Husband Hid Gun on Visit to Erie County Nursing Home, Killed Wife and Himself
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A 75-year-old man concealed a firearm when he came to visit his 73-year-old wife at The Meadows at Osborn Park on Thursday morning, and both ultimately died. The Erie County Sheriff's Office says the woman was a patient at the Huron nursing home when staff heard two shots ring out around 11:30 a.m. and rushed in to find the couple suffering from gunshot wounds.
Erie County Sheriff Paul Sigsworth confirmed the shooting happened inside the wife's room at the facility and said deputies were investigating it as an apparent murder-suicide, according to the Sandusky Register. The sheriff said no other residents or staff members were injured. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene, while the man was transported to Firelands Regional Medical Center in Sandusky, roughly five miles away, where he was later pronounced dead, Cleveland.com reported.
The sheriff's office said the motive for the shooting remains unclear. Erie County Commissioner Pat Shenigo said he was deeply saddened by the loss of life at the facility, offering thoughts and prayers to the affected families, residents and employees. A County Facility Inside a Public Park
The Meadows at Osborn Park is a county-owned, 130-bed skilled nursing facility sitting inside the 172-acre Osborn MetroPark in Huron, and it has served Erie County families for more than 145 years, according to Seniorhomes.com. The facility is run under the Erie County Board of Commissioners in partnership with Continuing Healthcare Solutions, the same account notes. Erie County's highest-paid government employee in 2025 was Donna Patrick, the facility's nursing director and assistant administrator, who earned $164,900 annually, the Sandusky Register reported in January.
Thursday's shooting raises questions about firearm access at county-run care facilities located inside public parkland. Ohio law treats private and county-operated long-term care facilities differently: private facilities may prohibit concealed handguns through notice, while county facilities face a statutory prohibition. Coroner Holds Final Word on Cause of Death
While Sheriff Sigsworth's office has characterized the shooting as an apparent murder-suicide, Ohio law places the official determination of cause and manner of death with the county coroner rather than initial police statements, under Ohio Revised Code Section 313.19.
The Erie County Sheriff's Office is investigating the shooting at the nursing home. Part of a Troubling Statewide Pattern
The case also lands amid a grim statewide trend. Ohio recorded 157 domestic violence fatalities across 108 cases between July 2024 and June 2025 — a ten-year state record — with 40 of those cases ending in murder-suicide and firearms involved in 84 percent of deaths, according to the Ohio Domestic Violence Network. Similar cases have surfaced elsewhere in Ohio in recent months, including a murder-suicide on a Cleveland porch in August.
https://hoodline.com/2026/10/husband-hid-gun-on-visit-to-erie-county-nursing-home-killed-wife-and-himself/Open linkView original on lemmy.caLawsuit alleges doctors amputated wrong leg of patient in Washington County, Ohio
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WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ohio (WCHS) — A lawsuit has been filed in Washington County, Ohio, alleging that a woman left surgery with the wrong leg amputated.
https://wchstv.com/news/local/lawsuit-alleges-doctors-amputated-wrong-leg-of-patient-in-washington-county-ohioOpen linkView original on thelemmy.clubFormer Ohio missionary admits to sexually abusing children in Haiti
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https://appgateway.drc.ohio.gov/OffenderSearch/Search/Details/A770209
He traveled to Haiti over 30 times between 2002 and 2019 with the organization Christian Aid Ministries, as previously reported.
https://www.whio.com/news/local/former-ohio-missionary-admits-sexually-abusing-children-haiti/YJSU5TFG6NCBJH7ZJ3EXAJMGME/Open linkView original on thelemmy.clubHow the Epstein Network is Privatizing Govt & Building the Surveillance State(w/Whitney Webb)
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Read Whitney's article here: unlimitedhangout.com/2026/03/investigative-reports…
Whitney Webb explains how Leslie Wexner privatized Ohio’s state government, and is using his position between the markets and the state to build out the ‘Silicon Heartland’
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Lorain 16-year-old charged with murder of 67-year-old man, police say (basicaly a flock commercial)
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They gonna ram it in. They create the problem to solve the problem. Boy oh boy they getting creative on those camera tricks.... @1:49... constitution be damned... there is nothing good left in the USA... nothing but a zombie corparation ran by pdfiles. We are slaves no doubt about that. It is like us plebs get no chances but the corpos get infinate forgiveness.
