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• Goat runs away from Calif. home, goes on morning Starbucks run

  10-04-2016 23:24
  
  Police say a goat apparently needed a caffeine fix when it wandered into a Starbucks in Northern California.
  
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• Amtrak sues Kansas feed yard over train derailment

  10-04-2016 23:15
  
  Amtrak has filed a federal lawsuit against a southwest Kansas feed yard, accusing it of gross negligence in relation to a train derailment that injured 28 passengers last month.
  
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• Will and Kate begin royal tour of India

  10-04-2016 19:47
  
  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge paid their respects at one of the sites of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks Sunday as they began a weeklong visit to India, their first royal tour in two years.
  
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• France was original target for Brussels attackers

  10-04-2016 19:40
  
  The attackers who struck Brussels on March 22 initially planned to launch a second assault on France, Belgium's Federal Prosecution Office said Sunday.
  
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• New Jersey cop saves three lives in 10 days

  10-04-2016 19:32
  
  One New Jersey police officer is truly a hero after single-handily saving three lives in 10 days.
  
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• Public Being Asked for Input on Future Plan for Columbus City Schools

  10-04-2016 19:30
  
  Another meeting of the Facilities Master Plan Ad Hoc Committee of Columbus City Schools was held on Saturday (which the author is a member of), the focus being to review options put together for buildings and pathways that were a result of the community surveys, projected attendance data, and data on the physical conditions of […]
  
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• Police name suspect in Clintonville standoff where officer was shot

  10-04-2016 18:45
  
  A Columbus police officer is in critical but stable condition after being shot early Sunday during a nearly eight-hour standoff at a duplex in Clintonville.
  
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• Trailer Roundup: Rogue One, David Brent, Zombie Potter & More

  10-04-2016 18:14
  
  New films. New tv shows. New video games. That’s what “Trailer Roundup” provides each week for our pop-culture and multimedia-savvy readers who want to keep tabs on what’s coming soon to big and small screens near you. Here’s the latest and greatest: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Of course, the biggest trailer of the […]
  
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• 2 dead, 1 injured in Reynoldsburg after shooting inside vehicle

  10-04-2016 18:08
  
  Two people were killed and a third person injured when they were shot by another person inside a vehicle early Sunday near a Reynoldsburg apartment complex.
  
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• Kasich says he ‘probably’ wouldn’t have signed North Carolina religious-freedom law

  10-04-2016 17:51
  
  WASHINGTON - Ohio Gov. John Kasich said he would “probably not” have signed a bill similar to one passed recently in North Carolina requiring transgender people to use public restrooms that correspond with the gender listed on their birth certificates.
  
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• Up to 6 Columbus high schools could close

  10-04-2016 17:46
  
  Columbus City Schools might close and consolidate up to six of its 20 high schools, reassigning thousands of students, under a massive rebuilding plan unveiled Saturday.
  
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• Joe Blundo commentary: Columbus hopes for part in Spielberg movie

  10-04-2016 17:40
  
  Ready Player One , due for release by Warner Bros. in March 2018, has the attention of area boosters who hope that the film will follow the book in using Columbus as one of its key locales.
  
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• John Switzer | From the Stump: Green Lawn Cemetery’s great horned owls a fierce species

  10-04-2016 15:55
  
  There’s been a lot of excitement recently among birders and photographers over the nest of great horned owls at Green Lawn Cemetery.
  
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• Jack’s Diner owner to reopen Downtown restaurant after wife’s death

  10-04-2016 15:28
  
  Jack’s Diner, a landmark greasy spoon in the heart of Downtown since Jack Holt opened his namesake in 1942, has been closed for almost a year. But last Thursday, a security guard on his lunch break looked inside and got the news that Chris Kowalski’s loyal customers have been seeking. “Yeah, I’m going to reopen soon,” Kowalski said with a wide grin.
  
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• John Switzer | From the Stump: Greenlawn Cemetery’s great horned owls a fierce species

  10-04-2016 15:19
  
  There’s been a lot of excitement recently among birders and photographers over the nest of great horned owls at Greenlawn Cemetery.
  
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• Capitol Insider: Ohio legislators giving cold shoulder to Kasich proposals

  10-04-2016 15:17
  
  With Gov. John Kasich getting all sorts of national attention as a presidential candidate, does that earn him extra credibility with the Ohio legislature? Apparently not. After he called on legislators during his State of the State address last week to revamp the way Ohio's congressional districts are drawn, his fellow Republicans who lead the General Assembly panned the proposal.
  
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• Wildlife making comeback on reclaimed mine lands in Ohio

  10-04-2016 15:09
  
  NEW STRAITSVILLE, Ohio — No one knew what to expect when the Appalachian Ohio group Rural Action fastened motion-sensor cameras to trees in the Wayne National Forest, staked a deer carcass to the ground and waited. A dining table set for wild meat eaters, the bait station was expected to draw some coyotes and crows. And it did. But to the surprised delight of the camera-project participants, a mother bobcat and her three kittens showed up, too.
  
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• Standoff ends in Clintonville in which officer was shot

  10-04-2016 15:04
  
  A Columbus police officer was shot early Sunday during a standoff at a duplex in Clintonville.
  
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• 2 reported dead after shooting in Reynoldsburg

  10-04-2016 14:44
  
  Two people are reported dead after a shooting in Reynoldsburg early Sunday.
  
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• Man charged in shooting deaths of two people in Reynoldsburg

  10-04-2016 14:05
  
  Reynoldsburg police say two people are dead after a shooting early Sunday morning.
  
