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• Colorado Report Finds Problems With State’s Pot Legalization

  15-09-2015 23:13
  
  The newest report, broken down into 11 sections, highlights areas such as impaired driving, youth and adult marijuana use, emergency room admissions and marijuana-related exposure cases.
  
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• Utica H.S. Postpones Homecoming Dance Amid Threat; Football Game In Question

  15-09-2015 23:07
  
  The North Fork Local School District has announced it will postpone several events this week in the wake of a threatening letter sent to the district.
  
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• Utica High School homecoming postponed after threat

  15-09-2015 22:58
  
  North Fork Local Schools has postponed all homecoming activities for Utica High School after a threatening letter was received at the district’s office.
  
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• Both sides lay out their cases as DuPont trial gets underway

  15-09-2015 22:54
  
  DuPont has “no liability” for the kidney cancer that an Ohio woman says was caused by C8 chemicals the company released into the Ohio River for decades, a DuPont attorney told a federal jury in Columbus this afternoon.
  
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• ColumbusRotary: Arnold Sports Classic

  15-09-2015 22:43 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Mayor's race: Scott plans to ban gifts to city officials

  15-09-2015 22:28
  
  If he’s elected mayor, Sheriff Zach Scott wants to bar Columbus employees from accepting gifts from those doing business with the city and ban city council members from working for nonprofits that receive city money. Scott said Tuesday that he would sign an executive order implementing tougher ethics rules on city employees and elected officials.
  
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• Judge grants injunction to keep proposed reservoir change on hold

  15-09-2015 22:07
  
  A law that would allow the owners of private property near municipal reservoirs to remove waterfront vegetation from public lands won’t go into effect on Sept. 29 as enacted by state lawmakers. A Franklin County judge granted a preliminary injunction today that will “preserve the status quo” until he can rule on a lawsuit filed last week by Columbus and four other cities challenging the law.
  
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• Cincinnati Mother's Shocking Viral Photo Shows 'Reality Of Addiction'

  15-09-2015 20:07
  
  An Ohio mom is raising awareness on social media of the tragic toll being taken by America's heroin epidemic.
  
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• Summer weather makes Ohio apple crop abundant and delicious

  15-09-2015 20:03
  
  View our database of weekly farmers markets and pick-your-own markets around Ohio. To find a market, search by name, type or location.
  
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• DuPont trial begins with allegations that company kept cancer details secret

  15-09-2015 19:33
  
  DuPont executives and scientists knew for decades that a chemical used to make Teflon products could cause cancer and could accumulate in the bloodstream and stay there, an attorney said this morning in federal court. That was the opening salvo in the first of thousands of lawsuits accusing DuPont of poisoning the water around its plant near Parkersburg, W.Va., and keeping it a secret.
  
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• Creative Control Founders Discuss Success in Festival’s Fourth Year

  15-09-2015 19:13
  
  This past weekend concluded the fourth annual Creative Control Fest at the historic Lincoln Theatre where artists gathered to collaborate and discuss ideas to effectively approach the job market and creative processes to enrich their skills. Speakers for this year’s festival included bestselling memoirist Piper Kerman, independent producer and musician Blueprint, creator of Six Word […]
  
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• Street fight leaves one dead in East Columbus

  15-09-2015 19:00
  
  Officers were called to the 700 block of S. Napoleon Ave. near E. Main St. just after 11 p.m. Monday on a report of gunfire and a fight taking place in the street. They discovered Anthony Sowell Jr., 27, critiically injured from a number of gunshot wounds.
  
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• New report from Colorado shows negative effects of marijuana legalization

  15-09-2015 18:45
  
  Marijuana legalization in Colorado gets bad marks in a new report, showing a 32 percent jump in marijuana-related traffic fatalities, big increases in emergency room visits and hospitalizations, and greater pot usage by youths age 12 to 17. The bad news doesn’t stop there. The Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area’s third-annual report showed 40 percent more school expulsions, most of them marijuana related, since 2008; greater exposure of young children to the drug; a
  
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• Ross tells state school board 'we're dealing with' problem charter school evals

  15-09-2015 18:26
  
  Ohio schools Superintendent Richard A. Ross told the state Board of Education it is his responsibility to make sure charter-school evaluations are reliable and he is quickly and aggressively responding following revelations that data had been rigged. “We’re dealing with this,” Ross assured board members at their monthly meeting in Columbus today.
  
