Residents of Springfield, Ohio, are hoping the attention sparked by former President Donald Trump spreading unsubstantiated rumors about the city’s legal Haitian immigrants eating house pets will blow over.

The Ohio Ballot Board tweaked, then gave final approval to controversial ballot language describing Issue 1, a proposal to overhaul the state's redistricting process.

Former President Donald Trump told a Long Island, New York, rally crowd on Wednesday night that he is going to Springfield, Ohio.

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Springfield City Manager Bryan Heck said there’s no evidence of any cats or other pets being harmed or eaten by the Haitian immigrants.

The Ohio secretary of state's office was among at least 15 election offices nationwide to receive a suspicious package.

Portage County Sheriff Bruce D. Zuchowski wrote in a follow-up post he "as the elected sheriff" has a "First Amendment right, as do all citizens."

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The woman has since deleted the post claiming that one of her Haitian neighbors might have taken a neighbor’s cat. But it took on a life of its own.

Over the objections of its Democratic members, the Ohio Ballot Board approved minor changes Wednesday to the ballot language for Issue 1. The anti-gerrymandering question will appear on this November’s ballot,