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• Ohio State University plans to freeze dorm rates for next fall

  07-04-2016 23:27
  
  Ohio State University students and their families likely are getting a reprieve on the cost of college next year: What was to be a 2 percent hike in room rates for next fall has been dropped from a set of tuition and fee recommendations. The Board of Trustees is to act Friday on the recommendations, approved by the board's finance committee on Thursday. If they are approved, it will mean tuition and housing costs for Ohio State undergraduates who live in the state will have remained unchanged tw
  
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• Suspected bomb-maker held on $500,000 bond

  07-04-2016 22:33
  
  Innis, 21, appeared in Franklin County Municipal Court to hear the charge of possession and manufacture of dangerous ordnance against him read. He was being held in the county jail.
  
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• Licking County United Way director to preach outreach on 50-day hike

  07-04-2016 22:15
  
  Deb Dingus, the executive director of the United Way of Licking County, will trek throughout Licking County over the next 50 days, hiking between 6 and 14 miles each day, spending time in each of the county’s 25 townships and sleeping in a tent each night. Along the way, she’ll be spreading awareness about local issues she says the community has the opportunity to address.
  
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• Early Easter no problem for L Brands sales

  07-04-2016 22:14
  
  Victoria's Secret parent, L Brands, announced a restructuring within the unit Thursday and said it will drop some unspecified merchandise while also announcing expected layoffs of up to 200 workers in Columbus and New York.
  
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• Man who shot officer while passing him on I-70 gets 15 years in prison

  07-04-2016 22:05
  
  A 25-year-old man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for targeting a Columbus police officer with gunfire while driving on I-70 on the East Side. Alphonso C. Reed apologized in a Franklin County courtroom for the April 26 incident, in which windows were shot out in the officer's personal car and one bullet passed through the driver's-side headrest. Bullets also shattered a window in another car with two people inside.
  
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• Victims file lawsuit against Olentangy Schools, former teacher over sexual abuse

  07-04-2016 21:58
  
  The lawsuit was filed this afternoon in Delaware County Common Pleas Court on behalf of three victims.
  
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• Families of molested students sue Olentangy schools, former teacher

  07-04-2016 21:42
  
  The parents of three children who were sexually molested by their former second-grade teacher, Matthew Rausenberg, have sued him and the Olentangy Local School District, where he taught for 12 years. The lawsuit filed this afternoon in Delaware County Common Pleas Court names eight plaintiffs, including the children and their parents, and seeks damages from Rausenberg, the current and past district superintendents and principals of Arrowhead Elementary School where he taught.
  
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• Pickerington-area couple charged in double homicide of former schoolmates

  07-04-2016 20:45
  
  The victims of a double shooting Tuesday and the two suspects charged with murder all graduated from the Pickerington school district. The shootings occurred in a parking lot behind the Enterprise Rent-A-Car at 6501 Tussing Rd. on the Far East Side, Columbus police said. Connor C. Jeffries, 21, and Mia V. Shamis, 19, who live at the same address on Alliston Drive in Violet Township, have each been charged with two counts of murder. Video footage from a camera monitoring the lot supports the char
  
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• Mega Weekend Spring 2016 – Vol. 4

  07-04-2016 20:00
  
  Happy Weekend! So Spring was here and now it’s gone. This weekend’s activities come with a disclaimer – make sure to check an outdoor event before you go in case it is cancelled! There’s still chances for you to win tickets to Promowest shows: Dawes and Andrew Bird. Plus Prime Social Group has provided tickets […]
  
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• Treasures & memories of Maria: Dom Tiberi

  07-04-2016 19:34
  
  It was not easy, but we finally went through all of Maria's things. We found a treasure of memories, including some of her writings and poems.
  
