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• Columbus police search for Wendy's robbery suspect

  03-07-2016 23:40
  
  Columbus Police are searching for a man they say robbed a Wendy's restaurant in northeast Columbus. It happened Saturday morning at the Wendy's located at 2061 E. Dublin Granville Rd.Police say a man entered the restaurant around 10:25 a.m., displayed a handgun, demanded money and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.The man is described as black, between 25 to 35 years of age, 5-foot-7 and around 165 pounds. He was seen wearing a tan "beret-style" hat. Anyone with any information is asked to
  
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• 2 gators involved in deadly Disney toddler attack, dad says

  03-07-2016 21:37
  
  The father of a toddler killed by an alligator at Disney last month told rescue officials two alligators were involved in the attack, according to emails from the Reedy Creek Fire Department.Matt Graves said he was attacked by a second alligator as he tried to reach his 2-year-old son after the boy was pulled into the water outside Disney's upscale Grand Floridian Resort.Capt. Tom Wellons described his interaction with the Nebraska father in emails to his supervisors obtained by The Orlando Sent
  
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• Witnesses say man injured in New York stepped on explosive

  03-07-2016 21:16
  
  At least one person was injured in an explosion in Central Park Sunday morning.CBS New York reports one victim suffered a severe injured leg and was taken to Bellevue Hospital for treatment by emergency responders.Although investigators haven't determined the cause of the explosion, possible fireworks are being investigated.An eyewitness told CBS New York that a man was climbing a rock structure and stepped on something that "exploded."The extent of the victim's injuries is unknown at this time.
  
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• Connecticut teacher resigns after bringing gun to middle school

  03-07-2016 21:02
  
  A middle school teacher in Newtown, Connecticut, accused of carrying a loaded .45-caliber pistol in a holster inside the school has resigned.Newtown School Superintendent Joseph Erardi confirmed Saturday that Jason Adams resigned at the end of the school year.The teacher at Newtown Middle School was arrested on April 6 after police say he was seen with the pistol and detained by school security.Police say he had a valid pistol permit, but Connecticut state law prohibits possession of firearms on
  
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• The 2015 Doo Dah Parade proceeds down High Street. Credit: Courtesy of Doo Dah Parade

  03-07-2016 21:01
  On the Fourth of July the United States celebrates its independence from Great Britain. On that same day, the people of Columbus will display their independent spirits through comedic floats and zany costumes.
  
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• Report: Fears grow Zika virus could act like STD

  03-07-2016 20:32
  
  The Zika virus, the mosquito-born disease that has spread rapidly through South America to the United States, has been known to be transmitted at least on occasion through sex.In May, health officials began urging women who have been in areas hit by the virus to take precautions with their sexual partners and wait longer to conceive.Some new studies indicate the disease may spread more frequently than thought through sex, The New York Times reports."Two reports now suggest that women in Latin Am
  
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• Worshipers attacked at mosques in Texas and Florida

  03-07-2016 20:08
  
  A pair of attacks on Muslims near their mosques this weekend may be a sign of increasing physical violence against worshipers of Islam in the United States. It is a fear many have expressed as the issue of Muslims in the U.S. takes center stage during the 2016 presidential race.Authorities said they have arrested a suspect in the early Saturday beating of a man outside a Florida mosque that Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen had attended, and an Islamic group said the victim was a Muslim.Mean
  
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• Man stabbed after fireworks show at Indian Lake State Park

  03-07-2016 18:36
  
  A man was stabbed after a fireworks show at Indian Lake State Park on Saturday, officials say.The Ohio Department of Natural Resources says an altercation took place between two men after the show.One of the men was stabbed, and transported by medical helicopter to a local hospital.The other man involved was arrested by state park officers.Officials say the two men weren't patrons of the park - but rather fireworks observers.At this time, the names of the men haven't been released.Stay with 10TV
  
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• Medicaid tax change to cost Ohio, counties

  03-07-2016 16:49
  
  Debate over the next two-year state budget won’t start for seven months, but state officials already are wrestling with a looming billion-dollar budget hole, plus a $400 million local funding hit that includes bus services. Federal regulators are putting an end to a state sales tax structure that allowed Ohio to collect hundreds of millions of dollars per year in federal Medicaid matching funds.
  
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• Columbus City Schools Levy: By the Numbers

  03-07-2016 16:40
  
  As the Board of Education begins to move a levy proposal to the ballot in November for the Facilities Master Plan Update, the district’s numbers will increasingly become the focus of community interest. The numbers presently in the spotlight range from 17.7 to 22 — that’s the spectrum of potential increases in property tax. The […]
  
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• Want to Sample New Healthy Foods Items from Pocket Produce?

