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E-mail: mailbox@governing.comAccording to the AP, George Damschroder, who served in the Ohio House from 1973 to 1983, died in a plane crash. Damschroder, 86, was piloting the plane, which crashed in a residential neighborhood. No buildings were hit, but five passengers died along with the pilot.

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