Monday, February 22, 2016

Columbus lawyer paints art connected to practice and other top stories.

  • Columbus lawyer paints art connected to practice

    Columbus lawyer paints art connected to practice
    By day, George W. Leach is a criminal-defense attorney, representing juvenile and adult clients charged with everything from truancy to murder. At night, he retreats to the solitude of a studio around the corner from his Downtown law office, rolls out an easel and paints in oils until midnight. Leach's worlds intersect when he handles cases in Franklin County Domestic Relations and Juvenile Court, where his paintings hang in three courtrooms and fill the outer lobby. "It's probably the best gal..
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  • Columbus gas prices up average 15 cents

    Columbus gas prices up average 15 cents
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  • Lawmakers propose truancy law reform to improve student attendance

    Lawmakers propose truancy law reform to improve student attendance
    COLUMBUS — A child would no longer be suspended or expelled from school for repeatedly missing classes if a bill related to truancy law reform is passed.The bill would prohibit public schools from suspending or expelling a student “solely on the basis of unexcused absences.” It also removes “excessive truancy” from a 1998 law that requires schools to adopt zero-tolerance policies for “violent, disruptive or inappropriate behavior, including excessive truancy.”  Matt Verber, a policy director f..
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  • South Side center's free gourmet meals aim for entire community

    South Side center's free gourmet meals aim for entire community
    Patrick Obert is a regular at the Tuesday night dinners at the South Side Roots Cafe inside the Reeb Avenue Center. “I love it,” said Obert, who displayed photos of past meals on his cellphone: shrimp one night, a club sandwich made with Belgian waffles on another. Last week, a hearty meal of lasagna, a mix of vegetables and salad were on the menu. Obert lives on nearby Innis Avenue and works in the meat and seafood department at the nearby Kroger store on Parsons Avenue. The dinners at the caf..
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  • Medina's Sister Circle aims to support, empower women

    “We’re planting roots in this community, and they’re digging down deep,” Tracey Ruffin said at the Saturday meeting of Sister Circle Medina Inc. As the president and founder of the Medina nonprofit, Ruffin has spent three years shaping a group offering support, love and encouragement for local women with a shared interest in God. NIKKI RHOADES / GAZETTE Sister Circle members dance together at the beginning of the Medina-based nonprofit’s February meeting held on Saturday. “Faith doesn’t matter h..
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  • How #ObamaAndKids began; Erin Andrews lawsuit starts: Today's ...

    How #ObamaAndKids began; Erin Andrews lawsuit starts: Today's ...
    CLEVELAND, Ohio รข€“ The #ObamaAndKids Twitter hashtag that swept the Internet over the weekend began with a single image. Two high profile lawsuits move forward today: Camille Cosby is to be deposed in a defamation lawsuit brought by seven women who claim her husband, Bill Cosby, sexually assaulted them. Jury selection begins in the trial involving sportscaster and TV host Erin Andrews. Also in the news: A married, father of two who moonlighted as an Uber driver is being blamed for a shooting..
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