  03-07-2016 15:44
  
  The brand new Pocket Produce in Clintonville has been open for exactly one month, and it’s quickly become a hit with healthy food fans from all over the city. The restaurant’s casual setup is designed for people who are looking for the trifecta of: fast, affordable and nutritious. All salads land in the $8.00 to […]
  
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• Boys arrested with BB guns in Parma ordered to write about Tamir Rice

  03-07-2016 15:44
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Two boys arrested with BB guns in a suburban park have been ordered to write essays about Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old who had a pellet gun when he was fatally shot by Cleveland police outside a recreation center.
  
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• Replacing window screens on your own

  03-07-2016 15:17
  You don't need an expert to replace your old window screens.Michael Lynch with Schreiner Ace Hardware shows us how we can do it ourselves.Schreiner Ace Hardware is also having a special event this month to help raise money for Nationwide Children's Hospital.You can learn more by calling 614-263-5678.
  
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• Experience Columbus

  03-07-2016 14:30
  Megumi Robinson from Experience Columbus joins Brittany Begley to talk about some of the events coming up this week.The events include a car show, Picnic with the Pops and a music festival.
  
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• Purple Heart 5K

  03-07-2016 14:19
  The Purple Heart is an award only earned through being wounded in combat while defending the United States.Tom Beck and Cathy Doerr with the Columbus Chapter 500 of the Military Order of the Purple Heart tell us about a special 5K honoring service members who have earned the award.You can find more information about the Purple Heart 5K here.
  
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• Trump statements, slow start put pivotal Southwest at risk

  03-07-2016 13:55
  
  Once a swing state in presidential elections, Colorado has teetered on the brink of becoming solidly Democratic. Donald Trump may have pushed it over the edge.Trump's disparaging words about Mexicans, negative comments about women and weak campaign organization have punctuated the state's shift from a nip-and-tuck battleground to one that's Democrat-friendly.For the first time in more than 20 years, there are now more registered Democrats in the state than Republicans.And it's not just Colorado.
  
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• Small-house concept for senior care gives residents a feeling of home

  03-07-2016 13:54
  
  Despite a more than five-decade age difference, Elva Gillis, 88, and Cynthia Nkrumah, a 35-year-old nurse's aide, sat side-by-side on a recliner in the living room, giggling and eating apple slices like a couple of school girls. By all appearances, inside and out, this New Albany-area nursing home could be any house, in any neighborhood — and that's the beauty of it.
  
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• Russia files appeal against doping ban from Olympic track

  03-07-2016 13:49
  
  The Russian Olympic Committee says it has appealed a ban of its athletics team from next month's Olympics over doping. ROC spokesman Konstantin Vybornov confirmed to The Associated Press by e-mail that a case had been filed with the Court of Arbitration for Sport and would be heard July 19. If Russia wins, the Olympic application deadline "will be extended" to let Russian athletes apply, the ROC's legal department head Alexandra Brilliantova told the Tass news agency.The case is being brought jo
  
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• "Spooked" cow kills Massachusetts boy working with dad

  03-07-2016 13:32
  
  CBS NEWS - A cow trampled to death an eight-year-old boy at his father's home in Georgetown early Saturday afternoon, officials say.The incident happened outside a Jewett Street home shortly after 12:30 p.m., according to the Essex District Attorney's Office. The badly injured boy was rushed to Anna Jacques Hospital in Newburyport where he was pronounced dead, reports CBS Boston.Investigators say the boy's father owns about 20 cows.In the "George Carter Memorial Fund" GoFundMe fundraising page,
  
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• Police: Man shoots wife, brother-in-law before killing self

  03-07-2016 13:25
  
  Authorities say a man shot his estranged wife and her brother before fatally shooting himself.Clearcreek Township police responded to a home just north of Springboro around 6 p.m. Saturday to find a man dead from self-inflicted gunshot wounds in the driveway. The man's wife and brother-in-law had been shot and were both taken to area hospitals.A Clearcreek Township police sergeant said Sunday morning the female victim was last listed in critical condition and the male in stable condition.Police
  
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• Union County farm grows hops, barley to make all-Ohio beer possible

  03-07-2016 13:12
  
  Barrels of beer are growing in Matt Cunningham’s backyard, lots of barrels of beer. “It’s hard to put a number on it, but plenty,” Cunningham said as he ran a hand through thigh-high amber stalks of two-row malting barley at his Union County farm. “It’s a lot.” The 60 rolling acres behind his house, and a row of telephone poles wound with 100 hop bines, represent half of beer’s classic ingredient list, along with yeast and water. Cunningham began g
  
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• No place like home for child care

  03-07-2016 13:01
  Single mom of three Kelley Lewis saw opportunity when her in-home day care quickly built a wait-list of families seeking what she offered. It prompted her to create BungalowBranch, which she believes is the first and only in-home child-care franchise in the country.
  
