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• Firefighters battle blaze at South Side recycling center

  12-08-2016 23:51
  
  Columbus firefighters are battling a four-alarm fire at a recycling center on the South Side. Fire officials are advising nearby residents to stay indoors and avoid breathing in the smoke. The fire started around 4:25 p.m. on Friday and has broken out in multiple spots at the site at 1015 Marion Road, said Battalion Chief Steve Martin.
  
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• Advocates: Slaying of transgender woman latest in alarming trend

  12-08-2016 23:33
  
  James Allen Byrd didn't like the wigs and the dresses and the makeup. He didn't like that Rae'Lynn Thomas was there, her aunt said, "just being Rae." Byrd, 53, the boyfriend of Thomas' mother, fatally shot Thomas on Wednesday afternoon at the mother's southwest Columbus apartment in the Franklin Manor complex on Tracy Circle, Columbus police said.
  
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• PHOTOS & VIDEO: Crews battle massive fire in south Columbus

  12-08-2016 22:59
  
  The Columbus Fire Department is on the scene of a massive fire in south Columbus.Several crews have been called to an active fire at West Rock Recycling Center on Marion Road on the city’s south side.No injuries have been reported.Watch live video:Stay with 10TV News & 10TV.com for updates on this developing story.
  
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• One dead, one injured in South Linden shooting this afternoon

  12-08-2016 22:59
  
  Columbus police have confirmed that one person is dead and another is injured after a shooting Friday afternoon in South Linden. Officers responded to a report of shots fired near the corner of East 22nd Avenue and Hamilton Avenue just after 4 p.m. and found two people shot in a car, police said.
  
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• LIVE VIDEO: Crews battle massive fire in south Columbus

  12-08-2016 22:59
  
  The Columbus Fire Department is on the scene of a massive fire in south Columbus.Several crews have been called to an active fire on Marion Road on the city’s south side.Watch live video:Stay with 10TV News & 10TV.com for updates on this developing story.
  
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• Five sheriff's deputies suspended for injuries to trainee

  12-08-2016 22:32
  
  Franklin County Sheriff Zach Scott has suspended five deputies and supervisors who were involved in a training scenario that sent a deputy to the hospital in March. Scott issued written reprimands to three other deputies. One supervisor was removed from the training academy.
  
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• Trump campaign opens Ohio field offices

  12-08-2016 22:13
  
  The Donald Trump presidential campaign, which has lagged behind Hillary Clinton's ground game in Ohio, is opening 15 regional "victory offices" across the state.
  
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• Judge tosses former Ohio State band director Jon Waters' last lawsuit

  12-08-2016 21:55
  
  A federal judge today dismissed former Ohio State University band director Jonathan Waters' lawsuit claiming that he suffered gender discrimination when the university fired him in 2014 for failing to address a "sexualized culture" in the nationally known band program. Waters said he is unsure whether he will bring any further action against the university. His suit claiming that the university defamed him was dismissed by the Ohio Court of Claims in July.
  
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• 9 Franklin Co. Sheriff's deputies disciplined for recruit's injury

  12-08-2016 21:52
  
  Nine Franklin County Sheriff's deputies have been disciplined after an internal affairs investigation into an incident where a recruit was injured at the county's training academy.It happened in March during a training scenario exercise. There are no details into the extent of the student's injury.As part of the internal affairs investigation, nine deputies have been either suspended or reprimanded:Lt. Keith Cooper - 30-day suspensionCpl. Lucas Holt - 20-day suspensionDeputy James Dishong - 15-d
  
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• Ginther to take charter committee applications starting Monday

  12-08-2016 21:22
  
  Mayor Andrew J. Ginther will move forward with his plan to form a charter review committee to study whether the Columbus City Council should change to better represent residents. Ginther will begin accepting applications for the seven-member committee on Monday. He will choose three members, council members will choose three and then the mayor and council will jointly appoint the final member.
  
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• Under indictment, Bill Anthony sends resignation to Board of Elections

  12-08-2016 20:55
  
  Franklin County elections director William A. Anthony Jr. has submitted his resignation. Anthony and the board’s former fiscal officer Brenna Umbstaetter were indicted in July for theft in office and tampering with documents. Both have pleaded not guilty to the third-degree felony counts.
  
