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• Advocates for disabled sue Husted over voting, website problems

  07-12-2015 23:46
  
  An agency advocating for the disabled has sued Secretary of State Jon Husted for allegedly denying voters who are blind equal access to absentee voting and his state website. Disability Rights Ohio filed a lawsuit late today in U.S. District Court in Columbus on behalf of three residents of Columbus, Oberlin and Cincinnati, as well as the National Federation of the Blind.
  
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• State Steps In To Help Fix Lewis Center Home Sliding Toward Creek

  07-12-2015 23:38
  
  "We're not going to go in the creek," exclaimed homeowner Dick DeWeese. Most homeowners don't have to worry about that. For the DeWeese's, that was only one of many concerns.
  
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• Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West announce son's name

  07-12-2015 23:28
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — And the baby de jour's name is ... Saint West.
  
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• Trump calls for 'complete shutdown' on Muslims entering US

  07-12-2015 23:11
  
  The proposed ban would stand "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on," his campaign said in a statement.
  
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• Columbus man gets 18 years on prostitution, gun charges

  07-12-2015 22:55
  
  A man who pleaded guilty in April to transporting a prostitute across state lines and illegally possessing a gun was sentenced on Monday to more than 18 years in prison by a federal court judge. Carl. R. Smith Jr., 31, had been indicted in 2014 on seven counts in U.S. District Court in Columbus, but he pleaded guilty to the gun-possession and transporting a prostitute charge as part of a plea agreement.
  
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• Columbus Completes Demolition of 900 Abandoned Properties

  07-12-2015 22:43
  
  In February 2012, Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman declared war on vacant properties, pledging to tear down 900 buildings deemed to be dangerous and uninhabitable — just a portion of the city’s inventory of 6,200 abandoned properties. His original goal was to complete the project in four years, but announced today that the mission has been […]
  
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• 2015 Proposed Budget, WorkForce Dev/Health & Human Services

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• Plans for Italian Village Parking Garage Moving Forward

  07-12-2015 22:14
  
  The Wood Companies and Schiff Capital Group recently responded to a suggestion from the Victorian Village Commission to reduce the height of their proposed office building at 711 North High Street. Their proposal for a four-story parking garage at the northeast corner of Pearl and Lincoln streets, however, appears to be working its way through […]
  
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• Chicago cop not charged in second fatal shooting seen on video

  07-12-2015 22:00
  
  A Chicago police officer will not be charged in the shooting of a 25-year-old man who authorities said was armed with a gun as he ran away from officers.
  
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• From Young to Old to Man’s Best Friend—$1.6 Million in Capital Grants will Change Lives

  07-12-2015 21:45
  
  The Columbus Foundation and Osteopathic Heritage Foundation announce grants to support local projects COLUMBUS, Ohio (December 7, 2015)—Teens involved in Boys & Girls Clubs of Columbus’ West Side club will have a new place to call home thanks to The Columbus Foundation and Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Capital Improvement Initiative Funding Partnership. A $110,000 grant will assist with […]
  
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• CAPA 17-year veteran promoted to new position

  07-12-2015 21:34
  
  In 17 years of working at the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts, Chad Whittington has gone from cleaning the Ohio Theatre to being named the group’s executive vice president and chief operating officer.
  
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• Columbus school board approves arena deal

  07-12-2015 21:29
  
  The Columbus Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to support a 100 percent property-tax exemption for Nationwide Arena in return for $586,000 and the use of the facility for high-school graduations. The school board voted 7-0 at a special meeting to accept the deal offered by the Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority, which was staring at a potential $4 million a year tax bill starting in January 2017 without a new law specifically exempting the arena, similar to those granted t
  
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• CAPA 17-year veteran promoted to newly created position

  07-12-2015 21:25
  
  In 17 years of working at the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts, Chad Whittington has gone from cleaning the Ohio Theatre to being named the group’s executive vice president and chief operating officer.
  
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• Ohio hunters kill 73,000 white-tailed deer during start of season

  07-12-2015 21:08
  
  Ohio hunters have killed 73,399 white-tailed deer so far during Ohio’s 2015 deer-gun hunting season, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources said today. The harvest to date is a 12 percent increase over last year, when 65,484 were killed, but fewer than the 2013 season, when 75,408 deer were killed. Two days of the deer-gun season remain on Dec. 28 and 29.
  
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• WATCH LIVE: Authorities Update San Bernardino Shooting Investigation

  07-12-2015 20:45
  
  Officials will be providing an update at 3 p.m.
  
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• The Latest: FBI say shooters participated in target practice

  07-12-2015 20:45
  
  The FBI says the California shooters had participated in target practice, including once within days of the attack that killed 14 people.
  
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• FBI: killers had been radicalized 'for quite some time'

  07-12-2015 20:45
  
  The FBI says the California shooters had participated in target practice, including once within days of the attack that killed 14 people.
  
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• Second body found in park; man found dead in fire; Christmas trees stolen from Boy Scouts:...

