Killer's Glock .45-caliber had 22 bullets left in magazine
Nathaniel A. Brown fired at least eight rounds into a crowded room of cubicles before he put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger one last time, according to reports released by police and the county coroner’s office Thursday. Many of the shots from Brown’s two handguns struck Larry Wallington, 48, in the neck and head, said Franklin County Coroner Jan Gorniak.
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Two Ohio State employees sued the university Thursday, claiming they contracted a serious lung disease last year while working at Hitchcock Hall. Olga Stavridis and Amy Franklin, who work at the Ohio State College of Engineering Career Services, became ill with a lung infection called histoplasmosis.
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An Ohio State custodial worker who shot and killed one of his bosses and wounded another spent time in prison and had a violent work record, but none of that turned up in a background check performed for the university. OSU President E. Gordon Gee said at a press briefing Wednesday that the university would review its background check process.
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The Inter-Professional Council represents more than 3,200 “professional” students at Ohio State and spends tens of thousands of dollars. But it has difficulties filling its leadership positions and keeping students aware of what the organization does.
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The 11 Big Ten teams will meet in Indianapolis this week and crown a conference tournament champion. Play begins Thursday at noon in Conseco Fieldhouse and concludes with the conference championship game Sunday at 3:30 p.m. Ohio State After winning a share of their third regular season conference title in five years, the Buckeyes arrive in Indianapolis as the tournament’s No.
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Nearly every day for the last three years, a few Ohio State employees received an e-mail filled with encouragement and religious writings from building services manager Larry Wallington, who had worked as a janitor in their office in the Fisher College of Business.
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While Facebook and Twitter have been dominating computer screens over the past few years, another Web site is taking advantage of this social networking craze, but putting a scholarly spin on it. Academia.edu is a social networking Web site for scholars and researchers who are looking to connect with other people in related fields and get their research read.
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The art of sixteen seniors graduating at the end of Winter Quarter will be shown at Hopkins Hall Gallery. The students, who will graduate with bachelors’ degrees in fine arts, will present pieces from their studio theses work. Media including sculpture, painting, drawing, glass work, photography and ceramics will be on display at the second annual exhibition to honor Winter Quarter graduates.
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Nathaniel Brown struggled to pay the bills. His relationship with his girlfriend had recently ended. And five months after he was hired at Ohio State, the man whom supervisors described as “hostile” learned he was losing his job. “He’d been having a lot of financial troubles,” said Ray Conrad, who lived next to Brown’s home of 20 years on the near East Side.
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Heather Butler found out her father was shot when he called her early this morning. “He called me after being admitted in the hospital,” the 29-year-old Columbus resident said. Henry Butler, 60, was shot in his left shoulder Tuesday around 3:30 a.
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More than 100 people participated Thursday in a candlelight vigil for the victims of Tuesday’s campus shooting at Ohio State, in which custodial worker Nathaniel Brown shot and killed supervisor Larry Wallington, as well as injuring manager Henry Butler before taking his own life.
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Ohio State’s freeze on tuition for resident undergraduates, which is in its third year, will end in July. A special committee of the Board of Trustees will meet this month to hear recommendations for tuition next year and beyond. The date of that meeting, which will be open to the public, has not yet been determined, but will be announced a week before the meeting, said Bill Shkurti, OSU’s outgoing chief financial officer and senior vice president for Business and Finance.
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About 20 students, most members of an Ohio State campus prayer group, gathered Tuesday night for a vigil in front of the maintenance building that was the scene of a campus shooting Tuesday morning. Shortly after 10 p.m., members of 24/7 Prayer gathered in a circle and lit candles across the street from the building at 2000 Tuttle Park Pl.
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Zack Meisel Sports editor meisel.14@osu.edu 1. People should stop sleeping on the Wisconsin Badgers. Bo Ryan’s crew finished just one game behind the Big Ten champion trio of Ohio State, Michigan State and Purdue. The Badgers won their final four regular season games by an average of 20.
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Accountability — it is a word we hear frequently but at the end of the day, it is also a word that many have forgotten the meaning of. The events that have transpired over the course of the past few days show a serious lack of accountability in regards to the Ohio State University’s commitment to its student body.
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When visitors walk into the new Ohio Union, they will certainly know what campus they are on. It has Ohio State written all over it — literally. “Students provided us feedback that they didn’t want a building that you could plop on any college campus,” said Tracy Stuck, vice president of Student Life and director of the Ohio Union.
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On this episode we talk about why you should be careful who you tell to be quiet in the movie theater, bad romantic ideas, chickens with gender identity issues, and Kelsey Honious shares her experiences with the Wonders of Our World program through OSU.
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