Friday, November 13, 2015

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  • Columbus Police plan two sobriety checkpoints tonight | The Columbus Dispatch

    Columbus Police plan two sobriety checkpoints tonight | The Columbus Dispatch
    By Kelly Lecker The Columbus Dispatch • Friday November 13, 2015 12:57 PM. Columbus Police will conduct two sobriety checkpoints tonight. The first will be ...
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  • Michael Schmunk missing in Columbus

    Michael Schmunk(Photo: Submitted)ONTARIO - An Ontario High School graduate has been reported missing since Oct. 21 in Columbus.A spokesman for the Columbus Police Department confirmed Michael Schmunk, 35, was reported missing by his mother.The public information officer had no further information to release and said police do not know if foul play is suspected.Schmunk is 6 feet tall and weighs about 180 pounds. He has blue eyes and sandy-colored hair.His parents are Bobbie and Dr. Jeffrey Schmun..
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  • Former police officer pleads guilty to stealing Veterans Affairs money

    A former Columbus police officer pleaded guilty in federal court today to a theft charge, for embezzling $89,646 from the Department of Veterans Affairs, federal prosecutors said.Rita Green, 55, of Gahanna, faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the conviction of theft of public money.Green stole Veterans Affairs benefits “to which she knew she was not entitled” after her mother died in December 2009, the court said.Green’s mother, Hildegard McCurdy, was the surviving spouse..
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  • Rubio, Cruz spar over immigration issues

    Rubio, Cruz spar over immigration issues
    ORLANDO, Fla. — A long-simmering intra-party battle over immigration that was re-ignited during Tuesday’s GOP presidential debate by Ohio Gov. John Kasich boiled over today in the Sunshine Summit of the leading Republican candidates.The pair of senators widely regarded as the past two debates’ winners — Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida, both sons of Cuban immigrants — exchanged fire over each other’s immigration stances in a high-stakes battle over who should be regarded as the ..
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  • Video: Columbus Zoo staff plans to hand-rear baby polar bear | The Columbus Dispatch

    Video: Columbus Zoo staff plans to hand-rear baby polar bear | The Columbus Dispatch
    The surviving polar cub at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is now being cared for by zookeepers.Officials observed the cub's mom, Aurora, taking breaks from caring for the cub late Thursday morning. When the breaks continued and grew more frequent, staff members decided to remove the cub from the den.The female cub is healthy and is feeding regularly. She weighs 1.5 pounds and gained 10 grams overnight, the zoo reported. This was the first hand-on checkup of the cub, because zoo officials had..
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  • Rents top $3,000 at some luxury apartments in Columbus | The Columbus Dispatch

    Rents top $3,000 at some luxury apartments in Columbus | The Columbus Dispatch
    A handful of new luxury apartments include a rare feature in central Ohio: $3,000-a-month rents.At least three new apartment buildings — two Downtown and one in the Short North — have topped the threshold with penthouse units.Central Ohio has been moving toward the $3,000 mark for the past few years as developers have added more amenities and more space to serve affluent young professionals and empty nesters who prefer renting to owning.“For wealthy single young people — attorneys, entrepre..
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  • Alert neighbor thwarts Union County burglary

    Alert neighbor thwarts Union County burglary
    The man didn’t answer when he heard the knock on his door Thursday afternoon. Pretty much no one comes calling to the rural homes stretched out along Union County’s Kandel Road in the middle of the day.Then he heard the storm door open, and one of the two people on his front porch rattled the door knob.“That’s when I turned my Doberman loose,” the mantold the 911 dispatcherafter he had called to report that, presumably scared by his barking dog, the man who had been on his porch went across..
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  • U.S. Targets Notorious ISIS Member In Drone Strike

    U.S. Targets Notorious ISIS Member In Drone Strike
    WASHINGTON - A U.S. drone strike targeted a vehicle in Syria believed to be transporting the masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John," U.S. officials said, but it was still unclear whether the strike killed the British man who appears in several videos depicting the beheadings of Western hostages.Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born British citizen, was the target of an airstrike in Raqqa, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement. Officials were assessing the resu..
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  • In New Hampshire, Kasich tries to convince voters he can balance...

    In New Hampshire, Kasich tries to convince voters he can balance...
    HUDSON, N.H. — In debates and town halls, Ohio Gov. John Kasich has hammered home one point above all: He’s got the best resume in the GOP primary. He can solve problems, because he’s done it before.The problem is he just can’t seem to get people to believe it.“I’ve done it twice,” he said. “I say I can do it again, but it’s like it doesn’t matter what you did because I just don’t believe it. This is something that has be overcome. “On a visit to a Hudson manufacturer on day two of a two-da..
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  • Former carrier pleads guilty to mail theft

    A former mail carrier pleaded guilty on Friday to taking money and a gift card from envelopes that should have been delivered on his campus-area route east of Ohio State University.Allen K. Jones, 53, who worked out of the Columbus-East station, admitted to U.S. Magistrate Judge Norah McCann King that he embezzled and stole mail between Sept. 17, 2013, and Nov. 14 2013.Assistant U.S. Attorney Dale E. Williams Jr. said Jones wound up with only nominal amounts of cash.According to federal cou..
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