Obetz News

Canal Winchester Public Works director Matt Peoples told village council last week that health care costs will increase by 12 percent in 2010.

One look was all Rick Minerd needed. "It hit me instantly," said the Columbus resident, whose entry to the 34th Dispatch Caption-Writing Contest took first place.

It was a race against the clock for rescue crews in Obetz after an entire family was sickened by carbon monoxide.

NEW LEXINGTON - A "controlled buy" of four Labrador mix puppies from Don Dutiel's Wagon Wheel Rescue ranch near New Lexington Sunday afternoon could add more fuel to the fiery lawsuit filed against Dutiel.

When two buses slammed into a wall at Columbus Motor Speedway on May 23rd it sent parts of the wall flying into the stand.

Wonderful news! The instruments and electronic gear stolen from Randy Kohrs and his band near Columbus, OH on July 25 have been recovered, and several men are in police custody.

Wonderful news! The instruments and electronic gear stolen from Randy Kohrs and his band near Columbus, OH on July 25 have been recovered, and several men are in police custody.

Health care reform brought Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy to the home of an Obetz couple struggling to pay their health bills Wednesday.

The Franklin County DUI Task Force will set up a sobriety checkpoint from 9:30 p.m. Friday until 3 a.m. Saturday on Groveport Road west of Alum Creek Drive in Obetz.

Randy Kohrs was among the artists who generously donated their time this past weekend to perform at the Musicians Against Childhood Cancer festival near Columbus, OH.

Authorities ruled a man's death as a homicide after his body was found in a South Side apartment late Sunday.

Homicide detectives were called to the scene of an apartment near Obetz after uniformed officers checked in on someone whose friends were concerned the person hadn't been seen or heard from.

Columbus firefighters have agreed to freeze wages to offset shrinking city budgets.

Police said that two officers were forced to open fire on a man after he refused their orders to drop a gun, 10TV News reported on Monday.

Authorities were investigating an officer-involved shooting tonight in Obetz. A village police officer shot a suspect at 2245 Bridlewood Blvd.

Franklin County authorities confirm they've been called into do the investigation of a shooting incident that involved an Obetz police officer who shot a suspect who is believed to have been armed.

PATASKALA -- Sue Bowles needed to build a ramp for her mother to access the Pataskala home they share, but she did not have the money, having lost her job when Spring Air closed its Obetz mattress plant earlier this year.

By 7 o'clock tonight, it was no longer possible to step through a 4-foot-wide hole in the wall in turn 1 at Columbus Motor Speedway.

The 4-feet-high restraining wall in front of the grandstand at Columbus Motor Speedway in Obetz was damaged when two buses crashed.

Charity Frazier took her 1-year-old bulldog mix puppy to the Franklin County Animal Shelter Friday for a rabies vaccination.