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• Ohio Democrats hope Donald Trump costs GOP bits of its super-majorities in legislature

  28-08-2016 23:46
  
  Entering what some veterans of Ohio legislative campaigns say could be the wildest election in modern times, Democrats say they are confident they can pick up seats and narrow the GOP’s massive majorities. But Republicans say their data show that the “Trump Factor” isn’t having much negative impact on their races, in contrast to their initial fears.
  
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• WATCH: N.J. officer saves man from tracks seconds before train arrives

  28-08-2016 22:00
  
  A New Jersey Transit officer is being hailed as a hero after rescuing a man who was lying on the train tracks in Secaucus earlier this week, CBS New York reports.According to authorities, Officer Victor Ortiz climbed down from the platform at the terminal in Secaucus after reports of a man lying in the tracks on Aug. 26.Officials say the man struggled against Ortiz’ attempts to help him, but was eventually pulled out of danger.Video of the incident shows Ortiz pulling the man from danger s
  
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• Meet Angus, the hospital dog trained to sniff out deadly superbugs

  28-08-2016 21:07
  
  According to the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, even many of the nation’s leading medical institutions are losing the battle to protect patients from drug-resistant bacteria.The superbugs cost the health care industry about $5 billion a year, but one hospital in Vancouver has come up with a canine solution, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone. With his remarkable sense of smell, Angus the springer spaniel is on a mission to track down the most common kind of hos
  
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• Visitor misbehavior abounds as US parks agency turns 100

  28-08-2016 20:48
  
  Tourist John Gleason crept through the grass, four small children close behind, inching toward a bull elk with antlers like small trees at the edge of a meadow in Yellowstone National Park."They're going to give me a heart attack," said Gleason's mother-in-law, Barbara Henry, as the group came within about a dozen yards of the massive animal.The elk's ears then pricked up, and it eyed the children and Washington state man before leaping up a hillside. Other tourists — likewise ignoring rul
  
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• Experts say cooler temperatures may help provide optimal sleep

  28-08-2016 20:30
  Everyone turns off the lights before going to sleep, but some experts suggest you might want to turn down the thermostat as well. Jerry Siegel, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California-Los Angeles, was lead researcher of a study that monitored the sleep patterns of three groups whose living conditions are similar to those of our evolutionary ancestors.
  
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• Woman causes chaos on New York subway with box of crickets, worms

  28-08-2016 19:21
  
  A woman who caused chaos aboard a subway train by releasing a container of crickets and worms says it was all a prank.Zaida Pugh tells the New York Post she had the episode videotaped “to show what homeless people go through.”The NYPD says it’s still looking into whether Wednesday’s incident was staged and whether Pugh and the woman on the train are the same person. If so, she could face charges.Pugh told the Post on Friday that a friend intentionally flipped the containe
  
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• Would-be bomber's explosives fail to detonate in packed Indonesia church

  28-08-2016 19:13
  
  A would-be suicide bomber’s explosives failed to detonate in a packed church in western Indonesia during Sunday Mass, and he injured a priest with an axe before being restrained, police said.The 18-year-old assailant left a bench and ran toward the priest at the altar, but a bomb in his backpack only burned without exploding, said national police spokesman Maj. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar.Before he was restrained by members of the congregation, the man managed to take an axe from the backpack and
  
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• 2 United pilots arrested for suspected drunkenness

  28-08-2016 19:10
  
  Two United Airlines pilots have been arrested for suspected intoxication before they were to fly 141 passengers from Scotland to the United States, police and airline officials said.United Airlines officials have confirmed Saturday’s arrest of the pilots, aged 45 and 35, at Glasgow Airport. The Police Service of Scotland says both men are expected to be arraigned Monday at a court in Paisley, a Glasgow suburb, to face charges connected to Britain’s transport safety laws.United said S
  
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• Police seek man charged in Kozy Inn slaying

  28-08-2016 18:30
  
  A South Side man was charged Sunday with fatally shooting a man during an apparent robbery at a South Side hotel early Saturday. Monteria L. Watkins, 32, of Oakwood Avenue, was charged with murder.
  
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• Charles Osgood announces retirement as anchor of CBS' "Sunday Morning"

  28-08-2016 17:47
  
  Charles Osgood today announced his retirement as anchor of CBS’ “Sunday Morning,” ending a 22-year run at the broadcast. Osgood’s award-winning 45-year career at CBS News will be celebrated during his final appearance as anchor on Sept. 25, 2016 on the CBS Television Network.Osgood will continue as the anchor of “The Osgood File,” his daily news commentaries broadcast on the CBS Radio Network and on stations around the country. He will also make occasional app
  
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• Theodore Decker: Dad's advice after daughter's suicide inspires many

  28-08-2016 17:24
  
  Ed Shoener calls it a blackness, a lasting despair that would settle over his daughter like a shroud. “It was just overwhelming,” he said. “She couldn’t read three words; this was a person who loved books.”
  