Records show Cleveland’s Flock cameras used for immigration searches. City says Flock accidentally connected drones to the network
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/05/records-show-clevelands-flock-network-used-for-immigration-searches-city-blames-flock-and-drones.html?gift=7b339beb-b013-42e5-8280-3d03b44e1289Open linkView original on feddit.onlineAfter 60 years of making instruments in Ohio, this iconic American factory is shutting down for good
The filing confirms what Conn-Selmer had announced as a tentative plan in January. At that time, the company said it intended to transfer professional French horn production to its brass factory in Elkhart, Indiana, while moving production of tubas, sousaphones, and student and intermediate French horns offshore. Conn-Selmer describes itself as the largest manufacturer of band and orchestra instruments in the United States, with brands including Bach, Conn, King, Holton, Leblanc, Ludwig, and Selmer.
Journalism schools are teaching fear of the future
Cleveland Plain Dealer editor Chris Quinn argues that the future of newspapers is stories researched by humans, but written by AIs:
Like many students we’ve spoken with in the past year, this one had been told repeatedly by professors that AI is bad ... That’s backwards — and it seriously handicaps them as they begin their careers. I’ve written extensively about how we use AI to do more and better work. It has quickly become critical to everything we do, and to our success.
By removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week. They’re spending it on the street — doing in-person interviews, meeting sources for coffee. That’s where real stories emerge, and they’re returning with more ideas than we can handle.
Artificial intelligence is not bad for newsrooms. It’s the future of them. It already allows us to be faster, more thorough and more comprehensible. It frees time for what matters most: gathering facts and developing stories to serve you.
Anyone entering this field should be immersing themselves in AI.
Trump donor who criticized offshoring to close Ohio plant and move work to China
Conn Selmer, the largest US manufacturer of brass and orchestra instruments, told the union it planned to offshore most work at its Eastlake, Ohio, plant to China by the end of June 2026, eliminating 150 jobs.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/16/john-paulson-conn-selmer-ohio-factory-china-trumpOpen linkView original on feddit.onlineSo uhhhhh......what'cha guys doin?
Awful quiet in here. You guys staying hydrated? That humidity is like a kick to the balls that somehow hits your lungs instead.
What's everybody doing for the holiday? Getting naked and climbing the FREE stamp? No judgement.
Hey, you guys hear we're getting a soccar team? Whatever happened to that? They announced it like 2 years ago, and then........nothin.
The crazy idea for the Cleveland Indians I had before they settled on the name Guardians.
So, there was a time when they announced that they were changing their name. The name I kept hearing, and hating, was the Cleveland Rockers. Blegh!
So me, assuming the new name was going to be based on the idea of rock and roll being part of our image, I had a different idea. A crazy idea. A real longshot that I never expected to happen, but I still say the name is 100% cooler then "The Guardians" (especially since they don't use the guardian statue imagery).
My idea is that the Cleveland Indians makes a HUUUUUUUUGE purchase. They buy WMMS from iheartradio. They continue WMMS as 100.7FM, and still play rock themed genres. Kf anything, they become the non-corporate rock station. Who plays local artists. Who doesn't have a set list that just repeats everyday. But during the games, they'd have Tom Hamilton and crew announcing the games. Just as always.
They become the Cleveland Buzzards, and use the WMMS buzzard logo as their logo too.
The other idea I had was calling them the "Cleveland Drummers" with a cartoon version of John Adams face as the logo. This was before he died, so I figured he'd be at opening day of the new team......and then beat his drum. Unfortunately, he came down with health issues. He battled health issues, and died during the Guardians first season.
And the stadium does not feel the same without him.
YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! 216 subscribers!!!!! Ok, lock this community. We're exactly where we need to be.
You think maybe Tim Misney is one of the subscribers?

