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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Several Republican lawmakers have proposed changes to Ohio’s primary election laws, introducing at least four separate bills.

“Our belief is this will help deter those who intend to manipulate the results of our primaries,” Rep. Beth Lear (R-Galena).

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Lear, along with Rep. Brian Lorenz (R-Powell), is sponsoring the latest effort to close Ohio’s primaries with House Bill 437.

Currently, no matter what party you are registered to vote in, you can show up to the polls on primary election day and vote on whichever party’s ballot you want. HB 437 would change that by requiring you to declare a party affiliation 90 days before primary election day.

“They just would need to make that clear 90 days before the primary, not wait until the last minute and decide maybe I like or dislike person A, B, or C,” Lear said.

 “I am concerned about disenfranchising the truly independent voter because they are the largest number of people in the voting electorate these days,” Rep. Bill Seitz (R-Cincinnati) said.

Of the state’s 8 million voters, about 5.5 million are unaffiliated, meaning if the primaries close, those voters would have to establish which political party they want to vote in ahead of time, in some cases before it is clear who will be on which ballot and which races will be competitive.

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“I’m opposed to any effort that would at all restrict voter access to the ballot,” Ohio House Minority Leader Allison Russo (D-Upper Arlington) said. “I look at closed primaries as just one more effort to restrict voters.”

House Bill 210 would require registration by the end of the year before the primary.

House Bill 208 and Senate Bill 147 would allow party registration up to 30 days before the election.

“The shorter the time period, the more shenanigans can happen,” Lear said.

House Speaker Jason Stephens (R-Kitts Hill) said while he will have to see how the hearings play out, in his county the Republican voter roll has “swelled” and he thinks election laws are partly to thank.

“It has made a big difference,” he said. “I think a lot of the reason for that is because it is really easy to decide which party you want to vote in the primary.”

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As for as the top election official in the state goes, in a statement, Ben Kindel, spokesperson for Secretary of State Frank LaRose, said “The Secretary has long supported the idea of allowing voters to more accurately declare their party affiliation. He appreciates the legislature’s willingness to advance this conversation and looks forward to offering his perspective as the state’s chief of election officer.”

“Maybe one or two somebodies that have made gamesmanship,” Stephens said. “But I think at the end of the day, people will identify with whatever party or whatever party, or they may just identify they don’t want to vote in either one of the primaries.”

Each of the bills has had at least one hearing. Three of them have not had a hearing since last year.

ECMAScript 2024, a planned update to ECMA’s standard for JavaScript, is set to include seven new features ranging from array grouping to Unicode strings. The 2024 specification, from ECMA’s Technical Committee 39, is expected to be approved in June.

Among the list of finished features cited for publication this year is a proposal for array grouping. Motivating this proposal is the notion that array grouping is a common operation best exemplified by SQL’s GROUP BY clause and mapreduce programming. The ability to combine like data into groups lets developers compute higher order data sets.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – As part of National Work Zone Awareness Week, departments of transportation are reminding drivers to pay attention to crews working out on the roads.

It's a reminder the Ohio Department of Transport shares all year round, but it's sending it out again as the weather gets nicer. With warmer weather comes more road projects.

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“These are preventable crashes, there’s no reason for them to happen," said Matt Bruning, ODOT press secretary, about work zone-related crashes.

Nearly 1,000 projects will be happening around the state this construction season, according to ODOT. Each of those projects involves a crew.

“Slow down in those work zones, pay attention to what’s going on around you, pay attention to those workers, because we have way too many crashes in work zones -- and with deadly consequences," Bruning said.

There were more than 4,000 work zone-related crashes in 2023, per state statistics. More than 1.400 people were hurt and nine were killed, including one contractor. Bruning said in the vast majority of incidents, it's the driver or their passenger who end up worse off.

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“The message about being safe in work zones is as much for our people and our contractors that are out there working as it is for you as a driver," Bruning said.

While many crashes include snow plows, the number of crews hit this year is on pace to exceed last year's total. There were 56 crashes in 2023; Bruning said there's been 43 in 2024.

