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• Dispatch wins best Ohio newspaper, website in annual contest

  15-05-2016 23:37
  
  For the fourth time in five years, The Dispatch was named Ohio's best large daily newspaper in the annual Ohio Associated Press Media Editors competition, announced on Sunday. The newspaper's website, Dispatch.com, was named best in Ohio for the second year in a row, and the paper received nine other first-place nods, including awards for investigative and public service reporting.
  
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• Residents 'sickened' by vandalism of Morrow County police memorial

  15-05-2016 22:43
  
  A vandal, or vandals, transformed the Galion Fraternal Order of Police Memorial from a somber stone monument to a cartoonish display of disrespect by dumping bright yellow paint over it.
  
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• Will robot cars drive traffic congestion off a cliff?

  15-05-2016 21:41
  
  Self-driving cars are expected to usher in a new era of mobility, safety and convenience. The problem, say transportation researchers, is that people will use them too much.
  
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• Man attempts to rob car wash with potato chip bag

  15-05-2016 21:14
  
  Authorities say a man tried to rob a car wash in Northern California with an empty potato chip bag and an alleged handgun.
  
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• Dad, son accused of kidnapping woman, her 4 teen daughters

  15-05-2016 19:51
  
  A father and son accused of luring a woman and her four teenage daughters to a Utah house and tying them up were finally both brought in to custody Saturday in Wyoming after an extensive manhunt.
  
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• Review: CCAD 2016 Senior Fashion Show

  15-05-2016 14:57
  
  To most college students, Mid-May means one thing: Graduation. To Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD) Fashion Design Majors, however, Mid-May also means the Senior Fashion Show. Held at the CCAD campus on May 13th, this year’s event kicked off with a VIP cocktail hour before the show, and was followed by a dance […]
  
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• Local artist donates work to Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

  15-05-2016 14:20
  
  It can be an idea that sketches the smallest of detail into our hearts and souls that creates a desire to turn a hobby into something more. Read more.
  
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• Search for suspect after Whitehall shooting

  15-05-2016 13:56
  
  Whitehall police are looking for a suspect involved in a shooting on South Hamilton Road Friday night. Read more.
  
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• Dayton-area congressman Mike Turner opposes housing immigrant kids on military bases

  15-05-2016 13:51
  
  WASHINGTON — First, Rep. Mike Turner opposed the idea of unaccompanied immigrant children being sent to Dayton. Now, he wants to prevent housing them on military bases across the country. Turner, R-Dayton, is backing a provision of the massive defense spending-authorization bill that would bar such children from staying on military bases.
  
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• Clintonville seeks architectural review zones

  15-05-2016 13:51
  
  New apartments and extended-stay hotels. Three- and four-story buildings going up along key thoroughfares. Arguments over development along North High Street and Indianola Avenue have prompted the Clintonville Area Commission to move to better control the look of things in those corridors.
  
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• Whitehall couple gives up custody to help autistic child

  15-05-2016 13:47
  
  IRONTON, Ohio — Six days a week, the parents feel invisible to their son. They cannot call or text or send emails because 17-year-old Andrew Butler cannot converse or read or write. Relief comes on Saturdays. That’s when Mark and Susan Butler make the drive from their home in Whitehall to Andrew’s aide-staffed apartment in the southernmost part of the state, a five-hour round-trip that has put thousands of miles on the couple’s car and immeasurable stress on the family dy
  
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• Sunday Forecast: Unseasonably cool & cloudy

  15-05-2016 13:29
  
  The high temperatures will only get up into the mid 50s today with patchy frost possible again tonight. Get the forecast.
  
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• Outdoors notebook: Lake Erie yellow perch breaks 32-year Ohio record

  15-05-2016 12:48
  
  Fishing from east of the Chagrin River’s mouth at Fairport Harbor on Lake Erie, Dave Berg had latched onto something wet, wild and a little furious that was straining his ultralight equipment. Hanging on to what he thought might be a nice smallmouth, Berg suggested to his brother Fred, his fishing companion that morning, that someone ought to be helpful and fetch the net.
  
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• Hubble telescope captures comet's close Earth encounter

  15-05-2016 12:48
  
  One of the closest encounters between a comet and Earth has been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Read more.
  
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• 3 vie in special election for Boehner’s old House seat

  15-05-2016 12:23
  
  WASHINGTON — When the Dayton Development Coalition came to town last month to lobby lawmakers for their community’s interests, a new face greeted them at their annual reception. Warren Davidson, a 46-year-old political newcomer, is the Republican nominee to replace former House Speaker John Boehner in Ohio’s 8th Congressional District, a swath of farmland in western Ohio that includes all or parts of Clark, Mercer, Miami, Darke, Preble and Butler counties.
  
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• Best Bets: Hair

  15-05-2016 12:12
  
  Are you looking for a way to sass up your summer hairstyle without paying a fortune? 10TV’S Brittany Begley has your best bets for frizz-free, beautiful hair.
  
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• John Switzer | From the Stump: Keep feeder full to spot migrating birds

  15-05-2016 12:05
  
  I have been getting complaints from readers that they aren't seeing that many birds at their feeders. The main reason probably is that many birds are breeding and are concentrating more on finding insects than feeders.
  
