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Reporter Who Discovered Ted Williams Covers the Homeless

Doral Chenoweth always gives some loose change to the homeless people he comes across, so when he and his wife saw a man on the side of the road last month asking for a little help, they gave him a dollar. But this time, Chenoweth, a journalist and Web producer for The Columbus Dispatch, got something unexpected from a...

Ted Williams: Homeless Man With Radio Voice Getting Job Offers [VIDEO]

The new year's first viral video star is Ted Williams, a homeless man from Ohio, whose amazing, radio-perfect voice has awed people from around the world. Williams was known for panhandling with a handmade sign announcing his "God-given gift of a voice." After hearing about him, The Columbus Dispatch paper stopped by one...

Departing OL Justin Boren's Father to Ohio State: 'Take My Son, Please'

The Justin Boren transfer saga continues to get weird. Did we say weird? We mean weirder.Boren, as you'll probably recall, announced his decision to transfer from the Michigan football program on Tuesday. He tendered his letter of resignation or whatever to the media the next day, and it contained all sorts of ominous,...

Columbus Dispatch News From the Web

05/25/12 Defense bill could save aircraft at Ohio bases Source: ABC - WTVG 13 - Toledo OH Aircraft at two Air National Guard bases in Ohio may be spared after a U.S. Senate panel approved a measure to block funding cuts to Air National Guard bases around the country.
05/23/12 Ohio man sentenced to death in triple stabbing Source: Record-Courier - Ravenna OH A three-judge panel has formally issued a death sentence for an Ohio man who pleaded guilty to killing a woman he lived with and her two children on Thanksgiving Day in 2010.
05/13/12 Advice to Obama: Get real Source: The Nation of Thailand On Saturday US President Barack Obama told Americans they need "a few common-sense policies" - elimination of tax breaks for companies that outsource, mandated expansion of mortgage refinancing eligibility, tax credits for clean energy companies and small businesses that hire new workers, and creation of a new veterans job corps.
05/08/12 Bang your head! Is Columbus '80s Boombox Guy the next... Source: Columbus Alive - Columbus OH If you know the name of Columbus Dispatch videographer Doral Chenowith III, you may remember him as the camera behind "Golden Voice."
05/08/12 The Most Likely Victims of Credit Report Swaps: Your... Source: CreditBloggers It's not Freaky Friday, but many consumers are finding their financial lives swapped by accidentâand it's having big consequences.

Background on Columbus Dispatch

The Columbus Dispatch is a daily newspaper based in Columbus, Ohio. Its first issue was published on July 1, 1871, and has been the only mainstream daily newspaper in the city since The Columbus Citizen-Journal stopped printing in 1985.

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