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• New Legislation Aims to Lower Drug Costs For Seniors

  16-10-2015 23:56
  
  Sen. Brown is proposing a law that would allow Medicare to negotiate prices directly with the drug companies which isn't done now.
  
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• Ohio University Student Arrested For Terroristic Threatening

  16-10-2015 23:09
  
  Police along with Ohio Highway Patrol worked together to arrest 19-year-old Nickolaus Russell at his residence in Boyd Hall.
  
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• Man threatens teller, robs PNC Bank on West Broad

  16-10-2015 23:00
  
  Police are searching for a suspect who robbed the PNC Bank at 3500 W. Broad St. today. The man walked into the bank shortly after 10 a.m., and handed the teller a note demanding cash. Police said the man implied he had a gun and threatened to shoot the teller if he didn't get money. The robber left with an undisclosed amount of money.
  
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• Family Of Newark Child Abuse Suspect Says Mother Was Brainwashed

  16-10-2015 22:55
  
  Family members say they’re reeling over accusations a Newark couple kept a 6-year-old boy locked in an unfinished basement when he wasn’t at school.
  
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• Buckeye Black Friday: Fans Stock Up on Blackout Gear Before Saturday's Game

  16-10-2015 22:51
  
  The Ohio State Buckeyes will be wearing all black uniforms against Penn State.
  
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• GoPro Video: Fall Foliage Across Central Ohio

  16-10-2015 22:50
  
  Central Ohio's peak fall color is in full effect. The reds, oranges and bright yellows are painting beautiful landscapes across the region, and this weekend's cool weather could make changing leaves even more spectacular.
  
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• Alum Creek Trail - Three Creeks Park (Oxbow Loop to Heron Lake)

  16-10-2015 22:36 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Campaign Ad Watch | Ginther accuses Scott of making false attacks

  16-10-2015 22:34
  
  “Columbus is counting on you,” a 30-second TV ad Producer: Friends of Andrew Ginther Where to see it: On local television or at www.facebook.com/andyginther
  
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• Alum Creek Trail - Pumphouse Park to I-70 Underpass

  16-10-2015 22:29 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Police identify officer involved in shooting outside UDF store

  16-10-2015 22:28
  
  Columbus police have released the name of the SWAT officer who shot and killed an armed man moments after he robbed a United Dairy Farmers convenience store on the Far East Side on Thursday.
  
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• Alum Creek Trail - Tanager Woods Park to Parkridge Park

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• Alum Creek Trail - Strawberry Farms to Tanager Woods

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• Alum Creek Trail - Parkridge Park to Easton Way

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• Alum Creek Trail - I-70 Underpass to Three Creeks Park

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• Alum Creek Trail - Innis Park to Bridgeview Bridge

  16-10-2015 22:20 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Alum Creek Trail - Three Creeks Park (Heron Lake) to Blacklick Trail Connection

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• Alum Creek Trail - Easton Way to Innis Park

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• Alum Creek Trail - E. Fifth Ave to Wolfe Park

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• Alum Creek Trail - Cooper Park to Casto Park

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• Alum Creek Trail - Casto Park to Strawberry Farms Park

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• Alum Creek Trail - Bridgeview Bridge to Brittany Hills Area

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• Ohio State Vs. Penn State: 5 Things To Watch For Saturday Night At The Shoe

  16-10-2015 21:42
  
  The Ohio State Buckeyes will host their first home night game of 2015, matching up against the Penn State Nittany Lions.
  
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• Download The 10TV Politics App

  16-10-2015 21:19
  
  From Congress to the State Capitol, this app puts you at the center of politics with up-to-the-minute coverage.
  
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• Lawsuit filed over death of woman in Ohio jail

  16-10-2015 21:01
  
  The daughter of a woman who died in an Ohio jail has filed a federal lawsuit alleging jail officials didn't adequately care for her mother who was arrested on a warrant for carrying an open container. The lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Columbus by 55-year-old Mary McCoy's daughter against Franklin County, its sheriff and others seeks unspecified damages.
  
