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• Police investigating homicide after man found dead in abandoned home in Olde Towne East

  03-09-2016 23:23
  
  Columbus Police are investigating after a man was found dead in a home on East Fulton Street Saturday around 10:30 a.m.Officers and medics responded to an abandoned home at 980 East Fulton Street in the Olde Towne East neighborhood to investigate a report of a decomposing body inside.Police said the man is an apparent victim of a homicide.Police have not been able to identify the man, but say he is black and possibly in his 50s.This is the 65th homicide in Columbus in 2016.
  
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• This teen girl and her 82-year-old grandpa are going to college together

  03-09-2016 22:50
  
  The first day of college can be nerve-wracking for freshman as they try to meet new people and make new friends. But 18-year-old Melanie Salazar didn’t feel that pressure.The teen entered Palo Alto College in San Antonio, Texas, knowing she was attending with one of her best friends -- an 82-year-old economics major that she proudly calls “Grandpa.”Her grandfather, Rene Neira, has been taking economics classes here and there for as long as Salazar has been alive. He’s exp
  
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• Tropical Storm Hermine barrels up East Coast, threatening millions

  03-09-2016 22:44
  
  Tropical Storm Hermine regained strength Saturday as it moved slowly up the Eastern Seaboard and made a mess of the holiday weekend.Hermine already caused two deaths, damaged properties and left hundreds of thousands without electricity from Florida to Virginia. It also spawned a tornado in North Carolina.“This is not a beach weekend for anyone in the Mid-Atlantic to the Northeast,” said Eric Blake, a hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami.Overnight, Hermine s
  
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• PHOTOS & VIDEO: No. 6 Ohio St posts record romp over Bowling Green 77-10

  03-09-2016 22:31
  
  J.T. Barrett threw six touchdown passes and No. 6 Ohio State rolled up a school record 776 yards in a 77-10 romp over Bowling Green on Saturday.Eight players scored touchdowns on offense as the Buckeyes (1-0) overpowered the Falcons in front of a crowd of 107,193 at sunny Ohio Stadium.The 776 yards topped the 718 yards Ohio State put up against Mount Union in 1930.Barrett also set a school record with seven touchdowns overall - six passing, one running. The junior was 21 for 31 for 349 yards and
  
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• McDonald’s throws retirement party for longtime employee with Down syndrome

  03-09-2016 21:42
  
  There was a one-of-a-kind retirement party at a McDonald’s in Needham, Massachusetts on Monday, that celebrated the long career of a remarkable woman, CBS Boston reported. Freia David, who has Down syndrome, has been serving customers for 32 years at the Chestnut Street fast food restaurant. After three decades of working at the french fry station, she’s finally hanging up her apron.“It was nice, I’m really happy,” David told CBS Boston. “I like all my friends
  
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• Source: Suspect in decades-old kidnapping gives FBI a lead

  03-09-2016 21:21
  
  A suspect in the 1989 abduction of a 12-year-old Minnesota boy led the FBI to remains that were being tested for DNA to determine if they match the missing boy’s, a law enforcement source confirmed to CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton on Saturday.Agents pressed Danny Heinrich for information on the nearly 27-year-old mystery in the last few days, CBS Minnesota station WCCO-TV reports. Sources told the station the FBI took Heinrich out of jail at least twice this week.It was
  
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• 2016 Labor Day holiday closings

  03-09-2016 21:18
  Crowds enjoy sunny weather at the 2015 Upper Arlington Labor Day Arts Festival at Northam Park on Sept. 7, 2015.
  
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• Campus area bars and breweries react to lift of ABV cap

  03-09-2016 19:20
  At midnight on Aug. 31, World of Beer at Gateway cracked open a keg of Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA, a beer with an Alcohol by Volume of 18 percent, the first brew over 12 percent to be served at the location. It is just one of the many bars, breweries and restaurants in Columbus that will now be serving stronger varieties of beer in response to the elimination of Ohio's 12 percent ABV cap on beer that went into effect Wednesday.
  
