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Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

Columbus man sentenced for killing OSU student - Appeals court rules OSU still owes O'Brien - Club owners pushing a ballot measure to overturn restrictions on adult businesses strip their group's name

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

City of Columbus reaches a settlement in the case of a woman killed after being hit by a fire truck - Columbus offers ID protection to hundreds of residents - Sludge findings

Films reviewed: A Tribute to Gus Van Sant--Good Will Hunting, Jerry, Elephant, Last Days

By hosts John DeSando and Clay Lowe

It's Movie Time has won numerous national awards including Silver Microphone and Communicator honors.

Drs. Lowe and DeSando were moderator and panelist respectively on TV 25's World Film Classics. Both have been professors, Lowe at Ohio State University and DeSando at Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio.

Columbus, OH – Ohio's attorney general is suing a major credit card issuer and two restaurants on Ohio State University's main campus for allegedly violating the consumer sales practices act. Ohio Public Radio's Jo Ingles reports.

Columbus, OH – Ohio now has more than 16-hundred payday lending stores that offer short-term loans. But consumer advocates and advocates for the poor have just released a study, estimating that hundreds of thousands of Ohioans are financially trapped by the loans for months or years. The activists are pushing for new limits on the interest rate...but the industry is defending its practices. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports.

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

Ohio's attorney general sues major credit card company and two OSU campus-area businesses - Connecticut attorney general files suit over his state's information being placed on the Ohio computer device that was stolen in Hilliard

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

Payday lending stores foster financial struggles, study finds - Senator Voinovich pushes troop withdrawl measure

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

Latest Franklin County siren system test shows progress - Nearly 40-year old Columbus-based restaurant could be up for sale - Check cashing business expanding

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

Three Columbus police officers acted within policy in fatal shooting of a suspect last year - Warren police officer investigated for using a taser on a woman in handcuffs - Proposal to allow smoking in cigar bars - New text message system unveiled at OSU - More legal trouble for Bengal

Columbus, OH – After scoring successes with smoking bans in Ohio and other states, the American Cancer Society is getting into another public policy debate - this time on access to affordable health care. Ohio Public Radio's Karen Kasler reports.

Columbus, OH – A top legislative leader says the fact that 2 Ohio racetracks are installing those controversial electronic video games makes it even more likely that state lawmakers will BAN the ones that offer cash or expensive prizes. Meanwhile, supporters of the games are fighting back with a new poll they say shows most Ohioans want the games to stay plugged in. With a report on both these developments, here's statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen.

Columbus, OH – Traffic cameras are in operation in many Ohio cities, including Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton and other communities. The Ohio Supreme Court is deciding on Akron's camera program, and its ruling could change the way cities penalize drivers those cameras catch. Statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler reports.

Columbus, OH – As Columbus officials continue studying whether to use cameras citywide as another safety tool, the city has expanded a digital effort to catch graffiti artists. Mike Foley reports.

Columbus, OH – Columbus City Schools Superintendent Gene Harris has updated board members on the latest academic achievement scores and floated a plan to improve test scores that could include adding a required summer reading program and shrinking the size of middle school math classes. Alison Holm reports.

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

Columbus schools study latest achievement numbers and consider adding summer program to improve scores - Two developments in the electronic game issue

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

Ohio Republican Party says it's not getting information requested from the state's top elections official - Graffiti camera program expands in Columbus

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

CAIR wants FBI to look into attack at Columbus mosque - Ohio Supreme Court hears traffic camera case - Akron among least congested cities

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

Another store to close at City Center - Classes begin at OSU - Fire safety awareness for students - Columbus City Schools to consider changes to improve test scores - Former Bengal charged with failing to pay child support

It's not Al Gore.

By John DeSando, WCBE's It's Movie Time

It took me a while to get over the dominance of the murder investigation from In the Valley of Elah. A film circumscribed by the Iraq War shouldn't be just about a stateside murder. But it all made sense to me after I thought about how a writer deals with a tragedy of immense proportions?in this case the frustrations of finding a murderer amid the confusing tangle of forensic evidence (Where's CSI when you need it?) tied to a war just as convoluted as the case.

Columbus, OH – Stories you'll hear include:

Meth lab bust in Licking County - American Cancer Society's next big effort - Kroger earnings increase - Ohio woman gives birth at gas station