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• Investigators still probing cause of south Columbus fire

  14-08-2016 23:05
  
  Two days after the WestRock recycling plant caught fire, many of the recyclables continue to smolder.Hattie Chever captured the flames on her iPad moments after bails of paper and plastic caught fire at the plant on Marion Road.You could see heavy flames just beyond the security shack in front of the property.“It smelled real bad, like burning rags or something," she said.Chever lives across the street from the main entrance.She told 10TV she could feel the heat from the flames as she was
  
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• Fire investigators plan to release cause of south Columbus fire on Monday

  14-08-2016 23:05
  
  Two days after the WestRock recycling plant caught fire, many of the recyclables continue to smolder.Hattie Chever captured the flames on her iPad moments after bails of paper and plastic caught fire at the plant on Marion Road.You could see heavy flames just beyond the security shack in front of the property.“It smelled real bad, like burning rags or something," she said.Chever lives across the street from the main entrance.She told 10TV she could feel the heat from the flames as she was
  
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• Video catches rescue of squirrel with cup stuck to head

  14-08-2016 22:02
  
  Emergency responders in Connecticut have come to the rescue of a squirrel that was caught in a nutty situation.Members of Enfield Emergency Medical Services responded Friday after the rodent got its head stuck in what appeared to be a plastic or paper cup.Video posted on the Enfield EMS Facebook page shows the critter wildly jumping and flipping into the air in an effort to dislodge the cup.Responders' first attempt to remove the cup was unsuccessful. The wily rodent hopped out of one officer's
  
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• Crime Stoppers | Woman sought in credit-card theft in Dublin

  14-08-2016 21:39
  
  A credit-card theft in Dublin is this week's crime of the week in the Crime Stoppers program.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi changes phone number after "obscene" calls, texts

  14-08-2016 19:32
  
  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi had to change her phone number after a hack of the House Democrats' campaign arm led to a barrage of "obscene" calls and messages, she said Saturday."I have received scores of mostly obscene and sick calls, voicemails and text messages," Pelosi wrote in a letter to party members. "Please be careful not to allow your children or family members to answer your phone."Pelosi also urged members and staff who were receiving similar calls to change their phone numbers
  
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• Family saves 4-year-old daughter from mountain lion while camping

  14-08-2016 19:28
  
  A family camping in eastern Idaho scared off a mountain lion that tried to snatch their 4-year-old daughter away from a campfire.Idaho Fish and Game said Saturday that the cougar dropped the girl and left Friday evening after family members yelled at the animal. The child had a few scratches but no other injuries.The family was camping near Green Canyon Hot Springs east of Rexburg and had spotted the mountain lion in the area earlier that day.Fish and Game regional conservation educator Gregg Lo
  
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• Ryan Lochte, 3 other US swimmers robbed by armed men in Rio

  14-08-2016 19:15
  
  The U.S. Olympic Committee says Ryan Lochte and three other American swimmers were robbed by armed men who stopped their taxi.USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky says Lochte and the others left the French Olympic team's hospitality house early Sunday in a taxi headed for the athletes village, hours after the last night of Olympic swimming.He says "the taxi was stopped by individuals posing as armed police officers who demanded the athletes' money and other personal belongings."Sandusky says the four
  
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• Heavy rain knocks out power to some in central Ohio

  14-08-2016 18:18
  
  About 1,150 people are without power in Franklin and Knox counties as strong line of storms continues to make its way through central Ohio.
  
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• Watch: Dramatic rescue of woman from submerged car

  14-08-2016 18:06
  
  Two men on a boat pulled a woman from a car that was almost completely underwater, according to video from CBS affiliate WAFB, as floodwaters swept across Louisiana, necessitating more than 1,000 rescues.The woman, who is not initially visible on camera, yells from inside the car: "Oh my god, I'm drowning."
  One of the rescuers, David Phung, jumps into the brown water and pulls the woman to safety. She pleads with Phung to get her dog, but he can't find it. After several seconds, Phung takes a de
  
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• Crew SC Draws New York FC 3-3 in Rainy Local Match

  14-08-2016 16:53
  
  Ethan Finlay’s equalizer deep into second-half injury time helped to bring a little sign of life back to the Columbus Crew SC’s stumbling 2016 season as visitors New York City FC were held to a highly entertaining 3-3 draw on another weather delayed night at MAPFRE Stadium. With Federico Higuain back at the heart of […]
  
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• Made Here: Etna business has been crushing material for 50 years

  14-08-2016 15:00
  
  If you have a big chunk of earth — or some other material — and you want to turn it into a mound of smaller pieces, chances are Screen Machine Industries has just what you need.
  
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• Recycling center fire smolders as South Side neighbors worry

  14-08-2016 14:58
  
  A day after a massive fire swept through a recycling center on the South Side, neighbors said they are worried and upset. This is the second major industrial fire along that road in as many years and one of several in the area recently.
  
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• John Switzer | From the Stump: What’s summer without butterflies?

