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• Developer of Sawmill Wetlands open to negotiations

  16-09-2016 23:43
  The developer set to take control of the Sawmill Wetlands Education Area says they are open to negotiating with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for a land swap.If a settlement can be reached – some or all of the Sawmill Wetlands may remain as a state park.Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Christopher Brown decided September 2 that development company JDS So Cal Ltd should receive title to the Sawmill Wetlands by the end of the month.The City of Columbus gave the Wetlands to the s
  
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• Dog shelter puts euthanizations on hold, all dogs to be tested for distemper

  16-09-2016 23:40
  After a week in which the Franklin County Dog Shelter euthanized 84 dogs, Friday county officials announced those euthanizations were being put on hold until every dog in the shelter can be tested for distemper.As a result of that, rescue groups say they are dropping their legal fight against the shelter.There are currently 174 dogs in the shelter, 111 of them in isolation because of exposure to distemper.Friday shelter officials said thanks to some outside help, all of those dogs will be tested
  
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• 3 pedestrians, including 2 children, struck by vehicle in west Columbus

  16-09-2016 23:10
  
  Three people, including two children, were struck by a vehicle in west Columbus Friday.The crash happened around the area of S. Souder Avenue and Thomas Avenue.Officials on the scene say the driver tried to avoid hitting a bicyclist but ended up hitting three pedestrians before hitting a house.One of the juvenile victims was treated at the scene. The second juvenile and the adult were transported to local hospitals. Police say they were in stable condition.
  
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• Judge sets $1M bond for Ashland man in slayings, abduction case; second victim identified

  16-09-2016 22:52
  
  A judge has set a $1 million bond for an Ohio man facing charges in the deaths of two people and the sexual assault of a third person.Forty-year-old Shawn Grate appeared in a video bond hearing Friday and was appointed an attorney after telling the judge he had no money, job or home.Grate was arrested Tuesday after a woman called 911 and said she was being held inside a home in Ashland. Police arrived, found the woman and the remains of two people,The first victim was identified as 43-year-old S
  
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• 10 Things To Know: Ohio State vs. Oklahoma

  16-09-2016 22:38
  
  Two games down and it’s time for the Buckeyes to hit the road.Ohio State will be playing its first road game of the 2016 season against Oklahoma.The Sooners lost their season opener to Houston, but are looking to get the year back on track against the No. 3 Buckeyes.So whether you’re loading up your car (or covered wagon) to head to Norman or you’ll be cheering on Ohio State from home, here are 10 Things To Know about Saturday night’s game. 1. Offensive JuggernautOhio Sta
  
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• Section of southern Outerbelt closed because of crash

  16-09-2016 22:30
  
  All lanes are closed on Interstate 270 westbound in southern Franklin County because of a traffic crash. The wreck occurred just before 4 p.m. on the Outerbelt, east of I-71, near Route 23.
  
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• Florida "zombie cat" finds forever home

  16-09-2016 22:20
  
  A Florida cat that rose from his grave last year has found a forever home, CBS Miami reported. “Zombie cat‘s” long road to recovery ended with an adoption by his Tampa foster family.He earned his nickname last year after being hit by a car, presumed dead and then buried."Zombie" Cat Crawls From His Own GraveFive days later the cat, who has been renamed “Bart,” clawed his way out of his grave!He was matted, injured, dehydrated and meowing for food.Bart’s owner,
  
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• Upper Arlington must hold election for appointed council seat, Ohio justices say

  16-09-2016 22:07
  
  Upper Arlington, for the second time in 3½ months, will hold an election to determine who sits on City Council. The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Friday that Upper Arlington must hold an election to fill the council seat vacated in March by Michael Schadek just three months into his four-year term. Council appointed Sue Ralph to replace Schadek and believed it could continue to re-appoint her annually until that four-year term expired.
  
