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- Friends, family greet Toledo man after 13 years behind bars
- Surrounded by family and with a continuous stream of well-wishers stopping by his parents' Hamilton Street home, Willie Knighten spent his first few hours as a free man making up for lost time. Released from Allen Correctional Institution…
- Toledo Blade
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- 3 hours ago
- Ohio gov. grants clemency to 78 convicts
- Receiving commutation to time served was a Toledo gang member, Willie Knighten Jr ... Bob Taft. Another 233 requests were made in 2007. Strickland agreed with the recommendations of the Ohio Parole Board in 267 of the 296 cases, or 90…
- Warren Tribune Chronicle
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- 5 hours ago
- Governor grants clemency to 78, none on death row
- Bob Taft, Strickland denied 30 and granted clemency 33 times — 29 pardons and four commutations. Of 233 clemency requests from 2007, he denied 188 requests and granted clemency 45 times — 39 pardons and six commutations. Strickland agreed…
- Akron Beacon Journal
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- 1 day ago
- Gov. Ted Strickland grants pardons or clemency to 78 people
- COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gov. Ted Strickland has granted pardons or commuted sentences for 78 people who committed crimes including drug abuse, forgery, theft, robbery and murder. The Democratic governor's decisions on 296 clemency applications,…
- Cleveland Plain Dealer
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- 1 day ago
- Gov. Ted Strickland grants clemency to 78 people
- Bob Taft approved only about 4 percent of clemency requests during his first two years in office, while George V. Voinovich, another Republican, approved less than 3 percent when he was governor from 1991 to 1999. In granting a total of 68…
- Cleveland Plain Dealer
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- 1 day ago
- Obama’s Indecision
- “Cost of indecision about Afghanistan is mounting.” That’s not a headline on Townhall.com. It’s the title of a column by the dean of liberal Washington pundits, David Broder. Even David Broder is concerned about President Obama’s failure to…
- Patriot Post
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- 1 day ago
- 'Focus on the Figure'
- ... Robert Hoffman, which adorns the Bishop's Chapel of Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral, and the official gubernatorial portrait of former Ohio Governor Robert (Bob) Taft, unveiled in early 2007, that now adorns the…
- Herald-Palladium
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- 11/19/2009
- Politics Threaten Ohio Jobs Program
- Bob Taft in 2002, has created about 41,000 jobs. Voters approved $500 million in bonds in 2005. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle sing Ohio Third Frontier's praises. But now there are growing frustrations between House Democrats and…
- WCPO
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- 11/18/2009
- Governor grants clemency to 78; requests by several local…
- COLUMBUS -- Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland granted clemency to 78 people Monday, including a convicted murderer, after a painstaking review of three years of requests extending into his predecessor's term. Sixty-eight former inmates, all of whom…
- Chillico Gazette
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- 19 hours ago
- Ohio governor Strickland grants clemency to 78 inmates
- COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday granted clemency to 78 inmates, none of them on death row, after a painstaking review of three years of requests extending into his predecessor's term. Sixty-eight people, most of whom had…
- Cincinnati.com
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- 1 day ago