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14th win over ChiSox helps wild card shot

Danny Salazar gave Cleveland a much-needed quality start and Nick Swisher hit a two-run homer as the Indians tightened their grip one of the AL wild card spots with their 14th straight win over the White Sox, 7-2.

Battery blast rocks cop shop

Hours after a battery exploded, prompting an evacuation of Columbus police headquarters, the bomb squad was back on the scene for a follow-up.

Double murderer is last pentobarbital execution

In the last use of a lethal-injection drug, the state has executed a gunman who spewed racial slurs before the killings of an African-American man and a police officer during a 1994 rampage at his apartment complex in a Cleveland suburb.

Mets 4, Reds 2

The Mets beat Cincinnati 4-2 on Tuesday night, a costly setback to the Reds’ hopes of a second straight NL Central title.

Arrest in school bus BB shooting

A central Ohio sheriff’s office says it has identified the person suspected of using a BB gun to shatter a window on a school bus that was carrying children.

Area jobless rate 6.0%

The Columbus area continues to have the lowest unemployment rate among Ohio’s large metropolitan areas.

DeWine, AG’s target e-cigarettes

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and his counterparts from 39 other states are asking the federal government to regulate electronic cigarettes.