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• Some North Linden residents want to rebrand area as 'East Clintonville'

  24-02-2016 23:57
  
  Vicki Johnson has lived in North Linden for 30 years. Her family used to own Johnson’s Market across the street from her house on Oakland Park Avenue, and still owns an office building there too. She and some other area residents don't want to live in North Linden anymore. But none of them would dream of moving, either.
  
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• City works to shut down Hilltop apartment building

  24-02-2016 23:48
  
  The city is moving to shut down a Hilltop apartment building that attorneys say is a hot spot for drugs and prostitution. Columbus attorneys filed the case today against Gordon Rankin, who owns the apartment building at 2958 Sullivant Ave. According to the city’s complaint filed in Franklin County Environmental Court, Columbus police made 103 runs to the building in 2014, 162 in 2015 and 42 so far this year. “Columbus police resources are being drained by the ongoing nuisance at the
  
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• Reynoldsburg Police Chief Wants Change After Arrest, Suicide of Detective

  24-02-2016 23:34
  
  Reynoldsburg Police Chief Jim O’Neill says he is implementing changes to restore public trust after a detective was arrested on drug charges.
  
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• WATCH: Mayor Ginther To Give His First State Of The City Address

  24-02-2016 23:33
  
  Ginther will give the address at his alma mater, Whetstone High School, starting at 6:30 p.m.
  
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• Mayor Ginther Discusses Improving Education, Revitalization In Address

  24-02-2016 23:33
  
  Ginther delivered the State of the City address at Whetstone High School Wednesday evening.
  
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• ColumbusRotary Club : Columbus Regional Airport Authority

  24-02-2016 23:17
  
  
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• Tubist to play guest recital at Marshall

  24-02-2016 23:07
  
  Marshall University's School of Music and Theatre will welcome tubist Tony Zilincik to the Smith Recital Hall stage for a concert at 7:30 p.m. March 2 on Marshall's Huntington campus. Zilincik, an associate professor of music at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, is known for presenting new music in different ways.
  
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• Pieces From Buckeye Lake Bottom May Be Boat That Sank In 1850

  24-02-2016 22:30
  
  According to local lore, the vessel hit an obstruction and went down along the lake's north bank while hauling tons of coal to a mill.
  
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• Man pleads guilty in shooting over fake lottery ticket

  24-02-2016 22:27
  
  Prosecuting and defense attorneys are recommending a sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years for the gunman in a fatal shooting at a Franklinton motel. William P. Greene, 24, of Reynoldsburg pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated murder with a gun specification in the death of 25-year-old David Duff.
  
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• Appeals court strikes down ban on campaign lying

  24-02-2016 21:58
  
  WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in Cincinnati Wednesday may have delivered the death knell to a 42-year Ohio election law which prohibited candidates or independent political organizations from lying in their campaigns.
  
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• GOP candidate for Hocking County prosecutor arrested on sex charges

  24-02-2016 21:15
  
  The Republican candidate for Hocking County prosecutor has been charged with two counts of sexual battery. Jason A. Sarver, 36, of Rockbridge, is scheduled to make an initial appearance in Hocking County Municipal Court this afternoon.
  
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• Judge rules mother's negligence caused son's drowning

  24-02-2016 21:03
  
  A Franklin County judge has ruled that a mother's negligence caused her child's death in an icy pond, not the owner of the East Side apartment complex where he drowned.
  
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• Gunman pleads guilty to fatal shooting in Franklinton motel

  24-02-2016 20:55
  
  Prosecuting and defense attorneys are recommending a sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years for the gunman in a fatal shooting at a Franklinton motel. William P. Greene, 24, of Reynoldsburg pleaded guilty today to one count of aggravated murder with a gun specification in the death of 25-year-old David Duff.
  
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• Bill making cockfighting a felony passes House

  24-02-2016 20:50
  
  Ohio would join about 40 other states that make involvement with cockfighting a felony offense under a bill that passed the House today. “We’re saying something to the entire nation that Ohio will not stand for this,” said Rep. Heather Bishoff, D-Blacklick, a prime sponsor of the bill, who said it also will help battle other criminal activity that often follows cockfighting, such as drug trafficking.
  
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• Hocking County Prosecutor Candidate Arrested For Sexual Battery Charges

  24-02-2016 20:46
  
  Jason Sarver is a criminal defense attorney who handles court appointed cases in Hocking County.
  
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• Portman taking heat for support of Supreme Court nomination delay

  24-02-2016 20:39
  
  WASHINGTON — His political foes are leaping on Sen. Rob Portman’s support of holding off on filling the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. Portman, a Republican running for re-election, wants to allow the next president to nominate a justice.
  