"It's ridiculous that we’re already at 43, and we haven’t even gotten into the summer," Bruning said.

For an earlier report on this story, view the video player above.

DELAWARE, Ohio (WCMH) – A Delaware County woman facing 17 felony charges related to the abuse of children faced a judge Monday morning.

According to the Delaware Court of Common Pleas, Rhonda Coomes, of Randor, was indicted on 14 counts of endangering children, a third-degree felony, and three counts of kidnapping, a first-degree felony.

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Coomes is accused of torturing, abusing, restraining and physically harming children in her care between January 2021 and September 2023, when she owned and operated her own daycare center in Delaware County.

Coomes was originally issued a $500,000 bond for one kidnaping charge in February and on Monday a Delaware County Court of Common Pleas judge ordered the bond to remain the same on all charges.

A pretrial date was set for May 28, with a trial date scheduled for June 14. An attorney representing Coomes said it's likely they will request a continuance.

According to court documents, in September, Coomes allegedly injured a 10-month-old girl by hitting her multiple times in the face with the palm of her hand and six times with a “hard plastic diaper wipe container.” The child suffered a black eye, court records state.

That same day, Coomes allegedly abused a 3-year-old for not eating fast enough. She is now accused of abusing six additional children.

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She was arrested Jan. 26 and initially charged with one count of kidnaping. At the time, the sheriff’s office said the charge was a “placeholder” and that Coomes, who owned and operated her own in-home daycare, would likely “be charged with felonies related to her physical abuse of more than a half-dozen different kids.”

If you believe child abuse and neglect is happening, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has launched 855-OH-Child (855-642-4453), an automated telephone directory that will link callers to a child welfare of law enforcement office in their county.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Blendon Township police have been ordered by the Ohio Supreme Court to reveal the names of two officers involved in the shooting death of Ta’Kiya Young and her unborn child – but only to the justices themselves.

In a partial win for Young’s family, the high court on April 10 ordered the department to identify, under court seal, the officers who responded to the Blendon Township Kroger in August 2023, including the officer who fatally shot 21-year-old Young as she slowly drove her car toward him. Except for the justices, no one will be able to see the records – but a public records law expert and the Ohio Crime Victim Justice Center both see the order as a sign the justices are seriously considering whether recently enacted victims’ rights legislation applies to officers who use deadly force.

One of two responding officers shot Young through the front windshield of a car, after Kroger employees told them Young and several others had stolen alcohol. Young, who was pregnant, died several hours later.

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The police department has declined to identify the two officers who approached Young’s car that evening, citing victims’ rights legislation called Marsy’s Law that allows victims of violent crime to request anonymity in documents otherwise considered public record. The department considered both officers victims because Young hit the shooting officer with her car and the other had his hand in her window when she began driving.

A spokesperson for Blendon Township police did not respond to a request for comment. Neither did the Montgomery County prosecutor, who was assigned to determine whether to bring criminal charges against the officer who shot Young.

In December, the Ohio Crime Victim Justice Center filed a complaint on behalf of Young’s family, asking the Ohio Supreme Court to compel the department to reveal the officers’ identities and release unredacted body camera footage. The center argued that Young was the victim, not the officers, because the state constitution excludes from the definition of “victim” any person who the court would find didn’t act in the best interest of the deceased.

The officers violated Blendon Township’s policy regarding suspects in moving vehicles, the center’s complaint argued, considering they should not have used deadly force to stop Young’s vehicle unless she directed another means of deadly force toward them or others.

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In 2017, voters passed a constitutional amendment establishing certain rights of crime victims, known as Marsy’s Law. Last April, lawmakers passed a law codifying the constitutional rights and automatically opting victims of violent crime into certain rights until they speak to a prosecutor. Those rights include notifications of court dates but also the ability to redact their name, address and other identifying information from public records related to the case.

Law enforcement agencies across the state have since cited Marsy’s Law as a reason to withhold the names of officers who use deadly force. But Elizabeth Well, legal director of the Ohio Crime Victim Justice Center, said that interpretation flies in the face of what voters intended.

