The man who left a voicemail threatening to assault and murder U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers and his family has been sentenced to 40 months in prison. E. Stanley Hoff of Westerville left a series of voicemails at Stivers' Hilliard office spanning from February to June 2017, repeatedly criticizing Republican Stivers' legislative agenda before escalating to threats on his family, who live in Upper Arlington, authorities said.
Virginia Senator and Hillary Clinton's vice presidential running mate, Tim Kaine, spoke mid-morning at an early vote canvass launch event that attracted a couple hundred supporters who showed up in the affluent Columbus suburb of Upper Arlington, this reporter's high school Alma mater. The Clinton-Kaine campaign knows the power that lies in early voting, and Sen. Kaine, whose time in the Peace Corps in central American enabled him to lace parts of his talk in Spanish, told the attendees that the election was in the palm of their hands with just 20 days until America decides who the 45th President of the United States will be.
What started as a federal lawsuit alleging religious discrimination by Upper Arlington might now be more about comparables and cash than Christ. Tree of Life, a local Christian school system, accuses Upper Arlington of opposing its planned consolidation of four area schools at one campus in the suburb because the city wants to maximize property taxes from that prime site.