Seneca Industrial and Economic Development Corporation President and CEO David Zak presented a 2014 update to the Sececa County Commissioners at their regular meeting yesterday.  Zak touted over $40 million in manufacturing investments  and 1000 jobs created.  Projects in the health and education sectors included $16 million in investments and 650 jobs.  Zak said that the growth adds to the quality of life in Tiffin and Seneca County.

At its most recent board meeting, The Hancock County Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services board of directors says it plans to provide information about potential recovery houses to City Council members and Mayor Lydia Mihalik, so the elected officials will be able to help respond if residents complain.  The move is in an effort to head off any public backlash to any planned recovery house.  Executive Director Precia Stuby told board members they aren’t doing anything against the law by trying to establish recovery housing in neighborhoods zoned for single-family homes.

A man was cited after he left a handgun in the bathroom at a Bowling Green McDonald this weekend.  The manager of the Wooster Street McDonald's called police, saying that the firearm - a 9mm semiautomatic pistol, in a holster and fully loaded - had been turned into them by a patron after being found in the men's restroom.  The firearm was secured by police, who were contacted later that day by Kaleb Spicer of Maplewood, who indicated he had left the gun there.  Police were able to confirm the claim and released the gun to him.  Spicer was cited for failure to secure a dangerous ordnance.

Hancock County Common Pleas Judge Joseph Niemeyer has ruled against a defense request to exhume the body of a 44-day-old baby who was allegedly killed by his father.  Jerrod Hartman’s defense suggested that the infant may have had a birth injury to his skull.  Hartman is charged with murder for allegedly kill his infant son in 2013.
 

An anonymous donor again will help buy school supplies for North Baltimore elementary students next school year.  It will be the sixth consecutive year that this donor will have paid for school supplies, such as pens, for students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade.  While an estimate was not yet available for the latest donation, in past years it was $8,000.

Cleveland has agreed to overhaul its police department under the supervision of a federal monitor in a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over a pattern of excessive force and other abuses by officers.  A 105-page settlement between Cleveland and federal authorities includes a move to community policing.  A commission of residents and police union officials will be formed to end bias and other problems within Cleveland's police force.