A Fifth District Court of Appeals panel recently affirmed convictions for a Detroit man found selling crack cocaine in Mansfield.

The METRICH Enforcement Unit, a branch of law enforcement focusing on drug trafficking in Metro-Richland County, began investigating a man from Detroit in early 2009.

The investigation stemmed from information that the man, known as Moe, was selling crack cocaine from a house in Mansfield.

Officers were able to use a confidential informant to make controlled drug purchases from Moe in February and April 2009.

A panel of judges in the First District Court of Appeals recently ruled that the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas should have granted a defendant’s motion to return property seized pursuant to a search warrant.

The defendant, Byron Germany, was convicted of several drug offenses.

On the day he was sentenced to prison, he filed a motion to have various items that the state had obtained during a search of his property returned to him.

Nervous but determined, the 15-year-old boy walked into a conference room in Columbus for a fateful interview.

If it went well, perhaps he’d have a chance to be the first member of his impoverished family to attend college.

That was 34 years ago, but Wil Haygood — the renowned journalist and author whose writing inspired the film “The Butler” — says he remembers it “like it was yesterday.”

“I knew in my heart and soul that this was a monumental moment for little Wil Haygood,” he recalled.

NEW YORK — Women who own small business are still far behind their male counterparts when it comes to getting loans and government contracts, a congressional report said Wednesday.

The report by Democratic staffers of the Senate Small Business & Entrepreneurship Committee found that while businesses owned by women account for 30 percent of small companies, they receive only 4.4 percent of the total dollars in conventional small-business loans. That amounts to $1 for every $23 loaned.