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• Witness: Abducted N.C. girl, 6, found chained to tree

  16-09-2016 21:23
  
  A witness says a 6-year-old North Carolina girl found following an 18-hour search was chained to a tree when deputies located her.New Hanover County Sheriff Ed McMahon says the child was found Thursday morning about 2 miles from her home near Wilmington.The witness, Jason Mehalko, tells local news outlets he loaned deputies a saw which they used to free the girl.“We beat the odds today, it’s safe to say,” New Hanover County Sheriff Edward McMahon said during a news conference T
  
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• Convicted rapist guilty again after assaulting two women last October

  16-09-2016 21:02
  
  NEWARK — In April 2005, Roger Black sat in Licking County Common Pleas Court as he was convicted of rape. Nearly 11 and a half years later, and with an eight-year prison term behind him, Black, 32, sat in the same courtroom and buried his face in his tattooed hands as he was found guilty of the same crime.
  
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• City Officials Ask for Commitment to ‘Investigative Process’ in Police Shooting of 13 Year Old

  16-09-2016 21:02
  
  In the days after the fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Tyre King, activists and mourning community members are filled with confusion and looking for answers. At a press conference held yesterday, city officials asked for patience and peace while they find them. Nine-year police veteran Bryan Mason shot King on Wednesday night after a “confrontation” […]
  
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• Big Sandy settles into Columbus, eyes more stores locally

  16-09-2016 20:23
  "And I tell them, that's my wife," Van Hoose said. "Her name is Sandy - and it is.
  
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• Attorneys for family of 13-year-old shot by police want outside investigation

  16-09-2016 20:05
  
  The family of the 13-year-old boy killed by a Columbus Police officer has hired a law firm to represent them in his shooting death.Attorneys Sean Watson and Chanda Brown want an outside agency, independent of the Columbus Police Department, to investigate the death of Tyre King.They said they are skeptical about early details of the shooting involving Officer Bryan Mason.They’re also unhappy with the way police showed a picture of a replica of the gun during a news conference.“That&r
  
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• Dog shelter to use new test to speed distemper diagnosis

  16-09-2016 20:00
  
  The Franklin County Dog Shelter will use an new distemper test developed at the University of Wisconsin to quickly check dogs for the disease, officials announced this afternoon. The test "should allow many of the healthy but exposed dogs to be cleared much sooner than was previously thought possible," according to a news release from the shelter. That means dogs that could have been quarantined for as long as six weeks to determine whether they had the potentially deadly respiratory disease cou
  
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• 'We’ve gotta get this done,' Kasich says after White House meeting on trade deal

  16-09-2016 19:54
  
  Not long ago, it may have seemed unimaginable that Ohio Gov. John Kasich would take the podium at the White House to defend one of President Barack Obama’s key priorities.
  
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• Olive Garden sells out 21,000 pasta passes in less than a second

  16-09-2016 19:46
  
  Enough people to fill a stadium will likely be eating lots of carbohydrates for seven weeks running, starting Oct. 3.Olive Garden says it sold all 21,000 of its all-you-can eat “Never Ending Pasta Passes” in less than a second. The pass gives holders access to unlimited pasta, soup, salad and soft drinks. The Italian-restaurant chain increased the number of $100 passes available -- last year, 2,000 passes were purchased in less than a minute.Those unable to get one of the coveted pas
  
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• Man convicted of wife's fatal shooting

  16-09-2016 19:39
  
  Bryon L. Brisco Sr. insisted that he was in a tug of war with his wife over a handgun she had pointed at him when it went off, firing a bullet through her chest. That's the story he told this week on the witness stand in a Franklin County courtroom during his trial in the death of Sofia M. Brisco, 29. On Friday, jurors rejected his version of events, convicting him of murder for causing her death while committing felonious assault. They acquitted him of a separate murder charge that required pro
  
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• Kasich on meeting with Obama: 'This is moment to reverse' divisiveness

  16-09-2016 19:32
  
  Ohio Gov. John Kasich met with President Barack Obama and a bipartisan group to discuss support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal today.
  