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• Ctv NewsBrief: Dialogue on Diversity & Inclusion

  15-09-2015 18:26 via youtube.com
  
  
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• CTV News Brief, Dialog on Diversity & Inclusion

  15-09-2015 18:26 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Pair sought in connection with man's death are arrested in eastern Ohio

  15-09-2015 18:25
  
  Two people who were sought by police after a man was found dead in their South Side home on Sunday have been arrested in Mahoning County. Columbus homicide detectives said Danyell Florida, 37, and Kalene Bartlett, 22, are in custody on charges of abuse of a corpse.
  
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• Preserving Ohioa s military legacy

  15-09-2015 17:52
  
  Throughout our nation's history, Ohioans have served bravely in the military to protect our way of life here at home. Today, Ohio is home to more than 850,000 veterans, and we owe these remarkable individuals a great deal of gratitude.
  
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• Coshocton Man Charged With Murder In Death Of 7-Month-Old

  15-09-2015 17:42
  
  23-year-old Nathan D’Ostroph was charged with murder Tuesday morning in the wake of the death of a young child last week.
  
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• Coshocton Babysitter Charged With Murdering 7-Month-Old

  15-09-2015 17:42
  
  A Coshocton man is behind bars in connection to the death of a young child he was babysitting last week.
  
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• Columbus plans to plant hundreds of thousands of trees across city

  15-09-2015 17:38
  
  The city this afternoon will announce a plan to plant hundreds of thousands of trees in Columbus over the next five years. Mayor Michael B. Coleman will be in Weinland Park this afternoon with neighborhood leaders at the city’s new urban tree nursery on E. 8th Avenue. The nursery will be one of four or five planned to go in across the city, said Erin Miller, Columbus’ environmental steward.
  
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• Trial starts for first of many lawsuits against DuPont

  15-09-2015 17:33
  
  After more than a day of selecting jurors, attorneys began their opening statements this morning in U.S. District Court in the first of thousands of lawsuits against DuPont. Carla M. Bartlett claims that she developed kidney cancer in 1997 because she used drinking water contaminated by C8 discharged from DuPont’s plant near Parkersburg, W.Va.
  
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• Without Export-Import Bank reauthorization, GE may move 500 jobs overseas

  15-09-2015 17:29
  
  General Electric Co. may move up to 500 American jobs overseas because Congress did not renew a government program that allows foreign companies to borrow money to buy U.S. products. Authorization for the U.S. Export Import Bank was not approved by Congress, causing it to stop lending on July 1. Foreign companies use the agency to buy expensive U.S. products when bank loans are not possible.
  
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• Taco Bell Adding Wine, Tapas To Menu

  15-09-2015 17:25
  
  What kind of wine pairs best with a Chalupa? Taco Bell customers in Chicago and San Francisco will soon be able to find out.
  
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• Next: Our Surveillance Society is About to Become a Lot More Intrusive

  15-09-2015 17:11
  
  Remember Minority Report? There were lots of memorable futuristic gadgets in that film, but the one I remember most clearly was the iris detection tools. Tom Cruise would be walking through a store or some other public place and each sales kiosk he walked by was addressing him by name and personalizing the content of […]
  
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• Next: Our Surveillance Society is About to Became a Lot More Intrusive

  15-09-2015 17:11
  
  Remember Minority Report? There were lots of memorable futuristic gadgets in that film, but the one I remember most clearly was the iris detection tools. Tom Cruise would be walking through a store or some other public place and each sales kiosk he walked by was addressing him by name and personalizing the content of […]
  
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• Houston School Bus Crash Kills Student, 4 Other People Hurt

  15-09-2015 16:56
  
  A student has died and four other people are seriously injured after a school bus rolled off a Houston freeway overpass.
  
