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• CCS announces additional security for Linden-McKinley following shooting

  14-10-2016 23:30
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – Columbus City Schools announced additional security measures for Linden-McKinley STEM Academy Friday. The announcement came 24 hours after two students were shot on the school’s campus right after dismissal.CCS officials said they will add two school safety and security team members to patrol the school. Those positions are district-provided.Linden McKinley currently has four school safety and security officers on campus. This change would boost that number to six.Th
  
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• Ohio 30 mins ago 2:54 p.m.5 years later: Zanesville exotic animal escape lives on for witnesses

  14-10-2016 23:20
  It was always one of Blake's favorites, that is, until Oct. 18, 2011. That was the day Blake helped with the killing of 48 exotic animals at the Terry Thompson farm in Zanesville, Ohio - about 55 miles east of Columbus, Ohio - driving a truck full of police officers who were shooting the animals.
  
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• Donald Trump on accuser: "She would not be my first choice"

  14-10-2016 23:14
  Battered by sordid new accusations of sexual misbehavior, Donald Trump fought back in ever-more-remarkable fashion Friday, acting out one woman's allegation onstage and suggesting another was not attractive enough to merit his attention. He defiantly denied a week's worth of accusations that have all but consumed his presidential bid just over three weeks before the election."She would not be my first choice, that I can tell you," Trump said of one woman in a rambling attack on his female accuse
  
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• U.S. bans Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones from airliners

  14-10-2016 23:08
  
  Passengers and flight crews will be banned from bringing Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones on airline flights under an emergency order issued Friday by the Department of Transportation in response to reports of the phones catching fire.The order, which goes into effect on Saturday at noon EDT, says the phones may not be carried on board or packed in checked bags on flights to and from the United States or within the country. The phones also can't be shipped as air cargo.Passengers caught attempt
  
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• 10 Things To Know: Ohio State vs. Wisconsin

  14-10-2016 22:52
  
  To say Saturday’s game between Ohio State and Wisconsin is a big matchup, might be underselling it.We’re getting into the midway point of the season which means it’s all conference games.And the No. 2 Buckeyes are on the road against the No. 8 Badgers with the nation’s longest road winning streak.The matchup is so big, ESPN College Gameday will be in Madison before the game.So before we get anxious over which headgear Lee Corso will pick, here are 10 Things To Know: 1. De
  
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• Congress looking to fix SNAP food program flaws

  14-10-2016 22:44
  
  Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) and Ohio State Auditor Dave Yost talked about findings of a state investigation into the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
  A previous investigation by 10 Investigates exposed problems with the SNAP program. While some Ohioans struggle daily to keep food on their shelves, others have amassed amounts large enough to feed a small army – literally.
  Some recipients of food assistance have tens of thousands of dollars on their government benefit c
  
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• One lane of I-71 reopens after crash closes South Side section

  14-10-2016 22:24
  
  One lane of northbound Interstate 71 has reopened this afternoon after a multivehicle crash at Greenlawn Avenue. At least two people were transported to hospitals, but their conditions haven't been released. The names of those involved also haven't yet been released.
  
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• Kickoff time adjusted for Ohio State, Northwestern game

  14-10-2016 21:27
  
  The Big Ten Conference has announced the start time for the Ohio State/Northwestern game has been moved up.At the request of ESPN, the game has moved from 5:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on October 29.This will be the first Ohio State/Northwestern game in Ohio Stadium in nine years.WATCH: Urban Meyer press conference | Ohio State Football
  
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• LeBron James plans to go to college

  14-10-2016 21:15
  
  LeBron James skipped college for the NBA. He wants to go back some day.James intends to take classes at the University of Akron, his business partner in helping get college educations for inner-city kids who qualify for a scholarship program he founded.“I’m signed up at the University of Akron for whenever I’m able to get a little bit of down time,” James said Thursday. “That’s always been a conversation that took place, to take some college courses, take some
  
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• Conjoined at the head, twin boys separated in rare surgery

  14-10-2016 20:47
  
  Twin baby boys who were conjoined by the head have been successfully separated after a rare surgery at a New York City hospital.Nicole McDonald, mother of the two boys, shared the news on Facebook this morning.“Dr Goodrich and his team just left. He walked in the room and plopped in the arm chair by the door,” she wrote in the post. “After 16 straight hours of surgery, he still had his sense of humor. ‘Well, we did it,’ he said.”However, she notes that her fam
  
