Columbus Dispatch

Franklin County Children Services says raises for managers should be based on performance.

Authorities said an Amish woman has died several days after she was injured in a buggy crash in northeastern Ohio.

For Jesse Balthaser, becoming a Marine was a goal since his days in high school. He went on to serve two deployments in Iraq before he was sent to Afghanistan in early April.

Franklin County Children Services says raises for managers should be based on performance.

Nine Cleveland-area physicians are challenging the constitutionality of an Ohio law that says they can't make political contributions to candidates for attorney general or county prosecutor if they treat Medicaid patients.

This list is compiled from voluntary submissions by parents to hospitals.

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - A Toledo couple were killed Sunday when they were thrown from their SUV on I-75, the State Highway Patrol said.

OXFORD, Ohio - A .45-caliber Colt 1911 pistol that was stolen 23 years ago in a Butler County burglary wound up 2,300 miles away in a pawnshop in Washington state and should be reunited with its owner soon.

A hot-dog dinner cost an Ashtabula family their home and a cat Sunday evening after a kitchen fire quickly spread and destroyed the house and its contents.

TOLEDO - Vice President Joe Biden marched in Toledo's Labor Day Parade yesterday morning, giving a boost to the morale of union members weathering the weak economy and lending political support to the re-election efforts of fellow Democrat Gov. Ted Strickland.

NEWARK, Ohio - Gary Wood doesn't mind laboring on Labor Day - as long as the message gets across.

The new Harrison Park that will soon grace the east bank of the Olentangy River just north of Downtown is the latest piece of a plan to complete the Harrison West neighborhood.

A gospel singer wanted to open a charter school, so he did last year. Then he built a recording studio inside it with public dollars.

WASHINGTON - Rep. Tim Ryan hails from the blue-collar, Democratic stronghold of the Mahoning Valley, but the Niles Democrat is a good example why President Barack Obama might fail to persuade Congress to go along with not extending tax cuts for the most-affluent Americans.

Wrecked shopping carts, shattered glass and stained mattresses spill out of the rooms at the former Hometown Inn.

An electrical malfunction in a garage attic sparked a house fire early yesterday that killed a Hilliard woman, her 28-year-old son and another son's girlfriend.

Charter- and private-school upperclassmen who live in the Columbus City Schools district will lose their unlimited COTA bus passes at the end of this month, a district official said.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Jefferson Thomas was fast and athletic and often played pickup basketball with white students while growing up in Little Rock in the 1950s.

Nine Cleveland-area physicians are challenging the constitutionality of an Ohio law that says they can't make political contributions to candidates for attorney general or county prosecutor if they treat Medicaid patients.

Authorities said an Amish woman has died several days after she was injured in a buggy crash in northeastern Ohio.