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Anyone wanting to hear Ben Folds perform solo had better savor it now, said the singer-songwriter, who Friday night played alone for nearly two hours in the Lifestyle Communities Pavilion.
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The Columbus Jazz Orchestra showed a new facet of its versatility by teaming up with Harmony Project, another great local arts organization, for the first of two concerts titled “Raise Me Up!"
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The deadline for public swimming pools to improve access for disabled people has been extended until January, the Department of Justice announced today.
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Westerville business owners are on high alert after incurring more than $175,000 worth of damage from the theft of air-conditioning units during the past two weeks. Police say the thefts are the work of one man, whom they think has stolen 35 units for the scrap metal.
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A South Side man who repeatedly fired at officers Thursday night was seriously injured by broken glass, not police gunfire, authorities said today.
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INDIANAPOLIS – On the impact of Danica Patrick missing the Indianapolis 500 this year for the first time since she burst onto the scene with a rookie-of-the-year performance in 2005, Bobby Rahal tried to choose his words carefully.
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A bill that’s intended to strengthen Ohio’s oversight of “fracking” and the oil and gas industry also would remove the public’s ability to challenge state-issued drilling permits. Energy companies eager to tap oil and gas in Ohio’s Utica shale must obtain permits before they can start drilling. However, a provision in the bill, which the Ohio Senate passed this week, would eliminate the public’s ability to appeal those permits to a state panel.
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Sherrie Chafin-Eucker was sentenced today to 13 years in prison, one week after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the July 17 killing of Reeb, 50. The 48-year-old admitted that she shot Reeb in the chest with a .410-gauge shotgun early that Sunday morning.
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Mumbah, the patriarch gorilla and foster-father in the surrogacy program for baby gorillas at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, died this morning at age 47.
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A sex offender who spent seven years in prison for attacking a boy inside a Pickerington restaurant was arrested this morning on a charge that he solicited children to pose nude for pictures, U.S. marshals say. James E. Stroud, 29, of 2841 Key Pl. on the South Side is charged with attempted child enticement and a state parole violation. He was released from prison last year and is classified as a sex predator.
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Instructors from Fairfield Medical Center coached all the students at Fairfield County schools to interlace their fingers and press down, again and again and again, on the chest of a mannequin in CPR training.
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"Dispatch" Blue Jackets beat writer Aaron Portzline answered readers' questions during an hourlong chat today. Here's the transcript.
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The Gahanna-Jefferson Public School District is moving forward with plans to hire Francis Robert Scruci as its next superintendent.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives voted today to keep $150 million in a Defense spending bill for the long-troubled American Centrifuge Project in Piketon, Ohio.
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A Reynoldsburg woman who shot her boyfriend three times during an argument at their home will not face charges in his death.
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A former Dublin man who flipped high-end properties in central Ohio and lived the high life with $3.4 million in kickbacks was sentenced today to 4 1/2 years in prison. Judge Dick Sheward of Franklin County Common Pleas Court ordered the sentence for Nathan Orms, now of Phoenix. He faced as many as 35 years in prison.
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Parents upset about a plan to phase out much of the school-age program provided by the Franklin County Board of Developmental Disabilities say they doubt their local districts can provide comparable education and care.
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Gov. John Kasich fought back against Senate Republicans’ changes to his third-grade reading guarantee this morning, arguing they would “weaken efforts to improve education for Ohio’s children.” In an emailed statement, Kasich said he was “troubled by moves underway in the Senate,” but focused his comments entirely on a GOP lawmaker’s proposal to water down Kasich’s third-grade reading guarantee by postponing it for a year and making it so a smaller number of children would be impacted.
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Senate Republicans reversed course, at least for now, and decided this afternoon to yank a provision out of a gambling-law rewrite that would have allowed one charity card room with paid dealers to operate in each Ohio county.
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A 4-year-old child was critically injured this morning after being thrown from an SUV in Dublin.
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Four bills introduced today in the Ohio Senate with bipartisan backing would ignite reform for four state pension systems, but legislation for the fifth system was stalled because of labor concerns.
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The online registration deadline for the Komen Columbus Race for the Cure has been extended until midnight Wednesday. Officials say registrations are picking up but remain off the usual pace as the organization tries to meet its goal of 50,000 participants for the race on May 19. About 32,000 people, including teams, have signed up so far.
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An Ohio State student can’t believe that the university expelled a student for graffiti but gave a one-year suspension to the man she says raped her in her dorm room.
