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• Mansfield day care worker arrested after 11-month-old suffers fractured skull

  05-08-2016 23:45
  An employee at a Richland County daycare has been arrested after a child suffered multiple injuries.The Richland County Sheriff’s Office have arrested 19-year-old Sarah Roberts and charged her with felony child endangering.According to the attorney representing the child’s family, Brook Pierce received a call from the staff at Step By Step Childcare in Mansfield that her 11-month-old daughter Anastasia had fallen and hit her head Monday.Attorney John Rinehardt said Pierce was told th
  
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• Woman indicted in crash that killed baby in stroller

  05-08-2016 23:12
  
  A woman accused of killing a 7-month-old boy by recklessly driving her SUV into the child's stroller appeared to be holding a cellphone when she lost control of her vehicle, the Franklin County prosecutor said. Muhuba A. Mohamed, 31, was indicted Friday by a county grand jury on one count of aggravated vehicular homicide in the June 2 crash. The charge, a second-degree felony, is punishable by two to eight years in prison. Mohamed, of Alto Court on the Northeast Side, had a temporary Ohio driver
  
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• Ohio State football | Bri'onte Dunn charged with domestic violence and assault

  05-08-2016 23:11
  A warrant has been issued for the arrest of former Ohio State running back Bri'onte Dunn after he was charged this afternoon with domestic violence and assault. Dunn was involved in an altercation on July 17 with his girlfriend.
  
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• Chicago police release video of shooting of unarmed teen

  05-08-2016 22:45
  
  A family lawyer said Friday that 18-year-old Paul O'Neal was "executed" when he was fatally shot by Chicago police after a July 28 confrontation over an alleged stolen car.Chicago authorities released video Friday of the moments before the shooting and the incident's aftermath. The shooting itself was not captured on video because the body camera worn by the officer who fired the fatal shot wasn't recording."We just came from watching Chicago police officers execute Paul O'Neal," Family lawyer M
  
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• Judge sentences man to 19 years in shooting

  05-08-2016 22:33
  
  The friends and family of Sabrina E. Jackson think that D'Quante J. Stewart got away with her murder. But they were grateful on Friday when a Franklin County judge sentenced him to 19 years in prison for shooting a man during the same incident in which Jackson died. "I'm glad that the judge sees that this man is and was a menace to society," said Yalonda Hobbs, who calls herself Jackson's best friend. Five weeks ago, a jury returned a puzzling verdict. Stewart, 23, was found not guilty of murder
  
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• Driver charged with aggravated vehicular homicide in death of 7-month-old

  05-08-2016 22:05
  
  A woman who is accused of hitting a 7-month-old in north Columbus with her car has been indicted on aggravated vehicular homicide.Muhuba Mohamed veered off Westerville Road on June 2 and hit 7-month-old Micah Ferebee and his father, 23-year-old Kenan Ferebee.Shortly after, Micah was pronounced dead at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Kenan was only injured in the crash.The crash happened just feet away from the dealership where Mohamed was in the process of buying a new car.The crash was Mo
  
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• Father charged in deaths of young twin girls left in hot car

  05-08-2016 21:17
  A 24-year old man has been charged in the deaths of his 16-month-old twin daughters after they were left in a hot car for an unknown period of time, police tell CBS News.Asa North was charged with 2 counts of involuntary manslaughter and 2 counts of reckless conduct.Autopsies were to be conducted Friday to determine the exact cause of death of Ariel and Alaynah North, who had turned 16-months old the day they died.According to police, officers found Asa North dipping the two toddlers in a kiddie
  
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• Former Ohio State running back charged with domestic violence, assault

  05-08-2016 21:00
  
  UPDATE: August 5 3 p.m.A warrant has been issued for the arrest of former Buckeye Bri'onte Dunn.Dunn has been charged with domestic violence and assault.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com for updates. Original StoryBri’onte Dunn was dismissed from the Ohio State football program Monday due to a violation of team rules according to head coach Urban Meyer.While the university did not issue any additional information about Dunn’s dismissal, his girlfriend said she was the victim of a violent o
  
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• Columbus Summer: Festival Latino

  05-08-2016 20:45 via youtube.com
  
  
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• OSSO home band

  05-08-2016 19:13
  There were a multitude of activities for each of the students, and each was expected to "pull his or her own load". Beds were to be made, clothing and rooms kept tidy and of course, they attended school and church services on the campus.
  