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• Trump finally acknowledges Obama born in US

  16-09-2016 18:16
  
  Donald Trump has finally acknowledged the fact that President Barack Obama was born in the United States.Trump said Friday that "that President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period."As he did so, the Republican nominee repeated the conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign for president started the so-called the "birther controversy."There is no evidence that is true, and Clinton and her allies have strongly denied that suggestion.Trump says of the "birther" movement:
  
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• Live now: John Kasich talks about his meeting with President Obama

  16-09-2016 17:55
  
  Ohio Gov. John Kasich met with President Barack Obama and a bipartisan group to discuss support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal today.
  
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• Teen sent to youth prison for shooting Pokemon Go player

  16-09-2016 17:37
  
  A 14-year-old boy was sentenced today to 19 months in a state youth prison after admitting he shot a man who was playing Pokemon Go near Linden Park this summer. David M. Sparks admitted to a delinquency charge of felonious assault with a gun specification in the shooting, which wounded a 26-year-old man on July 26 in North Linden. Juvenile Court Magistrate Woodrow Hudson imposed the sentence, which was recommended by prosecuting and defense attorneys as part of a plea agreement. Sparks will be
  
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• Georgia woman says 14 pet pythons let loose in neighborhood

  16-09-2016 17:08
  
  In a real life version of the children’s reader “Snakes Alive!”, state wildlife officers are searching for 14 pythons in an east Georgia subdivision after a woman reported that someone let the pet snakes loose.Jacqueline Heim told authorities the snakes were in secure cages. She suspects someone set them free deliberately this week.Heim tells CBS affiliate WRDW-TV the ball pythons are not harmful. Ball pythons, sometimes known as royal pythons, are so named because their key d
  
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• Theatre Review: Big Laughs in CATCO’s Act of God

  16-09-2016 16:15
  
  God so loved the theatre he appears before us in the body of an actor five shows a week. Fans of the original Twitter feed on which it was based or irreverent religious humor are well-served by CATCO’s production of David Javerbaum’s recent Broadway hit Act of God, directed by Steven Anderson. Act of God finds the […]
  
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• Columbus Learning Cooperative Opening Doors in Olde Towne East

  16-09-2016 16:09
  
  A mansion in Olde Towne East reminiscent of a mini-Hogwarts now houses an educational institution. But its location at 731 E. Broad Street is far from the only thing that makes Columbus Learning Cooperative different from the traditional education system. Enrollment is open to students ages 10-18, but they won’t be segregated into grades. “The idea […]
  
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• US Women’s National Soccer Team Thrashes Thailand 9-0 in Columbus

  16-09-2016 16:02
  
  The US women’s national soccer team played their first game since the shock of not winning Olympic gold on Thursday night at MAPFRE Stadium in a friendly that turned into a destruction as visiting punching-bags Thailand found themselves at the mercy of a team rebounding from the disappointment of Rio. The Shell-shocked Thailand team were […]
  
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• New numbers show how distracted driving affects Ohioans

  16-09-2016 15:57
  
  Distracted driving is an unacceptable and dangerous behavior, yet new numbers show more than two thirds of people still do it.Last year, more than 13,000 Ohio drivers crashed while being distracted by something inside their vehicle. Thirty nine of those distracted drivers were responsible for fatal accidents that resulted in 43 deaths.AAA spokeswoman, Kimberly Schwind, said many drivers want you to do as they say and not as they do. She also said that AAA continues to advocate for tougher laws a
  
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• Seven Story Apartment Building Proposed Near Topiary Park

  16-09-2016 15:37
  
  A local developer is looking for feedback from the city on a proposal for the southwest corner of East Town Street and Washington Avenue Downtown, across from the Topiary Park. Eli Adahan, who is in contract to buy the vacant parcel from Franklin University, submitted a proposal for a seven-story apartment building to the city’s […]
  
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• It’s Time to Leap @Wexarts!

