The former director of a local Islamic center was sentenced in U.S. District Court recently to four months in prison then four months in a halfway house followed by 12 months of home confinement for embezzling funds from the mosque, defrauding public housing, and filing for fraudulent COVID assistance funds.

In its 38th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, Gatorade announced Camden Bentley of (Gahanna) Lincoln High School is the 2022-23 Gatorade Ohio Girls Track & Field Player of the Year.