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Spawling Phoenix urban garden mysteriously closes amid land dispute

PHOENIX — A sprawling urban garden on a vacant lot where Phoenix residents have grown everything from melons to okra closed recently after the gardeners were mysteriously ordered out as a federal agency reassumes ownership of the land, stupefying and angering gardeners who called their eviction a classic case of government dysfunction. Families, senior citizens [...]

Municipal court judge disciplined for interfering in landlord/tenant dispute

A municipal court judge who inserted himself into a landlord/tenant rental dispute recently received a one-year stayed suspension from the Ohio Supreme Court. In a per curiam opinion, the high court’s majority held that Judge Edward Elum of the Massillon Municipal Court was subject to a harsher sentence than other, similar cases of judicial misconduct [...]