Bexley News

NEW LEXINGTON - A long-time Perry County businessman is being sued by several area residents who allege he runs a puppy mill near New Lexington.

What goes around, comes around. Two investors in the once-popular Round Bar in the Brewery District have resurfaced with plans for a Bexley-area bar and grill they hope will attract former Round Bar patrons and become a similar neighborhood spot.

The 2009 Parade of Homes features a parade of styles. The 11 new houses in Dublin's Tartan Ridge development represent a cross section of historical designs: Craftsman, French country, Pennsylvania Dutch, English manor and even mid-1800s Ohio.

Not all lifeguards in the area undergo the same background checks. In Bexley, all 50 lifeguards hired at the city's pools must submit to a statewide criminal background check, from as young as 15 years old and up.

The marriage between pop music and movies has rarely been more harmonious than it is in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and John Badham's Saturday Night Fever .

Want to soften the assault on the ears this July Fourth weekend? Beyond the parades and fireworks, plenty of patriotic music will fill the air throughout central Ohio.

A 14-year-old boy died after Whitehall police said officers tried to make a traffic stop on a stolen vehicle and the vehicle crashed.

Marylou Chicote, site administrator for a Revolutionary War monument in Vermont, was looking to make July Fourth about something more than barbecues and fireworks, so she turned to the piece of paper that started it all -- the Declaration of Independence.

Driver, 15, says, 'I wish I could take everything back' Tuesday, June 23, 2009 3:05 AM THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH and WBNS-10TV The 15-year-old boy, who police say was driving a stolen car when it crashed during a police chase, killing a 14-year-old in the car, said that he and his friends were just headed to a teen club.

The 15-year-old who Whitehall police say led them on a chase in a stolen car that ended in a deadly crash, told 10TV News he has no explanation for what happened.

Police said charges may be filed against three teenage boys who led police on a chase Saturday that killed a 14-year-old boy, 10TV News reported Monday.

The youth who was killed when he was thrown from a stolen car that crashed while being pursued by Whitehall police was identified today as a 14-year-old Columbus boy.

At least one of two persons taken to local hospital Saturday evening sustained very serious, life-threatening injuries in an accident involving two moving vehicles and a parked car at the intersection of Main and College Avenue in Bexley.

A teenager was killed tonight after being ejected from a car which had led officers on a chase from Whitehall to Bexley.

Mark Moore, Bexley's forester, takes the top off the ash tree in front of Melissa Zralik's home.

The city of Columbus is seeking an income-tax increase in an Aug. 4 special election.

Dani Moyer, left, of Bexley High School and Kevin Ferguson, right, of Northland High School perform in the ensemble cast.

Crime Stoppers announced Sunday that it was offering a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of two men accused of using a woman's stolen credit cards to make fraudulent purchases.

U.S. Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy has asked federal inspectors to investigate a housing program in the wake of a Dispatch series detailing millions of dollars in failed loans given to Columbus businessmen to buy and renovate apartments.

Jewish community organizations in central Ohio were under heightened alert Wednesday night after a gunman killed a security guard at the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Synagogues received warnings to be on the look-out for anything suspicious, 10TV's Kevin Landers reported.