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• Driver indicted in fatal New Year's Eve crash near Upper Arlington

  23-08-2016 23:52
  
  A 33-year-old Northwest Side man is accused of driving recklessly and causing a fatal crash at an intersection near Upper Arlington on New Year's Eve. Daniel P. Merz, of Wyandotte Road, was indicted Monday on one count of aggravated vehicular homicide and one count of vehicular assault.
  
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• Kings Island offering free admission for firefighters, police this weekend

  23-08-2016 23:46
  
  Kings Island is offering free admission to all active fire and police personnel August 26-28.The list of those who qualify include firefighters, EMTs, uniformed police officers, state troopers, border patrol agents, investigators, evidence technicians, firearms examiners, crime lab technicians, 911 dispatchers, correction officers, hand writing examiners, intelligence analysts and investigative assistants.The offer also allows fire and police personnel to purchase admission tickets for up to six
  
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• Westerville Police looking for bicycle thief

  23-08-2016 23:45
  
  Westerville Police is asking for help in finding a bicycle theft suspect.Tuesday morning officers took a report of stolen bike from 900 block of S. State Street.Later that afternoon they turned to social media with a photo of the suspect to ask for help.If you recognize the person in this photo call Westerville Police at 614-882-7444. Please help us find this suspect in the theft of a bicycle... Call 614.882.7444 with any info! pic.twitter.com/wH9T1cr0tO— Westerville Police (@WestervillePD
  
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• Man apparently shoots self, dies in standoff with deputies

  23-08-2016 23:26
  
  NEWARK — Authorities responding to a domestic situation north of Newark this afternoon say a man was found dead from a gunshot wound when SWAT officers got into the home. Deputies were sent to the 3100 block of Mount Vernon Road, in Newton Township, on a report of a domestic fight and a person with a gun, said Col. Chad Dennis with the Licking County Sheriff’s Office.
  
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• Pa. man gets stuck between buildings after trying to impress woman

  23-08-2016 23:12
  
  Pittsburgh Police, Fire, and Public Works crews worked to free a man who was trapped between two buildings Tuesday morning in Oakland.It all started around 2 a.m. on Forbes Avenue, reports CBS Pittsburgh.Police say the man met a woman at a nearby establishment and took her up to a building rooftop.In an effort to impress her, police say the man attempted to jump from one rooftop to the next. He missed and instead ended up wedged in between the buildings.“He is not quite on the ground. But,
  
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• Central Ohioans to raise money for American Heart Association during Heart Walk

  23-08-2016 23:05
  This Saturday tens of thousands of people will be walking to raise awareness about heart disease and stroke in the Central Ohio Heart Walk.Money they raise will also fund research that could end up saving lives.Jackie Flinders certainly has that hope. The 29-year-old mom from Galion has cardiomyopathy.The disease means her heart functions at about 20 to 25 percent of what’s normal. She needs a transplant, and lives with this reality:She might not get one.It’s why she packs a lot of l
  
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• Central Ohioans to raise money American Heart Association during Heart Walk

  23-08-2016 23:05
  
  This Saturday tens of thousands of people will be walking to raise awareness about heart disease and stroke in the Central Ohio Heart Walk. Money they raise will also fund research that could end up saving lives. Jackie Flinders certainly has that hope. The 29-year-old mom from Galion has cardiomyopathy.The disease means her heart functions at about 20 to 25 percent of what’s normal. She needs a transplant, and lives with this reality:She might not get one.It’s why she packs a lot of
  
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• John Glenn airport passenger traffic rose in July

  23-08-2016 22:52
  
  Passenger growth continued at John Glenn Columbus International Airport in July, marking nearly two and a half years of consecutive monthly increases. A total of 678,106 passengers used the airport during the month, an 8.7 percent increase over July 2015, according to data released at this afternoon's meeting of the Columbus Regional Airport Authority board of directors.
  
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• Ohioans will have a new alternative when trying to get public records

  23-08-2016 22:41
  
  In little more than a month, Ohioans will have a new, cheap and quick appeals process to potentially leverage loose public records.
  