“People were not imagining that it would be used in the way that Blendon Township is using it,” Well said. “In fact, we’re confident that when voters passed that constitutional amendment, they would have thought of someone like Ta’Kiya Young the victim, and the officers who were involved in her death as the accused or potential defendants.”

Well said she expected the court’s ruling, which now means both parties will submit full briefs and present oral arguments to the court. But it’s encouraging to her that the court didn’t throw out the case entirely.

Susan Gilles, professor emeritus at Capital University Law School and expert in media law and public records law, said while it’s too early to tell how the Ohio Supreme Court may rule, their order to view the records – accompanied with a rather fast briefing schedule – suggests they’re at least “uncomfortable” with the idea of withholding the officers’ names from Young’s family.

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Gilles also harkened to the original intent of Marsy’s Law, which has been passed in multiple states. The law is named for Marsy Nicholas, who was killed by her ex-boyfriend in 1983. Her family ran into the ex-boyfriend at the grocery store, having not been notified by prosecutors that he was released on bail.

The law gives crime victims the right to notification about case updates, input into plea agreements and otherwise gives them agency in their criminal cases. It was meant to give citizens rights to enforce against the government, Gilles said.

“The statute was meant to protect private individuals’ access to what the government was doing in prosecuting the case,” Gilles said. “There’s just not a need there for the police officers – they’re in the government.”

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A new trial date has been set for a former deputy accused of murdering Casey Goodson Jr. in 2020.

It will be the second time that a jury attempts to reach a verdict for Jason Meade. Jurors were deadlocked in a February trial for the former Franklin County Sheriff's deputy, resulting in the judge declaring a mistrial.

Mark Collins, Meade's defense attorney, confirmed to NBC4 that the new trial date has been set for Nov. 4, with jury selection beginning Oct. 31. Special prosecutors in the case previously confirmed on Feb. 22 that they planned to retry Meade on the same charges: two counts of murder and one count of reckless homicide.

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A timeline of events leading up to Jason Meade's first murder trial is below. Click the links inside to view previous coverage of the case in chronological order.

While Meade has not disputed killing Goodson, he asserted throughout the first trial that he feared for his life on Dec. 4, 2020. The ex-deputy said Goodson pointed a gun at him from the doorway of his grandmother's home when Meade shot him. Meade was coming off of an assignment with the U.S. Marshals Service and pursued Goodson there, after he claimed to see Goodson waving a gun while driving.

Prosecutors have argued that the shooting was unjustified, disputing whether Goodson pointed or waved his gun, and the fact that Goodson was wearing AirPods at the time of the shooting. An autopsy report showed Goodson was shot six times, five of them in the back.

GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio (WCMH) - A local pizza shop in Columbus is expanding.

JT's Pizza and Pub is opening a new pizzeria at 845 Goodale Blvd. this summer. According to its social media post, the restaurant is partnering with Elford Development to open the location at the Southern Station apartment complex.

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The pizza shop posted on social media in December announcing the location, saying the expansion is "only possible due to our fantastic customers and amazing staff."

(Courtesy: JT's Pizza & Pub)

The shop, known for its pizza, wings, calzones and more, has its Columbus location at 2390 W. Dublin Granville Rd.

The menu has a variety of options for customers to choose from including an option to design your own pizza, where customers can choose their sauce, crust flavor and toppings. The pub event allows customers to buy a jar of its house-made dressing. Along with food, customers can also enjoy daily drink specials and more.

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• (Courtesy: JT's Pizza & Pub)
• (Courtesy: JT's Pizza & Pub)

The pizzeria told NBC4 it does not have a set date on its opening but will continue providing updates on its social media pages.

Until the new location opens in Grandview Heights, customers can visit its Columbus pub Monday through Thursday from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., Friday and Saturday from noon to midnight and Sunday from noon to 10 p.m.

