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• Wexner, Schottenstein and Ratner among those who donated to Kasich super-PAC

  31-01-2016 23:55
  
  An independent organization backing the presidential candidacy of Gov. John Kasich reported having $1.9 million in money in its treasury at the end of last year, according to reports filed today with the Federal Election Commission. Although Politico.com reported Saturday that the organization – a super-PAC called New Day for America – had raised an additional $4 million this month, the report filed today counted only money the organization had through the end of December.
  
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• K9 Partner Hopeful to Keep Dog, Donations Pour In

  31-01-2016 23:48
  
  Matt Hickey says he’s hopeful that when it comes time for Ajax to be auctioned, with the community’s support, he will continue to be the dog’s owner.
  
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• Group supporting Kasich campaign lags Rubio super-PAC in fundraising

  31-01-2016 22:59
  
  An independent organization backing the presidential candidacy of Gov. John Kasich reported having $1.9 million in money in its treasury at the end of last year, according to reports filed today with the Federal Election Commission. Although Politico.com reported Saturday that the organization – a super-PAC called New Day for America – had raised an additional $4 million this month, the report filed today counted only money the organization had through the end of December.
  
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• Fire damages Buddhist temple in Franklinton; arson suspected

  31-01-2016 21:17
  
  An early morning fire that severely damaged a Buddhist temple in Franklinton was likely intentionally set, according to a Columbus fire official.
  
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• Ohio 15 mins ago 2:01 p.m.Officials: Ohio man made several tries to find child for sex

  31-01-2016 21:14
  
  A criminal complaint against a former Ohio seminarian accused of attempting to have sex with young children in Mexico details alleged previous efforts to obtain access to small children. Twenty-three-year-old Joel Wright was arrested Friday by Homeland Security agents after flying to San Diego from Columbus, Ohio, where he attended seminary school.
  
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• Trailer Roundup: Cats, Birds, Beasts, Trolls & Other Pets

  31-01-2016 21:13
  
  While January isn’t generally prime-time when it comes to new films, tv shows or video games, it’s often a great time to preview what’s coming down the road in the form of trailers, teasers and featurettes. The past week has seen a whole slew of new trailers released, and appear to be quite the mixed […]
  
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• Evening Forecast: Mild & Breezy, Showers Likely Overnight

  31-01-2016 21:03
  
  Wind gusts could get up to 30 mph this evening with showers likely overnight. Get the forecast.
  
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• Candidates Engage In Final Frenzy To Get Supporters To Turn Out

  31-01-2016 20:52
  
  In a final frenzy to inspire supporters to turn out for Monday's Iowa caucuses, the presidential contenders scrambled to close the deal with the first voters to have a say in the 2016 race for the White House.
  
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• Focus Turns To How 3 Men Escaped From Jail

  31-01-2016 20:44
  
  Now that the three violent inmates who escaped from a California jail are back in custody, the focus will turn to how they were able to saw, crawl and climb their way out of a maximum-security facility.
  
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• FOP raises money to help family of 'brother' killed in Danville

  31-01-2016 20:41
  
  As he scooped the last bit of spaghetti from his paper plate Sunday afternoon, retired police officer Eric Brill looked around the packed dining hall at the Fraternal Order of Police Cap City Lodge #9 on Schrock Hill Road.
  
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• Oxfam: $1.9B In Ebola Aid Not Delivered By Donors

  31-01-2016 20:31
  
  Activists say international donors have failed to deliver funds promised to help West African countries recover from the Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people.
  
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• After Sandy Upgrades, Power Stays On During Blizzard

  31-01-2016 20:17
  
  Electric utilities that spent billions of dollars hardening infrastructure after Superstorm Sandy say those upgrades helped keep the lights on in New York and New Jersey during last weekend's blizzard.
  
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• Columbus Division of Fire 102nd Recruit Commencement Ceremony

  31-01-2016 20:12 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Clinton: Republicans Grasping At Straws Over Private Emails

  31-01-2016 20:08
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says the hubbub over whether she had secret emails on her server is "very much like Benghazi," a politically motivated scandal that's likely not as serious as Republicans suggest.
  
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• Reaction To Fire At Franklinton Buddhist Center

  31-01-2016 19:47
  
  A massive fire consumed a Franklinton church hours before Sunday services were set to begin.
  
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• Franklinton Buddhist Center Blaze Considered Suspicious

  31-01-2016 19:47
  
  A massive fire consumed a Franklinton church hours before Sunday services were set to begin.
  
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• Decades-Long Search For "Mr. Wonder" Ends With Arrest

  31-01-2016 19:21
  
  Neighbors in a well-to-do section of this San Diego suburb knew him as Frank Szeles, a friendly Cub Scouts leader who frequently gave swimming lessons to young children in his backyard pool. The federal agents who arrested him last week knew him by a different name: "Mr. Wonder," the host of a popular children's television show who vanished decades ago amid allegations that he sexually abused several kids during a camping retreat in central Louisiana.
  