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• DC-area mayor faces drug charges after meth-for-sex sting

  05-08-2016 18:28
  
  A northern Virginia mayor was facing drug charges Friday after his arrest in a meth-for-sex sting, police said.Three-term City of Fairfax Mayor R. Scott Silverthorne was arrested Thursday after meeting at a hotel with undercover detectives he connected with through a website used to arrange casual sexual encounters between men, police said.Police had an idea that they were pursuing the mayor from the beginning of the investigation sparked by a tip that Silverthorne was involved in a website, whe
  
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• 3 central Ohioans held in Butler County slayings

  05-08-2016 18:21
  
  A judge has ordered three central Ohio residents held without bond after they were charged in the fatal shootings of two men this week in southwestern Ohio. Tony A. Patele, 23, of Newark, Melinda A. Gibby, 35, of Lancaster, and Zachary D. Harris, 24, of Columbus, each have been charged with two counts of aggravated murder following a drive-by shooting Wednesday in Hamilton that killed Hamilton residents Orlando Gilbert and Todd Berus, both 25.
  
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• New Plan for Grandview Mercantile Calls for Ten Stories, Office Space, and More Parking

  05-08-2016 17:39
  
  The Pizzuti Companies have revised their plan for the Grandview Mercantile site in the Short North. The new proposal, which will be reviewed by the Victorian Village Commission at its August 11th meeting, is two stories shorter than the initial design. It would feature over 80,000 square feet of office space, a 164-car parking garage, […]
  
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• Police: Karina Vetrano, slain NYC woman, "put up a ferocious fight"

  05-08-2016 17:29
  
  A wake was set to be held Friday for a 30-year-old jogger killed in New York City as police continue to search for any clues that could lead them to a suspect, CBS New York reports.The painstaking investigation into the murder of Karina Vetrano continued into the night Thursday with numerous officers and detectives at the crime scene in the Howard Beach neighborhood of Queens.The NYPD called in the FBI for help because her body was found on federal parkland. The bureau has provided additional eq
  
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• Theatre Review: Evolution’s Moving But Jumbled Poz

  05-08-2016 16:41
  
  The regional premiere of Michael Aman’s Poz opened Thursday in a glowing production directed by Greg Smith at Evolution Theatre Company.  It’s a noble play, stuffed Dreiser-full with threads of legitimate societal complaint but also with a beating heart. The blood flowing through its veins is an understanding of exactly how real people react. So […]
  
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• Prosecutor: 18-year-old raped 3 women at gunpoint

  05-08-2016 16:35
  
  The Franklin County Prosecutor has indicted an 18-year-old after he allegedly raped three women at gunpoint during a two month span.A grand jury returned a 26 count indictment Friday against Adam Sesay, 18.The charges include multiple counts of rape, kidnapping, robbery and weapons violations.On May 20, 2016 around midnight, police say Sesay met a 39-year-old woman on a dating site and visited her at a location near Lake Club Drive and Brice Road. There, they say he showed he had a handgun, sexu
  
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• Concert Preview: Columbus Songwriters Association Benefit with Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds

  05-08-2016 16:29
  
  New York-based funk-soul rockers Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds will headline a concert to benefit the Columbus Songwriters Association at Notes Lounge on Friday night. Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds’ most recent studio album, The Weather Below (2015), spawned the hit single “Sugar” – the video for which gained the band massive exposure on […]
  
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• Xavier University to get North America's first Pizza ATM

  05-08-2016 16:11
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Customers will soon be able to get pizza from an ATM at one Ohio University. Xavier University in Cincinnati has partnered with a French company to install the first Pizza ATM in North America.
  
