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• Officials need $1.8 million to get Ohio's medical marijuana program running

  16-08-2016 23:54
  
  State officials want $1.8 million to get Ohio’s medical marijuana program off the ground, with much of it going toward new personnel and developing a patient registration system and other databases.
  
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• Sneak Preview: Pins Mechanical Co.

  16-08-2016 23:43
  
  The new Pins Mechanical Co. has been one of the most hotly anticipated new additions to Downtown Columbus since it was first announced back in March. The new 16,000 square foot entertainment venue has transformed an old auto shop into a warehouse filled with duckpin bowling, pinball machines and other games. Newly installed garage doors […]
  
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• ECOT's latest accusations could go to a judge

  16-08-2016 23:41
  
  As Ohio’s largest online charter school accuses the state of violating student privacy laws, the Ohio Department of Education says it’s time to let a judge decide.
  
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• How to help Louisiana Flood victims

  16-08-2016 23:20
  
  The Ohio Buckeye Region of the American Red Cross has deployed three emergency response vehicles and 23 volunteers to Louisiana.Ken Church of Columbus arrived at John Glenn International Airport to make his third volunteer trip over the past two years as an American Red Cross volunteer. He’s prepared to stay down there for two weeks to help in a shelter."You hear people say oh well I wish there was something I could do. I've been given an opportunity where I can do something. Once the wate
  
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• Driver indicted in hit-skip crash that killed unborn child

  16-08-2016 23:08
  
  The man accused of killing an unborn child in a hit-skip crash last week has been indicted by the Franklin County Grand Jury.Tony Muldrow, 38, has been indicted on 10 counts including vehicular aggravated vehicular homicide, aggravated vehicular assault, vehicular assault, failure to stop after an accident, and operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse or a combination of them.The crash happened August 13 at the intersection of South Hamilton Road at Dundee Avenue on th
  
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• 'Food deserts' could grow with proposed changes to federal policy, critics warn

  16-08-2016 23:06
  
  WASHINGTON — Low-income Americans who depend on government assistance to buy food could face starkly different options under changes proposed by a federal agency.
  
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• Drug price reduction campaign will return to Ohio in 2017

  16-08-2016 23:04
  
  A ballot campaign to reduce prescription drug prices will be back in Ohio next year.
  
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• Driver indicted for crash that ended woman's pregnancy

  16-08-2016 22:26
  
  A 38-year-old Far East Side man is accused of driving drunk and causing a crash last week that ended a woman's pregnancy. A Franklin County grand jury on Tuesday returned a 10-count indictment against Tony S. Muldrow of Darrell Court on charges that include aggravated vehicular homicide, aggravated vehicular assault, driving while intoxicated and failing to stop after a crash. The crash occurred at 12:49 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of S. Hamilton Road and Dundee Avenue on the East Side.
  
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• Hadley’s Bar + Kitchen Scheduled to Open on August 26th

  16-08-2016 22:12
  
  After a year and a half in the making, Hadley’s Bar + Kitchen is ready to open its doors to customers on Friday, August 26th, which will coincide with the BBQ Block Party planned that same weekend. The bar is the latest addition to the growing entertainment and food scene on South Fourth Street in […]
  
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• Financial Adviser In Ohio Charged With Stealing Over $500K

  16-08-2016 22:08
  
  A financial adviser accused of stealing a more than a half-million dollars from an 81-year-old client's account has been indicted in central Ohio on felony charges.
  
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• Rising cost of potentially life-saving EpiPen puts pinch on families

  16-08-2016 21:44
  
  Families with severe allergies often rely on EpiPens to deliver a dose of potentially life-saving medicine if a child has a bad reaction. But the cost of the EpiPen is surging, putting the pinch on many families.The EpiPen is filled with epinephrine, which can counter the effects of a severe allergic reaction. The auto-injector's price has risen by more than 480 percent since 2009. The actual cost of the drug inside the EpiPen is only a couple bucks, reports CBS News correspondent Vinita Nair. S
  
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• Report: Mom suspected of drowning 2 kids was desperate for money

