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• Kasich stops in Pittsburgh as New York voters head to polls

  19-04-2016 23:08
  
  PITTSBURGH – John Kasich proclaimed himself at home on Market Square in a homecoming of sorts this afternoon. The Ohio governor and Republican presidential candidate was greeted by a crowd of about 200 people outside an old haunt, the Original Oyster House. Before munching on a favorite, a fish sandwich with ketchup and hot sauce, Kasich bantered with the crowd as he seeks support in the Pennsylvania GOP primary a week from today.
  
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• Foundation helps support breast cancer fighters

  19-04-2016 22:39
  
  Hundreds will gather to celebrate the men and women who provide support for people in cancer treatment and recovery during the inaugural Step Up for Stefanie's Run/Walk.
  
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• Near East Side Grocery Co-op Quietly Closes Doors

  19-04-2016 22:34
  
  When it was announced in March that a new frozen yogurt shop was opening at 85 Parsons Avenue, it was mentioned in passing that the former tenant was also closing. That tenant was the Near East Side Co-op, which called the location home for about a year after relocating from 1117 Oak Street. Former Co-op Board […]
  
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• Additional human remains likely linked to Washington woman

  19-04-2016 22:24
  
  Police say human remains found at a Seattle recycling center are believed to be connected to a woman who was slain and dismembered earlier this month.
  
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• Man accused of stabbing death decides to plead guilty

  19-04-2016 22:22
  
  Lawyers painted a picture of Alexander N. Delap as both an aggressor, bent on retaliation when he fatally stabbed another college student, and a person forced to defend himself after trying to find the man who had jumped one of his friends.
  
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• Job Training Service Provides Bridge to Competitive Employment

  19-04-2016 22:03
  
  Opportunities for independence are expanding for people with disabilities. It has started with the gradual phasing out of sheltered workshops, where individuals with disabilities have traditionally been tucked away, isolated from the rest of the community. These workshops aren’t shutting down; many people will remain there as they have for years. But workshops are closing […]
  
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• Garth Brooks breaks his Columbus sales record

  19-04-2016 21:55
  
  Brooks has sold 95,000 tickets for his six shows at the Schottenstein Center this month.
  
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• Trini Foundation Looks to Save Lives Through Yoga

  19-04-2016 21:30
  
  A lot of people talk about yoga being life changing, in Taylor Hunt’s case, yoga was life saving. Hunt, voted one of the best yoga teachers in Columbus in 2013, survived drug and alcohol addiction with the help of yoga. Now he and other members of the yoga community in Columbus have started the Trini […]
  
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• New Franklin County morgue won't be built on same spot as bigger jail

  19-04-2016 21:26
  
  Franklin County’s new morgue and toxicology lab will not be built on the same site as its new jail. County officials are looking at alternative locations for the morgue because the 23 acres of farmland they purchased at 2551 Fisher Rd. in 2014 won’t be big enough for both projects, said Kris Long, deputy county administrator.
  
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• Officer Steven Smith remembered as a warrior, friend

  19-04-2016 20:38
  
  Columbus Police officer Steven M. Smith was a father, a husband, an officer, a friend. "Now he will be remembered eternally as a hero," Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs said, as thousands honored Smith today at a service in Westerville. In work and in his personal life, Smith was a warrior. He flew helicopters, was on the dive team, and walked into dangerious situations as a SWAT officer.
  
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• New hydrogen-cell bus unveiled at Statehouse, to be tested at OSU

  19-04-2016 20:11
  
  Members of the Stark Area Regional Transit Authority and other agencies drank water dripping from the back of a bus today at the Statehouse.
  
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• Cincinnati councilman Sittenfeld collapses

  19-04-2016 19:36
  
  A Cincinnati councilman who ran for U.S. Senate says he is fine after collapsing during a news conference at city hall.
  
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• Court to decide if company that leases property to charter schools is subject to taxes

  19-04-2016 19:24
  
  The Ohio Supreme Court will decide if a company that owns and leases property to publicly funded charter schools should have to pay taxes.
  
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• Woman's body found near Scioto River in homeless camp

  19-04-2016 19:19
  
  A body was found Tuesday morning at a homeless camp in a wooded area along the Scioto River. Columbus police were called at 7:41 a.m. to the area near Old Mound Street, just west of Downtown. A dispatcher said a female body was discovered in woods near a condominium complex and park.
  
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• Watch Live: Officer Steven Smith remembered as a warrior, friend

  19-04-2016 18:41
  
  Columbus Police officer Steven M. Smith illustrated excellence, his fellow officers said. In work and in his personal life, Smith was a warrior. He flew helicopters, was on the dive team, and walked into dangerious situations as a SWAT officer.
  
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• Federal judge dismisses drug price lawsuit

  19-04-2016 18:11
  
  A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation seeking more time to gather signatures for a drug-price relief ballot issue.
  
