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  • Columbus man sentenced for stealing more than $700000 from ...

    Columbus man sentenced for stealing more than $700000 from ...
    Kristina Fiore needed a cup of coffee after a long night of trying to calm her husband in his hospital bed. Finally, he was asleep, no longer worrying why David DeMathews hadn't returned his money. Joseph Fiore, of Cincinnati, was dying of adrenal cancer. His family would need the $500,000 he had invested in DeMathews' supposed developments in Central America. "I suddenly had a terrible feeling that something was wrong," she wrote in a letter that U.S. District Judge Michael H. Watson read Wedn..
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  • Women celebrate Hillary Clinton's historic nomination

    Women celebrate Hillary Clinton's historic nomination
    PHILADELPHIA " Shortly after midnight followingTuesday'snomination of Hillary Clinton for president, Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley's 64-year-old mother senther a text: 'Amazing, a woman presidential candidate!''For women who are a generation ahead of me, I don't think they'd ever thought they would eversee a woman president,' Whaley said. 'My generation, because of the great work' older women had 'done, had a tendency to take this for granted.'It was typical of the reaction of many women as Clinton be..
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  • Reset sought for anti-discrimination proposal

    Buy PhotoChillicothe(Photo: Frank Robertson/Gazette)Buy PhotoCHILLICOTHE – There were six pieces of legislation on city council’s agenda Wednesday night, but it seemed hardly anyone at the meeting really noticed.The elephant in the room on a particularly balmy night in council chambers was anti-discrimination legislation that is scheduled for a Monday night discussion of the Community Affairs Committee, legislation that several on council and in the audience said needs to be taken completely bac..
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  • Explosion reported during east Columbus liquor store break-in

    Explosion reported during east Columbus liquor store break-in
    The Powerball drawing on Saturday will give lottery players a shot at a jackpot of $478 million, which would rank as the nation’s 8th larges…
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  • Man describes being shot while playing Pokemon Go in North ...

    Man describes being shot while playing Pokemon Go in North ...
    All Gregory Wheeler wanted was to catch a few Pokemon. Instead, the North Linden resident caught three bullets in his legs and a foot, prompting Columbus police on Wednesday to warn residents to be careful while they play the popular Pokemon Go game across the city. Wheeler, a 26-year-old graduate student at Ohio State University studying evolutionary biology, and friend Samantha Haub, 26, were playing Pokemon Go at about 9:40 p.m. Tuesday in Linden Park when a teenager on a bike stopped them ..
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  • Trump's talk in Toledo skips controversial email remarks

    Trump's talk in Toledo skips controversial email remarks
    TOLEDO — It was a night of typical Trump talking points. While top Democrats talked in Philadelphia, Donald Trump held court Wednesday night before a crowd of about 8,000 in the Huntington Center. There were vows to build the wall, defeat ISIS, scuttle trade agreements and halt the immigration of Muslims who could pose a terrorism threat to America. Trump spent minutes reading an allegorical fable about a befriended snake biting and killing its host. The Republican also threw out some old jabs ..
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  • How many more passengers can Columbus' airport handle?

    How many more passengers can Columbus' airport handle?
    This year is shaping up as a strong one for John Glenn Columbus International Airport. The former Port Columbus is on track to see a 7 percent to 8 percent increase in passengers over 2015, and airlines including Southwest, Frontier and Delta have added flights in recent months. Growth often comes with growing pains, though. Faster-than-anticipated growth led the airport’s board this week to approve a $1.2 million contract with a consulting firm, R.W. Block, to study options in the event that g..
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  • Medical college dean gets dinged again by faculty

    Medical college dean gets dinged again by faculty
    The dean of Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine has again received significant criticism from a majority of faculty members who evaluated him this year. While Dr. Kenneth H. Johnson, D.O., has promised in an email to Heritage College staff to improve his performance and listen to faculty better after the evaluation, the negative evaluations mirror those he received in 2014, which reviewed his first full year of performance after joining OU in August 2012. Then as now, fac..
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  • Cozy status quo must go

    When voters pass Issue 1 on Aug. 2, the structure of Columbus City Council will be fundamentally changed. This change is necessary to ensure that city council represents all Columbus residents, not just wealthy real-estate developers. I support Issue 1 and urge everyone to vote for its passage. As it stands today, the city council is an embarrassment. The Franklin County Democratic Party has had a stranglehold on its membership for years. The pattern that has emerged in city council is as follo..
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  • Marion woman will tell Democrats in Philadelphia her story of struggle

    Marion woman will tell Democrats in Philadelphia her story of struggle
    Tidbits from the Democratic convention in Philadelphia: Beth Mathias of Marion, who holds two jobs while raising two children, ages 8 and 4, will speak at the Democratic convention tonight in the Wells Fargo Center. Mathias, 31, was invited by the Clinton campaign after she participated in a roundtable discussion with the future nominee last spring at a Marion bakery. “They were looking for someone with a story to tell,” Mathias said. “They heard a little bit about me and thought I would..
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