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• Malaysia confirms flight 370 course was on pilot's simulator

  05-08-2016 16:08
  
  Malaysia acknowledged for the first time that one of the pilots of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had plotted a course on his home flight simulator to the southern Indian Ocean, where the missing jet is believed to have crashed.Australian officials overseeing the search for the plane last month said data recovered from Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah's simulator included a flight path to the southern Indian Ocean. Malaysian officials at the time refused to confirm the findings.Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah's
  
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• Granville says school water is lead-free

  05-08-2016 15:54
  
  Granville students will return to school this year without having to worry about lead in the water. The Granville school district announced Thursday in an email to parents that it has completed work to replace and repair valves and drinking fountains in the school buildings after tests in April showed elevated levels of lead in water from some of the district’s drinking fountains.
  
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• Ohio Woman Fatally Stabbed by Man Who Lured Grandchildren Into Alley

  05-08-2016 15:02
  The children, a boy and a girl, were lured by Kristopher T. Amos, 29, into an alley under the guise of searching for his lost drone, police said. The children's grandmother, Candy Arthurs, 45, confronted Amos in the alley.
  
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• Xavier University to get North American's first Pizza ATM

  05-08-2016 14:14
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Customers will soon be able to get pizza from an ATM at one Ohio University. Xavier University in Cincinnati has partnered with a French company to install the first Pizza ATM in North America.
  
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• Delta investigates Muslim couple’s claim

  05-08-2016 13:11
  
  CINCINNATI — Delta Air Lines says it’s investigating an Ohio Muslim couple’s claim that they were removed from a return flight from Europe after an airline employee singled them out because of their appearance.
  
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• This terrifying clown is just roaming the streets of Green Bay

  05-08-2016 12:58
  
  Imagine taking the dog for a leisurely walk…and coming across this fella.via GIPHYNBC26 in Green Bay, Wisconsin reports that someone is dressing up in this horrifying costume and standing at an intersection…at 2:00 a.m.The photos of the sinister clown are going viral and have even spawned a Facebook page.Oh, and they’ve named it Gags – the Green Bay Clown.Since it’s not necessarily against the law to dress like you’re going to an audition for an even creepie
  
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• Metro library will purchase Hilliard property

  05-08-2016 12:40
  
  The Columbus Metropolitan Library board agreed Wednesday to purchase a building on 6.8 acres at a failed senior-living development in Hilliard for what will become the largest of its 22 branch libraries. Under the agreement, the library will pay $800,000 of the $6.8 million purchase price to Greenwich Investors Hickory Chase LLC for the property and building on the former Hickory Chase site, an ambitious senior housing project that was a victim of the housing collapse.
  
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• I-270 getting much needed 'Mega Fix'

  05-08-2016 12:15
  
  Tanya Varner has been dealing with double trouble and she's grateful it's about to end. As a commuter who drives between her Grove City home and her job in Worthington, she's numb to the frustration and anger that the almost three years of construction and traffic backups on Interstate 270 — at both the Route 23 and Route 315 interchanges — have caused her.
  
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• Triathletes keeping eye on E.coli levels at Delaware Reservoir

  05-08-2016 11:57
  
  Pushing through pain and adversity embodies the spirit of the triathlon. And for many, that includes spending hours in the water — sometimes murky water. When more than 2,000 Ironman triathletes step off Aug. 21 from the beach at Delaware Reservoir, some may have reservations about elevated levels of E.coli, a bacterial byproduct of human or animal waste, but they'll plunge head-first anyway.
  
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• Xavier Univ. to get the nation's first pizza ATM

  05-08-2016 11:53
  
  Customers will soon be able to get pizza...from an ATM.Xavier University in Cincinnati has partnered with a French company to install the first Pizza ATM in North America.The company, Paline, says the machine will hold 70 pizzas at once. Customers will be able to use a touch screen to pick one of the $10 pizzas, which will be heated for several minutes, placed in a cardboard box and ejected through a slot.Paline says the pizza dispensers have been in Europe for 14 years. They're typically in sma
  
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• Abortion on drugged woman under investigation

  05-08-2016 11:40
  
  When a physician at a Dayton-area abortion clinic performed an abortion on a woman seemingly high on drugs before sending her to the hospital for treatment of a possible overdose, doctors decided it was the best option at the time. But both the Ohio Department of Health and an anti-abortion group say the abortion doctor broke the law, and they asked the State Medical Board of Ohio to investigate the case from spring 2015.
  
