COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP): Authorities in Columbus are looking into whether two top Ohio Senate aides mishandled time records that serve in some cases to document that they had properly separated their state jobs from their political consulting work.
 
President Keith Faber, a Celina Republican, instructed Chief of Staff Jason Mauk and Communications Director John McClelland to bring the time records up-to-date. He says the directive was prompted by the June resignations of aides to Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor over timesheet irregularities.
 
His instruction also coincided with a pending records request by an Ohio newspaper. Before releasing documents to The Dayton Daily News, Mauk and McClelland generated 62 new comp time and leave requests.
 
Franklin County's prosecutor says he's discussing with the appropriate authorities whether that violated a prohibition against altering state records.