Three Columbus properties are included in a slate of buildings that have been awarded $41.8 million in the latest funding round of the Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit Program.

The Ohio Development Services Agency, which oversees the program, has announced that 31 applicants planning to rehabilitate 35 historic buildings have been approved for tax credits.

The awards include projects that will create new office, hotel, retail and event spaces.

A woman’s convictions for aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery with gun specifications were reversed last week when the 12th District Court of Appeals ruled that her trial court incorrectly answered the jury’s questions.

Christia Frymire appealed her conviction from the Butler County Court of Common Pleas, asserting that the lower court incorrectly instructed the jury that she need not have had knowledge of the firearm to be convicted as a complicitor to aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Ask Joshua Thevenin — who since last month has been a newspaper salesman, fireworks vendor and telemarketer — what he thinks about assertions the economy is roaring toward recovery and you’ll get a sigh and a shake of his head.

“I don’t see it. If it is, I don’t know where,” he said.

Lately, everyone from economists to President Barack Obama himself are bullish on the economy.

PORTLAND, Maine — Fresh-caught Maine lobster might be a little more affordable this winter because the continued shutdown of the state’s shrimp season is keeping some lobstermen at sea deeper into the winter than usual.

Many Maine lobstermen use the shrimp season as a source of income during the winter, when lobsters are both in lower demand and harder to catch. But regulators have shut down the shrimp season for two straight years because of a collapsed shrimp population.