Stories by Lynn Hulsey
Trammell, FBI’s original target, remains a free man
Several supporters sat in the federal courtroom last week as Angela Goodwine, 53, solemnly admitted she stole thousands of dollars in taxpayer money meant to help battered women. Her father, the Rev. Raleigh Trammell, was not among them. Even though Trammell, 76, was the original target of the FBI investigation ...
Trammell’s daughter pleads guilty to stealing $70K in funds for battered women
Angela Goodwine, 53, of Dayton pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to stealing $70,000 in taxpayer money that was supposed to help battered women. The conviction was the second related to social services programs operated by the Dayton chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Montgomery County. Goodwine’s ...
Vandalia prosecutor ban is lifted by Judge Heck
Vandalia Municipal Judge Cindy Heck rescinded her order barring Vandalia Municipal Prosecutor Claudia Turrell from practicing in the court after the city manager on Thursday said Heck lacked the authority to ban the prosecutor, according to documents obtained by the Dayton Daily News. Heck said Friday that she did not ...
Congressman Turner’s divorce finalized
The marriage of U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton, and Lori Turner was dissolved on Wednesday in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. Domestic Relations Judge Timothy D. Wood granted the March 29 petition for dissolution filed by Lori Turner, who is vice president of marketing for the Kettering Health Network. The ...
Highway Patrol spending $645K on shotguns; old ones don’t fit in new cruisers
The Ohio Highway Patrol is spending more than $600,000 to replace its shotguns because the old ones are too long to fit in the front seat of the Dodge Chargers the state bought to replace Ford Crown Victoria cruisers, the law-enforcement staple that is no longer manufactured. Lt. Anne Ralston, ...
Judge bars prosecutor from working in her courtroom
Vandalia Prosecutor Claudia Turrell faces dismissal after Municipal Court Judge Cynthia M. Heck issued an unusual order banning her from working in the court. Heck declined to discuss why she issued the order. But according to Turrell, Heck asked City Manager Rob Anderson to fire the prosecutor because she had ...
Trammell’s daughter faces federal charge
The U.S. Attorney’s office has filed a federal charge against Angela Goodwine, the daughter of disgraced civil rights leader the Rev. Raleigh Trammell, alleging she acted as an agent for an organization that “stole, obtained by fraud and intentionally misapplied” in excess of $10,000 in grant money provided by the ...
Former SCLC board members question accounting practices
The Montgomery County Prosecutor’s office is again investigating the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Dayton chapter after receiving a complaint that the group raised funds for a boy who lost a leg to cancer but did not give the money to the family. “I hope they can get some justice here,” ...
Taxpayers paid $1.3B to cover bad business loans
Lax federal oversight dating back years allowed lenders to repeatedly make bad loans to small businesses under a government program that has cost taxpayers $1.3 billion since 2000 on defaulted loans, a Dayton Daily News investigation found. Some borrowers in the Small Business Administration’s largest federally guaranteed loan program defaulted ...
l’Auberge owner blames default on competition, recession
For Josef Reif, the failure of his celebrated l’Auberge restaurant last year after more than three decades in business in Kettering is about more than red ink and personal bankruptcy. “It’s ripping your heart out, ripping your soul out. You don’t know where to turn and you are in an ...
Billions at stake over Medicare drug prices
Congress is looking to save money but has avoided a route that its own budget office says could save $137.4 billion by 2022. It would mean defying an industry, however, that spends billions lobbying Congress and federal agencies. Critics say the power of the pharmaceutical industry contributes to lawmakers’ unwillingness ...
Senate even losing money on haircuts
America’s taxpayers are paying a hefty price for the well-groomed appearance of the U.S. Senate’s members and staff. Since 1997 the Senate Hair Care shop has consistently run deficits of about $340,000 annually, a taxpayer subsidy that is growing rather than shrinking. Critics point to the salon as another example ...
Locals gather to watch inauguration, hopeful about future
There seemed nothing more fitting on Monday for those who braved the cold to march in celebration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to then watch the nation’s first black president be sworn in for his second term.“That is the dream in reality,” said Anthony Whitmore, general chairman of ...
Job numbers gain despite regulation complaints
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement this month of a long-delayed rule tightening air pollution limits on soot has revived one of this past election season’s hottest debates: whether government regulations are crushing small businesses. “And so it begins,” said Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., ranking member of the Senate Committee ...
Dayton Commissioner Whaley to announce run for mayor
Dayton City Commissioner Nan Whaley is expected to announce on Monday that she is running for mayor in 2013, setting up a race of at least three people, including Dayton Mayor Gary Leitzell and former Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge and County Auditor A.J. Wagner.Wagner and Whaley are Democrats and ...
Fired detective wins pension payout
A former Montgomery County Sheriff’s detective fired in 2010 for improper conduct, including lying about a sexual relationship with a paid informant, has been awarded a disability pension by the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System. Steven D. Gardiner, now 39, was a 15-year veteran of the sheriff’s office and was ...
Healing economy key to Obama’s Ohio win
President Barack Obama was able to confound conventional wisdom, winning re-election despite high unemployment and lingering economic problems that many thought would derail his presidency. But enough voters seemed hopeful in a brighter future and were willing to keep a president they find likable and in touch with the average ...
Ohio voters give Obama more time to fix economy
Voters still stinging from economic woes appeared willing to give President Barack Obama more time to fix things, according to an Ohio exit poll following Obama’s defeat of GOP challenger Mitt Romney in Tuesday’s election. Major national media outlets had called the state and the race for Obama, and Romney ...
Ohio exit polls: Brown leading Mandel, Obama/Romney too close to call
President Barack Obama, a Democrat, was leading Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at the close of polls, according to exit polling results in Ohio from the National Election Pool Exit Poll conducted by Edison Research.The firm indicate the race is too close to call at this point.In the race for ...
GOP star Rubio comes to Centerville to campaign for Mandel
Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio urged supporters gathered in Centerville on Friday to elect Josh Mandel to the U.S. Senate to help break partisan gridlock that Rubio blamed on the Democrats.Rubio spoke before about 100 people outside GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign headquarters in Centerville. U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, ...
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