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• Ohio State football | Assistant coach Greg Schiano hits bicyclist with ...

  

  Greg Schiano, the defensive co-coordinator for the Ohio State football team, hit a bicyclist with his car early this morning near campus. The Columbus Police and Fire divisions, along with OSU police, were called at 6:50 a.m. to the corner of West Lane Avenue and Fred Taylor Drive on the report of a crash. A 26-year-old male student on a bike was struck in the intersection. He was taken in stable condition to Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State University, said Sgt. Brooke Wilson of the Police ..

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• Anne Holton, Tim Kaine's wife, stops in Columbus on tour of Ohio

  

  A class of about 16 preschoolers had a new friend to play with Thursday afternoon: Anne Holton, wife of the Democratic nominee for Vice President Tim Kaine. Holton greeted the group of three- to six-year-olds at the start of her visit to the Childhood League Center. While receiving a brief tour of the facility, Holton spoke with Ginger Young, executive director of the Center, about intervention therapies deployed there and the importance of early childhood education. Sitting in a bite-sized cla..

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• Oktoberfest enters its second half-century in Columbus

  

  Organizers promise that the 51st Columbus Oktoberfest will be just as spirited as last year's celebration, which marked a half-century milestone for the Bavarian-inspired affair. “Every year we try to make it like the 50th,” said Geoff Schmidt, producer of the event. “We’ve been very fortunate that the people of Columbus have followed us all these years.” The Schmidt family, which owns Schmidt's Restaurant & Sausage Haus, has been involved in the event since the start. Geoff's father, George, a..

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• Body found at Columbus State Community College building

  

  Correction: This occurred at Columbus State Community College. An earlier version of this story mistakenly identified the school as Columbus State University. WESTERVILLE, Ohio — The body of a male student was found Tuesday evening in a restroom at a Columbus State Community College building, reports say. The body was found by another student at about 5:45 p.m. at the school's Westerville Regional Learning Center, nbc4i.com reports. Genoa Township police have not released the identity of the..

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• VegFest to grow roots in Columbus

  

  Please follow and like us:Ohio State students and members of the Columbus community can “veg out” this Saturday at the first Columbus VegFest. The event focuses on the health benefits of plant-based diets and will feature several workshops presenting on topics related to veganism, as well as several vendors. John Stacy, an Ohio State alumnus, started the event with his wife Jennifer. The idea of hosting VegFest came to them when they attended similar events, but were unable to find one in Colu..

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• 11-year-old who died crossing road on way to North Side middle ...

  

  A young boy died Thursday morning after being struck by a car on Karl Road near Woodward Park Middle School. Columbus police were called to the school, located at 5151 Karl Rd., at 6:47 a.m. on a report that a child had been hit by a vehicle, said Sgt. Duane Mabry. The 6th-grade student, who was being transported to OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital, was pronounced dead at 7:15 a.m., the dispatcher said. The boy was identified as Favour Agu, said Jacqueline Bryant, a spokeswoman for Col..

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• Aminah Robinson works inspired by Obama on display at two ...

  

  When Barack Obama announced in 2007 that he would run for president of the United States, a central Ohio artist whose great-aunt was a slave was inspired to begin a large body of work. Aminah Robinson, who died last year at age 75, devoted several years to creating mixed-media works celebrating the nation’s first African-American president even though they contained reminders of the difficult road ahead regarding efforts to eliminate racism and discrimination. “I knew this young man would becom..

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• Man convicted of assaulting wife's heroin supplier with baseball bat

  

  After watching his wife's drug-dealing cousin repeatedly supply her with heroin and begging him to stay away from their Hamilton Township house, Edwin Sobony II snapped. On Dec. 9, 2015, Sobony grabbed an aluminum baseball bat from his garage and sent Larry Jewell to intensive care with skull fractures. Sobony's attorney, Sam Shamansky, held the bat on Friday in a Franklin County courtroom and told jurors that he would have gone further. "I’d pull out this bat and I’d beat him to death becau..

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