Michael Aaron Fay entered the pleas during an arraignment Tuesday in Putnam County Juvenile Court. He’s charged with delinquency in connection with aggravated murder.

Fay is accused of killing 17-year-old Blake Romes and 14-year-old Blaine Romes in their Ottawa trailer May 9.

An Amber Alert for all three teens was issued that day after the mother of the Romes teens discovered a gun and blood inside a trailer where the three boys lived with their mothers.

Fay told officers that the Romes brothers were dead and pointed authorities to their bodies after he was found with a stolen car in Columbus.

A prosecutor said both victims were shot once in the head.

The 5-2 ruling Thursday clarifies the handling of requests for retesting DNA after convictions in Ohio. It said a lower court wrongly denied Tyrone Noling’s second request for new testing without considering updated requirements in state law.

Earlier testing showed Noling hadn’t smoked the cigarette. He contends technological advances make it possible to identify the smoker and determine whether that person was among previously undisclosed suspects.

The court said re-testing is allowed under certain conditions, including disclosing new information that an earlier test couldn’t.

Noling was convicted of killing a Portage County couple in 1990.

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A judge set a $1 million bond Thursday for Dr. Ali Salim, an amount the Delaware County prosecutor expected Salim could pay. The judge also said the New Albany man will be on house arrest and must wear a GPS monitoring device.

Prosecutors had asked for a $5 million bond, arguing that Salim treated the corpse of victim Deanna Ballman inhumanely and that the incident was not isolated. Prosecutors also said Salim, who is from Pakistan, is a flight risk because of the amount of evidence to be presented against him.

Salim is suspected of killing Ballman and her unborn child last summer after she responded to an online job ad he placed.

Deanna Ballman, 23, was eight months pregnant when she was found dead inside a car in rural Delaware County last summer. Family members said she went missing while responding to a Craigslist job ad for cleaning a house in the New Albany area.

Police quickly zeroed in on a home owned by physician Ali Salim. He’s now charged with giving Ballman a lethal dose of heroin before raping her.

The Delaware County Sheriff’s Office says he was arrested at his home today and taken to the county jail while awaiting arraignment.

More than 200 prospective jurors gathered Tuesday in the Akron Civic Theater because there was no courthouse room big enough.

Judge Lynne Callahan told prospective jurors that jury selection in the murder trial of 53-year-old Richard Beasley could extend into next week and the trial could last six weeks. He could face the death penalty.

Prosecutors have portrayed Beasley as an ex-con street preacher in Akron and mentor to a teenager convicted in the plot.

Co-defendant Brogan Rafferty, who was then 17, was sentenced to life in prison in November after being found guilty in the plot.

Columbus police say Leif Mortensen called 911 Wednesday and reported that his 74-year-old wife Margaret was dead in the kitchen of their home on Kingpin Dr. on the Northeast side.

Police say Mortensen met officers outside the house with wounds to his neck. He was taken to a hospital and is reported to be in stable condition.

Mortensen faces a single charge of murder.

Stunned neighbors told reporters that the Mortensens seemed like nice, friendly people.

Police say it was the 10th homicide in Columbus this year.

Authorities say Darian “Drake” Pierce and Ricky Wedgeworth escaped from the Louisiana State Police compound in Baton Rouge on March 4, 2011, and kidnapped David Cupps of Sunbury from a hotel in Vicksburg, Miss.

Cupps’ beaten and strangled body was found in Bessemer, Ala. They were caught March 14, 2011, after crashing a truck in Memphis, Tenn.

The inmates are charged with kidnapping resulting in death, carjacking, conspiracy and transporting stolen vehicles. The filing didn’t say to which charges they would plead guilty.

The change of plea hearing is Monday in U.S. District Court in Jackson.

Police say Joseph Reeder was arrested and charged yesterday. They say he fatally shot another male at an apartment complex near the intersection of Interstate 70 and Hamilton Road.

Police have not publicly identified the victim in the city’s ninth homicide of the year.

Columbus police say 39-year-old Eric Morgan showed up at the home of 47-year-old Kathy McCoy on Saturday afternoon and said he wanted to come inside. Police say McCoy reluctantly allowed him to enter her Columbus home.

Once inside, police say, Morgan killed her and then himself.

Detective Andrew Mitchell says the couple separated in July. Morgan’s mother, Brenda, says the separation happened after McCoy found out Morgan was cheating on her.

Brenda Morgan says McCoy was “a good woman” and her son “did wrong.”

Court records show Eric Morgan pleaded guilty in 2003 to a domestic violence charge.