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• 2015 Columbus Day Wreath Laying Ceremony

  16-10-2015 20:38 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Police Conducting Two Sobriety Checkpoints In West Columbus

  16-10-2015 20:25
  
  The first will be operated on W. Broad St. at Interstate 70. The second will be located on Georgesville Rd. at Atlanta Drive.
  
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• City says sewer overflow plan will be cheaper, quicker

  16-10-2015 20:11
  
  The costly plan to eliminate sewer overflows in Columbus now will come in $800 million under cost and 10 years sooner than originally projected. And because of that, ratepayers might not face double-digit increases as they saw in some years over the past decade. The Columbus City Council is expected to vote next month on a 3.3-percent hike for 2016. That’s according to the Blueprint Columbus plan the city recently submitted for approval to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The orig
  
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• Neighbor pulls Pickaway County man out of burning home

  16-10-2015 19:59
  
  CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio — Even though a neighbor Army-crawled her way through a wall of smoke and helped to drag him out overnight, a Pickaway County man was critically injured when a fire destroyed the split-level home where he lived. A couple and their 10-year-old son escaped unharmed but lost everything they owned in the home they’ve been renting since earlier this year.
  
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• NetJets, pilots' union reach preliminary accord on new contract

  16-10-2015 19:54
  The union representing NetJets pilots says it has reached an agreement in principle on a new contract, a milestone in an often-contentious negotiation that began more than two years ago. The NetJets Association of Shared Aircraft Pilots has scheduled a vote on the agreement for late November.
  
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• Chinese sisters sentenced to 10 years for running massage-parlor sex trade

  16-10-2015 18:52
  
  DELAWARE, Ohio — A judge sentenced two Chinese nationals to 10 years in prison each for running three suburban massage where prostitution was rampant. Qing Xu, 57, and her sister, Estella Xu, 55, were convicted in August of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, money laundering and practicing medicine without a license, along with nine counts each of promoting prostitution.
  
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• Woman Fights Back During Home Invasion, Stabs Intruder

  16-10-2015 18:32
  
  People in a quiet Northeast Columbus neighborhood were on alert Friday after a suspected burglar broke into a home in broad daylight.
  
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• New Albany Woman Fights Back During Home Invasion, Stabs Intruder

  16-10-2015 18:32
  
  People in a quiet New Albany neighborhood were on alert Friday after a suspected burglar broke into a home in broad daylight.
  
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• New in Theaters: Bridge of Spies, Crimson Peak, Goosebumps & More

  16-10-2015 17:00
  
  Bridge of Spies It’s October, so if you hear “Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, two hour twenty minute historical drama” and think Oscar bait, you’re not alone. But Bridge of Spies also walks the walk, emerging as a taut, effective, and absorbing film, as finely crafted as you would expect from the talents involved. The true […]
  
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• Sisters Sentenced In Massage Parlor Human Trafficking Trial

  16-10-2015 16:46
  
  Qing Xu and Estella Xu were found guilty on all 15 counts against them in Delaware County in August.
  
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• Unexpected Visitor: Woman finds bear inside apartment

  16-10-2015 15:52
  
  A North Carolina woman says she entered her daughter's apartment and found a bear, who had entered by opening an unlocked door, roaming through the home.
  
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• 24 Hour Horror Movie Marathon Returns to the Drexel Theatre

  16-10-2015 15:25
  
  The Drexel Theatre invites one and all to its annual celebration of the macabre for insomniacs, Shock Around the Clock, a 24 hour marathon of new, cult, and classic horror as conceived by the ghoulish minds of Bruce Bartoo and Joe Neff. The duo program Shock as well as the Drexel’s yearly SciFi marathon, and […]
  
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• Cops: Woman staged videos to hide her 5-year-old's injuries

  16-10-2015 15:13
  
  A 24-year-old Connecticut woman has been arrested after police say she seriously hurt her 5-year-old daughter and tried to cover it up by staging videos of the girl appearing to hurt herself.
  