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• Houston School Bus Crash Kills 2 Students, Seriously Injures 3

  15-09-2015 16:56
  
  A school bus has rolled off a freeway overpass in Houston, killing two students and seriously injuring two others and the driver.
  
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• Ohio Right to Life: Kasich is wrong about Planned Parenthood strategy

  15-09-2015 16:29
  
  One of Gov. John Kasich’s staunch supporters says he is wrong to warn Congress not to pursue a defunding of Planned Parenthood if it means shutting down the government. Ohio Right to Life has delivered letters to U.S. Speaker John Boehner and other Ohio Republican congressmen urging them to support a spending bill that reroutes all taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood to community health centers. The group is joining others calling for the defunding of the health care organization follo
  
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• Pair Arrested In Connection To S. Champion Avenue Homicide

  15-09-2015 16:01
  
  28-year-old Danyell Florida and Kalene Barlett, 22, were arrested on Monday in the Youngstown-area in connection to the death of Dametrious Edwards.
  
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• Brewcadia Opening Soon Above Barley’s Brewing Company

  15-09-2015 16:00
  
  For over twenty years, Barley’s Brewing Company has been serving Downtown customers on the ground floor of their building at 467 North High Street, while brewing their beers in the lower level basement. Meanwhile, the second story of the building has been used for nothing but storage for at least the past decade, and the owners […]
  
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• Charter school equipment belongs to operators, not schools, court rules

  15-09-2015 15:55
  
  A charter school operator – not the schools themselves – own the classroom desks, computers and other equipment purchased with state-provided tax dollars, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled today. The ruling represented a victory for the charter-school operator, White Hat Management Co., and a defeat for 10 now-closed schools in Northeast Ohio that claimed they owned the property since it was bought with public funds.
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: A look at John Kasich's 'fix' for Obamacare

  15-09-2015 15:08
  
  Gov. John Kasich has joined the GOP chorus to repeal and replace Obamacare but will that look like? Dispatch reporter Catherine Candisky talks to the Republican’s presidential campaign and administration officials to find out how his plan would work.
  
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• First Look: Pursuit Opens New Short North Location

  15-09-2015 15:00
  
  After three months of interior design and construction, Pursuit is ready to re-introduce themselves in a brand new retail space at 937 North High Street in the Short North. Owner Nate DeMars told Columbus Underground back in June that the move away from the South Campus Gateway was bittersweet, but ultimately a positive business decision […]
  
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• Tortilla Food Truck Partners with Columbus State for Fall Semester

  15-09-2015 14:00
  
  Reynoldsburg-based food truck Tortilla has opened a taco-slinging outpost at Columbus State Community College. The truck marks Tortilla’s second permanent vendor location. Their first, at Columbus Commons, opened this spring in a space formerly occupied by Mikey’s Late Night Slice. The mobile operation has recently made appearances at the Commons Food Truck Fest, Columbus Underground’s […]
  
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• Violent Crimes Down In Columbus

  15-09-2015 13:55
  
  A new study shows Columbus continues to see a decrease in violent crimes. Read more.
  
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• WATCH: Former Ohio State Running Back Mimics Spin Move For Touchdown

  15-09-2015 13:29
  
  49ers' running back and former Buckeye Carlos Hyde took a note out of Braxton Miller's playbook. Read more.
  
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• WATCH: Carlos Hyde Channels His Inner Braxton Miller In Epic Spin Move

  15-09-2015 13:29
  
  49ers' running back and former Buckeye Carlos Hyde took a note out of Braxton Miller's playbook.
  
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• Police ID man killed in East Side shooting

  15-09-2015 13:24
  
  Columbus police are investigating a fatal shooting on the East Side last night. Police responded to a call of shots fired at 11:04 p.m. at Napoleon Avenue and E. Main Street. Anthony R. Sowell Jr., 27, was found shot multiple times in the street. Sowell was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:13 p.m.
  