The U.S. government is warning that “smart locks” securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can be used to remotely open any of the locks. The lock’s maker Chirp Systems remains unresponsive, even though it was first notified about the critical weakness in March 2021. Meanwhile, Chirp’s parent company, RealPage, Inc., is being sued by multiple U.S. states for allegedly colluding with landlords to illegally raise rents.

On March 7, 2024, the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned about a remotely exploitable vulnerability with “low attack complexity” in Chirp Systems smart locks.

“Chirp Access improperly stores credentials within its source code, potentially exposing sensitive information to unauthorized access,” CISA’s alert warned, assigning the bug a CVSS (badness) rating of 9.1 (out of a possible 10). “Chirp Systems has not responded to requests to work with CISA to mitigate this vulnerability.”

Matt Brown, the researcher CISA credits with reporting the flaw, is a senior systems development engineer at Amazon Web Services. Brown said he discovered the weakness and reported it to Chirp in March 2021, after the company that manages his apartment building started using Chirp smart locks and told everyone to install Chirp’s app to get in and out of their apartments.

“I use Android, which has a pretty simple workflow for downloading and decompiling the APK apps,” Brown told KrebsOnSecurity. “Given that I am pretty picky about what I trust on my devices, I downloaded Chirp and after decompiling, found that they were storing passwords and private key strings in a file.”

Using those hard-coded credentials, Brown found an attacker could then connect to an application programming interface (API) that Chirp uses which is managed by smart lock vendor August.com, and use that enumerate and remotely lock or unlock any door in any building that uses the technology.

Brown said when he complained to his leasing office, they sold him a small $50 key fob that uses Near-Field Communications (NFC) to toggle the lock when he brings the fob close to his front door. But he said the fob doesn’t eliminate the ability for anyone to remotely unlock his front door using the exposed credentials and the Chirp mobile app.

A smart lock enabled with Chirp. Image: Camdenliving.com

Also, the fobs pass the credentials to his front door over the air in plain text, meaning someone could clone the fob just by bumping against him with a smartphone app made to read and write NFC tags.

Neither August nor Chirp Systems responded to requests for comment. It’s unclear exactly how many apartments and other residences are using the vulnerable Chirp locks, but multiple articles about the company from 2020 state that approximately 50,000 units use Chirp smart locks with August’s API.

Roughly a year before Brown reported the flaw to Chirp Systems, the company was bought by RealPage, a firm founded in 1998 as a developer of multifamily property management and data analytics software. In 2021, RealPage was acquired by the private equity giant Thoma Bravo.

Brown said the exposure he found in Chirp’s products is “an obvious flaw that is super easy to fix.”

“It’s just a matter of them being motivated to do it,” he said. “But they’re part of a private equity company now, so they’re not answerable to anybody. It’s too bad, because it’s not like residents of [the affected] properties have another choice. It’s either agree to use the app or move.”

In October 2022, an investigation by ProPublica examined RealPage’s dominance in the rent-setting software market, and that it found “uses a mysterious algorithm to help landlords push the highest possible rents on tenants.”

“For tenants, the system upends the practice of negotiating with apartment building staff,” ProPublica found. “RealPage discourages bargaining with renters and has even recommended that landlords in some cases accept a lower occupancy rate in order to raise rents and make more money. One of the algorithm’s developers told ProPublica that leasing agents had ‘too much empathy’ compared to computer generated pricing.”

Last year, the U.S. Department of Justice threw its weight behind a massive lawsuit filed by dozens of tenants who are accusing the $9 billion apartment software company of helping landlords collude to inflate rents.

In February 2024, attorneys general for Arizona and the District of Columbia sued RealPage, alleging RealPage’s software helped create a rental monopoly.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A family-owned grocery store with two Cleveland locations has announced the opening date for its second Columbus market.

Lucky's Market is set to open its doors on May 17 at 747 Neil Ave. in Victorian Village, the latest addition to the redevelopment of Thurber Village at the corner of Collins and Neil avenues. The 21,000-square-foot store will be operated by the Saltzman family, who have been in the grocery business since 1930 and acquired Lucky's Clintonville location at 2770 N. High St. in 2020.