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• Second girl testifies in chess teacher's molestation trial

  24-02-2016 19:58
  
  DELAWARE, Ohio — Shortly after news broke last April that a chess teacher had been charged with molesting a student in Delaware County, a Bexley family took notice. "The first thing I thought was it didn't make any sense to me as far as my experiences with Coach Wilson," the father of an 8-year-old testified this morning in Delaware County Common Pleas Court during the trial of F. Leon Wilson, the girl's teacher.
  
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• Buckeye Lake dam workers uncover sunken coal boat

  24-02-2016 19:51
  
  BUCKEYE LAKE, Ohio —The dam construction work at Buckeye Lake has helped uncover a big piece of the region's history. Crews working along the north bank over the weekend discovered pieces of what is thought to be a canal boat that sank in 1850. Most of the wreckage pieces were removed from the lake Monday.
  
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• Video catches Pa. police saving man overdosed on heroin

  24-02-2016 19:45
  
  Police outside Philadelphia released video Tuesday showing a man overdosing on heroin on a crowded transit bus and being revived by police officers carrying a lifesaving drug.
  
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• Former model gets 7 years in murder-for-hire case

  24-02-2016 19:12
  
  CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio — There was no trace of her former model self today as Tara Lambert stood in red jailhouse scrubs and rubber shoes and learned she will spend the next 7 years in prison. Pickaway County Common Pleas Judge P. Randall Knece could have sentenced her to 11. Following a two-day trial, a jury of eight men and four women deliberated just 45 minutes on Jan. 27 before convicting Lambert on a first-degree felony charge of conspiracy to commit aggravated murder.
  
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• Restaurant Review: Halwani Cuisine

  24-02-2016 19:00
  
  From the outside, a passerby might guess that Halwani Cusisine might be a Mediterranean, Middle Eastern or Indian joint. There’s the curly font, and a name with construction that suggests an ethnic origin. Only in smaller lettering, does the exterior sign hint at what’s on the menu. Inside the door, over the order counter, looms […]
  
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• FBI releases update on machete attack at Nazareth Restaurant

  24-02-2016 18:58
  
  The FBI says they are continuing to work with other agencies to thoroughly investigate the attack.
  
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• Bomb squad called to Newark motel

  24-02-2016 18:58
  
  Two people are under arrest after the Columbus bomb squad checked out potential explosives at a Newark motel overnight, a police spokesman said. Newark Police responded to a report that gunshots may have been fired during a disturbance at the University Inn, 1219 W. Church Street around midnight and found a person who claimed to have been assaulted but refused treatment, Sgt.
  
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• Johnson & Johnson Ordered To Pay $72M Over Cancer Death

  24-02-2016 18:51
  
  A Missouri jury has awarded $72 million to the family of an Alabama woman who died from ovarian cancer, which she said was caused by using Johnson & Johnson's well-known baby powder and other products containing talcum.
  
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• Circleville Woman Gets 7 Years In Murder-For-Hire Case

  24-02-2016 18:27
  
  Tara Lambert was found guilty on one count of conspiracy to commit aggravated murder.
  
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• Men wrongly imprisoned for murder get millions from Ohio

  24-02-2016 18:23
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two Ohio brothers who spent decades in prison for a murder they didn’t commit will receive millions in additional compensation from the Ohio Court of Claims.
  
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• Father gets 10 years for beating death of son

  24-02-2016 18:23
  
  A Mifflin Township man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the beating death of his son.
  
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• Murder in nightclub parking lot leads to life sentence for shooter

  24-02-2016 18:15
  
  A 29-year-old Northeast Side man was sentenced today to life in prison with no chance of parole for 30 years for a fatal shooting in a nightclub parking lot.
  
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• Columbus Fire Chief Recommends Suspensions Over Party At Closed Firehouse

  24-02-2016 17:27
  
  A fire chief has recommended that two fire lieutenants and a captain be suspended for participating in an alcohol-fueled party at a closed Columbus fire station.
  
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• Strickland leads Portman by 2 points in new poll

  24-02-2016 16:43
  
  A new poll shows indicates if former Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland faces Sen. Rob Portman in November, it’s going to be a barn-burner. The Quinnipiac University Poll has Strickland leading by two points — 44 to 42 percent in a November general election match-up.
  
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• Winter storm in Midwest disrupting air travel; Thursday commute in central Ohio may be tricky

  24-02-2016 16:37
  
  A winter storm moving across parts of the Midwest and Great Lakes region is already disrupting travel at Port Columbus, long before slushy snow is expected to arrive in central Ohio tonight.
  