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• Worthington athletes involved in fatal crash in Henry County

  12-08-2016 20:50
  
  One person is dead and five injured in a crash that involved a van full of Worthington athletes and a semi truck in Henry County.
  
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• Worthington water polo players, parents involved in fatal accident on way to tournament

  12-08-2016 20:45
  
  Thomas Worthington and Worthington Kilbourne water polo teams were traveling to and out-of-town tournament Friday morning. A passenger van carrying parents and players from Worthington Kilbourne and a grain truck collided just after 10 a.m.at State Route 65 and State Route 281.The Henry County Sheriff’s Department confirms one person was killed in the accident and five others were transported via medical helicopter to both St Vincent Hospital and Toledo Hospital.Statement from Worthington
  
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• Worthington Kilbourne water polo players, parents involved in fatal accident (UPDATE)

  12-08-2016 20:45
  
  Thomas Worthington and Worthington Kilbourne water polo teams were traveling to an out-of-town tournament Friday morning.A passenger van carrying players and family members from Worthington Kilbourne collided with a grain truck just after 10 a.m. at State Route 65 and State Route 281.The Henry County Sheriff’s Department confirms one person was killed in the accident and five others were transported via medical helicopter to both St Vincent Hospital and Toledo Hospital.Henry County Sheriff
  
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• Worthington Kilbourne water polo players, parents involved in fatal accident on way to tournament

  12-08-2016 20:45
  
  Thomas Worthington and Worthington Kilbourne water polo teams were traveling to an out-of-town tournament Friday morning.A passenger van carrying parents and players from Worthington Kilbourne and a grain truck collided just after 10 a.m.at State Route 65 and State Route 281.The Henry County Sheriff’s Department confirms one person was killed in the accident and five others were transported via medical helicopter to both St Vincent Hospital and Toledo Hospital.The current condition of thos
  
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• Worthington Kilbourne water polo players involved in fatal accident (UPDATE)

  12-08-2016 20:45
  
  Thomas Worthington and Worthington Kilbourne water polo teams were traveling to an out-of-town tournament Friday morning.A passenger van carrying players and family members from Worthington Kilbourne collided with a grain truck just after 10 a.m. at State Route 65 and State Route 281.The Henry County Sheriff’s Department confirms one person was killed in the accident and five others were transported via medical helicopter to both St Vincent Hospital and Toledo Hospital.The Sheriff’s
  
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• Worthington Kilbourne water polo players involved in fatal accident

  12-08-2016 20:45
  Thomas Worthington and Worthington Kilbourne water polo teams were traveling to an out-of-town tournament Friday morning.A passenger van carrying players and family members from Worthington Kilbourne collided with a grain truck just after 10 a.m. at State Route 65 and State Route 281.The Henry County Sheriff’s Department confirms one person was killed in the accident and five others were transported via medical helicopter to both St Vincent Hospital and Toledo Hospital.The Sheriff’s
  
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• Hostess launches "Deep Fried Twinkies"

  12-08-2016 19:43
  
  The deep-fried Twinkie is jumping from the state fair to the home freezer.Hostess Brands, the maker of lunchbox treats like Ho Hos, is launching packaged "Deep Fried Twinkies" starting Friday that mark its first foray into frozen foods. The cream-filled snack in vanilla or chocolate is the result of a yearlong collaboration between Hostess and Wal-Mart, as both companies look to spark food sales with innovative products.Battered and partially fried before being frozen, the Twinkies need to be fi
  
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• Judge tosses fired band director's suit against Ohio State

  12-08-2016 19:19
  
  A federal judge has dismissed the civil rights lawsuit filed by Ohio State University's fired marching band director, putting an almost certain end to his two-year legal fight.Jonathan Waters was fired in July 2014 for ignoring a "sexualized culture" inside what's known to fans as The Best Damn Band in the Land. He denied wrongdoing and sued for reinstatement and damages alleging reverse gender discrimination.Judge James Graham on Friday rejected Waters' argument that he was treated differently
  
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• Twenty One Pilots Rock On

  12-08-2016 18:55
  
  Columbus’ own twenty one pilots keep riding their dreams, all the way to a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden. Rock on, Columbus! Read their review in The New York Times. The Columbus Foundation is working to capture The Spirit of Columbus through images that showcase the determination, dedication, and commitment of people in our smart + open community. […]
  
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• Driver guilty of all counts in causing death of two pedestrians Downtown

  12-08-2016 18:55
  
  A driver accused of causing a crash that killed two pedestrians at a busy Downtown intersection and blamed his passenger on the witness stand this week was found guilty on all counts by a Franklin County jury today.
  