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• Pence answers body image question with pivot to terrorism

  14-10-2016 20:20
  For the Republicans, all eyes are on Mike Pence this afternoon, which spent the last 24 hours speaking out for the trump campaign.And one of his statements made to our own Scott Light - is making national headlines.The question came from an 11-year-old girl who visited 10TV. She told us the words Donald Trump uses made her feel bad about herself.Scott asked Gov. Pence for his response to that 11-year-old girl. His pivot to a terrorism response is now making national headlines."Well, I would say
  
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• Pence answers body image question asked by 11-year-old girl with pivot to terrorism

  14-10-2016 20:20
  For the Republicans, all eyes are on Mike Pence this afternoon, which spent the last 24 hours speaking out for the trump campaign.And one of his statements made to our own Scott Light - is making national headlines.The question came from an 11-year-old girl who visited 10TV. She told us the words Donald Trump uses made her feel bad about herself.Scott asked Gov. Pence for his response to that 11-year-old girl. His pivot to a terrorism response is now making national headlines."Well, I would say
  
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• US removes limits on bringing in Cuban rum, cigars

  14-10-2016 20:08
  
  The Obama administration announced Friday that it is eliminating a $100 limit on the value of Cuban rum and cigars that American travelers can bring back from the island.The administration is also lifting limits on cargo ship travel between the U.S. and Cuba and easing U.S. and Cuban researchers' ability to conduct joint medical research. The measures are contained in a new round of regulatory changes meant to ease U.S. trade with Cuba.The Obama administration has now made six sets of changes lo
  
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• Protester interrupts Clinton's Delaware County speech, yelling "Bill Clinton is a rapist!"

  14-10-2016 19:59
  
  In the middle of one of Ohio's most loyally Republican counties, Bill Clinton condemned the antics of Donald Trump — whom he usually referred to as "my wife's opponent" — for remarks targeting everyone from the disabled to Muslims. He said alienating Muslims doesn't make sense if you want to defeat terrorism.
  
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• Rob Portman, Ted Strickland argue over records, presidential nominees in Senate debate

  14-10-2016 19:39
  
  Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland fired off a series of sharp attacks against Sen. Rob Portman in the first of three debates in the race for the U.S. Senate. Portman called Strickland’s attacks “a sign of desperation” with the most recent polls showing Portman leading in the state with as much as 18 points.
  
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• Franklin County DUI Task Force conducting 2 sobriety checkpoint Friday

  14-10-2016 19:16
  
  The Franklin County DUI Task Force will be conducting two sobriety checkpoints in Reynoldsburg Friday night.Both checkpoints will be located on Livingston Avenue east of Brice Road and west of SR-256.The checkpoints will run from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.The task force wants to remind those who will be consuming alcohol to plan for a designated driver or make other arrangements.EDITOR’S NOTE: Why are the locations and times of a sobriety checkpoint released?Guidelines issued by the NHTSA instruct l
  
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• Theatre Review: Luminous and Mysterious Manual Cinema’s Ada/Ava at Wexner Center

  14-10-2016 19:00
  
  Contrivance is at the heart of any art worth remembering. Deliberate sleight of hand, obfuscation, lies, are tools required to get to the very heart of the human condition. Most artists work their entire lives to get good enough at hiding these instruments and making the final product seamless. There’s a special kind of chutzpah […]
  
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• Billy Bush says he risked getting fired if he rebuked Trump

  14-10-2016 18:30
  
  An attorney for Billy Bush is defending the TV personality’s part in a lewd 2005 exchange with Donald Trump.Marshall Grossman told The Hollywood Reporter that Bush would have been fired from his then-job with “Access Hollywood” if he’d been passive or told Trump to shut up.“If Billy had been passive or responded ‘Shut the (expletive) up’ to Trump, Billy would have been out of a job the next day,” Grossman said.Grossman noted Bush was an NBC Univers
  
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• City of Columbus Charter Review Committee; Glenwood Community Center 10/13/16

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• Cleveland Cavaliers will display NBA trophy at Statehouse Tuesday

  14-10-2016 18:18
  
  Fans can see and take photos with the Cleveland Cavaliers' NBA championship trophy at the Ohio Statehouse on Tuesday. The trophy will be on free public display in the Statehouse Rotunda from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday. Fans are invited to take pictures with the trophy using their own cameras.
  
