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• Death toll mounts following flash flooding in Texas

  01-05-2016 23:35
  
  Authorities have found a sixth body following flash flooding in East Texas that also killed a woman and her four great-grandchildren.
  
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• 6 people, including 4 children, die in Florida car wreck

  01-05-2016 23:28
  
  Six people, including four children, have died from a weekend crash on a South Florida interstate, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
  
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• Evening Forecast: Chance of showers and thunderstorms

  01-05-2016 23:13
  
  Some storms could be severe, with large hail and damaging winds.
  
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• Did an Ohio woman sway boy to kill his dad? Court raises doubts

  01-05-2016 22:36
  
  The paramedics who looked at Robert Breininger's lifeless body in his twin bed suspected right away that whatever happened didn't match the story being told by his 10-year-old son.
  
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• WEATHER ALERT: Severe thunderstorm warnings in Central Ohio

  01-05-2016 21:15
  
  A severe thunderstorm warning is in effect for Ashland, Knox, Marion, Morrow and Richland counties until 3:45 p.m., and for Delaware, Logan and Union counties until 3:15 p.m.
  
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• Malia Obama reveals where she will go to college

  01-05-2016 20:21
  
  President Barack Obama's daughter Malia will take a year off after high school and attend Harvard University in 2017.
  
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• Fort Bragg soldier charged with rape of fellow soldier

  01-05-2016 20:07
  
  Fayetteville police have charged a Fort Bragg soldier with kidnapping and rape of a soldier assigned to his unit.
  
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• Longtime chef reveals why Prince "wasn't himself" in recent months

  01-05-2016 19:56
  
  On stage, Prince was still captivating audiences at recent performances in Australia and California. He hosted a pop-up party at his Paisley Park studio, and there were few outward signs in his final months that anything was wrong.
  
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• Trailer Roundup: Snowden, Weiner & More

  01-05-2016 16:00
  
  From biopics to documentaries, and first person shooters to Netflix binge watching. You want to know what’s coming soon, and that’s what “Trailer Roundup” provides each week for our pop-culture and multimedia-savvy readers. Here’s the latest and greatest: Snowden Prolific filmmaker Oliver Stone returns to the big screen this year with Snowden, an action-laden biopic […]
  
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• Man facing murder charge in fatal Hilltop hit-and-run on Christmas

  01-05-2016 15:42
  
  Columbus police this weekend charged an 18-year-old man with murder in a Christmas Day hit-and-run homicide. Emory “Tommy” Clay, 18, is accused of intentionally running down Houng Lamngeun, 32, on Dec. 25 in the Hilltop at the intersection of Whitehead Road and S. Richardson Avenue.
  
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• Outdoors notebook | Ohio’s wild turkey numbers no record, but on par with 2015

  01-05-2016 14:53
  
  Serious wild-turkey hunters typically are all-business, and business isn’t as good as it once was. A lot of that, however, probably rests with the cyclical inclinations of nature. Not that Ohio’s current spring turkey season looks anything like a bust. Last year’s total of 17,652 bearded birds checked during the four-week hunt appears to be in reach.
  
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• Train cars leaking chemicals after derailment in D.C.

  01-05-2016 14:43
  
  A CSX freight train has derailed in Washington, D.C., leaving several cars overturned and a chemical leak.
  
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• Eddie Rickenbacker’s home sits idle despite flurry of other neighborhood projects

  01-05-2016 14:23
  
  The house next door is being gutted and restored. A nearby garage is being converted into a community center. Deeper in the neighborhood, the foundations for 47 new houses have been laid. As for the boyhood home of World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker? Well, the city will paint it this summer. But there is still no timetable on when it will be converted into a museum.
  
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• Capitol Insider: Pot-growing lessons an incentive for petition circulators

  01-05-2016 14:08
  
  Reporter Randy Ludlow discovered that Ohioans for Medical Marijuana is offering an interesting prize to volunteers who gather more than 100 petition signatures this weekend.
  