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• Review: Remaking Tradition at MINT

  07-04-2016 19:30
  
  Art is propped up by tradition.  It teeters on stilts built by the great masters of Renaissance painting, the varied and expansive traditions forged by a wide range of religions and cultures, and was disembodied by the conceptual artists of the postwar era.  It is hard to imagine what could possibly come next.  The new […]
  
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• Best Bites Brunch Preview: Angry Bear, The Table, Broke Johnny, Hubbard Grille & Sunny Street Cafe

  07-04-2016 19:20
  
  Have you heard? Our brunch event is sold out! On April 14th, Columbus Underground and Crimson Cup Coffee will team up to present Best Bites: Brunch, bringing together Columbus’s best brunch offerings for one spectacular breakfast-for-dinner experience. If you weren’t lucky enough to get tickets, take heart you can catch these dishes at each restaurant. To give you a […]
  
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• Feds hunting for man accused of rapes, including wheelchair-bound woman

  07-04-2016 19:12
  
  The U.S. Marshals service is looking for a 29-year-old man accused of raping at least two women over the past several years.
  
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• Sunbury approves NorthGate rezoning

  07-04-2016 19:06
  
  The Sunbury Village Council approved the rezoning of 250 acres of farmland Thursday night that now is poised to become commercial and residential development. Many of those objecting to the 6-0 vote live in a housing subdivision that is just south of the proposed NorthGate Centre project, a proposed mix of homes, restaurants, hotels and businesses.
  
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• Tens of thousands of Ohioans could lose Medicaid coverage under fee proposal

  07-04-2016 17:48
  
  Gov. John Kasich's administration projects tens of thousands of poor Ohioans will lose Medicaid coverage while taxpayers save nearly $1 billion under a plan to charge new fees for the government health coverage and impose penalties on those who miss payments.
  
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• Body found in burning vehicle near Pataskala

  07-04-2016 17:46
  
  A body has been discovered after fire crews were called early Thursday morning to extinguish several care fires east of Pataskala.
  
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• Caller who reported man with gun at Dayton-area Walmart may be charged

  07-04-2016 16:33
  
  A 911 caller who reported a man waving a gun in an Ohio Wal-Mart before police fatally shot him could face a charge of making a false alarm. The man actually was toting an air rifle he picked up from a shelf.
  
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• Clippers open season with ticket deals, Governor’s Cup celebration

  07-04-2016 15:47
  
  The Columbus Clippers baseball team is ready for another winning season as the team comes off last year's Governor's Cup win.
  
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• Million dollar bonds set for east side double murder suspects

  07-04-2016 15:31
  
  Bonds were set Thursday for two people allegedly involved in a drug deal that turned deadly on Tuesday.
  
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• Officer shoots suspect armed with knife

  07-04-2016 15:16
  
  A Columbus police officer shot a man accused of threatening his girlfriend with a knife on the Southeast Side Wednesday night. When officers responded to a report of a man threatening a woman at 951 Heyl Avenue shortly before 9:00 p.m., a woman confirmed her boyfriend had threatened her with a knife, police spokesman Sgt.
  
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• Ohio brewers may be making the best IPAs in the country

  07-04-2016 14:55
  
  Ohio brewers are making the best India pale ales in the country.
  
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• Despite pledge to reduce backlog, delays for veterans continue

  07-04-2016 14:43
  
  What happened with the benefits backlog after the VA Secretary pledged that veterans would no longer wait months or years for their disability claims to be processed?
  
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• WATCH: Star Wars Rogue One trailer

  07-04-2016 14:36
  
  It is the first Star Wars Anthology film and stand-alone story set in the Star Wars universe.
  
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• Kasich Talks Jobs, Drug Abuse in State of the State Address

  07-04-2016 14:00
  
  Gov. John Kasich covered Ohio’s successes and future initiatives at the State of the State address Wednesday evening. The event was held at the Peoples Bank Theater in Marietta. Economic growth, education and drug abuse were Kasich’s main talking points before handing out the night’s courage awards. Much of his speech reiterated a lot of […]
  
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• 650,000 Ohioans could lose Medicaid coverage under fee proposal

  07-04-2016 13:10
  
  Gov. John Kasich's administration projects more than 650,000 poor Ohioans will lose Medicaid coverage while taxpayers save nearly $1 billion under a plan to charge new fees for the government health coverage and impose penalties on those who miss payments. The proposal would require those being treated for breast and cervical cancer, teens coming out of foster care and other working-age, nondisabled adults on Medicaid to make monthly payments into a health-savings account to help cover their exp
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: John Kasich stops in Ohio while campaign talks strategy in D.C.