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• Face-biting suspect may have ingested chemicals from victims' garage

  23-08-2016 22:05
  
  The college student caught biting a victim's face after stabbing and beating the man and his wife to death in a random attack may have ingested "caustic" chemicals from the couple's garage, Martin County Sheriff Snyder said.Snyder told news outlets that Austin Harrouff, 19, remains in critical but stable condition at a West Palm Beach hospital a week after the attack that killed John Stevens, 59, and Michelle Mishcon, 53, outside their home near Jupiter. Harrouff was taken into custody Aug 15.Sn
  
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• Ohio SR-13 closed north of Newark due to SWAT situation

  23-08-2016 21:58
  
  A portion of Ohio State Route 13 is closed as authorities are responding to a SWAT Situation.Police have not released any additional details at this time.The Newark Advocate is reporting the situation was reported around 2:20 p.m. on the 3000 block of Ohio 13 between Flamingo Drive and St. Joseph's Road.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com for updates.
  
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• Near East Side silos to get updates, but neighbors would like them gone

  23-08-2016 21:51
  
  Though long-vacant silos on the Near East Side are finally getting new life, neighborhood leaders say they would rather see them demolished than used again. Mount Carmel Stabilization Group of Illinois is leasing the site at 1855 E. Main St. The company plans to use 26 of the 35 silos to store lime and cement that construction companies mix with soil to stabilize construction sites, said Neil Ryan, the company's vice-president.
  
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• Florida teen survives brain-eating amoeba

  23-08-2016 21:07
  
  A teen hospitalized in Florida has beaten the odds against a brain-eating amoeba.Sixteen-year-old Sebastian DeLeon is now one of just four people in the last 50 years to survive a diagnosis that almost always means death, CBS Miami reports.
  While choking back tears at a press conference Tuesday morning, Dr. Humberto Liriano, who treated DeLeon at Orlando’s Florida Hospital for Children, recounted how he helped treat the teen and gave an update on his condition.“We are very optimistic
  
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• Driver indicted in fatal New Year's Eve crash

  23-08-2016 20:50
  
  A 23-year-old Northwest Side man is accused of driving recklessly and causing a fatal crash at an intersection near Upper Arlington on New Year's Eve. Daniel P. Merz of Wyandotte Road was indicted Monday on one count of aggravated vehicular homicide and one count of vehicular assault. Merz was driving a 2010 Toyota Corolla north on Riverside Drive about 9:10 p.m. Dec. 31 when he ran a red light at Nottingham Road and collided with a 1999 Toyota Camry, the Franklin County sheriff's office reporte
  
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• Chef reaches back to 1976 for anniversary of the Refectory

  23-08-2016 20:05
  The menu at the Refectory Restaurant & Bistro has been flipped back in time to 1976, when entrees such as veal Oscar and duck a l'orange represented the finest French dining that the city had to offer. The throwback dishes, including Belgian chocolate mousse and bananas Foster for dessert, are helping to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the celebrated restaurant.
  
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• GOP block of charter evaluations could cost state $71 million grant

  23-08-2016 19:55
  
  Legislative Republicans' decision to potentially block evaluations of charter-school sponsors could jeopardize the release of a $71 million federal grant for the tax-funded, privately operated schools.
  
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• View on Grant Apartment Development Gets Further Updates

  23-08-2016 19:44
  
  While construction work has already begun on the View on Grant apartment project in Downtown Columbus, the building plans are continuing to see some revisions. When the project was first proposed over a year ago, it included an addition on the north side of the building, which was later removed during the design revision process. […]
  
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• Appeals Court: Week of early voting shouldn't return to Ohio

  23-08-2016 19:20
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected a judge's order to restore a week of early voting in swing-state Ohio.At issue are a series of Republican-backed changes that Democrats allege disproportionately burden black voters and those who lean Democratic. Such policies include the elimination of a week of early voting in which Ohio residents could also register to vote, known as golden week.Plaintiffs including the state's Democratic Party had claimed the burden on voters
  
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• No more 'Golden Week' for Ohio voters, court rules

  23-08-2016 19:18
  
  Ohio voters should not have a "golden week" in which they can both register to vote and cast a ballot, a federal appeals court declared today. "Proper deference to state legislative authority requires that Ohio’s election process be allowed to proceed unhindered by the federal courts," said a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that split 2-1.
  
