Jim Letizia

In July of 2010, the City of Columbus received one-million dollars from the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program to demolish and rehabilitate vacant and abandoned homes. Columbus Housing Administrator Rita Parise says that money has now been spent.

A Federal judge has sentenced a Dublin man to three years probation for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme.

A fourth man facing sentencing in a failed plot to blow up a bridge over the Cuayhoga Valley National Park wants to withdraw his guilty plea if he doesn't get more lenient treatment than his co-defendants.

Ohio Republican Party Chair Bob Bennett is joining calls for indicted Democratic State Representative Clayton Luckie to resign.

A former township official in Franklin County is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty yesterday to a theft in office charge.

Cleveland City Council is considering a measure creating tougher penalties for people who drive on a sidewalk to pass a school bus.

Parma fire officials say arson is the cause of a weekend fire at the historic Parma Theater.

A paleontologist from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has identified a new dinosaur.

State Highway Patrol troopers say three undocumented workers have been arrested for running a fake ID ring in Columbus.

The Labor Department says an increase in hiring helped lower unemployment rates in Ohio and 36 other states last month.

Marion police say a woman is hospitalized in stable condition in Columbus after her car was hit by a train late last night.

The Democratic Ohio Supreme Court justice who lost her election bid is not among the applicants for a coming vacancy to a separate seat.

Columbus City Council last night took the first formal step toward using eminent domain to seize a 6.5 acre property near downtown.

Shelby County authorities are trying to adopt out more than 250 dogs seized from a puppy mill on Saturday morning.

A Canal Winchester man has been convicted of taking developmentally disabled people to bars and strip clubs while billing the state for providing services to the disabled.

A new documentary points the finger at a Hamilton man for a famous double murder.

State regulators have approved permits for new wells for dumping fracking wastewater.

A U.S Senate committee investigating the multi-state fungal meningitis outbreak wants to know how regulators in all 50 states oversee specialty pharmacies like the one that triggered the illness.

A Somali immigrant charged with plotting to bomb the Polaris Fashion Place shopping mall has been deported.

Fairfield County Sheriff's deputies say they have recaptured the man who escaped from a county jail facility this morning. Deputies say 20-year-old Elias Ferrar walked away from a job assignment at a minimum security facility for misdemeanor offenders. Ferrar was being held on a probation violation and a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.