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• Construction Update: Downtown

  31-01-2016 19:20
  
  If you’ve spent any amount of time in Downtown Columbus in the past decade, then you’re well aware of the ongoing construction of new apartments, offices, parking garages and more. Our construction roundup provides a look at the latest development projects in their current status to keep you up to date on what the future […]
  
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• Outdoor space at Ohio State’s Mansfield campus to serve as a giant, green classroom

  31-01-2016 18:32
  
  MANSFIELD, Ohio — For more than 50 years, the trees and wetlands at the Ohio State University-Mansfield campus lived as passive bystanders to the academic courses that took place inside the buildings on the college's grounds. Then three years ago, a group of environmental-science students drove from the main campus to Mansfield to assess the area for a project.
  
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• Fire damages Buddhist temple in Franklin; arson suspected

  31-01-2016 18:11
  
  An early morning fire that severely damaged a Buddhist temple in Franklinton was likely intentionally set, according to a Columbus fire official.
  
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• ProMusica leader helps orchestrate art, finances

  31-01-2016 17:27
  
  ProMusica Chamber Orchestra relies on executive director Janet Chen and her team to find a balance between artistic vision and fiscal responsibility.
  
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• Decline in young drivers bodes ill for car sales

  31-01-2016 17:27
  
  A rising share of the public, and young people especially, are choosing not to get driver's licenses, part of a long-term trend that could lead to big changes for automakers.
  
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• Huntington marking 150th anniversary this year

  31-01-2016 17:26
  
  Huntington Bancshares has survived the Panic of 1893, the Panic of 1907, the Great Depression and the Great Recession of the past decade, which sent its shares tumbling to a $1 and wiped out hundreds of banks across the country.
  
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• ‘New York Times’ endorses Kasich in GOP race

  31-01-2016 15:46
  
  "The New York Times" has released an editorial backing Ohio Gov. John Kasich for the Republican nomination for president.
  
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• Income Tax Refunds: Your Personal Powerball

  31-01-2016 15:01
  
  My favorite saying is people don’t plan to fail. They fail to plan. You always hear about people who win the lottery and 10 years later they are broke. Usually it is because they fail to plan. Try to avoid making that same mistake with your 2015 income tax refund. Handled correctly, that check from […]
  
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• Virginia Tech Freshman Charged For 13-Year-Old Girl's Death

  31-01-2016 14:16
  
  The girl's body was found more than 100 miles away from her home.
  
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• 2 Virginia Tech Students Arrested For 13-Year-Old Girl's Death

  31-01-2016 14:16
  
  A second Virginia Tech student has been arrested in connection with the death of a 13-year-old girl who disappeared earlier this week.
  
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• Police ID man shot to death at East Side duplex

  31-01-2016 14:08
  
  A man was shot to death at an East Side duplex on Saturday night. Marty Blair, 55, was fatally shot at the duplex in the 800 block of S. Weyant Avenue just south of E. Mound Street.
  
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• Bexley Yoga Offers a Robust Schedule with Classes for All Ages

  31-01-2016 14:00
  
  “When I moved to Bexley, I couldn’t believe that there no yoga studio to do prenatal yoga here,” says Amy Lee of Bexley Yoga at 547 S. Drexel Ave. One day while out walking in her neighborhood near the Columbus School for Girls, this now mother of 3 decided that she was going to walk […]
  
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• John Switzer | From the Stump: Seeing robins in winter the new norm

  31-01-2016 13:57
  
  A while back, I wrote about how pleasant it is to see robins in the winter. Later, when I talked to Jim McCormac, avian expert with the Ohio Division of Wildlife, he said robins are everywhere this winter.
  
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• Capitol Insider: Kasich outside Ohio for 26 workweeks in 10 months

  31-01-2016 13:55
  
  Gov. John Kasich’s business card might well carry an asterisk by now. “Dispatch” Reporter Randy Ludlow calculates that Ohio’s CEO has spent at least 130 days out of state during the past 10 months running for president.
  
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• Grove City may ban ‘puppy mill’ pet sales

  31-01-2016 13:48
  
  Grove City Council members were searching for answers before voting Monday on whether to ban what would be its only pet store from selling "puppy mill" dogs. Council members heard this month from supporters of the ordinance and representatives of Petland, which wants to open a store on Rt. 665 this spring.
  
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• Charity care shrinking at central Ohio’s nonprofit hospitals

  31-01-2016 13:20
  
  Central Ohio’s nonprofit hospitals receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks each year. But the traditional justification for those exemptions is fading rapidly.
  
