Newark Advocate
NEWARK - Family members tearfully recounted all they d lost in Kayla Kemmerling s death at a court hearing in Newark on Wednesday morning.
During the court hearing, Assistant Licking County Prosecutor Jenny Gonzalez-Wells said Kemmerling s body was discovered, as well as three young children sleeping in the home, by Newark police officers during a welfare check.
Christian M. Young, 25, of Newark, was subsequently found in Hocking County and arrested. The prosecutor said during an interview with police, he admitted to stabbing Kemmerling multiple times, choking her and sexually assaulting her after he believed she had died, due to her perceived infidelity.
Gahanna driver at fault in Ohio 79 double fatal crash gets probation
NEWARK - The driver convicted for a March 2019 crash along Ohio 79 that killed two people was sentenced to four years of probation on Monday.
Ryan M. Oppenheimer, 39, of Gahanna, was found guilty of two counts of vehicular manslaughter, both first-degree misdemeanors.
On March 6, 2019, the Ohio State Highway Patrol was called to a crash on Ohio 79 just south of Ridgely Tract Road around 8:30 p.m. Two individuals, 59-year-old Cindy L. Perry, of Buckeye Lake, and her passenger, John Rodela Jr., 49, of Hebron, were pronounced dead on scene.
According to OSP, Oppenheimer was driving a 2013 Ford Explorer northbound on Ohio 79, when the vehicle traveled left of center, striking the vehicle Perry was driving southbound.
JACKSONTOWN - John Johnson was visting Ohio s Amish country a few years ago when he felt a calling to turn a simple shed into a chapel, a place where he and his family, his community could worship. I saw this one and it immediately spoke to me. I told the people I was with, I will have that in my yard someday, Johnson remembered. So I went and ordered one a year or two later.
Johnson said he and George Cook, who lives with him, had their friend Bo Marietta build the structure from a kit. Johnson said he had the back door closed off so a stained glass window could be installed and he had the height of the building raised so people could stand and walk in it.