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COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael J. Fiorile, CEO and President of The Dispatch Printing Company and Vice Chairman/CEO of Dispatch Broadcast Group today announced John Cardenas has been named President and General Manager of WBNS-10TV and Vice President of News for Dispatch Broadcast Group. Cardenas will replace the retiring station president Tom Griesdorn on June 10 and returns to the station where Cardenas had been News Director. (Photo:...

Long Time Television Station and Community Leader to Step Down May 31, 2013 COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Tom Griesdorn, WBNS-10TV President /General Manager and Chief Revenue Officer of The Dispatch Printing Company, announced his intention to retire on Friday, May 31, 2013. Griesdorn has led the television station since 1999. Griesdorn began his broadcasting career as Manager of Sales and Financial Controls at WLS-TV (ABC) in Chicago. Following WLS-TV, he moved to...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael J. Fiorile, President of The Dispatch Printing Company, has been elevated to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Joseph Y. Gallo, Executive Vice President at the company, was named chief operating officer (COO) at the annual meeting on January 22. The promotions were made by the company's board of directors. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130123/CL46638 ) In announcing the promotion of both executives, John F. Wolfe,...

By Frank Gabrenya, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Aug. 6--I've figured out how the Judd Apatow comedy machine can turn out movies so quickly: Four-letter words take a lot less time to type than 10- or 12-letter words. A lot of profanity and a little heart are found in Pineapple Express, a comedy that advances producer Apatow's brand of rudeness and dudeness. The biggest change is that sex -- a dominant theme of The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad and Forgetting Sarah Marshall --...

By Barbara Carmen, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Aug. 6--The cost of dumping trash in central Ohio will go up $2 a ton next year, while landfill officials consider new ways to pay for operations. The current system "is sort of a Catch-22," said Bradley Frick, president of the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio. The landfill, in Jackson Township near Grove City, relies on revenue, or "tipping fees," from each ton of trash dumped there. But it also is pushing recycling, through...

By Encarnacion Pyle, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Aug. 6--With only two more high-school classes to take before he can graduate, Brandon Hayes said the state's new Seniors to Sophomores program was a good fit. "I couldn't see wasting most of the year in the high school when I could get ahead on my dream of becoming an architectural engineer," said Hayes, 16, of Eastmoor Academy. Twenty-three Columbus students are spending the week at Columbus State Community College learning tips on how to...

By Randy Ludlow, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Aug. 5--MCARTHUR, Ohio -- More than two years after the landmark was destroyed by fire, plans are under way to replace the lodge at Lake Hope State Park. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources finally has reached a $5 million settlement with an insurance company to cover the loss, said Ron Kus, state parks business manager. A consultant is being hired to help design a replacement, which parks officials hope will be completed in about two...

By Barbara Carmen, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Aug. 5--Central Ohioans who hire private haulers will likely pay more next year to make their trash disappear. The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio approved a $2-per-ton increase in tipping fees this afternoon. Rumpke Consolidated Cos., which collects trash at 375,000 central Ohio households and businesses, will pass along the fee to private customers and, where contracts allow, to towns, said Jonathan Kissell, a company spokesman....

By Joe Hallett, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Aug. 5--AUSTINTOWN, Ohio -- During a speech today on energy policy, Barack Obama offhandedly mentioned the two starlets who will become his symbolic soul mates for the rest of the campaign if his GOP opponent has his way. "John McCain wants to talk about Paris Hilton and Britney Spears," Obama told 2,300 in the gym at Austintown Fitch High School near Youngstown. "That's his idea of a really relevant campaign, but I don't have time to deal with...

By Dan Gearino, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Aug. 5--Four of America's 10 fastest-dying cities are in the Buckeye State, according to a list produced by Forbes magazine. Canton, Cleveland, Dayton and Youngstown get the dubious distinction, based on their anemic population growth and their sluggish gains in overall economic activity. "Despite a decade of national prosperity, the former manufacturing backbone of the U.S. is in rougher shape than ever, still searching for some way to replace...