Protesters call for removal of Christopher Columbus statue
Protesters call for removal of Christopher Columbus statue Protesters gathered in front of Columbus City Hall Saturday WCMH Published: August 20, 2017, 3:58 pm COLUMBUS (WCMH) — Protesters gathered in front of Columbus City Hall on Saturday to call for a statue of the city’s namesake to be taken down. Tynan Krakoff is the lead organizer of Showing Up For Racial Justice, the group putting on this rally, and said the statue of Christopher Columbus represents some of the bad in America..>> view originalHomicide detectives investigating after body found in north Columbus
Homicide detectives investigating after body found in north Columbus By NBC4 Staff Published: August 20, 2017, 10:16 am Updated: August 20, 2017, 11:49 am COLUMBUS (WCMH) — Homicide detectives are investigating after a body was found in north Columbus Sunday morning. Officers and medics were dispatched to the 1800 block of Belcher Drive around 7:20am Sunday on a report of a body laying between the buildings. When officers arrived, they found 26-year-old Kamal Abdulahi ShekMohamed..>> view originalColumbus man travels to catch the eclipse
The solar eclipse everyone is talking about is Monday, but if you want to experience the event in full, 100 percent totality, you’ll have to head South. Columbus is expected to experience 86.3 percent totality, but for some, the full experience is one that cannot be missed. Mike Markowitz is traveling with his brother Brian down to Hopkinsville, Kentucky where they hope to catch a few photos of the eclipse. “When you take pictures of the night sky and you keep the lens open for a long amount of ..>> view originalArt: Columbus: Crowdsourced
Jessica Wojtasek is an urban landscape painter. Her fall show is the result of an interactive jurying process that encourages the community and fellow art lovers to vote on select works to curate the artist’s solo show.To create her show, the artist chose iconic locations from Columbus and painted the same imagery in different lighting and mood as small painting “studies.” Hundreds of people voted at ColumbusCrowdsourced.com, a web app that Jessica designed, to choose their favorite study.“As a ..>> view originalAir quality alert issued for Columbus Monday
An Air Quality Alert has been issued for central Ohio on Monday, August 21, by the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission.The alert has been issued for the Columbus region which includes Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Knox, Madison and Licking counties.These counties are likely to experience conditions that are unhealthy for sensitive groups on the Air Quality Index scale.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSunday August 20: An upper-level ridge of high pressure ov..>> view originalUS warship collides with tanker near Singapore; 10 missing
SINGAPORE — A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer collided with a tanker early Monday in waters east of Singapore and the Strait of Malacca, and at least 10 sailors are missing.The Navy said five others were hurt.The USS John S. McCain sustained damage on its port side aft, or left rear, from the collision with the Alnic MC that happened at 5:24 a.m., the Navy's 7th Fleet said. It wasn't immediately clear if the oil and chemical tanker sustained damage or casualties in the collision.The Navy said..>> view originalGreenmen's success to be based on speed
by Frank Aceto Reporter When it comes to 17th-year head coach Bob Mihalik, opponents know what they're going to get when they see the Aurora football team. "We're always going to have a run-first mentality," said Mihalik, who is 141-48 as the Greenmen's head coach. "That's not going to change." However, the 2017 Aurora football team might not be the exact duplicate of the physical, punishing, ground-dominating squad that has become a force in recent years. This year's version of the..>> view originalSoaring student debt costs us all
By MARY CLARE AMSELEMThe Heritage Foundation Parents across the United States tell their children that if they graduate from high school, go to college and get a job, they can embrace the American Dream. Unfortunately, however, high college costs exacerbated by overgenerous federal lending policies have encouraged more students to take on high levels of student loan debt. As a result, graduates often leave college unprepared to pursue their career and life goals and are saddled with..>> view originalAlt-right's despicability doesn't make 'antifa' the good guys
By Jonah GoldbergTribune News Service Fighting Nazis is a good thing, but fighting Nazis doesn’t necessarily make you or your cause good. By my lights this is simply an obvious fact. The greatest Nazi-killer of the 20th century was Josef Stalin. He also killed millions of his own people and terrorized, oppressed, enslaved or brutalized tens of millions more. The fact that he killed Nazis during WWII (out of self-preservation, not principle) doesn’t dilute his evil one bit. This shou..>> view original'Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over' campaign kicks off
R-C Staff Report Portage County Safe Communities and its multiple partner agencies and businesses kicked off the annual local "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" campaign with an event at University Hospitals Portage Medical Center. An arm of the national campaign that started Wednesday and runs through Sept. 4, the campaign aims to increase public awareness of aggressive enforcement of impaired driving laws throughout the United States through Labor Day. Event emcee Lt. Antonio Matos,..>> view original
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