Thursday, July 14, 2016

Data scandal legal tab nears $1.5 million for Columbus schools and other top stories.

  • Data scandal legal tab nears $1.5 million for Columbus schools

    Columbus City Schools’ legal bill for dealing with its data-rigging scandal is nearing $1.5 million as the district continues to fend off lawsuits from two principals it fired for changing data and to respond to a potential onslaught of records requests from administrators facing state sanctions. The Board of Education recently approved another allocation of up to $50,000 in spending for the law firm Porter Wright Morris & Arthur. District legal counsel Larry Braverman said that the firm will ..
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  • 13 escape house fire in north Columbus

    13 escape house fire in north Columbus
    Published: 07/13/16 05:11 am EDT.Updated: 07/13/16 07:46 am EDT. At least 13 people escaped from a home in north Columbus near the Ohio State campus.The flames broke out early Wednesday morning at a three-story home on the 300 block of East Northwood Avenue.Firefighters tell 10TV the fire began on the first floor of the home and quickly spread to the second and third floors.One of the 13 who escaped suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene. A police officer also had minor injuri..
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  • Why can't Ohio attract more venture-capital money?

    Why can't Ohio attract more venture-capital money?
    A new report on venture-capital funding in Ohio has a familiar theme: There’s still not enough of it. Investors put $373 million to work with 167 new and developing companies in Ohio last year, according to the Ohio Venture Report 2015, a look at venture investing in the state. “We do have a big gap,” said Tom Walker, CEO and president of Rev1 Ventures, a Columbus technology-business incubator. “We’ve done an excellent job in building angel networks and seed funds. We owe that to Third Frontier..
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  • Catholic youth camp brings faith to lakeshore in Knox County

    Catholic youth camp brings faith to lakeshore in Knox County
    CENTERBURG — Dan DeMatte pointed to a grassy area along the beach at the Damascus Catholic Mission Campus in Knox County. A black, wooden altar decorated with stones and a golden cloth was topped by a tall gold container that, from across the sun-drenched lake, looked like a tiny sunburst of its own. "We'll have a 10-, 15-minute talk," DeMatte said, "and then Jesus will come out." By "Jesus," he was referring to the consecrated Communion wafer that the Rev. Don Franks would carry down the hill..
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  • Clinton, Trump tied in Ohio on eve of GOP convention

    Clinton, Trump tied in Ohio on eve of GOP convention
    Ohio's status as a battleground state was underscored yet again by a new poll today showing that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump remain deadlocked. At the same time, Trump has moved to narrow leads in Florida and Pennsylvania, states Clinton had led last month, a new Quinnipiac University poll of swing states shows. “Donald Trump enters the Republican Convention on a small roll in the three most important swing states in the country,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac Univ..
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  • Columbus leaders: Heroin addicts should stock up on Narcan

    Columbus leaders: Heroin addicts should stock up on Narcan
    Columbus leaders: Heroin addicts should stock up on Narcan Calling the sudden increase in heroin and opioid overdoses this past weekend a "public healthepidemic," Columbus officials urged addicts and their loved ones to buy an anti-overdose drug andsaid the city is planning a new rehab center."Heroin addiction is a chronic, relapsing brain disease that can cause devastation... Comment Posted Jul. 12, 2016 at 12:01 AM Updated Jul 12, 2016 at 10:55 AM ..
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  • Police investigating suspicious death of woman in Franklin County

    Police investigating suspicious death of woman in Franklin County
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  • Fast-casual Japanese ramen shop building flagship restaurant at ...

    Fast-casual Japanese ramen shop building flagship restaurant at ...
    Fukuryu Ramen, which opened its first U.S. site at 1600 W. Lane Ave. in Upper Arlington this year, signed on for a 2,600-square-foot spot in the mixed-use ...
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  • Tom Brady's 'Deflategate' appeal rejected by federal court

    Tom Brady's 'Deflategate' appeal rejected by federal court
    A federal appeals court has rejected Tom Brady's attempt to get a new hearing on his "Deflategate" suspension.Brady was asking for the full 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to hear the case. In April, a three-judge panel said that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was within his powers when he suspended the star quarterback four games for his role in a scheme to doctor the footballs used in a Jan. 18, 2015, playoff game.The decision Wednesday affirms the wide-ranging powers given to the commission..
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  • Body found behind dumpster in north Columbus

    Body found behind dumpster in north Columbus
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Barbershops put books in hands of kids getting haircuts .Community gardens sprout around Columbus, uniting neighborhoods .
Week's shootings appall mother of man killed by Columbus police in ... .New U.S. rule eases access to anti-addiction drug buprenorphine .

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