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• Omar Mateen went to Pulse nightclub hours before shooting

  21-06-2016 23:52
  
  Gunman Omar Mateen entered the Pulse nightclub at least once before he returned to begin the Orlando shooting, investigators told CBS News on Tuesday.CBS News Justice and Homeland Security correspondent Jeff Pegues reported Mateen went into the club and received a wristband, according to law enforcement sources. Mateen left at some point and returned about 2 hours later to begin the attack that left 49 people dead and 53 wounded early on the morning of June 12.After a request for $5 million in F
  
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• Calif. man helps save trapped family, gets $143 bill

  21-06-2016 23:28
  
  A man who helped a family trapped in a crash got a bill in the mail for his unselfish act.Paramedics sent him the first-responder fee of nearly $150 after he says they only checked his pulse and gave him a bottle of water, reports CBS Sacramento.A photo shows the aftermath of the scary rollover crash that trapped a man and his three children trapped inside.Derrick Deanda jumped into action and recounted the heart-pounding moment."I pulled up right as it happened," he said. "There was a guy stand
  
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• Severe weather likely will miss Columbus, but hit Cleveland

  21-06-2016 23:17
  
  Central Ohioans planning on heading north to celebrate with the Cleveland Cavaliers Wednesday might want to carry an umbrella. “Hazardous weather” was supposed to roll into northern Ohio late Tuesday afternoon and is expected to worsen through the week, possibly bringing in hail, strong winds and maybe an isolated tornado, according to the National Weather Service. “Right now, we’re expecting an area of showers and thunderstorms to develop and move eastward,” said J
  
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• Dalon Smoot

  21-06-2016 22:46
  Dalon Smoot was indicted by a Franklin County Grand Jury on charges he shot and killed former Ohio State University cheerleader Gearld Lee Bishop II. According to Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien, Smoot, 21, shot Bishop, 31, during a robbery on Larry Place, in east Columbus on June 11. Bishop was pronounced dead at the scene.
  
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• Ohio lawyers have questions about medical marijuana

  21-06-2016 22:42
  
  Ohio lawyers are inquiring about the legal ethics accompanying medical marijuana.
  
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• Columbus Blue Jackets announce 2016-17 regular season schedule

  21-06-2016 22:26
  
  The Columbus Blue Jackets have released the team’s 2016-17 regular season schedule.The club will play 82 games this season, including half of those at Nationwide Arena.Columbus will start their 16th NHL season against the Boston Bruins on October 13 beginning a three-game home stand for the Blue Jackets.The National Hockey League’s schedule will see the Blue Jackets play every team in the league at least once at home and on the road.In addition to opening night vs. the Bruins, highli
  
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• Ohio conservatives supportive, cautious after meeting with Donald Trump

  21-06-2016 22:21
  
  To abortion opponent Michael Gonidakis, Donald Trump checked all the boxes. Gonidakis and other conservative Christians from Ohio met in both smaller groups and en masse with the presumptive Republican presidential candidate this morning in New York City.
  
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• Offices, Not Condos Now Planned for Pearl Street in Italian Village

  21-06-2016 22:08
  
  Borror Properties will be back in front of the Italian Village Commission tonight with new plans for 848 Pearl Street. The development, which was conceptually approved by the commission last summer as a 14-unit condominium project, is now being modified to accommodate 24,000 square feet of office space. Taking up about 10,000 square feet of […]
  
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• Photo of little girl standing on toilet goes viral for unusual reason

  21-06-2016 22:05
  
  A Michigan mom thought her daughter was just being funny when she was standing on their toilet.But when Stacey Feeley's 3-year-old daughter explained what she was doing, Feeley broke down, reports CBS Pittsburgh.Feeley says her daughter was actually practicing a lockdown drill, hiding from a potential attacker.She posted the photo on Facebook with the following caption:"Politicians - take a look. This is your child, your children, your grandchildren, your great grand children and future generati
  
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• Local caterer chosen to introduce Hillary Clinton at rally

  21-06-2016 22:01
  
  Whitney Bray is no stranger to the spotlight. The 30-year-old Gahanna resident has appeared on Fox's MasterChef and has a monthly segment on Fox 28's Good Day Columbus, but when she took the stage to introduce Hillary Clinton today, she said experienced a brief bout of butterflies in her stomach.
  
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• Columbus City Council Meeting 6/20/16

  21-06-2016 20:32 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Cavs victory parade: Route map and street closures

  21-06-2016 20:27
  Fresh off their stunning NBA Finals comeback, the city of rock and roll is preparing for a celebration like none other.On Wednesday, the team will hold their official championship parade and rally.It will begin Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. outside Quicken Loans Arena.We will live stream the parade on 10TV.com.Check back for a link closer to the start time.The community victory celebration will feature a 60+ unit parade complete with floats, specialty vehicles, and the Ohio State Marching BandROUTE:Th
  
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• Bexley girl, 11, killed at Indiana camp

  21-06-2016 20:00
  
  An 11-year-old Bexley girl was killed early this morning after a tree fell on her summer camp cabin in southeastern Indiana. The tree was struck by lightning and fell about 2:30 a.m. at Camp Livingston in Bennington, Indiana, according to the Switzerland County Sheriff's Office. Severe storms had passed through the area.
  
