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For those keeping score, it's "the tax man": 2, Richard D. Schultz: 0.For the second time in 15 years, the Westerville resident will be going to prison, this time for 33 months, and paying a huge restitution, this time $1.64 million, for again cheating the Internal Revenue Service.U.S. District Judge James L. Graham sentenced Schultz, 67, on Thursday. The judge had rejected the first plea deal… → Read More
Zenon Natividad Cruz was driving with his wife to work early on the morning of Feb. 5, 2016, when the inside of their vehicle lit up with blue flashing lights.A police officer was pulling them over. Natividad Cruz couldn't think of what he had done wrong. Whatever it was, he wasn't going to argue: He and his wife had come to the United States illegally 20 years earlier.What followed was 18 days… → Read More
COLUMBUS — Federal prosecutors want to seize the retirement funds of former Ohio State University and NFL quarterback Art Schlichter, who is in prison for cheating investors in a sports-ticket scam. Schlichter, 57, still owes more than $2.2 million from judgments in federal courts in the southern districts of Indiana in 2001 and in Ohio … → Read More
Omar Mousa Jaafar became a U.S. citizen this month in a process that his attorney said was needlessly delayed more than two years by a policy that targets → Read More
A Columbus woman has died of injuries she suffered in a one-car crash on Nov. 4.About 9:45 that evening, Alicia Lawton, 58, was driving alone in her 2011 Toyota RAV4 east on Interstate 70 near the S. Hamilton Road overpass. Her vehicle drifted left into the grassy median and struck a post supporting an overhead sign.Lawton, who lived in the Northland neighborhood, was transported to OhioHealth… → Read More
The two Columbus police officers who wounded the so-called Buckeye Bandit, ending his suspected string of 26 bank robberies, acted within division policy when they shot him, an internal investigation has found. During an Oct. 21, 2016, robbery of a KeyBank on Frantz Road, a teller slipped a tracking device in the bundle of more than $53,000 she handed bandit Ikechi W. Emeaghara. Lt. Eric David… → Read More
Police released the name of a man killed in a Northeast Side shooting Sunday evening, the latest of three homicides reported in Columbus over the weekend. → Read More
COLUMBUS (TNS) — Whether the strained sisterly bonds between Ohio State Chi Omega chapter members Madeleine Entine and Cary Goldman can be repaired is unknown. What is known is that Cory, Entine’s 8-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel assistance dog, will remain in their sorority house. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley granted Entine’s … → Read More
Two men died and one was left in critical condition Friday night after a gunfight at a Northeast Side home. Columbus Police said James Bernard Willis III, → Read More
Whether the strained sisterly bonds between Ohio State Chi Omega chapter members Madeleine Entine and Cary Goldman can be repaired is unknown.What is known is that Cory, Entine's 8-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel assistance dog, will remain in their sorority house.On Friday, U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley granted Entine's request for a preliminary injunction to prohibit the… → Read More
Cory will stay with roommate Madeleine Entine at the Chi Omega house, a federal judge ruled Friday morning.U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley issued a → Read More
A former Ohio State University student who admitted sending money to a top terrorist was sentenced to 27½ years in prison Monday.Yahya Farooq Mohammad, 39, pleaded guilty on Jul 7 in federal court in Toledo to one count of conspiracy to provide and conceal material support or resources to terrorists and one count of solicitation to commit a crime of violence.The crime of violence was to solicit… → Read More
Closed roads and inoperable traffic lights will greet some Monday morning commuters after storms dumped up to 4 inches of rain across central Ohio overnight. And some residents might still not have power that was knocked out by high winds downing trees. A flood warning was in effect Monday morning for Raccoon Creek near Granville in Licking County. Crews closed roads that were under water in… → Read More
A third defendant in a sports-drink fraud case was hit with more charges Thursday when a federal grand jury in Columbus issued a superceding indictment → Read More
A 25-year-old Columbus woman involved in an early morning traffic crash on Tuesday died Friday morning of her injuries, Columbus police said.Deonna Boone → Read More
A court-appointed receiver has asked a Franklin County judge to approve the sale of $30 million of gold brought up from the SS Central America shipwreck → Read More
Ohio State University's latest trademark-infringement victory is against a small Short North T-shirt shop founded by a former Buckeyes basketball player. → Read More
Two Columbus police officers used excessive force when they killed a 25-year-old man during an encounter on a Far East Side street last year, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court.The wrongful-death suit contends that Officers Matthew Baase and John Narewski confronted Deaunte Bell-McGrew on Oct. 29, 2016 "in a fashion that unnecessarily created a dangerous situation."A Franklin… → Read More
A federal judge in Columbus signed an order Friday allowing communities in Ohio and elsewhere that blame drug companies for the opioid crisis to subpoena → Read More
The pilot of a Canadian plane loaded with 290 pounds of cocaine that was forced to land at Ohio University's airport was sentenced to eight years in prison Friday.Sylvain Desjardins, 48, could have faced a mandatory minimum of 12 years in prison had he not pleaded guilty.U.S. District Judge Algenon A. Marbley considered Desjardins' acceptance of responsibility when imposing sentence, Assistant… → Read More