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 ..>> view originalCockroaches spotted inside Columbus restaurant
©WSYX | Portions are ©Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or distributed.WSYX ABC 6 is On Your Side, providing local news, first warning weather forecasts and alerts, traffic updates, consumer advocacy, and the latest information about sports, politics, law enforcement, community events, government waste, and much more, including ABC network news and entertainment programming. WSYX proudly serves Columbus and nearby towns and communiti..>> view originalColumbus 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..>> view originalCode 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 ..>> view originalFeds 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..>> view originalLincolnview 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 ...>> view originalCongratulations, Columbus police grads!
©WSYX | Portions are ©Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or distributed.WSYX ABC 6 is On Your Side, providing local news, first warning weather forecasts and alerts, traffic updates, consumer advocacy, and the latest information about sports, politics, law enforcement, community events, government waste, and much more, including ABC network news and entertainment programming. WSYX proudly serves Columbus and nearby towns and communiti..>> view originalKasich 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..>> view originalColumbus 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..>> view originalJanet 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..>> view original
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