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• Newark company fined for safety violations after fire

  21-06-2016 19:45
  
  NEWARK — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued dozens of workplace safety violations to a Newark food additive manufacturer after a December explosion and fire at the facility injured two of its workers and two contractors. OSHA’s investigation found that Arboris, located at 1780 Tamarack Road, violated procedures for handling hazardous materials and did not have emergency shutdown procedures for some of its equipment
  
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• Kasich signs orders to aid low-income families, speed up addiction counseling

  21-06-2016 19:44
  
  Gov. John Kasich signed an executive order today to fund after-school enrichment programs for poor children, help moms with low birth-weight babies, boost former prisoners, and provide winter coats for kids.
  
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• Clinton warns that Trump would plunge economy into recession

  21-06-2016 19:41
  
  Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that Republican rival Donald Trump would send the U.S. economy back into recession, warning his "reckless" approach would hurt workers still trying to recover from the 2008 economic turbulence."Every day we see how reckless and careless Trump is. He's proud of it," Clinton said. "Well that's his choice. Except when he's asking to be our president. Then it's our choice."Clinton's address in Ohio, one of the nation's most imp
  
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• Lancaster mayor pleads not guilty to tax charges

  21-06-2016 19:20
  
  LANCASTER — Lancaster Mayor Brian S. Kuhn has pleaded not guilty to felony charges of failing to file a state income-tax return in 2014 and 2015. Kuhn entered the pleas this morning at his arraignment in Fairfield County Common Pleas Court before retired assigned Judge Linton D. Lewis.
  
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• Female teen mason invited to national competition

  21-06-2016 19:15
  
  Shania Clifford might just compete on a national stage after all. The 2017 MCAA Convention at the World of Concrete and World of Masonry will take place on Jan. 18. The competition begins with a masonry skills competition in which contestants, who already have won regional contests, are divided into three classes based on experience.
  
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• Hillary Clinton uses Donald Trump's own words against him in Columbus speech

  21-06-2016 19:07
  
  In her first stop to Columbus as the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton focuses on the economy and her Republican opponent Donald Trump.
  
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• Killer refuses to cooperate, gets 5 years added to sentence

  21-06-2016 19:05
  
  A man who pleaded guilty to being the triggerman in a 2013 homicide on the South Side received an additional five years in prison Tuesday for failing to cooperate in the prosecution of his co-defendants. Terrille D. Ellis, 27, had agreed to testify against two co-defendants as part of the plea agreement he reached with Franklin County prosecutors in October 2014. In May 2015, Ellis refused to testify against one his co-defendants, breaking his agreement, Assistant Prosecutor Jason Manning said.
  
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• Columbus wins $40M Smart City transportation grant

  21-06-2016 18:43
  
  The City of Columbus is set to receive a massive grant from the government in an effort to advance transportation technology.The Columbus Dispatch reports the city won the massive $40 million grant, edging out six other cities vying for the funds.Senator Sherrod Brown confirmed the results to the newspaper on Tuesday.Last month, Mayor Andrew Ginther said the grant would make Columbus “the Silicon Valley of intelligent transportation systems.”According to the city, the grant will &ldq
  
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• Girl, 11, from Columbus area killed at Indiana summer camp

  21-06-2016 18:33
  BENNINGTON, IN - An 11-year-old girl from the Columbus, Ohio area has died after a tree fell on her while at a summer camp in Indiana. Camp Livingston in Bennington issued a statement on its Facebook page saying the girl was injured around 3am this morning when lightning struck the tree.
  
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• Book resurrects recipes from 3 iconic central Ohio restaurants

  21-06-2016 18:33
  Three former central Ohio restaurants are being remembered for their contributions to the nation's food scene in a new book chronicling historic American restaurants and their recipes. In "The Book of Lost Recipes" by New York author Jaya Saxena, dishes from the Kahiki Supper Club and the Maramor Restaurant, both Columbus icons, and the San-Dar Smorgasbord of Bellville rub elbows with those from Chasen's of West Hollywood, California, and Maxim's Chicago.
  
