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• Two critically injured in three-vehicle crash on I-70 ramp to I-270 on east side

  16-09-2018 23:07
  
  COLUMBUS -- Three people were injured, two critically, in a three-vehicle crash that sent all three to Mount Carmel East Sunday afternoon.The crash happened about 3:20 p.m. Sunday on the ramp from 70 east to 270 on the east side.Two people were listed in critical condition and one was stable.The ramp was still closed as of 5 p.m.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com as this story develops.
  
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• Saints narrowly prolong Browns winless streak 21-18

  16-09-2018 22:37
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Wil Lutz kicked a 44-yard field goal for New Orleans with 21 seconds left, Cleveland kicker Zane Gonzalez pushed the second of his two missed field goals wide right in the final seconds, and the Saints held on for a 21-18 victory that extended the Browns' winless streak to 19 games.Gonzalez also missed two extra points, one week after his potential winning field goal was blocked in a season-opening tie with Pittsburgh.Cleveland (0-1-1) carried a two-score lead into the f
  
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• Woman comes forward to accuse Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct

  16-09-2018 21:23
  
  WASHINGTON — A California woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct when they were in high school has come forward, alleging in an interview that Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed at a Maryland house party and clumsily tried to remove her clothing.Christine Blasey Ford says in the interview with The Washington Post that Kavanaugh and a friend — both "stumbling drunk, she says — corralled her into a bedroom during the party in the early 1980s.
  
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• As suspension ends, Meyer apologizes for handling of Zach Smith situation

  16-09-2018 21:09
  
  DALLAS - Urban Meyer opened up in an interview on ESPN following his suspension as Ohio State Coach Sunday morning.Meyer apologized for his mistakes in handling Zach Smith and domestic abuse allegations, according to ESPN.Smith was fired as the Buckeyes' wide receivers coach in July after a pretrial hearing on a charge of criminal trespassing and a report detailing domestic violence allegations toward his then-wife, Courtney Smith, in 2009 and 2015. Smith was arrested in the 2009 incident, while
  
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• Ohio State stays at No. 4 in AP poll as LSU surges to No. 6 and Wisconsin falls out of Top 10

  16-09-2018 20:49
  
  LSU surged to No. 6 in The Associated Press college football poll after its second victory of September against a highly ranked team, and Wisconsin tumbled to No. 18 after becoming the first top-10 team to be upset by an unranked team.Top-ranked Alabama strengthened its hold on No. 1 on Sunday, receiving a season-high 58 first-place votes from the media panel. Clemson slipped out of the No. 2 spot for the first time this season. Georgia moved up a spot to second behind the Crimson Tide, giving t
  
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• Police recover high-risk 11-year-old girl missing from east Columbus

  16-09-2018 20:23
  
  COLUMBUS - Columbus Police have recovered a missing girl from the east side of Columbus, they considered high risk.The girl was last seen wearing a lime green shirt and gray mesh shorts in the area of South Champion and Stewart Avenue Sunday.She was recovered safely and returned to her home.
  
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• Police: Man dies after shark attack off Cape Cod

  16-09-2018 19:36
  
  WELLFLEET, Mass. — A man was bitten by a shark Saturday in the water off a Cape Cod beach and died later at a hospital, becoming the state's first shark attack fatality in more than 80 years.The man, identified by Cape and Islands Assistant District Attorney Tara Miltimore as 26-year-old Arthur Medici of Revere, was attacked around noon off Newcomb Hollow Beach, police said.Joe Booth, a local fisherman, and surfer, said he was on shore when he saw the man and his friend boogie boarding whe
  
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• Ending distracted driving through Maria's Ride

  16-09-2018 19:32
  
  Early Sunday morning, Dom Tiberi stood in the parking lot of Dublin Coffman, the high school his daughter Maria once attended."It's going to be 5 years that we lost Maria tomorrow, and I can tell ya that it feels like it was 5 seconds ago," he said in an emotional speech in front of dozens of drivers who participated in the first Maria's Ride, a caravan fundraiser in honor of Maria's Message.Since Maria's death, the Maria Tiberi Foundation has offered safe driving days, which provide young drive
  
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• Maria's Ride | Schedule, map & traffic information

  16-09-2018 14:13
  
  It's time to put an end to distracted driving and it starts with Maria's Ride.The event is designed to honor Maria Tiberi's life and highlight two significant landmark milestones that helped shape her life.A procession of 300 cars will start at Dublin Coffman High School (her alma mater) and end at the Schottenstein Center on The Ohio State University campus.Registration is at 8 a.m. and the ride will kick off at 9 a.m. The closing event will be from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.Every dollar raised will go
  
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• Mississippi agency says it won't buy from Nike over ads

  16-09-2018 14:08
  
  JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi's public safety commissioner disclosed Saturday that state police will no longer buy Nike products, saying the athletic apparel maker is unpatriotic and fails to support those in uniform."As commissioner of the Department of Public Safety, I will not support vendors who do not support law enforcement and our military," Commissioner Marshall Fisher said in a statement Saturday to The Associated Press.It isn't immediately clear how much gear the state police agen
  
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• Man charged with killing 2 Arizona girls who went missing

