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• Dalton's Late TD Leads Unbeaten Bengals Over Steelers 16-10

  01-11-2015 22:48
  
  Andy Dalton threw a touchdown pass with 2:57 to go, and the Bengals picked off Ben Roethlisberger twice in the fourth quarter while rallying for a 16-10 victory over Pittsburgh on Sunday that kept them unbeaten and in command of the AFC North. Get the details.
  
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• Palmer Throws 4 TD Passes As Cardinals Beat Browns 34-20

  01-11-2015 22:45
  
  Carson Palmer threw for four touchdowns - three in the second half - and 374 yards as the Arizona Cardinals rallied for a 34-20 win Sunday over the Cleveland Browns, who lost two defensive starters with concussions. Get the details.
  
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• Evening Forecast: Clear, Dry & Mild

  01-11-2015 21:21
  
  A clear night ahead with a sunny Monday to start the week. Get the forecast.
  
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• Central Ohio High School Football Playoff Pairings

  01-11-2015 21:19
  
  Pairings for Central Ohio football teams in the first round of the playoffs.
  
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• Kasich Signs Bill Overhauling Oversight Of Charter Schools

  01-11-2015 20:18
  
  Ohio Gov. John Kasich has signed into law a bill that overhauls the state's embattled charter-school system with new performance, accountability and reporting requirements. Get the details.
  
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• Buckeyes, Bears, Clemson, LSU Are AP Top 4; CFP Rankings Coming

  01-11-2015 20:06
  
  Ohio State, Baylor, Clemson and LSU remain the top four teams in The Associated Press Top 25 as the College Football Playoff selection committee prepares its first rankings. Get the details.
  
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• 'Crisis,' 'Burnt,' 'Scouts Guide' All Flop At Box Office

  01-11-2015 20:00
  
  Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper - two of Hollywood's top stars - scared up few moviegoers over the Halloween weekend. Get the details.
  
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• 1 Dead, 1 Hurt In Winston-Salem State University Shooting

  01-11-2015 19:54
  
  School officials say a shooting at Winston-Salem State University has left one person dead and another injured. Get the story.
  
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• Albuquerque Dentist Offering To Buy Back Halloween Candy

  01-11-2015 19:49
  
  An Albuquerque, New Mexico dentist is hoping to get ahead in the fight against post-Halloween cavities with cash. Get the story.
  
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• Governor Kasich Sets Special Election To Fill Boehner Vacancy

  01-11-2015 19:21
  
  A special election to fill the Ohio congressional seat vacated by former House Speaker John Boehner will be held June 7. Get the details.
  
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• Two High School Students Killed In Fayette County Crash

  01-11-2015 18:24
  
  The crash happened just north of the Fayette/Highland County line in Green Township.
  
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• Kasich signs charter-school reform bill into law

  01-11-2015 15:52
  
  Long-awaited reforms designed to improve the performance, accountability and transparency of charter schools were signed into law this morning by Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
  
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• Two Teens Killed In Fayette County Crash

  01-11-2015 15:49
  
  Two teen boys were killed in a crash in Fayette County Saturday night.
  
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• Launch that squash across the field: Trebuchet competition tests high school teams

  01-11-2015 15:43
  
  Saturday marked the third year of the Picktown Throwdown, in which teams of high-schoolers try to build the trebuchet — don’t call it a catapult; engineers get very upset — that can launch a 4-pound pumpkin the farthest. Fourteen teams from three high schools competed in three rounds at Pickerington Central High School. Delaware Area Career Center won both divisions, which are based on the weight of the counterweight. Organizer Levon Thomas said it’s all for a homemade tr
  
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• Opinion: Let’s Give Every Community a Voice in Columbus

  01-11-2015 15:14
  
  There is a cloud of corruption lingering over Columbus. It’s time to take concrete steps to clean up our city and put power back in the hands of everyday people. It is clear that democracy is broken at the state and national level and big money is running the show. The same is true at the city level […]
  
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• First Look: Cubshrub Opens in The Short North

  01-11-2015 14:58
  
  Local retailer Tigertree has officially opened its new kids store expansion, Cubshrub, located at 749 North High Street. The new store spins off the children’s lines of clothing, toys, games and accessories that Tigertree has built up within their main store over the past year. Owners Josh and Niki Quinn told Columbus Underground in August that […]
  
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• Three People Hurt In North Columbus Shooting

  01-11-2015 14:25
  
  Three people were hurt after a robbery and shooting in north Columbus.
  
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• Rain thins crowd at Halloween party in Athens

  01-11-2015 13:50
  
  There were huge crowds Saturday night for the Halloween party in Athens, an annual tradition. The night started out peacefully. Around midnight, as crowds grew and so did arrests, heavy rain started.
  