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• Teen faces reckless homicide charge in shooting death of girlfriend

  12-08-2016 18:52
  
  A Franklin County grand jury has indicted an 18-year-old South Side resident in the shooting death of his 17-year-old girlfriend. Thomas Gutierrez now faces a charge of reckless homicide with a firearm specification in connection to the shooting death of Daylee Nicole Newman, of Upper Arlington.
  
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• Ohio law defunding Planned Parenthood blocked by federal judge

  12-08-2016 18:43
  
  A federal judge blocked an Ohio law aimed at keeping public money from going to Planned Parenthood, saying in a Friday ruling that the group stood to suffer "irreparable injury." The state law targets the more than $1.4 million in funding that Planned Parenthood gets through Ohio's health department. That money, which is mostly from the federal government, supports certain education and prevention programs. The Ohio law would bar such funds from going to entities that perform or promote abortion
  
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• Ohio's Senate race the most expensive in the nation thanks to outside groups

  12-08-2016 18:41
  
  WASHINGTON — Long gone are the days when the general election season didn’t really start until after Labor Day. Exhibit A: Ohio’s U.S. Senate race, where $33 million — and that’s just spending from outside groups — has already been dumped into web, radio and TV ads. The race, said campaign watchdog Center for Responsive Politics, is the most expensive one in the nation. The bulk of that — nearly $19 million — has been spent opposing Strickland.
  
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• Jury convicts Terrance Trent in deadly downtown crash

  12-08-2016 18:35
  
  A jury returned a guilty verdict for the man accused of killing two people in a violent crash in downtown Columbus nearly two years ago.Terrance Trent, 63, was found guilty on two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and two more counts of vehicular assault in the death of city engineer Bill Lewis and his intern Stephanie Fibelkorn, 21, on December 12, 2014.He is now facing up to 13 years in prison.Prosecutors alleged during the four-day trial Trent was driving recklessly down Broad Street on
  
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• Judge blocks Ohio law to divert PLanned Parenthood money

  12-08-2016 18:33
  
  A federal judge has blocked an Ohio law that diverts public money from Planned Parenthood.U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett in Cincinnati sided with Planned Parenthood Friday in granting a permanent injunction. The law was initially set to take effect in May, though court orders have suspended it.Planned Parenthood says the law violates the organization's constitutional rights by denying it public funds "in retaliation for" providing abortions. But the state's attorneys say Ohio gets to choose
  
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• Concert Preview: Brother Moses at Victory’s Live

  12-08-2016 18:30
  
  Brewery District music spot Victory’s Live will bring in indie rock outfit Brother Moses for a free show on Friday night. The Fayetteville, Arkansas-based quintet, featuring James Lockhart (lead vocal and guitar), Moses Gomez (guitar), Michael Seck (drums), Matthew Heckmann (bass), and John-Lewis Anderson (keyboards and guitar), are set to release their sophomore EP, Legends, […]
  
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• Sausages, Caterwauling, Dragons and Mel Gibson – It’s a Party at the Multiplex!

  12-08-2016 18:27
  
  A paltry number of films opened across Columbus screens last weekend, but don’t be down! This weekend there is something for every imaginable taste: kids movies, cartoons for adults, Meryl Streep, Frank Zappa, horror, documentary, foreign, Mel Gibson. Nothing is off limits! Sausage Party Set in a Shopwell supermarket, every morning products sing about their […]
  
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• Academy Park Suspension Bridge

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• Teen indicted in shooting death of 17-year-old girlfriend

