Reynoldsburg News

Confronting Suburban Poverty , a book and policy-making campaign launched Monday by the Brookings Institution , lists metropolitan Columbus, including surrounding counties, among 15 regions in the nation with the fastest-growing poverty rates in its suburbs between 2000 and 2010.

A 20-year-old Reynoldsburg man avoided a third trial in a 2011 Hilltop murder case by reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors today.

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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 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.

Sebastian Struck is a student at Summit Road STEM Elementary, one of the three Reynoldsburg schools that meet the new standards.

Granville voters won't have to make time to get to their local precinct on Tuesday.

With Lancaster in the midst of a race for a conference championship, here's an updated list of standings in the Ohio Capital Conference-Ohio Division and who all of the teams have remaining on their schedule, to be updated daily through the rest of the season.

Auglaize County Emergency Management Agency Director Troy Anderson said state officials are requiring such plans be made after more than 50 exotic animals escaped from a farm near Zanesville in October 2011.

A man who drove his van into a side of a Reynoldsburg home has a history of drinking and driving offenses dating back to 1998.

Students at Watkins Memorial High School cannot recite the Pledge of Allegiance in the morning because there are no U.S. flags in their classrooms to turn and face.

3 singles opponent 7-6, 3-6, 6-1. Lancaster's No. 1 doubles pair of Ian Elick and Seth Quay lost in three sets.

In Paul's letter to the Church at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus, he speaks of the five-fold gift ministries that should function within the Church or the Body of Christ.

Two men died of apparent drug overdoses this morning. Police believe the deaths are linked.

A ribbon-cutting and tree-planting event will kick-off the two-hour event this evening at 6 p.m. The regional campus officially opened its doors at 6699 E. Livingston Ave.

Reynoldsburg Police charged a van driver after he drove into the side of a home Monday evening.

The 11-parcel towering brick property transferred today, according to the auditor's office.

From left, Jennifer Goebel, 18, a senior at Reynoldsburg High School's Livingston campus; Aseel Houmsse, 17, a junior at Metro Early College High School; and Sonya Matter, 17, a senior at Reynoldsburg, work together at Reynoldsburg's Livingston campus.

Afternoon Update, sent weekday afternoons, keeps you up to date with breaking news and updates from later in the day.

Kelly Oldaker, a fifth-grade teacher at Glendening Elementary School, helps Deven Winski, 11, with the book Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.