  14-08-2016 14:42
  
  In June, I wrote that summer had started off dismally in my quest for spotting butterflies, one of my summer delights. My milkweed and butterfly weed were in full bloom, but few butterflies had come by for nectar.
  
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• Woman dies day after she was found shot in vehicle

  14-08-2016 14:37
  
  A woman has died one day after she and a man were found shot inside a vehicle in South Linden. Tyreshia Cody, 25, died Saturday afternoon at OhioHealth Grant Medical Center.
  
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• Indianola in Clintonville to Get Road Diet, Bike Lanes in 2017

  14-08-2016 14:00
  
  A plan to change the configuration of Indianola Avenue in Clintonville is now moving forward, over 13 years after first being proposed in a neighborhood planning document. The segment of the road between North Broadway and Morse Road – which currently has four lanes, two running in each direction – will be rearranged to accommodate […]
  
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• Struggle with ECOT nothing new for Ohio education administrators

  14-08-2016 13:50
  
  Today’s legal battle potentially involving hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars paid to online charter schools in Ohio began more than 15 years ago with an audit, an unusual agreement and a mysterious scrawled signature — followed by years of legislative inaction. “This isn’t a new issue. It’s just come to a head,” said Steve Burigana, former chief operating officer and head of the Department of Education’s Office of Community Schools.
  
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• ‘Wal-Mart moms’ in Ohio not thrilled about Clinton, Trump

  14-08-2016 13:32
  
  The 10 women on the other side of the one-way mirror looked at Robert Blizzard like he’d just set off a stink bomb. In a way, he had. Blizzard asked those Columbus-area “Wal-Mart moms” for a brief description of how they feel about the 2016 presidential campaign.
  
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• 3 killed, thousands rescued in southeast Louisiana floods

  14-08-2016 13:32
  
  A storm that's been drenching southeast Louisiana is forecast to head toward the central and northern part of the state while parts of southern Mississippi are under a state of emergency. Yesterday, emergency crews plucked motorists from cars stranded by high water and pulled others from inundated homes on their way to at least 2,000 rescues. Three people are dead and one is missing.Warnings are out in portions of central and northern Louisiana lasting into the week. Three people are dead and on
  
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• Emails show strained relations in Reynoldsburg school district

  14-08-2016 13:19
  
  Behind-the-scenes conversations among Reynoldsburg schools’ superintendent and board members show infighting and tension, even as they have tiptoed around airing their dispute in public.
  
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• Ohio researchers build ‘biobot’ to roam ocean using sea slug muscle

  14-08-2016 13:10
  
  Science fiction often portrays robots as cold and metallic, but in reality they might end up being more lifelike. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a bio-hybrid robot that combines tissue from a sea slug and components from a 3-D printer.
  
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• Theodore Decker commentary: Speeding ticket for banned driver riles grieving family

  14-08-2016 13:07
  
  The last of Ed Anthony's patience evaporated when he learned about the speeding ticket. He waited five months for an indictment in connection with the death of his 22-year-old granddaughter, Joslin Winborn, and 13 more months and counting for a trial that seems no closer than it did last summer.
  
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• Data gathering puts Portman, Strickland campaigns very in touch with Ohio voters

  14-08-2016 12:59
  
  WASHINGTON — You may not know much about Rob Portman or Ted Strickland yet, but chances are, their campaigns know about you. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated methods of using data to categorize and target voters, their campaigns are having incredibly specific conversations with voters.
  
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• Capitol Insider: Trump backlash turns off Ohio rep

  14-08-2016 12:56
  
  If Donald Trump's team had only asked, instead demanded. Then, state Rep. Niraj Antani says, he gladly would have taken down a tweet that offended the Trump campaign.
  
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• Made Here: Crushing material for 50 years

  14-08-2016 12:48
  If you have a big chunk of earth - or some other material - and you want to turn it into a mound of smaller pieces, chances are Screen Machine Industries has just what you need. The Etna company, in its 50th year, manufacturers earth-crushing, screening and stockpiling machines - ones that break down slabs of rock, concrete or minerals, and then crumble it into fine pieces.
  
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• Outdoors notebook | Waterfowl will be plentiful in Ohio for fall hunting

  14-08-2016 12:12
  
  The upcoming waterfowl season is the first in which duck and goose hunters no longer have to wait until September for the Ohio Wildlife Council to announce the dates. Because of a change in the way states are allowed to do their waterfowl business, the council in April established: hunting dates, which begin Oct. 15 or Oct. 22, depending on zone; bag limits, which include a lowering of the canvasback take; and moving the line north between the state’s waterfowl zones.
  