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• Columbus police search for shooting suspect

  03-07-2016 13:01
  
  Columbus police are searching for a suspect after a 19-year-old was shot in an alley.It happened in the 1700 block of N. 4th Street at 1:15 a.m. Sunday.The victim says he was in a fight when and unknown person took out a gun and fired several shots at him.The victim was shot in the hand and taken to the hospital, but will be okay.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com for the latest developments.
  
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• Caring for 211-year-old Granville cemetery is community effort

  03-07-2016 12:52
  
  GRANVILLE — Jim and Minxie Fannin and Lyn Boone talk about the occupants of 300 S. Main St. like they’re introducing friends at a party. Johnny Goodrich. David Butler. Daniel Baker and Jerusha, his wife. Louisa Sawyer. Most of the friends they speak so fondly of have been dead for nearly 200 years, buried at the Old Colony Burying Ground. But they are still being cared for like family.
  
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• Florida officials investigating fiery crash that left 5 dead

  03-07-2016 12:47
  
  Authorities are investigating today what caused a driver of a decades-old school bus to run a flashing red light and collide with a tractor-trailer causing both to burst into flames killing five people and injuring 25 others. Wakulla County Sheriff Charlie Creel said Saturday that speed was not a factor in the early morning crash. The driver of the bus, 56-year-old Elie Dupiche of Belle Glade, was hospitalized in critical condition.Creel said a small child from the bus and the driver of the trac
  
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• Caring for 211-year-old Granville cemetery is village effort

  03-07-2016 12:42
  
  GRANVILLE — Jim and Minxie Fannin and Lyn Boone talk about the occupants of 300 S. Main St. like they’re introducing friends at a party. Johnny Goodrich. David Butler. Daniel Baker and Jerusha, his wife. Louisa Sawyer. Most of the friends they speak so fondly of have been dead for nearly 200 years, buried at the Old Colony Burying Ground. But they are still being cared for like family.
  
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• Outdoors notebook | Removal of Sandusky River dam could boost spawning by walleye

  03-07-2016 12:27
  
  If this summer's catch reports can be a valid indicator, the foreseeable future for walleye fishing on Lake Erie looks solid.
  
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• Fourth of July events in Central Ohio

  03-07-2016 12:14
  
  Here’s a look at the events going on in Central Ohio that you can take part in this 4th of July. 2016 DooDah Festival in Columbus:10 a.m. to 7 p.m. – Block party with food, drinks and prizes at the corner of Buttles & High Street1 p.m. – 33rd annual parade (starts on Park Street, heads north from Goodale Boulevard) Gahanna:10:30 a.m. – Annual Lions Club parade (starts at Clark Hall, heads west on Granville Street, ends at Stygler Road)5 – 9 p.m. – Live mus
  
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• More central Ohio kids to gain access to preschool

  03-07-2016 12:00
  
  Public preschool might not yet be universal in the U.S., but access to preschool is expanding across Franklin County because of public investment. Columbus City Schools plan to add at least five prekindergarten classrooms to the district for each of the next five years, using early-education funding from the city and state.
  
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• Dispute over school funding embroils new federal education law

  03-07-2016 11:52
  
  WASHINGTON — A new education law applauded for replacing the much-maligned No Child Left Behind Act has become embroiled in criticism that it could wreak havoc on local school funding and teacher contracts.
  
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• Portman, Strickland focus on Ohio’s drug crisis in Senate campaigns

  03-07-2016 11:46
  
  WASHINGTON — When Sen. Rob Portman’s campaign launched its first TV ads of 2016, it wasn’t hard to sense a theme. The first ad focused on Portman’s work to fight Ohio’s drug crisis. The second told the story of Tyler Campbell, a young man from Pickerington who died of a heroin overdose. A third told of a Lakewood woman who is a recovering heroin addict. And a fourth told the story of a young woman from Carrollton who died of a heroin overdose.
  
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• Medicaid tax change to cost Ohio, counties more than $1 billion

  03-07-2016 11:19
  
  Debate over the next two-year state budget won’t start for seven months, but state officials already are wrestling with a looming billion-dollar budget hole, plus a $400 million local funding hit that includes bus services. Federal regulators are putting an end to a state sales tax structure that allowed Ohio to collect hundreds of millions of dollars per year in federal Medicaid matching funds.
  
