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• NIH: Zika could "hang around" U.S. for a year or two

  21-08-2016 23:51
  
  A National Institutes of Health official said Sunday that the Zika virus could "hang around" the United States for a year or two.Dr. Anthony Fauci told ABC's "This Week" that other Gulf Coast states, besides Florida, are most vulnerable to the spread of the disease."I would not be surprised if we see cases in Texas and Louisiana, particularly now where you have the situation with flooding in Louisiana," said Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "There are
  
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• Veteran skydiver killed during jump in southwest Ohio

  21-08-2016 23:40
  
  The owner of a skydiving company says a man has died after opening his main and reserve parachutes too late during a jump at a southwest Ohio airport.The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports the 47-year-old man from the Cincinnati suburb of Mason man plunged to his death Sunday morning at Middletown Regional Airport.Drop Zone owner John Hart II says the man had made 95 previous jumps. Hart says the man deployed his main parachute under the recommended altitude limit of 3,500 feet and opened
  
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• Letter: Factory needed assist from state

  21-08-2016 23:20
  
  The Dispatch welcomes letters to the editor from readers. Typed letters of 200 words or fewer are preferred; all might be edited.
  
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• Weak tornado touches down near Delaware

  21-08-2016 22:03
  
  Meteorologists confirmed a weak, EF-0 tornado touched down in Delaware County on Saturday, about 4 miles north of Delaware.
  
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• When Hope conquers addiction

  21-08-2016 21:03
  
  Saturday, dozens of volunteers prepared for day two of Hope Over Heroin. The outdoor event is held at Dodge Park in Downtown Columbus.It is a collaborative ministry where pastors and churches come together to offer encouragement and resources to assist drug addicts.One of the key organizers is Joey Moats. He gives a whole new meaning to the word “volunteer”.“When you can be used to speak hope to someone else there's no better feeling,” said Moats.
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• Ohio State wrestler Kyle Snyder wins gold in 2016 Olympics

  21-08-2016 20:41
  
  Ohio State University wrestler Kyle Snyder won gold for the United States in the 2016 Olympics.He won gold in the men's 97-kilogram division Sunday afternoon, beating Khetag Gazyumov.According to OSU, Snyder is the first Buckeye wrestler to represent the U.S. in 24 yearsHe becomes the youngest Olympic champion in U.S. history at 20 years old.
  
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• MISSING: Columbus police search for 14-year-old girl

  21-08-2016 20:01
  
  Columbus police are investigating the disappearance of a teenager in east Columbus.Police say the father of 14-year-old Kyara Wells reported her missing. The father tells 10TV she was last seen Friday at Alexander Court Apartments off East Broad Street.He says she is known to be with her boyfriend or his family. She was last seen carrying a peach colored Jansport backpack with teal straps.If you've seen Wells, you're asked to call Columbus police.
  
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• Father: Missing 14-year-old Columbus girl found safely

  21-08-2016 20:01
  
  UPDATE: August 22 4 p.m.Kyara Wells has been found safe according to her father.There are no other additional details at this time.---Original StoryColumbus police are investigating the disappearance of a teenager in east Columbus.Police say the father of 14-year-old Kyara Wells reported her missing. The father tells 10TV she was last seen Friday at Alexander Court Apartments off East Broad Street.He says she is known to be with her boyfriend or his family. She was last seen carrying a peach col
  
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• AP Poll: Buckeyes start 2016 season at No. 6

  21-08-2016 19:26
  
  The Associated Press has released its preseason and the Buckeyes are starting out at No. 6 going into 2016.Earlier this month, the Amway Coaches Poll placed Ohio State at No. 5.Much like the coaches poll, the AP Poll has Alabama and Clemson starting off as No. 1 and 2 respectively after facing each other in last year's national championship.Three other Big Ten schools, That Team Up North (No. 7), Michigan State (No. 12) and Iowa (No. 17), were also ranked alongside the Buckeyes.Ohio State will o
  
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• Slain New Mexico police officer to be remembered

  21-08-2016 19:15
  
  Thousands are expected to gather to pay their respects to Jose Chavez, a Hatch police officer who authorities say was shot and killed by an Ohio fugitive during a traffic stop in southern New Mexico. A public funeral for the 33-year-old Chavez is scheduled for Sunday afternoon at the Pan American Center in Las Cruces.
  
