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• John Boehner talks of frustrations with conservative Republicans in Congress

  27-09-2015 23:45
  
  In his first extended interview since he announced Friday that he would resign from office Oct. 30, House Speaker John Boehner criticized members of his caucus who he said were “unrealistic” about what could be done with a Republican House majority. In a 15-minute interview on CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday, the West Chester Republican expressed frustration with the group of 30 or so conservative Republicans – a group that includes Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana - for creating ex
  
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• Carr, Raiders End Road Skid With 27-20 Win Over Browns

  27-09-2015 22:54
  
  Derek Carr threw two touchdown passes, Latavius Murray rushed for 139 yards and the Oakland Raiders snapped an 11-game road losing streak, beating the Cleveland Browns 27-20 on Sunday. Get the details.
  
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• Dalton, Green Lead Bengals Over Winless Ravens 28-24

  27-09-2015 22:50
  
  Andy Dalton threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to A.J. Green with 2:10 left, and the Cincinnati Bengals remained unbeaten by defeating the Ravens 28-24 Sunday, dropping Baltimore to 0-3 for the first time in franchise history. Get the details.
  
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• Alan Miller commentary: Newspapers increasingly fight for open records

  27-09-2015 22:06
  
  That's what officials say with increasing frequency when journalists ask for records, seek to photograph concerts or take notes at a public meeting. It's often the default position for an initial response: "No."
  
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• John Boehner talks of frustrations with conservative Republican in Congress

  27-09-2015 22:05
  
  In his first extended interview since he announced Friday that he would resign from office Oct. 30, House Speaker John Boehner criticized members of his caucus who he said were “unrealistic” about what could be done with a Republican House majority. In a 15-minute interview on CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday, the West Chester Republican expressed frustration with the group of 30 or so conservative Republicans – a group that includes Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana - for creating ex
  
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• Cloudy Night With Slim Chance For A Shower

  27-09-2015 21:42
  
  It will be a cloudy night and day ahead with the high tomorrow up near 80. Get the forecast.
  
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• One Person Dies In Richland County Crash

  27-09-2015 21:21
  
  One person is dead after a semi tractor-trailer hit a stopped ambulance on US 30 in Richland County, just east of Mansfield, Sunday morning. Get the story.
  
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• Beautify This Blank Wall: The Fourth and Elm Parking Garage

  27-09-2015 21:00
  
  While Columbus has made significant advancements in the public art realm, there are still blank walls that could benefit from an artist’s eye. Cue the Fourth and Elm Parking Garage at 78 N. 4th Street. The front of the garage looks decent for a garage, but when peeking through the Neighborhood Launch development from Gay […]
  
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• Tractor-trailer driver dies in Richland County crash

  27-09-2015 20:19
  
  A tractor-trailer driver was killed around noon on Sunday when his rig crashed into an EMS vehicle that was stopped on the shoulder of Rt. 30 for an earlier crash in Richland County.
  
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• OSU Remains No. 1, Oregon Out Of AP Top 25 For 1st Time Since 2009

  27-09-2015 20:05
  
  The top six teams in the AP media poll were the same as last week with Ohio State No. 1, Michigan State No.2 and Mississippi No. 3. Get the details.
  
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• Dalai Lama Remains At Mayo Clinic For Evaluation

  27-09-2015 19:30
  
  The Dalai Lama remains at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic after canceling his U.S. appearances for the month of October. Get the story.
  
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• Putin Criticizes U.S. Policy In Syria Ahead Of Obama Meeting

  27-09-2015 19:27
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin has sharply criticized U.S. military support for Syrian rebels, describing it as illegal and useless. Get the story.
  
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• Obama, Cuba's President Raul Castro To Meet In New York

  27-09-2015 19:22
  
  President Barack Obama will hold a formal meeting Tuesday with Cuban President Raul Castro. Get the details.
  
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• 'Hotel Transylvania 2' Bites Off September Record

  27-09-2015 19:15
  
  September has a new box office star. Get the details.
  
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• Jack & Benny’s Opening 24/7 Diner in Downtown Columbus

  27-09-2015 17:58
  
  Popular north campus diner Jack & Benny’s is expanding once again. After opening the Barnstormer Diner at the OSU Airport in 2013, owners Geno and Hilda Garcia have announced plans to open a new location at 12 East Broad Street in the heart of Downtown Columbus. The restaurant will be a bit of a return […]
  
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• Cartoon Crossroads Columbus draws attention to the art of comics

  27-09-2015 17:56
  
  The debut of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus will feature a mix of big-name artists such as Art Spiegelman and Jaime Hernandez and relative newcomers such as Dustin Harbin and Grace Ellis . When organizers announced the festival last fall, they described the 2015 event as a "soft launch" that would expand in 2016.
  
