Gorilla grande dame turns 57
The first gorilla born in a zoo is turning 57 with a celebration broadcast live to online viewers from her home at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
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Melting + raining = flood risk
It’s beginning to look more like spring than Christmas in central Ohio, at least for the weekend.
Ohio unemployment mired above 7%
The state says Ohio’s unemployment rate in November was down slightly from October at 7.4 percent, the 11th straight month when the rate was at or above 7.0 percent.
Targeted? Here’s what to do
Keep calm, and check your bank account. That’s the advice Ohioans are getting in the wake of the massive security breach at Target.
Same-sex marriage backers say they have the support
Gay marriage supporters say they will have enough signatures to put the issue on a ballot next year.
Doctor faces sentence in pregnant woman’ death
Attorneys for a former Ohio doctor who pleaded guilty to killing a pregnant mother acknowledge he recorded himself having sex with the incapacitated woman and later moved her body but say she caused her own accidental overdose.
Train-pedestrian accidents on the rise
A safety group says the number of pedestrians who have been struck by trains in Ohio is up 40 percent this year.
Poof! Blue Jackets’ lead vanishes
Claude Giroux scored the tying and winning goals in the final minutes of the third period, rallying the Philadelphia Flyers past the Blue Jackets 5-4 on Thursday night.
Home sales best since ’06
A drop in homes sales last month is not a sign of a slowdown in the reviving central Ohio real estate market, which has already turned in the best yearly performance in seven years.
17 non-citizens voted in 2012
The Ohio attorney general’s office is considering charges against people accused of voting in the 2012 general election Ohio even thought they were not U.S. citizens.