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• Iran's Supreme Leader Warns Against Importing US Goods

  01-11-2015 13:28
  
  Iran's supreme leader has warned against importing consumer goods from the United States as the Islamic republic prepares for the lifting of sanctions under a landmark nuclear deal.
  
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• U.S. Navy Finds Wreckage Believed To Be Missing Cargo Ship El Faro

  01-11-2015 13:20
  
  The wreckage of a cargo ship believed to be the El Faro has been located by a U.S. Navy search team in about 15,000 feet of water.
  
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• John Switzer commentary: Licking County grower’s work pays off with patented apple

  01-11-2015 12:35
  
  I recently enjoyed one of my favorite fall adventures: going to Licking County and seeing apple grower Mitchell Lynd. We get together practically every autumn in his orchards and walk around tasting and comparing the different apple varieties. We carry our pocket knives and cut wedges to chew on.
  
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• Capitol Insider: Donald Trump stumbles spouting Ohio ‘facts’

  01-11-2015 12:22
  
  If facts mean anything in the 2016 GOP presidential race — still an open question at this point — Donald Trump had a bad week vs. Ohio Gov. John Kasich. It’s already well-documented that the billionaire’s claim that he deserves credit for Ford moving jobs to Ohio from Mexico is nowhere close to the truth.
  
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• Prosecutors use social media to teach concepts, update public

  01-11-2015 12:17
  
  MOUNT VERNON, Ohio — A man suspected of a double murder was on the run, and a lot of people turned to the Knox County prosecutor’s Facebook page to find out about it. Posts about the killings of Sandra Lee Stelk and Jaime Barber — who were found shot to death in a rural Knox County home on Sept. 30 — and about suspect Travis Bonham were each shared hundreds of times and reached more than 100,000 people.
  
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• Very few tax hikes on ballot in Ohio

  01-11-2015 12:13
  
  If it feels like something is missing from your ballot this fall, it probably is. Just one central Ohio school district is asking voters to raise taxes. That’s right, one. Among the 659 school districts statewide, there are only 28 requests for additional revenue. Seven are for daily operating expenses and the rest for capital projects.
  
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• Q&A on Planned Parenthood controversy in Ohio

  01-11-2015 12:08
  
  Planned Parenthood has made a lot of headlines since the summer and has been the target of mainly Republican lawmakers who want to take away public funds from the organization. In Ohio, the Senate approved a bill that would do that, and the House is expected to vote on its own version this month.
  
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• Drizzle And Clouds Sunday Morning

  01-11-2015 12:04
  
  Josh Poland says to expect some light rain Sunday morning. Find out if it will continue throughout the day.
  
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• Columbus school administrators’ fate in limbo amid state data-scandal probe

  01-11-2015 12:03
  
  This weekend marks 16 months since the Ohio Department of Education subpoenaed the records of dozens of Columbus school-district administrators who could face suspension or loss of their educator licenses for their roles in the district’s data-scrubbing scandal. But, to date, nothing has resulted from that investigation.
  
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• FICO testing new ways to assess credit risk

  01-11-2015 11:51
  
  Millions of Americans blocked from getting a credit card or a car loan might get a better chance soon to qualify for credit. FICO, the company behind the score that’s used to determine how much of a credit risk consumers are, has started a test project to expand the data sources it uses to assess creditworthiness.
  
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• Antibiotics for seniors overused

  01-11-2015 11:46
  
  Federal and state health officials have a new target in the fight against the improper use of antibiotics: nursing homes. The overuse of sometimes lifesaving antibiotics at U.S. nursing homes is putting elderly and other vulnerable residents at risk and fueling the spread of deadly antibiotic-resistant superbugs, they say.
  
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• Health insurance marketplace enrollment starts today

  01-11-2015 11:39
  
  Today begins the three-month open-enrollment period for marketplace coverage in 2016. An estimated 9.4 million to 11.4 million Americans are expected to sign up — and actually pay — for insurance through the marketplaces, which are entering their third year. Hundreds of thousands of uninsured and re-enrolling Ohioans have some important homework awaiting them. A Kaiser Family Foundation report last month found that 834,000 Ohioans were uninsured throughout 2014.
  
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• DUI Attorney Explores J.T. Barrett’s Legal Options

  01-11-2015 02:14
  
  Columbus Police held a roadblock on High Street and Thompkins Street early Saturday morning. Police say they targeted that intersection because the area had impaired driver crashes up to 8 times higher than the rest of the city.
  
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• PrimaryOne Health Kicks-Off Open Enrollment

  01-11-2015 01:00
  
  Open enrollment for health care coverage begins Sunday.
  
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