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• Grove City Mayor threatens veto of 'puppy mill' ordinance

  09-03-2016 23:27
  
  The city’s mayor says council members have eight days to get him more answers, before he could veto the measure that could impact business.
  
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• Crew SC Hosts 2016 Media Day

  09-03-2016 23:04
  
  The home opening game for Columbus Crew SC is just three days away, and with the team back in town following the MLS opening day loss in Portland, Crew SC hosted their media day to talk about the upcoming season. The players and coaching staff all looked to be in a fairly upbeat mood as […]
  
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• Former President Bill Clinton hits Columbus to campaign for Hillary Clinton

  09-03-2016 22:37
  
  In a crowded room inside the Ohio Education Association building in downtown Columbus, President Clinton laid out why his wife should be the next president.
  
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• Ohio's youngest primary voters at center of election dispute

  09-03-2016 22:25
  
  In this Nov. 4, 2014, file photo, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted speaks to supporters at an Ohio Republican Party celebration in Columbus, Ohio. A policy for Ohio's youngest voters is under dispute in the swing state, causing confusion and prompting two lawsuits days before the primary election.
  
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• Columbus man receives lengthy prison sentence for killing pregnant girlfriend

  09-03-2016 22:25
  
  A 24-year-old man who pleaded guilty in February to killing his girlfriend and their unborn child in a Columbus apartment in 2014 will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. Jacob Ferrero was sentenced Wednesday to 45 years to life in prison in Franklin County Common Pleas court, according to 10TV .
  
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• Cleveland clinic says first uterus transplant in US fails

  09-03-2016 22:23
  
  A 26-year-old woman received the transplant there on Feb. 24 and had appeared to be recovering well, even appearing briefly at a news conference on Monday.
  
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• First uterus transplant in U.S. fails, Cleveland Clinic says

  09-03-2016 22:13
  
  The Cleveland Clinic says the nation's first uterus transplant has failed. A 26-year-old woman received the transplant there on Feb. 24 and had appeared to be recovering well, even appearing briefly at a news conference on Monday. But according to a hospital statement Wednesday, the patient experienced a sudden complication.
  
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• Roger Goodell opens Buckeyes’ Real Life Wednesday series

  09-03-2016 21:49
  
  Meyer's Real Life Wednesday program is all about bringing in leaders to talk about life outside of sports.
  
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• Bill Clinton stops in Columbus, stumps for Hillary Clinton

  09-03-2016 21:40
  
  After an upset in Michigan last night, Hillary Clinton's campaign is turning its sights on Ohio in order to bolster her chance of presidential nomination for the Democratic Party. Former President Bill Clinton is in town today campaigning for his wife. Shortly after noon, he walked the King-Lincoln District along Long Street with former Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman, who has endorsed Hillary Clinton. The two also got a tour of the Lincoln theater and Bill Clinton took selfies with people on
  
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• Delaware County prosecutor plans to retry chess teacher

  09-03-2016 21:28
  
  The Delaware County prosecutor has said F. Leon Wilson, accused last year of molesting two of his students, will be retried. The first trial of the 62-year-old, long-time chess teacher who taught in several central Ohio schools ended in a mistrial after jurors deliberated more than 12 hours over two days.
  
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• Truck overturns, spills drilling wastewater that taints reservoir

  09-03-2016 20:45
  
  A truck hauling drilling wastewater overturned in eastern Ohio early this morning, sending thousands of gallons of toxic water into a nearby creek and contaminating a reservoir in Barnesville in Belmont County. The truck crashed along a curve just after 3 a.m. today, said Barnesville Fire Chief Bob Smith. The driver, Hiley Wogan of Chesterhill, Ohio, was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Columbus, Smith said. About 5,000 gallons of wastewater spilled into a field, then a creek and finally int
  
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• Flu now widespread in Ohio

  09-03-2016 20:43
  
  With spring just around the corner, it seems flu season finally has hit Ohio. During the last week in February, flu-related hospitalizations topped 200 for the first time this season, the Ohio Department of Health announced today. Those 203 hospitalizations — 31 of which were in central Ohio — marked a huge jump over 93 from the previous week, bringing the total hospitalizations to 653 since flu season began in October.
  
