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Stolen Ohio gun turns up in Washington state 23 years later

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:27:37 GMT

OXFORD, Ohio (AP) - A gun stolen from a southwest Ohio home has been recovered 23 years later at a pawn shop in Washington state.

Cleveland Clinic gets designer patient gowns

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:26:00 GMT

CLEVELAND (AP) - Designer Diane von Furstenberg helped the Cleveland Clinic come up with a more stylish hospital gown without the peek-a-boo back.

Experts to testify in 5-state carp lawsuit

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:57:13 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) - Experts are set to testify in a federal lawsuit in Chicago, where five states are asking a judge to close Illinois shipping locks to prevent Asian carp from overrunning the Great Lakes.

Cleveland voters kick off new era in county government today

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:55:26 GMT

CLEVELAND (AP) - Voters are kicking off a new era in county government in Cleveland.

Amish woman injured in buggy crash gives birth, dies

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:25:58 GMT

Authorities said an Amish woman has died several days after she was injured in a buggy crash in northeastern Ohio.

Hilltop Marine killed by bomb in Afghanistan

Suzanne Hoholik — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:56 GMT

For Jesse Balthaser, becoming a Marine was a goal since his days in high school. He went on to serve two deployments in Iraq before he was sent to Afghanistan in early April.

Children Services explores merit pay

Rita Price — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:48 GMT

Franklin County Children Services says raises for managers should be based on performance.

Photo: Last dance

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:47 GMT

Photo: Sunset at the 'Shoe

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:38 GMT

Physicians fight ban on campaign contributions to attorney general, prosecutors

Mark Niquette — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:31 GMT

Nine Cleveland-area physicians are challenging the constitutionality of an Ohio law that says they can't make political contributions to candidates for attorney general or county prosecutor if they treat Medicaid patients.

VITAL STATISTICS

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:30 GMT

This list is compiled from voluntary submissions by parents to hospitals.

Photo: Dream becomes reality

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:26 GMT

I-75 wreck kills 2 from Toledo

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:25 GMT

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - A Toledo couple were killed Sunday when they were thrown from their SUV on I-75, the State Highway Patrol said.

Stolen gun finally recovered

Janice Morse — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:24 GMT

OXFORD, Ohio - A .45-caliber Colt 1911 pistol that was stolen 23 years ago in a Butler County burglary wound up 2,300 miles away in a pawnshop in Washington state and should be reunited with its owner soon.

Family escapes home destroyed by kitchen fire

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:24 GMT

A hot-dog dinner cost an Ashtabula family their home and a cat Sunday evening after a kitchen fire quickly spread and destroyed the house and its contents.

Biden marches in Toledo

Tom Troy — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:24 GMT

TOLEDO - Vice President Joe Biden marched in Toledo's Labor Day Parade yesterday morning, giving a boost to the morale of union members weathering the weak economy and lending political support to the re-election efforts of fellow Democrat Gov. Ted Strickland.

Neighborhood goes from downtrodden to trendy

Mark Ferenchik — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:24 GMT

The new Harrison Park that will soon grace the east bank of the Olentangy River just north of Downtown is the latest piece of a plan to complete the Harrison West neighborhood.

Many reasons to love Labor Day

Gina Potthoff — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:24 GMT

NEWARK, Ohio - Gary Wood doesn't mind laboring on Labor Day - as long as the message gets across.

Congress wavers on killing tax cuts

Jonathan Riskind — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:22 GMT

WASHINGTON - Rep. Tim Ryan hails from the blue-collar, Democratic stronghold of the Mahoning Valley, but the Niles Democrat is a good example why President Barack Obama might fail to persuade Congress to go along with not extending tax cuts for the most-affluent Americans.

Musician kicked out of charter school he created

Jennifer Smith Richards — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:22 GMT

A gospel singer wanted to open a charter school, so he did last year. Then he built a recording studio inside it with public dollars.

Hilliard house fire kills three

Robert Vitale — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:21 GMT

An electrical malfunction in a garage attic sparked a house fire early yesterday that killed a Hilliard woman, her 28-year-old son and another son's girlfriend.

Shuttered motel now a public health hazard

Caitlin McGlade — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:21 GMT

Wrecked shopping carts, shattered glass and stained mattresses spill out of the rooms at the former Hometown Inn.

Charter students will lose bus passes

Bill Bush — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:19 GMT

Charter- and private-school upperclassmen who live in the Columbus City Schools district will lose their unlimited COTA bus passes at the end of this month, a district official said.