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"My family is in our fifth generation of ownership, we all live in Ohio and are made up of Buckeye alumni and former Columbus residents," Aaron Saltzman, vice president of Lucky's, said when construction on the new location broke ground. "This store will be the latest addition to our growing family of locally owned and operated grocery stores in Ohio."

• Lucky's Market is set to open its doors on May 17 at 747 Neil Avenue in Victorian Village. (NBC4 Photo/David Rees)

Ahead of the May opening, the market is hiring team member positions storewide and is hosting open interviews from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and April 23 to 25.

The Victorian Village store will be home to farmers market-style produce, a bakery, hot made-to-order sandwiches, Boar's Head products and Lucky’s famous bacon and ground-in-house sausage. The new location will feature an extensive amount of beer, wine, seltzer, and ready-to-drink can cocktail selections, emphasizing Ohio and Midwest favorites.

Work on the Thurber Village redevelopment began in October 2022, including constructing a 13,000-square-foot CVS and an apartment building with 225 units. Development firm Casto demolished a former Giant Eagle to make way for the new additions.

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Casto has owned the site since 2005 after purchasing the property for $6.2 million, according to the Franklin County auditor's office. The development firm said it collaborated for several years, including input from the Harrison West Society and surrounding communities, to create the site's redevelopment plan.

The Saltzman family is the long-time owner of Dave's Markets, a grocery store chain in northeast Ohio. Three generations are active in its business today. Lucky's Market originated in 2003 in Boulder, Colorado, with the brand's Ohio stores acquired by the Saltzman family in April 2020.

COLUMBUS (WCMH) – After a sharp incline in gas prices the previous week, the cost of fuel dropped by over a dime in the Columbus area.

According to GasBuddy’s survey of 500 stations, the cost for a gallon of gas fell by 12.1 cents to $3.42 per gallon. It marks a six-week period in which prices fell after an increase. The current price is 9.6 cents per gallon higher than one month ago but remains 23.5 cents lower than this time one year ago.

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The cheapest gas station in the Columbus area was priced at $3.11 a gallon, while the most expensive was $3.75, a difference of 64 cents per gallon. In Ohio, the average price of gas also fell by the same amount, 12.1 cents, from one week ago, averaging out at $3.39, while nationally, gas prices rose slightly (3.1 cents) to $3.60 per gallon.

According to Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, the country avoided a jump in prices after a drone strike on Israel by Iran deescalated quickly, with minimal reported damage. But if the conflict continues, it could create a disturbance in oil prices.

“With the attacks largely thwarted and mostly unsuccessful, and with Iran signaling that their attack will be the end of their response, the risk to crude oil has diminished,” De Haan said. "If Israel, which has promised to respond with further attacks, indeed does press on, it could certainly still push oil prices higher.”

COLUMBUS (WCMH) – A “substantial outage” has caused the closing of a west Columbus high school after a pole was hit Monday morning.

According to the Columbus Division of Power, primary wires were torn down for the Columbus DOP and American Electric Power after a pole was struck Monday morning in west Columbus.

State Route 161 closed after fatal crash in northeast Columbus A power outage has forced a Columbus high school to close, April 14, 2024. (Courtesy/Columbus Division of Power)

The Columbus City School District announced West High School on South Powell Avenue is closed for the day and a large portion of the Hilltop and west Columbus neighborhoods are without power. Crews are on the scene, but do not have an estimated time of restoration.

It is not yet known how the pole was damaged or how long power will be out in the affected areas.

COLUMBUS (WCMH) – One person is dead after being found shot in northeast Columbus Sunday night.

At around 10:17 p.m. police arrived in the 1300 block of East Hudson Street in North Linden, where a person was found suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. Officers rendered aid to the victim until medics arrived at 10:24 p.m. and pronounced the person dead at the scene.

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Police are unsure what led to a shooting and do not have any suspect information as of Monday morning. The victim’s identity is being withheld until next of kin can be notified.

Anyone with information regarding this incident, is asked to call Columbus Police Homicide Unit at (614) 645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at (614) 461-TIPS (8477).