  12-08-2016 18:10
  
  A man accused of shooting and killing his girlfriend earlier this month has been indicted by a grand jury.18-year-old Thomas Gutierrez was indicted Friday on one count of reckless homicide with a firearm specification in connection to the death of Daylee Newman, 17.Gutierrez was initially charged with murder.Newman was shot August 2 around 10:30 p.m. at a home on East Markison Avenue.Gutierrez’s brother, Andre Mehler, told 10TV Thomas had dated Newman for seven months and the shooting was
  
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• Two more armed robberies reported near Ohio State campus

  12-08-2016 17:05
  
  Ohio State University sent out a safety awareness message after two more armed robberies were reported off campus.The latest incident occurred around 1:15 a.m. Friday on North High Street when two women were robbed at gunpoint.Hours later, a male and female were walking in the area of Summit Street and East 12th Avenue when they were also robbed by an unknown gunman.No one was hurt during either instance and the university did not disclose what was taken during the crimes.In both cases, the perp
  
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• Ohio troopers seized 53 kilos of heroin so far in '16

  12-08-2016 16:56
  
  Ohio state troopers seized about seven times as much heroin during the first half of 2016 as they did during the same period last year, an increase that the State Highway Patrol attributes at least in part to several large drug busts. The patrol seized over 53 kilograms of heroin with an estimated value of nearly $8 million from January through June, according to its preliminary data.
  
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• First Floor Expansion Added to Bollinger Hotel Proposal

  12-08-2016 16:56
  
  The latest proposal for Bollinger Tower calls for a first-floor addition that would extend the building toward High Street. The conversion of the 11-story building from affordable housing into a hotel received its first review from the Italian Village Commission last month. That initial proposal called for maintaining the existing green space in front, but […]
  
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• Grand Jury indicts 26, city woman on sex charges

  12-08-2016 16:44
  Daisy Anderson, 21, of 208 West Brown Avenue, was indicted on three counts of unlawful sex with a minor . The Bellefontaine Police Department reports that Anderson admitted to engaging in a sex act with a 15-year-old Bellefontaine boy.
  
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• Turbulence leaves more than 20 injured on JetBlue flight

  12-08-2016 16:43
  
  A JetBlue flight was diverted to western South Dakota after turbulence left more than 20 passengers and crew members injured.JetBlue spokeswoman Katherine McMillan told The Boston Globe that flight 429 was traveling from Boston to Sacramento, California, on Thursday when it was diverted to Rapid City, South Dakota, where it landed around 7:30 p.m.South Dakota news outlets report that 22 passengers and two crew members were taken to a local hospital but were all treated for minor injuries and rel
  
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• Columbus woman killed in Pickaway County crash

  12-08-2016 16:23
  
  A woman was killed and a man injured when the car they were driving rolled over into a Pickaway county bean field early Friday morning. The driver was 26-year-old Matthew Zerhusen of South Bloomfield. His passenger was 26-year-old Northeast Side resident Roni Hess.
  
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• Vote for the Best Food Truck of 2016!

  12-08-2016 16:00
  
  The sixth annual Columbus Food Truck Festival returns to Columbus Commons this weekend, August 12th and 13th! Over 60 food trucks and food carts will be spread throughout the park and a neighboring parking lot with lots of live music, family activities, craft vendors and of course — plenty of beer to wash it all […]
  
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• Details revealed about how 3-year-old fell from Pa. roller coaster

  12-08-2016 14:51
  
  CBS NEWS -- A young boy is in the hospital after falling off of a roller coaster at the Idlewild and SoakZone amusement park Thursday in Pennsylvania.The accident happened on a ride called "Rollo Coaster," which was built in 1938 and does not have seat belts. Instead, it uses a lap bar to secure riders, reports CBS News correspondent Vinita Nair.According to police sources, the three-year-old was riding the wooden roller coaster with his older brother, when he was ejected on the last turn of the
  
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• New Company Sees Market for Tiny Houses in Urban Columbus

  12-08-2016 14:00
  
  Modern Tiny Living is a new Central Ohio company poised to capitalize on the recent, HGTV-fueled wave of interest in small houses. With two custom houses completed, another two under construction, and an “insane amount” of local inquiries into the product, company founder Daniel Hamilton is bullish on the market here for houses that clock […]
  
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• First Guidelines to Medical Marijuana Handling and Use Released