  07-12-2015 20:06
  
  Human remains discovered in Innis Park in Columbus on Dec. 3, 2015, were identified as 17-year-old Wilson Omar Villeda of Columbus, who was reported missing Nov. 14. Remains of a second person were found in Innis Park Saturday. What started out five days ago as remains being found in a remote part of a Columbus park has now grown into a full-blown excavation after a second body was found.
  
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• Ginther Announces Members of Mayoral Transition Panel

  07-12-2015 20:03
  
  When Mayor-elect Andrew Ginther takes office on January 1st, he’ll do so with the help of a few friends. Ginther announced today the nine members of his Mayoral Transition Advisory Council, which will help guide the administration during the first 100 day period. The list of advisors includes: Christie Angel, director, Calfee Strategic Solutions Rev. Dr. […]
  
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• Man sentenced to life in prison for fatal shooting on West Side

  07-12-2015 19:48
  
  A 31-year-old man was sentenced today to life in prison with no chance of parole for 41 years for participating in an armed invasion at a West Side drug house that led to a fatal shooting.
  
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• College Of Wooster Cancels Classes After Two Bomb Threats

  07-12-2015 19:40
  
  The private, liberal arts college in northeast Ohio scrapped all classes on Monday amid two separate bomb threats to the school.
  
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• Man sent to prison for 19 years for strangling wife

  07-12-2015 19:02
  
  A 44-year-old North Side man was sentenced today to 19 years in prison for strangling his wife and dumping her body in the basement of an abandoned house in their neighborhood.
  
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• Loose Rail Brewing Building Canal Winchester Taproom

  07-12-2015 18:40
  
  Canal Winchester will be be gaining a new craft microbrewery this spring. Loose Rail Brewing Company is the third project from the owners of Harvest Moon Craft Kitchen and The Garden Herb Shop, just a block away from the new brewery’s location at 37 W. Lauderdale Street. Husband-wife duo Nathan and Kelley Doerfler bought Harvest Moon […]
  
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• PA Police: Burglary Suspect Identified By Name On Shirt

  07-12-2015 18:36
  
  Police say a suspect had his first name stenciled on a sweat shirt he wore while breaking into a western Pennsylvania taxi company where he used to work.
  
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• NEXT: The Most Sophisticated Map Ever

  07-12-2015 17:17
  
  We’ve all used Google Traffic for our morning commute. Rather than watching the local news or listening in for the intermittent traffic reports on radio, we can simply consult our mobile devices and get a close to real-time picture of traffic patterns for the rush hour commute. I have been known to alter my morning […]
  
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• US Justice Department To Investigate Chicago Police

  07-12-2015 17:04
  
  The Justice Department will investigate the patterns and practices of the Chicago Police Department, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Monday
  
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• Columbus wants North Market to pay part of its maintenance costs

  07-12-2015 16:52
  
  Columbus plans to keep the North Market a public space for at least the next five years, but with a new hitch. The city plans to put a provision in the new five-year lease that requires the market’s operating board to put some of its revenue into a city fund that will go toward maintaining the publicly-owned facility in the Arena District. The City Council meets today at 5 p.m. at City Hall, where it is expected to approve the ordinance.
  
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• U.S. Govt. To Roll Out New Terror Alert System

  07-12-2015 16:49
  
  Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says details about the new system will be announced soon. He says the change is needed to better inform Americans about the country's security posture.
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: John Kasich says Obama's terrorism strategy is 'not enough'

  07-12-2015 15:23
  
  In a rare speech delivered from the Oval Office, President Barack Obama said “The threat from terrorism is real but we will overcome it.” “Obama’s 13-minute speech focused primarily on the threat of terrorism — the two shooters in the San Bernardino rampage are thought to have been radicalized — but gave a brief nod to his concerns about the nation’s gun laws. He also spoke just weeks after Islamic State militants murdered 130 people in Paris,” Dis
  
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• WATCH: Crew Fans Pelt Portland Timbers With Beer During MLS Final

  07-12-2015 14:17
  
  After Columbus Crew SC lost in the MLS Cup to the Portland Timbers, social media was buzzing about the moments of unsportsmanlike conduct from Crew supporters.
  
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• Photos: Luminarias light German Village

  07-12-2015 14:17
  
  German Village held its annual Village Lights celebration on Sunday night.
  
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• Run/walk participant dies after being hit by vehicle

  07-12-2015 14:05
  
  CINCINNATI — Authorities in Cincinnati said a woman participating in an annual run/walk died after being struck by a car. City officials said a vehicle jumped the curb on Sunday morning and hit the woman on a sidewalk during the 38th annual Seven Hills Run/Walk. She was pronounced dead at a hospital.
  
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• Female passenger killed in 2-vehicle crash on I-275

  07-12-2015 14:04
  
  CINCINNATI — A 21-year-old woman was killed in an early-morning accident on I-275, authorities said on Sunday. The Hamilton County sheriff’s office said Destinie Stevens, of Cincinnati, was pronounced dead at the scene in Whitewater Township west of Cincinnati.
  
