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• Family Still Searching For Answers After Christie Mullins' Cold Case Closed

  06-11-2015 23:42
  
  The anguish is still fresh for Christie Mullins’ family, even 40 years later.
  
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• Lawmakers Push To Put Overdose-Saving Drug Into Schools

  06-11-2015 23:23
  
  The drug called Naloxone can save someone’s life if they are overdosing on heroin.
  
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• Feds Demand New Answers On Alleged Toxic Turf

  06-11-2015 22:59
  
  Arsenic, Cadmium, Nickel and Benzene: all four chemicals are in the crumb rubber that provides cushion on artificial turf fields.
  
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• Colo. students in sexting scandal could face felony charges

  06-11-2015 22:54
  
  At an emergency meeting Thursday night, concerned parents learned that possibly hundreds of students at Canon City High may have been collecting and trading nude pictures.
  
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• State, union agree to three-year deal that includes 2.5% raises for workers

  06-11-2015 22:43
  
  The state and Service Employees International Union District 1199 have agreed to a new three-year contract agreement giving the union’s 4,000 employees 2.5-percent annual raises. It will be the first pay hikes for the union workers stretching back to 2008.
  
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• Heather Pick Music Program Gives New Level Of Care At James Cancer Hospital

  06-11-2015 22:42
  
  The Heather Pick Music Fund brings professional musicians to the lobby of the James during the noon lunch hour and stream the music to patients who can't leave their rooms.
  
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• Police: Man who claimed to find Christie Mullins was her killer 40 years ago

  06-11-2015 22:11
  
  Columbus police say they have closed the case of a Clintonville girl who was beaten to death 40 years ago, saying the man who had claimed to have found her body was her killer. In an afternoon press conference at the James G. Jackson Police Academy, Sgt. Eric Pilya of the homicide cold-case unit apologized to the family of Christie Mullins, saying the initial investigation into her slaying was marred by “shoddy” police work that was substandard even by the dated investigative standar
  
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• VIDEO: Jet Engine Melts Tickle Me Elmo Doll

  06-11-2015 22:08
  
  The favorite among kids didn't stand a chance.
  
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• Newark High School senior killed in crash

  06-11-2015 22:05
  
  A Newark High School senior died Friday after he was involved in a crash while riding his motorcycle Thursday night. Zachary Gillespie, 18, died late Friday morning, Franklin County Coroner Dr. Anahi Ortiz confirmed.
  
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• OSU Board Of Trustees Recommends Increase On Single-Game Football Ticket Prices

  06-11-2015 21:38
  
  While the price of season tickets will decrease for the second straight year, individual game tickets will go up.
  
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• Falling Concrete Causes Closure Of West Columbus Road

  06-11-2015 20:58
  
  S. Glenwood is closed between Thomas Ave. and W. Mound St. due to the falling debris.
  
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• Missing teen found in Cleveland after 13 years releases statement

  06-11-2015 20:33
  
  The teen, Julian Hernandez, released a statement Friday through the FBI in Cleveland.
  
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• Veterans honored in Columbus parade

  06-11-2015 20:20
  
  The morning rain cleared in time for spectators and office workers on their lunch breaks to line the streets in downtown Columbus today to welcome veterans and other groups participating in the annual Veterans Day parade.
  
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• Street on Ohio State campus named for John Glenn and wife

  06-11-2015 20:08
  
  Ohio State University is renaming one of its major campus streets in honor of John Glenn and his wife, Annie. The university in Columbus says 17th Avenue, which crosses the heart of campus, will be renamed "Annie & John Glenn Avenue."
  
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• City of Columbus Veterans Day Ceremony 11/6/15

  06-11-2015 20:07 via youtube.com
  
  
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• New in Theaters: Spectre, Love, Cub & More

  06-11-2015 19:52
  
  Spectre Three years ago, director Sam Mendes took the reins of the Bond franchise, crafting the single best 007 film of its then 50-year legacy, Skyfall. That’s a big martini glass to fill with a follow up, and his Spectre can’t quite live up. In what’s rumored to be Daniel Craig’s last go-round as Bond, […]
  
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• Attorney: Feds overreached to charge Columbus man with supporting terror

  06-11-2015 19:47
  
  The attorney for a Columbus man arrested and accused of plotting to provide financial support to a terrorist network based in Yemen said Friday that federal prosecutors have made baseless accusations against her client, who has pleaded not guilty. “They missed the mark on this one,” said attorney Cherrefe Kadri, who represents Sultane Roome Salim, 40, of the Northeast Side.
  
