MANSFIELD — Braxton Daniels did his best to look on the bright side Friday morning. “You gave me a day off. I get to take a nap today,” he said, addressing whomever broke the back door and stole the cash register from his downtown tea shop. “You can try to slow people down, but it won’t. […]
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News Man Weekly: Mansfield police on the hunt for a brutal, cold-case killer, Part 2
MANSFIELD — MANSFIELD — The 30th episode of the News Man Weekly podcast has dropped. In this week’s edition, part two of a special two-part episode, Richland Source City Editor Carl Hunnell talks about how a 43-year-old Mansfield murder mystery was recently solved. He is joined again by Mansfield police Chief Jason Bammann, Detective Terry Butler and […]
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News Man Weekly: Mansfield police on the hunt for a brutal, cold-case killer
MANSFIELD — The 29th episode of the News Man Weekly podcast has dropped. In this week’s edition, part of a special two-part episode, Richland Source City Editor Carl Hunnell talks about how a 43-year-old Mansfield murder mystery was recently solved. He is joined by Mansfield police chief Jason Bammann, Detective Terry Butler and DNA expert […]
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News Man Weekly: Life and Death of Bucyrus Green Beret Matthew Livelsberger
MANSFIELD — The 28th episode of the News Man Weekly podcast has dropped. In this week’s edition, Richland Source City Editor Carl Hunnell focuses his discussion on U.S. Army MSgt. Matthew Livelsberger, a 2005 Bucyrus High School graduate, who killed himself and blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Las Vegas Trump International Hotel on […]
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DNA helps to solve brutal, 43-year-old Mansfield murder case
MANSFIELD — The brutal 1981 murder of Deborah L. Miller was one that retired Mansfield police Lt. Dale Fortney could not forget. The 18-year-old’s dead naked body was found bludgeoned to death in her West Third Street apartment on April 29, 1981. It was a homicide that went more than unsolved for more than 40 […]
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Third generation: Blake Bammann picked Mansfield police ‘Officer of the Year’
MANSFIELD — Blake Bammann became the third generation of Mansfield police officers from his family when he joined the force in 2021. The 2018 Lexington High School graduate proved he must have paid attention growing up, earning the department’s “Officer of the Year” award for 2024. Bammann’s award came during a recent year-end ceremony honoring […]
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Mansfield police seek public help catching a sports-car driving thief
MANSFIELD — Mansfield police are asking the public to help them catch a thief — who may be tooling around town in an expensive car. On June 6, the suspect walked into the Mansfield YMCA and gained access to a secured locker, where he allegedly stole two credit cards, according to police Capt. Randy Carver. […]