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• Photos: Fire Chars Empty Italian Village Church Building

  27-09-2015 16:55
  
  A fire broke out last night at an empty church building at 285 East 4th Avenue in Italian Village. The building is owned by neighborhood developer Joe Armeni, who told Columbus Underground last year about plans to renovate the building into eight condo units while filling in the surrounding lot with new townhome buildings. There’s no […]
  
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• Crew SC Falls to Portland Timbers 1-2 in Home Game Loss

  27-09-2015 16:31
  
  Kei Kamara scored again but it wasn’t enough for Columbus Crew SC as Fanendo Adi scored twice for Portland to help the visitors walk away from a sold-out MAPFRE Stadium with a 2-1 victory. Crew SC will look back on a host of missed chances as the usual threats of Kamara, Ethan Finlay and Federico […]
  
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• Cloudy With A Chance Of Showers Sunday Morning

  27-09-2015 15:21
  
  A cool and cloudy morning ahead, with a chance for showers.
  
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• 'God Weeps': Pope Francis Meets With Sex-Abuse Victims

  27-09-2015 15:15
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pope meets with US clergy sex abuse victims, promises to hold accountable those responsible.
  
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• Project Providing Comfort Totes To Sick Children

  27-09-2015 15:14
  
  A new project is helping comfort children being treated at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
  
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• Columbus' mayoral race candidates agree: No to marijuana legalization

  27-09-2015 13:05
  
  Columbus mayoral candidates Andrew J. Ginther and Zach Scott have differed on nearly everything: tax abatements, fixing education and body cameras for police. But they do agree on one thing: Don’t legalize marijuana.
  
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• Abbey gets TLC as fall events near

  27-09-2015 13:05
  
  George Lekorenos ran his sponge down the bronze door of the majestic old mausoleum. Then he stepped back, inspected for spots he missed, and wiped it again. And again. And again. Like a mom brushing her daughter’s long hair or a groomsman polishing the harness of a prized show pony, Lekorenos stroked the door with care and tenderness until it shone. Green Lawn Abbey, he said, inspires such reverence.
  
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• Debate blazing over role of U.S. Ex-Im Bank

  27-09-2015 13:00
  
  WASHINGTON — It is a tiny sliver of the federal government. Yet the Export-Import Bank, dwarfed by the Pentagon and most federal agencies, is at the center of a brawl pitting U.S. companies against a determined band of congressional Republicans and their allies at conservative organizations.
  
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• Man shot to death on East Side

  27-09-2015 12:56
  
  One person was killed in a shooting on the East Side on Saturday night.
  
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• Man, 24, killed at home in Whitehall

  27-09-2015 12:54
  
  Even as Violet Corpac stood on her porch and recalled how the gunshots that killed a man in her Whitehall neighborhood startled her awake early on Saturday, a neighbor walked over to make sure she was all right.
  
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• Removing Gorge Dam deemed possible — for $70M

  27-09-2015 12:50
  
  CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — Officials confirm that it’s possible to remove the 57-foot-tall Gorge Dam along the Cuyahoga River, and they say the preferred demolition plan would cost roughly $70 million to execute. Demolition would probably cost about $12.5 million plus an additional $57.5 million for sediment removal, the officials said.
  
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• John Switzer: Butterflies know all about winter survival

  27-09-2015 12:48
  
  The other day, I took a photo of the caterpillar of a black swallowtail butterfly on a fennel plant. Fennel is an herb that is a member of the parsley family. Black swallowtails use plants in the parsley family as hosts on which to lay their eggs.
  
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• Capitol Insider: Boehner may have created own opposition

  27-09-2015 12:47
  
  Could the fall of House Speaker John Boehner be the latest example of “be careful what you wish for”? It was Boehner who bragged about his prowess in influencing congressional districts redrawn in 2010 by legislatures across the country. Many states wound up with a map like the one drawn for Ohio — a state that traditionally leans slightly Republican — which wound up helping the GOP to win and keep 12 of 16 seats.
  
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• Columbus City Schools’ major building projects on the way

  27-09-2015 12:36
  
  Stepping through the front doors of what will be Columbus City Schools’ largest gymnasium is like entering an airplane hangar. The 35,000-square-foot gym is just part of the district’s new Africentric Early College Pre-K complex. The 55-acre campus between Bexley and Whitehall was a vacant field when ground was broken during the summer of 2014, but a school campus is taking shape today.
  
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• Making a business out of marijuana isn’t easy

  27-09-2015 12:27
  
  Running a marijuana business is more than a pipe dream, says Justin Breidenbach: It’s about taxes, banking, liability, supply and demand. Breidenbach, an associate professor of accounting at Ohio Wesleyan University who has been studying the economics of pot for two years, concludes that there’s potential for big money to be made if Ohio legalizes pot on Nov. 3.
  
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• Affordable housing alliance seeks low-income homes

  27-09-2015 12:18
  
  Central Ohio’s economy is chugging along, but the availability of affordable, decent housing for low-income residents isn’t keeping pace. To help address the deficit, 11 housing organizations have formed the Affordable Housing Alliance of Central Ohio with the goal of adding 27,000 lower-cost apartments in 10 years.
  
