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• Push To Protect Lancaster First Responders With Bulletproof Vests

  23-10-2015 23:55
  
  When a Lancaster medic races to a crime scene, theys are ‘unprotected.’ Lancaster Safety Director, Brian Kuhn, says it's time for a change.
  
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• Police Investigating Reported Abduction In Marion

  23-10-2015 23:09
  
  The Union County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a reported abduction from a restaurant parking lot in York Center.
  
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• Former charter school leader guilty of theft

  23-10-2015 23:03
  A jury found the head of two closed Columbus charter schools guilty this afternoon of two counts of theft for depositing checks made out to the school into his bank account and spending the money. But the jury also found that Andre Tucker, the founder of the two Talented Tenth Leadership Academies, was not guilty of burglary after a woman said she discovered him in her Near East Side apartment in January holding some of her belongings.
  
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• Lamar Odom Suspected to Have Overdosed on Cocaine and Other Drugs

  23-10-2015 22:51
  
  Search warrant records show Lamar Odom is believed to have overdosed on cocaine and other drugs before he was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel.
  
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• Schools Often In Dark About Fired Teacher Applicants

  23-10-2015 22:06
  
  10 Investigates found lack of legal direction when it comes to what information school districts can share about teachers who were fired for reasons that did not rise to the level of criminal prosecution.
  
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• Hot Chicken Takeover on Rachael Ray

  23-10-2015 20:32
  
  Joe and Lisa DeLoss, the Columbus couple who founded Hot Chicken Takeover after falling in love with Nashville's hot chicken scene will be featured guests with Rachael Ray on Monday's airing of the show. According to Ray's publicist, DeLoss talks about his restaurant's mission to employ people who need a second chance.
  
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• Donations help save 'Street Speech' newspaper for now

  23-10-2015 20:31
  
  The jobs of the homeless and formerly homeless vendors who hawk the Street Speech newspaper likely are safe for another year. Support for the money-strapped tabloid picked up after The Dispatch and other media reported last month that Street Speech was in danger of shutting down, editor Jess Peacock said today.
  
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• Olde Towne East “Hub of Bad Behavior” May Lose Liquor License

  23-10-2015 20:24
  
  A reputation of troublesome activity and a laundry list of neighborhood complaints may have officially cost the Chips ‘n’ Go convenience store and gas station its liquor license. The Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Liquor Control issued an order to the business — located at at 1020 East Broad Street in Olde Towne East — announcing […]
  
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• Columbus Council on World Affairs: U.S. - European Trade & Refugee Issues 10/22/15

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• New Bill Punishes Sex Offenders Who Don't Report Internet Information

  23-10-2015 20:19
  
  A proposed bill would punish Ohio sex offenders who fail to report Internet-related information like email addresses when registering with authorities.
  
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• CDC To Help Ohio Deal With Deadly Twist To Heroin Epidemic

  23-10-2015 20:10
  
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are helping Ohio find solutions to a wave of overdose deaths caused by a powerful painkiller mixed with heroin.
  
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• Probe: Black Hawk pilots disobeyed orders in crash that killed 11

  23-10-2015 20:01
  
  An investigation into a deadly Black Hawk helicopter crash in March shows the pilots disobeyed direct orders.
  
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• Investigation into Deadly Helicopter Crash Finds Pilots Disobeyed Orders

  23-10-2015 20:01
  
  An investigation into a deadly Black Hawk helicopter crash in March shows the pilots disobeyed direct orders.
  
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• Stark differences mark Gahanna mayoral race

  23-10-2015 19:35
  
  Both candidates for Gahanna mayor are men. Both grew up in the city. Both want to see it thrive. The similarities pretty much end there.
  
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• Commission Encouraged by Changes to Main Street Hotel Proposal

  23-10-2015 18:15
  
  Representatives of Northstar Realty and Alliance Hospitality were back in front of the Downtown Commission this week to submit a new design for their proposed Home2 Suites extended-stay hotel at 382-404 East Main Street. The commission was not impressed with the initial design of the 100-suite hotel, saying that the windows were too small and […]
  
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• Police: Come claim your 50 pounds of pot shipped to wrong address

  23-10-2015 16:51
  
  Police in a New Jersey town are asking the person who was expecting 50 pounds of marijuana in the mail to come claim the package.
  
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• Collect Coats for Kids! #ColumbusShort with @LILDonAIR

  23-10-2015 16:20
  
  Listen to lilD weekdays at 8:05 am for all things free, fun, and family in Columbus! Here's what's happening: 1. Through November 16th all the branches of First Service Federal Credit Union will be collecting new winter apparel for kids - coats, scarves, hats, mittens, boots at all of its locations. There are several locations: Inside Nationwide Children's Hospital: 255 East Main Street, Columbus, OH 43215 .
  
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• Shop Talk: Righno

  23-10-2015 15:51
  
  If you were to travel back to 2009 and ask Corey Bee where he would be in 2015, he most likely wouldn’t have described his current life to you. In 2009, all that Bee could call his own was a little tee shirt company called Enue Clothing, but now he has upgraded to owning his […]
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: Kasich administration still looking at ways to keep Medicaid money from Planned Parenthood

  23-10-2015 15:09
  
  Earlier this week, the Ohio Senate approved a bill that would defund Planned Parenthood in Ohio. But that bill affects about $1.3 million that the organization gets from the state. The total in the last fiscal year was $3.7 million because of Medicaid reimbursements.
  
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• Lincoln Chafee Drops Out Of Democratic Primary Race

  23-10-2015 14:30
  
  Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee ended his long-shot bid for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination Friday. Read more.
  
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• Bridge in Ohio capital is infested with thousands of spiders

  23-10-2015 14:13
  
  The Main Street bridge in Ohio's capital might appear to be decked out for Halloween, but officials say the extensive webs spotted by motorists at night are real. The Columbus Dispatch reports the $60 million bridge connecting downtown Columbus and Franklinton is infested with thousands of web-spinning spiders of different varieties.
  
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• New in Theaters: Steve Jobs, Last Witch Hunter, Final Girls & More

  23-10-2015 14:00
  
  Steve Jobs Writer Aaron Sorkin and director Danny Boyle take a visionary approach to their biopic Steve Jobs, crafting an appropriately intense and completely engrossing profile of Jobs’s history with Apple, Inc. Sorkin and Boyle understand that a man so self-aggrandizing and obsessed with design deserves a treatment that is both. Sorkin’s wordplay – always […]
  
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• Local Horror Shorts Haunt The Gateway

  23-10-2015 14:00
  
  October is the time for terror – at least in 5 to 10 minute bursts. So thinks the Mid-Ohio Film Association (MOFA), anyway. Their Three Weeks of Terror program salutes the best short-form horror movies local filmmakers have to offer. This is the third year for the annual event, which kicked off September 18th. Teams […]
  
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• Burning Food Causes Upper Arlington Kitchen Fire

  23-10-2015 13:55
  
  People rushed from an apartment building as firefighters battled flames. Read more.
  
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• Leadership Columbus program aging well after four decades

  23-10-2015 13:51
  
  Leadership Columbus is taking a moment to celebrate its accomplishments and plan its future. The program, which has connected generations of young leaders to the community and its needs, will mark the passing of its 40th year with a fundraising luncheon on Tuesday at the Hyatt Regency.
  
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• Criminal-mischief charges may earn stiffer penalties in Hilliard

  23-10-2015 13:45
  
  HILLIARD — The Hilliard City Council will vote on Monday on an ordinance that would increase the penalty for anyone convicted of vandalizing the city’s 26 parks.
  
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• New building in Upper Arlington to include restaurant, luxury units

  23-10-2015 13:43
  
  UPPER ARLINGTON — The Upper Arlington Board of Zoning and Planning has approved plans to demolish a two-story building at 1515 W. Lane Ave. and replace it with a three-story structure that would include a restaurant on the first floor and luxury apartments on the upper floors.
  
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• Man charged in fatal shooting of his 2 sisters

  23-10-2015 13:31
  CINCINNATI — A young man is being held in lieu of a $6 million bond after he was charged with fatally shooting his two teenage sisters and wounding a teenage boy as the three victims sat in a minivan in the backyard of a home in a suburb of Cincinnati.
  
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• Kidnapping of 2 firefighters alleged

  23-10-2015 13:30
  
  SOUTH AMHERST — A northeastern Ohio man who authorities say held two firefighters hostage at gunpoint faces kidnapping and felonious-assault charges.
  
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• Infant’s death blamed on grandma, heroin

  23-10-2015 13:29
  
  CINCINNATI — An Ohio woman who was under the influence of heroin while baby-sitting her 4-month-old grandson has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in his death after both were found unresponsive, authorities said.
  
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• Ohio Wesleyan is a finalist for service award

  23-10-2015 13:27
  
  Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware is among five universities named by the White House as finalists for an Interfaith Community Service award.
  
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• 2016 Parade of Homes in Powell draws 16 builders

  23-10-2015 13:11
  
  POWELL — Sixteen builders have signed up for next year’s Parade of Homes in Powell, making the event the largest in more than a decade.
  
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• Maria’s Message Informs Adults About Distracted Driving

  23-10-2015 12:55
  
  Adults get behind the wheel of distracted driving simulators. Read more.
  
