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• Sheriff: US border patrol agent suspected of killing 4 women

  15-09-2018 22:10
  
  LAREDO, Texas — A U.S. Border Patrol agent was arrested early Saturday on the suspicion that he killed four prostitutes and abducted a fifth, who escaped.The agent, Juan David Ortiz, was captured after a woman whom he tried to abduct escaped, Webb County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz said at a news conference. Sheriff Martin Cuellar said Ortiz fled from state troopers and was found hiding in the parking lot of a hotel in Laredo, a border city about 145 miles (235 kilometers) southwest of
  
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• $2.5M bond for Border Patrol agent in killings of 4 in Texas

  15-09-2018 22:10
  
  HOUSTON — A U.S. Border Patrol supervisor was jailed Sunday on $2.5 million bond in Texas, accused of killing at least four women and injuring a fifth who managed to escape.Juan David Ortiz, 35, was in custody in Laredo on four counts of murder along with charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and unlawful restraint, Webb County jail records showed.Ortiz was arrested a day earlier, after being found hiding in a truck in a hotel parking lot in Laredo, at about 2 a.m. Saturday, c
  
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• Missing Ohio woman's remains identified, boyfriend charged

  15-09-2018 21:43
  
  AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say remains found in a shallow grave in the backyard of an Ohio home are those of a missing woman and that her boyfriend has been charged with murder.Akron police spokesman Lt Rick Edwards said Saturday the Summit County Medical Examiner's Office has identified the remains as those of 53-year-old Kim Freitag. They were found with the help of an anthropology team from Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania.Edwards says Freitag's daughter reported her miss
  
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• Browns trade receiver Josh Gordon to Patriots

  15-09-2018 21:25
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — The Browns have traded problematic wide receiver Josh Gordon to the New England Patriots for a fifth-round draft pick.The deal came together Monday, two days after the Browns reached a breaking point with Gordon, who has been suspended for much of his NFL career. Gordon played in Cleveland's season opener, but reported to the team on Saturday with a hamstring injury after practicing all week.The Browns have been supportive of Gordon, but the team felt betrayed and decided
  
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• Browns to release troubled wide receiver Josh Gordon

  15-09-2018 21:25
  
  CLEVELAND — Josh Gordon's troubled tenure with the Cleveland Browns has ended.The team isn't going to help him any longer. He's let them down for the final time.The Browns announced Saturday night that it intends to release the former Pro Bowl wide receiver, whose immense talent has been overshadowed by substance abuse that has derailed a promising career.The stunning news came just hours after the Browns said Gordon would miss Sunday's game in New Orleans with a mysterious hamstring injur
  
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• Browns' Gordon to miss Saints game with hamstring injury

  15-09-2018 21:25
  
  CLEVELAND — Josh Gordon's season is already off course.Cleveland's star wide receiver, who appeared in his first season opener since 2012 last week, will not play in Sunday's game at New Orleans because of a hamstring injury.Gordon's injury came as a surprise after he practiced all week and was not listed on the team's injury report. A team spokesman said Gordon reported Saturday complaining of soreness in his hamstring and the team determined he could not play. Gordon did not travel with
  
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• Report: Texas Board of Education votes to remove Hillary Clinton from history curriculum

  15-09-2018 17:12
  
  The Texas Board of Education voted on Friday to remove historical figures including Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller from the mandatory history curriculum in Texas schools, The Dallas Morning News reported. The preliminary vote is an attempt by the board to "streamline" what students learn in social studies classes, according to the publication.Removing figures from the curriculum wouldn't prevent teaching about them, but would mean doing so is not mandatory. The vote on Friday was not final. Am
  
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• NASA satellite launched to measure Earth's ice changes

  15-09-2018 17:03
  
  VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A NASA satellite designed to precisely measure changes in Earths ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice, and vegetation was launched into polar orbit from California early Saturday.A Delta 2 rocket carrying ICESat-2 lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 6:02 a.m. and headed over the Pacific Ocean.NASA Earth Science Division director Michael Freilich says that the mission, in particular, will advance knowledge of how the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarcti
  
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• Dog Walkers Weekly "Furr-cast" | September 15, 2018

  15-09-2018 15:07
  
  Welcome back, everyone! For you first-time readers, happy to have you here!This blog is dedicated to those dog lovers across central Ohio. Unless you have an outdoor yard, many of you probably walk your dog, or dogs, on a daily basis, and maybe even multiple times a day.The purpose and goal of this blog is to help those dog walkers and their furry, little friends make the most out of their walks outside while being safe at the same time.So, let's start things off with a look at what I call the "
  
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• Troopers: Missing 10-year-old Alaska girl found dead

  15-09-2018 13:49
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A 10-year-old girl has been found dead Friday, authorities said, more than a week after she was reported missing in a remote Inupiat Eskimo town on Alaska's northwestern coast.Ashley Johnson-Barr's remains were found east of Kotzebue, Alaska State Troopers said.Late Friday night, FBI spokeswoman Staci Feger-Pellessier said that 41-year-old Peter Wilson of Kotzebue is facing charges of making false statements to a federal agent investigating the girl's death. Wilson is b
  
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• Officers who killed gunman in Cincinnati hailed as heroes

  15-09-2018 03:16
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — A prosecutor on Friday praised the Cincinnati police officers who killed a gunman at a downtown office building as heroes, saying they probably saved countless lives.Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters cleared the four officers who responded within minutes to the shootings at Fifth Third Bancorp headquarters. The officers killed 29-year-old Omar Enrique Santa Perez after Perez fatally shot three people and wounded two others."Not only were the actions of the officers ju
  
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• Mom of alleged MS-13 victim killed by car at girl's memorial

  15-09-2018 02:20
  
  BRENTWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — A New York mother recognized by President Donald Trump at the State of the Union after MS-13 gang members allegedly killed her daughter was struck and killed Friday by a car at the girl's memorial.Evelyn Rodriguez was hit around 4 p.m. in Brentwood and died at a hospital, police said. U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., says it happened about an hour before a planned memorial for her daughter, Kayla Cuevas.Police said homicide detectives are investigating. They did not imm
  
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• Harrison College closing because of “financial pressures”

  15-09-2018 01:00
  
  GROVE CITY, Ohio – Harrison College, a school with campuses in Indiana and Ohio and a culinary school in North Carolina, is closing according to an e-mail sent to employees.In the e-mail, the school’s chairman of the board Craig Pfannenstiehl said the school“has made the business decision to close operations effective Sunday, September 16, 2018, and for The Chef’s Academy Sunday, October 14, 2018 (the end of their current term).”“Unfortunately, the financial p
  
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