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75¢ Friday, Serving the Grand Lake January 24, 2020 area since 1848 The ‘Ivy’ League: Wolf scores school-record 36 against Cardinals See P. 14 DailyCelina, Ohio • © 2020 StandardS PrintingT Co. All Rightsan Reserved • dailystandard.comDarD Board fires coaches charged with murder By LESLIE GARTRELL on Thursday evening. situation,” Brown said. tand reportedly admitted they had [email protected] Board members approved an Last week, Stephen, 31, and Hies- conspired to kill Briar. athletic supplemental contract for tand, 18, both of Portland, Indiana, According to the affidavit, Ste- FORT RECOVERY — Fort the 2019-2020 school year for new were arrested and charged with the phen and Hiestand met with Han- Recovery Local Schools Board coach Ryan Thien. Superintendent murder of Shea Briar, 31, Portland. nah Knapke, 18, Fort Recovery, in of Education members fired high Larry Brown said Thien had gained Briar and Stephen were involved in a church parking lot to tell her school head softball coach Esther experience by volunteering with a legal dispute over a shared child, of their plan to murder Briar and Stephen and assistant coach Shelby the team. according to court documents. asked to borrow her car. Hiestand and hired a new head “He expressed a willingness to During interviews with investi- Stephen Hiestand softball coach at a special meeting assist the team in this challenging gators on Jan. 14, Stephen and Hies- See COACHES, page 9 Don’t get caught in Council . THE APP TRAP considers . By LESLIE GARTRELL [email protected] electric CELINA — A former Inter- net Crimes Against Children task force investigator and inter- net safety expert wants to help empower teens and educate par- policy ents about current trends and By WILLIAM KINCAID online risks. [email protected] Scott Frank worked in law enforcement for 36 years, includ- CELINA — City councilors will ing time with the Ottawa and soon vote on legislation formal- Wood counties sheriff’s depart- izing a decades-old practice of ments and as a DARE resource offering a discount on transform- officer. He joined the ICAC in 2006 ers installed as part of commer- and was a “chatter,” someone who cial and rural electricity extension would pose as a 15 year-old or projects. younger to draw out predators. While researching an unre- For 10 years Frank said he lated customer account issue, city was subjected to “the worst of administrators began looking into the worst.” He felt firsthand the an unwritten policy that waives bullying that teens experience all or portions of the cost of trans- and the pressure predators and formers put up by city personnel, others push onto teens for illicit city safety service director Tom material. Hitchcock pointed out at a recent “That’s kind of the catalyst for council commitee meeting. where I am now,” he said. “We’re not sure we can do that Frank is a motivational speak- without council approval,” he said. er and founder of the Digital “The code says we can, but I don’t Empowerment Project. Since think we have the real ability with- 2017, he has followed his passion out getting council approval to do it to empower teens to make safe on each one.” and healthy choices online and “We’ve been doing this for to educate parents so they can decades,” mayor Jeff Hazel add- support and guide their teens ed. “We’ve kind of tried to do an by covering everything from the exhaustive search to find out how dark web to online empowerment or why it happened.” The search found nothing and strategies. council members are being asked It’s important that kids and to enact legislation laying out adults alike slow down and think parameters for the practice. The about what they’re downloading The .Daily .Standard city typically assesses the cost of and what they’re accepting when materials, 50% of the transformer it comes to apps and terms of ser- reading “You further grant us a costs and 15% for miscellaneous vice agreements, he said. How to go royalty-free license to use your costs, city electric distribution Some apps, such as the pop- user name, image, voice, and like- DANGER superintendent Mike Mertz said. It ular video-sharing app TikTok, Former investigator Scott Frank ness to identify you as the source does not charge for labor. include stipulations in their terms will talk about protecting children from of any of your User Content.” “That’s kind of been our stan- of service that allow them to profit digital predators. TikTok, which belongs to Chi- dard for the last several years, from user content, even if a user’s na-based ByteDance, agreed to depending on what (the business account is private. Users auto- WHEN: Sunday, 6:30-8:30 p.m. WHERE: Alethia Christian Church, pay $5.7 million last February to ‘If a parent is is) doing, how much they’re going matically give permission to the settle allegations that it illegallyDO