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Three teenagers were arrested after they sped off from a Buffalo Wild Wings with a staff member clinging onto the hood of their car in an attempt to stop them from dining-and-dashing. Kayla Sherman was working at the Willoughby BWW in Ohio on November 20 when the teenagers, one 16-year-old and two 17-year-olds, ordered takeout and then ran before paying their $115 bill. Sherman saw her co-worker run after the teens and followed shortly behind. She went in front of the teen's car while her co-worker attempted to grab the license plate number. Suddenly, the 17-year-old put the car in...

An Alabama man charged last week with 215 counts of possession of child pornography once worked at a boarding school in Missouri and had been a children's minister in the state of Ohio, according to reports. The Rainsville Police Department says Steve Robert Wukmer, 66, was arrested at his place of employment in Fort Payne just before noon Nov. 15. The investigation into Wukmer began earlier in the month after police received a tip. Wukmer once worked at Agape Boarding School in southwest Missouri, former students told The Kansas City Star. "This guy was a full-time staff member at Agape...

The New York Times over the weekend explained that Ohio Republican Sen.-elect J.D. Vance’s win in the midterm election was a “reminder” that the Buckeye State is “no longer a swing state,” which will cause Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown to have a tough reelection in 2024. Brown, who turned 70 this month, is the only Democrat to win a statewide election in the last decade in Ohio. However, Vance’s win posed an even harder reelection battle for his 2024 reelection bid, especially after the Republican governor won by roughly 25 points.

Digging up a statement from Barack Obama about Democrat election manipulation and how it helps to have Democrats controlling the “election machines” has produced a Twitter suspension for a news website.Just the News reported that Citizen Free Press, a popular news aggregator, was suspended from Twitter after sharing Obama’s statement.He first suggests that Democrats “controlled” certain voting machines at the time of his first presidential run.His statement came at a 2008 rally at Kent State University, and was in response to a request for assurance that the election was not being rigged or stolen."Well, I tell you what, it helps...

The special counsel named by the Biden administration to investigate Donald Trump oversaw a Justice Department unit rebuked by the Supreme Court for its prosecution of a prominent Republican and was linked by Congress to the IRS scandal that targeted conservative groups. Jack Smith, a war crimes prosecutor in The Hague and former chief of the DOJ public integrity section, was named Friday by Attorney General Merrick Garland to take over two investigations of Trump related to Jan. 6 and classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago. In 2014, the House Oversight Committee concluded that during Smith's earlier stint at DOJ he...

When the measles outbreak was first reported last week, only four confirmed cases had been identified in one child-care facility, which temporarily closed – but the number of cases and facilities involved has grown. As of Friday morning, Columbus Public Health officials updated their investigation to include 19 confirmed cases, and more suspected, at 10 daycare centers and two schools. “All cases are in unvaccinated children, and all but one are less than 4 years old. One child is 6 years old,” Newman said. Health officials with Columbus Public Health and Franklin County Public Health have been investigating these cases...

[H/T Mountainlion]ransomnote: stating Biden was 'the big guy' and detailing Biden family crimes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z3bZZlETiw

Representatives James Comer (R-KY), Jim Jordan (R-OH), and others hold a news conference on the investigation into the business dealings of the Biden family.

Ohio Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown will seek reelection in 2024 for another term in the United States Senate as no Democrat won statewide during the 2022 midterm elections. Brown, who just turned 70 this past week, told Spectrum News he plans on running for reelection in the Buckeye State in 2024. “I’m running in 2024. And I run to win,” he said. “People recognize that I get up every day and fight for the dignity of work. Whether you swipe a badge or punch a clock or work for tips or work for a salary,” the Democrat told Spectrum. Even...

A long-duration lake-effect snowstorm is expected to bury parts of western and northern New York, including the cities of Buffalo and Watertown, under up to 3 feet of snow into this weekend. Bands of heavy snow are expected to develop to the east and northeast of lakes Erie and Ontario beginning Wednesday night and continuing right through Sunday, when the Buffalo Bills are scheduled to host the Cleveland Browns at Highmark Stadium in the Buffalo Southtowns. Lake-Effect Snow Warnings have been issued from the Buffalo metro area southwestward into northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio ... This will be the start...

The man who took his demand for gay "marriage" in America to the U.S. Supreme Court, resulting in that decision that destroyed millennia of traditional morality by "finding" such a right in the Constitution – has been blown out in his first bid in politics. It is the Washington Stand that revealed the big loser is Jim Obergefell, whose name forever is linked to the Obergefell v. Hodges case through which the anti-Christian precedent was adopted for America. He ran as a Democrat for the Ohio House of Representatives, losing by 23 percentage points.

