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Wednesday, May 22, 2013  The Ohio Supreme Court will now hear an appeal in the case of an Ottawa Hills police officer whose conviction of shooting a motorcyclist was overturned in January.

Friday, January 11, 2013  An Ohio appeals court has overturned the conviction of a former Ottawa Hills police officer who was found guilty of shooting and paralyzing an unarmed motorcyclist.

Friday, October 26, 2012  The village of Ottawa Hills has settled, to the tune of millions of dollars, in the case against a motorcyclist shot and paralyzed by a part-time police officer.

Friday, July 02, 2010  Business owners from Northwest Ohio have come together to form Trike-4-Mike: a project to raise money to build a custom, three-wheeled trike motorcycle so a paralyzed Maumee man can get back out on the road.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010  A former part-time police officer is free on bond as he appeals his 10-year sentence in a shooting that left a man paralyzed from the waist down.

Monday, June 21, 2010  The Ottawa Hills police officer convicted of shooting an unarmed man has been sentenced to ten years behind bars.

Monday, June 07, 2010  Helen Thomas, the opinionated White House correspondent who used her seat in the front row of history to grill 10 presidents and often exasperate them, lost her storied perch Monday in a flap over calling on Israelis to get "out of Palestine."

Friday, May 14, 2010  A Lucas County jury has found an Ottawa Hills police officer guilty of felonious assault in the May 2009 shooting of a motorcyclist.

Thursday, May 13, 2010  Ottawa Hills police officer Thomas White took the stand in his own defense Thursday, trying to convince the jury he was justified in shooting 25-year-old motorcyclist Michael McCloskey in the back during a 2009 traffic stop.

Thursday, May 13, 2010  The defense began its case Wednesday in the trial of an Ottawa Hills police officer accused of wrongly shooting a man during a traffic stop.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010  The man paralyzed after being shot in the back by a part-time Ottawa Hills police officer took the stand in the officer's trial Tuesday.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010  The Ottawa Hills police officer accused of shooting and paralyzing an unarmed suspect during a traffic stop is scheduled to testify Tuesday.

Monday, May 10, 2010  The criminal case against an Ottawa Hills police officer accused of shooting an unarmed suspect during a traffic stop has begun.

Monday, April 12, 2010  A criminal pre-trial begins this week for an Ottawa Hills police officer accused of shooting an unarmed suspect during a traffic stop.