Franklin County News

The Marion Catholic High School Class of 2013, the school's last, takes the stage for an end-of-year awards assembly.

The former business administrator of a local developmental disabilities center, accused of stealing approximately $429,000 in funds designated for benefits, was sentenced today to 4 years in prison after pleading guilty in April to 15 felony counts.

Volunteer Julie Prosser has her pupil measured by Charleston, W.Va., Police Officer Justin Jones, who received drug-recognition expert training alongside Ohio officers.

Franklin County Sheriff's deputies said a man was in custody after fleeing from a traffic stop on Thursday evening.

Then-logistics manager Harold E. Fielder stands amid voting machines to be used for an election in Franklin County, Ohio, where in 2012 True the Vote was barred from operating due to improper filings.

Secretary of State Jon Husted said his office did not find evidence of a single instance of voter suppression in Ohio.

A Columbus man accused of firing a shot that struck a woman on a COTA bus has been indicted on 12 counts of felonious assault.

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Colleen O'Donnell joined the Franklin County Common Pleas Court bench this week as the youngest sitting judge in Ohio.

Less than three weeks after a Franklin County jury failed to reach a verdict in his murder trial, Rashaid Roberts has avoided a retrial by admitting to a shooting death on Easter 2011.

Members of Girl Scout Troop 1061 of Bexley recently finished the Agent of Change Journey and earned their Power of Community badge.

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The Ohio Supreme Court ruled against the Jefferson County Educational Service Center and more than 200 Virtual Learning Academy instructors this month who claimed status as teachers eligible to participate in the State Teachers Retirement System.

Columbus city workers, from left, John Stinson, Zach Logue and Jake Lincicoma install a weather siren on Lindora Drive on the East Side.

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

A South Side medical clinic was raided this morning by investigators from the Ohio attorney general's office as part of a nine-month investigation into pill mills.

Sarah Maynard went to live with her father and stepmother in 2010 after her mother, Tina Herrmann, brother, Kody Maynard, and a family friend were killed by an intruder at their Knox County home.

Last week's shootout near the intersection of North High Street and North Broadway that left a murder suspect and his girlfriend dead and two Columbus police officers injured is probably unprecedented in the history of Clintonville, says Mary Rodgers.

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

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