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• Central Ohio's unemployment rate dips to 4.4 percent in March

  19-04-2016 17:07
  
  Central Ohio's unemployment rate dipped to 4.4 percent last month from 4.5 percent in February, remaining the metro area with the lowest jobless rate in the state. The drop in central Ohio tracked much of the state in March, where rates fell in all metro areas but one and in 82 of Ohio's 88 counties.
  
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• Columbus Police will live-stream funeral for fallen officer as overflow crowds expected

  19-04-2016 16:41
  
  Columbus Police plan to live-stream the funeral of SWAT Officer Steven M. Smith this morning. St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church holds 1,600 people, and there is an overflow area for 1,300 more. Still, as officers pour in from around the country, police expect the crowd to be too big for the church.
  
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• Big Ideas for Transit Laid Out in New Framework Plan

  19-04-2016 16:31
  
  If you want to sit around and wait for a train in Columbus, you could be waiting for a long time. Local planner and transit enthusiast JM Rayburn got tired of waiting though, and decided to launch a project that could spark change with how Central Ohioans think about transit systems. The culmination of that […]
  
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• Second body found near Scioto River

  19-04-2016 15:56
  
  A body was found Tuesday morning at a homeless camp in a wooded area along the Scioto River. Columbus police were called at 7:41 a.m. to the area near Old Mound Street, just west of Downtown. A dispatcher said a female body was discovered in woods near a condominium complex and park.
  
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• Spirit of Columbus Award Celebrates South Side Visionaries!

  19-04-2016 15:25
  
  TANNY CRANE AND JANE GROTE ABELL NAMED WINNERS OF THE SPIRIT OF COLUMBUS AWARD Visionary women recognized for efforts to revitalize South Side Columbus, OH (April 19, 2016)—The Columbus Foundation named Tanny Crane and Jane Grote Abell winners of The Spirit of Columbus Award at a civic celebration held at the Foundation on April 18. The Spirit of Columbus […]
  
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• This ‘Smarttress’ will tell you if your lover is cheating

  19-04-2016 14:55
  
  The mattress made by Spanish company Durmet says it has created “the very first mattress that makes your body relax by night and your mind by day when you’re not alone.”
  
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• Victim identified in homeless camp murder (UPDATE)

  19-04-2016 14:04
  
  An arrest has been made after the body of a woman was found Tuesday morning near the Scioto River.
  
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• Second body found along Scioto River in less than a day

  19-04-2016 14:04
  
  This comes less than a day after the body of an unidentified black male was found in the river behind COSI Monday night.
  
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• Arrest made in wake of homicide probe near downtown homeless camp (UPDATE)

  19-04-2016 14:04
  
  An arrest has been made after the body of a woman was found Tuesday morning near the Scioto River.
  
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• Ohio prisons plan to still work with food banks after farms close

  19-04-2016 12:59
  
  Vegetables grown at state prisons could still end up stocking Ohio Association of FoodBanks despite a plan to close prison farms. Officials from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction met today with Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, executive director of the agency that supplies 12 regional food banks statewide. Both sides said they hope to work out something after this year, when all 10 prison farms are set to close.
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: John Kasich on 'a delegate hunt' in New York

  19-04-2016 12:49
  
  Today voters in New York will vote in the presidential primaries. It’s a state where Ohio Gov. John Kasich - third in delegates behind billionaire Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz - is on “a delegate hunt.”
  
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• LIVE: Funeral service for slain Columbus police officer

  19-04-2016 12:38
  
  Friends, family, and police officers from around the country will gather Tuesday in a Westerville church to remember a 27 year veteran of the Columbus Division of Police.
  
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• Funeral service today for slain Columbus police officer

  19-04-2016 12:38
  
  Friends, family, and police officers from around the country will gather Tuesday in a Westerville church to remember a 27 year veteran of the Columbus Division of Police.
  
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• Funeral service held for slain Columbus police officer

  19-04-2016 12:38
  
  Friends, family, and police officers from around the country gathered Tuesday in a Westerville church to remember a 27 year veteran of the Columbus Division of Police.
  
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• Counterfeit goods: A $461 billion problem

  19-04-2016 12:33
  
  Most consumers may think of knockoff Louis Vuitton bags when they think of counterfeit goods. But the problem of fakes reaches far beyond counterfeit luxury handbags.
  
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• Could rebuilding Columbus schools cost more than $1 billion?

  19-04-2016 12:16
  
  Columbus City Schools began attaching potential price tags to various school-rebuilding alternatives at a public meeting on the North Side on Monday evening, and though only three of seven planning areas were made public, one thing is clear: The total is going to be a whopper.
  
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• Monday’s smog alert earliest ever issued for central Ohio

  19-04-2016 12:15
  
  If Monday's smog alert felt as if it arrived a little early, it did. The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission had never issued such a warning in April since it began forecasting for air quality in 2000.
  