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• TV Review: “Love” About Anything But

  09-03-2016 20:18
  
  In Judd Apatow’s latest series on Netflix, we follow the sporadic start of a relationship between Mickey (Gillian Jacobs) and Gus (Paul Rust). The series begins with Mickey and Gus breaking up with their respective partners. Afterward, they both undergo a life-changing moment: Gus is propositioned in a three-way, and Mickey finds herself at a […]
  
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• Winter warmer-land: US breaks record for hottest winter

  09-03-2016 19:44
  
  Federal meteorologists say the winter that has just ended was the hottest in U.S. records, thanks to the combination of El Nino and man-made global warming.
  
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• Mean Streets

  09-03-2016 19:24
  
  More pedestrians were struck and killed by cars in Ohio during the first half of last year even as local officials continued pushing to make city streets safer to walk. A report released Tuesday by the Governors Highway Safety Association projects a 10 percent increase in the number of pedestrians killed in car crashes across the country in 2015.
  
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• GOP sues State Dept. over access to Clinton emails

  09-03-2016 18:27
  
  The Republican Party is suing over access to electronic messages sent or received by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her top aides during her tenure as secretary of state.
  
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• WexArts Off the Grid Party Saturday!

  09-03-2016 18:09
  
  It’s time to get Off the Grid! ‪#‎OTG16‬ Saturday’s coming quick—get those tickets and prep your dance moves! http://wexarts.org/genwex/grid “Join the center’s young patrons group as they take over the Wex and turn up the heat for the contemporary art party of the season, inspired by the stunning work of Noah Purifoy. Enjoy bites from some of […]
  
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• Board revokes license of former pediatric cancer doctor who looked at child porn

  09-03-2016 18:08
  
  Former Ohio State doctor who accessed child porn has medical license revoked
  
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• Woman convicted of tying up man, beating him to death says it was self-defense

  09-03-2016 18:05
  
  Kia L. Ellis testified that she was defending herself when she beat a man to death while he was tied-up, naked, on a kitchen chair in his North Linden apartment a decade ago. Ellis, who was a drug-addicted prostitute at the time, told a Franklin County judge on Tuesday that the victim, 33-year-old Johnnie Luckett, had threatened her after she said she didn't want to have sex with him.
  
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• Wilmington air-transport firm confirms Amazon deal

  09-03-2016 17:52
  
  Following months of speculation that Amazon was getting into air freight operations in Wilmington, Ohio, the cargo airline that operates there confirmed Wednesday morning that it has struck a deal with the online retailing giant.
  
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• Truck overturns, spills fracking wastewater that taints reservoir

  09-03-2016 17:44
  
  A truck hauling fracking wastewater overturned in eastern Ohio early this morning, sending thousands of gallons of toxic water into a nearby creek and contaminating a reservoir in Barnesville in Belmont County. The truck crashed along a curve just after 3 a.m. today, said Barnesville Fire Chief Bob Smith. The driver, Hiley Wogan of Chesterhill, Ohio, was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Columbus, Smith said. About 5,000 gallons of fracking wastewater spilled into a field, then a creek and fi
  
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• Friends shocked over alleged sex crimes by after-school teacher

  09-03-2016 17:44
  
  Shock and disbelief are the emotions friends of a teacher are expressing over the arrest of an after-school teacher on sex crimes charges involving three little girls.
  
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• Board permanently revokes license of doctor convicted of child porn

  09-03-2016 17:37
  
  A pediatric oncologist who served nearly a year in prison for viewing child pornography will never again work in Ohio as a doctor. The Ohio Medical Board voted this morning to permanently revoke Christopher Pelloski's license. Pelloski, 42, directed the pediatric radiation-oncology program at the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and treated children referred to the James by Nationwide Children's Hospital from 2010 until July of 2013.
  
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• Man gets 45 years to life in prison for killing pregnant girlfriend

  09-03-2016 17:36
  
  A 24-year-old man was sentenced today to life in prison with no chance of parole for 45 years for murdering his pregnant girlfriend, burying her in a Groveport field and setting fire to their West Side apartment.
  