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• Proposed Healthcare Workers and Patients Protection Ordinance

  21-06-2016 18:26 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Columbus Wins $50 Million Smart City Grant

  21-06-2016 18:13
  
  Columbus has won the US Department of Transportation’s Smart City challenge. The $40 million federal grant – along with $10 million from Vulcan Inc. – will be used to invest in what’s being called the next wave of transportation innovation. The Columbus application includes plans for driverless vehicles, advanced traffic analytics, and “intelligent infrastructure,” all […]
  
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• Watch live: Hillary Clinton, in Columbus speech, to slam Trump on economy

  21-06-2016 17:53
  
  In her first stop to Columbus as the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton will focus the speech on the economy and her Republican opponent Donald Trump.
  
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• Columbus awarded $50 million in Smart City grants

  21-06-2016 17:33
  
  Columbus will be the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Smart City. The city will receive $50 million in grant funding from the federal government and Vulcan Inc. to develop the city into a test track for intelligent transportation systems. Federal officials will be in Columbus on Thursday to make the announcement in Linden.
  
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• Columbus girl, 11, killed at Indiana camp

  21-06-2016 17:31
  
  An 11-year-old girl from the Columbus area was killed early this morning after a tree fell on her summer camp cabin in southeastern Indiana. The tree was struck by lightning and fell about 2:30 a.m. at Camp Livingston in Bennington, Indiana, according to the Switzerland County Sheriff's Office. Severe storms had passed through the area. It’s not yet known how many campers were inside the cabin, but three adults were with them. No one else was seriously injured.
  
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• Tipp City blaze destroys $1 million worth of out-of-print books

  21-06-2016 17:04
  
  TIPP CITY, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say an estimated $1 million in inventory was lost in a bookstore fire that broke out twice within a few hours and injured three people in western Ohio.
  
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• The Refectory Celebrates 40th Anniversary

  21-06-2016 17:00
  
  Implore a seasoned Columbus bon vivant what comes to mind when they think ‘fine dining’ – The Refectory will likely be their hair-trigger response. From the exterior, The Refectory is unassuming; tucked off of Bethel Road in an 1840s-era church. Make no mistake though – the restaurant has been a staple in Columbus’s upscale dining […]
  
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• Central Ohio’s jobless rate drops to 3.8 percent

  21-06-2016 16:43
  
  Central Ohio’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.8 percent last month with three counties in the region posting some of the lowest unemployment rates in the state. The jobless rate was 3.9 percent in April.
  
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• Kroger Launching Online Ordering/Pickup System in Central Ohio

  21-06-2016 16:38
  
  Officials from Kroger announced today that the company is launching an online ordering and pickup system at select stores in Central Ohio. The program will launch this Thursday, June 23rd at the stores located on Bethel Road in Northwest Columbus and on Hamilton Road in Gahanna. “We look forward to providing our central Ohio customers […]
  
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• Columbus girl, 11, killed in Indiana after tree falls on cabin

  21-06-2016 16:25
  
  A young girl from Columbus was killed early Tuesday morning when a tree fell onto a cabin in southeast Indiana.CBS affiliate WKRC reports the girl was attending Camp Livingston in Bennington, Indiana when an overnight storm caused a tree to topple onto the cabin where she was inside.Bennington is located about 55 miles southwest of Cincinnati.The Switzerland County Sheriff's Office has confirmed to 10TV the 11-year-old was from Columbus, Ohio.Her identity has not been released. A Facebook post b
  
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• Low-flying planes fighting gypsy moth

  21-06-2016 15:50
  
  Low-flying small planes seen over much of Franklin County this morning are treating the area in an effort to fend off the gypsy moth, according to the Ohio Department of Agriculture. Airplanes will fly today and Wednesday, weather permitting, between 100-200 feet above the tree tops and buildings to apply the treatment throughout the day.
  
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• Authorities: UK man arrested at rally planned to kill Trump

  21-06-2016 15:43
  
  A British man arrested at a weekend Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas tried to grab a police officer's gun so he could kill the presidential candidate after planning an assassination for about a year, according to authorities.U.S. Secret Service agents said Michael Steven Sandford approached a Las Vegas police officer at the campaign stop to say he wanted Trump's autograph, but that he then tried to take the weapon.A complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Nevada charges Sandford, 20, wit
  
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• One dead in Hocking Co. crash

  21-06-2016 15:14
  
  One person has died in a crash Tuesday morning in Hocking County.The crash occurred on SR 93 North near Geiger Road.A portion of SR 93 remains closed as authorities investigate.The identity of the deceased was not immediately made public, and no other information was available.
  
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• Hillary Clinton set to talk economy in Columbus

  21-06-2016 14:55
  
  Hillary Clinton plans to portray Republican Donald Trump as an erratic and unfit steward of the nation's economy, returning to Ohio to press the case that workers would bear the brunt of the business mogul's policies.Clinton's Tuesday address in Columbus will aim to place a marker on the economy in a similar manner in which she did on foreign policy earlier this month with a searing takedown of Trump in San Diego.The event will be held at the Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center on Cleveland
  
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• Justice Insider: Man slain last week had denounced neighborhood killing in 2005

  21-06-2016 14:49
  
  Early last Thursday, a 31-year-old man named Rayshaun Steward was fatally shot on the South Side. As best detectives can tell, he was shot on South Champion Avenue and ran a short distance before collapsing in the grass near the intersection of Smith Road and Oakwood Avenue. In 2005, Steward was interviewed by a Dispatch reporter about a fatal shooting on the Near East Side.
  