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• Feds: Man who escaped Ohio prison in '78 caught in Minnesota

  06-11-2015 19:33
  
  Federal marshals say a convicted murderer who broke out of the Marion Correctional Institution in 1978 has been captured in Minnesota's capital city
  
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• Ohio State trustees reward Drake with raise, $200,000 bonus

  06-11-2015 18:29
  
  Ohio State University President Michael V. Drake now has a number to go with the enthusiastic performance review he received in August. The university’s board of trustees approved a 2 percent raise for Drake this morning, plus a bonus of $200,000, the maximum possible under his contract. Applied to Drake’s previous base salary of $800,000, that totals about $1.02 million.
  
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• Obama Administration Kills Keystone XL Pipeline

  06-11-2015 18:04
  
  The Obama administration rejected a Canadian energy giant's application to build the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday.
  
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• 5 Things To Watch For During Saturday's Ohio State - Minnesota Game

  06-11-2015 16:31
  
  Ohio State coach Urban Meyer doesn't expect Minnesota will come into Ohio Stadium flat on Saturday night after an emotional stretch last week.
  
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• Who’s Next on Deck to be Appointed at City Council?

  06-11-2015 16:19
  
  With five of the seven members of City Council determined earlier this week by the voters of Columbus, you might think we’d be done for awhile with the transition of legislative leadership. Instead, there will actually be one more update in January when current Councilmember Eileen Paley steps down to take on her newly elected […]
  
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• Theatre Review: Available Light’s Dedalus Never Quite Coheres

  06-11-2015 16:04
  
  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is one of the great bildungsromans of the 20th century. Published in 1916, it still holds remarkable juice and power for young would-be artists or adventurers who feel constrained by structure they don’t understand just yet. As a tale of a young man […]
  
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• Christie Mullins Cold Case To Officially Close 40 Years Later

  06-11-2015 15:50
  
  Columbus Police say they will hold a press conference Friday afternoon to announce the official closing of the case that spanned four decades.
  
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• Christie Mullins Cold Case Closes 40 Years Later; Murder Suspect ID'd

  06-11-2015 15:50
  
  In a press conference on Friday, Columbus Police say the man who found Mullins' body - Henry Newell Jr. - was responsible for her death.
  
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• Columbus police close 40-year-old murder case

  06-11-2015 15:42
  
  Columbus police say they have closed the case of a Clintonville girl who was beaten to death 40 years ago. Police planed an afternoon news conference to release further information about the results of their investigation into the slaying of Christie Mullins, but the case has ended without an arrest.
  
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• Is Columbus Ready for a New Flag?

  06-11-2015 15:27
  
  A flag is meant to be seen clearly from long distances away as it flies back and forth against the wind. The current Columbus flag is not visible at all at a distance, due to the small and detailed imagery and wording. The current flag also celebrates a controversial historical figure and includes a religious […]
  
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• Fugitive Files: Criminal Damaging

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• Ohio Politics Now: Ohio school superintendent to retire and Kasich goes back to New Hampshire

  06-11-2015 14:55
  
  Ohio school Superintendent Richard Ross announced that he will retire at the end of the year, a move he said he planned to make earlier this year. “This was planned to happen earlier, but we had something come up this summer,” he said. “I just couldn’t do it during that. We had to get that settled.”
  
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• Gahanna to buy land from church to use for park

  06-11-2015 14:32
  
  The city of Gahanna will buy 7.4 acres from a local church to establish a park at 620 McCutcheon Rd.
  
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• Incentive deals to keep, create nearly 480 jobs in Dublin

  06-11-2015 14:26
  
  Thanks to incentive packages, Dublin will keep two businesses in town, retaining 393 jobs with the possibility of 86 new jobs over the next few years.
  
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• Man who collected $10,000 pleads guilty in cancer scam

  06-11-2015 14:22
  
  NORTH CANTON -- A northeastern Ohio man has pleaded guilty to charges related to what authorities say was a scam that involved him soliciting donations after falsely telling people he’d been diagnosed with cancer and other illnesses.
  
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• Exotic-animal facility seeks cash

  06-11-2015 13:06
  
  The Ohio Department of Agriculture is asking the state for $500,000 to help transport and care for exotic animals that have been seized by or surrendered to the state. Cold weather will prevent workers at the Dangerous Wild Animal Temporary Holding Facility in Reynoldsburg from moving many animals until the spring, which is why officials say more money is needed now.
  
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• No female rabbis

  06-11-2015 13:02
  
  Women who would be Orthodox rabbis were handed a major setback last week when the highest religious body for Modern Orthodox Jews ruled against their ordination.
  
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• Detainees’ faith rights

  06-11-2015 13:01
  
  How far does the U.S. have to go to give locked-up terror suspects religious accommodations? That’s the question before a military judge weighing whether to keep his ban set in January on female guards touching al-Qaida detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
  
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• Man Robs Speedway Gas Station With Hunting Knife

  06-11-2015 12:29
  
  Police said a man demanded cash and cigarettes. Read more.
  
