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Wexner Still Richest Ohioan

New Albany-based Limited Brands CEO Les Wexner is the richest Ohioan, according to the latest list of the world's billionaires compiled by Forbes Magazine. Wexner has a net worth of 4.5 billion dollars, putting him at number 276 on the list. The two other billionaire Ohioans on the list are the former CEO of Dayton-based Iams, Clayton Mathile  and San Francisco 49ers owner Denise York of the Youngstown area. Mathile has a net worth of 1.9 billion dollars, ranking him 792nd on the Forbes list.York has a net worth of 1.1 billion. That puts her at number 1,268 on the list.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.