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• Crew SC Shuts Out San Jose 2-0 in Home Game Win

  28-08-2016 15:26
  
  Columbus Crew SC won at MAPFRE Stadium for the first time in three months as Ethan Finlay and Justin Meram each grabbed a goal to cap-off a promising Crew SC performance as the home team beat San Jose 2-0. Both teams started out slowly with the majority of the action taking place around midfield as […]
  
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• Italian museums giving Sunday proceeds to rebuild quake zone

  28-08-2016 14:32
  
  Italy's state museums are donating their proceeds Sunday to relief and reconstruction efforts in the area devastated by an earthquake.The 6.2 magnitude quake on Wednesday flattened three medieval towns in central Italy, destroying not only private homes but also churches and other centuries-old cultural treasures.The idea is to use art for art - harnessing the nation's rich artistic heritage to help recover and restore other objects of beauty in the towns flattened by the tremor.Culture Minster
  
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• Lancaster man uses special talent to raise money for Ohio girl with Spinal Muscular Atrophy

  28-08-2016 13:55
  It was never supposed to be this way for Joe Lansinger. It was never the path he thought to take.“Right,” he said. “[It’s a] hobby-turned-business.”For his son’s third birthday, Lansinger dressed up as a clown and learned how to make a few basic balloon animals. That was five years ago.“The funny thing is that, you know, I’m not the only guy out there,” he said.He’s one of the many who twists balloons. His work stands out with his busin
  
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• Gamblers in Ohio have lost $9.7 billion over four years

  28-08-2016 13:46
  
  People love to gamble in Ohio. From a $1 scratch-off lottery ticket to a $10,000 bet at a casino, we have it all. But those betting at the state’s four casinos, seven racinos at horse-race tracks, and the Ohio Lottery have lost $9.7 billion in the past four years, according to a Dispatch analysis. Including all major forms of legal gambling, nearly $62.9 billion was bet and $53.3 billion was won from 2012 to 2015.
  
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• White students disproportionately use Ohio school voucher program

  28-08-2016 13:26
  
  White students appear to get into private schools using taxpayer-funded vouchers at a higher rate than black students, raising questions about why that's happening.
  
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• Multiple student loan types complicate payback

  28-08-2016 13:19
  
  When former college students fall so far behind on student-loan payments that the state sues them, the confusing universe of federal loans — in particular, a supplemental loan program aimed at the poorest students — often is to blame. Those Perkins loans are federal money, but unlike in the much larger Direct Loan programs, the 1,700 participating U.S. schools handle the decisions and paperwork for them. Many students have both kinds of loan.
  
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• Theodore Decker commentary: Dad finds way through darkness of suicide

  28-08-2016 13:00
  
  Ed Shoener calls it a blackness, a lasting despair that would settle over his daughter like a shroud. “It was just overwhelming,” he said. “She couldn’t read three words; this was a person who loved books.”
  
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• Ohioans gambling have lost $9.7 billion over four years

  28-08-2016 12:57
  
  People love to gamble in Ohio. From a $1 scratch-off lottery ticket to a $10,000 bet at a casino, we have it all. But those betting at the state’s four casinos, seven racinos at horse-race tracks, and the Ohio Lottery have lost $9.7 billion in the past four years, according to a Dispatch analysis. Including all major forms of legal gambling, nearly $62.9 billion was bet and $53.3 billion was won from 2012 to 2015.
  
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• Michigan woman killed in Rt. 23 crash in Delaware County

  28-08-2016 12:57
  
  A woman from Michigan was killed when the car in which she was riding collided with two other vehicles on Saturday evening on Rt. 23 in Delaware County. Kushila Sarki, 54, of Kentwood, Michigan, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash in Troy Township north of the city of Delaware, according to the Delaware Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
  
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• South Columbus SWAT situation ends, investigators search home

  28-08-2016 12:40
  UPDATE: The SWAT situation has ended in south Columbus.10TV has learned the situation was connected to the shooting that left one man dead early Saturday morning at a motel on South High Street.Police were serving a search warrant at a home on Lockbourne Road to look for evidence, but the man inside would not come out for hours. The man was not the target of the search warrant.SWAT teams were eventually able to get the man inside the home out without further incident.Investigators are now search
  
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• South Columbus SWAT situation

  28-08-2016 12:40
  
  Columbus police are on the scene of a SWAT situation in south Columbus.It's happening in the 1800 block of Lockbourne Road.Part of Lockbourne Road is shut down at this time and there have been no evacuations.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com for the latest developments.
  
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• LeVeque Tower showing fruits of $27 million restoration

  28-08-2016 12:15
  Downtown Columbus is in the midst of a renaissance, with urban living taking off and popular new park space being added. Now, the restoration of one of Downtown's landmark historic buildings, constructed in the early part of the 20th century, is nearly complete.
  
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• Licking County deputy suspected in crime gets two raises while case drags on

  28-08-2016 12:09
  
  NEWARK — In the 16 months since he has been on leave pending a criminal investigation, a deputy with the Licking County sheriff’s office has continued to collect a paycheck and has received at least two raises.
  