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• Donald Trump leading John Kasich in latest polls of Ohio

  09-03-2016 17:26
  
  Two new polls give former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a solid lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in both Ohio and Florida just days before the upcoming March 15 primary, while one gives billionaire Donald Trump an edge over home-state candidates Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. A Quinnipiac University Poll released this morning gives Clinton a 52 percent to 43 percent lead over Sanders, while a new CNN/ORC poll gives her a 63 percent to 33 percent lead in Ohio.
  
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• Police: 5-year-old South Linden shootout victim improving

  09-03-2016 17:19
  
  The 5-year-old victim of what police have called a shootout Friday in South Linden is improving but still in critical condition. Nathaniel Jones is at Nationwide Children's Hospital recovering from undisclosed injuries. Authorities say the child has shown recent improvement.
  
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• Earnings, sales solid for Express in fourth quarter

  09-03-2016 17:11
  
  Columbus-based fashion retailer Express reported a good fourth quarter, beating Wall Street expectations in earnings and comparable store sales while not quite meeting expectations on sales.
  
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• Confessed killer gets 45 years to life for murder of pregnant girlfriend

  09-03-2016 16:38
  
  The man who confessed to killing his pregnant girlfriend in October 2014 will spend at least the next four decades of his life behind bars.
  
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• Restaurant Review: Schokko Art Café at CMA

  09-03-2016 16:22
  
  The view from the Cameron Mitchell project inside the Columbus Museum of Art is really nice. That’s probably to be expected: certainly, an art gallery would do things right in the aesthetics department. Still, Schokko is almost breathtaking, hypnotic; braced by a wall of windows that opens to a lush lawn with a giant naked […]
  
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• A Taste of Brazil: Santo Brigadeiro Lands in Columbus

  09-03-2016 15:50
  
  Cristina Jabur thinks Columbus is ready for a sweet sampling of Brazil. Originally from Brazil, Jabur has been in Ohio for just a short while. She worked in Brazil as a film producer for years before coming to Columbus to work as an executive producer for a documentary in May 2015. She enjoyed Columbus, and […]
  
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• Terminally ill boy who wanted to be famous "before I go to heaven," dies

  09-03-2016 15:46
  
  Dorian Murray, an 8-year-old Rhode Island boy with terminal cancer who told his father he wanted to be famous in China, has died.
  
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• Breaking Bread: Spring soup satisfies Irish eating of the green

  09-03-2016 15:23
  
  I found out just how wise that frog is when I married into my husband's large Irish family - and St. Patrick's Day took on a whole new significance. Not being of Irish descent, I was shocked to learn that I had nothing suitable to wear to the annual St. Patrick's Day parade in my husband's hometown.
  
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• Drone helps officers track down escaped Ohio inmate

  09-03-2016 14:24
  
  FREMONT, Ohio (AP) — Police say a drone helped them track down an inmate shortly after he escaped from a northern Ohio jail.
  
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• Theatre Preview: Available Light’s 24 Hr Thtr Promises High Stakes and Big Rewards

  09-03-2016 14:00
  
  Some people – most people, maybe – work for months or years on a play. 24 Hour Theatre is a chance to break through the impulse to over-think decisions and see if first thought really is best thought. Groups of people who may or may not have worked together before are shuffled and assigned to […]
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: There's good and bad news for John Kasich heading into the battle for Ohio

  09-03-2016 13:30
  
  One week before the Ohio primary, Ohio Gov. John Kasich “failed to achieve even his lowered goal of finishing second in Michigan, but his team was jazzed by a new national poll showing him ascending into the thick of the competition,” Dispatch Public Affairs Darrel Rowland writes.
  
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• Education Insider: Probe continues into deal on house for Ohio University’s president

  09-03-2016 13:27
  
  The Ohio inspector general’s investigation of an Ohio University real-estate deal continues, with more requests for records and interviews of some university employees.
  