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• 5 things you should do before you get into an Uber vehicle

  03-09-2016 19:05
  
  You may think you know everything you need to about Uber​, but even regulars miss a feature or two.Uber, after just six years, is providing about150 million rides per month in nearly 450 cities worldwide. And the ride-sharing service keeps introducing new tools based on user feedback.So, before you hop in one of those sleek black cars, take a minute to familiarize yourself with these often overlooked updates to ensure a smooth ride.Here are 5 things you should remember before you order an
  
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• New Jersey police officer seriously wounded in deadly Atlantic City shootout

  03-09-2016 18:57
  
  New Jersey police said a suspect was fatally shot in an exchange of gunfire outside an Atlantic City casino early Saturday and one police officer was seriously wounded.Atlantic City police Chief Henry White said the shooting happened around 4 a.m. after officers stopped a car with three men near a parking garage of Caesars casino.White said at least one of the men in the car opened fire. Police were still looking for two other suspects and closed streets in the area. CBS Philadelphia station KYW
  
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• Top 10 Things to Do in German Village

  03-09-2016 18:00
  
  German Village is one of the oldest and most treasured historic neighborhoods in Columbus. Many of the buildings and streets in German Village look exactly the same way they did 150 years ago thanks to a meticulous historic preservation effort that began a half century ago. Today, German Village is not only home to some of […]
  
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• 5.6 Magnitude Quake Rocks US Plains States

  03-09-2016 16:05
  
  CHICAGO (AP) - An earthquake has rattled a swath of the Great Plains from Nebraska to North Texas.The United States Geological Survey said that a 5.6 magnitude earthquake happened at 7:02 a.m. Saturday in north-central Oklahoma. It also tweeted that aftershocks may occur.People in Kansas City, Missouri; Fayetteville, Arkansas; and Norman, Oklahoma, all reported feeling the earthquake. Dallas TV station WFAA tweeted that it felt the quake, too.Sean Weide in Omaha, Nebraska, said he'd never been i
  
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• City must re-bid school renovation project

  03-09-2016 15:27
  The former London Primary School on South Walnut Street near High Street is being looked at as a possible location of the offices of the City of London. Contractors will have to re-submit their bids on the project, following the law director's recommendation to throw out both bids received, according to Joe Mosier, safety-service director.
  
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• Death, injuries raise questions about amusement-ride safety

  03-09-2016 13:53
  
  The rash of children killed or injured nationally in August on amusement-park rides calls attention to ride safety, an injury expert at Nationwide Children’s Hospital said. The incidents also demonstrate the need for national standards governing the ride industry, Tracy Mehan said. A boy was decapitated on a water slide in Kansas Aug. 7; three girls were injured when they plummeted from a Ferris wheel in Tennessee as it flipped over Aug. 8; and a boy was injured when he fell from a roller
  
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• Maria's Message: Ending distracted driving

  03-09-2016 13:27
  Central Ohio Auto Dealers are joining the effort to end distracted driving.Shelby Croft tells us how they are helping to spread Maria's Message.
  
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• Fans enjoy tailgating ahead of Ohio State season opener

  03-09-2016 13:24
  People are getting an early start when it comes to tailgating.Glenn McEntyre went to OSU's campus and shows us how die-hard fans are getting ready for kickoff.You can learn about the changes you'll see in Ohio Stadium this season here.
  
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• US, China formally enter landmark climate deal

  03-09-2016 12:15
  
  President Barack Obama on Saturday said cooperation was "the single best chance that we have" to save the planet as he stood with China's President Xi Jinping to formally enter their two nations into last year's Paris climate change agreement.At a ceremony on the sidelines of a global economic summit, Obama and Xi, representing the world's two biggest carbon emitters, delivered documents to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.The papers certified the U.S. and China have taken the necessary steps
  
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• Short North funeral home files suit over piece of former White Castle land

  03-09-2016 12:13
  
  A funeral home next to a controversial Short North condominium and commercial development that's being built on a former White Castle site has filed a lawsuit to protect the business. The crux of the case: A 0.02-acre piece of land that the funeral home says it's used and maintained for decades, giving it the same legal rights as an owner of the property. The developers, however, hold legal title to the sliver of land.
  
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• New Albany senior makes spoiled milk his business

  03-09-2016 12:11
  
  It was the beginning of summer break, and Amit Greenshtein urgently needed to find a problem to solve. No New Albany High School senior graduates without turning in a major project — an internship, a personal-improvement crusade or a product that meets a consumer need.
  
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• New Albany school board might change its relationship with booster groups

  03-09-2016 12:09
  
  The New Albany-Plain Board of Education is rethinking its relationship with independent groups that support students, after finding out that a booster club likely failed to file tax forms. According to a letter sent out on Friday morning, New Albany-Plain schools administrators recently discovered that the now-defunct New Albany Athletic Boosters Club "appears not to have filed required tax documents for several years and lost its 501(c)(3) status.
  