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• Former gang member throws party to help reduce crime

  23-08-2016 19:15
  
  A gang intervention social worker who once worked with a city-of-Columbus program to reduce gang violence is inviting residents and people involved in criminal activity to a party this Friday. The goal of the party is to get young people off the streets. Thell Robinson, a former gang member who served prison time, has organized the party with the help of the nonprofit he founded, called “A Thug Is A Dud.”
  
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• Deputies: Mom killed newborn by putting him in refrigerator

  23-08-2016 18:39
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A South Carolina mother charged with killing her newborn son by putting him in the refrigerator for several hours was expected to appear before a judge on Tuesday.Angela Blackwell was expected to have a bond hearing at 2 p.m. at the Chester County jail, according to Sheriff's Chief Deputy Robert Sprouse.Blackwell, 27, was arrested by State Law Enforcement Division agents on Monday on a charge of homicide by child abuse. Deputies say Blackwell was at her home on February 27
  
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• With courthouse under wraps, Newark opens new Christmas plans

  23-08-2016 18:21
  
  NEWARK, Ohio — As the August days dwindle, you might be wrapping your head around the fact that it’s back-to-school time, rolling your eyes at the Halloween decorations lining store shelves, and pushing to the farthest corner of your mind that this is the year you said you’d get a new snow blower. But Licking County leaders are running full-steam toward the winter holiday season. This morning — 123 days before Christmas (what, weren’t you counting?) — the Lick
  
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• 30 strangers attend woman's funeral after online plea

  23-08-2016 18:04
  
  ORANGETOWN, N.Y. - About 30 people have paid their respects to a woman they never met after responding to a call for attendees for a suburban New York funeral at which no one was expected to show up.The Journal News reports the strangers served as Francine Stein’s pallbearers and also helped bury her during the service Wednesday at a cemetery in Orangetown.Stein died at the age of 83. Rabbi Elchanan Weinbach officiated the service and says there was no eulogy because he didn’t know a
  
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• Judge will not dismiss ECOT lawsuit against Ohio education department

  23-08-2016 17:48
  
  A Franklin County judge will not dismiss a lawsuit filed by the state’s largest online charter school, rejecting the arguments from the Department of Education that it was filed prematurely.
  
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• COSI underground parking, park get go-ahead

  23-08-2016 17:36
  
  Plans to build a $37 million underground parking structure and park in front of COSI were approved by the Downtown Commission at the group’s meeting this morning.
  
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• Honda trails only Lincoln in new auto-satisfaction survey

  23-08-2016 17:13
  
  Non-luxury auto brands have become increasingly pleasing to consumers, shrinking the gap with their luxury counterparts, according to new results of an annual survey. Honda, which makes several models in central Ohio, was the industry’s second-ranked brand in the American Customer Satisfaction Index.
  
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• Central Ohio jobless rate dips to 4 percent in July

  23-08-2016 16:57
  
  Central Ohio continues to have the lowest unemployment rate among the state’s metropolitan areas. The unemployment rate for the region fell to 4 percent in July from 4.2 percent in June, according to an Ohio Department of Job and Family Services report released this morning.
  
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• McDonald's recalls millions of Happy Meal fitness bands

  23-08-2016 16:54
  
  NEW YORK -- McDonald's is recalling millions of fitness bands that had been given away in Happy Meals because they might cause skin irritation or burns to children.The fast-food chain said last week that it would stop distributing the bands in Happy Meals. Now it's recalling 29 million of them in the U.S., and 3.6 million in Canada.The company, based in Oak Brook, Illinois, received more than 70 reports of incidents after children wore the bands, including seven reports of blisters, according to
  
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• Rooftop Event Venue Gets Green Light for Smith Bros. Hardware Building

  23-08-2016 16:37
  
  Representatives from Capitol Equities and Architectural Alliance presented a slightly modified plan today to the Downtown Commission for their rooftop patio project at the iconic Smith Bros. Hardware Building. The plan — which was preliminarily shown to the Commission back in January — didn’t have too many updates from the original, which would create a […]
  
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• U.S. troop killed on joint patrol with Afghan forces

