Tom Beyerlein
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Tom Beyerlein has been a staff writer for the Dayton Daily News since 1981.
His investigative beat includes local and state government, business, public safety and courts.
A recipient of the Ohio Associated Press Society’s Best News Writer award and the Best of Cox award, Beyerlein also has been honored for social justice reporting, enterprise reporting and investigative business reporting.
He was a finalist in the national Investigative Reporters and Editors awards.
Latest from Tom Beyerlein
State trying to give away millions to protect Fernald site
The federal government spent $4.4 billion at the Cold War-era Feed Materials Production Center atomic plant to erase decades of pollution, making the environmentally befouled site so clean it’s now a nature preserve. Now the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is trying to keep new pollutants out of the site — ...
Some say U.S. took ‘public safety exception’ too far
During 16 hours of questioning in his hospital room, Dzhokar Tsarnaev gave the FBI details about his role in the Boston Marathon bombings, U.S. officials have said. But the 19-year-old suspect clammed up immediately after a magistrate judge entered the room Monday and read him his so-called Miranda rights against ...
Prison focus of steroid probe
A drug task force is investigating illegal steroid use, distribution and manufacture among staff at the Lebanon Correctional Institution state prison, the Dayton Daily News has learned.Commander John Burke said the investigation by the Greater Warren County Drug Task Force is centered on prison employees, not inmates. No arrests have ...
Overtime costs reduced at Ohio prisons
Staff overtime costs for Ohio’s prison system, the state’s largest agency, declined more than 13 percent from 2008 to 2012, dropping from $68.5 million to $59.4 million, according to a new report from a watchdog group. Use of overtime declined from 2008 to 2012 in 20 prisons, including Dayton Correctional ...
White supremacist gangs becoming increased threat in and outside of prisons
White supremacist prison gangs, such as those under suspicion in the recent murders of Colorado’s prisons chief and two district attorneys in Texas, “increasingly threaten our communities” as their members finish their sentences and continue gang activity in the outside world, a national expert on the organizations told the Dayton ...
One in 6 Ohio inmates belong to gangs
More than 16 percent of all Ohio prison inmates are affiliated with violent gangs like the Aryan Brotherhood, the Crips and the Bloods, according to a report issued Tuesday by a state prison watchdog group. Prison officials as of Jan. 2 have linked 8,272 of Ohio’s nearly 50,000 current inmates ...
Tougher laws haven’t slowed drunk drivers
It wasn’t such an unusual day for William Todd Newman of Springfield. Again he was drunk. Again he was behind the wheel. Again he was busted. If he’s found guilty, it’ll be Newman’s 14th driving-under-the-influence conviction since 1978. He has a dozen more prior convictions on related charges like hit-skip ...
State could owe millions to local businesses
The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation knowingly created an inequitable system of setting premiums for workers’ comp insurance that resulted in overcharges to hundreds of thousands of Ohio businesses between 2001 and 2008, according to a judge’s ruling in a class-action lawsuit. A March 14 hearing in Cuyahoga County Common ...
Some agencies hit harder than others
With mandatory federal spending cuts set to kick in Friday without a last minute compromise on Capitol Hill, some state and local officials are taking a wait-and-see attitude while others expressed deep concerns about the fallout from the so-called sequester. Cuts to the military have received much of the attention, ...
Battle lines forming in minimum wage debate
When President Obama proposed hiking the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour last week, he began a policy fight over an issue with broad popular support but widespread business opposition. Supporters say the raise, the first since 2009, is overdue, is hardly lavish and will boost the economy. Opponents, ...
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