Man killed in shootout with police in Solon
Solon -- A man from the Toledo area was shot and killed in a shootout with police March 17.
Authorities say 22-year-oid Kevin Bailey of Sylvania Township fled a police stop in Solon late March 17, crashed and then fired on approaching officers. The officers returned fire.
The Cuyahoga County medical examiner will do an autopsy.
State crime lab agents joined the investigation.
It wasn't clear why the man fled officers.
-- Associated Press
Two football players convicted of raping girl
Steubenville -- Two members of Steubenville's celebrated high school football team were found guilty March 17 of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl, and Ohio's attorney general warned the case isn't over, saying he is investigating whether coaches, parents and other students broke the law, too.
Trent Mays, 17, and Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, were sentenced to at least a year in juvenile prison in a case that has rocked the city of 18,000 and led to allegations of a cover-up to protect the Steubenville High team, which has won nine state championships. Mays was ordered to serve an additional year for photographing the underage girl naked.
The crime, which took place after a party last summer, shocked many because of the seeming callousness with which other students took out their cellphones to record the attack and gossiped about it online.
Immediately after the verdict, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said he will convene a grand jury next month to investigate whether anyone else should be charged. Noting that 16 people refused to talk, many of them underage, DeWine said possible offenses to be investigated include failure to report a crime.
-- Associated Press
About 30,000 could see state tax return delay
Cleveland -- A tax-preparation glitch could delay the returns of an estimated 30,000 Ohioans by up to six weeks.
The Plain Dealer reported the estimated number of affected Ohioans on March 14. The Internal Revenue Service said March 13 that the glitch will affect about 660,000 tax returns nationwide
The IRS said that a problem with a limited number of software company products affected some taxpayers filing a form used to claim educational credits between Feb. 14 and Feb. 22.
The agency didn't name any companies in the statement. But Kansas City-based H&R Block has been informing customers about problems.
H&R Block spokesman Gene King says the problem involves other tax preparers beyond H&R Block. He says the returns were prepared accurately, but the error occurred in e-file processing.
-- Associated Press
Sen. Portman now
supports gay marriage
Cincinnati -- Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio says he now supports gay marriage because one of his sons is gay.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that during an interview March 14 in Washington, Portman said his evolution on the subject of gay marriage began in 2011 when his son, Will, then a freshman at Yale University, told his parents he was gay.
Portman says his new views reflect "a change of heart from the position of a father" and that he first talked to his pastor and others, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, whose daughter is a lesbian.
As a member of the House in 1996, Portman voted in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman and bars federal recognition of same-sex marriage.
-- Associated Press
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