By John Rucker In August, the citizens of Plain City were made aware of a projected budget shortfall for the village and were told that if a levy wasn’t passed in November, cuts would have to be made, and a police officer would be laid off. Using public safety as a coercive lever in [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer A third time in court was not the charm for the man convicted of robbing Merchants National Bank in London in 2010. Jamie Clay, 32, currently an inmate at London Correctional Institution, was back in Madison County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday to appeal his prison sentence. It wasn’t [...]
By Jane Beathard The heroin was fake, but the prison time it earned is real. Cortney J. Freeman, 20, of South Solon, was sentenced on Friday to 15 months behind bars for selling drugs to an undercover police informant in May 2012. Freeman pleaded guilty in Madison County Common Pleas Court in November to [...]
By The Associated Press Ready. Set. Spend! The NFL’s free agent frenzy began Tuesday, with Mike Wallace, Paul Kruger and Dannell Ellerbe among the big names to switch teams for big paychecks. Several other stars, including Nnamdi Asomugha, Ryan Fitzpatrick and Antoine Winfield, are looking for jobs after they were cut in cost-saving moves on [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer A London man was sentenced last week to a year in prison for assaulting a deputy during his Dec. 6, 2012 arrest for vandalism and domestic violence. Christopher A. Oren, 40, 226 E. First St., pleaded guilty to the assault charge in Madison County Common Pleas Court on Friday. [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio’s state government payroll fell 3 percent last year, with psychiatrists at state mental hospitals continuing to be among the top earners, according to payroll records analyzed by a newspaper. The state’s non-university payroll fell to less than $3 billion in 2012, after staying roughly the same in 2010 and 2011, The [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer Arguing with the judge didn’t pay off for a Columbus woman convicted of misuse and theft of a credit card. Tammi N. Herschell, 36, 1769 Berrancher Drive, was sentenced to nine months in prison on Thursday for illegally running up more than $13,000 in purchases on the credit card [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer The odor of marijuana emanating from a rented Chevrolet Suburban gave troopers from the Ohio State Highway Patrol the right to search the vehicle during a February 2012 traffic stop, Madison County Common Pleas Judge Robert D. Nichols ruled last week. Nichols denied a motion filed in January by [...]