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• Students shot outside Linden-McKinley STEM Academy identified

  14-10-2016 17:09
  
  The two Linden-McKinley STEM Academy students wounded in a drive-by shooting Thursday afternoon have been identified. Marques Lamarr Johnson Jr., 15, and Ja'Quan Marquise-Lamant Curry, 12, were shot yesterday as scores of students streamed out of the school at the end of the day. Johnson was struck in his chest and was in stable condition Thursday night at Nationwide Children's Hospital. Curry was released after being treated at Children's for a gunshot wound to the shoulder.
  
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• Del Baggio Pizzeria Now Open in Italian Village

  14-10-2016 17:07
  
  East 5th Avenue welcomed another business in September. Del Baggio, offering pizza, wings, gyros and other items, opened across from M.I.A. Hookah Cafe, giving hookah smokers and tea drinkers a convenient late night food option. Tarik Ezzini, owner of both establishments, said the pizzeria has proven to be a necessity in the neighborhood in just […]
  
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• Bill Clinton stumping for wife today in heavily GOP Delaware County

  14-10-2016 17:03
  
  With his own sexual history now a campaign issue, former President Bill Clinton ventures to one of Ohio's most Republican counties today to stump for his wife. Clinton is appearing late this morning at the Delaware County Fairgrounds — located, appropriately enough, off Pennsylvania Avenue. Later today he will campaign in Cincinnati.
  
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• WATCH: President Obama campaigns for Clinton in Cleveland

  14-10-2016 16:53
  
  President Barack Obama was in Cleveland today speaking at a Hillary Clinton campaign rally.You can watch the president's speech below:President Barack Obama is saying that all of America's progress under his administration over the last eight years "goes out the window" if voters elect Donald Trump.Obama held a rally Friday for Hillary Clinton in Cleveland. He's urging Ohio Democrats to cast their votes now, with early voting under way in the state.The president said America is better than Trump
  
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• Obama says 'democracy is on the ballot' at Cleveland rally

  14-10-2016 16:53
  
  Rolling his eyes at the Republican nominee, President Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump's purported business acumen and newfound rage against the "global elite," as he rallied Friday for Democrat Hillary Clinton. He warned that democracy itself was at risk if Trump wins.As the presidential election draws to a close, Obama has increasingly embraced his role as troll-in-chief to the former reality star who hopes to succeed him in the Oval Office. With his own popularity having rebounded, Obama has
  
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• Police identify South Side stabbing victim

  14-10-2016 16:45
  
  Columbus police have identified the man who was fatally stabbed this month on the city's South Side. Terry Wilt, 63, was stabbed numerous times, police said, in his mobile home in the 1200 block of Fairwood Avenue. A man who was taken into custody as a shoplifting suspect in Highland County confessed on Oct. 7 to fatally stabbing Wilt, according to police.
  
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• TV Review: “Transparent” Waxes Existential in Season 3

  14-10-2016 16:30
  
  “When one person in a family transitions, everyone transitions.” Shelly (Judith Light) said it best during her well-received temple talk. The past seasons have found the Pfefferman family members in a holding pattern, stuck in their own transitions, waiting to “come out”. While Season 2 focused on epigenetics and how the Pfefferman family in 1930s […]
  
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• Video shows terrifying moment great white shark breaks open diver's cage

  14-10-2016 16:24
  
  A video showing a scuba diver’s hair-raising encounter with a great white shark off a Mexican island is going viral.The shark breached an underwater diving cage near Guadalupe Island off Mexico’s west coast, according to a father who runs the YouTube channel Gabe and Garrett. The channel usually features videos about the man’s two boys, but the children didn’t accompany their father on his diving trip.
  The video, which was posted to YouTube on Thursday, starts with the sh
  
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• Photos: North Residential District at The Ohio State University

  14-10-2016 15:55
  
  The fall semester of 2016 marks the first time that students at The Ohio State University are utilizing the fully built North Residential District. CLICK HERE to read more about the renovated section of campus, and browse the full photo album below: All photos by Brent Warren.
  
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• Top things to do this weekend: Oct. 14-16

  14-10-2016 15:07
  The feel-good Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus Marathon takes place on Sunday, and three music legends - Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen and Boz Scaggs - will be in town. Halloween events are everywhere, including Ohio Village and the Drexel Theatre.
  
