by Hank Nuwer | Apr 6, 2025 | Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories
Week after week, 52 Wednesdays a year, Ohio publisher Charles W. Roland put out the Greenville Democrat from 1866 to 1899. His name at birth on Aug. 6, 1831, was Charles W. Rowlands. He was the son of a housewife and a shipyard worker from the Isle...
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 5, 2024 | Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories, Sports
My column today profiles a Winchester member of the Cup of Coffee Club. That club consists of baseball players who participated in a single major league game. Troy Levi Puckett was a descendent of close-knit kin who held a family reunion each year in Randolph County....
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 5, 2024 | Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories, True Crime
Timothy K. Rodeheffer. by Hank Nuwer On February 21, 1998, a 19-year-old gentle soul named Lynn Top from North Star, Ohio, walked for exercise on a less-traveled road off Ohio 49. A student at Wright State University’s Lake Campus in Celina, she had thick, abundant...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 30, 2024 | Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories, True Crime
When Fight Night Led to Mob Mayhem. By Hank Nuwer Randolph and Shelby County served as home to many distinguished citizens in the 1890s. However, rowdies also roamed the area. A custom on weekends in both counties for a time was...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 7, 2024 | Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories
The year 1889 brought prosperous times to Winchester and Randolph County. It seemed as if the good times never would end. Few imagined the Panic of 1893 and its consequences lasting clear into 1897. But national pride was everywhere in 1889. Inventors went wild with...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 19, 2024 | Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories, True Crime
One of the most vicious murderers convicted of killing a victim in Randolph County invoked his constitutional right to an appeal in 2002. The Supreme Court of Indiana tagged the case as Anthony G. Hernandez v. State of Indiana. Here is the...
