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• Quick Thinking During Paris Attacks Averted Massacre At Stadium

  16-11-2015 23:50
  
  One bystander was killed and several dozen injured in three explosions outside the Stade de France during the France-Germany soccer match; but it could have been far worse
  
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• Free deer field dressing workshop in Columbus

  16-11-2015 23:43
  
  Outdoors enthusiasts interested in learning to field dress their own white-tailed deer are encouraged to attend a free informational workshop provided by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife on Wednesday, Nov. 18. The workshop will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Wildlife District One Office, located at 1500 Dublin Road, Columbus. The workshop is free of charge.
  
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• New Jersey mall frees up Santa's lap: no more $35 to $50 fee

  16-11-2015 22:57
  
  The move had sparked anger from many parents, some of whom say the charge inherently pushes away low-income families.
  
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• Body of girl gone missing at football game found in creek

  16-11-2015 22:57
  
  Police said Doolin's body was found at 8:05 p.m. in a creek in a wooded area behind the high school.
  
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• #Cityshow Kendrick Lamar Crashes Wedding Here in the City and Almost Gets Kicked Out!!! Video

  16-11-2015 22:38
  
  Kendrick Lamar gave a newlywed couple the surprise of a lifetime by crashing their reception - but at least one guest was PISSED, and tried to toss the superstar and his pals out of the party! The wedding was in a Columbus, OH hotel last month, and in this video you see Kendrick hit the dance floor as Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" is blaring.
  
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• Columbus Zoo Shows Off New Baby Bonobo

  16-11-2015 22:08
  
  Max is the 15th bonobo born at the Columbus Zoo since 1990.
  
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• Zoo welcomes baby bonobo

  16-11-2015 21:40
  
  The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium welcomed a baby bonobo on Sunday.
  
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• Opinion: The Short North’s Loss is the Rest of the City’s Gain

  16-11-2015 20:39
  
  When we broke the sad news of the closure of Rigsby’s Kitchen two weekends ago, we knew that the public response would include a mixture of shock, despair, and anger. Fans of the iconic Short North restaurant were rightfully upset to hear that the business had closed its doors for good. Some even went as […]
  
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• Kasich asking Obama to keep Syrian refugees out of Ohio

  16-11-2015 19:57
  
  Ohio Gov. John Kasich will fight any attempt to bring Syrian refugees to Ohio. “The governor doesn’t believe the U.S. should accept additional Syrian refugees because security and safety issues cannot be adequately addressed," said Kasich spokesman Jim Lynch in response to a Dispatch inquiry. "The governor is writing to the president to ask him to stop, and to ask him to stop resettling them in Ohio. We are also looking at what additional steps Ohio can take to stop resettlement of t
  
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• Feds schedule meetings to discuss possible fracking leases in Wayne National Forest

  16-11-2015 19:41
  
  The federal government will hold three meetings this week concerning the possibility of opening Wayne National Forest to fracking. Oil and gas companies have formally expressed interest to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in hydraulically fracturing about 31,900 acres of the Wayne. The bureau is reviewing those requests to see if the federal government owns the mineral rights beneath those sections of the forest, and it plans to assess potential environmental risks.
  
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• Columbus Native Donates Face, Scalp To Burned Firefighter

  16-11-2015 19:26
  
  A volunteer firefighter badly burned in a 2001 blaze has received the most extensive face transplant ever, covering his skull and much of his neck, a New York hospital announced Monday.
  
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• Ohio State Enforcing ‘Clear Bag Policy’ For Michigan St. Game

  16-11-2015 18:37
  
  Ohio State has announced it will implement a “clear bag policy” this weekend for anyone bringing items into Ohio Stadium. Find out the items you can and cannot bring into the stadium this weekend.
  
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• Man who struck bicyclist sentenced to nearly five years in prison

  16-11-2015 18:01
  
  A man who struck and killed a bicyclist with his pickup truck was sentenced to nearly five years in prison today.
  
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• Several States Revisiting Plans To Accept Syrian Refugees

  16-11-2015 17:34
  
  Several U.S. governors are temporarily halting efforts to allow Syrian refugees into their states in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris.
  
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• Gov. Kasich Says No To New Syrian Refugees In Ohio

  16-11-2015 17:34
  
  Several U.S. governors are temporarily halting efforts to allow Syrian refugees into their states in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris.
  
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• Lakewood player nearly splits $200 million Mega Millions jackpot with Columbus-area winner

  16-11-2015 17:27
  
  A Columbus-area lottery player won Friday's $200 million Mega Millions drawing, but almost split the jackpot with a Lakewood player. The winning ticket in Friday's Mega Millions drawing, which matched the winning numbers of 17, 18, 31, 35 and 59 with the Mega Ball of 9, was sold at Blendon Drive Thru in Westerville.
  
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• Trial begins for man accused of killing ex-girlfriend

  16-11-2015 17:19
  
  CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio — More than two dozen friends and relatives of Alicia Pentacost-Salyers packed a courtroom and wore black to mourn her today as the trial of her accused killer gets under way. Trevor Teets, 20, is charged with murder. It took about two hours to seat a jury in Pickaway County Common Pleas Court this morning, and opening statements began at about 11 a.m.
  