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• Ohio officials let company profit from subleasing state-owned radio towers

  14-08-2016 11:39
  
  State officials are forfeiting hundreds of thousands of dollars annually by allowing a contractor to lease state property to another company and keep the money. But, they say, that was the price to be paid to comply with federal tax laws while also expanding internet connectivity to rural areas, particularly in southeastern Ohio. Agile Networks, which was paid about $2.2 million by the state last fiscal year to provide the statewide wireless network that carries the voice and computer traffic of
  
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• Wildfires in northern and central California force evacuations

  14-08-2016 11:14
  
  More evacuation orders are being issued as a wildfire grows in Northern California, threatening a lake community of about 1,300 that was evacuated a year ago because of a destructive fire.CalFire spokeswoman Suzie Blankenship says the blaze broke out just before 5 p.m. Saturday and has spread to more than 400 acres in three hours. It is 15 percent contained. She says the flames are chewing through extremely dry grass and brush. Lake County Sheriff's officials have issued three evacuation orders
  
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• U.S. Senate Race: Where Portman, Strickland differ on issues

  14-08-2016 11:00
  
  WASHINGTON — In another year, you could easily contrast the two candidates for the U.S. Senate as you’d compare any Democrat and Republican: One emphasizes income inequality, the other creating opportunities to grow jobs. But this is no ordinary year.
  
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• Georgia officer fatally shot, suspect remains on the loose

  14-08-2016 10:57
  
  Authorities say a police officer in a small, central Georgia city has been shot and killed by a suspect who remains on the loose.Special agent Scott Whitley of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations tells The Associated Press that Eastman Patrol Officer Tim Smith was fatally shot about 9:30 p.m. Saturday in a residential area of the city located about 60 miles southeast of Macon.Whitley says Smith was responding to a suspicious person call when he encountered the suspect, exited his patrol car and
  
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• Milwaukee Mayor: North side calming after violence

  14-08-2016 07:57
  
  The Latest on unrest in Milwaukee following a police shooting that left one man dead (all times local):12:25 a.m.Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says the north side is calming after violence in the wake of a police shooting that left one man dead.The violence erupted a few hours after an officer shot and killed a 23-year-old man. Police said the man was fleeing a traffic stop and was armed with a gun. It wasn't immediately clear if he pointed it at or fired it at the officer.As many as 100 protester
  
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• Recycling center fire smolders as neighbors worry

  14-08-2016 06:27
  A day after a massive fire swept through a recycling center on the South Side, neighbors said they are worried and upset. This is the second major industrial fire along that road in as many years and one of several in the area recently.
  
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• Clinton has lots of Latino support, Columbus festival shows

  14-08-2016 06:27
  Less than four months before the presidential election, Hispanic voters are lining up in droves behind Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. A poll released last week by Fox News showed Clinton held a commanding 46-point lead over Republican Donald Trump.
  
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• 13-year-old boy kills self, describes being bullied in emotional note

  14-08-2016 06:27
  
  A 13-year-old Staten Island boy took his own life after what he described as merciless bullying by his classmates at a private Catholic school, according to CBS New York.Danny Fitzpatrick hung himself in the attic of his home on Thursday.The teen left behind a hand-written note describing the alleged abuse by five boys at Holy Angels Catholic Academy in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn."They did it constantly," Danny said in a note, adding that he told his teachers, but they did nothing."I gave up the teache
  
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• Vigil held for former Worthington Kilbourne water polo player

  14-08-2016 05:56
  The Worthington community gathered Saturday night to remember a former Worthington Kilbourne High School water polo player.
  19-year-old Courtney Fisher died when a van she was in crashed into a semi truck in northwest Ohio on Friday.
  Friends, teammates, students, staff and members of the community held a candlelight vigil at the spirit rock at Worthington Kilbourne High School.
  Approximately 1,000 people attended.
  There were somber moments and sometimes laughter during the vigil.
  Courtney's mom,
  
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• Worthington grad killed in crash is remembered at vigil

  14-08-2016 04:37
  
  The rain broke Saturday evening just before a crowd of about 200 athletes, teammates, friends and parents gathered at the spirit rock outside Worthington Kilbourne High School to try to deal with the loss of one of their own. Courtney Fisher, 19, a 2015 graduate and past captain of both the water polo and swim teams, was killed Friday in a van crash in Napolean, just west of Bowling Green.
  
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• Ruby Tuesday to close 95 restaurants

  14-08-2016 03:57
  
  Ruby Tuesday has announced plans to shut down 95 underperforming restaurants, or more than 13 percent of its total, by September. The restaurant chain did not say which of its restaurants would be closed.
  
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• South Columbus residents hope for improvements after nearby fires

  14-08-2016 02:21
  Neighbors say they will not move, but do expect improvements in the aftermath of a huge recycling plant fire in south Columbus on Friday.Saturday morning, Brian Merriman and his family stepped onto their front porch and tried to take a deep breath. It was something they could not do Friday as thousands of pounds of compacted recyclables burned down the street from their home."Air was pretty thick around here yesterday," Merriman said. "Asthma runs in my family. So we're definitely trying to make
  
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• Powell police put citizens in their shoes

  14-08-2016 01:46
  Powell Police took on the daunting task of teaching a new perspective of policing to residents of their jurisdiction on Saturday.A handful of citizens were taught the concept of Use of Force through the lens of Powell officers.“Just calm down,” Rachael Kirkham said, as she pretended to be an officer responding to a suicide attempt.“I didn't want to scare him into shooting himself,” she said. “So, what happened?” an officer asked. “I got shot!” Kirk
  
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