The first inmate to die by lethal injection in Ohio in more than a year argued to the end that his obesity would make it difficult for prison staff to find suitable veins in his arms to deliver the deadly chemicals. ...more

October 15, 2008

In one, Mayor Rick Baker is wearing a pink dress with a matching pink hat. ...more

July 26, 2008

In one, Mayor Rick Baker is wearing a pink dress with a matching pink hat. In another, police Chief Chuck Harmon's head has been put on an obscenely overweight body, and the chief is looking intently at a two-layer cheeseburger. Maj. Melanie Bevan appears as both a dominatrix and as the Wicked Witch of the West. These are among more than 180 computer-altered images internal affairs investigators collected as they looked into an allegation that a police officer had posted them online. They were made available today as the result of a public information request. ...more

July 25, 2008

Another special request came in the other day to the old brick-walled factory on Gallagher Avenue, where pride - if not much profit - is taken in being the country's last maker of washboards. A worker, one of only four, all women, reached for an empty box and began to fill the order: ...more

May 24, 2008