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Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

SWACO leader to retire - No roul play suspected in Congressman Gillmor's death - Daylong terrorism exercise in Central Ohio

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

Another air quality alert for Central Ohio - Ruling says Ohio's sex offender law doesn't apply to those convicted before it went into effect

Columbus, OH – It's a shock for members of Congress and people from northwest Ohio - U.S. Representative Paul Gillmor was found dead Wednesday. As statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler reports, Gillmor was a fixture in Ohio politics.

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

Columbus police suspect serial rapist is targeting an apartment complex on the city's east side - Strickland to decide date of special election to replace Gillmor - Poll finds steady support for Strickland's performance as governor - Foreclosures continue to spike in Ohio - Cleveland Brown pleads not guilty after arrest

Columbus, OH – The Wexner Center for the Arts hosts a popular travelling exhibit that opens September 20th. Officials are spreading the word in a very large way. Mike Foley reports.

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Columbus, OH – While the Columbus schools struggle to keep employment on par with enrollment, one school says cutbacks have left it with the wrong kind of teachers. Alison Holm reports.

Columbus, OH – Another project to restore Columbus' historic and once thriving King-Lincoln district begins. Mike Foley reports.

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

Additional bomb threats to Ohio universities - Romney visits Cincinnati area - Gas prices top three bucks per gallon in Ohio - Ground breaking ceremony for condo development in King/Lincoln district - Tressel not as gleeful as Buckeye fans after Michigan's loss to Appalachian State

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

President Bush classifies two more Ohio counties as disaster areas - Mosquitoes, scammers hit flooded areas - No charges against the mother who left a toddler in a sweltering car -

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear:

Grandview Heights City Council rejects sex offender law - An update on the BWC investigation - One Columbus school says cutbacks have left it with the wrong kind of teachers

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

Air quality alert for the region - Divers recover body of pilot in Monday's Lake Erie crash - Franklin County judge rules some electronic game are legal

Get there on time.

By John DeSando, WCBE's It's Movie Time

"The boys dressed themselves, hid their accoutrements, and went off grieving that there were no outlaws any more, and wondering what modern civilization could claim to have done to compensate for their loss. They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever." Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Columbus, OH – Ohio's attorney general has been ordering that thousands of electronic gaming machines be unplugged because they are - by his new definition - virtually the same as illegal slot machines. But a Franklin County judge has issued an order of his own. It shields SOME of the games in question from the A.G.'s crusade. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen explains.

Columbus, OH – A new Ohio law regulating strip clubs and adult video stores was scheduled to take effect today (Tuesday). But, instead, its implementation has been blocked. That's because on Monday, owners of strip clubs and the dancers themselves turned in hundreds of thousands of petitions signatures demanding that voters get the final say. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports.

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

An update on the circumstances that led to the disappearance of an Ohio soldier - Search continues in Lake Erie following plane crash - A deadly holiday weekend on Ohio roads - Ohio University students settle in - Master creator of quilts continues her work

Not rose colored.

By John DeSando, WCBE's It's Movie Time

As you may have inferred from my many sardonic comments about the neocons, I oppose the war in Iraq. The documentary No End in Sight confirms my opinion not shared by everyone to be sure. But this documentary, written, directed, and produced by Charles Ferguson, an information technology expert and member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institution, shows in a rare non-ideological way, the mistakes made up to and during the Iraq invasion.

Columbus, OH – Opponents of Ohio's death penalty now have a SECOND way to legally attack capitol punishment here. While several inmates are challenging the constitutionality of Ohio's lethal injection process in FEDERAL court, TWO men who haven't even been HANDED the death penalty have been given the green light to challenge it in STATE court. That move has Ohio's attorney general seeing red. Ohio Public Radio's Bill Cohen reports.

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

More bomb threats in Ohio - Unemployment assistance available for six counties hit by flooding - State officials say public tips about illegal games are pouring in - No holiday for one portion of state government - Longtime Ohio congressman dies - Former Buckeye returns as a Penguin

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

Bus passenger killed - Reynoldsburg man convicted of killing his father - Third street repairs at I-670 will take more time - Indians/Reds win

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

Court sides with Nationwide in potential precedent-setting case over flooding - Lethal injection challenges in federal and state courts -