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• Man charged with murder in Thanksgiving Day shooting death

  08-12-2015 23:37
  
  The Franklin County sheriff’s office is looking for a man suspected in the Nov. 26 shooting death of a West Side man. Da’Juan Mankins, 18, whose address is unknown, was charged on Tuesday with aggravated murder in the death of Glen Allen Stepp, 47, of Volney Avenue, in an alley near his home. Stepp was found shot in the upper body about 5 p.m. He died at Mount Carmel West Hospital shortly after arriving.
  
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• Florida Sheriff calls on America's "good guys" to shoot "bad guys"

  08-12-2015 22:40
  
  While saying this wasn't about "politics" or "religion," and instead had everything to do with "liberty."
  
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• Columbus attorney's office looking for - Holiday Hoodlums'

  08-12-2015 22:21
  
  According to the office's press release today , the list comprises "a group of crooks who deserve a lump of coal in their stockings and an extended stay in the county jail instead of presents resting under the tree and visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads. Jason Abrahamson , 36, of 976 Bruckner Road on the city's South Side, has been charged with crimes more than 25 times in Franklin County, is wanted on two arrest warrants for stealing several tool kits with a total value of $1,586.
  
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• Boston College: 80 sickened after eating at Chipotle

  08-12-2015 21:26
  
  The company says it thinks the Boston College illnesses are an isolated case of norovirus and unrelated to the E. coli cases.
  
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• Franklin County sheriff searching for murder suspect

  08-12-2015 21:19
  
  The Franklin County sheriff’s office is looking for a man suspected in the Nov. 26 shooting death of a West Side man. Da’Juan Mankins, 18, whose address is unknown, was charged on Tuesday with aggravated murder in the death of Glen Allen Stepp, 47, of Volney Avenue, in an alley near his home. Stepp was found shot in the upper body about 5 p.m. He died at Mount Carmel West Hospital shortly after arriving.
  
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• Commissioners approve new Fairfield County operating budget

  08-12-2015 20:46
  
  LANCASTER, Ohio — Fairfield County commissioners approved a $44.4 million general-fund budget this morning for next year, less than this year’s approximately $45.4 million budget. The commissioners said the new budget reflects public safety as a priority, with the sheriff’s office accounts for $10.6 million of the total.
  
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• Dimebag Darrell is killed by Pantera fan in 2004

  08-12-2015 20:16
  
  Heavy metal band guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott of Damageplan performs on stage during MTV2 Headbangers Ball Tour April 1, 2004 at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City. The crazed fan who gunned down a heavy-metal guitarist and three other people at a Columbus, Ohio, nightclub blamed the musician for the breakup of Pantera - his favorite band.
  
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• Budget correction bill exempts legislative employees from new personal leave rule

  08-12-2015 20:08
  
  A bill that legislative leaders are using to fix a number of items from the last two-year budget also would exempt legislative employees from a new rule that no longer allows state workers to take personal leave in 15-minute increments.
  
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• Suspect In Thanksgiving Day Murder Identified

  08-12-2015 19:44
  
  The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office has identified a man accused in a deadly shooting on Thanksgiving day in the Hilltop neighborhood.
  
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• Grand Illumination 2015

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• Newest Victoria’s Secret Angel Is A New Albany Native

  08-12-2015 18:51
  
  A hometown teen turns heads as the newest and youngest Victoria's Secret Angel.
  
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• Cleveland bans sales of tobacco products to those under 21

  08-12-2015 18:39
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland has joined several other Ohio cities that have outlawed the sale of tobacco products and electronic cigarettes to people under age 21.
  
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• City Marks Demolition Of 900th Abandoned Home

  08-12-2015 18:29
  
  It's the end of a long road to rid Columbus of homes labeled as dens for drugs, crime, fire and destruction.
  
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• Columbus demolishes 900th abandoned house

  08-12-2015 18:28
  
  Columbus knocked down its 900th vacant and abandoned house this morning, fulfilling an $11.5 million promise made by Mayor Michael B. Coleman four years ago to eliminate the 900 worst residential structures in the city.
  
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• Tougher standards expected at Ohio’s police-training academies

  08-12-2015 18:04
  
  Ohio hopes to produce better-qualified police officers more sensitive to the diversity of the communities they serve. And, veterans and rookies alike will receive more and improved training on the use of force – including when to shoot or not shoot – amid controversial instances of black suspects being fatally shot by white police officers. Attorney General Mike DeWine announced this morning that police recruits must complete a minimum of 653 hours of basic training beginning next ye
  
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• Murder suspect not eligible for death penalty because of intellectual disability, judge rules

  08-12-2015 18:00
  
  A Franklin County judge has ruled that Willie L. Dumas, awaiting trial in the stabbing death of an 89-year-old woman, is not eligible for the death penalty because he is intellectually disabled.
  