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Adults may soon be able to get their alcoholic drinks to go when visiting Downtown and Franklinton.

Columbus is considering a proposal to create a Designated Outdoor Refreshment Area, or DORA, that includes parts of those neighborhoods, which border each other along the Scioto River. DORA is a state program established in 2015 that creates designated areas for those 21 and older to walk around with alcoholic beverages served by participating businesses and sold in designated cups, as an exception to open container laws.

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The City Center DORA was discussed last week at Land-Grant Brewing in Franklinton, which falls inside the proposed area, in an event that featured councilmembers Nicholas Bankston and Chris Wyche, among others.

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A presentation from Downtown Columbus Inc. showed the proposed boundaries, hours of operation -- 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily -- and an estimated late May launch, pending City Council approval.

"For myself as an operator, to be able to be part of developing this DORA, I think it’s a great opportunity to really connect the city," Adam Benner of Land-Grant Brewing Company said.

He said the DORA could help local businesses recover after recent economic struggles.

"We’re still feeling the effects of what happened a couple years ago, so this is an opportunity to get more people in our doors and get more people excited," Benner said.

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Others spoke up in support of the DORA, too.

"People-centered initiatives like this add the livability element, the appeal and the vibrancy to this special community that we call home," Mindy Justis of the Downtown Residents Association said.

And resident Danielle Perry said, "When I go Downtown, it’s in and out. I’m there for whatever it is, and then I’m going home or some other area, so it is nice to have that option in addition to the ones that are already available."

Giving a statement in opposition was Londale Towns Sr., a behavioral health counselor who said he knows the damage alcohol addiction and irresponsible drinking can do. He said he wants measures in place to ensure people struggling with alcohol addiction can be exposed to resources to point them in the right direction.

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City council is expected to vote on the proposal sometime in April or May.

Details on the full proposal can be found in the 43-page document below.

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COLUMBUS (WCMH) – One person is dead after a fatal crash in northeast Columbus Monday morning.

According to Columbus police, one person was pronounced dead after a two-car collision on Route 161 at the Sharon Woods Boulevard intersection in the northeast Columbus neighborhood of Northgate. Police said the victim, who remains unidentified, was pronounced dead the scene of the crash.

Police said that State Route 161 is closed in both directions while authorities continue to process the crash, which occurred at around 5:45 a.m. View current road conditions in Columbus for detour options during the investigation.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A new Superman movie filming in Ohio this year, awarded $11 million in tax credits with plans to hire more than 3,000 locals, is readying to cast Ohioans as extras.

Casting calls will be posted in the coming weeks for the DC Studios movie titled simply "Superman" filming in Cincinnati and Cleveland this summer, northeast Ohio agency Angela Boehm Casting announced on social media. Instructions on how to apply to be a background actor will be shared online at the end of the month and into early May, the agency said.

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The Greater Cleveland Film Commission also announced earlier this month that "Superman" is now accepting applications for those wishing to work as a member of the crew. Prospective candidates should submit their resume to genesisproductionohio@gmail.com.

Angela Boehm and the commission referred to the film as "Genesis," the movie's code name listed in an Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credit application that states the project is receiving $11,091,686 in tax credits. The application also says the movie is expected to hire 3,254 Ohio residents to take part in the production.

DC's Ohio-related expenses are projected to exceed $36 million, which makes up about 10% of the movie's total budget of more than $363 million. The movie is directed and written by American filmmaker James Gunn and started filming on Feb. 29.

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The last possible production date in Ohio is marked for Aug. 23, according to the film's tax credit application. Broken down, the application says the production in Ohio accounts for 133 days for preparation, 37 for shooting and 31 for wrap. That means 25% of Gunn's movie is being filmed in Ohio.

While the application does not specify where exactly filming will take place, the iconic character is connected to both Cincinnati and Cleveland. Writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster created Superman while attending Cleveland's Glenville High School in 1933, according to Case Western Reserve University's Encyclopedia of Cleveland History.