Jefferson Thomas | 1942-2010: Civil-rights pioneer in school desegregation later settled in Columbus

Tom Parsons — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53:12 GMT

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Jefferson Thomas was fast and athletic and often played pickup basketball with white students while growing up in Little Rock in the 1950s.

Physicians fight ban on campaign contributions to AG, prosecutors

Mark Niquette — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:47:41 GMT

Pregnant Amish woman injured in buggy crash gives birth before dying

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:44:19 GMT

Authorities said an Amish woman has died several days after she was injured in a buggy crash in northeastern Ohio.

Musician kicked out of charter school he created

Jennifer Smith Richards — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:39:50 GMT

A gospel singer wanted to open a charter school, so he did last year. Then he built a recording studio inside it with public dollars.

Children Services explores merit pay

Rita Price — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:37:29 GMT

Franklin County Children Services says raises for managers should be based on performance.

Charter students will lose bus passes

Bill Bush — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:31:29 GMT

Charter- and private-school upperclassmen who live in the Columbus City Schools district will lose their unlimited COTA bus passes at the end of this month, a district official said.

Jefferson Thomas | 1942-2010: Civil-rights pioneer lived in Columbus

Tom Parsons — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:17:19 GMT

Jefferson Thomas, a pioneer in school desegregation and resident of Columbus since 1989, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at age 67, according to a statement from Carlotta Walls LaNier, who also enrolled at Central High School in 1957 and is president of the Little Rock Nine Foundation.

Hilltop Marine killed by bomb in Afghanistan

Suzanne Hoholik — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:59:29 GMT

A Columbus Marine has been killed in Afghanistan, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

Three people die in Hilliard fire

Robert Vitale — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:33:06 GMT

An electrical malfunction in a garage attic sparked a house fire early this morning that killed a Hilliard woman, her 28-year-old son and another son's girlfriend.

Residents enjoy summer's final bounty

Kathy Lynn Gray — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:27 GMT

John Flink was a happy, happy man as he strolled out of the Hann Farms field yesterday with a sack of plump tomatoes.

Flink won't have many more opportunities to pick summer produce this year. By Labor Day weekend, crops including peas, blueberries and peaches are gone from the fields. A few weeks remain for tomatoes and green beans.

Cincinnati park renovation digs up 19th-century graves

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:16 GMT

CINCINNATI — Excavation work for the planned redevelopment of a Cincinnati park has been uncovering graves and remains from the early 1800s.

Vital statistics

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:15 GMT

BIRTHS

Brace for it: Ad blitz coming

Mark Niquette — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:13 GMT

Get ready to see a lot of Ted Strickland, John Kasich, Mary Jo Kilroy, Steve Stivers and other politicians in your living room.

Pickerington library part of revival push

Mary Beth Lane — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:13 GMT

A building dedicated to preserving Pickerington’s past is now part of an effort to renew the historic downtown business district for the future.

A small army of people keeps the world running smoothly while most of us sleep

Jim Woods — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:11 GMT

The balls roll 24/7 at the Columbus Square Bowling Palace. One of the few bowling alleys in Ohio that is open around the clock, it needs an overnight crew to ensure that the pins are set and the bowling shoes fit.

Killers Among Us: Woman left work, vanished

Holly Zachariah — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:10 GMT

MARYSVILLE, Ohio - It's only a single speck of blood, no bigger than if someone had swatted a bug.

Cleveland senior housing site of slaying

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:10 GMT

CLEVELAND — Authorities are investigating the homicide of a 65-year-old man who was found dead at a public-housing complex for seniors in Cleveland.

Man, 32, sought in double homicide

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:10 GMT

Columbus police have issued an arrest warrant for a man in connection with a double homicide last week.

Crime Stoppers: Unsolved shooting involved Samaritan

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:10 GMT

A recent homicide on the East Side is the crime of the week in the Crime Stoppers program.

City wants to banish strip club plagued by violence

Jim Woods — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:09 GMT

Two men threw punches by the front door while customers ran out of the North Side strip club.

Family knows pain of road rage

Stephanie Czekalinski — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:09 GMT

Christopher White sat on the edge of his father's bed at Mount Carmel West hospital, holding his hand and talking in a low voice.

Worthington city council post filled

Dean Narciso — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:08 GMT

The Worthington City Council has chosen a lawyer to fill a council seat vacated in July.

Delaware County developers want to see another exit from I-71

Allison Manning — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:07 GMT

Delaware County officials hope that a new interchange on I-71 will help both traffic and economic development flow more freely into the area.

Dispatch poll: Ohioans want budget answers -- now

Darrel Rowland — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:04 GMT

Who says Ohioans are divided over political issues? On this Labor Day, the traditional campaign kickoff for a statewide election year, 97 percent of Buckeye State voters agree on a key issue in the governor's race, a new Dispatch Poll shows.