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• The 2016 Columbus Festival Season

  01-05-2016 14:00
  
  Festival season is once again upon us! Warm weather and fun outdoor festivals, with music, food, home tours, funnel cakes, and more! Below is a list of festivals beginning now and running through December 2016. Celebrate the opening of the new Main Library and the Topiary Park redesign on June 25! New festivals this year […]
  
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• Costs soar at century-old parking garage bought by Columbus

  01-05-2016 14:00
  
  After Columbus voters approved an income-tax increase in 2009 to bolster the city's budget, officials bought a 100-year-old, run-down parking garage near City Hall.
  
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• White House Correspondents' Dinner pokes fun at presidential race

  01-05-2016 13:51
  
  It was President Obama's final White House Correspondents' Dinner and he ended his speech by saying "Obama out" and dropping the mic. Read more.
  
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• Pike County slayings put focus on Appalachia’s challenges

  01-05-2016 13:49
  
  PEEBLES, Ohio — At the Hillside nursing home, where Dana Rhoden bathed and fed and comforted the elderly and the sick, colleagues sift through bunches of memories and pluck the prettiest ones. The deaths of Rhoden and seven other family members in what is — and hopefully will remain — the largest mass killing in America this year naturally turned a spotlight on both the victims and their Appalachian communities.
  
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• Sunday Forecast: Scattered showers & storms

  01-05-2016 13:37
  
  There will be scattered showers and storms today with a high of 74 degrees. Get the forecast.
  
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• USA Track & Field Half-Marathon | Landry breaks away from pack for win

  01-05-2016 13:14
  
  The corner of East Columbus Street and South 3rd lies in the heart of German Village. It’s where Hausfrau Haven sits on the corner and the cross streets lead to parks and beer gardens. With a handful of the nation’s top runners at his heels Saturday morning, it’s also where Christo Landry made his move. Right at the 10-mile mark of the 2016 USA Track & Field Half Marathon Championship, the 30-year-old Charlotte, N.C., native took control of the race.
  
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• Iraq: Car bombings kill at least 18 people in southern city

  01-05-2016 13:12
  
  Iraqi officials say separate car bombings in southern Iraq have killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens. Read more.
  
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• Editorial: A Reintroduction to Columbus Underground

  01-05-2016 13:00
  
  As Columbus Underground celebrates its fifteenth year in 2016, we thought it would be a good time to reintroduce ourselves to the community. Not only has Columbus changed drastically over the past decade and a half, but so has Columbus Underground, as well as its mission and purpose. Without diving too deep into the history, […]
  
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• Coal-mine damage under Rt. 33 to affect traffic near Nelsonville

  01-05-2016 12:35
  
  NELSONVILLE, Ohio — The Ohio Department of Transportation is preparing to fill and stabilize coal-mine voids lurking beneath Rt. 33 that are causing a stretch of the pavement in Athens County to sag. The telltale sign of the underground spaces is a dip in the westbound lanes of Rt. 33 just south of the Nelsonville bypass.
  
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• Battelle to gather nature data for feds

  01-05-2016 12:31
  
  We've seen what climate change can do: Wild temperatures. Wilder storms.
  
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• Columbus to spend billions fixing waterlines, sewers

  01-05-2016 12:28
  
  Call it growing pains. The biggest portion of Columbus' record-setting capital budget will be spent on improvements designed to stop untreated sewage from overflowing into central Ohio's creeks and rivers, and to upgrade the city's public water system.
  
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• Man arrested in fatal Hilltop hit-and-run on Christmas

  01-05-2016 12:18
  
  Columbus police have arrested a man and charged him with murder in a fatal hit-and-run on the Hilltop on Christmas.
  
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• Tiberi might challenge Sherrod Brown for U.S. Senate in 2018

  01-05-2016 12:15
  
  WASHINGTON — One of the state’s longest-serving Republican U.S. House members is strongly considering a bid for the Senate in 2018. Rep. Pat Tiberi, R-Genoa Township, insists he is very much focused on his own re-election in the central Ohio congressional district he has represented since 2000, but behind the scenes, multiple GOP sources say he is talking to Republicans across the state about a potential challenge to two-term Sen. Sherrod Brown.
  