Union Terminal in Cincinnati was the inspiration for the Justice League's headquarters, the Hall of Justice, featured in the 1970s animated "Super Friends" series, the Cincinnati Museum Center boasts. Artist Al Gmuer drew the Hall of Justice and based his creation on the façade of Union Terminal, earning the building a permanent place in popular culture. 

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Gunn, also the director of Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" trilogy, is relaunching DC's cinematic franchise with American actor David Corenswet as Clark Kent, replacing British actor Henry Cavill who first starred as Superman in 2013's "Man of Steel." Rachel Brosnahan from "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" as Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult from "The Great" as Lex Luthor round out Gunn's cast.

"Superman" is scheduled to be released in theaters on July 11, 2025.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – After a video of 40 dogs wearing heavy chains and living in swampy conditions in Delaware County went viral, some Ohio residents are calling for stricter animal welfare laws in the state.

All dogs were removed from the Delaware County property on April 7 after a TikTok video sparked public outrage, showing the animals wearing heavy chains, confined to waterlogged patches of mud with only blue barrels for shelter.

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Delaware County Dog Warden Mitchell Garrett said the owner of the property was on the county dog shelter’s radar since the owner moved there in 2020 and they began receiving complaints. At the shelter’s first visit to his property, they observed six dogs living outside but within the parameters of state law, Garrett claimed. 

After the ninth visit, Garrett stated the man’s attorney said any future conversation or visit would need a court order. While the county continued to field complaints about the property, Garrett said no one was willing to go on the record with their claims. 

• Living conditions for 40 dogs who were removed from a Delaware County property on Sunday, April 7, 2024 (PHOTO COURTESY M. HAMM)
• Living conditions for 40 dogs who were removed from a Delaware County property on Sunday, April 7, 2024 (PHOTO COURTESY M. HAMM)
• Living conditions for 40 dogs who were removed from a Delaware County property on Sunday, April 7, 2024 (PHOTO COURTESY M. HAMM)
• Living conditions for 40 dogs who were removed from a Delaware County property on Sunday, April 7, 2024 (PHOTO COURTESY M. HAMM)

In light of the events in Delaware County, numerous Ohio residents are calling for the state to pass stricter animal welfare laws through petitions, social media posts and contacting lawmakers. 

“There needs to be some way that these agents can go into a [situation] like this and feel like they have the backing to be able to take dogs out,” said Marci Dop, founder and director of nonprofit Rico Pet Recovery. “I do know that anytime there’s a situation like this, everybody tells us that their hands are tied.”

In Ohio, there is no statewide limit on the number of dogs an individual can own, although depending on the individual’s location, they will need to register as a kennel once they own a certain number of dogs. There is also no law restricting the tethering of dogs outside, unlike nearly half of U.S. states.

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“There’s not a limit on the amount of time at the state level of how long you can keep a dog outside,” said State Director of the Humane Society of the United States Mark Finneran. “Really the rules and laws are around the conditions that dog is being kept in. Does it have access to food and water, and 'adequate shelter.'”

Finneran stated while vague terms in Ohio law such as “adequate shelter” can provide dog wardens and humane agents flexibility, it can also make it difficult for them to enforce the law. 

“The goal is for a humane agent or somebody, even if they don’t have access to be able to do a full investigation of someone’s property and have a warrant and everything, you can kind of tell pretty quickly, okay this meets those criteria or it doesn’t,” Finneran said. “Again because of the way Ohio’s law is set up, it’s a little bit more of a judgment call so everyone’s going to interpret that differently.”

Finneran said other states, such as Tennessee, have started to create more concrete definitions of adequate shelter. Some requirements in that definition include having a shelter that is enclosed on all sides and contains bedding material.

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“There are states that do this better than Ohio,” Dop said. “Our county officials, our dog wardens, prosecutors and these humane agents in the state of Ohio are restricted and I think that those laws need to be changed.”

Although there is no state law limiting tethering and Ohio has vague requirements for adequate shelter, numerous cities and townships across the state have passed their own animal welfare-related ordinances. 

