Worthington News

June 2, 2012: This image made from a video posted on YouTube on May 27, 2012, 11-year-old Matt Woodrum, third from left, is joined by physical education teacher John Blaine, fourth from left, and other students during a 400-meter race at Colonial Hills Elementary School in Worthington, Ohio.

The 37-year-old Earnest, who grew up in Kansas City, Mo., is the principal deputy White House press secretary.

Ella Goodwin, 5, and her mother, Christina, check out Retablos - colorful box displays with figurines - by Andean artist Nicario Jimenez.

I am all about the funny and the bizarre, but every once in a while a feel-good story does the soul some good.

At 6:30 a.m. Sunday, an armored truck will arrive at the Columbus Arts Festival and an off-duty police officer will stand guard over its weighty contents: 1,275 bags of pennies.

If news stories about school kids bullying their peers on Facebook are leading you to lose faith in American children, you need to watch this video.

For most kids at Colonial Hills Elementary School in Worthington it was just a 400-meter race.

Congregation Beth Tikvah won permission to expand its sanctuary and administration space at its first hearing before the Municipal Planning Commission on May 24.

Raising taxes at the local level is the less painful of the options facing Worthington residents today, according to state Rep.

* On May 21 at 5:30 p.m. on East Wilson Bridge Road, a 33-year-old man damaged another motorist's vehicle during a road-rage incident, according to police reports.

Bicyclists don't call it "Wipeout Bridge" for nothing. They say time and time again people wipe out on it because of how slippery the surface can get, especially when it's wet.

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May's a popular time for moving. The Better Business Bureau suggests you take care when hiring a mover, however, because of the handful of bad apples that take advantage of families in transition.

Nearly 70 exhibitors will fill three quadrants of the Village Green on May 19 for the third-annual Green on the Green Festival.

A multimedia artist who mastered delicate brushstrokes of oriental works and the complexities of paper-making and oil-painting, local artist Lois Augur, 83, leaves behind a legacy of art and a story of reinvention.

In this photo taken Sept. 7, 2011, Allison Fisher, 25, visits a post office to mail textbooks in Worthington, Ohio.

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