  12-08-2016 14:00
  
  With a month left before medical marijuana is officially legal, much of the process – from growing the drug to getting it in the hands of patients – is still pending. The timeline established by the Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program (OMMCP), the group overseeing the implementation of the law (House Bill 523), requires the […]
  
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• New Bruce Willis movie dumps Cincinnati, heads to Columbus

  12-08-2016 13:57
  
  “It’s not you, it’s me!”Perhaps that’s what director Steven Miller gently whispered as he moved production of his new film First Kill from Cincinnati to Columbus, calling the Queen City, “too busy.”We think Columbus is plenty busy…but we’ll take it nonetheless.According to Deadline, First Kill is an action thriller that Emmett/Furla/Oasis will produce, finance and release through its U.S. deal with Lionsgate Premiere.The site reports that &l
  
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• Clinton Rolls Out Economic Plan for First 100 Days in Office, Trump Responds

  12-08-2016 13:00
  
  Election Day is right around the corner — just three months away — and in preparation the Clinton campaign has released an economic plan for the candidate’s first 100 days in office. The plan lays out the investments to be made in the infrastructure, manufacturing and energy sectors as well as the support she’ll lend […]
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: A look at the latest fight in the battle to audit ECOT's attendance

  12-08-2016 12:57
  
  “A week after the state’s largest charter school turned over thousands of records to the state, it now wants some of them back,” Dispatch reporter Jim Siegel writes.
  
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• AG DeWine launches early drug education effort

  12-08-2016 12:44
  Attorney General Mike DeWine and state lawmakers are rounding up support at the Statehouse for a new effort to fight Ohio's opiate epidemic.DeWine wants to do to drugs what was done with cigarettes years ago: make them uncool.“We have to change the culture in regard to how we look at opiates, how we look at pain meds, how we look at heroin,”said DeWine.“It is an education about how you live your life."The group announced a committee to study drug prevention education.They will
  
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• Felony case dismissed for Worthington teen involved in shooting

  12-08-2016 12:29
  A felony case against a Worthington teen charged with robbery and theft in connection with an April shooting in Orange Township has been dismissed.
  
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• Legal clinic receives high interest among transgender people

  12-08-2016 12:22
  
  Central Ohio’s first free legal clinic for people who want to change their name and gender on identification documents left no doubt about interest in the service, organizers say. The event Wednesday at the Clintonville office of Equitas Health drew more than 30 participants and nearly two dozen lawyers.
  
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• Church camp volunteer accused of sexual contact with teen boy

  12-08-2016 12:02
  
  A church camp volunteer was jailed this week, accused by police of coercing a 15-year-old boy into having sex with him. Antwain L. Cassell, 25, of the 800 block of Lockbourne Road on the Near East Side, was arrested Tuesday and charged with one count of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, a fourth-degree felony.
  
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• Police identify bicyclist killed on East Side earlier this week

  12-08-2016 12:00
  
  Columbus police have identified the bicyclist who was killed Wednesday in a hit-skip crash. William Greulich, 69, of Whitehall, had just visited a food pantry at St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church on the East Side and was hauling a bag of groceries home when his bike collided with a black Buick Enclave at about 6 p.m.
  
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• Adults-only hotel finds a new home in Marysville

  12-08-2016 11:50
  A high-end "adults-only" hotel that was at the center of a bitter debate in Delaware County found a new home in Marysville. It's advertised as a romantic getaway, a one of a kind couples destination with hot tubs and even pools inside the hotel rooms.But, no under the age of 21 is allowed inside.“When you first hear, adult only, it kind of gives an impression that maybe something is going on that shouldn't be going on,” said Marysville mayor, J.R. Rausch.And that was the perception b
  
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• Terminally-ill woman holds celebration before ending her own life

  12-08-2016 06:31
  
  In early July, Betsy Davis emailed her closest friends and relatives to invite them to a two-day party, telling them: "These circumstances are unlike any party you have attended before, requiring emotional stamina, centeredness and openness."And just one rule: No crying in front of her.The 41-year-old artist with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, held the gathering to say goodbye before becoming one of the first Californians to take a lethal dose of drugs under the state's new doctor-assisted suicid
  
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