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• Grove City may ban 'puppy mill' pets sales at store

  31-01-2016 13:11
  
  Grove City Council members were searching for answers before voting Monday on whether to ban what would be its only pet store from selling "puppy mill" dogs. Council members heard this month from supporters of the ordinance and representatives of Petland, which wants to open a store on Rt. 665 this spring.
  
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• Bexley debates how to group 6th-graders

  31-01-2016 13:07
  
  Ages 11 and 12 are a time of transition and turmoil. It's a wonderful age, Principal Cori Kindl of Hilliard Tharp Sixth Grade School says, because children still look largely to adults — instead of their peers — for direction. But it can be hard.
  
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• COTA ridership slips as gas prices fall

  31-01-2016 13:01
  
  The Central Ohio Transit Authority was the fastest-growing large bus system in the country in 2011, when gasoline prices peaked at more than $4 a gallon and the U.S. was still shaking off a recession. Since then, the number of people riding buses in Columbus has stagnated even as COTA has continued to add service. Last year, COTA provided about 100,000 fewer rides — down less than 1 percent — than it did in 2014.
  
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• Best Bets: Art Studio Sale, "The Sound Of Music," and Pizza Tour

  31-01-2016 12:59
  
  10TV's Brittany Begley has the best deals in town for family fun on Sunday.
  
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• Cloudy And Mild Temperatures For Sunday

  31-01-2016 12:54
  
  We’ll see another mild day today with high temperatures mainly in the mid to upper 50s across central Ohio
  
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• Massive Fire Damages West Columbus Buddhist Center

  31-01-2016 12:46
  
  Columbus Firefighters spent hours early Sunday morning putting out the fire
  
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• Outdoors notebook | Grove City man part of U.S. ice fishing team

  31-01-2016 12:32
  
  Ternopil Lake in Ukraine isn’t on the bucket list of most ice fishermen, but it is cool nonetheless. “They have about 10 inches of ice,” said Scott Albrecht, a Grove City resident and a member of the United States team that will compete on the lake during the XIII World Championship of Ice Fishing in late February.
  
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• Gunman On The Run After East Columbus Homicide

  31-01-2016 12:17
  
  Columbus Police are searching for a person that killed a 55-year-old man.
  
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• Highlights And Big Winners From 2016 SAG Awards

  31-01-2016 12:02
  
  Hollywood's best gathered for the 2016 Screen Actors Guild Awards
  
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• Nursing-home residents ridiculed in social-media photos

  31-01-2016 12:01
  
  Several central Ohio advocates are calling for increased training and penalties after a national investigation uncovered numerous incidents of health-care workers posting humiliating and dehumanizing photos of elderly patients on social-media sites.
  
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• Diversity in Columbus police, fire recruits yet to improve

  31-01-2016 11:20
  
  Tracy Smith hung in the back of the crowd gathered at East High School to hear Mayor Andrew J. Ginther’s first speech as mayor of Columbus. She wasn’t there to shake the mayor’s hand or get some face time. Smith wanted to hear his plan to improve the diversity of city personnel and small-business owners.
  
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• Many older adults can't afford to see a dentist and suffer the consequences of poor oral health

  31-01-2016 10:02
  
  Every day, 10,000 Americans turn 65, but many seniors don't have a good reason to smile.
  
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• Seniors benefit from knowing family history

  31-01-2016 09:59
  
  When relatives gather, politics and religion are notorious no-nos. So when the next holiday rolls around, you might have better luck broaching the topic of your family's health history.
  
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• BC-OH-Ohio AP Legislative-Elections Preview,ADVISORY, OH

  31-01-2016 09:05
  EDITORS:NEWS DIRECTORS:Mark your calendars for Thursday, Feb. 11, when we will host the Ohio Associated Press 2016 Legislative and Elections Preview Session.The meeting is designed to give AP member journalists, particularly those who do not work in Columbus, access to the state's key leaders during the legislative session.
  
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• Columbus Seminary Responds To Child Sex Investigation

  31-01-2016 05:38
  
  The University says it had no idea about the activities of Joseph Wright.
  
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• 5 for Sunday: Five stories to look for in the Jan. 31 issue of The Daily Jeffersonian

  31-01-2016 05:23
  
  However, said Lore City Volunteer Fire Department Chief Tom Warner, the blaze did begin in a garage attached to the single-story home at 61711 Primrose Lane. 2) Byesville man in critical condition after altercation A 35-year-old Byesville man remained hospitalized in critical condition at The Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center in Columbus following a domestic altercation at his High Avenue home late Thursday night.
  
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• Youngstown Officer Went Through Similar Situation To Marietta K9 Controversy

  31-01-2016 04:36
  
  A northern Ohio K9 officer says this is exactly what happened to him in the late 90's and it actually led to a change in Ohio law that Marietta could be breaking.
  
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