The Delaware Gazette

Jordan critical of sheriff following domestic incident

Ohio Sen. Kris Jor­dan (R-Powell) believes Delaware County Sher­iff Wal­ter L. Davis III tried to “ruin his polit­i­cal career,” and that some­one in the sheriff’s office ordered deputies that inves­ti­gated a domes­tic inci­dent at the lawmaker’s home to trump up the crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tion against him, accord­ing to doc­u­ments released by the sheriff’s office Wednes­day. Delaware County Pros­e­cu­tor Carol O’Brien has asked the Ohio Bureau of Crim­i­nal Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and Inves­ti­ga­tion to see if the claim has any merit.

Orange Twp. appoints new trustee

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An Orange Town­ship park board mem­ber was selected Tues­day evening to fin­ish a town­ship trustee term that expires in 2013. Christo­pher Mas­ci­ola of Lewis Cen­ter was selected from a field of 12 appli­cants, includ­ing Katy Bar­rick­low, Jeremy Bris­son, David Eby, Scott Gal­loway, Mar­i­lyn Hoff, Richard Meyer, Lynda Petty, Bob Ruhlman, Deb­o­rah Taranto, Michael Wiens and Ken­neth Yarnell.

UPS driver rescues woman from sinking car

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Ethan Cal­lif, a dri­ver for UPS, was trav­el­ing his nor­mal deliv­ery route in Lib­erty Town­ship around 10:45 a.m. Thurs­day when he noticed a Honda Accord half sub­merged in a reten­tion pond on the north­west cor­ner of Sawmill Road and Pres­i­den­tial Park­way. He could see the dri­ver, a 28-year-old Wor­thing­ton woman, strug­gling to escape. He quickly pulled his truck to the side of the road and dove into the water, boots and all. Califf, 33, of Hilliard, pulled the woman out through the pas­sen­ger win­dow. She later told medics she was afraid and couldn’t swim. Her car ended up sub­merged in the pond, esti­mated to be between 10 and 20 feet deep, after a col­li­sion at the nearby inter­sec­tion with a Chevy Malibu.

Commissioners reject sheriff’s supervisors contract

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Choos­ing to punt until nego­ti­a­tions with other sheriff’s union employ­ees are com­plete, Delaware County com­mis­sion­ers on Mon­day rejected a con­tract with the union that rep­re­sents 14 super­vi­sors in the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office.

Strauss-Kahn free from house arrest; charges stand

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NEW YORK — For­mer IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn walked out of court with­out bail and free from house arrest Fri­day after pros­e­cu­tors acknowl­edged there were ques­tions about the cred­i­bil­ity of the hotel house­keeper who accused him of sex­ual assault.

State laws to increase school nutrition, meal costs

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From reg­u­lat­ing sales to low­er­ing fat con­tent in fla­vored milk, two pend­ing state laws have pro­posed wide-reaching changes for school dis­tricts. Olen­tangy Board of Edu­ca­tion recently dis­cussed this leg­is­la­tion, high­light­ing poten­tial changes in pro­duce as well as prices.

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