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• Hotels, offices, restaurants planned on site of Holiday Inn in Worthington

  09-03-2016 13:10
  
  Five years after a major overhaul was launched at the Shops at Worthington Place, planning is underway for a $45 million redevelopment of the Holiday Inn property across West Wilson Bridge Road from the retail center.
  
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• Planned Clintonville apartment buildings called ‘extended-stay hotels’ to avoid rezoning

  09-03-2016 13:04
  
  Developers have proposed building 552 apartments as part of three Clintonville projects. The largest development would be on a 10-acre site on Indianola Avenue immediately south of the T. Marzetti Co. plant. Vision Development of Columbus proposes a 300-unit apartment and four commercial buildings on the property, which is home to the Dixie International trucking terminal.
  
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• CNN/ORC poll shows Trump, Clinton lead in Ohio

  09-03-2016 12:50
  
  Donald Trump is leading two of his Republican presidential rivals in their home states, topping Sen. Marco Rubio in Florida and Gov. John Kasich in Ohio, new CNN/ORC polls show.
  
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• Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump lead in Ohio, polls show

  09-03-2016 12:49
  
  Two new polls give former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a solid lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in both Ohio and Florida just days before the upcoming March 15 primary, while one gives billionaire Donald Trump an edge over home-state candidates Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. A Quinnipiac University Poll released this morning gives Clinton a 52 to 43 percent lead over Sanders, while a new CNN/ORC poll gives her a 63 to 33 percent lead in Ohio.
  
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• At least 9 firefighters injured in Seattle explosion

  09-03-2016 12:38
  
  Authorities say nine Seattle fire fighters are injured and residents have been evacuated following a natural gas explosion.
  
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• ODNR wants to consolidate scenic-waterway citizen groups

  09-03-2016 11:58
  
  For decades, the Big Darby Creek has been listed as a "scenic" creek, a state designation that gives the waterway, among other safeguards, a local citizens council that advises state regulators about the health of the creek. Statewide, more than 100 people are members of local councils. But the Darby council — and the 13 others across Ohio — could disappear.
  
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• Woman chased and shot in east Columbus

  09-03-2016 11:49
  
  Woman says man followed her then shot at her multiple times. Find out more.
  
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• Ohio voters reluctant to hike defense spending, survey finds

  09-03-2016 11:45
  
  WASHINGTON — In a sign that Ohio voters are willing to restrain defense spending to reduce the deficit, nearly 60 percent of registered voters in the state favor canceling the advanced F-35 jet fighter, a new independent survey shows. The online poll of 520 registered voters in Ohio conducted by the University of Maryland concludes that 54.6 percent of Republicans and 67 percent of Democrats would rather get rid of the fighter and upgrade current fighters instead, yielding a savings to tax
  
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• Suspect in shooting of Idaho pastor arrested outside the White House

  09-03-2016 11:37
  
  The Secret Service arrested a suspect in the shooting of an Idaho pastor after the man threw several items over the White House fence. Learn more.
  
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• Where we stand: Trump scores 3 big wins; Clinton wins by losing

  09-03-2016 11:35
  
  Donald Trump is spoiling for the big fight ahead, especially in Florida, now that he's fresh off victories in the industrial Midwest, the South and Hawaii.
  
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• Unseasonably warm temps continue on Wednesday

  09-03-2016 11:32
  
  Doppler 10 Meteorologist Mike Davis says expect another spring-like day.
  
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• Evening Forecast: Scattered showers across central Ohio

  09-03-2016 11:32
  
  Skies will turn mostly cloudy tonight with showers beginning between now and 9 p.m.
  
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• Afternoon Forecast: Another warm day with temps in the 70s

  09-03-2016 11:32
  
  Moisture will stream into the state from the south today ahead of a slow-moving cold front that will bring showers tomorrow.
  
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• Art museum's new wing, COTA's CBUS among tourism boosts honored

  09-03-2016 11:13
  
  The new Margaret M. Walter Wing of the Columbus Museum of Art is among the area's tourism boosts honored by Experience Columbus. Professional sports, fireworks, a new bus line and a new wing at the art museum took home awards at the annual meeting of Experience Columbus on Tuesday evening at the Greater Columbus Convention Center.
  
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