State Reps. Michael Henne and Heather Bishoff have crafted a bipartisan bill that would require privately-employed police forces to follow the same public records laws as public police forces.

“There are more than 33,000 trained and sworn peace officers in Ohio, but more than 800 of them are not employed by traditional governments,” said Henne, R-Clayton.

The 10th District Court of Appeals recently affirmed a Franklin County Court of Common Pleas ruling finding that members of the Reynoldsburg Police Department were legally in a man’s home when they found his stash of drugs.

Arnell Isbell’s drug convictions stemmed from a complaint that he caused serious physical harm to Roxanne Nolt by striking her in the head with his fists.

CHINO HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Almost every horse rescue in the country is running out of room or money as they continue to be strained by an influx of abandoned equines, a trend that began during the recession.

Although hundreds of nonprofits nationwide care for thousands of horses, resources are stretched thin.

When the downturn started seven years ago, some owners got rid of their horses, many donors discontinued contributions to horse charities and adoptions plummeted.

NEW YORK — Just as the U.S. economy is strengthening, other countries are threatening to drag it down.

Employers in the U.S. are creating jobs at the fastest pace since the late 1990s and the economy finally looks ready to expand at a healthy rate. But sluggish growth in France, Italy, Russia, Brazil and China suggests that the old truism, “When the U.S. sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold,” may need to be flipped.

Maybe the rest of the world will sneeze this time, and the U.S. will get sick.