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• Beyond The "Like" Button: Facebook Adds 5 New Reactions

  24-02-2016 16:19
  
  Beyond the original thumbs-up "Like," users can select from options that include "Love," "Haha," "Wow," "Sad," and "Angry"
  
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• Columbus City Council Health & Human Services, Finance, and Workforce Development Committees 2/23/26

  24-02-2016 16:02
  
  
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• Theatre Review: Motown the Musical is a Frenetic Crowd-Pleaser

  24-02-2016 16:00
  
  There are very few record labels with as consistent and legendary a run as Motown Records, dominating American pop music from the very late ’50s into the early ’70s and still making hits into the early ’80s when they were sold to a conglomerate (currently part of Universal Music Group). Founder Berry Gordy is a […]
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: Kasich resists calls to drop out of race, comes in 5th in Nevada

  24-02-2016 15:53
  
  Ohio Gov. John Kasich continues to ignore calls to drop out of the presidential race saying in Georgia Tuesday, "I would hope they would be clearing the decks for me. I've spent the least amount of money and am rising in the polls. I can win my home state. Why would I clear the decks for them? They ought to be consolidating around me." As some in the GOP look for ways to push billionaire Donald Trump out, they want everyone to line up behind another candidate, namely Sen. Marco Rubio.
  
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• Kasich far stronger than Trump against Clinton, Sanders in Ohio, poll finds

  24-02-2016 15:46
  
  Even though a poll Tuesday had Gov. John Kasich trailing in his home state, a survey released this morning shows Ohio voters view him as by far the strongest Republican candidate versus Democrats. Today’s round of the Quinnipiac University Poll shows Kasich beating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by 17 points and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont by 19.
  
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• Garth Brooks adds 3 more Columbus concerts

  24-02-2016 14:58
  
  Garth Brooks has added three more shows to his new tour’s Columbus stop. According to Ticketmaster, the country-music superstar has added shows on April 15, 16 and 22 to the original April 23 performance announced last week.
  
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• Andrews a oeshocked and humiliateda by nude videos

  24-02-2016 14:53
  
  A lawyer for Erin Andrews says the sportscaster was shocked, humiliated and traumatized when she discovered that someone had secretly filmed her nude in hotels in Columbus and Nashville and posted the video on the Internet. Andrews has filed a $75 million lawsuit against the owner and manager of the Marriott at Vanderbilt as well as the man who pleaded guilty to stalking her.
  
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• Columbus firefighters risk displine over beer party at old station

  24-02-2016 14:51
  
  The fire chief has recommended that two Columbus fire lieutenants and a captain should be suspended for participating in an alcohol-fueled party dubbed “kegs and eggs” at a shuttered Downtown fire station last summer.
  
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• Restaurant Review: Easy Street Cafe – Bexley Edition

  24-02-2016 14:00
  
  German Village institution, Easy Street Cafe set up a satellite operation in Bexley that made its debut at the end of 2015 (technically, it’s in the Columbus neighborhood of Eastmoor, but branding itself as the Bexley locale). It’s dark inside the new digs, but not dank. The staff, in the aisle or at the counter […]
  
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• Garth Brooks In Columbus: Show info, parking map & pre-party details

  24-02-2016 13:38
  
  Garth Brooks is making his first appearance in Columbus in 19 years in a series of six concerts at the Schottenstein Center.
  
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• Garth Brooks Adds Two More Dates For Total Of 6 Columbus Shows

  24-02-2016 13:38
  
  Garth Brooks has added even more dates to his stop in Columbus this April.
  
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• Garth Brooks Adds Three More Shows To Columbus

  24-02-2016 13:38
  
  Garth Brooks World Tour is performing a total of four times in Columbus.
  
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• Smashburger Celebrates Grand Re-Opening With Giveaway

  24-02-2016 13:23
  
  Three restaurants in central Ohio are giving away free burgers today.
  
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• Ohio homeowners urged to use fed refinancing program

  24-02-2016 13:06
  
  The federal government is in the midst of a 10-day social media campaign aimed at Ohio and nine other states to let homeowners know they may still be eligible for a refinancing program that expires Dec. 31.
  
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• Port Columbus handles 6% more passengers in January than year earlier

  24-02-2016 12:55
  
  Port Columbus handled 6 percent more passengers in January than a year earlier, according to the Columbus Regional Airport Authority. Southwest Airlines, the airport's biggest carrier, saw the biggest increase: a 17.8 percent surge in passengers, the authority reported Tuesday.
  
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• Spiders Look Bigger If You're Afraid Of Them

  24-02-2016 12:31
  
  People who fear spiders tend to perceive these creepy-crawlies as larger than they actually are, a new study finds. Read more.
  
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• 'I can win my home state,' Kasich says after poll shows Trump tops in Ohio

  24-02-2016 12:27
  
  The drumbeat from Marco Rubio supporters for John Kasich to get out of the Florida senator's way in the GOP presidential race increased Tuesday after a new poll showed the governor trailing Donald Trump in Ohio. But Kasich scoffed at the notion.
  
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• Americans Moving To Europe For Free College Degrees

  24-02-2016 12:26
  
  Some college students are saving money on higher education by moving abroad. Find out more.
  
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• Wreckage Of Missing Plane Found In Nepal; All 23 Aboard Dead

  24-02-2016 12:13
  
  A Tara Air plane carrying 23 people crashed in a mountainous region of northern Nepal, officials said.
  
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