Merge local-level operations, panel says

Jim Siegel — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:03 GMT

When Gene Krebs looks across the landscape of Ohio’s local governments, he sees an early 1800s structure standing in the way of the state’s 21st century economic progress.

CDC: Beef up traffic laws

Doug Caruso — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:51:03 GMT

Traffic deaths and injuries are a preventable scourge that cost the nation about $99 billion a year in medical bills and lost productivity, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

School-office mergers net big savings

Jim Siegel — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:50:57 GMT

A study by the Brookings Institute/Greater Ohio Policy Center released in February suggested setting up an independent commission to cut the number of public-school districts by one- third.

Police charge man in double killing

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:05:27 GMT

Columbus police have issued an arrest warrant for a man in connection with a double homicide Wednesday.

Obama, Biden both plan to visit Ohio this week

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:24:16 GMT

President Barack Obama will touch down in Ohio again on Wednesday with a visit to Cleveland.

Brown, Space vie for credit for IRS' bonus reversal

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:23:04 GMT

I got it done, said Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio. No, I got it done, insisted Rep. Zack Space, D-Dover.

OHSAA offers youth-sports oversight

Jill Riepenhoff — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:01:24 GMT

The governing body for Ohio high-school athletics is so concerned about the physical, emotional and financial toll in youth sports that it offered last week to provide uniform regulation to protect hundreds of thousands of children involved in nonschool programs.

Ohio River span to get necklace of lights

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:01:03 GMT

COVINGTON, Ky. - The historic Roebling Suspension Bridge over the Ohio River at Cincinnati will once again be lighted.

OSU-area housing hazard?

Collin Binkley — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:01:03 GMT

A legal loophole is letting landlords avoid basic safety regulations in the University District, leaving thousands of students in potentially dangerous homes, city fire officials say.

John Switzer commentary: Autumn in Ohio is golden season

John Switzer — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:01:03 GMT

The countryside is getting that yellowish tinge that tells us September is here.

Rural hospitals getting out of baby business

Randy Ludlow — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:01:01 GMT

The birth of a baby typically is a joyous experience.

Double Dutch team wants to rope in more kids for fun, exercise and competition

Rita Price — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:01:00 GMT

Capito said the Angels managed to raise about $3,000 last summer, which allowed them to send six jumpers to a big workshop in Florida through the National Double Dutch League.

Private, parochial schools fare best on test

Charlie Boss — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:00:39 GMT

Educators in central Ohio’s private and parochial high schools say they’re not surprised that their students outperformed peers in public high schools on the Ohio Graduation Test.

Reeb’s Restaurant demolished

Jeb Phillips — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:00:38 GMT

The Livingston Avenue building that for decades housed the popular Reeb’s Restaurant began to be demolished yesterday.

Mike Harden commentary: Ney's trip to India part of becoming a new man

Mike Harden — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:00:38 GMT

Little about the trim, middle-aged man seated at the Max & Erma's at Port Columbus shed much light on either his past transgressions or his future dreams. In his jeans and red-print shirt, he could have easily been a soybean farmer waiting for a flight to take him to a bedside vigil at a hospice or an insurance adjuster headed for a hail-damage convention.

Owners winning requests for tax cuts

Barbara Carmen — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:00:24 GMT

The Brewery District was a trendy neighborhood when lawyer Laura M. Comek began working there 12 years ago.

Insurance changes kick in Sept. 23

Catherine Candisky — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:00:24 GMT

Millions of Ohioans could benefit from new health-care regulations kicking in this month, starting with a requirement that insurance companies cover immunizations, cancer screenings and other preventative services for free.

GOP resurgent

Darrel Rowland — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:00:24 GMT

Republican candidates have grabbed double-digit leads in the races for governor and the U.S. Senate, and the swelling red tide could lead to a GOP sweep of statewide offices, the first Dispatch Poll of the 2010 campaign shows.

Hostage-taker identified as West Side resident

Jeb Phillips — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:00:23 GMT

Pickaway County authorities have identified a man who killed himself after holding a woman hostage Friday in a house northeast of Ashville.

Cyclists tour neighborhood 'melting pot'

Mary Beth Lane — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:00:22 GMT

Bicyclists will tell you that there is something special about seeing a city from two wheels.

How the poll was conducted

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:00:18 GMT

The Dispatch Poll was based on returns from 1,622 registered Ohio voters who said they intend to vote in the 2010 general election.

Comments from Dispatch Poll participants

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:13:53 GMT