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• Ohio’s clout soon to diminish with Boehner's resignation

  27-09-2015 12:13
  
  WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner was never a “pork guy” willing to take money for his district.  Nor was he one to blatantly show preference for his home state over others.  Still, when the West Chester Republican steps down from his seat and leadership role next month, he’ll take with him a huge amount of power and leave behind an Ohio delegation smaller and much less experienced than when he came to Congress in 1991.
  
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• Ohioans share joy of thousands in wait for Pope Francis

  27-09-2015 12:08
  
  People all around Georgette Wilson held up cellphones outside the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul on Saturday morning when Pope Francis arrived. But she wasn’t recording. She was too busy experiencing the thrill of being a few feet away from the man who leads the church she loves.
  
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• South Siders help parents protect babies from infant mortality

  27-09-2015 12:03
  
  It might be while she’s laughing at her grandkids as they chase each other in the park or on the stoop of Macedonia Baptist Church after Sunday service. It might be in line at the grocery. Lillie Banner has learned to find the moments when she can put her knowledge, kindness and caring to work and maybe help save an infant’s life.
  
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• Ohio facing a clean water crisis

  27-09-2015 12:01
  
  When it comes to water, we are a people accustomed to instant gratification: Twist a knob or turn on a faucet and — just like that — clean water appears. We think about how our water gets to us only when the system breaks down and tap water becomes suspect — as it did this year when nitrates contaminated part of Columbus’ water supply, or this past summer and last winter when the water tasted like it came from a garden hose.
  
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• Protecting drinking water is costly

  27-09-2015 12:00
  
  TOLEDO, Ohio — Standing at the edge of the Great Lakes, the world’s largest surface source of fresh water, this city of 280,000 would seem immune from the water-supply problems that bedevil other parts of the country. But even here, the promise of an endless tap can be a mirage.
  
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• Ohio fees for debt collection questioned

  27-09-2015 11:58
  
  When a public university can’t collect overdue tuition from a former student, Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center can’t get a patient to pay medical bills, or a municipal ambulance service has an unreimbursed run, it eventually falls to the Ohio attorney general’s office to go after the debtors. Officials with the attorney general’s collections-enforcement section say they’re pursuing about $34 billion in government debt owed by consumers and corpora
  
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• Kidney disease: New guidelines mean more poor diagnoses

  27-09-2015 11:00
  
  Is it really possible that half of the population older than 70 has chronic kidney disease? International guidelines adopted in 2012 make it seem that way. They define the disease in terms of how efficiently kidneys filter the waste from blood, a measure called the “glomerular filtration rate” or GFR.
  
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• Flames Consume Vacant Church Building

  27-09-2015 10:41
  
  Firefighters rushed to a fire at a vacant church Saturday night near the Short North.
  
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• Man Shot And Killed In East Columbus

  27-09-2015 07:01
  
  A man was found shot and killed on the steps of an east Columbus apartment building.
  
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• Michigan motorist sets gas station on fire trying to kill spider

  27-09-2015 06:09
  
  CENTER LINE, Mich. (AP) — A man with an apparent case of arachnophobia caused a fire at a suburban Detroit gas pump by putting a lighter to what he says was a spider near his fuel door.
  
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• Funding CMAX bus service will help COTA keep pace

  27-09-2015 05:16
  
  The Dispatch welcomes letters to the editor from readers. Typed letters of 200 words or fewer are preferred; all might be edited.
  
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• First Night Football Game For Capital University

  27-09-2015 04:54
  
  It was a historic night Saturday for Capital University in south Bexley when the Crusaders played their first ever night football game under the lights. Get the story.
  
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• Vacant Church Fire In Italian Village

  27-09-2015 03:49
  
  Firefighters responded to a fire at a vacant church building on Saturday night in Italian Village near the Short North. Get the details.
  
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• Searching For A Savior: Family Looking For Driver Who Saved Student’s Life

  27-09-2015 03:39
  
  The family of a 23-year-old man needs your help with trying to find who’s responsible for saving his life.
  
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• Family Wants To Know Who Saved Man's Life

  27-09-2015 03:39
  
  The family of a 23-year-old man needs your help with trying to find who’s responsible for saving his life. Get the story.
  
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• Jones, Defense Lead No. 1 Ohio State To 38-12 Win Against W. Michigan

  27-09-2015 01:35
  
  Cardale Jones threw two touchdown passes early on and Adolphus Washington returned an interception 20 yards for a score to lead No. 1 Ohio State to a 38-12 win over Western Michigan on Saturday. Get the details.
  
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• Columbus businessman buys vacant houses, demolishes them

  27-09-2015 01:06
  
  James Patton says problems in the area around his wallpaper distribution business make it hard to attract employees or find tenants to rent space in his 152,000-square-foot building. The Columbus Dispatch report Patton's solution is buying up nearby vacant or abandoned houses and demolishing them to create green space.
  
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