Columbus Dispatch
- Police probe homicide; family mourns Lorenzen Wright -
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Memphis police say they are investigating the discovery of a body that family members have said is missing NBA player Lorenzen Wright as a homicide.
- Mother gets 3 years in drunken-driving death of her toddler -
A mother whose drunken-driving crash killed her 2-year-old daughter was sentenced today to three years in prison.
- Ousted USDA employee Sherrod plans to sue blogger -
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her making racially tinged remarks last week.
- LeBron fan taunted for wearing Heat jersey at Indians game
- Senator: 6,000 graves at Arlington could be wrong -
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate Democrat says that as many as 6,600 graves at Arlington National Cemetery could be misidentified because managers there didn't do their job properly.
- Dublin police chief quitting -
Dublin Police Chief Mike Epperson is headed out of town.
- Man shot to death in car on North Side -
Columbus police have little to go on in the city's 64th homicide of the year.
- Toyota recalls 412,000 cars in U.S., 16,000 in Japan -
TOKYO (AP) -- Toyota is recalling 412,000 passenger cars, mostly the Avalon model, in the U.S., and another 16,420 vehicles in Japan for steering problems, the automaker said Thursday.
- Cincinnati officer who ran over woman had good record -
CINCINNATI (AP) - City officials and personnel records give good reviews to the veteran Cincinnati police officer authorities say fatally drove over a woman lying in a park.
- More Ohio voting by mail means more mistakes -
CLEVELAND (AP) - Elections officials in major Ohio counties say a surge in people voting by mail has been accompanied by a rise in ballot errors that cost time and money.
- Washington C.H. drops plan to ban smoking in cars -
WASHINGTON C.H., Ohio (AP) - An Ohio community has pulled back on banning smoking in cars when children are passengers.
- Storms whack State Auto's bottom line in 2nd quarter -
State Auto Financial Corp. today reported a much bigger second-quarter loss than a year ago as severe spring storms caused extensive hail and wind damage in some of the states it serves.
- Second brother arrested in slaying -
Two brothers who promised to sell an acquaintance a flat-screen television robbed and killed him instead, Columbus police said yesterday.
- Boy's family, teacher settle arm-burning suit -
The family of a boy who said his eighth-grade science teacher burned a cross on his arm with an electric lab instrument and taught Christian doctrine in the Mount Vernon classroom has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit against the teacher.
- Mayor proposes broad curbside plan as money-saver -
Mayor Michael B. Coleman set aside much of the save-the-planet talk yesterday in announcing a curbside recycling plan for Columbus. Instead, he went right to the bottom line:
