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• Final Push To Legalize Marijuana In Ohio Has Both Sides Fighting For Votes

  30-10-2015 23:52
  
  It's a historic campaign: Ohio voters will cast the first ever ballot to possibly legalize marijuana.
  
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• Sweet Halloweens for kids with special health needs

  30-10-2015 23:48
  
  Inspired by efforts in an east Tennessee town, the Teal Pumpkin Project is in its second year this Halloween.
  
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• Last Minute Halloween Costume Ideas For Adults

  30-10-2015 23:41
  
  Some local kids may already have gone trick-or-treating, but for adults the fun is just beginning.
  
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• Columbus City Officials Searching For Repeat OVI Offenders

  30-10-2015 22:39
  
  They are repeat offenders who may be behind the wheel as we speak and they are the drunk drivers officials most want off the streets.
  
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• Reynoldsburg police: Razor blade in candy appears to be isolated incident

  30-10-2015 22:29
  
  Reynoldsburg police said they’ve found no other evidence of tainted candy, after a teenager reported finding a a razor blade in a Snickers bar during trick-or-treating on Thursday. Lt. Shane Mauger said there is no need for panic, as some central Ohio communities continue with Beggars Nights tonight and Saturday.
  
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• Gahanna Kicker Using His Foot To Raise Money For Cancer Research

  30-10-2015 22:14
  
  Tanner is asking for $1 per point with all of the money going toward pediatric cancer research for every point he scores this season.
  
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• Dueling Complaints On Eve Of Columbus Mayoral Election

  30-10-2015 22:14
  
  Ginther and Scott supporters file complaints on non-profits allied with candidates.
  
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• Columbus Metropolitan Club: Meet the Candidates for Columbus City Council 10/30/15

  30-10-2015 21:49 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Columbus Foundation Seeking Summer Fellows

  30-10-2015 21:34
  
  December 4 is the deadline for students to submit applications for the 2016 program  Columbus, OH (October 30, 2015)—The Columbus Foundation recently named 10 nonprofit organizations that will serve as host sites for its 2016 Summer Fellowship Program. Since 2010, the Foundation’s Summer Fellowship Program has been providing career-related work experience for college and graduate […]
  
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• Thirty-One Gifts To Close Johnstown, Springfield Facilities In January

  30-10-2015 21:06
  
  The company is calling the move a consolidation. They will bring some of the operations to their home office at Easton.
  
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• Demolition Begins at Carl Brown IGA Building on Near East Side

  30-10-2015 20:56
  
  City and civic leaders gathered yesterday morning to begin something that was set in motion earlier this year — the demolition of the abandoned Carl Brown IGA building on Mount Vernon Avenue. The site where the building sat is planned for redevelopment, and is being viewed as a new neighborhood anchor for the Poindexter area […]
  
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• Name of man killed by Columbus police on Thursday released

  30-10-2015 20:43
  
  The 25-year-old man who Columbus police officers shot and killed on Thursday on the Far East Side was on court-ordered supervision for his most recent weapons conviction. Deaunte Lamar Bell, of Refugee Road, was killed at the Amberly Square Apartments, off Refugee Road just east of Noe Bixby Road, about 9:25 p.m.
  
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• WATCH: Arizona drivers get a scare from giant inflatable pumpkin

  30-10-2015 20:30
  
  Peoria officials say it wasn't vandalism, but windy weather that sent the jack-o'-lantern on its trip.
  
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• Complaint questions city council ties to nonprofits

  30-10-2015 20:08
  
  An ally of Franklin County Sheriff Zach Scott and a critic of the Columbus City Council has filed a complaint with the Ohio Ethics Commission demanding that it investigate council members who work for nonprofits that receive city funding. Joseph C. Sommer, a local lawyer, sent a letter on Oct. 26 to the ethics commission stating that he thinks holding such positions might violate state law. Several sources told the Dispatch there is not an investigation at this time.
  
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• New in Theaters: Our Brand is Crisis, Truth, Nasty Baby & More

  30-10-2015 19:46
  
  Our Brand is Crisis In 2005, with her film Our Brand is Crisis, documentarian Rachel Boynton unveiled the puppeteering that American political-strategists-for-hire undertake the world over. Director David Gordon Green takes a stab at updating Boynton’s tale. He enlists Sandra Bullock as “Calamity” Jane Bodine, a longtime political strategist pulled out of retirement to work […]
  
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• Photos: Anderson East with The Lone Bellow and Hugh Masterson at the Lincoln Theatre

  30-10-2015 19:36
  
  Elektra Records recording artist Anderson East stopped by the Lincoln Theatre on October 27th, playing to a near-capacity audience along with Brooklyn-based The Lone Bellow and fellow Nashvillian Hugh Masterson of Hugh Bob and The Hustle. East’s energetic performance broke up the slightly mellower – but no less excellent – sets turned in by his […]
  
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• Jon Husted accuses ResponsibleOhio of voter fraud

  30-10-2015 19:30
  
  Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted today sent details about potential voter registration fraud by ResponsibleOhio to the Delaware County prosecutor for possible legal action. Husted said in a letter to Delaware County Prosecutor Carol O’Brien that voter registration forms submitted by The Strategy Network, the company owned by Ian James, executive director of ResponsibleOhio, appear to include “potential violations of election laws.”
  
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• Ginther maintains money lead, Stanley surges, in pre-election reports

  30-10-2015 19:09
  
  The two Democrats vying to become Columbus’ next mayor have spent nearly $500,000 in the waning days of what’s been a politically bloody campaign.
  
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• Woman sent to prison for role in roommate's death

  30-10-2015 18:32
  
  A 36-year-old woman was sentenced today to five years in prison for her role in the slaying of one of her roommates at their Far West Side apartment.
  
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• Four sobriety checkpoints planned in Columbus, Franklin County tonight

  30-10-2015 18:15
  
  Four sobriety checkpoints will be set up tonight by local authorities. Columbus Police will conduct two checkpoints in the University area.
  
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• Timing is Everything in Surviving Stroke

  30-10-2015 18:06
  
  Timing is critical because every minute that someone is having a stroke they lose two million brain cells.
  
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• Hebron Police Testing Possible Pot-Laced Halloween Candy

  30-10-2015 17:11
  
  Authorities say the investigation comes after it received a report from a local resident that possible tainted candy from a "munch mix" was distributed during trick-or-treating Thursday night.
  
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• Hebron Police: First Piece Of Candy Not Contaminated With Pot

  30-10-2015 17:11
  
  Authorities say the investigation comes after it received a report from a local resident that possible tainted candy from a "munch mix" was distributed during trick-or-treating Thursday night.
  
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• Hebron Police: Candy Not Contaminated With Pot

  30-10-2015 17:11
  
  Authorities say the investigation comes after it received a report from a local resident that possible tainted candy from a "munch mix" was distributed during trick-or-treating Thursday night.
  
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• Stuck Newark motorists can see interchange coming to Rt. 16

  30-10-2015 17:05
  
  For years, drivers traveling along Rt. 16 in Licking County have slowed to a halt for the traffic light at Cherry Valley Road, with cars often backed up in bumper-to-bumper traffic during rush hour. But now as motorists make their daily crawl through the intersection, they see the start of an interchange project that’s expected to speed their commute.
  
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• Letter to the Editor: Students should support Brown, Stinziano and Ginther in Nov. 3 election

  30-10-2015 16:37
  
  The Tuesday Ohio municipal election is fast approaching and those registered to vote in Columbus have a variety of candidates to choose from in the race for both city council and mayor. To me, being able to vote is not only a right but also a privilege.
  
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• U.S. Commandos Heading Into Syria

  30-10-2015 16:28
  
  Senior U.S. officials say a small number of U.S. special operations forces will be deployed to northern Syria to work with local ground forces in the fight against Islamic State militants.
  
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• Bonham pleads not guilty to killing mother, girlfriend

  30-10-2015 16:16
  
  MT. VERNON, Ohio -- The lawyers for Travis A. Bonham entered not guilty pleas for him this morning on charges that include two counts of aggravated murder. Knox County Common Pleas Court Judge Otho Eyster let stand a $1 million bond that was set previously for him. Bonham is being held in lieu of that bond in the Knox County Jail, accused of killing his mother and girlfriend.
  
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• Razor blade report causing a Trick-or-Treat tizzy

  30-10-2015 15:40
  
  It’s only mid-morning and the woman answering the phone at the Reynoldsburg Police Department already sounds weary. The phone hasn’t stopped ringing all morning with people wanting to know more about that razor blade that a child said she found in a Snickers bar collected during trick-or-treating on Thursday night. Parents are calling, officials in other cities are calling, reporters from across the country are calling.
  
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• Carl Brown IGA Building Demolition

  30-10-2015 15:39 via youtube.com
  
  
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• North Side food pantry gets 'Mural Man' treatment

  30-10-2015 14:56
  
  The once-nondescript NNEMAP (Near North Side Emergency Material Assistance Program) building is now a site to behold, thanks to the efforts of Phillip Martin and about 100 volunteers.
  
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• Two men die in hail of bullets, Cincinnati police say

  30-10-2015 14:41
  
  Two men died after about 50 shots were fired in the parking lot of a Cincinnati apartment complex, police said. Officers responded about 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday to a report of a shooting in the city’s West End neighborhood, police said in a statement on Thursday.
  
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• Theatre Review: CATCO’s The Elephant Man is an Unsparing Look at Cruelty

  30-10-2015 14:30
  
  CATCO opened their 2015-2016 season last week with a gorgeous, tough-minded read on Bernard Pomerance’s The Elephant Man directed by Artistic Director Steven Anderson. I was able to see it yesterday and left slack-jawed. The Elephant Man follows Dr. Frederick Treves (Ben Gorman) first seen in his early 30s as a London doctor getting a prime position at […]
  
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• Kwest Group to build Westar infrastructure

  30-10-2015 14:01
  
  WESTERVILLE — Dublin-based Kwest Group has been awarded a contract for $4.7 million worth of work to build sidewalks, sewers, water lines and other infrastructure at Westar Place, an office and hotel development on 62 acres of city-owned property along the south side of Polaris Parkway, between Cleveland Avenue and Africa Road.
  
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• Deborah McLaughlin hired as Upper Arlington's parks and rec director

  30-10-2015 13:59
  
  UPPER ARLINGTON — Upper Arlington has named Deborah McLaughlin as its new parks and recreation director.
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: John Kasich fares better than others in post-debate analysis

  30-10-2015 13:58
  
  While few were declaring John Kasich the winner of Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate, the Ohio governor got more air time, standing out in the crowded field. “John Kasich’s aggressive debate performance Wednesday did not catapult him into the top tier of the Republican presidential race, with few analysts buzzing today about his performance,” Dispatch Washington reporter Jessica Wehrman and bureau chief Jack Torry write. “But, Ohio’s governor fared bet
  
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• Mt. Vernon Man Charged With Murdering Mother, Girlfriend Set For Arraignment

  30-10-2015 13:28
  
  A man who admitted to killing his mother and girlfriend in a bath salt-fueled rage will be arraigned today on murder charges.
  
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• Rocking Horse welcomes public at open house

  30-10-2015 12:20
  
  State Rep. Bob Hackett , center, speaks to other visitors during the open house Wednesday for the Rocking Horse Community Health Center Madison medical facility on the site of the former free clinic. Chelsea Harris, right, is a nurse practitioner.
  
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• Chess teacher accused of touching students gets new attorney for January trial

  30-10-2015 12:20
  
  A former Columbus teacher accused of touching two of his students inappropriately has a new attorney.Freddy Leon Wilson, 62, of 2785 Castlewood Road, Columbus, fired his previous attorney the day his trial was set to begin in Delaware County Common Pleas Court earlier this month.Prosecutors say Wilson, a former chess instructor at the Prep Academy ... (more)
  
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• High-school football: Tigers wrap up 10th straight title

  30-10-2015 11:48
  
  PICKERINGTON — This was supposed to be the year that somebody took the Ohio Capital Conference Ohio Division championship from rebuilding Pickerington Central. The whispers became even louder when the injury-ravaged Tigers lost their starting quarterback and a game at rival Lancaster on Sept. 18.
  
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• Wexner’s mansion in England also stately

  30-10-2015 11:16
  
  Leslie H. Wexner’s New Albany home has often been likened to an English country estate, but it turns out that the L Brands founder is one of the few people who can speak authoritatively about such a comparison.
  
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• Two men die in hail of bullets, police say

  30-10-2015 11:13
  
  Two men died after about 50 shots were fired in the parking lot of a Cincinnati apartment complex, police said. Officers responded about 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday to a report of a shooting in the city’s West End neighborhood, police said in a statement on Thursday.
  
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• Cleveland gun violence up, but cause difficult to pinpoint

  30-10-2015 11:13
  
  CLEVELAND — Why such a big rise in shootings in Cleveland? Is gang activity up? Are Facebook and Twitter to blame? Poverty? Drugs? Or just a statistical aberration? Experts say it’s difficult to pinpoint why the city has seen a 40 percent increase in gun homicides and a 33 percent rise in felonious assault shootings through the first nine months of this year compared with the same period a year ago.
  
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• Ally of Andrew Ginther files election complaint about PAC’s sample ballot

  30-10-2015 11:13
  
  An ally of Columbus mayoral hopeful Andrew J. Ginther has filed a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission alleging that the leader of a local nonprofit organization violated elections laws by using the group’s money to campaign for Ginther’s opponent.
  
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• South Carolina Case Shines Light On The Role Of School Resource Officers

  30-10-2015 11:01
  
  A local resource officer talks about his role inside schools. Read more.
  
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• Conservative lawyer sees ill effects from ‘anti-monopoly’ Issue 2

  30-10-2015 10:49
  
  The intense debate over State Issue 3, the marijuana-legalization amendment, has overshadowed State Issue 2, which aims to block monopoly interests from carving out a niche in the Ohio Constitution. A constitutional lawyer says the Issue 2 “cure” could be worse than the “disease” if Ohioans approve the measure in Tuesday’s election.
  
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• Pilot Dogs begins $8M campaign to bring kennel, offices under one roof

  30-10-2015 10:42
  
  After decades of split operations — with its kennel more than 2 miles from its East Franklinton headquarters — Pilot Dogs Inc. is aiming for an all-in-one campus. The nonprofit organization announced an $8 million capital campaign this week to build a new kennel and training center next to the current Pilot Dogs building at 625 W. Town St.
  
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• Winds Calm Down On Friday

  30-10-2015 10:37
  
  Doppler 10 Meteorologist Mike Davis says expect a cool, but less windy, day. Get the forecast.
  
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• Morning Forecast: Cloudy & Cool, Temps In Upper 40s

  30-10-2015 10:37
  
  Doppler 10 Meteorologist Mike Davis says expect a cool, but less windy, day. Get the forecast.
  
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• Evening Forecast: Cloudy Skies, Less Windy

  30-10-2015 10:37
  
  Cloudy skies but dry weather expected for high school football games tonight.
  
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