  07-04-2016 13:07
  
  Ohio Gov. John Kasich took a break from the presidential campaigning to come back to Ohio to give his State of the State address in Marietta Wednesday night. Kasich “played it safe by dodging presidential politics and not proposing major policy initiatives,” Dispatch reporters Randy Ludlow and Jim Siegel write.
  
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• Elford to Develop UDF Site on High Street, White Castle HQ Site on Goodale

  07-04-2016 13:00
  
  Elford Development is in the early planning stages on two noteworthy development proposals; an 18-acre mixed-use development at 555 West Goodale Street (the current site of White Castle’s Headquarters), and a multi-story, mixed-use building to replace the United Dairy Farmers store and adjacent parking lot at the southeast corner of High Street and First Avenue […]
  
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• Tonight at 11: Despite pledge, why are veteran benefits still delayed?

  07-04-2016 12:53
  
  What has happened with the benefits backlog?
  
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• Ohio track and field officials worry blank shortage could silence starts

  07-04-2016 12:30
  
  On your marks ... Get set ... ? Without the blast of a starting pistol, sprinters might limp instead of lurch from the starting blocks.
  
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• WATCH: Gary Player becomes oldest golfer to sink hole-in-one in tournament

  07-04-2016 12:24
  
  Player might be the fittest 80-year-old in the world, and on Wednesday he became the oldest player to record a hole-in-one at the Masters Par 3 Contest.
  
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• EcoCar program at Ohio State inspires future engineers

  07-04-2016 12:13
  
  Yes, the car's trunk is way too small. This was one of the takeaways from an unusual meeting last week between the chief engineer of the Chevrolet Camaro and the students of the EcoCar 3 team at Ohio State University.
  
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• Troubled recycling project dead at Franklin County landfill

  07-04-2016 12:08
  
  A recycling sorting facility that would have turned trash into cash and diverted waste from Franklin County’s landfill is dead. The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio has canceled a contract with Team Gemini, which was supposed to build the facility, after the company failed to pay rent on its leased land next to the landfill.
  
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• Suspect in home invasion shot dead in Blacklick

  07-04-2016 12:06
  
  A man who police say was trying to break into a home in Blacklick was shot and killed Wednesday night.
  
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• Grassroots Organization Brings $15 Wage Fight to City Hall

  07-04-2016 12:00
  
  Members of a grassroots socialist campaign gathered at Columbus City Hall Monday to engage city council in a conversation about raising the minimum wage. It was a timely meeting, with governors from California and New York having signed bills phasing in a $15 minimum wage by 2022. It’s been an idea tossed around a lot […]
  
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• Local Government Insider: Elections board auditing primary race for Franklin County treasurer

  07-04-2016 11:49
  
  The Democratic primary race for the Franklin County treasurer nomination will get a closer look, but maybe not for the reasons people think, county Reporter Rick Rouan tells us.
  
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• Afternoon Forecast: More rain possible; temps in upper 40s

  07-04-2016 11:22
  
  Look for more scattered showers today ahead of a cold front that will once again drop temperatures over the next several days.
  
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• Kasich offers hopeful message, few new ideas in State of State speech

  07-04-2016 07:17
  
  Gov. John Kasich presented a case in support of his Ohio record—but played it safe by dodging presidential politics and not proposing major policy initiatives—as he delivered his sixth State of the State address Wednesday evening. Speaking before a joint session of the General Assembly and a crowd of more than 900, the second-term Republican spoke for nearly an hour, recounting the state’s recovery on his watch from the national recession and offering now-familiar hugs to his C
  
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• Man critically injured after he's shot by Columbus officer

  07-04-2016 05:30
  
  A man was hospitalized in critical condition Wednesday night after he was shot by a Columbus police officer on the South Side. The shooting occurred just after 9 p.m. in the 900 block of Heyl Avenue, after police were dispatched there on a call about a man with a knife.
  