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• Murder suspects will be tried in October

  05-08-2016 10:54
  Two men who are charged with a 2012 murder in Harlem Township were silencing a potential witness in a homicide investigation, prosecutors said Wednesday.
  
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• Officer bitten by dog, then animal shot by police

  05-08-2016 05:51
  
  A Columbus police officer was bitten by a dog — and the dog shot — during a call about a fight on the East Side Thursday night.
  
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• Crowd gathers at Upper Arlington park to remember teen who was shot to death

  05-08-2016 05:05
  
  They stood in stunned silence, holding flickering candles as the evening drew dark. drew dark. All that could be heard were crickets. And sobbing. More than 150 people — so many of them teenagers — gathered Thursday night for a somber vigil at Fancyburg Park in Upper Arlington to remember Daylee N. Newman.
  
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• Gahanna hosts meeting to discuss community relationship with police

  05-08-2016 04:47
  Dozens of people crowded into the Gahanna City Council chambers Thursday for a meeting on race relations and law enforcement.So many people showed up to the meeting, some had to stand in the back of the room and in the hallway.The panel discussion was led by Rev. Joel King and Gahanna Police Chief Dennis Murphy.“The time to have the conversation is now not after something bad happens,” Murphy said.The meeting comes less than a month after three officers were murdered in Baton Rouge,
  
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• City of Dublin teaming up with Uber for Irish Festival

  05-08-2016 04:33
  
  The city Dublin is partnering with the Central Ohio Safe Ride program to offer discounts with Uber for rides for the Irish Festival.The city says the team effort is being done to offer safe options of travel for attendees.The discount will be worth up to $10 when riders use a promotional code in the Uber app. The code is valid August 4-8.How the free Uber ride promo codes workGuests must have the Uber app.To download the app, go to the iTunes or Google Play, and then create an Uber account.Enter
  
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• Lead levels down in drinking fountains at Granville schools

  05-08-2016 04:25
  
  Officials with Granville Schools have announced all drinking fountains have tested below ‘actionable levels’ for lead content.Back in April, higher lead levels were found at three schools in the district.Officials said the schools will resume using all fountains.Below is a statement from the school district about the changes made to the fountains:The District created a plan for remediation with the assistance of the Ohio EPA, Licking County Health Department and the Village of Granvi
  
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• Pataskala library kiosk to allow readers to check out books 24/7

  05-08-2016 04:08
  You won't have to whisper when you visit the new library in Pataskala. In fact, you'll soon be able to check out a book without going into a building.A trip to the library is an experience for most: wandering through stacks of books, reading through front flaps and enjoying the children's section.But now the Licking County library's main branch is shrinking that experience into a kiosk.“It’s just a one-stop shop, we know people are busy,” Licking County Library Director Babette
  
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• Columbus Metropolitan Club: Columbus Smart Cities Transportation Grant

  05-08-2016 03:59 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Photo of suspect's car released in Ga. teen murders

  05-08-2016 03:49
  
  Police released new photos Thursday as they pleaded for anyone with information about the murders of two teens found fatally shot behind a suburban Atlanta grocery store Monday to come forward.Suspect Jeffrey A. Hazelwood, 20, was arrested Wednesday in the slayings of Carter Davis and Natalie Henderson, both 17. Each teen was shot once in the head, the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office said.Police aren't discussing any motive, nor will they comment on the relationship, if any, between Haze
  
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• Dylann Roof attacked in South Carolina jail shower

  05-08-2016 03:41
  
  Dylann Roof, the white man charged in the massacre of nine black parishioners at a Charleston church, was slugged Thursday by a black inmate at the South Carolina jail where he is being held, law officials said.Dwayne Stafford ran down the stairs from his cell after Roof went into the shower around 7:45 a.m. Thursday and hit him, bruising Roof's face and back, according to a police report.The 22-year-old Roof was examined by jail medical personnel and then returned to his cell, Charleston County
  
