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• Police: Man vandalized artwork before shooting self on OSU campus

  

  COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Police continue to investigate after a man suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a building on the Ohio State University campus.Columbus police closed a portion of High Street at around 11:30 a.m. Sunday after a former Ohio State employee with a gun was reported inside Weigel Hall. Police said the man vandalized artwork at the Wexner Center for the Arts, located on North High Street, before he suffered a fatal self-inflicted gunshot wound.Police responded to the ..

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• OHSAA State Championship schedule released for this upcoming...

  

  ×OHSAA State Championship schedule released for this upcoming weekend in ColumbusCOLUMBUS, Ohio – The OHSAA has released the schedule for the 7 State Championship games this upcoming weekend.The season started with 715 teams and has been narrowed down to 14 teams that will compete starting on Thursday night and continuing through Saturday.Get more info on our high school football pageAll 7 games will be played at Ohio Stadium and all tickets are $10 dollars.Get more information about all of the ..

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• Bengals 31, Rams 7 | Dominant Bengals rebound from losses

  

  CINCINNATI — Geno Atkins is cut from a different era, a huge man of few words — actually no words, if you are a reporter.Atkins goes about his business on the football field in ho-hum fashion, as if the All-Pro defensive tackle for the Cincinnati Bengals is chopping wood on a farm. He doesn’t even celebrate making a big play.“You won’t ever catch Geno dancing,” Bengals safety Reggie Nelson said. “Geno is relaxed and doesn’t say anything to anybody. He just walks back to the huddle. He won’t..

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• Ohio supporters of Syrian refugees urge Kasich to reverse opposition

  

  For six years, Khalid Haider served the U.S. military as a linguist in his native Iraq. The pride he felt overshadowed the danger he and other translators constantly faced.“Those days were glorious days,” Haider said. “We were doing something right. We were good people trying to do right.”But now, as he works just as passionately with his Columbus immigration lawyer, Haider — who managed to leave Iraq five years ago — mostly feels anguish.“I am handcuffed,” the 35-year-old said. “I cannot h..

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• Woman sought after attempted felony theft in north Columbus | NBC4i

  

  COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Investigators are looking for a woman who tried to steal more than $1,000 in clothes from a north Columbus store.Central Ohio Crime Stoppers said the woman walked into the Kohl’s at 6063 Sawmill Road just after 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 27. Store security took notice as she loaded her cart with fleece, athletic apparel and t-shirts, often removing entire stacks from the shelves without checking for size.Security intervened with the suspect outside the store after she left withou..

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• In Paris For Climate Talks, Obama Honors Attack Victims

  

  PARIS (AP) - President Barack Obama is paying tribute to those killed in the terrorist attacks in Paris two weeks ago.After midnight on a cool and clear Paris night, the American president's motorcade went straight from Orly Airport to the famed French concert hall, the Bataclan, that the terrorists struck.French President Francois Hollande and the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, joined Obama. Each placed a single flower at a makeshift memorial and Obama bowed his head in silence.Some 130..

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• Deer hunting remains family affair in rural Ohio

  

  SUGAR GROVE, Ohio — Hunting might have declined in Ohio and elsewhere over the past few decades, but not here in rural southern Fairfield County, where Berne Union schools will be closed on Monday because so many families go deer hunting.Berne Union High School Principal Jon Parker plans to be out with his 15-year-old son, Jacob.Eighteen-year-old twins Hannah and Chris Chapman will shoulder their shotguns and walk with their father into the woods and up into a tree stand. Seventeen-year-old..

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• Deadly Storm Causes Flooding And Icy Conditions

  DALLAS, Texas - CBS NEWS- A deadly storm that has caused flooding and coated parts of the southern Plains in ice during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend dumped more rain on already swollen rivers in parts of North Texas and Arkansas on Sunday and made driving dangerous in parts of Oklahoma.The band of storms that has been moving through parts of the Plains and the Midwest since Thursday has beenblamed for at least 14 deaths, including eight in Texas and six in Kansas.Oklahoma Governor M..

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• Travelers Headed Home Greeted by Extra Security and Long Lines...

  

  COLUMBUS, Ohio - Round one of holiday travel is over. Sunday started dark and early for some people heading home from the long Thanksgiving weekend. Most were greeted by extra security and long lines at Port Columbus International Airport.Off the escalator and over to check in, flyers rolled their luggage to wait in the long lines Sunday morning at Port Columbus."I mean we certainly expect a few more delays, so we're going to rush through as much as we can and do the best we can and go ..

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• Columbus lacks economic mix | The Columbus Dispatch

  Columbus is the least economically diverse large city in America, according to a new study by Redfin.The Seattle-based real-estate firm found that 4 percent of Columbus neighborhoods include an economic mix of housing, the lowest of the 20 cities in the report.Boston, where 51 percent of neighborhoods are economically mixed, was the most diverse.The study is the second this year to conclude that Columbus is highly segregated economically. A March study by University of Toronto demographer R..

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