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Pools closed. Youth programs were canceled. Seasonal employment was hard to find. Amid a rampaging coronavirus pandemic last year, youngsters across Columbus likely found themselves without much to occupy their time when school let out for summer. Mayor Andrew J. Ginther said Thursday he's determined to prevent that from happening for a second year in a row. Speaking at a news conference outside the Driving Park Community Recreation Center, Ginther unveiled a slate of youth summer programming in the city made possible by public/private partnerships. Referring to “unprecedented investment...

Services for Jeff Armes, 38, will take place at 1 p.m. Friday at Roberts Funeral Home, 60 West Hunter Street in Logan, Ohio in Athens County.

The 21 people present for the first night of the latest class of the Franklin County Sheriff's Office's Citizens Police Academy all had different reasons for being there. Some had always admired law enforcement and wanted an inside look into the profession. Others seated in the room at a sheriff's support services building were interested in one day pursuing a career in law enforcement themselves. One participant said he simply wanted to see what his tax dollars were funding. Whatever their reasons for attending, Sheriff Dallas Baldwin said he mainly has one reason for offering the progr...

The years Sequoya Carpenter had with her mother were too few — far too few. But at 19 years old, Sequoya has built enough memories of her mother, Latoya Renee Carpenter, to last a life time. The mother who would often go outside to play hop scotch with her three daughters. The mother who would buy a 1,000-piece puzzle and solve it in the course of a night. The mother who always wanted to be included in the "boy talk." “My mom was a happy, spirited person,” Sequoya said. “She was a mother, but she was more of a best friend — she was both.”

Detectives are investigating the unrelated shooting deaths of two men that occurred within minutes of each other Saturday night near Cleveland Avenue.