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In the fall of 1992, Raymond A. Twyford, III (born October 15, 1962), [1] and accomplice Daniel Eikelberry (born December 23, 1973), [2] murdered 37-year-old Richard Franks in Jefferson County, Ohio. Franks was accused of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl. Both girls were the daughters of a woman Twyford lived with.
Jefferson County was organized on July 29, 1797, by proclamation of Governor Arthur St. Clair, six years before Ohio was granted statehood. Its boundaries were originally quite large, including all of northeastern Ohio east of the Cuyahoga River, but it was divided and redrawn several times before assuming its present-day boundaries in 1833, after the formation of neighboring Carroll County.
The Maysville Road veto occurred on May 27, 1830, when United States President Andrew Jackson vetoed a bill that would allow the federal government to purchase stock in the Maysville, Washington, Paris, and Lexington Turnpike Road Company, which had been organized to construct a road linking Lexington, Kentucky, to Maysville on the Ohio River (Maysville being located approximately 66 miles/106 ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic the issue of Jefferson's secession flared up again. [4] The Shasta County Board of Supervisors pledged to ignore state public health order with a public hearing claiming that vaccines are a health hazard, masks are a form of government control, the pandemic is a hoax to sway the 2020 election against Donald Trump ...
Jefferson County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census , the population was 782,969. [ 1 ] It is the most populous county in the commonwealth (with more than twice the population of second ranked Fayette County ).
Jefferson County may refer to one of 26 extant counties or parishes in the United States, all of which are named directly or indirectly after Thomas Jefferson: Jefferson County, Alabama Jefferson County, Arkansas
As of May 2012, Jefferson County had slashed expenses and reduced employment of county government workers by more than 700. [18] The county emerged from bankruptcy in December 2013, following the approval of a bankruptcy plan by the United States bankruptcy court for the Northern District of Alabama , writing off more than $1.4 billion of the debt.
[4] [5] It was named by European-American settlers for U.S. president Thomas Jefferson. [5] Texas later became part of the US. Jefferson County is part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area and has the highest population of the four-county MSA. It has three state correctional facilities and a federal high-security prison ...