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• High-speed pursuit through west Columbus ends in crash

  19-04-2016 12:15
  
  Franklin County Sheriff's Office and Columbus Police chased a driver through west Columbus neighborhoods at about 80 mph.
  
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• 911 caller won't be charged in Dayton Walmart police shooting

  19-04-2016 11:52
  
  A 911 caller won't be charged for reporting a man waving a gun in an Ohio Wal-Mart store before police fatally shot the shopper, who'd picked up an air rifle from a shelf, a special prosecutor said Monday.
  
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• Columbus schools hire former Mayor Coleman to handle Win-Win pact

  19-04-2016 11:46
  
  Columbus City Schools quietly hired former Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman and his former chief-of-staff, Michael Reese, earlier this spring under a no-bid contract to represent the district in negotiations over the Win-Win legal accord with suburban districts. But with bills set to go over the $25,000 limit that’s allowed for contracts without school board approval, the all-Democratic Board of Education will be asked at a meeting on Tuesday to incrase the contract to hire Coleman’
  
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• Morning Forecast: Partly cloudy & mild; temps around 60

  19-04-2016 11:38
  
  A little bit of a change today as a weak cold front moves across the region.
  
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• Evening Forecast: Partly cloudy & cooler, low of 47

  19-04-2016 11:38
  
  Temperatures have been about 10 degrees cooler in Central Ohio than yesterday but almost 25 degrees cooler near Cleveland.
  
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• Afternoon Forecast: Partly cloudy & warm; temps around 75

  19-04-2016 11:38
  
  A little bit of a change today as a weak cold front moves across the region.
  
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• Arranged marriages for central Ohioans work well in some subcultures

  19-04-2016 11:21
  
  Summer Mirza was so nervous the first time she met her now-husband in 2009 that she couldn’t look at his face. Instead, she kept her eyes on his shiny shoes. Five days later, she was married to Saqib Naeem Mangla. The Worthington couple believe that their marriage, arranged by their parents, was fated by God.
  
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• Columbus to pay $237,000 to settle lawsuit over police shooting

  19-04-2016 11:20
  
  Officer Bobby G. Schoolcraft's decision to shoot James Barber in 2013 led to a $237,000 lawsuit settlement unanimously approved by Columbus City Council members Monday night. It is one of the largest use-of-force settlements the city has paid in a decade.
  
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• High-school student leads Delaware effort to honor President Rutherford B. Hayes

  19-04-2016 11:13
  
  DELAWARE, Ohio — He could be coasting through his final year of at Delaware Hayes High School playing sports, hanging out with friends or binging on video games. But Cory Beam, 18, is focusing on community service as chairman of the city’s Rutherford B. Hayes Heritage Committee, whose members want the 19th president remembered by more than a plaque on a slab of marble in front of a BP gas station, the site of Hayes’ boyhood home.
  
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• MORPC issues earliest smog alert for central Ohio

  19-04-2016 10:55
  
  If Monday's smog alert felt as if it arrived a little early, it did. The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission had never issued such a warning in April since it began forecasting for air quality in 2000.
  
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• Justice Insider: Support pours in for fallen officer

  19-04-2016 10:44
  
  Today is the funeral for Columbus SWAT Officer Steven M. Smith, who was shot during an April 10 standoff with a barricaded gunman and died two days later. Since his death, there have been daily displays of grief and support for the 27-year division veteran, his family, and the Police Division.
  
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• One person shot during possible robbery in the Franklinton area

  19-04-2016 05:53
  
  A shooting victim is in critical condition after being shot Monday night. Read more.
  
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• Columbus schools consider first of district rebuilding plans

  19-04-2016 04:43
  
  Columbus City Schools began attaching potential price tags to various school-rebuilding alternatives at a public meeting on the North Side on Monday evening, and though only three of seven planning areas were made public, one thing is clear: The total is going to be a whopper.
  
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• Officers from around the country travel to honor Officer Steven Smith

  19-04-2016 04:40
  
  The funeral service at St. Paul the Apostle Parish in Westerville, will begin at 11 a.m. Tuesday.
  
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• Council approves $237,000 to settle police lawsuit over shooting

  19-04-2016 04:19
  
  Officer Bobby G. Schoolcraft's decision to shoot James Barber in 2013 led to a $237,000 lawsuit settlement unanimously approved by Columbus City Council members Monday night. It is one of the largest use-of-force settlements the city has paid in a decade.
  
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• Fla. woman arrested for allegedly stabbing her drug dealer

  19-04-2016 03:54
  
  A Florida woman was arrested on charges of attempted murder after she allegedly stabbed a man during a drug exchange at a local park.
  
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• South Carolina inmate convicted in killing seeks sex change

  19-04-2016 03:33
  
  A South Carolina inmate serving a life sentence for killing a Charleston woman in 2003 wants the state to help with a sex change.
  
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