Police seek man accused in shooting

        Investigators are looking for a 22-year-old man accused of shooting another man in English Woods about noon Friday.

        Officers were called to Good Samaritan Hospital after a man arrived with multiple gunshot wounds to his legs. Hospital officials, who did not release the man's name, said his girlfriend brought him to the hospital. Police had no other information.

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        The man was listed in serious condition.

        Police say the suspect is a black male, 5-foot-8, with braids. He was wearing black clothes and white Nike gym shoes, and was armed with a chrome-plated revolver. He last seen on foot near Boltwood Court and Sutter Avenue, where the shooting occurred.
       

Remains found near slain woman's body

        RAY, Ohio — Investigators expanded a search Friday for human remains after finding a tooth and two finger bones near a trailer where a missing college student was discovered dead.

        Rescue dogs pinpointed three or four other sites that could contain more remains, authorities said. Those sites will be dug up.

        “I think there's enough that there's pretty good evidence there was an attempt to dispose of a body,” said Dr. Carl Greever, acting Vinton County coroner.

        Two sets of remains were found Thursday as officers searched the wooded, hilly property in southern Ohio for the gun used to kill Emily Murray, a junior at Kenyon College.

        Ms. Murray, who had been shot in the head, was found last Saturday, her body wrapped in a rug.
       

Lawmakers: No end to term limits soon

        COLUMBUS — Term limits, which ended the 20-year career of House Speaker Jo Ann Davidson and paved the way for her successor, Larry Householder, aren't going to be abandoned anytime soon, both lawmakers said Friday.

        “The people of Ohio are pretty comfortable with term limits,” said Mr. Householder, a Glenford Republican expected to become House speaker in January after just two terms in the House.

        Revisiting term limits, which were overwhelmingly approved by voters eight years ago, is premature, said Ms. Davidson, a Reynoldsburg Republican who became speaker in 1994 after 14 years in the Legislature.

        “We might be looking at something down the road, but I'm not sure the opinion of the General Assembly has changed a whole lot,” she said. “It would have to have a grass-roots effort to change, and I don't feel that's there right now.”

        More than 40 new lawmakers are entering the House after term limits forced out their predecessors.
       

Crime lab examines note buried in grave

        AKRON — Authorities exhumed the body of a woman to check the burial vault for a note that her husband, who faces trial in her beating death, may have left.

        Workers at the Tallmadge Cemetery dug up Betty Mosley's vault on Wednesday and prosecutors removed a letter. The body was reburied.

        The note was sent to an FBI crime lab, said police Maj. Paul Callahan. He declined to discuss the contents of the letter or how they might affect the case against Douglas Mosley, 59, of Akron.

        He was arrested in August in the death of his 55-year-old wife. They had been married 37 years.

        Police said Mr. Mosley and his wife were alone in their home Jan. 30, the night she suffered fatal head injuries.

        Mr. Mosley, a house painter, has denied killing her. He said his wife had fallen and hit her head the night before she died.
       

Ohio to handle "slamming' complaints

        COLUMBUS — Susan Rauber had a shock when she checked her August phone bill, and she's still trying to fix the problem she found.

        Ohio consumers like her who believe a long-distance phone company “slammed” them — illegally taking over their account from another company — may benefit from federal regulations that took effect recently.

        The Federal Communications Commission is letting states assume primary responsibility for taking complaints and resolving them, using new rules meant to crack down on slamming.

        Ohio is one of 32 states that have chosen to administer the rules.

        Mrs. Rauber and her husband, who build gas station pumping systems, say they never authorized a little-known company to provide their long-distance home and business service, and they want to go back to AT&T.

        The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has in the past handled complaints that came directly to it, but most wound up in Washington with the FCC.
       

Man found guilty of strangling wife

        GREENVILLE, Ohio — A man accused of strangling his wife was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison Friday after entering a plea to a reduced charge and averting a trial.

        James Taylor, 22, pleaded no contest to murder and was found guilty, according to Darke County Prosecutor Richard Howell. Mr. Taylor was sentenced by Darke County Common Pleas Court Judge Jonathan Hein.

        Mr. Howell said prosecutors reduced the charge from aggravated murder to murder in exchange for Mr. Taylor's plea.

        The body of Lori Taylor, 22, was found April 5 in the bathtub of the couple's mobile home in Greenville. Police said the woman was apparently killed four days earlier at an apartment in nearby Union City.

        The couple had separated a few weeks before the woman's death. Police said she had gone to the apartment, where her husband was staying, to pick up their 2-year-old son.

        James Taylor was arrested in Las Vegas after authorities found his wife's body. The boy was found unharmed in a Las Vegas hotel room.

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