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Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted today broke a tie Pickaway County elections-board vote by ruling that an independent candidate is qualified to run for sheriff.
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House Republicans today voted to repeal their election-law overhaul, a move that could spark a lawsuit from Democrats and progressive groups who are unhappy that the change would eliminate in-person early voting on the three days prior to the November election.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Maurice Sendak, the children’s book author and illustrator who saw the sometimes-dark side of childhood in books like “Where the Wild Things Are” and “In the Night Kitchen,” died early Tuesday. He was 83.
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House Democrats today named Kevin Boyce, the former state treasurer and Columbus city councilman, to fill the open Ohio House seat left vacant in March after former Rep. W. Carlton Weddington was indicted on bribery, election falsification and filing a fraudulent financial-disclosure statement.
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DUBLIN (AP) -- The Wendy's Co. returned to a first-quarter profit as it recorded a large gain on the sale of an investment. But the fast food chain's results missed Wall Street expectations and it cut its forecast for the year, citing higher costs for ingredients and softer-than-expected sales.
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A Groveport charter school must pay a former employee more than $20,000 after he was fired when he couldn’t produce a current green card, the Justice Department has announced. The department reached a settlement with Imagine Groveport Community School, 4485 S. Hamilton Rd., after the former employee filed a complaint with its civil-rights division.
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A three-judge panel said this morning that Caron E. Montgomery, 37, could receive the death penalty for the slayings of his girlfriend and her two children on Thanksgiving Day in 2010.
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Pickerington-based footwear and accessories marketer R.G. Barry Corp. reported strong results for its fiscal third quarter.
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A century after its invention, the traffic light is getting a makeover. A federal rule change designed to eliminate confusion and standardize signals nationwide means Ohio drivers will begin seeing something new in the left-turn lane. Red lights gradually will give way to red arrows in traffic signals in left-turn lanes.
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CENTERBURG, Ohio — Almost everyone around town knew Bill Myers, whether he was hanging at the local pizza shop or helping at the general store in Mount Liberty. Those Centerburg neighbors and friends were shocked yesterday morning when they woke to the news that Myers was dead — shot by a Morrow County deputy after stealing a Knox County sheriff’s office cruiser and leading authorities on a three-county chase.
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A Centerburg man was killed early this morning after his car was struck by another vehicle in Morrow County.
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Lawmakers who want to ban texting while driving are expected to take all electronic devices out of the hands of young drivers. After a closed-door meeting last night, Senate Republicans appeared to agree on an anti-texting bill that passed the House overwhelmingly last June but has stalled in the Senate over concerns about its enforceability and necessity.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — A Cleveland city official says a decision not to renew an Occupy protesters’ permit was already in the works when five members were charged in a bridge bombing plot.
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CHARDON, Ohio (AP) — A 17-year-old charged in a school shooting is mentally competent to stand trial in the deaths of three students, a judge ruled today after considering evidence that the boy suffers from hallucinations, psychosis and fantasies. None of the symptoms detailed in a mental evaluation of T.J. Lane would prevent him from understanding the case against him and helping in his defense, Dr. Phillip Resnick said in Geauga County Juvenile Court.
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Ohio’s proposed exotic-animals law wouldn’t pay for itself under the current fee structure, Agriculture Director David T. Daniels told lawmakers today.
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Babies born in wealthier countries generally have a better shot of staying the womb longer.
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The whir of slot machines could resound across Cleveland in less than two weeks after the Ohio Casino Control Commission today gave licensing approval for Ohio’s first of four casinos.
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A lightning strike early this morning started a fired that caused $1 million in damage to a southwestern Ohio home owned by a man who provides disaster recovery services, according to fire officials.
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New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma has been suspended without pay for the entire 2012 season by the NFL, one of four players punished for participating in a pay-for-pain bounty system.
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Huntington Bancshares has struck a deal with Meijer to add about 80 branches to the retailer’s stores in Michigan over the next several years
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Two former Limited Brands stablemates will be back under the same ownership. Ascena Retail Group, owner of Justice — the chain formerly known as Limited Too — is buying Charming Shoppes, owner of Lane Bryant.
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Columbus police have arrested a 13-year-old they say shot another teen on the East Side on Monday night. Lawson Harris of 2244 Kinderly Dr. has been charged with felonious assault.
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One person was hospitalized in life-threatening condition after a shooting early today in a South Linden bar.