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• Whitehall couple give up custody to help autistic child

  15-05-2016 12:02
  
  IRONTON, Ohio — Six days a week, the parents feel invisible to their son. They cannot call or text or send emails because 17-year-old Andrew Butler cannot converse or read or write. Relief comes on Saturdays. That’s when Mark and Susan Butler make the drive from their home in Whitehall to Andrew’s aide-staffed apartment in the southernmost part of the state, a five-hour round-trip that has put thousands of miles on the couple’s car and immeasurable stress on the family dy
  
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• Concrete dust latest complaint for Buckeye Lake residents over dam work

  15-05-2016 11:54
  
  The recent completion of a stability berm and seepage barrier at Buckeye Lake means that residents and businesses are one step closer to higher water levels this summer. Although the progress is encouraging for those who live and work in the area, it continues to come at a cost. On April 30, an on-site concrete-mixing plant being used during construction overflowed, sending a plume of concrete dust into the air and onto about a dozen homes and yards near Rosebraugh Circle.
  
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• Ohio’s poorest kids have gaps in safety net, report says

  15-05-2016 11:45
  
  Whether Ohio’s poorest children receive public assistance depends on where they live, even as more young people have fallen into extreme poverty. In northwestern Ohio’s Hancock County, only 1 in 10 children with a family income below 50 percent of the federal poverty level — $840 a month for a family of three — receives a monthly welfare check. In Ottawa County, surrounding Sandusky, 94 percent of kids in deep poverty get the help.
  
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• Methodists not alone facing LGBT split

  15-05-2016 11:10
  
  In a divide over LGBT issues that’s been called painful and destructive, some have started to lose hope that a Protestant denomination that claims “united” in its very name will remain that way. Across the United Methodist Church, there’s a lack of faith that common ground will be found, and it comes from both sides of the aisle — from those who advocate for same-sex marriage and the ordination of openly gay clergy, and from those who are adamant that such actions f
  
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• Capitol Insider: Will John Kasich support Donald Trump?

  15-05-2016 11:02
  
  Eleven days have passed since Ohio Gov. John Kasich departed the Republican presidential race — without taking questions. Dispatch Reporter Randy Ludlow observes that Kasich has not given an interview or made a public appearance that would expose himself to reporters since then, as he seemingly ponders how to play his hand going forward.
  
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• Downtown Dayton getting brewpub

  15-05-2016 11:00
  
  Lock 27 Brewing of Centerville will open next year a second brewery and a pub-restaurant overlooking Fifth Third Field’s main plaza in downtown Dayton.
  
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• Ross County man builds dream cabin one log at a time

  15-05-2016 10:50
  
  In 1986, Duane Dickson, then a 37-year-old Kenworth factory worker, bought 118 acres on a mostly wooded hill near his home in Kingston, Ohio, northeast of Chillicothe. He loved the site for its expansive views of Ross County’s rolling landscape and for its great hiking. “I figured I would sell it someday,” said Dickson, now 67 and long retired from the truck manufacturer. “Then I thought I’d just build me a cabin.”
  
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• What’s to become of Longaberger’s iconic ‘Big Basket’ HQ?

  15-05-2016 10:38
  
  NEWARK — Mind-boggling, beloved, 160 times bigger than life — and soon to be empty. That’s the “Big Basket,” the headquarters of the Longaberger Co.
  
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• Iraq: Militant attack north of Baghdad kills at least 12

  15-05-2016 09:52
  
  Officials say militants have attacked a state-run natural gas plant outside the Iraqi capital, killing at least 12 people. Read more.
  
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• Surprise Of A Lifetime For Race For The Cure Volunteer

  15-05-2016 08:22
  
  Cindy Mansifeld is used to helping others on race day, but this year the cancer survivor had something extra special to celebrate.
  
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• Columbus woman searching for justice six years later

  15-05-2016 07:51
  
  A Columbus woman who many never walk again, is turning to the community for information and help to find justice. No arrests have been made six years after someone shot and paralyzed Alix Reese in East Columbus.
  
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• Crew SC Lands Another Home Game Tie in 1-1 Rapids Match

  15-05-2016 06:32
  
  The post-Kamara Columbus Crew SC held on for an encouraging point against the league-leading Colorado Rapids on a chilly May evening at MAPFRE Stadium. Gregg Berhalter rung the changes to the under performing 2016 Crew team as Cedrick took the place of Ethan Finlay, while Corey Ashe again started at left-back and the now departed […]
  
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• REVIEW: Concert brings Disney to life for entire family

  15-05-2016 06:03
  
  Classical music and Disney fans alike are in for a treat this weekend, as the Columbus Symphony presents Disney in Concert: Tale as Old as Time at the Ohio Theatre.
  
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• REVIEW: ProMusica, Gluzman evoke double standing ovation

  15-05-2016 04:23
  
  The penultimate concert of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra's 2015-16 season last night showcased the fruits of the collaboration among the orchestra, music director David Danzmayr, violin soloist Vadim Gluzman and Columbus school kids in accomplished performances of Prokofiev, Schubert and even some folk tunes at the Southern Theatre.
  
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• Morrow County Police Memorial Damaged

  15-05-2016 03:54
  
  Morrow County deputies say someone splattered paint on the officer's memorial.
  
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• Dozens Arrested After Deadly Brawl Inside Russian Cemetery

  15-05-2016 02:31
  
  Police say over 200 people were involved in a fight over burial services.
  
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• Pilot Killed After Crash, Fireball At Georgia Air Show

  15-05-2016 01:46
  
  A pilot was killed when his biplane crashed while performing a stunt at a metro Atlanta airshow.
  
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• At Least Eight Killed In Texas Charter Bus Crash

  15-05-2016 00:24
  
  An official says eight people have been killed and some 40 injured in a charter bus crash in far South Texas.
  
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