Saturday, January 16, 2016

Columbus trains more employees to drive snowplows and other top stories.

  • Columbus trains more employees to drive snowplows

    Columbus  trains more employees to drive snowplows
    Columbus is training more snowplow drivers, using technology to make their routes more efficient and resetting priorities so that plows are more likely to hit neighborhood streets after a snowstorm, Mayor Andrew J. Ginther said on Friday.After the training, about 300 city employees from various divisions and departments will know how to drive a plow, up from about 165, Ginther said at a news conference at the city’s Traffic Management Center on 25th Avenue.“I think the great part about the ..
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  • Cockroaches spotted inside Columbus restaurant

    Cockroaches spotted inside  Columbus  restaurant
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  • Columbus health officials to seek help fighting tuberculosis

    Columbus  health officials to seek help fighting tuberculosis
    Treating tuberculosis is a costly, time-consuming endeavor — but it’s nothing compared with treating TB that doesn’t respond to the usual drugs.In fact, one case of multidrug-resistant TB is enough to bust Columbus Public Health’s annual pharmacy budget for the disease.So officials there are asking for help.On Monday, they’ll join Sen. Sherrod Brown at a news conference calling for the Obama administration to fully fund a federal plan to combat the global rise of multidrug-resistant TB. Bro..
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  • Code officers find problems, few residents at Oakland Park Apartments

    Columbus code-enforcement officers swept through the Oakland Park Apartments on Friday to check for violations, after waterlinesburst there on Thursday and caused the city to vacate all 60 units.Just 16 of the units, however, were occupied.The water flooded at least one occupied apartment and one vacant one at the complex of 15 two-story brick buildings at 1871 Oakland Park Ave. in North Linden. Water and power had to be shut off.Code-enforcement inspectors are issuing violation orders for ..
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  • Feds Going After Bank Executive For Money Owed to Ohio

    Feds Going After Bank Executive For Money Owed to Ohio
    The Federal Securities and Exchange Commission is going after a Boston bank executive to pay back the state of Ohio, saying the executive is linked to a scheme that funneled bribes intended to sway business with the Ohio Treasurer’s Office.The SEC has alleged that bribes were funneled through former Ohio Deputy Treasurer Amer Ahmad and allegedly secured a lucrative banking contract with the state. That contract was to manage four state pension funds. In exchange, campaign contributions went..
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  • Lincolnview defeats Columbus Grove to remain unblemished

    Lincolnview defeats  Columbus  Grove to remain unblemished
    Grove's Rece Roney gets inside Lincolnview's Chandler Adams for the shot. Lincolnview at Columbus Grove in boys basketball on January 15, 2016 photo by ...
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  • Congratulations, Columbus police grads!

    Congratulations,  Columbus  police grads!
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  • Kasich not getting much attention in GOP debate reviews

    Kasich not getting much attention in GOP debate reviews
    Even with only seven people on the prime-time stage, Ohio Gov. John Kasich apparently faded into the background curtain for many who reviewed Thursday’s night’s Republican debate near Charleston, S.C.An extensive New York Times’ running blog referred to him only a couple of times. A Washington Post compilation of winners and losers didn’t include the Ohio governor as either.A similar list from CNN said only: “John Kasich was also present last night – and that sums up his performance.”USA To..
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  • Columbus SWAT officers shoot one, arrest two others after robbery ...

    Columbus  SWAT officers shoot one, arrest two others after robbery  ...
    A man who was shot by a SWAT officer after an armed robbery at a South Side auto parts store on Thursday night was released early from state prison — where he had been serving a 16-year sentence for robbing a Whitehall auto parts store in 2003.Clifton Satterwhite, 37, won judicial release on Aug. 27 from Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Christopher M. Brown, court records show. Brown instead placed Satterwhite on five years of community control, ruling that it “would not demean the seriou..
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  • Janet Jackson reschedules Columbus show for July

    Janet Jackson reschedules  Columbus  show for July
    A Janet Jackson concertoriginally set for Feb. 1in Value City Arena has been rescheduled.TheControlpop songstress will instead perform July 25 in the same venue. Tickets purchased for the canceled Columbus performance will be honored.Jackson, 49,called off her initial show here last monthafter revealing the need for unspecified surgery. No alternate date was offered at the time. She already had postponed several gigs last fall, citing the need to rest her vocal cords.In a statement, Jackson..
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More Snow Warriors to roll out against ice, snow in Columbus .Ohio Politics Now: What John Kasich faces at tonight's GOP debate .
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