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• Will ‘electability’ argument help Kasich?

  01-05-2016 12:13
  
  Having suffered one crushing defeat after another, John Kasich’s battered presidential campaign rests on one claim: Polls show he’s the most-electable Republican candidate. But experts in public-opinion polling question the value of using so-called horse-race polls in April to project November election results.
  
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• Pike County murders put focus on Appalachia’s challenges

  01-05-2016 12:06
  
  PEEBLES, Ohio — At the Hillside nursing home, where Dana Rhoden bathed and fed and comforted the elderly and the sick, colleagues sift through bunches of memories and pluck the prettiest ones. The deaths of Rhoden and seven other family members in what is — and hopefully will remain — the largest mass killing in America this year naturally turned a spotlight on both the victims and their Appalachian communities.
  
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• Concert Preview: Robbie Fulks at Natalie’s Coalfired Pizza

  01-05-2016 12:00
  
  Upland Stories, the thirteenth album by alt-country singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks, is an honest and contemplative chronicle of his formative years in North Carolina and Virginia. If you’re seeking a catchy, kitschy country record, you’re not going to find it here, but the beauty of this work by Fulks lies in the tracks’ ebb and flow […]
  
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• Best Bets: Vacation

  01-05-2016 11:51
  
  10TV’s Brittany Begley has your Best Bets to help you save time, money and frustration while planning for your next vacation.
  
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• Grove City teen dies after Pleasant Township crash

  01-05-2016 11:39
  
  A teenage passenger died after a car crashed into a utility pole in Pleasant Township on Saturday night.
  
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• New video may show last glimpse of Florida teens lost at sea

  01-05-2016 11:26
  
  Newly released surveillance video may have captured the last time two Florida teenagers were seen alive before disappearing at sea.
  
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• Kasich says his parents, community shaped his ambitions

  01-05-2016 10:57
  
  McKEES ROCKS, Pa. — On an August day in 1987, Dennis Lunardi noticed his neighbor across the street washing his car. Again. “He had a brand new car that only had 3,000 miles on it. Before that, he drove junkers all the time. And he was so proud of that car, he would be outside washing it every day," Lunardi said. “And when I walked out, I said, ‘John, you’re going to wear the paint off of that car!’ " A few hours later, Lunardi got a call at work.
  
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• 17-year-old killed in Pleasant Township crash

  01-05-2016 10:54
  
  The Franklin County Sheriff's Office is investigating a crash in Pleasant Township that killed a 17-year-old Saturday night. Read more.
  
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• Bengals get defensive tackle, restock on final day of draft

  01-05-2016 04:14
  
  The Bengals used the final day of the draft to help their defense, which is already one of the NFL's best.
  
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• Browns usher in new era with high-character draft class

  01-05-2016 04:13
  
  Sitting at a crowded dais alongside four new teammates, each dressed smartly in suits with Browns lapel pins, linebacker Emmanuel Ogbah already feels a strong vibe about Cleveland's football future.
  
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• Child struck by car in Clintonville

  01-05-2016 01:33
  
  A section of N. High Street in Clintonville remains closed this evening while Columbus police investigate a pedestrian-car collision that has left a child in critical condition.
  
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• Evening Forecast: Showers continue

  01-05-2016 01:02
  
  Showers continue this evening, with the possibility of thunderstorms after midnight.
  
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• Adventures at PAX East 2016

  01-05-2016 00:42
  
  Last weekend I went with my team at Multivarious to Boston for the annual PAX East gaming conference. This was my first major expo I’ve been to, outside of GDEX of course (cough, cough Shameless Plug cough), and it brought about a lot of revelations about being in the game industry, how to run a […]
  
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• On a rainy day, friends, family bury Pike County shooting victim Hannah Gilley

  01-05-2016 00:19
  
  OTWAY, Ohio — The man ignored the steady rain pelting his borrowed suit and stopped about a block from the funeral home to share his memories of his high school friend. He had flown from Texas after being granted special permission from his Air Force commander to say goodbye to Hannah Hazel Gilley.
  
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