Former teacher gets 76-year term for sex crimes
Matthew Rausenberg was sentenced to 76 years in prison with no chance of parole plus two additional 15-years-to-life terms, for abusing students.
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Speaker has to interrupt lengthy prayer
Being House speaker occasionally means you have to cut off a speech or rule someone out of order. But before Tuesday, that involved other lawmakers or someone in the audience, not the clergy giving the opening prayer.
Woman convicted in murder-for-hire plot
A jury decided on Wednesday that Tara Lambert, a 33-year-old former model, had planned and plotted to kill the mother of her stepchildren
Lawmaker wants sales tax holiday to be a yearly event
For Ohioans who took advantage of last year’s sales tax holiday during back-to-school shopping, a Franklin County senator wants to make experience an annual event.
Ex-teacher convicted on child sex charges
Jurors deliberated for more than eight hours on Monday before finding former Olentangy elementary school teacher Matthew Rausenberg guilty on 41 counts in connection with the sexual assault of several of his students.
Circleville woman on trial in murder-for-hire scheme
Tara Lambert pulled her Lexus into the Kentucky Fried Chicken parking lot, where she met a man and gave him $125 as a down payment for what authorities say was going to be murder.
App protects Realtors
Central Ohio Realtors plan to offer a new feature aimed at improving the safety of real estate agents.
$3M bond for suspect in triple slaying
Wendell L. Callahan told Columbus police detectives that he has no memory of the incident in which he is accused of fatally stabbing an ex-girlfriend and her two children on Jan. 12.
Town still reeling from officer’s death
Folks in this Knox County village know their police officers by first name. And so Officer Thomas Cottrell’s death Sunday night in an ambush was just that much more shocking.
Duplex fire leaves man, woman dead
Fire officials say two people are dead after a fire ripped through their Franklinton duplex.