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• Police: Ohio State student robbed at knifepoint

  21-08-2016 19:01
  
  Ohio State University Emergency Management is reporting that an Ohio State student was robbed off-campus Saturday.The male student reported the robbery to Columbus Police after the incident happened in the area of 174 W. Lane Ave. around 11:30 p.m.The victim said he was responding to an online ad to buy an iPhone but was met by two male suspects in their 20’s.One suspect showed a knife and demanded all of the student’s belongings. The suspects took cash from the victim and fled north
  
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• Theatre Review: MadLab’s Muddled Scritch Scritch

  21-08-2016 17:20
  
  Christopher Lockheardt has made his name on sharp, witty, short plays produced at MadLab and around the country. The world premier of one of his first full-length dramas, Scritch Scritch, opened at MadLab this weekend in a production directed by Jim Azelvandre (assisted by Becky Horseman). Rebecca (Kyle Jepson), feeling stuck in her life, decides to […]
  
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• Student debt can balloon with little notice

  21-08-2016 15:00
  By last year, when the Ohio attorney general's office sued to recoup that 21-year-old debt, she owed $968. Across Ohio every year, lawyers working for the attorney general sue thousands of college students with unpaid loans from one of the state's public universities.
  
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• Program to Bring Unique Public Art to the University District

  21-08-2016 14:00
  
  The University District Organization is soliciting proposals for a wide-ranging public art program, one that organizers hope will shine a spotlight on the rich cultural life of the neighborhood. Matt Hansen of the UDO explained that the five “tactical art projects” are designed to be experimental – the ideas that are the most well-received could […]
  
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• In elections board emails, absence of fiscal officer often noted

  21-08-2016 13:26
  
  Franklin County’s former elections director knew years before his indictment on charges of theft in office and tampering with documents that the employee who is accused of taking pay for time she didn’t work was often absent. Some members of the Franklin County Board of Elections also knew that there were complaints about fiscal officer Brenna Umbstaetter’s attendance and work performance several years before she resigned in 2015.
  
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• Iraq executes 36 men convicted in Islamic State massacre

  21-08-2016 13:09
  
  Iraqi officials say the country has executed 36 men convicted of taking part in the Islamic State group's massacre of hundreds of soldiers in 2014.Gov. Yahya al-Nasiri says the men were hanged at the Nasiriyah prison in southern Iraq on Sunday. A Justice Ministry official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters, confirms the executions.IS captured an estimated 1,700 soldiers from the nearby Speicher military base when it overran the northern city of
  
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• New French, Spanish immersion schools open in larger, tech-filled buildings

  21-08-2016 13:02
  
  Columbus City Schools will roll out its latest multimillion-dollar buildings this school year: new homes for the French and Spanish immersion programs. When approximately 650 students return to those classes Wednesday, they will walk through the doors of a $32 million investment in bricks-and-mortar education at Ecole Kenwood French Immersion School near OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital on the Northwest Side and Columbus Spanish Immersion at Cooke and Karl roads on the North Side.
  
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• Fire guts Hilltop cold-storage warehouse

  21-08-2016 12:54
  
  Columbus firefighters are waiting for the last few hotspots to burn out on a large warehouse fire that started Friday night and continued into Saturday on the Hilltop. Residents living within a third of a mile of the warehouse, 3080 Valleyview Drive, were evacuated overnight because of concerns that they would be exposed to chemicals used to refrigerate food in the warehouse, but they have since returned to their homes.
  
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• Experts: Small governments feel effects of corruption

  21-08-2016 12:52
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio's state auditor says there's no statistically significant proof public corruption occurs more frequently in smaller communities amid a rash of recent criminal charges against employees but the effects in those communities are felt more profoundly than in big cities.State Auditor Dave Yost tells The Columbus Dispatch smaller ... (more)
  
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• Where Senate nominees Rob Portman, Ted Strickland differ on foreign-policy issues

  21-08-2016 12:23
  
  WASHINGTON — The winner of the race between Republican Sen. Rob Portman and Democratic challenger Ted Strickland will encounter a number of daunting challenges throughout the world next year, including Islamic State terrorists and Russian ambitions in Ukraine. Even though domestic issues such as the sluggish economy, prescription-drug addiction and relatively modest wage growth dominate the debate, the United States continues to grope through a turbulent world seemingly more fraught with d
  
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• Body of 5-year-old Minnesota girl found after Amber Alert

  21-08-2016 11:15
  
  Authorities said they found the body of a 5-year-old Minnesota girl on Saturday just hours after they had issued an Amber Alert saying she had been abducted by a family friend.The body of Alayna Jeanne Ertl was found in Cass County, about 200 miles north of Minneapolis. The suspect in her disappearance, family friend Zachary Anderson, 26, has been arrested and a vehicle found, police said.Ertl 's body was found shortly after 5 p.m. in the rural town of Motley, Meeker County Sheriff Brian Cruze t
  
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• Five victims, including pregnant woman, in "gruesome" homicide at Alabama home

  21-08-2016 10:24
  
  CBS NEWS - The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office and other agencies are investigating a “gruesome” five-person homicide in Citronelle on Saturday, CBS Mobile, Alabama affiliate WRKG reported.Detective Paul Burch said they’ve named Derrick Dearman as the suspect after he drove himself to a Green County Mississippi police department and confessed to committing murder in Alabama.Burch said one of the victims was five months pregnant, so Dearman faces six counts of capital murde
  
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• OH-Ohio News Digest 6 pm, OH

  21-08-2016 04:03
  
  Hello! Here's a look at how AP's general news coverage is shaping up in Ohio. Questions about coverage plans are welcome and should be directed to the AP Columbus bureau at 614-885-2727 or [email protected].
  