Columbus residents could be charged with a misdemeanor if a dog is chained outside between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. or during severe weather. Bexley and the city of Delaware (not Delaware County) have passed similar ordinances placing limitations on tethering, according to nonprofit rescue group Columbus Dog Connection. 

Multiple cities have also passed adequate shelter ordinances, including Delaware, which requires a dog shelter to, among other things, have moisture-proof floors and be raised off the ground. 

After four years of being on the county shelter's "radar," the owner of the 40 dogs is now facing misdemeanor charges, including 26 counts of cruelty to a companion animal and four counts of failure to register a dog or dog kennel. The animal cruelty charges were filed due to multiple dogs having abrasions, sores and/or scarring where their collars were, with one dog needing its collar cut off. Some charges also claim the owner was housing dogs with others that were hurting them, as well as not providing adequate shelter.

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The Humane Society of Delaware County and Rico Pet Recovery are coordinating donations for the 40 dogs removed from the Kingston Township property. The Humane Society and the county dog warden are currently housing the dogs. The dogs will be placed into foster homes through Rico Pet Recovery – Dop said there is a “line of people” ready to take the dogs into foster care. 

Although the Delaware County Dog Warden said it could not share photos of the dogs at the shelter because the investigation is ongoing, Dop said they were “adjusting” and “doing great.” 

“They are getting out into the outdoor facilities every day, and spending some time in the yard,” Dop said. “[They’re] able to run without their chains. They have all been seen by a vet so they’re doing really well.” 

Dop said Rico Pet Recovery is still looking for potential foster homes as well as accepting donations that will go directly to the dogs recovered from Delaware County – more information on fostering and donating can be found on their website.

Depending on your politics, trickle-down economics never worked all that well in the United States under President Ronald Reagan. In open source software, however, it seems to be doing just fine.

I’m not really talking about economic policies, of course, but rather about elite software engineering teams releasing code that ends up powering the not-so-elite mainstream. Take Lyft, for example, which released the popular Envoy project. Or Google, which gave the world Kubernetes (though, as I’ve argued, the goal wasn’t charitable niceties, but rather corporate strategy to outflank the dominant AWS). Airbnb figured out a way to move beyond batch-oriented cron scheduling, gifting us Apache Airflow and data pipelines-as-code.

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Tools that manage changes to source code, programs, documents, or other collections of information are known by a variety of names: version control, revision control, source control, or source code management are all common descriptors. Regardless of what we call them, these systems have become increasingly vital in a world where software and data are essential commodities.

Demand for version control systems

Version control systems (VCS) are used to track every change to source code. They help development teams and others manage these changes over time. As market pressures accelerate development efforts to bring products to market faster, version control has become more important than ever.

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Columbus and Central Ohio Weather QUICK WEATHER FORECAST:

• Today: Mostly sunny, high 75
• Tonight: Partly cloudy, low 53
• Tuesday: Clouds build, iso. PM showers, high 75
• Wednesday: Rain & storms, high 74
• Thursday: Clearing, cooler, high 69
• Friday: Spotty showers, high 65

FORECAST DISCUSSION:

Happy Monday!

We are off to a beautiful start to the workweek, after our first 80°+ day of the year on Sunday! Expect mainly sunny skies in the city, with highs in the mid to upper 70s. We'll see a few more clouds out the farther south you get, as we've got a frontal boundary stalled near the Ohio River. That will bring an isolated shower chance this evening for those far southern areas.

For Tuesday, we start the day dry, and we warm back up into the middle 70s. We'll then see a few spotty showers working in during the mid-afternoon timeframe. Far from a washout, but I would keep the umbrellas handy just in case you get caught in one of those.

Wednesday will be our wetter day, with light showers during the morning, then rain and thunderstorms on tap during the afternoon and evening. We've got a lower-end severe threat for Wednesday, and that is something we will be watching. Temperatures stick in the mid 70s through that point.

By Thursday, we start to dry out, with highs falling back to the upper 60s behind a cold front. We'll see partly cloudy skies before clouds return into Friday.

Expect a few more spotty showers Friday, before we dry out and cool off going into the weekend.

-McKenna