Minerva Park News

Residents who live near Minerva Park said on Wednesday that they had never seen vandalism as bad as it has been recently.

COLUMBUS, Ohio Ohio Senators Thursday voted to create a mandatory notification system for families of crime victims, cracked down on illegal "pill mills" and made it illegal to modify a vehicle to transport drugs.

Drillers are eager to tap a vast reservoir of natural gas and oil within shale beneath Ohio, which could employ thousands, but critics say it will also cause pollution.

"Please consider this: Clean Ohio is an economic-development program," Laura Koprowski, government affairs director of the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, told the Senate Finance Committee.

Stringtown Road was reopened on Friday afternoon following an officer-involved crash.