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• Italian tissue maker bringing hundreds of jobs to Circleville

  06-11-2015 12:25
  
  An Italian tissue manufacturer has chosen Pickaway County for a big new plant. Sofidel Group disclosed a plan on Thursday to build a 1.4 million-square-foot plant just south of Circleville as part of a multipronged expansion in North America.
  
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• Sunken Lake Erie barge has open hatches, but no leaks found

  06-11-2015 12:08
  
  TOLEDO — Divers looking for the source of seeping oil near a sunken barge on the bottom of Lake Erie haven’t located any active leaks, but they did find four open hatches on the wreckage, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Wednesday. It’s not clear yet whether the open hatches could be the source of a petroleum-based solvent spotted on the surface near the U.S.-Canadian border within the past two weeks.
  
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• Cincinnati Zoo rhino now in Indonesia

  06-11-2015 12:01
  
  WAY KAMBAS, Indonesia — A U.S.-born Sumatran rhino ate leaves and wallowed in mud at an Indonesian sanctuary on Thursday as the U.S. formally handed over the 8-year-old rhino animal in hopes he will have offspring and help save his critically endangered species from extinction.
  
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• State taking applications for home-heating aid

  06-11-2015 11:59
  
  Emergency heating-assistance programs kicked off this week amid weather so balmy that struggling households might not be in crisis mode over unpaid or disconnected utilities. But those who link families to heating help say there’s no reason to wait for the freeze. “The weather is playing tricks on us,” said Colette Harrell of the Breathing Association. “ People are not desperate yet for heat, but they will be. We’ll be here for them to offer assistance.”
  
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• Report on terror suspect allowed

  06-11-2015 11:58
  
  CINCINNATI — A federal judge is allowing attorneys for a southwestern Ohio man accused of plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol to file a sealed report about his mental competency. Attorneys for Christopher Lee Cornell, 21, of a western Cincinnati suburb, have asked U.S. District Judge Sandra Beckwith for a hearing to determine his competence to stand trial, stating in a filing that there’s “reasonable cause” to think he suffers from a mental disease or defect.
  
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• Ohio education chief says he will retire at year’s end

  06-11-2015 11:55
  
  Ohio school Superintendent Richard A. Ross is retiring. Again. Ross, 65, told The Dispatch he will step down on Dec. 31 after nearly two years of overseeing Ohio’s public-schools system. “This was planned to happen earlier, but we had something come up this summer,” he said. “I just couldn’t do it during that. We had to get that settled.”
  
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• Butler County killer says he’s sorry he cut elderly woman’s throat

  06-11-2015 11:53
  
  HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — A Kentucky man told the jury deciding whether to recommend putting him to death that he is filled “with great remorse and sorrow” for killing an 87-year-old southwestern Ohio woman and leaving her body in the trunk of her car. Daniel French, 57, of Berea, took the stand on Thursday and told the Butler County courtroom that he wishes he could change what happened.
  
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• Simulated town, adult volunteers help disabled youths learn life skills

  06-11-2015 11:49
  
  Kierra Saunders had already been to the bank twice to replenish her funds after decorating a tote bag for her sister, visiting the pet shop and buying herself a trinket in another store. After that whirlwind on Wednesday morning, the 15-year-old from Columbus Alternative High School grinned as she relaxed with a red snow cone in the town center.
  
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• MOMMY WARS: Transforming Parent Problems Into Support

  06-11-2015 11:49
  
  Squaring off when we should be teaming up. One local company is working to put an end to the wars being waged between parents. Read more.
  
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• Athens businesses rebuilding a year after fire near Ohio University

  06-11-2015 11:43
  
  ATHENS, Ohio — Nearly a year after a fire destroyed several apartments and businesses less than a block from Ohio University’s campus gate, rebuilding has begun. In the past few days, two burned-out buildings were torn down. Rubble is being removed from behind brick facades along W. Union Street. In a few months, those street-facing walls will be the only historic remnant of the buildings affected by the blaze.
  
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• Showers Early Friday Morning, Temperatures Drop For The Weekend

  06-11-2015 11:14
  
  Big changes ahead. A cold will bring rain early today, followed by breezy conditions and a slow cool down this afternoon.
  
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• Morning Forecast: Showers Ending; Temps Drop For The Weekend

  06-11-2015 11:14
  
  Big changes ahead. A cold will bring rain early today, followed by breezy conditions and a slow cool down this afternoon.
  
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• Evening Forecast: Partly Cloudy And Cooler

  06-11-2015 11:14
  
  Skies will gradually clear overnight and temperatures will start to fall.
  
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• Afternoon Forecast: Mostly Sunny & Breezy, High Near 70

  06-11-2015 11:14
  
  Drying out this afternoon from the soggy start this morning. Rainfall was just under a half of an inch in Columbus.
  
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