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• New concealed-carry permits drop in Ohio in 3Q, but still up from last year

  08-12-2015 17:54
  
  Ohio law enforcement issued 18 percent fewer concealed carry permits in the third quarter this year compared to the second quarter, but the number is still far higher than the same period a year ago.
  
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• Santa’s Message To Boy With Autism: Be Yourself

  08-12-2015 17:49
  
  When Saint Nick made a pre-Christmas stop near Detroit this week, he touched the heart of a young boy who was worried he would be placed on the “naughty list” for having autism.
  
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• Canton VFW thief must read WWII books in jail

  08-12-2015 17:32
  
  CANTON — A Pittsburgh-area man has been ordered to read books about Pearl Harbor and D-Day while he spends about 70 days in jail for stealing from a Canton VFW post.
  
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• Democrats target Ohio in efforts for debt-free college education

  08-12-2015 17:30
  
  Lawmakers in 10 states launched a legislative push on Monday intended to make debt-free public college a priority of the 2016 election. In a teleconference, the group of Democrats announced plans to introduce resolutions in the early primary states of New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina, the political battleground state of Ohio and in Illinois, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Missouri, South Dakota and Hawaii.
  
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• Zombie Nativity scene causes stir in Cincinnati; fine likely

  08-12-2015 17:25
  
  For the second year in a row, a Cincinnati couple has constructed a zombie-themed Nativity scene against the objections of local zoning officials and religious groups.
  
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• Happy 121st birthday, James Thurber!

  08-12-2015 17:12
  
  Happy 121st birthday, James Thurber! Don’t miss Keny Galleries current Thurber show, The Art of Humor, running through mid-January in the German Village. Be sure to check out and support the Thurber House too!
  
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• Three New Marriott Hotels Under Construction in Columbus Market

  08-12-2015 17:06
  
  If Marriott is your flagship hotel of choice, then it’s soon going to be a lot easier to stay in Columbus. Three new Marriott hotels are currently under construction, including the Renaissance Westerville, and a shared-services setup between Marriott and Residence Inn on Olentangy River Road. Combined, the three hotels will add 578 new guest rooms to the […]
  
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• Dog Owner Charged With Murder In Boy's Mauling Death By Pack Of Pit Bulls

  08-12-2015 16:53
  
  A man responsible for a pack of dogs that dragged a 4-year-old Detroit boy away from his mother and killed him last week has been charged with second-degree murder.
  
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• Percy Squire gets law license back after client funds mishandled

  08-12-2015 16:45
  
  Once prominent Columbus lawyer Percy Squire, suspended from the practice of law in 2011 for mishandling and borrowing nearly $250,000 in client funds, received his law license back today from the Ohio Supreme Court. Squire admitted using client funds as a “slush fund” in violation of rules governing the handling of trust accounts, prompting the court to indefinitely suspend him four years ago.
  
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• Dublin Approves Plans for Eight-Story Bridge Park Hotel

  08-12-2015 16:18
  
  Dublin City Council approved plans during last night’s public meeting for the development of a new eight-story hotel at Bridge Park, which we first unveiled in October. Council also approved three additional buildings in the same development, which include an events center, an office building and a parking garage. The new hotel — along with […]
  
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• Columbus Releases Annual “Holiday Hoodlums” List

  08-12-2015 16:03
  
  These crooks deserve a lump of coal in their stockings and an extended stay in the county jail instead of (potentially stolen) presents resting under the tree.
  
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• Columbus City Council December 7, 2015

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• ColumbusRotary: Jeni's Ice Cream - To the Abyss, And Back

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• Ohio Politics Now: Kasich, others challenge Trump's call to ban Muslims from entering U.S.

  08-12-2015 15:37
  
  Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” after last week’s shooting in San Bernardino that killed 14. “Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life,” Trump said in the statement.
  
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• Ex-CEO of Greif to receive $2.15 million in separation pact

  08-12-2015 14:22
  
  The former president and CEO of Greif Inc. will receive $2.15 million from the company under a separation agreement disclosed on Monday, plus bonuses and other pay.
  
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• Patchy Fog And Partly Cloudy Tuesday

  08-12-2015 13:45
  
  Mike Davis says it will be a gray and hazy Tuesday.
  
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• Afternoon Forecast: Mostly Cloudy, Temps In Low 50s

  08-12-2015 13:45
  
  High pressure builds in briefly today ahead of an area of low pressure that will bring a chance for scattered showers tomorrow.
  