  23-08-2016 16:10
  
  The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed and another wounded by a roadside bomb during an operation in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province.A statement says their patrol was struck by a roadside bomb on Tuesday in Lashgar Gah, the provincial capital, and that six Afghan soldiers were wounded.The attack came a day after officials said that 100 U.S. troops had been sent to Lashkar Gah to help defend the city, which appears to be at increasing risk of falling to the Taliban. Af
  
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• Officer assaulted by theft suspect

  23-08-2016 15:39
  
  Columbus police say a Tennessee man will face charges after he struck an officer investigating a shoplifting complaint at a South Side Walmart late Monday night. The officer was working special duty at the store at 3759 S. High Street at 11:45 p.m. when employees told him a man and woman had been shoplifting, according to detectives with the Assault Unit.
  
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• 4 killed, including 3 children, in "suspicious" Chicago fire

  23-08-2016 15:39
  
  A fire at a Chicago apartment building that appears to have been deliberately set killed four people Tuesday, including three children, police said.The fire began around 1:30 a.m. in a three-story building in the South Chicago neighborhood.A preliminary investigation indicates a person returned to the building after a domestic dispute and set fire to the rear porch, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.Officers are searching for a "person of interest wanted for questioning," he said.An emaile
  
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• 4 killed, including 3 children, in Chicago fire

  23-08-2016 15:39
  
  A fire at a Chicago apartment building that appears to have been deliberately set killed four people Tuesday, including three children, police said.The fire began around 1:30 a.m. in a three-story building in the South Chicago neighborhood.A preliminary investigation indicates a person returned to the building after a domestic dispute and set fire to the rear porch, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.Officers are searching for a "person of interest wanted for questioning," he said.An emaile
  
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• New Park and Underground Garage Approved at COSI

  23-08-2016 15:18
  
  Representatives from the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation and landscape architectural firm MKSK presented an update for the underground parking garage and greenspace project at COSI that was first announced earlier this year. A more detailed look for the new park was shown to the Downtown Commission, which would feature a variety of programmed areas and places […]
  
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• Cincinnati Zoo takes down Twitter account amid Harambe comments

  23-08-2016 15:11
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — The Twitter account of an Ohio zoo targeted by online critics and trolls over the shooting of a gorilla has been taken down.
  
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• Schools, police urge students to stay aware while listening to music with headphones

  23-08-2016 14:26
  The beginning of a new school year brings with it a reminder for students about the importance of paying attention to their surroundings. Crucial as so many students walk to school.Almost everywhere you go, you see people walking around wearing headphones and listening to music.Is it a dangerous distraction?The sounds of a busy weekday morning on Livingston Avenue are sounds many students walking to and from Reynoldsburg High School have no idea exist.Their mornings consist of a different soundt
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: Trump says to black, Latino voters ‘You’ll be able to walk down the street without getting shot’

  23-08-2016 13:39
  
  GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump makes another stop in Ohio asking black and Latino voters to give him a shot.
  
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• Ohio botched execution survivor appeals to high court

  23-08-2016 13:25
  
  A condemned Ohio killer who survived a 2009 botched execution is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to declare that a second attempt to put him to death would be unconstitutional.Lawyers for death row inmate Romell Broom argue that giving the state prisons agency a second chance would amount to cruel and unusual punishment and double jeopardy.A divided Ohio Supreme Court rejected Broom’s arguments in March. At the time, the state asserted that lower courts properly determined that any mistakes
  
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• Trump, in Akron, asks blacks and Latinos to ‘give me a chance’

  23-08-2016 13:22
  
  AKRON — Saying Democrats have failed them, the man who would build "the wall" and deport millions of would-be immigrants talked Monday night of keeping Hispanic citizens — and African Americans — both safe and employed. With a nod to creating new jobs in Ohio for the nearly all-white crowd, Donald Trump appealed repeatedly to two voting blocs largely owned by Democrat Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Ohio GOP legislators block charter-school sponsor evaluations

  23-08-2016 13:21
  
  Legislative Republicans blocked an agency rule on Monday that is key to completing new charter sponsor evaluations designed to weed out poor performers. Those first-ever sponsor evaluations, crafted to help bring more accountability to a charter system sharply criticized both in Ohio and nationally, are supposed to come in October but are now clouded with uncertainty.
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: Trump says to black, Latino voters 'You’ll be able to walk down the street without getting shot'

  23-08-2016 13:09
  
  GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump makes another stop in Ohio asking black and Latino voters to give him a shot.
  