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• Art museum launches ‘sneaker culture’ exhibit

  07-12-2015 14:03
  
  TOLEDO — An exhibit on “sneaker culture” has opened at a Toledo art museum. The show at the Toledo Museum of Art features footwear beginning with spiked running shoes from the 1860s all the way to contemporary sneakers designed by Kanye West.
  
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• Worthington Industries helping to build fuel-cell car

  07-12-2015 14:01
  
  Worthington Industries Inc. will expand a plant to provide hydrogen cylinders to the Japanese auto industry through a contract with Teijin Engineering of Osaka, Japan.
  
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• Expert: Video shows boy didn’t go for gun

  07-12-2015 14:01
  
  CLEVELAND — A 12-year-old boy killed by Cleveland police last year had his hands in his pockets when he was shot and wasn’t reaching for the pellet gun he was carrying, according to an expert hired by the boy’s family to review a frame-by-frame video of the deadly encounter.
  
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• Heroin users shooting up while driving, police say

  07-12-2015 13:58
  
  HAMILTON, Ohio — Police in a southwestern Ohio community that has been hit hard by deadly heroin said they are seeing cases of users endangering others by shooting up while driving.
  
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• Orion module to be tested in Ohio

  07-12-2015 13:57
  
  SANDUSKY, Ohio — Part of the test version of NASA’s new Orion spacecraft is ready to undergo testing in northern Ohio. The service module was delivered recently to the NASA test facility in Sandusky. It will receive vibration, acoustic, strength and temperature tests over the next several months that will replicate conditions the module will experience while ascending into space.
  
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• Delaware County Bank’s parent plans sale, lease-back of its offices

  07-12-2015 13:52
  
  The parent of Delaware County Bank has announced that it will sell and lease back the property it owns at 110 Riverbend Ave. in Lewis Center, the site of its corporate offices.
  
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• Archie Griffin gets tasty gig: addressing pizza and ice cream convention

  07-12-2015 13:48
  
  A convention entirely devoted to pizza and ice cream? Yes, such an event exists, and it’s coming next month to Downtown.
  
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• Downtown Courtyard by Marriott sold as part of broader deal

  07-12-2015 13:38
  
  American Realty Capital Hospitality Trust said last week it has completed the acquisition of the 150-room Courtyard by Marriott Columbus Downtown hotel.
  
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• Mystery still surrounds bodies found in Innis Park

  07-12-2015 12:53
  
  Columbus police continued to search a North Side park on Sunday after finding a second body there on Saturday. Police have been investigating in Innis Park after a passerby found the partially buried body of 17-year-old Wilson Omar Villeda in a heavily wooded area there on Wednesday. That case is being investigated as a homicide.
  
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• CCAD lets freshmen delve into art sooner

  07-12-2015 12:51
  
  These days, the typical art-school freshman arrives with a passion to make a certain kind of art — painting or digital animation or interior design — while the traditional art-school curriculum requires freshmen to spend a year or more studying art history, color theory and the basics of drawing, regardless of their majors.
  
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• Police arrest mother of newborn baby who was buried alive

  07-12-2015 12:43
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have arrested the mother of a baby who was buried alive near a Southern California bike path.
  
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• M/I Homes offers development plan for Minerva Lake Golf Club site

  07-12-2015 12:28
  
  If it feels like you’ve read this story before, that’s because you have. The Minerva Lake Golf Club is toast. Someone is buying the 18-hole course and filling it with homes. Everything inside that slice of land on the North Side is going to change. Maybe.
  
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• Removal of trees from lot dismays Worthington neighbors

  07-12-2015 12:23
  
  Over the course of several weeks this fall, neighbors watched in shock as truckloads of mature beech, walnut, oak and pine trees were uprooted from a lot along their scenic drive in Worthington. The Tucker Drive neighborhood is known for its streams, ravines and canopy of trees. And despite waving, honking and yelling at the contractor, and calls to the city for help, residents soon learned they could do nothing to stop the clear-cutting.
  
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• NASA Releases Stunning Pictures Of Pluto

  07-12-2015 12:19
  
  Black and white images beamed to Earth could be some of the clearest close-ups of Pluto's surface humans see for decades, NASA says.
  
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• Funding issues stall historic Newark church’s renovations

  07-12-2015 12:18
  
  NEWARK, Ohio — Members of Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Newark had hoped this past spring that by Christmas they would be back worshipping in their sanctuary instead of in the adjoining auditorium on metal folding chairs. But now, in December, the temporary chairs in the church’s auditorium haven’t budged.
  
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• Syria Says 3 Soldiers Killed In US-led Coalition Airstrikes

  07-12-2015 12:10
  
  The Syrian government has sent a protest letter to the U.N. over the incident. Find out more.
  
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• Columbus among 33 cities setting home-price records

  07-12-2015 12:01
  
  Columbus was one of 33 major metropolitan areas in the United States that reached a record for home-sales prices in 2015, according to RealtyTrac, which collects and analyzes housing data.
  
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