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Columbus police have identified the off-duty sergeant who shot an intruder Tuesday at his residence in Pleasant Township. Sgt. Stephen Carr, 45, who has worked for Columbus Division of Police for 15 years, is expected to return to work after a few days.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

A trial in Common Pleas Court is getting underway more than eight years after the discovery of Alyce Seff's body in a wishing well behind one of her German Village rental properties.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

The two-year legal battle between Ohio State University and former marching-band director Jonathan Waters is over. Ohio State said today that Waters "has voluntarily dismissed all of his claims against the University, including all appeals, in exchange for the University not seeking to recover its costs from him."adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

Flu cases are widespread across the state, with hospitalizations for flu-like symptoms almost doubling to 287 during the first week of January, according to the Ohio Department of Health. The number of hospitalizations for flu symptoms — fever, cough, sore throat, body aces, headache, chills and fatigue — rose from 157 the last week of December, and the total hospitalization since the start of this flu season in October is 654.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

The Delaware Area Career Center should have begun collecting funds this year following a November 2015 renewal levy that passed easily. But an error by the Delaware County Board of Elections has created a legal question that is jeopardizing the validity of the results. Attorneys for the center on Tuesday asked the Ohio Supreme Court to force Ohio Tax Commissioner Joe Testa to accept the results of the election.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

Sen. Sherrod Brown has been a very vocal critic of some of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees — he was one of the very first to come out against attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions — but in a conference call today, he insisted that he will likely vote yes on a handful of the Republican’s cabinet picks.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

The mother of a 2-year-old girl who was fatally shot during in a home invasion in October now is accused of selling heroin to an undercover officer.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

Nearly a year after lawmakers enacted bipartisan reforms designed to provide more oversight and accountability of Ohio’s oft-criticized charter school system, a leading school choice advocate says they appear to be working.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

If Ohio regulators are going to oversee submeter companies, then those businesses want to retain their ability to add charges as they see fit. This is according to filings from two central Ohio submeter companies, Nationwide Energy Partners and American Power & Light, in an ongoing Public Utilities Commission of Ohio case.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-BUSINESS","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-BUSINESS"};

CLEVELAND — The search for human remains from a plane that crashed into Lake Erie last month has ended, even though DNA testing has identified only three of the six people killed. “Due to conditions in the water, it is not likely we will be able to recover additional human remains from dives at this point,” Burke Lakefront Airport Commissioner Khalid Bahhur said on Tuesday.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};