Defense attorney Lou DeFabio sits with his client, Michael Blower, prior to Friday’s sentencing hearing in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court. Blower was given a life sentence, with parole ...

LISBON — Michael Blower, the man charged with aggravated murder in the March 3 shooting death of Rusty Steele in Lisbon, is scheduled to face a jury trial on Jan. 23 after being found competent and ...

Michael Blowers in the Whangarei High Court. Photo / Michael Cunningham. A former senior police officer who admitted to supplying drugs has suffered the humiliation of a significant "fall from ...