NOT CROSSto help the community out with 7190 Fleetfoot Road, Celina app once the terms of service are collected personal information limiting access, kids employment or if it’s a farmer out accepted, and they can’t recon- such as names, email addresses in the country.” sider afterward. users of the Services and other and their location from children will circumvent it. Driving the issue is a $147,000 “By submitting User Content third-parties to view, access, use, under the age of 13, according to bill charged to MVP Dairy for via the Services, you hereby grant download, modify, adapt, repro- the Federal Trade Commission. WARNINGThe internet is extending service to the non-GMO us an unconditional irrevocable, duce, make derivative works of, It is the largest civil penalty ever milk producer located at 7124 U.S. non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully publish and/or transmit your User obtained by the commission in a here to stay.’ 33, Celina. City officials agreed to transferable, perpetual world- Content in any format and on any children’s privacy case, according provide infrastructure and service wide license to use, modify, adapt, platform, either now known or to the FTC. — .Scott .Frank, after other area suppliers declined reproduce, make derivative works hereinafter invented,” the terms Frank mentioned the After former .investigator to do so, Hazel said. of, publish and/or transmit, and/or of service reads. distribute and to authorize other The terms of service continues, See TRAP, page 9 See ELECTRIC, page 9 Schiff .sets .tone .with .appeals .to .Senate Sooo soft WASHINGTON (AP) — In the view with The Associated Press otherwise scripted impeachment before arguments resumed on trial, it was a rare spontaneous Thursday. He said many of them moment: Sen. Lindsey Graham, are familiar only with conserva- one of President Donald Trump’s tive criticism of him, and they are chief defenders, stopped Rep. “finding I’m not the demon that I’m Adam Schiff, the lead prosecutor, portrayed as on Fox.” to shake his hand and compliment Schiff said he wishes that the him on his arguments for Trump’s Graham exchange hadn’t been removal. caught on camera, “because it was Though Graham has ridiculed nice to have a private moment. And the case against the president, and I don’t want to discourage that kind heaped scorn on Democrats such of thing. But I very much appreci- as Schiff, he said he believes the ated his comments.” California Democrat is “well spo- A former federal prosecutor ken” and “did a good job of cre- who represents parts of Hollywood, ating a tapestry, taking bits and Schiff has been a frequent target of pieces of evidence and emails and Schiff conservatives since the then-GOP- giving a rhetorical flourish ... some- led House Intelligence Committee times effectively, sometimes a little impeachment manager. He is set- started investigating Trump’s ties over the top.” ting the tone of the prosecution’s to Russia in the 2016 election. He Schiff is the face of the House’s case, working methodically to con- was frequently on television ques- impeachment case against Trump, vince even his most ardent detrac- tioning Trump’s actions. which has made him the principal tors that Trump deserves to be The criticism intensified, Dan .Melograna/The .Daily .Standard target of Trump’s ire. Though he removed from office. though, when Democrats took the has six managers by his side, House “In a way I do feel like I’m intro- House majority in early 2019 and William Schutz, 3, hugs some stuffing during “Polar Pals” in which Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed ducing myself to a number of the kids create their own polar animal on Thursday at the St. Henry Branch Schiff, her confidante, as the lead senators,” Schiff said in an inter- See SENATE, page 9 Library. 1 Section Inside today Weather, 9 172nd Year, Number 20 Classifieds . 11 Obituaries . 5 Sudoku . 9 Saturday: Mostly . Comics/Crossword . 10 Opinion . 8 Town .& .County . 4 Dear .Annie . 5 Religion . 6, .7 TV .Listings . 2 cloudy .with .rian, .snow Local .News . 3 Sports . .12-14 Low: .31, .High: .35 CM YK 2 THE DAILY STANDARD Friday, Celina, Ohio NatioN January 24, 2020 Over 100 state lawmakers accused of misconduct tics at Rutgers harassment training for their ness Office in its investigation ing a break by Lucido. During against others, such as Lucido. Michigan state University in members. That’s up signifi- of Lucido, who faces two sepa- the training session, McMor- The list of 101 accused law- New Jersey. cantly from January 2018, rate complaints. row said, Lucido raised vari- makers includes at least one senator the latest The AP when the AP’s initial survey Lucido, a Republican, was ous scenarios in which sexual person from three-fourths of review found found that about a third of all accused last week of making harassment could occur and the states.