A school resource officer arrested a 16-year-old student at a Reynoldsburg High School academy on charges of public indecency and sexual imposition after the boy exposed himself to a 15-year-old girl, Reynoldsburg police reported.

Memorial Day will be marked in Reynoldsburg by events on two different days.

Most residents could be in for a tax increase if Reynoldsburg City Council agrees to cut the city's income tax credit in half.

The Reynoldsburg Parks and Recreation Department has been told by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency that a grant request for more than $80,000 has been recommended for federal funding.

The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission is seeking public feedback on eight projects for which it is requesting almost $200 million from the Ohio Department of Transportation.

The financial impact of furloughs will be less than expected at Defense Supply Center Columbus.

There is still a day or two left to sign up for the Reynoldsburg Area Chamber of Commerce Golf Classic.

An Upper Arlington-based Pelotonia team that has drawn members from throughout Ohio and beyond and set fundraising records for cancer research, will host a kick-off event June 1 to gear up for this year's ride.

Volunteer a few hours and enjoy an entire weekend of blues and jazz for free.

A produce market offering fresh vegetables, fruits, bakery and dairy items for Reynoldsburg families in need will begin operating on a monthly basis this month at Hannah Ashton Middle School, 1482 Jackson St.

More than 800 helium balloons, each personalized with the name of a missing child, will be set adrift over Reynoldsburg May 22 in an early observance of National Missing Children's Day.

A Reynoldsburg policeman had to explain to a driver May 9 that he could not grant a presidential pardon.

Reynoldsburg City Councilman Cornelius McGrady III proposed last week that $4,900 be added to the parks and recreation department budget to cover Reynoldsburg's share of paying for a Youth Leadership Summit.

Reynoldsburg City Council this week authorized the chief of police to apply for a grant that could fund a community resource officer and approved a transfer of funds to hire a part-time employee at the senior center.

Etna Township trustees want to establish a Joint Economic Development District on land north and south of Interstate 70 to help fund improvements to state Route 310 and local infrastructure.

Reynoldsburg resident Jada Brooks gathered her five children around her hospital bed on Mother's Day instead of around her kitchen table.

Parents still have a couple of weeks to register children for Camp Adventure, a new summer program for Reynoldsburg children that includes ventures into academics, athletics and art.

Franklin County Public Health will offer childhood immunizations by appointment only at a clinic set for 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 28, at the Truro Township Fire Department, 6305 E. Livingston Ave.

Army National Guard Pvt. Robert E. Dennison III, son of Mary Penny of Reynoldsburg, has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C.

Dawn Lemley, Treasurer/CFO of Eastland-Fairfield Career and Technical Schools, was honored with Ohio Association of School Business Officials Central Region's Distinguished Service Award at the annual OASBO conference.

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A garage sale to benefit Joseph's Coat of Central Ohio will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 1, at Messiah Lutheran Church, 1200 S. Waggoner Road in Reynoldsburg.

The Sterling Theater will be alive with music this summer with a CD release party and the theater's first three open microphone nights.

Reynoldsburg police were dispatched to Rosehill Road May 2 to investigate a complaint from a driver who said another motorist had been tailgating him and pulled out a handgun after the two exchanged words.

Reynoldsburg's new Police Motor Unit combines two things James Triplett said he likes to do -- working as a police officer and riding a motorcycle.

For more than 60 years, a group of Columbus-area men have sought to keep a piece of Americana alive through four-part, harmonized singing.

Now in her early 40s, Tricia Wheeler remains good friends with several of her sorority sisters she met at Ohio State University.

A Reynoldsburg man with five prior OVI convictions was charged with felony OVI April 29 after the vehicle he was driving went off the road and crashed into a house on Rosehill Road.

The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus is in the midst of a yearlong birthday celebration in honor of its 100 years as a part of the community.

Franklin County Fair organizers are accepting applications for the Battle of the Bands scheduled Monday, July 15.

Police Chief Jim O'Neill appealed to Reynoldsburg City Council's safety committee Monday, May 6, to hire another police officer and buy a cruiser.

Dozens of people joined the ranks of amputees April 15 when first one and then another terrorist bomb exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

The addition of the Columbus Metropolitan, Worthington and Southwest Public libraries to the Central Library Consortium will mean a disruption to library computer systems later this month as the new consortium members transition to the new catalog.

The spring allergy season is here -- and it's arrived early.

Food trucks operating in some of the busiest areas of Columbus will become part of a seven-month pilot program aimed at establishing new rules for the mobile vendors.

Republicans Barth Cotner, Chris Long and Dan Skinner emerged as winners from a six-candidate Republican City Council primary May 7.

Members of the West Licking Joint Fire District board say they intend to keep ousted Fire Chief David Fulmer's status in limbo a little longer.

For more than 60 years, a group of Columbus-area men have sought to keep a piece of Americana alive through four-part, harmonized singing.