  16-08-2016 21:39
  
  The former employer of a woman suspected of drowning her son and daughter said she showed up at his restaurant Saturday desperate for her last paycheck, according to CBS affiliate KHOU."She was sweating, she was kind of angry that she didn't have any money," said Santiago Wesley, owner of Little Cajun Kitchen. In an interview with the station, Wesley said Sheborah Thomas was trying to pick up a check for $47. The encounter occurred after police believe Thomas drowned her children, Oralynn, 7, an
  
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• Video of Columbus man killing black bear with spear sparks online outrage

  16-08-2016 20:39
  
  The Alberta provincial government plans to ban the practice of spearing wildlife after a video posted online showing an American killing a black bear with a spear sparked outrage.The video was posted in June on the YouTube account of Josh Bowmar, who runs Bowmar Fitness according to The Mirror, and shows him killing the bear on a hunt in northern Alberta. By the time it was removed from public view on Monday it had garnered more than 208,000 views.The 13-minute video shows Bowmar launching a spe
  
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• ColumbusRotary: Dare to Learn Without Limits

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• Autopsy shows police shot Henry Green seven times

  16-08-2016 20:09
  
  Henry Green was shot seven times during a confrontation with police June 6 in South Linden, according to the Franklin County coroner’s report on his death. Green, 23, was shot in his chest, left elbow, left forearm, right forearm, left thigh, left hip and right armpit, according to the report. The cause of death was the gunshot wound to the chest, said Dr. Anahi M. Ortiz, the Franklin County coroner. At the time of this death, Green's blood tested positive for THC, the intoxicant found in
  
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• Ginther sending daughter to private school, not Columbus City Schools

  16-08-2016 19:56
  
  Columbus Mayor Andrew J. Ginther is sending his 6-year-old daughter to the Wellington School, an elite private academy in Upper Arlington, Columbus Monthly reported Monday. Though not unprecedented for a Columbus mayor, the decision is awkward for Ginther, a longtime public education advocate and a graduate of Columbus public schools whose first elected office was as a member of the Columbus Board of Education.
  
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• Two closed Columbus charters owe state $62,211

  16-08-2016 19:19
  
  Two closed Columbus charter schools run by a person prosecutors labeled as a con man owe the state $62,211. The Talented Tenth Leadership Academy for Boys and Talented Tenth Leadership for Girls collected state taxpayer money for four months before the state shut it down in October 2013. State auditors later determined records were either missing or such a mess that they were unable to review them to determine whether tax dollars were accounted for.
  
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• Council Accepting Applications for Charter Review Committee Membership

  16-08-2016 19:10
  
  Mayor Andy Ginther and City Council are now accepting applications for seven positions on the Charter Review Committee announced in July. The committee was conceived as an alternative to the ballot proposal defeated earlier this month that would have changed council structure from an entirely at-large body to one with additional ward representation. Issue 1, […]
  
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• Taste the Greatest Tacos in Columbus!

  16-08-2016 18:50
  
  The second annual Best Bites: Tacos festival takes place this week, and local taco fans will be able to sample over a dozen of the city’s best tacos from restaurants all over the city on Thursday, August 18th inside the special events space at Strongwater Food & Spirits. We’ve given you a sneak peek of the first five and […]
  
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• Police reveal new details on passengers in water slide death

  16-08-2016 18:34
  
  CBS NEWS/AP -- Police say combined weights for a 10-year-old boy and two other people riding a raft with him at a water park when he was killed were within the ride's limits.Caleb Schwab, the son of a state legislator in Kansas, died while riding the world's tallest water slide. Officials said he suffered a fatal neck injury, and was dead by the time first responders reached him.The boy died on the 168-foot "Verruckt" at Schlitterbahn WaterPark in Kansas City, Kansas. Riders are weighed to ensur
  
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• Trial delayed for teen charged in shooting of Orange Township resident

  16-08-2016 17:39
  The trial for a Columbus teenager charged with shooting an Orange Township teen has been delayed again in Delaware County Common Pleas Court.
  
