Columbus News

Nights my wife works late and there are no kids around, I rummage through the refrigerator for anything that takes little effort to make.

After eight hours of discussion over three days, lawmakers voted to end general file debate and advance a bill that would change appeal procedures for the Public Service Commission .

Fourth-grader Keagan Reeves and a group of his Shell Creek Elementary School classmates were eager to discuss their lunches Tuesday afternoon.

"He was proud of his heritage as a Mexican-American," said his son Tom Reyes. "He always maintained his cultural roots." Manuel Reyes moved to the United States from Guadalajara, Mexico, as a young child with his parents and brother.