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  • Leawood Elementary Lockdown Lifted Suspect Now In Custody

    A lockdown at a Columbus elementary school was lifted after a suspect was taken into custody.Officials locked down Leawood Elementary School in east Columbus following a nearby domestic dispute around 11:45 a.m.According to police, the lockdown was prompted after a man left the scene of a domestic dispute on Wilton Avenue.Police described the individual as a "mentally-ill" teenager. He ...

  • Marion Police Look For Information About Robbery Suspect Considered Armed Dangerous

    The Marion Police Department is looking for William Wadell Evans, who is wanted for an armed robbery of a Circle K on North Main Street that occurred in March. Evans is 48 years old, 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 170 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes. Police said that he should be considered armed and ...

  • Law Enforcement Officials Work To Keep Roads Safe Over Holiday Weekend

    Law enforcement agencies are working to keep the roads safe over Memorial Day weekend.The Franklin County DUI Task Force will conduct a sobriety checkpoint Friday night in the western part of the county.Deputies will be checking vehicles on Norton Road, just south of U.S. Route 40 in Prairie Township.The checkpoint will be manned from 9 p.m. until 3 a.m.Authorities will also be looking for ...

  • Williams inks as Bengals close in on rookie signings

    , who has the best chance of any of the Bengals rookies to start for the NFL's sixth-ranked defense when Cincinnati opens the season in Chicago, signed Friday as they neared a sweep of signing their draft picks before next month's mandatory minicamp. Of the club's 10 draft picks, only ...

  • Tips dwindle in Mich. girls kidnapping slaying

    MONROE, Mich. (AP) -- Investigators say the number of tips is dwindling in the kidnapping and slaying of a 5-year-old Michigan girl who disappeared four years ago and was found buried near a Michigan ...

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United 93

United 93

In 1937, Delmore Schwartz wrote a short story called In Dreams Begin Responsibilities in which the first-person narrator dreams that he is in a theater watching his parents courtship unfold as an old Biograph silent film. Knowing that his parents relationship will turn sour and that, in his w ... ...

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  • Balloon Launch Held To Remember Missing Ohio Children

    May 25 marks National Missing Children's Day, and state officials are honoring those children listed as missing in Ohio.Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine took part in a ceremony where children released 690 balloons on Friday.The Attorney General's Office says there are 690 children considered missing from Ohio.The AG said that a total of 19,219 reports of missing children were made in ...

  • Police Find Man Wanted For Alleged Sexual Assault Sleeping In Womans Back Yard

    Columbus police said they have tracked down a man wanted for kidnapping and sexual assault.They said 41-year-old Henry A. Durdin Jr. was arguing with a female acquaintance Wednesday night.He became enraged, tied the woman up, and sexually assaulted her. He then took off.The woman was taken to a local hospital, treated and released.Police said that Durdin was considered armed and dangerous.He was ...

  • Man Who Ran From Officer Tried To Pull Woman From Vehicle Faces Additional Charges

    A man is charged with escape, assault on a peace officer, resisting arrest, falsification, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia after an incident at a north side restaurant on Thursday.According to the Franklin County Sheriff's Office, a deputy tried to stop a man, later identified as Joshua T. Levi, for a minor traffic stop on Friday near the Waffle House at 1050 E. ...

  • Man Arrested After Allegedly Burglarizing Same Home Twice Killing Dog

    Police say a man who is charged with burglary is thought to have broken into the same home twice this year.According to court documents, Brian Keith Mills broke into a home in the 800 block of Marland Drive South on February 25. The resident of the home arrived to discover two men in her home, one of whom was identified as Mills.The two fled the scene and dropped stolen items.Mills is thought to ...

  • Medical Helicopter Called To Scene Of Car Motorcycle Crash

    At least one person was injured in a crash involving a car and motorcycle Friday morning in Newark.Newark Police said that the crash occurred near 1225 E. Main Street around 9:15 a.m.A medical helicopter was called to transport the person who was riding the motorcycle.Police have not released the name of the person or extent of his/her injuries.The cause of the crash is still under ...

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