By JOAN LOWY WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. airlines scored their second best performance last year in the more than two decades that researchers have been measuring airline quality, with Virgin America the leader, says an annual report released Monday. The report ranked the 14 largest U.S. airlines based on on-time arrivals, mishandled bags, consumer complaints [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer The accused “fence” behind a burglary ring that operated in at least six central Ohio counties was arraigned in Madison County Common Pleas Court Friday on a racketeering charge. Franklin Delano Legg Jr., 39, 1551 Withers Ave., Columbus, was indicted in September by the county grand jury. Authorities believe [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer Plain City-area residents Randall and Linda Beachy will serve five years of community control for defrauding the state workers’ compensation of $20,285 between 2006 and 2009. They were also ordered to repay the money. Linda Beachy, 50, 6120 Taylor-Blair Road, pleaded guilty in Madison County Common Pleas Court in [...]
By Dean Shipley Staff Writer Bringing a village water system into the 21st century costs money. Because of that expense, Mt. Sterling village residents can expect their water bills to go up as of May, it was reported in the village council meeting Monday evening, March 25. Kevin Wood of M-E Co./IBT, the engineering [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer A former Plumwood resident is headed to prison for at least the next 35 years for raping a pre-teen child. Madison County Common Pleas Judge Robert D. Nichols sentenced David A. Scott, 28, to 35 years to life for sexual assaults that took place in December 2011 and 2012. [...]
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 [...]