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• First Look: The New Columbus Museum of Art

  16-10-2015 15:00
  
  After two years of construction, the massive expansion and renovation of the Columbus Museum of Art is nearly complete. Multiple grand opening celebrations will take place next week between October 22nd and October 24th, but members of the media were treated to a sneak preview earlier this week for a first glimpse inside the new […]
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: A look at Kasich's fundraising and problems with the next GOP debate

  16-10-2015 14:52
  
  Gov. John Kasich’s fundraising lags behind most of his GOP rivals but he’s not the worst in the pack for the third quarter. His official presidential campaign raised nearly $.4 million.
  
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• Photo: Quite a backdrop

  16-10-2015 14:28
  Keri Byers, center, takes a selfie with friends, from left, Isaac Smith, Hunter Love, Christian Hammack and Alan Drumm at Rising Park in Lancaster. The Fairfield Union High School students had the week off school. Behind them, the Fairfield County Fair is in full swing.
  
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• Robert Mason Returns to Retail with New Short North Location

  16-10-2015 14:00
  
  The wait is over. Robert Mason is officially returning to the local realm of brick-and-mortar retail. Ever since a devastating fire wrecked three businesses on Gay Street in April 2014, Robert Mason has been without a home to sell its curated mix of stationary, furnishings and related lifestyle accessories. But owner and founder Robert Grimmett […]
  
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• FBI chief: Minorities, cops must heal divide

  16-10-2015 13:55
  
  CLEVELAND — FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday there’s a crisis in big cities across the country as the divide between law-enforcement officers and minority communities widens while violent crime and murder spike.
  
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• Pharmacies avoid execution trade

  16-10-2015 13:26
  
  It’s no secret why a new state law allowing prison officials to secretly buy lethal-injection drugs from compounding pharmacies didn’t work. Pharmacies didn’t want the business.
  
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• Environmentalists want to know more about Ikea tree-cutting plan

  16-10-2015 13:15
  
  Local environmentalists want more details about the economic hardship Ikea says it will suffer if it can’t cut down nearly 600 trees at its Polaris site. Representatives from the state and central Ohio Sierra Clubs and the Friends of Alum Creek met with Columbus officials this week.
  
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• High-schoolers start own honor society

  16-10-2015 13:11
  
  Some students at Centerburg High School were dismayed in February when the National Honor Society announced that annual chapter dues would increase from $75 to $385. That was a huge sum for the small rural high school in Knox County. It would have nearly wiped out the group’s entire budget of $460, leaving no room to undertake any service projects.
  
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• Flower Factory begins end-of-business sale

  16-10-2015 12:56
  
  NORTH CANTON — Flower Factory has started a going-out-of-business sale at the company’s three retail locations, including Columbus.
  
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• Homage opening store in suburban Cleveland

  16-10-2015 12:52
  
  COLUMBUS — Central Ohio T-shirt and apparel company Homage will open its first Cleveland-area store in November. The new store will be in Crocker Park, an Easton-style lifestyle center in the suburb of Westlake, and is part of a $400 million expansion of the retail complex.
  
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• Flash Floods, Mudslides Swamp Parts Of Southern California

  16-10-2015 12:36
  
  Downpours leave some major highways closed, motorists stranded, several people stuck in their homes.
  
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• Planned pension cuts outrage retired Teamsters

  16-10-2015 12:30
  
  More than 150 retired Teamsters rallied at the union’s Downtown offices on Thursday afternoon to voice their outrage over possible cuts to their pensions by the Central States Pension Fund.
  
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• Newark mayoral candidates spar over economic development

  16-10-2015 12:09
  
  The discussion at Newark’s mayoral debate on Thursday night was equal parts progress and problems. The candidates shared the desire to see the city and its residents succeed, but they debated budget issues and public-safety concerns.
  
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