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• Extra crispy: KFC gives away chicken scented sunscreen

  23-08-2016 13:00
  
  NEW YORK -- KFC gave away 3,000 bottles of sunscreen that it said smelled like fried chicken to drum up buzz for its Extra Crispy chicken.Several Associated Press reporters who tested the sunscreen said the smell did not immediately bring to mind chicken, however.
  The stunt is another way for KFC to promote its Extra Crispy fried chicken. In June, it hired always-tan actor George Hamilton to appear in commercials as Colonel Sanders.KFC, which is owned by Louisville, Kentucky-based Yum Brands Inc
  
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• 10 things to know for today | August 23

  23-08-2016 12:40
  
  Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:1. TRUMP'S STAMINA ATTACK ON CLINTON STIRS TALK OF GENDER BIASThere's little evidence such strategies are effective when it comes to winning over women and they risk turning off older women, who have faced discrimination in the workplace.2. U.S. IMMIGRATION WOES ROOTED IN THE PASTBlame for the state of immigration may well be attached to an action 30 years ago - Ronald Reagan's approval of a 19
  
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• Polls open for Upper Arlington council recall election

  23-08-2016 12:36
  
  Voters in Upper Arlington go to the polls Tuesday to decide if four current council members keep their jobs. Polls are open from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. Polling locations can be found at vote.franklincountyohio.gov or by calling the Franklin County Board of Elections at (614) 525-3100.
  
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• Industrial fires can be nightmare for firefighters, residents

  23-08-2016 11:51
  
  Industrial fires are some of the most challenging that firefighters face, and a recent pair of them in Columbus has caused concern among nearby residents. Fires such as the one that ignited Friday night at the Dick Cold Storage warehouse on the Hilltop and continues to burn, are unpredictable.
  
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• Craft beer among casualties of Hilltop warehouse fire

  23-08-2016 11:49
  
  Lenny Kolada has seen a lot of beer disappear over his quarter-century of brewing, but he’s never seen it go up in smoke before. On Saturday morning, a fire destroyed a cold storage warehouse at 3080 Valleyview Drive on the Hilltop. Inside was the bulk of the first 150 barrels of beer made by Kolada’s Commonhouse Ales. The new brewery, which operates out of the old Columbus Brewing Co. space in the Brewery District, had only begun distribution three weeks ago.
  
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• Theodore Decker commentary: After 154 years, family finally learns fate of fallen Civil War soldier

  23-08-2016 11:41
  
  In the northeastern corner of Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery on Sullivant Avenue is a headstone marked No. 2140, memorializing the remains of a Civil War veteran who died in the spring of 1862 at a Union prison camp near Cincinnati.
  
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• Very new school year for South-Western students

  23-08-2016 11:31
  
  On Saturday afternoon, Principal Tim Donahue cut the ribbon on the new Franklin Heights High School on the West Side in front of scores of alumni and former staff members. Over the past three years, the district has rebuilt Franklin Heights and 13 elementary schools and renovated two other elementaries using $260 million in bonds and state construction money.
  
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• Justice Insider: Justices laid low in Licking County

  23-08-2016 11:23
  
  The scales of justice were just a little off-kilter in Licking County Monday. Amid a multimillion-dollar renovation project at the Licking County Courthouse, the last two of the four Justice statues that typically guard the 140-year-old courthouse were removed from their rooftop perch, Reporter Jennifer Smola noticed.
  
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• Low-power volunteer radio station in Columbus seeks permission to grow

  23-08-2016 11:13
  
  A local low-power radio station with limited hours is making plans to expand its day and its reach. Neighborhood Network, an all-volunteer nonprofit radio group, has been airing from 3 p.m. to 3 a.m. daily over low-power station WCRS (102.1). It has filed with the Federal Communications Commission to move to a new frequency — 92.7 FM — and operate around the clock using the call letters WCRM.
  
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