By Randy Ludlow, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio May 29--CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio--For more than 17 years, his mere presence ate away at Sgt. Don Barton and detective Jack Clark. When James J.

By Suzanne Hoholik, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Feb. 23--The number of public hospitals in Ohio is shrinking, and if officials at Berger Hospital get their way, there will be one less by late summer.

By James Nash, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Jan. 1

By Spencer Hunt, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Dec. 13--In a race against development, the Nature Conservancy, Columbus Metro Parks and the state are buying up land to protect the Big Darby and Little Darby creeks.

By Spencer Hunt, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Nov. 14--When the state and federal governments decided to pay farmers to plant prairie grasses instead of crops along the Scioto River and its tributaries, Les Imboden signed on for about 500 acres.