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• Divisions deep in debate over Chillicothe anti-discrimination law

  03-09-2016 12:04
  
  CHILLICOTHE — More sermon than speech, the words that thundered from the Rev. Mark Clendaniel at the most-recent meeting of a city-council committee raised a chorus of “amens” and brought much of the room to its feet in applause. “I think it’s time the church takes a stand,” said Clendaniel, who for more than 22 years has led Chillicothe’s Jefferson Avenue Church of Christ in Christian Union. He was speaking against a proposed non-discrimination ordinanc
  
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• SpaceX studying telemetry, video in failure probe

  03-09-2016 11:51
  
  SpaceX engineers are reviewing some 3,000 channels of telemetry and video to determine what might have triggered the catastrophic explosion Thursday of a Falcon 9 rocket during fueling for a first-stage engine test firing before a planned launch Saturday to boost an Israeli communications satellite into orbit, the company said Friday.The spectacular explosion, just eight minutes before the expected engine test, destroyed the $62 million rocket and its $195 million satellite payload and caused a
  
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• East alum graduates from cadet leader course

  03-09-2016 11:36
  Michael Hole , an Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadet at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, has graduated from the Cadet Leaders Course at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Hole is a 2003 graduate of Columbus East High School and earned a bachelor's degree in 2013 from Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio.
  
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• Sheriff: Father said he was trying to make gun safe when he shot toddler daughters

  03-09-2016 10:13
  
  A South Carolina sheriff says a father told deputies he was trying to make sure a gun was safe when he accidentally fired the weapon, killing his 2-year-old daughter and wounding her 4-year-old sister.Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said in a news release Friday that the man also shot himself in the hand during the incident at a Columbia townhome around 6:30 p.m. Thursday. The weapon that fired was a handgun, sheriff’s officials told CBS affiliate WLTX.Richland County Coroner Gary Watts
  
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• Florida Janitor charged with putting floor stripping chemical in boss's soda

  03-09-2016 10:01
  
  CBS NEWS - A Tavares High School custodian has been arrested after Lake County deputies say he poisoned the lead custodian by putting chemicals in her drink while she was working, reports CBS Orlando.Russell Terrance Smith was charged with poisoning food or water in the Monday incident at the high school.Deputies said the victim notified the school resource deputy at the school that she returned to her office to take a drink out of her Wendy’s coke and immediately felt sick and had difficu
  
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• Some Detroit blacks not rolling out welcome mat for Trump

  03-09-2016 09:56
  
  Toni McIlwain believes that as a candidate for president Donald Trump has a right to go anywhere he wants.But McIlwain and others in the Motor City are still stinging from remarks the Republican presidential candidate made when said blacks "have no jobs" and are "living in poverty" with schools that are "no good."Trump is visiting Detroit on Saturday to make what appears to be a late attempt to woo black voters roughly two months before the general election. Unlike his usual campaign stops where
  
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• Hermine threatens East Coast after slamming Florida

  03-09-2016 09:44
  
  CBS/AP - The first hurricane to hit Florida in more than a decade wiped away beachside buildings and toppled trees onto homes Friday before plowing inland on a path that could send it rolling up the densely populated East Coast with heavy rain, high winds and flooding.Hermine quickly weakened to a tropical storm as it spun through Georgia and the Carolinas. But the National Hurricane Center predicted it would regain hurricane strength after emerging over the Atlantic Ocean. The system could then
  
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• Apartments along state Route 161 get NCC nod

  03-09-2016 07:30
  A proposed 62-unit "supportive housing" apartment complex for people with disabilities and the formerly homeless was given a recommendation of approval last week by members of the Northland Community Council development committee. Matt Bierlein is a development attorney with National Church Residences, which has proposed the apartment building and which operates the adjacent Center for Senior Health.
  
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• Police remove 20 kids, 18 dogs from SoCal home

  03-09-2016 05:03
  
  Authorities have removed 20 children and 18 dogs from a Southern California home that they say was uninhabitable, CBS Los Angeles reports.San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies also arrested five women at the home Thursday on suspicion of child cruelty. Two of the women also were suspected of being under the influence of a controlled substance.A sheriff’s statement said the Victorville home had no working electricity or gas, and there wasn’t enough food for the people living
  
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• Millions expected to travel this holiday weekend

  03-09-2016 04:54
  
  The Kiwanis Club of Delaware County is working a concession stand this weekend in preparation for the three-day weekend's traffic.The stand is located off I-71 North at a rest area. It is selling snacks and beverages for a donation.Carolyn McQuattie, who is a member, says it's about the people."You meet all kinds of interesting people out here on the highway, traveling," she said. "You really do."AAA says a recent poll shows 56 percent of Americans plan to travel by car this summer due to lower
  
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• Pa. boy killed when mom swerves to miss deer