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MARYSVILLE, Ohio — With two cars blowing past a stop sign and plunging into the same roadside pond in the past six months — the latest crash occurring early yesterday — Union County officials say it is time to take a closer look at the intersection.
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You might be surprised to learn that bacon-flavored vodka is not one of the best-sellers handled by the Ohio Division of Liquor Control. So there’s a “sale” on Bakon Vodka, the state agency announced yesterday. Joining it on the sale rack are Prairie Organic Kosher Vodka, Tarantula Strawberry Tequila Liqueur and UV Vodka Sweet Green Tea.
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Secret compartments in vehicles would be illegal under a bill approved yesterday by a state legislative committee. Senate Bill 305, aimed at curbing rampant drug smuggling in Ohio, could be up for a vote by the Ohio Senate on Thursday.
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U.S. authorities arrested five self-described anarchists in the Cleveland area for allegedly plotting to blow up a four-lane highway bridge over a national park, but had no ties to foreign terrorism, the U.S. Justice Department said today.
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The sixth husband of former fugitive Rebecca Parrett will spend four months on house arrest for helping his wife flee to Mexico and live there for more than two years. A federal judge in California handed down the sentence yesterday for Gary Green, 52, after he pleaded guilty in August to lying to investigators about Parrett’s whereabouts.
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The most prevalent childhood disabilities have shifted away from the physical to mental-health disorders, researchers say. A report released today by Princeton University and the Brookings Institution notes that the top five limiting conditions of children are now behavioral or developmental.
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A woman was taken to the hospital early today after the car she was driving crashed into a pond in Union County.
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STOCKHOLM — Alexander Dale Oen, a world champion swimmer who was one of Norway's top medal hopes for the London Olympics, died during a training camp in Flagstaff, Ariz. He was 26.
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Columbus City Schools might need to raise more than a half-billion dollars in additional property taxes and borrowing over the next four school years to continue current programs, add programs to boost student performance and fund the next phase of its school-rebuilding program.
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Twenty central Ohio students have won National Merit Scholarships worth $2,500 toward college.
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State Attorney General Mike DeWine has urged the Ohio Supreme Court to dismiss a lawsuit against his office by opponents of same-sex marriage, arguing that the court has no jurisdiction in the hot-button dispute.
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NEWARK, Ohio — Mark Cherubini once thwarted a Columbus bank robbery by wrestling the would-be thief to the ground, earning a $2,000 reward. Two decades later, Cherubini was the one caught taking money that wasn’t his.
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The saying “Measure twice, cut once” is typically attributed to carpenters, but a member of the General Assembly is urging his peers to do the same. Although five new bills revamping Ohio’s public pension funds are expected to be introduced in the Senate this week and perhaps approved by the end of the month, Rep. Kirk Schuring says the House won’t even consider them until after the November election.
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Sharing a property line with a Zanesville-area farm crawling with lions, tigers and bears meant Fred Polk always had a loaded rifle at the ready, just in case a wild animal ever escaped. His fear became reality last October when owner Terry Thompson released dozens of exotic animals; 48 of them died at the hands of law officers. Polk was relieved when the carcasses and remaining live animals were taken away, and he put away his gun. But five of those animals could soon be coming back after the state dropped its bid yesterday to keep them under quarantine at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
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The Columbus City Council is continuing its war on the graffiti that plagues blighted neighborhoods and invites crime, spending $500,000 to help victims remove it from homes and businesses. Council members unanimously approved the program yesterday as part of a promise to clean up areas where residents say graffiti is ruining their neighborhoods.
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In terms of how he goes about his business on a baseball diamond, Cord Phelps seems as quiet as a midnight whisper. Clippers manager Mike Sarbaugh, who knows his second baseman well, answered the simile with a simple “Yes.” Phelps is quiet and more.
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CINCINNATI — Jay Bruce isn’t analyzing his career-best hot streak. He’s too busy enjoying it. Bruce’s fourth home run in four games lifted the Cincinnati Reds to a 6-5 comeback win over the Houston Astros today.
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Two boys were struck by bullets when a man fired into a crowd during a street brawl on the South Side tonight.
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CLEVELAND — Derek Lowe pitched three-hit ball into the eighth inning and the Cleveland Indians scored three runs on Angels errors to beat Los Angeles 4-0 today.
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Two critical after separate motorcycle crashes
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Robert Adams paid $10,500 for a two-bedroom house at 444 S. Burgess Ave. on the Hilltop in March 2011.