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• Police: George Zimmerman punched in face at Florida restaurant

  05-08-2016 03:33
  
  George Zimmerman was punched in the face at a Florida restaurant on Sunday, according to a Seminole County Sheriff's Office incident report, CBS affiliate WKMG reported.Police told WKMG that Zimmerman called 911 to report an incident at Gators Riverside Grille in Stanford. Zimmerman told dispatchers he was accused of bragging about the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, and was subsequently punched.According to the incident report, Zimmerman said he was recognized while eating at the restaurant a
  
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• $48,000 drug rushed to treat brain-eating amoeba patient

  05-08-2016 03:27
  
  A pharmaceutical company has rushed a special drug that once saved the life of a girl who contracted a usually deadly brain-eating amoeba to a South Carolina hospital with its own patient fighting the disease.A courier drove the drug, called miltefosine, six hours from the company's Orlando, Florida, headquarters to Charleston as soon as the hospital called around 10 p.m. Tuesday, Profounda CEO Todd MacLaughlan told The Associated Press."Time is of the essence," MacLaughlan said.The patient in S
  
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• Amputee saves dog after animal's front legs were cut off with sword

  05-08-2016 03:22
  
  Cola was just a puppy when a neighbor viciously hacked his front legs off with a sword.The animal's crime: chewing on a pair of shoes.Despite suffering a grievous injury, the dog survived. And now, two years later, Cola is learning to walk -- and love -- again.With assistance from Thailand's Soi Dog Foundation, the pup was able to see a specialist in Bangkok.It was there the dog underwent surgery and extensive therapy that ultimately allowed Cola to get back on his feet with a pair of custom-mad
  
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• Prosecutor: Mom killed baby with salt for husband's "attention"

  05-08-2016 03:05
  
  A South Carolina mother accused of killing her 17-month-old daughter with salt did it to get her husband's attention, a prosecutor alleged Wednesday.Peyton Martines was taken off life support Wednesday afternoon, a day after being declared brain dead, said Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger.Charges against Kimberly Martines, 23, of Fingerville, have been upgraded to homicide by child abuse. She was previously charged with felony child abuse.Solicitor Barry Barnette told local media outle
  
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• Columbus Police officer shoots dog after being bitten (UPDATE)

  05-08-2016 02:40
  
  A Columbus Police officer has been released from the hospital after being bitten by a dog Thursday night.The incident happened at the Extra Space Storage on S. Hamilton Road behind the Fairfield Inn as officers were responding to a disturbance call.Officers arrived to the scene and found a male and female along with a dog. It is not known who the dog belonged to or if it was a stray.The dog attacked and bit one of the officers. The officer that was bit and two other officers fired shots at the d
  
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• GOP judges out-raising Dems in Ohio Supreme Court race

  05-08-2016 02:25
  
  The Republican candidates for Ohio Supreme Court continue to lead their Democratic opponents in campaign fundraising for this fall’s election.
  
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• Several roads to close Friday night for Pelotonia

  05-08-2016 02:07
  
  If you’re planning to drive Downtown this weekend, you’ll have to navigate several road restrictions.
  
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• VIDEO: Dashcam footage shows OSHP trooper being struck by vehicle

  05-08-2016 02:05
  The Ohio State Highway Patrol has released dashcam footage of a trooper being struck by a vehicle during a traffic stop last week.Sergeant Jim Smith was conducting the stop along U.S. Route 322 near Chardon just after 11 a.m. on July 29.As seen in the video, the trooper’s cruiser is hit before the at-fault vehicle hits him and the car that was stopped.According to OSHP, Sergeant Smith didn’t suffer any life-threatening injuries but the video does show how dangerous nature of these cr
  
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• Press Conference: CMAX Bus Rapid Transit Line Groundbreaking 8/4/2016

  05-08-2016 02:03 via youtube.com
  
  
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