Three neckties and no tablets

Ottawa County sheriff

Friday, March 15, 2013
4:03 p.m. – Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office, man purchased 100 used computer tablets from internet and received three neck ties in the mail, PayPal fraud department contacted.

This week the Sandusky History blog includes a look back to the March 19, 1985, edition of the Sandusky Register, and an article featuring a new business that opened:

Excerpt: The Defense of Marriage Act is an exception to the rule that a law’s title is as uninformative about the law’s purpose as the titles of Marx Brothers movies (“Duck Soup,” “Horse Feathers,” “Animal Crackers”) are about those movies’ contents.

Stephanie was sued for foreclosure on her $47,000 mortgage after missing three payments in 2004. As generally is true with banks these days, Stephanie’s bank showed her no forgiveness when she fell behind.

The recent rape conviction of two teenagers, one of whom also distributed a photo and sent cruel text messages about their victim, has captured the “bystander effect” in graphic and nauseating detail.

This week on the Ohio's Yesterdays blog, Parks Canda remembers the 70th anniversary of the loss of a Word War II pilot from Fremont who died when his plane crashed on a route from Ontario to Maine.

It's a horrific story, the rape of a 16-year-old girl as she was paraded from party to party by Steubenville football players last year.

Pawning the family jewels

Erie County Sheriff
7:38 a.m. — 12000 block Andress Road, Berlin Heights, father suspected daughter of taking mother’s jewelry; found jewelry at a pawn shop in Lorain.