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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.

No. 3 OSU 86, Bryant 48

Lenzelle Smith Jr. scored 19 points and No. 3 Ohio State pulled away early to beat Bryant 86-48 on Wednesday night.