An old video of Barack Obama has emerged that shows the former president boasting that “we got Democrats in charge of the [voting] machines.” The newly-discovered old video appeared of Obama giving a campaign speech at Kent State University during the 2008 election. Obama sought to ease concerns about potential Republican victories by telling the crowd of Democrat voters in Ohio that they needn’t worry. He explained that Democrats control the election voting machines in Ohio. The then-Illinois U.S. senator continued by claiming that Republicans “have monkeyed around with elections in the past” before admitting that “sometimes Democrats have too.”...

NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio — Are shopping malls on their last leg and nearing extinction? It’s a question consumer experts have been asking for years. However, recent data shows indoor and outdoor malls are actually showing positive gains and nearing a comeback here in Northeast Ohio. With higher vaccination rates, baby boomers preferring in-person shopping, and a millennial generation loving nostalgia, some experts and investors believe we may have turned a corner in the retail landscape. Take a walk through Great Northern Mall in North Olmsted and you can’t help but notice the rush of shoppers, vibrant retail spaces, and holiday...

AKRON, Ohio — Bill Liming says he doesn't feel like he can remain silent any longer. His son, Ethan Liming, was a star athlete, an honor roll student and a rising senior. Summer vacation had just started when the 17-year-old was brutally beaten and killed. Now, months later, his father feels like he is being victimized by the justice system. “I naively believed that once the people who murdered my son were caught that the justice system would simply handle things. We’ve said all along we were confident when the facts of the case were presented that Ethan would receive...

The City of Columbus, Ohio, sued a Franklin County Court of Common Pleas judge in Columbus, in the Supreme Court of Ohio, to obtain an injunction against Ohio preemption law, claiming the law violates the Ohio Constitution. The preemption law was passed in December of 2018, overriding a veto by Ohio Governor Kasich.Here is a link to the law in question, Ohio R.C. 9.68(A). Here is the part of the law dealing with commercial purposes: (D) This section does not apply to either of the following:(1) A zoning ordinance that regulates or prohibits the commercial sale of knives, firearms, firearm...

Ohioans have greater hopes of protecting unborn babies from abortion after voters elected Republicans to all three open state Supreme Court seats on Tuesday. NPR affiliate WOSU reports Republican Sharon Kennedy won the race for chief justice, beating Democrat Jennifer Brunner and paving the way for a 5-2 conservative majority on the court. Republicans Pat Fischer and Pat DeWine also defeated Democrat candidates Terri Jamison and Marilyn Zayas for two open associate justice seats, according to unofficial election results. “Ohio is a pro-life state, which is proven time and time again every election,” said Elizabeth Whitmarsh, director of communications for...

VANDALIA, Ohio (LifeSiteNews) — On the eve of the 2022 midterm elections, former President Donald Trump announced Monday that he would be making a “very big announcement” on November 15, widely believed to be his bid to run in a 2024 presidential campaign. Speaking to supporters at a rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on Monday night, Trump thwarted speculation that he was about to announce a 2024 presidential campaign that evening. Instead, he revealed he would be making a “very big announcement” next Tuesday. “Two years ago, we were a great nation. And we will be a great nation again,” he...

Republican candidate JD Vance has defeated Democrat Tim Ryan in Ohio’s senate race after the pro-life canddiate exposed Ryan’s radical pro-abortion views. When the race was called, Vance led Ryan 53-46 in the midwestern state. After the race was called, Ohio Right to Life’s Director of Communications, Elizabeth Whitmarsh, stated, “Ohio Right to Life is extremely encouraged by Vance’s victory tonight, as we have supported him from the beginning. He has proven time and time again that he will fight for the lives of every Ohioan, born and pre-born.” Throughout the campaign, Tim Ryan attempted to castigate J.D. Vance’s pro-life...

JD Vance, the Trump-endorsed GOP nominee for U.S. Senate in Ohio, has taken a commanding lead in the polls heading into Election Day. Just hours before President Trump will arrive in Vandalia, Ohio, for a special Election Eve Save America rally, the latest polls have Vance up by a wide margin.A new Nov. 4 poll from Trafalgar, for example, has Vance up by a whopping 10 points over his Democrat opponent, Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio. A more recent Trafalgar poll projected Vance will take the Senate seat at 54 percent to Ryan’s 44 percent.For too long, the D.C. machine has...

Monday, November 7, 2022: Join the RSBN broadcast crew LIVE from Vandalia, OH for all day coverage of President Donald J. Trump’s SAVE AMERICA rally. President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will hold a rally in Vandalia, Ohio on Monday, November 7, 2022, at 8:00PM EST.