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• Wade's cousin hit by stray shot in possible robbery

  28-08-2016 11:33
  
  Police are investigating whether NBA star Dwyane Wade's cousin was hit by a stray bullet during a robbery on a Chicago street.Nykea Aldridge was killed Friday afternoon while pushing her baby in a stroller near a school.Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi (goo-lee-EHL'-mee) said Saturday two "people of interest" are being interrogated by detectives. He says police also are investigating whether the encounter involved a driver for a rideshare company.Police say two males walked up and bega
  
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• 2 arrested in Chicago shooting death of Nykea Aldridge

  28-08-2016 11:33
  
  Chicago police arrested two brothers and charged them with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Nykea Aldridge, who was gunned down Friday on her way to register her children for school, a police spokesman said.Communications director Anthony Guglielmi announced on Twitter the arrests of Derren Sorrells, 22, and his older brother, 26-year-old Darwin.Overnight, CPD charged the Sorrells brothers for the murder of Nykea Aldridge. Press briefing at 1130 @ CPD HQ pic.twitter.com/mEJyoZY3F4&md
  
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• U.S. Senate race: Where Rob Portman, Ted Strickland differ on hot-button issues

  28-08-2016 11:27
  
  Editor’s Note: This is the last in a series of three stories about the issues in the U.S. Senate race between Republican Sen. Rob Portman and Democratic former Gov. Ted Strickland.
  
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• Capitol Insider: Trump adopting Kasich’s view on immigration?

  28-08-2016 10:42
  
  The words were barely out of Donald Trump’s lips on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show last week when Jon Keeling tweeted: “Where Trump officially co-opts John Kasich’s immigration policy.”
  
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• 1 rescued, 2 missing after plane crash in New Orleans lake

  28-08-2016 09:11
  
  Authorities say a woman has been rescued and two men remain missing after a small plane crashed into a lake near a New Orleans airport.New Orleans Police Department spokeswoman Dawne Massey says in a statement early Sunday that department officials responded at 8:53 p.m. Saturday to a report that a Cessna aircraft carrying three people had crashed into Lake Ponchatrain near New Orleans Lakefront Airport.The airport is located about 10 miles northeast of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana.Massey say
  
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• Police search for robbery suspects in southeast Columbus

  28-08-2016 07:58
  
  Police are looking for two females accused of stealing from a United Dairy Farmers in southeast Columbus Saturday night.It happened in the 2000 block of Noe Bixby Road at 9:40 p.m.The females were seen putting several items into a bag. An employee told them to stop and went outside after them.One of the suspects then showed a knife and threatened to hurt the employee.The suspects then left and went eastbound on Refugee Road in an orange Volkswagen Beetle.Anyone with information about this incide
  
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• 49ers' QB refuses to stand for national anthem in protest

  28-08-2016 06:26
  
  SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is refusing to stand for the national anthem before games because he believes the United States oppresses African Americans and other minorities.Kaepernick sat on the team’s bench Friday night during the anthem before the Niners played host to the Green Bay Packers in an exhibition game. He later explained his reasoning in an interview with NFL Media.“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a count
  
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• Safety agencies release top 100 high-crash locations across Central Ohio

  28-08-2016 04:33
  
  Columbus-area drivers may want to steer clear from several dangerous intersections recently ranked by multiple safety agencies in Ohio.A list of the top 100 high-crash intersections was released this week and it has some drivers agreeing with the rankings.The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, or MORPC, collected crash statistics from 2013-2015 with the Ohio Department of Transportation and the Ohio Department of Public Safety.Each intersection lists data like the total number of crashes, in
  
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• Southwest flight makes emergency landing after major engine problem

  28-08-2016 02:17
  
  A Southwest Airlines flight bound for Orlando, Florida, made an emergency landing Saturday morning due to a major problem with one of its two engines.Flight 3472 from New Orleans diverted the airplane to Pensacola, Florida, after the pilot detected something had gone wrong with an engine, according to a Southwest statement.The jet, a Boeing 737-700, landed in Pensacola around 9:40 a.m. CDT with no apparent injuries to the 99 passengers or five crew members on board, according to Southwest.Pictur
  
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• Kayakers rescued from Scioto River after sudden storm

  28-08-2016 01:49
  
  A strong storm packing high winds and hard rain caught a group of kayakers on the Scioto River early Saturday evening, causing them to capsize south of Downtown and forcing a water rescue.
  
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• Columbus mom wants more school security after son shot leaving football game

  28-08-2016 01:35
  Friday night, 19-year old Malyk Dumas was one of three teens shot while leaving the Linden-McKinley High School football game.“I didn't want to believe it. It took a minute just for it to register,” Temika Dumas, Malyk’s mother, said.Dumas says her son was walking home from the Linden-McKinley football game when he was shot from behind.“He got a wound like right by his groin area,” Dumas said. “It's just like a big hole. It went straight through.”The sho
  
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• Impacto Columbus 2016 more confident in its second year

  28-08-2016 01:21
  
  "It's been a wild ride," the Rev. David Molina of Iglesia Comunidad Cristiana said as a steady stream of cars pulled into a church parking lot for the Impacto Columbus 2016 festival. The cars were early arrivals for the event that Molina and 20 fellow Hispanic pastors in central Ohio started last year at Franklin Park and moved this year to New Covenant Believers' Church, 3400 Kohr Blvd.
  
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