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• Theodore Decker: ECOT tries ads in fight against education department

  16-08-2016 17:30
  
  The latest advertisement for the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow features a young man with a story of resilience and questions for the Ohio Department of Education. “I’ve called 22 different places home,” says the young man, identified in the commercial as "Gabriel Young, ECOT Senior.”
  
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• Justice Insider: Video shows trooper struck by car during traffic stop

  16-08-2016 17:28
  
  Earlier this month, the State Highway Patrol posted a video on its Facebook page of a trooper being struck by a car. If you watch it, and still don't watch out for emergency vehicles, there might be something wrong with you.
  
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• Suspect found biting man's face off at chaotic Florida murder scene

  16-08-2016 17:12
  
  CBS NEWS -- Sheriff's deputies were called to Kokomo Lane in Martin County, Florida, on Monday evening because a neighbor told 911 he'd been stabbed trying to break up a fight.CBS Tampa affiliate WPEC reports that when the first deputy arrived, the sheriff said she had found a man on top of another one in a driveway, biting his face.The sheriff said the suspect was removing the victim's flesh with his teeth. Eventually, multiple deputies and a K-9 pounced, trying to remove the suspect from the p
  
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• Woman won't be charged in fatal shooting of boyfriend in South Side apartment, police say

  16-08-2016 17:03
  
  Columbus Police say that a woman who shot and killed her boyfriend Monday afternoon might have acted in self defense and is not being charged. The woman, who has not been named, was questioned Monday following the shooting inside an apartment in the 2100 block of Winslow Drive. Malyk Shelby, 20, was found there at about 4:20 p.m. He was taken to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center where he died about an hour later.
  
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• UberEATS launches tomorrow in Columbus

  16-08-2016 16:50
  
  Food from your favorite restaurants around Columbus can now be delivered right to your door with the launch of UberEATS on Wednesday.Participating local restaurants will be able to partner with the app-based car service and have drivers deliver meals in as little as 10 minutes.According to its website, the average order takes about 35 minutes from start to finish.Users can place an order in the UberEATS app and pay with their Uber account.You can even track the food as its being delivered.Plus,
  
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• Uber launching food delivery in Columbus

  16-08-2016 16:43
  
  Uber wants to do more than give you lift, now it wants to ferry your food. On Wednesday, the ridesharing company that has upended traditional taxi services is taking on food delivery. UberEats will bring your order, from about 80 restaurants, including Donatos, Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams and 6-1-Pho, to your door. Columbus is the first city in Ohio to get the service.
  
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• Ohio’s student-loan collector sued for high fees

  16-08-2016 16:36
  
  Bill collectors and law firms working for the Ohio attorney general's office are tacking unreasonably high charges onto the amounts they try to collect from people with long-overdue student loans, according to lawsuits filed by the Legal Aid Society of Columbus. One man said he doesn’t even remember taking out loans totaling $900 in the early 1970s, but the state wants to add more than $1,500 in collection costs to the $2,368 he owes in principal, interest and late fees.
  
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• Ex-Alexandria official remains free after theft-in-office charges

  16-08-2016 16:14
  
  NEWARK — Former Alexandria Fiscal Officer Laura VanScoy Andrews remains free on her own recognizance after a bond hearing Tuesday that followed her indictment on theft in office and other charges last month. Licking County prosecutors have said Vanscoy Andrews, 48, of Utica, repeatedly issued payments to herself in excess of her authorized salary, totaling about $80,000.
  
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• Early voting extended in Upper Arlington recall election

  16-08-2016 16:03
  
  Just under 1,000 Upper Arlington residents have voted or taken absentee ballots so far in the election that could recall four of the city's council members. The Franklin County Board of Elections is expanding hours this week just before Tuesday's election.
  