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• Columbus council to target problem hotels, motels

  16-11-2015 17:12
  
  The Columbus City Council is expected to impose new regulations on problem hotels and motels that are a scourge of neighborhoods and foster criminal activity. The new law will require hotels and motels in Columbus to get annual permits that could be seized by the city if inspectors find code violations and patterns of criminal activity. Council is expected to approve the legislation at its meeting today at 5 p.m. at City Hall.
  
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• Reward For Information On Golden Corral Slaying Upped To $30K

  16-11-2015 17:04
  
  This comes nearly a month after the 40-year-old father of six was gunned down in the parking lot of the Golden Corral restaurant on West Dublin-Granville Road on October 23.
  
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• Gas drops below $2/gallon

  16-11-2015 16:22
  
  Good news for central Ohio motorists as the holiday season gears up: Gas prices are the lowest since 2009, averaging under the $2 mark. The average price in Columbus was $1.98 in Monday's survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and WEX Inc. , the lowest average price since the last week of January and 21 cents lower than one week ago.
  
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• Driver Sentenced In Bicyclist's Fatal 2012 Hit & Run

  16-11-2015 16:20
  
  The driver who hit and killed a man known as "Bicycle Bobby" in December 2012 was sentenced to nearly five years in prison on Monday.
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: John Kasich talks Paris attacks, debate style

  16-11-2015 14:55
  
  Last week Ohio Gov. John Kasich heard some boos while debating bank bailouts with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz during the GOP debate. “The two Republican candidates veered sharply apart as Cruz flatly said that, as president, he would not bail out a major bank on the verge of failure. Kasich, in contrast, insisted: ‘When there is a financial crisis or a crisis with Ebola, you’ve got to go there and try to fix it,’” Dispatch Washington bureau chief Jack Torry writes.
  
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• Brian Ellis on Parks Edge, NRI’s Proposed 12-Story Condo Building

  16-11-2015 14:30
  
  Last week, Nationwide Realty Investors announced plans to build a 12-story residential tower at the northeast corner of Spring Street and Neil Avenue. The 12-story building, which would add 69 luxury condominiums to the Downtown market, will be presented to the Downtown Commission at its November 17th meeting. We caught up with NRI President and COO […]
  
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• Arnold Brings His Next Film to Columbus

  16-11-2015 14:00
  
  Film Columbus and its president, John Daugherty, can thank a friend for the next major Hollywood film to be shot in Columbus. The plane crash drama 478 will begin shooting locally by mid-December, thanks in large part to its star’s fondness for Columbus. “They contacted me a few weeks ago, and it was pretty much […]
  
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• Family-business event to look at communication problems

  16-11-2015 13:46
  
  COLUMBUS — The Conway Center for Family Business will hold a workshop addressing communication challenges within family businesses this week.
  
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• Massage Envy franchisee’s 6th shop to be in Blacklick

  16-11-2015 13:44
  
  COLUMBUS — Massage Envy plans to open a location in the Blacklick area on Nov. 30, becoming the sixth spa for franchisee Chad Warner.
  
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• Enlarged rue21 store opens in Mall at Tuttle Crossing

  16-11-2015 13:42
  
  DUBLIN — The Mall at Tuttle Crossing’s new rue21 location opened last week on the upper level next to Things Remembered. The 6,390-square-foot store is 600 square feet larger than the previous location.
  
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• Installed Building Products buys 3 companies on coasts

  16-11-2015 13:40
  
  COLUMBUS — Installed Building Products announced the acquisition of three companies last week. Sierra Insulation Contractors and Eco-Tect Insulation, both based in California, install fiberglass and cellulose insulation. The move extends Installed Building Products’ presence in southern California.
  
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• Columbus-area airports getting Wi-Fi upgrade

  16-11-2015 13:38
  
  SUNNYVALE, Calif. — The Columbus Regional Airport Authority, which operates Port Columbus, Rickenbacker and Bolton Field airports, is upgrading its Wi-Fi service, using technology from Aruba, a Hewlett-Packard Enterprise company.
  
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• Local entrepreneurs report growth, job gains

  16-11-2015 13:36
  
  COLUMBUS — The Columbus chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s annual EO Global Entrepreneur Indicator shows overall growth and opportunity in central Ohio.
  
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• Worthington Industries venture soon to open plant

  16-11-2015 13:33
  
  COLUMBUS — Worthington Industries’ tailor-welded-blanking joint venture, TWB Co., plans to open a plant in Glasgow, Ky., and begin production in the first quarter of 2016.
  
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• Ruling against ‘jock tax’ to spur refunds from Cleveland

  16-11-2015 13:19
  
  CLEVELAND — Cleveland might end up paying back millions in tax refunds after the state’s highest court rejected the city’s appeal over its formula for taxing visiting professional athletes.
  