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• Photo: Challah preparation

  23-10-2015 12:48
  
  Challah bread was prepared on Thursday at Wexner Heritage Village in Bexley for the citywide 614 Shabbat celebration. Counterclockwise from top right, Ernest Stern, 92, helps his wife, Aurelia, 92, braid dough as Ralph Rosenblum, 94, rolls dough with 4-year-old Jewish Community Center preschoolers Joshua Sauer and Cooper Warren.
  
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• Over 40 Killed In Fiery Bus-Truck Collision In French Wine Region

  23-10-2015 12:46
  
  A bus collided with a truck outside of Bordeaux, going up in flames.
  
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• More Than 40 People Killed In France Bus Crash

  23-10-2015 12:46
  
  A bus collided with a truck outside of Bordeaux, going up in flames. Read more.
  
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• Man cut 87-year-old woman’s throat, prosecutor says

  23-10-2015 12:46
  
  HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — A Kentucky man posed as a repairman to get into an 87-year-old Ohio woman’s home, then shocked her with a stun gun, choked her and cut her throat, a prosecutor said in opening statements at the man’s murder trial.
  
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• Record-breaking hurricane bears down on Mexico

  23-10-2015 12:40
  
  Forecasters warn Hurricane Patricia, a monster storm packing winds in 200 mph range, could be catastrophic
  
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• 'Potentially Catastrophic' Hurricane Heads Towards Mexico

  23-10-2015 12:40
  
  Hurricane Patricia 'potentially catastrophic' as it heads to Mexico. Read more.
  
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• Man gets 7 years in prison for role in fatal shooting

  23-10-2015 12:17
  
  A Columbus man has been sentenced to seven years in prison in the shooting death of a 26-year-old man. The Columbus Dispatch reports Elewis Hobbs pleaded guilty in April to one count of voluntary manslaughter with a gun specification.
  
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• Former Bishop Watterson Teacher Accused Of Sex Crimes Due In Court

  23-10-2015 12:12
  
  Brian Sze is accused of having a relationship with an underage student. Read more.
  
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• Former Bishop Watterson Teacher Accused Of Sex Crimes Back In Ohio

  23-10-2015 12:12
  
  Brian Sze is accused of having a relationship with an underage student. Read more.
  
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• Psychiatrist’s info can be used in murder trial

  23-10-2015 11:50
  
  CLEVELAND — An appeals court on Thursday upheld a judge’s ruling that prosecutors could use some information gleaned from a psychiatrist’s interview with a man charged in the deaths of three women during the sentencing phase of his trial.
  
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• Buckeye Lake businesses say new signs overlook them

  23-10-2015 11:39
  
  Some Buckeye Lake region business owners are upset that they are not listed on the highway signs the state put up this month advertising businesses that are open during dam construction.
  
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• Columbus pastor living in tent Downtown for month to spotlight homelessness

  23-10-2015 11:23
  
  He carried his belongings in a trash bag and darted across the dangerously busy I-71 ramp to spend the night in his secluded spot by the highway. From a tent pitched just inside a cluster of trees near that Downtown exit ramp, Bishop Jerry L. Pierce Sr. has watched the man’s nightly ritual for the past four weeks.
  
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• Cso's's 2015 Holiday Pops to Feature More Than 300 Performers

  23-10-2015 09:08
  
  The CSO's Holiday Pops, an annual tradition in Columbus since 1983, was conceived by chorus master and conductor Ronald Jenkins who has also led all of its 96 performances. In 2015, Jenkins, the musicians of the Columbus Symphony, and vocalists of the Columbus Symphony Chorus, will be joined by the Columbus Children's Choir, dancers Justin Gibbs and Joanie Evans, children from BalletMet, narrator Steven Crawford, and of course, Mr. and Mrs. Claus, featuring the talents of more than 300 performer
  
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• Legal ruling slices bit off Huntington’s profit

  23-10-2015 08:58
  
  Huntington Bancshares said this morning that its third-quarter profit was about flat with the same period in 2014 as an increase in lending wasn’t enough to make up for additional legal costs the bank is facing.
  
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• Three Shot At Tennessee State University

  23-10-2015 07:25
  
  Police were investigating a shooting at Tennessee State University in Nashville. Read more.
  
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• One Killed, Two Injured In Tennessee State University Shooting

  23-10-2015 07:25
  
  Police were investigating a shooting at Tennessee State University in Nashville. Read more.
  
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• Five Students Charged After Richland Co. School Threats

  23-10-2015 06:29
  
  At least five students face charges for threats made against Richland County schools. The youngest is an 11-year-old girl. Read more.
  
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