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• 2 dead in Reynoldsburg shootings

  10-04-2016 14:05
  
  Reynoldsburg police say two people are dead after shootings early Sunday morning.
  
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• Officer shot during SWAT situation in North Columbus

  10-04-2016 13:31
  
  Columbus police say the area of North High Street and West California Avenue has been evacuated due to a SWAT situation. Police say an officer has been shot by an armed gunman in a building.
  
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• Person crtically injured after hit-skip in North Columbus

  10-04-2016 13:27
  
  Police are searching for a car after a person was hit on Busch Boulevard in North Columbus.
  
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• Outdoors | State limits tell story for yellow perch, walleye in Ohio

  10-04-2016 13:09
  
  Nothing will change in terms of Ohio’s yellow perch and walleye limits through April 2017. The Ohio Division of Wildlife announced last week that sports and recreational anglers may keep no more than four walleyes each day from state waters of Lake Erie and its tributaries through this April and again from March 1 to April 30, 2017. From May 1, 2016, through Feb. 28, 2017, the daily limit will be six.
  
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• Forecast: Cloudy & cold, high around 55

  10-04-2016 12:38
  
  A freeze warning is in effect until 11 a.m. and then temps get up to the mid 50s this afternoon. Get the forecast.
  
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• $2.9 million spent to keep rainwater from South Side sewers

  10-04-2016 12:26
  
  A new park has opened where the South Side Settlement House stood for years. The new South Side Settlement Heritage Park, with its playground and basketball court, also will filter storm water, as will four rain gardens the city is building on the South Side, part of a $2.9 million pilot project that is part of the Blueprint Columbus effort to reduce the city’s cost to fix sewer overflows.
  
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• Other than Sebring, Ohio’s lead problems in water minimal

  10-04-2016 12:23
  
  Lead contamination in the Sebring, Ohio, public water supply made national headlines earlier this year, largely because local and state water officials failed to notify the public of the threat. But the percentage of Ohio drinking-water systems with elevated lead since 2013 is well below the national average, a Dispatch analysis of data obtained by the Associated Press has found.
  
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• Convention Center food-pact probe puts 5 on spot

  10-04-2016 12:21
  
  For months, officials in charge of the Greater Columbus Convention Center said the process to select a food vendor for one of the busiest hubs in the region had been legitimate. But from the beginning, records and interviews show, the process had been tainted by John Raphael, a member of the Franklin County Facilities Authority’s board and also a lobbyist for Centerplate, a food-service company that was looking to break into the Columbus market.
  
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• Kasich’s ‘just wait’ promises could run out of time

  10-04-2016 12:00
  
  We’ve heard it so often that it could serve as the unofficial theme of John Kasich’s presidential campaign: “Just wait until … ” Yet with Kasich posting another poor GOP primary performance last week, finishing well behind Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and New York magnate Donald Trump in Wisconsin, the Ohio governor’s “just wait” will have to turn into “just win” somewhere if his campaign is to maintain credibility, many analysts say.
  
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• Less in-person evalutation, more texting: Thoughts on how new NCAA rules directly impact Ohio State

  10-04-2016 11:31
  
  The NCAA passed a few rules on Friday that basically amount to this: Less exposure for recruits, more text messages to their phones. When the NCAA killed satellite camps and decided to deregulate electronic communication between programs and high school prospects, it changed recruiting.
  
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• Will Smith, former Ohio State lineman, killed in New Orleans

  10-04-2016 08:51
  
  Former New Orleans Saints player Will Smith was shot and killed Saturday in what appeared to be a road rage incident that has shocked fans of the much-loved athlete.
  
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• 3 dead in Delaware County crash

  10-04-2016 07:39
  
  Three people are dead after a crash involving multiple vehicles on I-71 N in Delaware County.
  
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• 2 dead in Delaware County crash

  10-04-2016 07:39
  
  Two people are dead after a crash involving multiple vehicles on I-71 N in Delaware County.
  
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• Officer critically wounded during weekend SWAT standoff (UPDATE)

  10-04-2016 07:28
  
  A Columbus police officer is critically injured after being shot early Sunday morning while serving an arrest warrant in Clintonville.
  
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• Officer critically wounded during overnight SWAT standoff (UPDATE)

  10-04-2016 07:28
  
  A Columbus police officer is critically injured after being shot early Sunday morning while serving an arrest warrant in Clintonville.
  
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• Circleville man killed by own truck in multivehicle accident

  10-04-2016 05:13
  
  A driver involved in a multivehicle accident on the South Side was killed when his own pickup truck knocked him off a highway on-ramp, according to the Franklin County sheriff’s office.
  
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• Elderly couple found dead in Pataskala; murder-suicide suspected

  10-04-2016 04:42
  
  he deaths of an elderly couple in Pataskala on Saturday night appear to be a case of murder-suicide, the Licking County sheriff's office said.
  
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• Officer shoots hatchet-wielding woman in Wisconsin Wal-Mart

  10-04-2016 03:52
  
  A police officer fatally shot a developmentally disabled woman inside a western Wisconsin Wal-Mart after she refused to drop a hatchet she had grabbed from a shelf, authorities say.
  
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• Evening Forecast: Scattered snow showers

  10-04-2016 00:45
  
  Snow showers move out tonight, with a low around 25. A freeze warning is in effect at 9 p.m.
  
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• Texas teacher arrested after video shows her repeatedly hitting student

  10-04-2016 00:09
  
  A high school math teacher is facing an assault charge after video surfaced of her hitting a student at least five times in class.
  
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