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• Iraqi officials: 83 people killed in 2 bombings in Baghdad

  03-07-2016 09:43
  
  Iraqi officials say that 78 people have been killed and 160 wounded in a car bombing carried out by the Islamic State group in the center of Baghdad.In an online statement, IS claimed responsibility for the Sunday morning attack, which struck a busy shopping district of the capital. The statement could not be independently verified.The bombing hit as families and young people were out on the streets of Karada district after breaking their Ramadan fast.A second bomb attack in eastern Baghdad on S
  
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• Local shooting club treasurer indicted

  03-07-2016 08:59
  
  A Columbus man who is treasurer of a local shooting club was indicted Friday by a Delaware County grand jury for allegedly withdrawing club money for personal use.
  
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• Holiday baseball tournament in north Columbus helps grant wishes

  03-07-2016 05:24
  A Fourth of July weekend tradition in north Columbus is not just bringing sports families to the baseball diamond, it is helping grant wishes.36 Ohio youth baseball teams faced off Saturday afternoon on day 1 of the North Columbus Sports Raiders Firecracker Baseball Tournament.The three-day long competition at Ridgewood Middle School brings teams, ages 9-14, to play baseball and help make someone’s special wish come true.Before the windup, the catcher gave Austin Smith the go ahead for the
  
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• French Art Colony doles out numerous art honors -

  03-07-2016 04:54
  Jan Thaler, FAC curator, purchased the pastel, "Reaching for the River," by Virginia Carvour, of Columbus, which was awarded Best of Show and first place in the Professional Division. Deb Rhodes and Peggy Saunders, representing WesBanco Bank, purchased two paintings: a color photograph, "The Hunter of Garfield Heights," by David Brown, of Patriot, and "Back Off," also a photograph, by Laura Rainey, of Harrisburg, Ill., which received honorable mention.
  
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• A star is born with impromptu national anthem performance

  03-07-2016 04:41
  
  An assistant principal who was visiting Washington, D.C. has gone viral after an impromptu performance of the national anthem.It was during a family vacation, and a trip to the must-see Lincoln Memorial, when Star Swain's family decided she should live in the moment and own her talent.A friend recorded it on his phone.
  "I was so nervous and so scared," Swain told CBS News' Omar Villafranca.Her voice echoed perfectly through the memorial, and in a few days her audience went from a few dozen to mi
  
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• Calif. homes burn as officials warn of fireworks danger

  03-07-2016 04:08
  
  A small but fast-moving brush fire that broke out on a Southern California hillside burned five structures and injured three people, according to fire officials.A spokesman for the San Bernardino County Fire Department said the fire broke out in the northern part of the city Saturday afternoon and quickly spread to about 10 acres before firefighters got a handle on it.The fire burned five homes and threatened multiple other structures at its peak, spurring evacuation orders, CBS Los Angeles repo
  
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• Military veterans the VIPs of Sunbury parade

  03-07-2016 02:47
  
  The cheers and celebration that had grown with the buildup to the Sunbury Bicentennial Parade on Saturday morning quieted to murmurs as Howard Moseley’s jeep slowly rolled past. Some people standing along the road in the small Delaware County village stiffened to attention. Others took off their hats. A child looked up to his parents in confusion, unaware of the significance of the 91-year-old veteran riding past them in a replica of the Willys MB he drove onto Omaha Beach in 1944.
  
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• It's neighborhood vs. neighborhood in Upper Arlington float competition

  03-07-2016 01:44
  
  Nancy Henterly won't admit to being ruthless about it, but her words and actions suggest otherwise. "I cleaned them out so nobody else could use fire-engine red," Henterly said, pulling 13 recently purchased large squeeze bottles of bright red paint from a bag. "I know my sister-in-law is doing police and firefighters." Henterly may not be merciless, but after five years of living in Upper Arlington's Westwood Acres neighborhood, she's developed a sneaky streak when it comes to the city's annual
  
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• Local woman reacts to Pentagon’s decision allowing transgender people to serve in military

  03-07-2016 01:18
  How most people view Independence Day is no different from the view of Tara Allison.“For me, Independence Day is a day we all came together as a nation, to stand up against another nation that was, for the most part, bullying us,” she said.Only her view of independence takes on a whole new meaning from the person she used to be.“I have freed myself from the fears that I once had,” she said.Strong and independent; that’s how Allison defines herself as a woman who, in
  
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• Local residents deliver relief to West Virginia flood victims

  03-07-2016 00:53
  West Virginia flood victims are seeing helping hands from central Ohio.About 70 local churches have worked together to help rebuild and collect donations to assist in disaster relief.Nazarene Churches from Chillicothe, to Zanesville, to Dublin came together to help."It was spur of the moment, but our people normally respond in a tremendous way, and they did,” Larry McNutt, lead pastor at the New Albany First Church of the Nazarene, said.In only one week his congregation, collected a traile
  
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