  16-09-2018 13:25
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. — A registered sex offender jailed since last year has been charged in the kidnapping and killing of two Arizona girls who went missing in 2012 and 2014, authorities announced Saturday.Christopher Matthew Clements, 36, was indicted on Friday by a grand jury on 21 criminal counts, including murder and kidnapping charges in the deaths of 6-year-old Isabel Celis and 13-year-old Maribel Gonzalez, Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus said.Celis went missing from her Tucson home in Apr
  
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• Victim's family joins Crime Stoppers to offer $10,000 reward in southeast Columbus homicide

  16-09-2018 13:04
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Columbus Division of Police needs help to solve a homicide that happened earlier this month in southeast Columbus.On September 4, 2018, just after 11:30 p.m. police officers responded near the 2300 block of S. Hamilton Road on a report of a body lying in the parking lot of the businesses.When officers arrived they found Abraham Cundiff unresponsive suffering from a gunshot wound, according to investigators. Cundiff was pronounced dead at the scene.There is no known motive o
  
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• No. 4 Ohio State holds off No. 15 TCU 40-28 after quick TDs

  16-09-2018 06:19
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Big defensive tackle Dre'Mont Jones returned an interception thrown right at him 28 yards for one of No. 4 Ohio State's three touchdowns in a four-minute span of the third quarter in a 40-28 victory over No. 15 TCU on Saturday night.The Buckeyes (3-0), in their last game without suspended coach Urban Meyer on the sideline, finally went ahead to stay with that spurt that started Dwayne Haskins Jr. threw a short pass that Parris Campbell turned into a 63-yard touchdow
  
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• Cinch of a clinch: Indians win third straight division title

  16-09-2018 03:33
  
  CLEVELAND — With ski googles perched on his head, Michael Brantley stood in the middle of Cleveland's rocking clubhouse just a few from a bin overflowing with dozens of empty beer and champagne bottles.The party was in full swing on Saturday. So were the Indians.And as he watched his teammates target each other with foamy fluids, Brantley wanted to cherish an AL Central championship that seemed preordained."I'm savoring every moment of this," Brantley said after the Indians won their third
  
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• NYC to add nonbinary "X" designation to birth certificates

  16-09-2018 03:18
  
  NEW YORK — People born in New York City who don’t identify as male or female will have the option of changing their birth certificates to “X″ under legislation passed Wednesday by the City Council.The bill adopted by a 41-6 vote will also allow parents to choose the “X″ designation for their newborns, and it will permit adults to change the gender on their birth certificates without an affidavit from a doctor or mental health professional.“Today is a his
  
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• Police: Man fakes Down syndrome, hires women to bathe him

  16-09-2018 03:07
  
  GILBERT, Ariz. — Police say they have arrested an Arizona man who pretended to have Down syndrome and hired caregivers to bathe him and change his diapers.According to Gilbert police, 31-year-old Paul Anthony Menchaca posed as a woman on jobsites for caregivers saying she needed assistance with her adult son. Citing court documents, ABC15 reported Thursday that three women were hired to care for Menchaca at different points over the summer, with the first saying she bathed and assisted him
  
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• FEMA delays "Presidential Alert" test until October 3

  16-09-2018 02:00
  
  Cell phone users will receive a message from President Trump as FEMA tests a new alert system, but not until October.The goal is to alert Americans to emergencies -- like severe weather and missing children.Most cell phone users were set to receive the alert Thursday afternoon, but that has been delayed until 2:18 p.m. Oct. 3. The delay is to evaluate the operational readiness of the infrastructure for distribution of a national message and determine whether technological improvements are needed
  
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• FEMA delays "Presidential Alert" test featuring President Trump's voice

  16-09-2018 02:00
  
  Cell phone users will receive a message from President Trump as FEMA tests a new alert system, but not until October.The goal is to alert Americans to emergencies -- like severe weather and missing children.Most cell phone users were set to receive the alert Thursday afternoon, but that has been delayed until 2:18 p.m. Oct. 3. The delay is to evaluate the operational readiness of the infrastructure for distribution of a national message and determine whether technological improvements are needed
  
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• Restoring power to Wilmington could take weeks, mayor says

  16-09-2018 01:36
  
  Florence, which made landfall as a hurricane Friday and is now a tropical storm, has claimed lives, knocked out power, and sent more than 25,000 people in North and South Carolina and Virginia to shelters. One of the harder-hit areas is the coastal city of Wilmington, North Carolina, where just hours after Florence made landfall a tree collapsed on a family's home, killing a mother and her infant. Rescuers have saved about 500 people so far in North Carolina alone."CBS Evening News" anchor Jeff
  
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• Columbia Gas linked to explosions in Massachusetts, West Virginia, Ohio

  16-09-2018 01:22
  
  In the three Massachusetts communities rocked by a series of devastating gas fires and explosions, residents are running out of patience, with their fingers pointed at Columbia Gas. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced they were investigating the company."We will be looking at their record keeping, their procedural compliance, their procedures, their training, the oversight of their contractors," NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt said.Government records reveal at least three othe
  
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• Pike County Sheriff's deputies use gas to end standoff

  16-09-2018 00:42
  
  The Pike County Sheriff's Office, in collaboration with several other departments, were forced to use gas to get a man out of a room after he swung a knife at deputies hours earlier which resulted in a standoff.According to a press release, deputies were trying to serve a felony warrant on a man at his residence on Alma Omega Road.The man was hiding in an upstairs bedroom, and when approached by deputies, swung a knife at them, the release stated.The deputies backed out of the bedroom and attemp
  
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