Friday's News

Phyllis King spent a quarter of a century in the classroom, mostly teaching at-risk students, but now she is using her experience to help other teachers with their classroom challenges. King, who retired in 2007 after 30 years with the Groveport-Madison School District as a teacher and district mentor, started her consulting business, Creative Educational Services soon after retiring.

Only if an appellate state public defender provides assistance to a trial-branch state public defender in a trial matter are the two professionals considered associated in a firm, a recent advisory opinion by the Supreme Court of Ohio's Board of Commissioners on Grievances & Discipline outlined.

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute is getting a five-year, $6.25 million grant from Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to study treatments for adult leukemia.

A three-judge federal appeals panel in Cincinnati reversed a Columbus federal court ruling which failed to address a Worthington family's argument centering on the state's minority tolling statute.

HOUSTON (AP) - A senior BP executive is again avoiding committing the oil giant to using relief wells to seal to the Gulf of Mexico well that blew out in April.

CHICAGO (AP) - Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is set to go back on trial in early January, but he will stand alone as a defendant this time after prosecutors dismissed all corruption charges against his brother on Thursday.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Michigan Republican Party Chairman Ron Weiser talks enthusiastically about welcoming tea party supporters into the GOP, but he wasn't planning to give them his seat at the state convention.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A federal judge says the Nebraska Supreme Court should answer a legal question about whether a Nebraska city's ban on hiring and renting to illegal immigrants is allowed by state law.

DALLAS (AP) - Federal officials have hit American Airlines with a record penalty of $24.2 million over maintenance lapses that caused thousands of canceled flights in 2008.

WASHINGTON - One in 10 American households with a mortgage was at risk of foreclosure this summer as the government's efforts to help have had little impact stemming the housing crisis.