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Ohio builder code more "green"

Ohio's newly adopted residential building code will require new homes to be more energy-efficient, come with carbon-monoxide detectors and be tested for air leaks.

The Columbus Dispatch reports the code was adopted by the Ohio Department of Commerce's Board of Building Standards after passing final procedural hurdles this month. It's scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1.

The new rules are estimated to add between $1,100 and $1,200 to the cost of an 1,800-square-foot two-story home.

Columbus homebuilder Craig Tuckerman tells the newspaper that while the updates will increase the cost of construction, they were reasonable and worth adopting.  Tuckerman served on the code's advisory committee. He hopes homeowner see changes in their utility bills.

The code had sparked considerable debate since its introduction more than three years ago.

_{Tue, 29 May 2012 01:39:43 -0400}

About 200 turn out to remember victim

Approximately 200 people turned out Monday evening for a vigil to remember a 30-year-old man shot to death early Saturday outside the Fox II bar.

Mourners and supports from as far away as Cincinnati joined family members, who spoke publicly for the first time in describing Douglas Kelly as a father who was trying to make a difference in the ongoing struggle to end street violence.

Ironically, Victoria Jones said Kelly was at the bar for an event whose focus was anti-violence.

"It was a stop-the-crime because so many of his friends and family have been through crime and the thing is, he was trying to make a difference, and the difference turned out for the worst for him," said Jones, who is the mother of Kelly’s 2-year-old and 13-year-old sons.

Kelly, who also has a 12-year-old daughter, was at the bar to spread his new message of change of lessons learned from his past.

"His younger days were different … because he really did make the effort to make a change, but the streets don’t change," she told News Center 7's Yuna Lee.

According to a search of court records, Kelly served multiple stints in prison for felony convictions.

In 2000, he was convicted on two counts of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon and sentenced to three years in prison on each count. In 2004, he was convicted on another count of the same charge along with felonious assault with a deadly weapon. He was sentenced to four years in prison.

Police have made no arrests in the homicide, which according to their investigation occurred just outside the back door of the bar, 2217 N. James H. McGee Blvd. Kelly was shot at least four times in the upper chest area. He came inside the establishment, collapsed and died.

Dayton Lt. Kenneth Beall has said that police are looking for a male suspect in the shooting, whom he did not identify. He said there were roughly 100 people in the bar at the time of the incident.

The bar was known as the Silver Fox Lounge for decades, according to Beall. He noted that authorities do not consider the establishment a "problem bar."

Like the police, Kelly’s family and its supporters returned to the bar as they continue to search for answers.

"They took my brother, now my son. How much more can I take?" Kelly’s mother, Florence Sanders, asked.

_{Mon, 28 May 2012 22:59:33 -0400}

Investigation continues into alligator in Troy

Police in Troy and the neighbors in the 100 block of Southview Drive in Troy are still talking about the baby alligator that almost got away.

It was found at about midnight Saturday night early Sunday morning. It was first thought to be a snake.

Police are not sure if the gator was released by the owner, or if it got loose on its own.

_{Mon, 28 May 2012 21:56:15 -0400}

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