Olentangy got its postseason push started in style Saturday, taking top honors the Division I Pickerington Central sectional. Liberty, meanwhile, which met up with its rivals in the finals of three different weight classes, did well for itself, too.
Russell L. McCoy, 74, Westerville, passed away Saturday (Feb. 11, 2012) surrounded by his loving family, after a courageous battle following surgery.
COLUMBUS — A spotted leopard that was among six creatures kept at an Ohio zoo after an exotic animal escape was euthanized after it was hit by a lowering door between two enclosures and suffered a severe spinal cord injury, officials said Monday.
COLUMBUS — Several Republican state senators have been reviewing for weeks the idea of repealing Ohio’s new elections law that trims early voting days in the presidential battleground state and makes other election changes, the leader of Ohio’s Senate said Thursday.
COLUMBUS (AP) — A recently released federal prison inmate who freed dozens of exotic pets including lions and tigers from his eastern Ohio farm and then killed himself had been distraught over a plan to place him on house arrest, a probation officer told deputies in records released this week.
 Edsel M. Pletcher, 81, passed away early Monday morning (Jan. 16, 2012) while in the care of Genesis Hospice in Zanesville. Rodman Neeper Funeral Home will be assisting the family with cremation arrangements. Visit rodmanneeper.com to read a full obituary, to share a condolence or to express a condolence to Ed’s Family.
COLUMBUS — The expected sponsor of a bill that would ban casual ownership of exotic animals in Ohio says it will likely be introduced early next year.
COLUMBUS — Ohio’s state veterinarian says testing of a half-dozen exotic animals that survived release after their owner killed himself won’t begin for several weeks.