Associated Press that Vigoda died Tuesday morning in his sleep at Fuchs' home in Woodland Park, New Jersey. The cause of death was old age. "This man was never sick," Fuchs said. Vigoda worked in relative obscurit..>> view originalEx-Olentangy teacher found guilty in sexual assault of students
DELAWARE, Ohio — As the judge ticked off the guilty verdicts against the former Olentangy elementary schoolteacher, a mother of one of the victims began weeping. Other parents also began to cry, holding their spouses in their arms as they listened to "guilty," "guilty," "guilty." Jurors deliberated for more than eight hours on Monday before finding Matthew Rausenberg guilty on 41 —all but one — counts in connection with the sexual assault of several of his students. Rausenberg sat with his h..>> view original
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Circleville woman on trial in murder-for-hire scheme and other top stories.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment