Pawn shop seeks Purple Heart recipient’s family
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Jan 28, 2012 11:17:07 EST
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A central Ohio pawn shop buyer says he bought a military combat medal from a seller in hopes of returning the Purple Heart to the family of the original recipient.
A seller who reported finding a Purple Heart on a street sold the item to Uncle Sam’s Pawn Shop in Columbus this week for $30, according to TV station WCMH.
The medal is inscribed for late Army Pfc. Leroy Bryant of Franklin, who fought in the Korean War. Records show Bryant was listed as missing in action and later presumed dead after he was captured in February 1951.
Buyer Gary Chasin said the medal doesn’t belong in his pawn shop. Chasin said he would like to return it to Bryant’s family.
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Ohio family found dead in suspected murder-suicide
I have all the compassion in the world for people suffering so much they feel the need to end their lives, but I will never, ever understand what brings them to the point where they feel their families are better off dead as well. Please pray for the rest of the family members and friends coping with this.
Ohio family found dead in suspected murder-suicide
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Man, woman, two children shot to death in home, police say
Suicide note found, but police decline to reveal contents
Killings took place in Whitehall, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus
By Emanuella Grinberg
CNN
(CNN) -- A family of four has been found dead in a suburban Columbus, Ohio, home in what's believed to be a murder-suicide, authorities said Thursday.
Police in Whitehall, east of Columbus, responded to a call around 2 p.m. Wednesday and found the bodies of Mark Meeks, 51; his wife, Jennifer Dallas-Meeks, 40; and children Jimmy, 5, and Abbigail, 8.
"We're confirming all four victims had gunshot wounds, and a gun was found at the scene," Sgt. Dan Kelso said.
A suicide note purportedly written by Meeks also was found at the scene, but police are not releasing the note's contents, Kelso said.
Authorities believe Meeks shot his wife and two children and then himself, Kelso said.
It was the second time this week that a family died in an apparent murder-suicide. On Tuesday, the bodies of Ervin Antonio Lupoe, his wife and five children were found in their Los Angeles, California, area home after Lupoe faxed a letter to a local television station explaining that he and his wife had lost their jobs and felt it was better to end their lives.
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Monday, October 27, 2008
Columbus OH VA Clinic handles 310,000 veterans
New VA clinic saluted
Facility has more room, more staff, more services
Monday, October 27, 2008 3:22 AM
By Jeb Phillips
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Almost from the time Columbus' Chalmers P. Wylie Veterans Clinic opened in 1995, it was too small. And space has only become tighter.
The outpatient clinic was designed to handle about 135,000 patient visits per year; it now handles 310,000. Some veterans have to park in the overflow lot at the church across the street, then dodge traffic while crossing Taylor Avenue on the Near East Side.
The clinic staff was sending patients who needed even minor surgeries to VA medical centers in Cincinnati and Dayton. The Columbus clinic didn't have room or the facilities for them.
So it is with relief, and a little giddiness, that the clinic's chief of staff talks about the new $95 million Chalmers P. Wylie Veterans Affairs Ambulatory Care Center. The clinic, at 420 N. James Rd., will be dedicated Thursday and will accept its first patient Nov. 12, the day after Veterans Day.
"It is well-designed as a healing environment," Dr. Miguel LaPuz said.
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Facility has more room, more staff, more services
Monday, October 27, 2008 3:22 AM
By Jeb Phillips
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Almost from the time Columbus' Chalmers P. Wylie Veterans Clinic opened in 1995, it was too small. And space has only become tighter.
The outpatient clinic was designed to handle about 135,000 patient visits per year; it now handles 310,000. Some veterans have to park in the overflow lot at the church across the street, then dodge traffic while crossing Taylor Avenue on the Near East Side.
The clinic staff was sending patients who needed even minor surgeries to VA medical centers in Cincinnati and Dayton. The Columbus clinic didn't have room or the facilities for them.
So it is with relief, and a little giddiness, that the clinic's chief of staff talks about the new $95 million Chalmers P. Wylie Veterans Affairs Ambulatory Care Center. The clinic, at 420 N. James Rd., will be dedicated Thursday and will accept its first patient Nov. 12, the day after Veterans Day.
"It is well-designed as a healing environment," Dr. Miguel LaPuz said.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Five injured as school bus flips in crash in Ohio
Five injured as school bus flips in crash
Car fleeing police reportedly caused South Side wreck
At least five people have been taken to hospitals after a Columbus school bus was hit by a car and flipped at an intersection on the South Side. Witnesses said the bus fell onto its side after being hit shortly before 5 p.m. by a car at E. Sycamore Street and S. Ohio Avenue. The driver of the car reportedly ran a stop sign after fleeing police.
Car fleeing police reportedly caused South Side wreck
At least five people have been taken to hospitals after a Columbus school bus was hit by a car and flipped at an intersection on the South Side. Witnesses said the bus fell onto its side after being hit shortly before 5 p.m. by a car at E. Sycamore Street and S. Ohio Avenue. The driver of the car reportedly ran a stop sign after fleeing police.
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