Grove City’s proposed first-in-the-nation tire-reclamation plant is either an environmental jewel that will create energy and useful products from trash, or a potential environmental boondoggle, depending on whom you ask.

Consider, for a moment, the victims of this bright, mild winter: the four Blinn children.

Small businesses aren’t the only ones upset about the sudden increase in American Electric Power bills: Schools and governments are reacting with disbelief that their bills are jumping so dramatically. And the fallout will affect taxpayers.

Friends and family will gather today at an oceanside park in Miami to honor David Bompart, the Columbus man who was shot while in Haiti to build an orphanage.

A woman died and several young children were injured in a two-vehicle crash northwest of Marysville yesterday.

The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio has sued several companies that manage the Phoenix Golf Links golf course on the South Side for failing to adequately maintain the landfill on which the course was built.

A woman said she was raped in western Union County after two men used flashing lights to make her think she was being pulled over by authorities on Friday.

On Feb. 5, 1879 — four days after a fire in a vault at the Franklin County recorder’s office damaged thousands of documents — the blaze was determined to be arson. The double-walled document vault was meant to protect the county’s land records if the courthouse caught fire. No one ever thought a blaze would be ignited within.

A $25.9 million construction project that would merge the Columbus district’s two K-8 language-immersion schools inside the historic Indianola building has been shelved just before the demolition phase was to begin.

Bridge demolition on a Downtown stretch of I-71 will continue tonight, with overnight closures planned for five nights this week.