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• Man killed in Blacklick-area shooting

  07-04-2016 04:40
  
  A man has died after he was shot this evening on the Far East Side. Columbus police were called just after 7 p.m. to the 200 block of MacAndrews Way, which is off East Broad Street near the intersection of Reynoldsburg-New Albany Road in the Blacklick area.
  
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• Concert Preview: Sammy Miller and the Congregation

  07-04-2016 04:28
  
  Upon hearing the opening notes of “Mahogany Hall Stomp”, the lead track from Sammy Miller and the Congregation’s EP Say, Say, Say, I smiled wryly. When the band wrote to me last month and asked me to preview their back-to-back shows at The Refectory and Dick’s Den on April 7th, they described themselves as purveyors of […]
  
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• Kasich's speech received well, but 'actions speak louder,' Democrat says

  07-04-2016 04:25
  
  Joe Schiavoni got a little taste Wednesday of how a President John Kasich might operate. Schiavoni, Democratic Senate leader from Boardman flew on Kasich’s plane from Columbus to Parkersburg, W.Va., on the way to the governor’s State of the State address in Marietta. After the speech, Schiavoni was asked whether he is seeing the same Kasich who tells campaign audiences about working across the aisle, respecting opponents, and stressing that everyone is an American before a Republican
  
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• In speech at Kenyon, FBI director discusses iPhone hacking method

  07-04-2016 04:08
  
  The government is talking plenty about the future of the tool it used to hack into a terrorist’s locked iPhone, from whether to disclose its method to Apple to whether the federal government would use it to aid state and local investigations, the director of the FBI said on Wednesday. Director James B. Comey’s remarks came during his keynote address and question-and-answer session at Kenyon College’s conference on “The Expectation of Privacy: Encryption, Surveillance and
  
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• Man armed with knife shot by police in east Columbus (UPDATE)

  07-04-2016 03:52
  
  A man who charged at Columbus police officers while holding a knife was shot and hospitalized Wednesday night.
  
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• Two charged in double homicide on Far East Side

  07-04-2016 03:46
  
  The deadly encounter at a rental-car parking lot on the Far East Side was captured by a security camera Tuesday. That's part of the reason why Columbus police homicide detectives were able to arrest, within a day, a man and woman in the shooting deaths of two men. Connor C. Jeffries, 21, and Mia V. Shamis, 19, who live at the same address on Alliston Drive in Violet Township, have each been charged with two counts of murder.
  
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• Secretary of State Jon Husted sued over purge of voter rolls

  07-04-2016 03:03
  
  The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio filed suit Wednesday against Secretary of State Jon Husted, arguing that he is illegally removing eligible voters from voter registration rolls.
  
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• 1 person killed after shooting in Blacklick

  07-04-2016 02:53
  
  The victim was originally taken to OSU and considered stable, but has since passed.
  
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• 2 charged with murder in connection to Tussing Rd. shooting (UPDATE)

  07-04-2016 02:42
  
  Columbus police arrested 19-year-old Mia V. Shamis and 21-year-old Connor C. Jefferies Wednesday.
  
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• Four face multiple charges in multijurisdictional theft ring

  07-04-2016 02:26
  
  A Union County grand jury has returned a seventy-count indictment against four suspects who allegedly were operating a multijurisdictional theft ring. Jeremiah L. Bintner, 34, of Marysville was indicted for theft, receiving stolen property, breaking and entering, grand theft, theft from an elderly person, vandalism and engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity.
  
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• Five charged after raid on dogfighting ring

  07-04-2016 02:16
  
  Five men have been charged with felony dogfighting offenses following an investigation that culminated on Tuesday with the seizure of 45 dogs from homes across Columbus. Four of the men were arrested at addresses on the Hilltop and Far East Side during the morning raids that capped a 15-month investigation by the Capital Area Humane Society and Columbus police. The fifth suspect is being sought on a warrant. "This the biggest dogfighting investigation we've handled," Rachel Finney, executive dir
  
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• Kasich campaign tells donors he has a 'pathway to victory'

  07-04-2016 01:55
  
  One day after Gov. John Kasich’s third-place finish in the Wisconsin Republican primary, his campaign aides told backers there is still a path for him to win the party’s presidential nomination.
  
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