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• First Look: OSU’s New North Residential District

  14-10-2016 15:00
  
  Students moved into the first new buildings in OSU’s North Residential District in the fall of 2015. Construction of the remaining buildings – all located west of High Street, between Lane and Woodruff avenues – continued until right before move-in this past August. This semester, the first in which sophomores are required to live on […]
  
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• Pink smiles are back for a cause

  14-10-2016 14:45
  
  When it comes to that perfect smile, central Ohio orthodontists hope they’ll see people grinning ear to ear in pink.And 130 kids are smiling with pink teeth so far in central Ohio.During the entire month of October, for every patient who requests pink bands for their braces at three central Ohio orthodontics offices in Columbus, the practice will donate $5 to the Stefanie Spielman Fund for Breast Cancer Research. The Stefanie Spielman Fund at OSU helps further support breast cancer researc
  
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• Clinton stumping for wife today in heavily GOP Delaware County

  14-10-2016 14:41
  
  With his own sexual history now a campaign issue, former President Bill Clinton ventures to one of Ohio's most Republican counties today to stump for his wife. Clinton is appearing late this morning at the Delaware County Fairgrounds — located, appropriately enough, off Pennsylvania Avenue. Later today he will campaign in Cincinnati.
  
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• Un-caped Affleck Fights Crime with Math

  14-10-2016 14:30
  
  This week in theaters Ben Affleck capitalizes on his lack of range, Kevin Hart makes the stadiums rock (not unlike Air Supply – well, maybe unlike Air Supply), and Iran delivers a horror film that you really need to see. The Accountant For a middling thriller, The Accountant offers a handful of worthy items. For […]
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: Obama, Trump stump in Columbus with different messages

  14-10-2016 13:25
  
  It was a busy day Thursday for Ohio with two stops from GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and a visit from President Barack Obama.
  
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• Road Closures for the Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus Marathon & 1/2 Marathon

  14-10-2016 12:31
  
  A field of 18,000 runners, walkers, and wheelchair racers are expected to participate in the 37th running of the Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus Marathon & 1/2 Marathon on Oct. 16.Starting on Thursday, Oct. 13, various roads in the North Bank Park area will be closed to road traffic. On Sunday, Oct. 16, 26.2 miles of the marathon course will be subject to rolling closures, based upon the expected time the first and last athlete passes each mile of the course. WHEN / WHERE:Thursday,
  
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• Ken Bone sells out for Uber

  14-10-2016 12:21
  
  Bone, the nation's favorite undecided voter and sweater icon who won the Internet's heart during the second presidential debate, has sold out. For Uber."Everyone wants to know if I've decided ... and I have," Bone tweeted on Thursday. "uberSELECT helps you ride in style like me."
  What is uberSELECT? Who cares about that, or anything anymore.OK fine, it's apparently a new "luxury option" that lets customers in St. Louis be picked up in fancier cars. Customers like American debate hero Ken Bone."A
  
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• Faith-based guides help voters consider options this election season

  14-10-2016 12:13
  
  The day after the second presidential debate, the Rev. Al Debelak and the Rev. Tim Ahrens discussed how the campaign has tarnished what’s known as the golden rule. When voting, they said, people of faith should consider the rule that’s taught in various forms by various religions: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
  
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• Mom to go distance at Columbus Marathon in memory of young son

  14-10-2016 12:11
  
  Laura Fitzpatrick had just lost her 26-month-old son, Judah, this time last year when she stood along the “Angel Mile” at the Columbus Marathon with other families whose children had died, watching the runners stream past. On Sunday, she will run her first marathon. It is the 30-year-old Columbus mother’s way of honoring her son’s memory while raising money for the hospital whose doctors and nurses cared for Judah during his fight with cancer.
  
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• Samsung's losses from Note 7 disaster keep mounting

  14-10-2016 12:10
  
  (CNN) - The South Korean tech giant announced this week it was killing off its flagship Note 7 smartphone.The move came after reports kept emerging of the devices catching fire -- even after Samsung (SSNLF) had promised customers that replacement phones it was providing were safe.Analysts saw the decision to ditch the Note 7 after weeks of crisis as an attempt by Samsung to save its brand image and shield other smartphones from the fallout. But the company is still coming to terms with the finan
  
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• Endangered freshwater mussels found dead in Big Darby Creek

  14-10-2016 11:55
  
  Something appears to be killing mussels, including some endangered species, in the Big Darby Creek. The die-off was discovered Sunday evening within Prairie Oaks Metro Park, at the Franklin and Madison counties line. State and federal wildlife officials are looking for the source of the problem and how far it stretches down the river.
  
