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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- South-Western City Schools are closed Thursday after two buses were found with dents believed to have been caused by gunfire. NewsChannel 4 reported that the district contacted the serial shootings task force once the buses were discovered with the dents. Though it is not known if the alleged incidents were related to the serial shootings, the district decided to cancel classes for Thursday. Investigators are expected to inspect the district's nearly 200 school buses Thursday, NewsChannel 4 reported. The cancellation came hours after serial shooting task force members linked another shooting to the bullet that killed a...

Nervous motorists scanning the woods along I-270 could be looking in the wrong place for the south Outerbelt shooter. Evidence suggests the shooter, in several of the 15 incidents that lawenforcement officials said are connected, might have fired from a vehicle, perhaps traveling in the opposite direction of the victims’. Authorities also recently suggested an in-transit shooter. "We don’t rule anything out, whether stationary or mobile," Franklin County Chief Deputy Steve Martin said. Of the six reports with detailed information about the paths of the vehicle and trajectories of the bullets, each had been struck on the driver’s side. That...