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• WATCH: Remaining tower at Riviera casino tumbles down in Vegas

  16-08-2016 15:22
  
  The last tower of the iconic Riviera Hotel and Casino came tumbling down along the Las Vegas Strip early Tuesday to make way for a convention center expansion.The 2:30 a.m. demolition of the Monte Carlo wing came two months after the taller Monaco tower was leveled the same way.The 2,075-room property closed in May 2015 after 60 years hosting headliners from Liberace to Dean Martin. It also was a backdrop for movies including the Rat Pack original "Ocean's 11" in 1960.The Las Vegas Convention an
  
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•  New assignment for Whitehall students as they begin new school year

  16-08-2016 14:35
  From new locker numbers to new classrooms and locations, Whitehall police want kids to know a new 10-digit combination: 614-440-4853"Nowadays, teens don't talk on the phone, teens text," says Sgt. Dan Kelso with the Whitehall police department."That's what they do, parents text, people text, we do that more than we make calls today."Sgt. Kelso says he considers the new text-to-tip idea is more of a crime-solving tool, as opposed to crime-fighting."So when people know about a crime that took plac
  
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• Look at this googly-eyed squid

  16-08-2016 14:16
  
  Researchers made quite an interesting find off the coast of California.Scientists with EV Nautilus came across what's called a Googly-eyed Stubby Squid.Here's what they had to say about it:The team spotted this Stubby Squid off the coast of California at a depth of 900 meters (2,950 feet). The stubby squid (Rossia pacifica) looks like a cross between an octopus and squid, but is more closely related to cuttlefish. This species spends life on the seafloor, activating a sticky mucus jacket and bur
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: Donald Trump's Youngstown speech includes talk of 'extreme vetting' for immigrants

  16-08-2016 13:20
  
  Donald Trump rolled out his foreign policy plan while in Youngstown Monday including a proposal for “extreme vetting” of immigrants, Dispatch Public Affairs Editor Darrel Rowland writes.
  
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• Giant Eagle Opening Market District Express in Bexley

  16-08-2016 13:00
  
  Giant Eagle is opening its first-ever two-story grocery store this week when the Market District Express officially begins welcoming customers on Thursday in Bexley. The 30,000 square foot store represents a small footprint for any major grocery retailer, but Regional VP of Operations Brian Ferrier feels that it will be a perfect fit. “The store […]
  
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• First Look: Giant Eagle Market District Express

  16-08-2016 13:00
  
  The new Giant Eagle Market District Express officially opens in Bexley on Thursday, August 18th. The store is the first two-story format for the grocery retailer, and features a full service selection inside a smaller footprint. Click here to read our full story on the new grocery store. All photos by Walker Evans.
  
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• Missing resident’s body found in car at Far East Side senior facility

  16-08-2016 12:32
  
  A body found in a car on the Far East Side has been identified as a missing resident of a senior-living facility, Columbus police say. The body of Dorothy Mann was found shortly before 7 p.m. Monday, in the back of a car that was parked at Chestnut House, a facility for the elderly on Chestnut Grove Drive, off Wengert and Waggoner roads near Blacklick.
  
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• Woman fatally shot boyfriend in South Side apartment, police say

  16-08-2016 12:18
  
  A man who died on the South Side on Monday evening was found shot in an apartment, police say. Malyk Shelby, 22, was found in an apartment in the 2100 block of Winslow Drive, in the Columbus Park Apartments, around 4:15 p.m. after a woman had walked into the nearby leasing office and reported the man down, said Sgt. David Sicilian, of the police homicide squad.
  
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• Hilliard, South-Western, Westerville districts amending Win-Win deals with Columbus schools

  16-08-2016 12:04
  
  Thirty years of uncertainty and money changing hands to maintain local school-district boundaries appears to be drawing to a close. Columbus City Schools has drawn up agreements with Hilliard, Westerville and South-Western schools, amending their so-called “Win-Win” agreements to make their boundaries permanent and phase out their payments to Columbus schools by May 2021.
  
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• Chillicothe church gets new LGBT banner after vandalism 

  16-08-2016 12:04
  A Chillicothe church that was vandalized in July has a new banner to share their message with the community.Leaders at the Orchard Hill United Church of Christ say someone destroyed a gay pride banner that hung on the front of the church’s property after the head pastor spoke in favor of an LGBT non-discrimination ordinance up for discussion in Chillicothe. On Sunday, a Columbus congregation presented the church with a new banner to hang."We aren't going to be scared and frightened and int
  
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• Ohio sued over student-loan collection fees

  16-08-2016 11:41
  
  Bill collectors and law firms working for the Ohio attorney general's office are tacking unreasonably high charges onto the amounts they try to collect from people with long-overdue student loans, according to lawsuits filed by the Legal Aid Society of Columbus. One man said he doesn’t even remember taking out loans totaling $900 in the early 1970s, but the state wants to add more than $1,500 in collection costs to the $2,368 he owes in principal, interest and late fees.
  
