John Seewer

January 21, 2022 | Daily Business Review

Lawmakers have been urging House and Senate leaders to fully fund a law meant to address the semiconductor chip shortage.

By John Seewer and Andrew Welsh-Huggins

4 minute read

November 04, 2009 | Daily Report Online

CLEVELAND AP - Police are expanding their search of a convicted rapist's neighborhood and his neatly kept home, where 10 bodies have been found in the basement, buried in the backyard, in an upstairs living room and in a crawl space.In addition to the four latest bodies they found buried in the backyard of Anthony Sowell's home on Tuesday, authorities found a skull wrapped in paper inside a bucket in the basement.

By JOHN SEEWER and THOMAS J. SHEERAN

3 minute read

April 09, 2008 | Daily Report Online

TOLEDO, Ohio AP - An attorney who made up a story about being kidnapped while she was pregnant and driven to Georgia was sentenced Wednesday to probation for two years and fined $300.Authorities said Karyn McConnell Hancock, 35, who was missing for three days in December, told them a man with a gun and two others abducted her outside a juvenile court building in downtown Toledo and forced her into the back of a van.

By JOHN SEEWER

2 minute read

January 29, 2008 | Daily Report Online

TOLEDO, Ohio AP - A pregnant attorney who police said made up a story about being kidnapped and driven from Ohio to Georgia pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of making false alarms.Authorities said Karyn McConnell Hancock, 35, who was missing for three days in December, told them a man with a gun and two others abducted her outside a juvenile court building in downtown Toledo and forced her into the back of a van.

By JOHN SEEWER

2 minute read

October 15, 2009 | Daily Report Online

TOLEDO, Ohio AP - A college pitcher's lawsuit challenging the NCAA exposed potential problems with a policy barring college baseball players from hiring advisers to negotiate contracts with professional teams.Now the question is whether the NCAA will alter the rule.For now, a settlement reached between the NCAA and Andrew Oliver, a former Oklahoma State pitcher, keeps the rule in place.

By JOHN SEEWER

4 minute read

December 14, 2007 | Daily Report Online

TOLEDO, Ohio AP - A pregnant attorney who police said made up a story about being kidnapped and driven to Georgia was charged Friday with making false alarms.Karyn McConnell Hancock, 35, met with police officials who explained the misdemeanor charge to her. She is due to appear in court on Dec. 27.The charge carries a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

By JOHN SEEWER

2 minute read

October 10, 2008 | Daily Report Online

TOLEDO, Ohio AP - An Ohio-based charity that the U.S. government says is linked to Hamas is demanding that officials unfreeze its assets.Attorneys for Kindhearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development sued Thursday in federal court in Toledo. The charity says the government hasn't given it a chance to defend itself.

By JOHN SEEWER

1 minute read

January 07, 2008 | Daily Report Online

OTTAWA, Ohio AP - A British citizen who spent two decades on Ohio's death row was released from jail Monday after pleading no contest to three charges related to a fire that killed a 2-year-old girl.Ken Richey, who once came within an hour of being executed, walked free for the first time since he was convicted of setting a northwest Ohio apartment fire that killed the toddler in 1986.

By JOHN SEEWER

3 minute read

November 16, 2009 | Daily Report Online

CLEVELAND AP - FBI agents sifted through dirt with rakes and shovels Saturday in the backyard of a suspected serial killer's home and ran a thermal-imaging device across the ground near the area where the decomposing bodies of several women were found.The agents worked for about four hours at the home of Anthony Sowell, crawling beneath the front porch and removing bricks and other debris.

By JOHN SEEWER

2 minute read

March 14, 2007 | National Law Journal

Supreme Court nominees will face bitter and partisan confirmation battles, Justice Antonin Scalia told an audience on Tuesday at the University of Toledo. He added that selecting a nominee is no longer about finding someone fair, it's about finding someone who agrees with those who make the choice.

By John Seewer

2 minute read