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A weekend for giving

This weekend brings central Ohioans more opportunities to give to those less fortunate during the holiday season.

Police seek missing man

Columbus police are looking for a Northwest Side man who suffers from dementia and has not been seen since Thursday morning.

Portman, senators oppose hydrant rule

Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman has joined a bipartisan effort to head off an environmental regulation he says would make it difficult for local governments to repair and replace fire hydrants.

4 dead: Home may have lacked smoke detectors

The Ohio State Fire Marshal’s office says there is no evidence of any working smoke detectors in a Kettering home where four people – two of them children — died in a blaze Thursday morning.

220 area code added to 740

Folks in parts of central and southeast Ohio will have to get used to dialing more digits when they make phone calls now that regulators have approved a plan to use a new area code.

Ballot measure would end arena deal

A group wants Columbus residents to vote on whether the city should be paying for its professional hockey team’s home arena, and it has collected enough signatures to get the issue on the May ballot.