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• Hitting a deer will likely cost you more

  15-09-2015 13:21
  
  The odds of hitting a deer on an Ohio roadway this fall are a bit lower than last year, but if you hit one, the cost of fixing your car has gone up. The chances of hitting a deer in Ohio are 1 out of 131 this year, down 3.1 percent from last year, according to State Farm. That ranks Ohio 20th nationally.
  
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• Main Library's $30 million renovation will lead to more open and inviting look

  15-09-2015 12:57
  
  Torches cut through I-beams in the Main Library, spraying glowing sparks of steel from what had been a staircase bearing an Aminah Robinson mural. Workers rip out drywall and haul equipment where months ago children sat during story time. Jackhammers pound, and debris crashes as demolition and renovation continue in the building that philanthropist Andrew Carnegie would be proud of.
  
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• Invoking Ronald Reagan during Republican debate could hurt

  15-09-2015 12:38
  
  When Republican presidential candidates gathered under the wings of Ronald Reagan’s Air Force One at his presidential library in California for their debate four years ago, the GOP icon’s name was invoked two dozen times — including five in one answer by Newt Gingrich.
  
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• John Kasich seeks to repeal health-care law

  15-09-2015 12:33
  
  Like other Republican presidential candidates, Gov. John Kasich has promised to repeal and replace Obamacare if elected, begging the question: With what? He has yet to offer a proposal with enough detail to analyze how well it might work. But Kasich’s team in state government has developed a plan for Ohio that he says could be applied to the entire country.
  
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• Wife among four indicted in ‘hit’ on her husband

  15-09-2015 12:31
  
  CLEVELAND — The wife of a Cleveland firefighter conspired with a group of young men to kill her husband so she could collect on a life insurance policy and cover up financial fraud she committed in her husband’s name, prosecutors said on Monday.
  
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• Upkeep of Galena Cemetery to be decided by judge

  15-09-2015 12:31
  
  It will be up to a Delaware County judge to settle a dispute between Galena and Berkshire Township over which should maintain Galena Cemetery. Galena, a village of about 600 residents, said in a lawsuit filed in Delaware County Common Pleas Court last week that it has no experience operating a cemetery and that surrounding Berkshire Township has taken care of it since its creation about 200 years ago.
  
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• Justice Insider | Truth: DARE works, retiring officer says

  15-09-2015 12:31
  
  Batman retires. After 15 years teaching nearly 20,000 students in the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, Pickerington Police Officer Dan Simcox is set to retire in October.
  
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• Kasich seeks ‘fix,’ not repeal of health-care law

  15-09-2015 11:56
  
  Like other Republican presidential candidates, Gov. John Kasich has promised to repeal and replace Obamacare if elected, begging the question: With what? He has yet to offer a proposal with enough detail to analyze how well it might work. But Kasich’s team in state government has developed a plan for Ohio that he says could be applied to the entire country.
  
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• Invoking Reagan during debate could hurt

  15-09-2015 11:53
  
  When Republican presidential candidates gathered under the wings of Ronald Reagan’s Air Force One at his presidential library in California for their debate four years ago, the GOP icon’s name was invoked two dozen times — including five in one answer by Newt Gingrich.
  
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• Violent crime in Columbus continues to go down

  15-09-2015 11:51
  
  The city of Columbus released statistics today that show violent crime within the city continues to drop. Mayor Michael B. Coleman and Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs credited programs such as the Community Safety Initiative, the APPS Program that emphasizes youth-violence prevention and intervention, and the various neighborhood-based volunteer safety groups.
  
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• Kasich adds 'Late Night with Seth Meyers' to campaign stops

  15-09-2015 11:45
  
  Ohio Gov. John Kasich will appear on Ohio Gov. John Kasich will appear on Late Night with Seth Meyers next Tuesday, adding an evening entertainment gig to his frequent appearances on news shows. During a July panel with fellow NBC types, Meyers joked about how the Today show is consumed with covering Donald Trump to the exclusion of virtually all the rest of the GOP field.
  
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