Hilliard News

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A metro Atlanta woman who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating disease has been fitted with bionic hands.

Flesh-eating bacteria amputee Aimee Copeland now uses the latest technology in prosthetic hands to chop vegetables, pick up tiny items like Skittles, and comb and iron press her hair.

Plastic bags and tape cover drinking fountains and the bathroom faucets are dry at Homestead Park in western Franklin County, after park water samples tested positive for fecal coliform last fall.

"Do you want a spider web coming out of his hand?" asked Carlson, satisfying her customer by adding a white "web" to the blue-and-red figure.

The Ohio Department of Transportation advised motorists to slow down in the stretch of I-270 between Rt.

Hilliard is among a few districts in Ohio that have mostly energy-efficient school buildings, and the result has been savings of more than $1 million in less than two years, district officials say.

Hilliard police arrested a 16-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl April 30 and charged each with illegal conveyance of a weapon in a school safety zone, at Hilliard Bradley High School, 2800 Walker Road .

Tracy Bradford will remain Hilliard's law director while an OVI charge against her is pending in Franklin County Municipal Court.

Two first-timers will be on the November ballot for City Council in both Hilliard and Reynoldsburg, according to final, unofficial returns from the Franklin County Board of Elections in the Republican primaries.

Voters approved fire levies in Norwich and Jefferson townships yesterday, but rejected one in Franklin Township.

Voters will weed out city council candidates in three Franklin County municipalities and decide a handful of tax and liquor issues during the primary election today.

Dog names go way beyond Max, the perpetual No. 1 among licensed canines, according to 2012 records at the county auditor's office.

Hilliard police responded to a barricade situation early Saturday morning. Police received a call about a domestic dispute between a husband and wife on Paxton Drive at Lacon Road.

Hilliard City Schools will begin a search for a new director of curriculum and instruction to succeed Steven Estepp, who will become superintendent of a suburban Cincinnati school district.

Northwest Franklin County Historical Society docents will lead groups of up to 15 people on walking tours that will depart every 20 minutes from the historical society's library, 5274 Norwich St.

Hilliard Mayor Don Schonhardt calls on a student to answer a question about Arbor Day during a ceremony April 26 at Beacon Elementary School, 3600 Lacon Drive in Hilliard.

A body found in a wooded area in Hilliard last evening is believed to be that of a man from India who had been missing since he walked away from a Dublin apartment nearly five months ago, police said.

A Franklin County jury deliberated for less than an hour yesterday before acquitting a former caregiver of assaulting a developmentally disabled man in a West Side adult day-care program.

The housing and care of Alzheimer's disease and dementia patients has been on a roll.