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Indians 1, Tigers 0

Zach Plesac pitched impressively into the eighth inning, and Brad Hand worked out of a jam in the ninth to lift the Indians to a 1-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers.

Reds 7, White Sox 1

Slumping Jesse Winker hit a three-run homer and the Reds extended their surge into playoff contention with a 7-1 victory.

Hallowe’en masks

With Hallowe’en a little over six weeks away, the state is providing guidelines for holiday activities like trick-or-treating and haunted houses.

Ohio unemployment declines only 0.1% in August

Ohio’s unemployment rate inched downward in August, to 8.9% from a revised 9.0% in July as business shutdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic continue to weigh down the state’s economy.

Rising murder rate

Five homicides reported in Columbus over the past three days have raised the total number of murders in the first nine months of 2020 to more than all of 2019.

Cleveland nation’s poorest big city; Columbus #26

Ohio has the dubious distinction of being the only state in the Union with two large cities ranked among the nation’s 10 most impoverished, and almost placed a third in the top 25, but Columbus fell just below the line.