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Franklin County’s non-union employees are eligible for a 2 percent raise. County commissioners adopted a resolution Tuesday that calls for spending $4.8 million on raises in 2017.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

American Electric Power has resolved a power outage that had affected about 8,300 customers in the Orange Township area in Delaware County.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

WASHINGTON — For roughly a decade, Jeff Sessions and Mike DeWine sat next to one another during hearings of the Senate Judiciary Committee. So it only made sense that when the Alabama senator faced the committee today on which he’d long sat that the Ohio attorney general, once again, was nearby.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

Officials today confirmed that large pieces of debris recovered from Lake Erie off Cleveland are from the private plane that crashed Dec. 29, killing six members of two central Ohio families. The debris brought up Monday includes a 20-foot-long section of the CitationJet 525's tail section, a 20-foot piece of the canopy over the passenger section, seats, an engine and a wheel.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

WAVERLY, Ohio - It took a day and a half, but a jury of 10 women and two men has been impaneled to decide whether a former Pike County deputy sheriff was justified when he shot a killed a man after a pursuit almost two years ago. Former Deputy Joel Jenkins, 32, is on trial in Pike County Common Pleas Court on charges of murder and reckless homicide for the March 28, 2015 fatal shooting of Robert C. Rooker, 26.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

An Ohio city is urging the state Supreme Court to reject a law that restricts traffic camera use. Attorney John Musto for Dayton told the justices Tuesday that the law enacted by the Legislature that took effect in 2015 improperly limits local "home-rule" powers. A key provision requires a police officer be present when cameras are used to generate red-light or speeding citations.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

Franklin County homeowners should brace themselves. Figures released Monday by county Auditor Clarence Mingo suggest that homeowners’ property values will rise at least 10 percent when the county reassesses property this year. “There will be significant adjustments in some areas,” Mingo said. “We don’t want property owners to be surprised.”adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-BUSINESS","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-BUSINESS"};

A West Side woman accused of injecting her father with a fatal dose of heroin pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to involuntary manslaughter.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

Allegiant Air has announced it will offer nonstop service this summer to Destin/Fort Walton Beach, Florida, from Rickenbacker Airport. Planes will start flying the twice-a-week route beginning May 25 and concluding Aug. 15.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-BUSINESS","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-BUSINESS"};

Objections during a jury trial sometimes cause the lawyers and judge to huddle for hushed conversations that jurors aren’t allowed to hear. Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Pat Sheeran always was quick to tell jurors that these private chats — known as sidebars — were necessary to keep them from hearing information that wasn’t admissible. “Are we trying to hide something from you?” he would say to the jury. “Yes, we are.”adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};