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• Popular costumes for Halloween 2016

  14-10-2016 09:35
  The decorations, the costumes, the accessories…it’s that time of the year!
  To the rest of us Halloween means planning for one night of fun, but for Shannon McAnulty, it’s a lot of hours.
  “It’s organized chaos,” he said. “It is a lot of work and a lot of long days.”
  He owns four Halloween Express shops in Columbus. He says it’s ghouls and goblins 24/7 from the day after Labor Day to Halloween night.
  “It’s fun,” he said. &ldq
  
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• Ohio State vs. Wisconsin | Wheelwright in good place with Badgers after being spurned by Buckeyes

  14-10-2016 07:10
  As Rob Wheelwright's skills became apparent, his family and friends hoped that he would someday play football for Ohio State. On Saturday, Wheelwright hopes to play a major role in taking down the No.
  
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• Theater review | Imaginative 'Human Remains' an adventurous choice for reopened Franklinton Playhouse

  14-10-2016 06:52
  
  “Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love” might not be many fledgling theater companies’ notion of a play well-suited to attract a mainstream audience to a promising new performing space in a developing neighborhood. Given the palpable fears, genuine suspense and real-life monsters conjured by Brad Fraser’s episodic and elliptical drama, though, Red Herring Productions should generate some interest among the venturesome – especially during Halloween s
  
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• Theater review | Static 'Make Me a Song' lacks momentum, consistency

  14-10-2016 06:36
  
  A few songwriters – Rodgers and Hammerstein, certainly, and Stephen Sondheim – offer enough range and musical pleasure to carry off a musical revue. Judging by "Make Me a Song," which was conceived by Rob Ruggiero and performed by Evolution Theatre Company at the Columbus Performing Arts Center, William Finn is not among that number.
  
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• New York City bombing suspect communicating with authorities by nodding

  14-10-2016 05:30
  
  The hospitalized man accused of setting bombs in New York City and New Jersey has been communicating with authorities by nodding, CBS News has learned.Two law enforcement officials confirmed to CBS News that Ahmad Khan Rahimi, 28, nodded no when asked if anybody else was involved in the bombings that injured 31 people in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood last month. No one was injured in the New Jersey explosion.Rahimi, an Afghan-born U.S. citizen, was shot between eight and 10 times when h
  
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• Indiana pastor charged with threatening to shoot neighborhood children

  14-10-2016 05:27
  
  An Indiana pastor is charged with threatening to shoot neighborhood children to keep them away from his church.The (Muncie) Star Press reported that 69-year-old Bobby Slagle of New Castle’s Calvary Baptist Church is charged with felony intimidation and misdemeanor resisting law enforcementAccording to a police report, Slagle said he was frustrated about vandalism at his church in New Castle, 50 miles east of Indianapolis.New Castle police said Slagle “advised the kids that if they di
  
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• Donald Trump tells Ohio crowd that Hillary Clinton, media threaten nation

  14-10-2016 05:27
  
  CINCINNATI — After describing this year’s election in apocalyptic terms earlier in the day, Donald Trump was down to merely alleging Hillary Clinton is a criminal by the time he made a pair of stops Thursday in Ohio. “This is not simply another four-year election. This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization,” Trump said early Thursday afternoon in Palm Beach, Fla.
  
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• NTSB: Driver in deadly Oklahoma State parade crash sped up before hitting spectators

  14-10-2016 05:13
  
  The woman accused of driving her car into spectators at Oklahoma State University’s homecoming parade and killing four people sped up as she approached the parade route, according to a federal report released Thursday.The National Transportation Safety Board reported that co-workers who saw 26-year-old Adacia Chambers before the crash said she seemed distracted. The agency said her “emotional distress” was the probable cause of the crash that also injured dozens of people on Oc
  
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• Comedy Preview: Tig Notaro

  14-10-2016 05:13
  
  I saw Tig Notaro’s stand-up for the first time in 2015 when she performed just down the street at The Bluestone, a converted church in Downtown Columbus. I’ll get right to the point: it was one of the best hours of comedy I have ever seen. Some important context for those who are unfamiliar with […]
  
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