  16-09-2016 15:37
  
  Columbus, it’s time to leap! “Leap Before You Look” starts Wexner Center for the Arts at 5 p.m. with curator’s talk followed by reception, DJ, and remarkable, innovative art from the one and only Black Mountain College. Don’t miss this show—it will leave you inspired to make! Details at wexarts.org The Columbus Foundation is working to capture The Spirit […]
  
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• Concert Preview: Oxymorrons at Rumba Café

  16-09-2016 15:00
  
  New York-based quintet Oxymorrons will appear Saturday night at Rumba Café along with Minneapolis hip-hop artist Astronautalis. The band’s current single, “Asleep” – freshly released this week – is a torrent of drums, synths, and singable refrains that perfectly exemplifies their urban/alt-rock crossover approach. Swedish producer Felix Snow, who was recently on the controls for Kiiara’s […]
  
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• Witches, Babies and Geezers – Oh My!

  16-09-2016 14:30
  
  Witches and babies and mean old men – oh my! Halloween prep begins with a string of indie and studio horrors this weekend, and the return of Bridget Jones. Blair Witch Buried now under so many years of bad found footage movies and viral marketing gimmicks, it’s easy to forget that in 1999, The Blair […]
  
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• Man arrested in kidnapping charged with killing 2 women

  16-09-2016 13:36
  
  ASHLAND — A man arrested at a house where two bodies were found was charged Thursday with two counts of murder and one count of kidnapping.
  
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• Woman sentenced in 5-year-old’s death

  16-09-2016 13:29
  
  HAMILTON — One of the three women charged after the fatal beating of a 5-year-old boy at a motel has been sentenced to 18 years to life in prison.
  
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• Teen hit, killed by school bus

  16-09-2016 13:27
  
  NORTON — Officials said a 16-year-old high school student was hit by a school bus and killed in a Cleveland suburb.
  
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• Columbus schools deal with latest violent death of a student

  16-09-2016 13:21
  
  Before the United Way of Central Ohio began its meeting Thursday morning, president and CEO Janet Jackson told trustees that the head of the Columbus schools couldn’t make it. Superintendent Dan Good had sent her a text explaining that he was grappling with the shooting death of yet another student.
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: What John Kasich said about his meeting with President Obama

  16-09-2016 13:04
  
  Ohio Gov. John Kasich is heading to the White House today to join a bipartisan panel who will meet with President Barack Obama to discuss support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
  
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• Nora the polar bear gets used to new home at Oregon Zoo

  16-09-2016 13:02
  
  Nora, the polar bear who stole hearts as a cub at the Columbus Zoo, is getting used to her new home.Nora, now 150 pounds, left for the Oregon Zoo in Portland two weeks ago.She is loving her new home.Nora will spend about a month in quarantine as standard protocol,l before she is placed with the other polar bears.
  
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• High-tech medical dummies add realism to training for emergencies at Blue Jackets games

  16-09-2016 12:35
  
  In any one of the 60 minutes of a regulation hockey game, a variety of bad things can happen on the ice. So, as the NHL season approaches, Blue Jackets players aren’t the only ones in Columbus training. On Monday, the team’s medical and athletic-training staff joined more than 30 Columbus Division of Fire paramedics and six emergency physicians from OhioHealth on the rink at Nationwide Arena to prepare for the worst.
  
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• Gov. Kasich issues directive to determine what skills employers want from applicants

  16-09-2016 12:24
  
  It is a constant refrain from business owners: They have job openings but can’t find the people with the right skill set to fill them. On the other hand, workers say there aren’t enough good jobs available. Now, Gov. John Kasich has issued an order instructing his Executive Workforce Board to find ways to remove barriers to training and employment opportunities for Ohioans who need them.
  
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• Investigation ongoing into fatal police shooting of boy, 13

  16-09-2016 12:03
  15, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. King was shot and killed by Columbus police Wednesday evening.
  
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• Former prison inmate awarded $3 million in lawsuit against state over pain management

  16-09-2016 11:57
  
  A former prison inmate won a $3 million jury award this week after the state failed to file an answer to his lawsuit for five years. John Henricks sued Dr. Ida Gonzalez and the Pickaway Correctional Institution, where she worked in June 2008, for failing to give him the proper pain medication following an emergency appendectomy.
  
