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The New Albany-Plain Local School District's updated five-year forecast now projects a more than $4 million deficit in fiscal year 2016 after Treasurer Rebecca Jenkins found an accounting error in the previous forecast.

A $1 million bond has been set for former Galion fire lieutenant charged with attempted murder.

The Franklin County coroner has yet to rule on how a missing teen died after she was found in a Hilltop home last week.

As hearings start this week on a Columbus school-district reform bill, an earlier proposal allowing for a state takeover of the state's largest district is likely to vanish.

Officials say the second deadly fall in three days in the Hocking Hills region of southeastern Ohio occurred near a waterfall.

Columbus is starting phase two of its record-setting street-resurfacing program, an installment that will redo 45 streets at a cost of $8.5 million throughout this summer.

The students and staff at Innis Elementary School in Columbus are dealing with not having air conditioning as temperatures rise.

It was a 50-day manhunt but the Columbus fugitive was caught in a hotel near East 112th Street and Buckeye Road.

A central Ohio defense attorney arrested after a woman reported being fondled during a meeting at his office now faces multiple sexual assault charges.

The Franklin County Sheriff's Office was investigating a fatal car crash in Franklin Township in Southwest Columbus.

Firefighters were called to the scene of a duplex fire twice in Southwest Columbus early Monday morning.

A prominent Columbus attorney who is charged with gross sexual imposition and public indecency now faces additional sex-related charges.

A Columbus police lieutenant has been departmentally charged as a result of an internal-affairs investigation into allegations that he had falsified nine overtime slips last year.

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Not knowing whether "Anne" had suffered a heart attack or been waylaid by a criminal, central Ohio families packed COSI Columbus yesterday to ask her if she was OK.

In the world of restaurants, it is often hard to find a legend that endures more than 60 years.

Lajon Witherspoon, lead vocalist of Sevendust, gets the Rock on the Range crowd pumped up on the final day.

Columbus Police issued an endangered missing adult alert for 78-year-old Clarence William Bell.

Afternoon Update, sent weekday afternoons, keeps you up to date with breaking news and updates from later in the day.

Charlotte Callahan, who is undergoing radiation for breast-cancer treatment, completed the race with daughter Stephanie DeValencia, a 20-year survivor of the disease.