Franklin County News

A funnel-shaped cloud hovers in the sky just south of Grove City yesterday afternoon.

Police in Westerville, Ohio, say a 37-year-old mother operating a day care out of her home hit upon a plan -- she allegedly crushed medications that cause drowsiness and put them in the pancakes.

The fair will take place July 13-20 at the Franklin County Fairgrounds in Hilliard, Ohio.

Using a short stretch of Myrtle Avenue in the Linden area as a microcosm for the difficulties government faces in addressing the problem of abandoned and foreclosed houses, City Attorney Richard C. Pfeiffer Jr. last week outlined efforts aimed at making such properties more attractive to the private sector.

A Columbus recycling company is hosting two e-waste collection events on Saturday.

A 56-unit housing development for seniors that backers hope will help jump-start a struggling South Side neighborhood has been awarded nearly $1 million in tax credits to help finance the project.

Niko, a 16-year-old dog, is picked up from the Franklin County animal shelter by Kristin Lopp, her son Cayden, 4, and daughter Kaitlyn, 2. The county's commissioners are considering raising the shelter's fees to help cover a $2.1 million shortfall.

A central Ohio day care worker sprinkled drugs on snacks to get children in her day care to sleep during the day, according to police charges filed Monday that the woman adamantly denies as a misunderstood joke.

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

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

Task force members will conduct the checkpoint on Hilliard-Rome Road at Richlanne Drive in Hilliard beginning at 9 p.m. The task force is looking to impress upon individuals who will be consuming alcohol to plan to use a designated driver or make alternate arrangements.

If you're driving, chances are you're driving too closely to the car in front of you.

AEP Ohio said that it was working to restore power to thousands of central Ohioans without power after early morning storms struck.

The E-Edition includes all of the news, comics, classifieds and advertisements of the newspaper.

A 16-year-old girl accused of carjacking a Franklin County Children Services worker was apprehended early yesterday driving the stolen car near Italian Village.

The E-Edition includes all of the news, comics, classifieds and advertisements of the newspaper.

The U.S. Census Bureau reported today that the Asian population in the state rose by nearly 8,000, or 3.1 percent, over the previous year to 257,584.

Twenty female students, most of them younger than 18, were videotaped in the nude by a Wellington School theater director who hid a camera in a dressing room at the private school in Upper Arlington.

Police are moving residents out of a North Side motel that city officials say is a haven for drug dealing and prostitution.

Franklin County's economy continues to bounce back from the ground it lost during the 2008-2009 recession, judging from numbers presented to central Ohio business leaders Wednesday morning.