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• Story of man claiming he was in Pulse during massacre questioned

  21-06-2016 14:41
  
  CBS NEWS -- When Clint Lampkin took the stage Saturday at a memorial service for the Orlando mass shooting victims and recounted what he said was his near-death experience in the Pulse nightclub, he was given a standing ovation by the hundreds of people in the crowd and hugs by people on stage with him.But now there are questions about whether he was actually there, reports CBS Huntsville affiliate WHNT-TV.One of Lampkin's Facebook friends from his home state of Arkansas sent WHNT a screenshot f
  
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• Best Bites BBQ Preview: Land Yacht BBQ

  21-06-2016 14:30
  
  With two full seasons under their belts, Land Yacht BBQ has become well known in the food truck community as a go-to source for barbecue on the go since opening in early 2014. The converted airstream can often be found at various festivals and events around town, and this Thursday you’ll be able to find […]
  
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• Accused thief is a former nurse's aide

  21-06-2016 14:27
  The Columbus woman suspected of stealing thousands of items from assisted living facilities formerly worked as a nurse's aide, according to the Delaware County prosecutor.
  
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• Glimcher CEO quits; name change planned

  21-06-2016 14:15
  
  Michael P. Glimcher has resigned as CEO, vice chairman and director of WP Glimcher Inc., the company announced Monday evening. The company also said it plans to change its name to Washington Prime Group Inc., something that will be addressed at the Aug. 30 shareholders meeting.
  
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• Dublin insurance agent loses license over policies sold as investments

  21-06-2016 13:58
  
  The state has revoked the license of a Dublin insurance agent who the state said misrepresented life insurance policies as an investment.
  
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• Clinton, in Columbus speech today, to slam Trump on economy

  21-06-2016 13:48
  
  In her first stop to Columbus as the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton will focus today’s speech on the economy and her Republican opponent Donald Trump.
  
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• Justice Insder: Man slain last week had denounced neighborhood killing in 2005

  21-06-2016 13:47
  
  Early last Thursday, a 31-year-old man named Rayshaun Steward was fatally shot on the South Side. As best detectives can tell, he was shot on South Champion Avenue and ran a short distance before collapsing in the grass near the intersection of Smith Road and Oakwood Avenue. In 2005, Steward was interviewed by a Dispatch reporter about a fatal shooting on the Near East Side.
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: How Sen. Rob Portman, Sen. Sherrod Brown voted on gun control measures

  21-06-2016 13:35
  
  The U.S. Senate made a procedural vote on four gun control measures on Monday in response to the Orlando shooting that killed 49 people.
  
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• More kids living in poverty in Ohio, report says

  21-06-2016 13:32
  
  More Ohio children are living in poverty, yet despite their struggles, many are making choices that could lead to brighter futures. A report on the well-being of children found more Ohio teens are graduating high school, fewer are getting pregnant and fewer are using drugs and alcohol. More have health insurance, and fewer are dying before their 18th birthdays.
  
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• Model of Jeep that killed Star Trek actor in midst of recall

  21-06-2016 13:25
  
  The SUV that rolled down a driveway and killed "Star Trek" actor Anton Yelchin was being recalled because the gear shifters have confused drivers, causing the vehicles to roll away unexpectedly, government records show.Yelchin died when his 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee rolled down his driveway early Sunday, pinning the 27-year-old against a brick mailbox pillar and a security fence.Jeep Grand Cherokees were in the process of being recalled because the gear shifters have confused drivers, causing the
  
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• See yellow planes flying low around Columbus? Here’s why

  21-06-2016 13:07
  
  Were you woken up this morning by small, yellow planes buzzing in the sky?Don’t worry, it’s just the Department of Agriculture spraying for gypsy moths.According to the DOA’s website, the gypsy moth is a non-native, invasive species that has been advancing into Ohio from Pennsylvania and Michigan over the past decade.In its caterpillar stage, it feeds on the leaves of over 300 different tree and shrub species and is especially fond of oak. A healthy tree can usually withstand o
  
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• Clinton, Trump deadlocked in new Ohio poll

  21-06-2016 12:50
  
  Despite the controversy Donald Trump continues to generate, he and Hillary Clinton are tied in a new poll of bellwether Ohio. Both are at 40 percent at a time when Clinton leads virtually every major national poll. The duo also is essentially deadlocked in Pennsylvania as well, while Clinton leads by 8 points in Florida in Quinnipiac University’s poll of swing states.
  
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