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• Body found in back of car at senior facility likely missing resident

  16-08-2016 11:18
  
  A body found in a car on the Far East Side has tentatively been identified as a missing resident of a senior-living facility, Columbus police say. The body was found shortly before 7 p.m. Monday, in the back of a car that was parked at Chestnut House, a facility for the elderly on Chestnut Grove Drive, off Wengert and Waggoner roads near Blacklick.
  
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• Justice Insider: Raccoons saved from water, trash cans

  16-08-2016 11:02
  
  Whitehall's animal-control officer might not specialize in water rescue, but thanks to his quick thinking, a wild critter survived a terrifying trip downstream.
  
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• Huntington closes FirstMerit deal

  16-08-2016 11:00
  
  Huntington Bancshares has wrapped up its $3.4 billion deal for Akron-based FirstMerit. The bank said this morning that the two banks are now officially operating as one.
  
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• Theodore Decker commentary: ECOT fires public-relations salvo in fight with Department of Education

  16-08-2016 10:55
  
  The latest advertisement for the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow features a young man with a story of resilience and questions for the Ohio Department of Education. “I’ve called 22 different places home,” says the young man, identified in the commercial as "Gabriel Young, ECOT Senior.”
  
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• Officials hope to extend CoGo bike-sharing program into suburbs

  16-08-2016 10:34
  
  Officials are pushing pedal power, hoping to expand Columbus' bike-sharing program into three neighboring suburbs. "Bexley, Grandview (Heights) and Upper Arlington are very, very close to Downtown and there seems to be a demand there," Grandview Mayor Ray DeGraw, a cyclist, said of the proposed expansion.
  
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• Officials hope to extend bike-sharing program into suburbs

  16-08-2016 06:27
  CoGo employees Sam Tinianow, Dan Nunez and Ryan McAuley work on installing a new bike station near the corner of Whittier and Yeager in front of a Giant Eagle store in German Village. "Bexley, Grandview and Upper Arlington are very, very close to Downtown and there seems to be a demand there," Grandview Mayor Ray DeGraw, a cyclist, said of the proposed expansion.
  
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• 1995 murder charges dropped against "East Cleveland Three"

  16-08-2016 04:44
  
  Charges against a trio of men convicted and imprisoned for a 1995 murder were dismissed Monday morning, reports CBS affiliate WOIO.The men, known as the "East Cleveland Three," were convicted in 1996 for the shooting of Clifton Hudson in East Cleveland.Derrick Wheat, Eugene Johnson and Laurese Glover submitted numerous appeals during their two decades in prison. The men were found guilty largely based a young witness who changed her mind years later.In 2004, the then-14-year-old girl said Wheat,
  
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• Teacher accused of DUI in crash that injured police officer

  16-08-2016 04:41
  
  A South Carolina teacher is accused of driving under the influence after police say she crashed into a patrol car, injuring a police officer.Citing court records, news outlets report 24-year-old Wendy Ellen Burnett was charged with felony DUI following the Saturday morning crash.South Carolina Highway Patrol spokesman Cpl. Judd Jones says Burnett was driving on Interstate 26 when she crashed into 32-year-old North Charleston police officer Andrew Turner's vehicle, which struck Turner, who was on
  
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• Rescuers save dog who fell down well in Maryland

  16-08-2016 03:55
  
  A St. Bernard in a Maryland town is lucky to be alive after falling down a 30-foot well.The dog, named Mabel, was rescued by the Aberdeen Fire Department and Harford County Technical Rescue Team, according to the Harford County Fire and EMS Facebook page.The dog was safely removed from the well, Harford County Fire said.According to their Facebook page, Mabel was seen running in circles after she was pulled from the well.She will be taken to a vet to be checked out.From the after picture, she su
  
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