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The sun setting over a lake. A roaring river. A summer festival. A football Saturday afternoon in Ann Arbor. Throw in a soothing voice-over from actor Tim Allen and you have the Pure Michigan tourism commercial the State Up North has been airing on national TV since 2009.
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Electricity customers in Galion are part-owners of a $5 billion power plant that is behind schedule and might lead to years of high utility bills.
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My recent update about the remaking of your Dispatch elicited a lot of feedback, including some questions that others of you might also have. For those who missed it, the column explained how, in the fall, our page size will change from its current dimensions to 10.5 inches by 14.6 inches.
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The two young Nebraska boys had been stabbed and slashed to death, their bodies dumped.
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The idea took hold as Joel Pizzuti traveled the country on business, often staying in boutique hotels, which are smaller and more expensive than the typical full-service hotel and are chock-full of atmosphere, art and amenities.
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ATHENS, Ohio — What could be the last year of the notorious Palmer Fest block party in Athens ended in flames when a house at
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Medical science says women don’t need an annual Pap test. Less-frequent screening for cervical cancer — every three or even five years in some cases — is adequate to keep track of changes, major medical groups have said. But that doesn’t mean that women should take a three-year vacation from their gynecologist, doctors warn.
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Drivers might want to think twice before telling a police officer they were going the speed limit right before a crash. Their cars might know better.
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Donna Carver doesn’t need contraceptives anymore and will never have to consider getting an abortion. But at 48, she still needs cancer screenings.
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Eddie Rickenbacker, a 27-year-old race-car driver drawn to the sky, was an unlikely pilot in World War I. He was two years older than the pilot age limit of 25 and lacked both the college degree and the upper-class roots that marked the gentlemen of the aristocratic fighter squadrons of that time.
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One man was shot and killed and two others were injured early today when a fight broke out at an after-hours club on the Near East Side.
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In a case of lickety-split justice, one of two Columbus men found wandering the grounds of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium early yesterday morning was criminally charged, pleaded guilty and sentenced the same day.
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Frustrated by what they call the “war on women,” about 250 people rallied at the Statehouse today to protest government policy on birth control, abortion and women’s health.
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In Franklin County and across the country today, people are dropping off what will add up to tons of outdated or unwanted prescription drugs as part of National Drug Take Back Day.
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A woman injured when her car crashed on I-71 on Wednesday has died.
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GRANVILLE, Ohio — If you’ve ever dreamed of owning 66,000 pounds of granite, have these guys got a deal for you.
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Former Army Spec. Anthony Milliken has been enrolled at Ohio State University for six quarters. His federal GI Bill benefits have been delayed in three of them.
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WASHINGTON — Setting the stage for another showdown with the Obama administration, Republicans in the House yesterday narrowly passed legislation to prevent a rate hike on student loans — to be paid for with funds from the nation’s new health-care law.
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Five exotic animals that survived last fall’s release near Zanesville might be returned to owner Marian Thompson next week.
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Sarah Sullivant, 33-year-old wife of Franklinton founder Lucas Sullivant, died on April 28, 1814, while ministering to sick and wounded soldiers encamped in Franklinton.
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Down Out in the Magic Kingdom relies on sly wit and a playfully adventurous plot to hold the audience’s attention as it gradually unveils a future in which technology and a sense of history coexist in an uneasy balance.
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Students in two Dublin high schools will take a test next month to compare their math, reading and science skills with those of students in other countries.
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Ohio drivers and homeowners soon will have a new option for buying insurance. Same goes for those who have been thinking about starting a business.
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The parishioners at St. Aloysius Church on the Hilltop will have reason to rejoice this Sunday.
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Penn National Gaming will open an employment office on Monday that will be the base for hiring about 2,000 workers.
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An Olentangy schools athletic director has resigned, and another has been reprimanded after they failed to document $11,000 in expenses from a tournament account.
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COTA and the union representing more than 600 drivers and maintenance workers will sit down again next week to discuss the wage and benefit issues that divide them.
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The London Board of Education voted tonight to offer a superintendent contract to Thomas Ben, who has been the interimi leader since Superintendent Steve Allen retired at the end of December.
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The Franklin County Board of Developmental Disabilities decided tonight that adults receiving county-funded services must apply for Medicaid or pay half the cost of their services. The policy affects new clients starting in July; clients already receiving services will have until January to comply.
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An Ohio mom who was removed from her position as a Cub Scout den leader because she’s gay didn’t go quietly.
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