Today's Top Stories

• Wallets get lighter at gyms
  Teen bandits targeted locker rooms at fitness centers, authorities say
• Registry connects sisters who shared same donor dad
• Principal shuts parent-teacher group, citing missing money

Central Ohio news

• District to reduce overcrowding at Liberty Elementary
  Parents unhappy to learn up to 160 students face reassignment
• Rickenbacker wins 3-way race to host legendary fighters
  P-51 Mustangs played a vital role escorting bombers in World War II
• Delaware 911 suit invalid, county argues
• Woman run over by own pickup dies
• Ex-chiropractor pleads guilty in fraud case
• Proposal to annex farmland in doubt
  Reynoldsburg mayor expresses concerns about Columbus' role
• No. 2 prison official wins directorship
  Collins started 29-year career as social worker
• Woman dies of injuries from January crash
• Democrats forgo tough grilling of Ohio State board appointees
  Three appointees have a fairly easy time
• Workers' comp law challenged
• Regatta time
• Police shooting

Election

• Blackwell holdings prompt questions
  Makers of slots, morning-after pill among his stocks
• Bar owners seek vote to keep the smoking lamp on
  Several exceptions would be allowed to state, local bans
• Columbus contends for GOP '08 event
  Mayor traveling to Washington to try to land convention
• OHIO HOUSE PRIMARY RACES: Democrats see chance to unseat GOP incumbents
• Democrat forces House GOP to pull ad
• Voters oust mayor of Urbana in special election

Around Ohio

• Mural's future looking brighter
  Mount Gilead post office restores grime-covered Depression-era art
• Man charged with DUI twice in 1 1/2 hours
• Teacher suspended for second complaint
  Southwest Licking had dismissed earlier accusation
• Kids left in car at bar, police say
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Community news

• Vital statistics
• Daily almanac
• Corrections

Of continuing interest

• Pipeline from Mexico
  A look at the human pipeline that runs between Columbus and El Paxtle
• Docs Rate Docs
  Who do doctors go to when they're sick?
• The Alrosa Villa Shootings
  Complete coverage from The Dispatch and WBNS-10TV
• I-270 shootings
  Complete coverage from The Columbus Dispatch, WBNS-10TV and ONN: Ohio News Network
• Prison Medicine
  Health care in Ohio's 33 prisons is plagued with serious, deadly problems
• Campaign 2004
  An archive of Dispatch, WBNS-TV and ONN articles from the 2004 election

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