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Nolan Wells Is Being Laid to Rest. The Search for Truth Is Not.
Family, friends and civil-rights leaders gathered to celebrate the life of the 18-year-old student-athlete. His funeral closes one chapter—but it does…
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Columbus Wants Real District Representation
A campaign for real district representation clears its first hurdle. Plus: free Columbus State tuition, Central State’s audit, police drones, Medicaid…
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Who Used Central Ohio's Cameras for 15,000 Immigration Searches?
Columbus owes the public answers about its Flock network. Plus: Trump’s election address, rewritten Black history, media consolidation and Ohio’s…
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Al Sharpton Answers Hateful Critics With $50K Nolan Wells Reward—Tyler Perry Matches It
At Nolan Wells’ homegoing, Sharpton rejected claims that civil-rights leaders were profiting from the case and put $50,000 behind the search for…
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ICE Killed a Man Who Wasn’t the Target. Now the Government Controls the Evidence
An ICE officer fatally shot a 26-year-old Colombian man during a Maine operation aimed at someone else. No body cameras recorded the encounter.
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A Franklin County Jury Convicted Jason Meade Today. It Still Couldn't Say "Murder."
Six shots. Five in his back. One in his side. A bag of Subway in his hand. And the only word a jury could agree on was "reckless."
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