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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Prosecutors trying Charles Allen McCoy Jr. for a string of sniper shootings in the greater Columbus area reminded jurors Thursday of the effect those shootings had one their own lives. "The choice of driving routes drastically changed for many drivers here in central Ohio," Franklin County First Assistant Prosecutor Ed Morgan told jurors during his opening statement in McCoy's capital murder trial. "The evidence will show that this change in driving routes was due in large part because someone in possession of a 9 mm Beretta pistol was choosing not to fire at a range target, but...

Investigators today linked a shot fired at a South Side house to a series of shootings along I-270, raising the number to 16 cases.The latest case, which happened Monday, was the third to occur after the death of a Washington Court House woman on Nov. 25. The bullet -- the seventh to be linked ballistically to the shootings -- penetrated a Brown Road home and struck a bathtub. No one was injured. Franklin County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Steve Martin said a man living in the house heard three shots about 12:30 a.m. Two bullet holes were found in the front...