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MARION, Ohio — Greg Grammer has killed three people in two separate traffic crashes over the last decade. Now, he’s going to prison for one of them.
A Clintonville man died this morning after an old shotgun he kept in a car trunk discharged, Columbus police said. Robert E. Pyle, 60, was loading items into the trunk when the old gun was jostled and went off, according to homicide detective Ron Custer.
The first toxic blue-green algae warning signs of the year appeared today at Grand Lake St. Marys. The signs posted at the lake’s four beaches recommend that the very young, the very old and those with compromised immune systems do not swim or wade in the water. Last year, the first warning signs at the lake went up on May 19.
Three high-ranking members of the Columbus Division of Fire were notified today that they are finalists to become the city’s next chief. Assistant Chiefs Gregory A. Paxton and David J. Walton and Deputy Chief David K. Whiting have advanced past an initial round of interviews with a screening panel.
A law enforcement official said today that a man has told police that he suffocated Etan Patz, the 6-year-old boy whose disappearance on his way to school in 1979 helped give rise to the missing-children's movement that put youngsters' faces on milk cartons. Pedro Hernandez was picked up late yesterday in New Jersey, according to a law enforcement official, and was being questioned by the Manhattan district attorney's office.
Regulations of charity card rooms would wait until another day and host communities for racinos are in line for extra money under changes to a gambling law rewrite that passed a joint conference committee today and is headed for full House and Senate votes.
Suspected Ohio high school shooter T.J. Lane can be charged as an adult for the killings of three students in February and should not be released on bond, an Ohio judge ruled today.
Officials vented smoke and noxious fumes from a nuclear-powered submarine at a Maine shipyard today so they could get inside to assess damage from a fire that took hours to put out. Firefighters from the shipyard and coastal departments in Maine and New Hampshire spent last night and early today fighting the fire on the USS Miami. Seven firefighters and crew members were hurt, but not badly
RG Steel says it is idling operations in Maryland, Ohio and West Virginia and warning employees of layoffs. RG Steel spokeswoman Bette Kovach said today that the company would idle operations at its Sparrows Point steel mill outside Baltimore as well as in Warren, Ohio and Wheeling, W.Va.
Mitt Romney's vice presidential search has entered a new phase: auditions. As his campaign evaluates potential running mates, Republicans with a possible shot at the No. 2 spot on the presidential ticket are starting to engage in unofficial public tryouts for the traditional vice presidential role of attack dog.
Ohio Village Singers, from left, Faith Bauer, Walt Bauer, Linda Brown and Linda Sheppard take a break after singing the national anthem for a vintage "base ball" game. Their team, the Ohio Village Muffins, played the Capitol Cannons from the Ohio General Assembly on the Statehouse lawn on Tuesday.
Food stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash - sometimes even in the open, on eBay or Craigslist - and then asking the government for replacement cards. The Agriculture Department wants to curb the practice by giving states more power to investigate people who repeatedly claim to lose their benefit cards.
A committee studying a possible Columbus City Schools levy was stymied in its efforts to compare administrative expenses with other districts’ when a state report showed Columbus having many more administrators than the district says it does.
Armed with a new Ohio Supreme Court ruling that the state’s smoking ban is constitutional, state officials are now going after bars and other establishments that owe a combined $2.5 million in fines for violations.
An intoxicated Athens County man who was lying on a dark country road on May 12 was run over and killed by a sedan that left the scene.
Republican Josh Mandel’s U.S. Senate campaign returned $105,000 in contributions under investigation by federal authorities, a Mandel spokesman confirmed late last night.
John Friedman approached the Worthington bridge with typical caution. It was a drizzly afternoon on May 2, and this was his second pass.
The only outward signs that things are not right with Stephen Gussler are the acne and rash on his face, arms and neck. Gussler, who is in his 15th season as Thomas Worthington baseball coach, prefers to view his life as sunny-side up. But all is not right with Gussler.
Ohio State wants to raise tuition and fees this fall for in-state undergraduate students by $312 per year, under a proposal released yesterday.
High-achieving Columbus State Community College graduates will be guaranteed admission to Ohio Wesleyan University under a new partnership announced yesterday.
Beer and wine once again will join the food fest of deep-fried everything at the Ohio State Fair this year. The alcoholic beverages were such a success last year at two locations that fairgoers will be able to lift a glass at a third site this year, the Ohio Expositions Commission has decided.
U.S. District Judge Peter C. Economus was not swayed by the apologies and admission of guilt by a man who collected child pornography and secretly videotaped a child in a public bathroom. "These children are being taken advantage of in the worst possible way," an emotional Economus told the East Side man standing in front of him in shackles. "These are real victims, ... and what you were viewing was the sexual exploitation of children."
Greek-Americans send help to relatives overseas as financial crisis deepensThu, 24 May 2012 11:20:47 GMT
As Greece’s financial and political struggles persist, many Greek-Americans debate their cause and an appropriate plan of action.
A federal jury broke a deadlock and convicted a husband and wife of running a southern Ohio pill mill that illegally prescribed thousands of painkillers.
With his plan to overhaul the Cleveland school district stalled in the state legislature, Mayor Frank Jackson will return to Columbus today to urge lawmakers to approve the legislation this week before they leave for summer recess.