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• LeBron James lands lifetime contract with Nike

  08-12-2015 13:29
  
  INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — LeBron James will wear the legendary swoosh for the rest of his life. James and Nike have agreed on a lifetime contract that could serve as the next step toward a shoe empire similar to the Jordan brand Nike built around Michael Jordan.
  
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• Bad life? Too bad, judge tells pimp given 18 years

  08-12-2015 13:26
  
  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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• Judge acquits Dublin driver in Powell motorcyclist’s death

  08-12-2015 13:20
  
  Everyone who spoke to Bradley R. Baldridge in the minutes after he drove his Jeep across the center line on Riverside Drive, striking and killing a motorcycle rider, heard the same story. “He said he had either blacked out or passed out,” Dublin police Cpl. Kevin Keiffer testified on Monday in Franklin County Municipal Court. After hearing a series of witnesses testify that they heard Baldridge offer the same explanation for losing control of his car, and no evidence to the contrary,
  
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• U.S. Reviewing Fiancé Visa Program After Calif. Terror Attack

  08-12-2015 13:12
  
  Tashfeen Malik, the radicalized Muslim wife accused in the California shootings, was one of just 519 Pakistanis allowed into the country last year specifically to marry a U.S. citizen.
  
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• Listening to their despair can help those in suicide’s grip

  08-12-2015 12:55
  
  It often takes a confluence of many highly individual factors — mental illness, addiction, childhood trauma — to leave people so bereft of hope that they end their own lives. Suicide is complicated, and often brought on by emotionally charged, intensely personal events. It’s the kind of thing that keeps people from taking a casserole over to the house of someone who might be contemplating suicide, or the family of someone lost to it.
  
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• 2015 Fiesta Bowl: Preview, How To Watch, Ticket Information

  08-12-2015 12:26
  
  Here’s everything you need to know about the New Year’s Day matchup between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
  
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• 66-Year-Old Woman Shot In Her Driveway In SE Columbus

  08-12-2015 12:24
  
  Police are looking for two suspects who opened fire on a woman in southeast Columbus.
  
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• 66-Year-Old Woman Shot In Her Driveway

  08-12-2015 12:24
  
  Police are looking for the people who opened fire on a woman in southeast Columbus.
  
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• On Restaurants: Tatoheads fries drove creator to potato contest

  08-12-2015 12:15
  
  Daniel McCarthy’s shot at stardom almost didn’t happen. Contacted by the U.S. Potato Board about taking part in a national food-truck competition for the best potato-based dish, the owner of Tatoheads Food Truck was ambivalent about the idea. In November, just hours away from the contest deadline, his girlfriend, Alli Davis, reminded him.
  
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• Hiring in central Ohio expected to stay strong

  08-12-2015 12:09
  
  Hiring in central Ohio is expected to remain robust at the beginning of 2016, according to a survey that also continues to show the the region as the brightest metro area in the state.
  
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• Krispy Kreme Giving Out Freebies At New Store

  08-12-2015 12:07
  
  A new Krispy Kreme store brings fresh doughnuts to the east side.
  
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• CAPA’s new COO knows stage business inside out

  08-12-2015 12:04
  
  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. His latest promotion was announced on Monday.
  
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• Man gets life in prison for fatal shooting during robbery

  08-12-2015 11:57
  
  A 31-year-old man convicted in a deadly robbery at a Columbus drug house has been sentenced to life in prison. The Columbus Dispatch reports 31-year-old Raphael Person was ordered on Monday to serve the sentence with no chance of parole for 41 years.
  
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• Ohio University Student Diagnosed With Viral Meningitis

  08-12-2015 11:38
  
  The Dean of Students sent a letter out to students and parents Monday. Get the details.
  
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• Coroner working to identify 2nd body found in Innis Park

  08-12-2015 11:28
  Though it shares a name, Innis Park on the North Side of Columbus has little in common with Inniswood Metro Gardens, 4 miles to the north in Westerville. Innis Park, the 97-acre Columbus park about a mile southwest of Easton Town Center, is where two sets of human remains were found last week.
  
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• Justice Insider: Guest relieves house of ‘haunted’ pictures

  08-12-2015 11:21
  
  Last week we reported on some unusual Thanksgiving goings-on in Columbus. This one from Gahanna might be late, but we’re confident that you’ll agree that the weirdness quotient trumps any imposed tardiness penalty.
  
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• Woman Leads Deputies On High-Speed Chase Through Two Counties

  08-12-2015 11:14
  
  The chase reached speeds of more than 90 mph.
  
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