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• Panel: Longer oversight needed at women’s prison

  16-11-2015 13:18
  
  DAYTON — A correctional facility inspection committee said monitoring should continue at a troubled women’s prison in Dayton despite signs of improvement. The Correctional Institution Inspection Committee said staff stability at the Dayton Correctional Institution has been a problem and that no mental-health programs were conducted in more than a month.
  
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• Cleveland spends $6M to bolster snow-removal equipment

  16-11-2015 13:17
  
  CLEVELAND — City officials said upgraded equipment puts them in a better situation to handle the weather this winter. City officials said last week they spent $6 million this year on vehicles for the streets division. Those include 31 snowplow trucks and five pickup trucks with plows.
  
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• Concert review | Columbus Symphony: Movie music spectacularly showcased

  16-11-2015 12:29
  
  A weekend of wonderful music for motion pictures concluded on Sunday with two concerts devoted to John Williams, performed by the Columbus Symphony.
  
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• Olentangy School's Redistricting Plan Upsets Some Parents

  16-11-2015 12:26
  
  Parents of students in the Olentangy Local School District say they are frustrated their children are being moved away from their friends. Read more.
  
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• Air Force couples to get early counseling to try to prevent divorces

  16-11-2015 12:25
  
  FAIRBORN, Ohio — Researchers at Wright State University have received nearly $900,000 to observe about 250 Air Force couples who have been in a committed relationship for at least six months.
  
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• Parents’ heroin use increasingly cited in Ohio’s foster-care cases

  16-11-2015 12:24
  
  DAYTON — Heroin use is being increasingly mentioned as the reason many Ohio children are being taken away from their parents and placed in foster homes.
  
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• Exhibit celebrates deaf artist who teaches high schoolers how to draw, paint, sculpt

  16-11-2015 12:16
  
  LANCASTER — Since losing most of his hearing at age 5, Bob Wright has relied on gestures to understand other people. Moving lips. Darting eyes. Flailing limbs. What is perhaps unsurprising, then, is that, in his paintings, the Lancaster artist often focuses on people in motion — swimmers, dancers, hockey players.
  
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• Clues sought in theft of bill changer at senior facility

  16-11-2015 11:55
  
  A burglary at a North Side senior-living complex is the crime of the week in the Crime Stoppers program. Two men entered a secure apartment building at the Jaycee Village Senior Living facility in the 5900 block of Beechcroft Road at 6 p.m. on Oct. 16 by following two other people inside.
  
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• Ohio State sit-in yields joint statement

  16-11-2015 11:54
  
  A rally against racism by Ohio State University students on Friday that became an hours-long sit-in and negotiating session had by early Saturday turned into a joint statement signed by a student organizer and two university officials.
  
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• New leader wants Columbus NAACP to be vocal advocate for minorities

  16-11-2015 11:52
  
  The new leader of the Columbus branch of the NAACP said she plans to kick-start the dormant organization at a time when the treatment of blacks has become a focal point on college campuses across the country.
  
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• Hospitals’ Medicaid support to change

  16-11-2015 11:49
  
  Taxpayers subsidize the cost of training doctors at dozens of hospitals across Ohio through the Medicaid program, which is funded by the federal and state governments.
  
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• Church will be reborn as museum in Athens

  16-11-2015 11:43
  
  ATHENS, Ohio — The Athens County Historical Society & Museum is preparing to move into a historic church building in uptown Athens, more than tripling its space and expanding into a regional center to tell the story of southeastern Ohio. The museum will be named the Southeast Ohio History Center when it opens in the spring.
  
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• Rebuilding sewers and streets around historic Licking County Courthouse offers glimpses of the past

  16-11-2015 11:29
  
  NEWARK, Ohio — Signs of the past are easy to spot in Newark. From the historic Licking County jail built in the late 1800s, to the nearly 140-year-old courthouse in the square, to the restored Lock No. 9 from the Ohio and Erie Canal, history is scattered around town. And thanks to a major utility and street-construction project in downtown Newark, it’s become clear that history is scattered below town, too.
  
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• Sunny And Cool Start To Monday With Some Clouds Moving In

  16-11-2015 11:18
  
  A clear and cool start to a pleasant Autumn day.
  
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• Foreigners flocking to U.S. colleges

  16-11-2015 11:18
  
  Students from throughout the world, especially from China, continue to flock to U.S. colleges and universities in record numbers, and Ohio schools are no exception. In the Institute of International Education’s annual “Open Doors” report released today, Ohio ranks eighth among states for the number of international students hosted in the 2014-15 school year.
  
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• Evening Forecast: Increasing Clouds, But Mild

  16-11-2015 11:18
  
  While Tuesday won't be as sunny as Monday, it will be just as warm.
  
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• Afternoon Forecast: Mix Of Sun & Clouds; Temps In Low 60s

  16-11-2015 11:18
  
  As high pressure moves to the east, clouds will roll in tonight and tomorrow while temperatures remain unseasonably mild.
  
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• The Future Of Shopping: Kroger Tests Digital Price Tags

  16-11-2015 11:12
  
  The tags can play videos and alert you if you are passing an item on your shopping list.
  
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