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• Judge grants order blocking euthanasia at Franklin Co. Dog Shelter

  16-09-2016 06:29
  
  Officials at the Franklin county dog shelter will not euthanize any more dogs, at least not Thursday night.This comes after a Franklin County judge granted rescue groups a temporary restraining order as the shelter continues to deal with the distemper outbreak.And the order calls for the rescue groups to pay up big.The Franklin County Dog Shelter has acknowledged they have received a temporary restraining order and a county spokesperson says if the rescue groups post the required $100,000 bond,
  
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• Vigil held for 13-year-old boy shot & killed by officer

  16-09-2016 06:21
  
  The crowd gathered at a candlelight vigil for Tyre King huddled a little closer and tears flowed more freely when the sister of the 13-year-old spoke about her brother’s death in a police-involved shooting Wednesday night."All these people keep talking about my brother like they know him [but] they don’t know Ty," she said.Michael Bell was the coach of the youth football team King had just joined a year ago."I thank God that I had an opportunity to meet Tyre and spend time with him,"
  
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• One person injured in north Columbus shooting

  16-09-2016 05:45
  
  Columbus police were called to the 1600 block of DePorres Drive around 10:30 p.m. Thursday evening on report of shooting.When officers arrived, they found one person injured from a gunshot wound.Paramedics transported the victim to Grant Medical Center in critical condition.Police dispatchers say they have no suspect information at this time.Crime scene tape has been put up and the roadway is blocked while officers continue this investigation.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com for updates.
  
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• Vigil held for teen shot by police

  16-09-2016 05:34
  
  More than 150 people gathered for a candlelight vigil on the Near East Side tonight, near where Tyre King, a 13-year-old robbery suspect, was fatally shot by a Columbus police officer on Wednesday. The vigil, organized by the People’s Justice Project, lasted more than three hours. The crowd included several of King’s family members and his football teammates from the Columbus Day Stars.
  
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• Calls for calm follow police shooting of 13-year-old

  16-09-2016 05:22
  
  Columbus now joins other cities in facing the shock, sadness and confusion that come with police fatally shooting a black teenager. The shooting had Mayor Andrew J. Ginther and Police Chief Kim Jacobs pleading for patience and calm Thursday in the wake of the shooting death of 13-year-old Tyre King, a suspect in a robbery.
  
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• Dad admits killing tot who survived cancer, dumping body in NY waterway

  16-09-2016 04:08
  
  A New York man has pleaded guilty to killing his toddler daughter with a wooden baseball bat before burning her body and dumping her remains in an upstate waterway.Twenty-five-year-old Ryan Lawrence pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree murder in a plea deal with Onondaga County prosecutors.Lawrence admitted beating to death his 21-month-old daughter Maddox outside Syracuse in February. Authorities say he burned the girl’s body in a fire pit, then tied the remains to a cinder block that
  
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• Mary Taylor testifies in Washington about health insurance

  16-09-2016 03:22
  
  WASHINGTON – Saying 19 counties in Ohio will only have one insurance company offering plans under the 2010 health law, Ohio Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor told a Senate committee the law is “reducing or eliminating competition” in the insurance market.
  
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• Soccer | In Columbus, Megan Rapinoe kneels for national anthem

  16-09-2016 02:49
  
  When Thailand’s national anthem came to a close, Megan Rapinoe joined those at Mapfre Stadium in polite applause. Then, when the public-address announcer introduced the United States national anthem, the American midfielder continued her protest of racial injustice in the country and dropped to her right knee for the duration of the rendition by an Air Force master sergeant.
  
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• Man killed on East Side was friends with man charged in shooting

  16-09-2016 01:58
  
  When Geneva Skaggs heard about the shooting a few doors down from her East Side home, she started to connect the dots. Skaggs' house had been robbed earlier this week, she told a 911 dispatcher, and she began to realize Tuesday night how much had been taken from her.
  
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