Franklin County News

The state's largest teachers union and the Ohio Republican Party have gone to court over a GOP request for the names and addresses of all educators.

Franklin County Municipal Court Judge David Tyack set bond at $100,000 today for a robbery suspect who was shot by a Columbus police officer on the East Side after a traffic pursuit Wednesday night.

The Franklin County Sheriff's Office confirms that they are investigating an Obetz police officer accused of rape.

Columbus and Franklin County health departments announced Thursday they will expand H1N1 vaccination availability to some adults, 10TV News reported.

A Franklin County Grand Jury has returned a three count indictment on the Reynoldsburg police officer accused of robbing a private dancer at gunpoint.

A woman charged with killing a man during what police say was a robbery attempt had long feared he would harm her, her attorney said in court this morning.

Sneaky or forgetful government employees may cost Franklin County taxpayers as much as $2.3 million a year in fraudulent health-insurance coverage.

A landlord filed a lawsuit this month against Delaware County, claiming that the auditor and commissioners breached a lease agreement on a now-closed Bureau of Motor Vehicles office in Lewis Center.

A former supervisor at a Franklinton psychiatric hospital admitted in court this week that he had sexual contact with a 17-year-old patient.

Two years ago, the social-activist group BREAD labeled truancy a major problem, urging the Franklin County prosecutor's office to help keep kids in school by notifying their parents when they weren't. The KEY Truancy Program was begun and has since reduced chronic truancy in six pilot schools by 55 percent.

When the Franklin County commissioners launched a discount-drug card last year, they said they wanted to ease residents' pain and anxiety at the cash register.

Restoration efforts on Clover Groff Run near Franks Park are helping to transform the Big Darby Creek tributary south of Hilliard from the mostly straight drainage ditch seen in a photo printout to a meandering stream that will help filter sediment pollution.

Lean times will continue next year for Franklin County agencies that pick up and adopt stray dogs, provide welfare and job-training services, police neighborhoods, and prosecute and jail criminals.

Drank, Kratom and DXM are among the latest addictions that are secretly taking over youth, CrimeTracker 10's Angela An reported.

A South Side woman was charged last night with murder in the shooting death of a man whose body was found in a sport-utility vehicle early yesterday.

Police were looking for a woman who called 911 to report her husband was shot and then vanished, 10TV's Cara Connelly reported.

A Franklin County Grand Jury convicted on Tuesday a Cleveland man of aggravated murder for killing a witness in his uncle's drug case.

HEATH -- A gun was pulled on a Franklin County probation officer Saturday while she was letting her dog out near her Heath home.

A day after voters approved Casinos in Ohio, Penn National president Tim Wilmott toured the 27-acre area in Columbus where his casino will sit.

Franklin County voters appeared torn in school districts with contentious levy campaigns, splitting votes between board members and their challengers.