More than $1.4 million in potential savings were identified in the performance audit of the Graham Local School District released today by Auditor of State Dave Yost. The savings recommended in this performance audit report represent about 7.8% of the district’s fiscal year 2010 actual operating expenditures.

The Supreme Court of Ohio this week ruled 7-0 that the destruction of a public record in violation of R.C. 149.351(A) gives rise to a forfeiture only if the requester was “aggrieved” by the destruction. The Supreme Court found that a party is not aggrieved if it cannot demonstrate that it actually wanted the records sought.

Harvey Walter Jones, stillborn son of Tyler Jones and Krista Caton, died Thursday, July 7, 2011 at Adena Greenfield Medical Center.

“There is a better way to get Ohio and our country working again, but it will require the administration to realize that more regulations, more spending and higher deficits have failed to turn this economy around.”

The following crashes and offenses occurred on Thursday, July 7.

"I can't understand from looking at the facts and figures how (Holt) came up with $40," Highland County Prosecutor Anneka Collins said. "I don't understand where that figure came from. We aren't agreeing to that. It's going to be back and forth (negotiations) from here. I hope it doesn't become a lot of back and forth because that takes too long if things don't get resolved."

What struck me most about Stephen was his tenacity and toughness … his no-quit attitude and the way he played against players larger than him in height and weight, but not in heart, and not in just that game, but every time I had the privilege to cover Fairfield soccer and basketball.