Settlement reached in Gary Lamar James case:  Alan Johnson has this coverage in the Columbus Dispatch, entitled "Innocent man settles for $1.5 million after decades in prison."  AP has this report.

Disptach excerpt:
More than 30 years after he was sent to Death Row for crimes he didn't commit, Gary Lamar James was awarded $1.5 million in payback from the state yesterday.

The settlement brings to $4 million the amount Ohio taxpayers will pay to settle a botched 1976 case in which Columbus police got the wrong men from the beginning, prosecutors and the courts compounded the mistake, and two men spent half their adult lives in prison. ...

(Earlier coverage of Gary Lamar James and Timothy Howard cases here, here, here, and here.)