  03-09-2016 04:17
  
  A 6-year-old boy died in a crash after his mom says she swerved to miss a deer but hit a tree instead, reports CBS stationKDKA in Pittsburgh.The accident happened in Lower Burrell, Westmoreland County, around 8 a.m. Thursday.Isaac Thomas, 6, suffered serious head injuries and died at Allegheny Valley Hospital about an hour later, according to police.“That’s a scary thing to see a car flipping,” said Darlene Dicaprio.She was driving in front of the SUV that crashed and looked ba
  
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• 2 USC players under investigation for sexual assault, documents show

  03-09-2016 03:45
  
  USC has sent linebacker Don Hill home from Dallas, where the No. 20 Trojans are set to open the season Saturday against No. 1 Alabama.The team on Friday would say only that Hill had violated team rules, but a search warrant and affidavit from Los Angeles County Superior Court obtained by ESPN, TMZ and the Los Angeles Times say he is under investigation for sexual assault.The court documents show it's the same investigation that is looking into another USC linebacker, Osa Masina, who did not make
  
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• Jill Stein offers third option at presidential campaign stop in Columbus

  03-09-2016 03:25
  That was the charge leveled by several Green Party members and Jill Stein supporters at their presidential candidate's campaign stop at Capital University in Bexley on Friday. Stein delivered a speech, answered questions from the crowd and took a group selfie with supporters.
  
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• Ex-Stanford swimmer leaves jail, gets hate mail for sexual assault

  03-09-2016 02:54
  Brock Turner, the former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting a young woman on campus, was handed a package by guards as he exited a California jail on Friday after serving half of his six-month sentence: A big packet of hate mail.Turner's early release for good behavior was the latest turn in a case that sparked widespread outcry by many who believed he was given preferential treatment and too light of a sentence for the January 2015 assault. For hours after his pre-dawn
  
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• 5 worst things to pack in your kid's school lunch

  03-09-2016 02:33
  
  With the school year getting underway, it’s a good bet many parents are staring down about 180 days of school lunches ahead with a feeling of dread. Are the ready-made kids lunches calling to you from the refrigerator section of your grocery store? Are those little prepackaged crackers and cupcakes singing a siren’s song from the snack aisle? You’ve got choices to make, say nutritionists. Will sodium, nitrates, saturated fats and sugar be doled into those lunch boxes and bags e
  
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• Ohio middle schoolers treated after eating ghost peppers

  03-09-2016 01:58
  
  Officials say several dozen Ohio middle schoolers apparently ate extra-hot peppers brought in by a student and were treated by medics after some had adverse reactions.The Dayton Daily News reports emergency crews went to Milton-Union Middle School at lunchtime Friday after students ingested suspected ghost peppers. Five children were taken to hospitals.School Superintendent Brad Ritchey says some students had teary eyes, blotchy skin or hives. A 911 caller reported two students vomiting.Eighth-g
  
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• Rule changes at Buckeye games: Purses banned, beer sales start

  03-09-2016 01:23
  All was quiet at the Shoe Friday. But Saturday, Buckeye Nation wakes from its summer slumber.And this year, fans pouring into The Shoe will be greeted by some changes.What used to be allowed is no longer."No bags or purses are allowed into Ohio Stadium this year,” Senior Associate Athletic Director Mike Penner said. “We do have one exception. Fans are allowed to bring in a wristlet or a clutch that's smaller than 5x8x1 [inches].”And what was once forbidden will now flow freely.
  
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• Green candidate late for speech after flying to wrong city

  03-09-2016 01:22
  A central Ohio speech by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was delayed after the candidate flew to the wrong city. Stein was scheduled to address students at Capital University in the Columbus suburb of Bexley around noon Friday.
  
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• New Albany: Crash leads to OVI arrest for Newark woman

  03-09-2016 01:21
  Police responded at 9:22 a.m. Aug. 24 to the crash she was involved in at state Route 161 east of U.S. Route 62. The vehicle contained a flask with alcohol and a cup with alcoholic residue. Emergency medical personnel said the woman was intoxicated from alcohol and possibly drugs.
  
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• Portion of I-70 dedicated to Columbus Marine killed in combat

  03-09-2016 00:36
  More than a dozen friends and family gathered in west Columbus to pay tribute to Marine Sergeant Jessie Balthaser.He graduated from West High School in the Hilltop and later became a member of the 1st Marine Division 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion.Balthaser was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on September 3, 2010. He was 23-years old.“He has a daughter, Reagan, who never got to meet her daddy. She knows her daddy was a Marine and that he was killed,” Jessie’s mother, Na
  
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