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• Young suicide bomber attacks Turkey wedding party; 51 dead

  21-08-2016 03:13
  
  An Islamic State group suicide bomber as young as 12 years old attacked an outdoor Kurdish wedding party in southeastern Turkey, killing at least 51 people and wounding dozens of others, the Turkish president said Sunday.The bombing late Saturday in Gaziantep, near Turkey's border with Syria, was the deadliest attack in Turkey this year.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking live on national television in front of Istanbul's city hall, said the attacker was aged between 12 and 14. He said 69 p
  
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• Turkey blames IS for wedding attack that killed 50

  21-08-2016 03:13
  
  Turkey's president on Sunday blamed the Islamic State group for the bombing of an outdoor wedding party in the southeast that killed 50 people and wounded dozens of others.Officials say Saturday's attack in Gaziantep, near Syria's border, appeared to be a suicide bombing.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a statement early Sunday saying that IS was "the most likely perpetrator of the Gaziantep attack."The initial death toll was 30 killed and 94 wounded. Later, the Gaziantep governor's office
  
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• Possible Tornado Touches Down At Delaware State Park

  21-08-2016 01:14
  
  Possible Tornado Touches Down At Delaware State ParkDelaware, Ohio - The Delaware Sheriff's Office confirms they are on the scene of a possible tornado.It happened just before 7 p.m. at Delaware State Park. People in the area report hearing sirens as the winds picked up.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Live Radar | Hour-By-Hour ForecastNo reports on damage and the National Weather Service will have to confirm if a tornado indeed touched down.
  
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• Former Chillicothe officer indicted for rape, kidnapping and gross sexual imposition

  21-08-2016 00:56
  
  A former Chillicothe Police Officer has been indicted on charges of rape, kidnapping and gross sexual imposition. Brandon Mather resigned from the Chillicothe Police Department in April before a disciplinary hearing during which he could have been fired related to the same incident. Mather is accused of sexually assaulting a woman who ran to officers for help after being assaulted by her boyfriend. Friday he was indicted by the Ross County Grand Jury.He was served a summons Saturday. He is sched
  
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• Woman killed by pickup truck on North High Street

  21-08-2016 00:49
  
  A woman rushed to the hospital after getting struck by a pickup truck Saturday evening has now died.It happened around 6 p.m. along the 5100 block of N. High Street in North Columbus.Columbus Police said the driver of the vehicle that struck the woman remained at the scene. As officers arrived on scene Columbus Fire paramedics transported the victim to Riverside Methodist Hospital where she later died. Officers on the scene are talking witnesses to determine how this happened.No report of any ro
  
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• Woman killed after being hit by pickup truck on North High Street

  21-08-2016 00:49
  
  A woman rushed to the hospital after getting struck by a pickup truck Saturday evening has now died.It happened around 6 p.m. along the 5100 block of N. High Street in North Columbus.Columbus Police said the driver of the vehicle that struck the woman remained at the scene. As officers arrived on scene Columbus Fire paramedics transported the victim to Riverside Methodist Hospital where she later died. Officers on the scene are talking witnesses to determine how this happened.No report of any ro
  
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• Woman killed after being hit by pickup truck in parking lot

  21-08-2016 00:49
  
  A woman rushed to the hospital after getting struck by a pickup truck in a parking lot Saturday evening has now died.It happened around 6 p.m. along the 5100 block of N. High Street in north Columbus.The woman has been identified as 81-year-old Phyllis Green. Police say her and a friend were walking through the parking lot towards their vehicle when the driver of another vehicle backed up and hit Green.Columbus Police said the driver of the vehicle that struck the woman remained at the scene. As
  
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• Warehouse Containing Local Beer Distributor Burns in Overnight Fire

  21-08-2016 00:07
  
  The Dick Cold Storage warehouse located at 3080 Valleyview Drive burned down in an overnight fire. Local Columbus fire crews battled the blaze, and while there were no injuries, the building and its products are being called a complete loss. The warehouse owners sublet space to local businesses including craft beer company 17th Star Distributing, which […]
  
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