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• Trump-supporting sheriff retweets #WhiteGenocide account

  26-10-2016 23:54
  Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones says he didn't notice who the tweet was sent by, took it down a short time later. Trump-supporting sheriff retweets #WhiteGenocide account Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones says he didn't notice who the tweet was sent by, took it down a short time later.
  
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• In death, 15-year-old football star saves lives of four others

  26-10-2016 23:44
  
  Fifteen-year-old Roy Stuart never left home without a football in his hand. Last year, the Dallas teen was named Kennedy Curry Middle School’s eighth grade defensive player of the year. And one day, he hoped to play professionally.Last week, however, those dreams were cut short when Stuart was shot in the head by an unknown assailant in the South Oak Cliff apartment complex where he lived with his grandmother, Brenda. The high school freshman became the latest in a tragic list of 146 murde
  
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• Book written by Bexley teacher helps kids understand cancer

  26-10-2016 23:31
  A new book helps Central Ohio students understand cancer.
  It's called "Nellie's Walk," and is told through the perspective of a little girl's walk through the woods with her mother.
  The lesson is one of life's toughest.
  "Mom, does the medicine make you tired?" Nellie asks.
  "The medicines I take that make my hair go away help my body fight the cancer," answers her mother.
  Wednesday Charlotte Stiverson not only shared the story with her class, but she also wrote it and lived it.
  "They did an ultra
  
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• Bexley teacher writes book to help kids understand cancer

  26-10-2016 23:31
  A new book helps Central Ohio students understand cancer.
  It's called "Nellie's Walk," and is told through the perspective of a little girl's walk through the woods with her mother.
  The lesson is one of life's toughest.
  "Mom, does the medicine make you tired?" Nellie asks.
  "The medicines I take that make my hair go away help my body fight the cancer," answers her mother.
  Wednesday Charlotte Stiverson not only shared the story with her class, but she also wrote it and lived it.
  "They did an ultra
  
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• Weather Geek Report: Timing out our next chance for rain

  26-10-2016 23:13
  
  Showers are moving towards Ohio tonight and the weather will be a close call for the World Series in Cleveland. The game has been moved up an hour because of the threat for rain with the first pitch now at 7:08 p.m.
  Our latest Hour-By-Hour Forecast shows rain moving into Northern Ohio overnight and into Central Ohio by early morning.
  A few isolated thunderstorms will even be possible north of Columbus by early morning.
  Look for rain during the morning and into the early afternoon before cooler a
  
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• Chelsea Clinton stumps for her mother in Grove City

  26-10-2016 23:10
  Cheers met Chelsea Clinton as she campaigned for her mother Wednesday afternoon. The rain forced the speech to move indoors."I never thought I would see in my lifetime the almost daily diet of hate speech that seems to be Donald Trump's main campaign strategy,” Chelsea said. “The racism, the sexism, the Islamophobia, the homophobia, the rhetoric against Americans with disabilities, the rhetoric against our veterans."
  Chelsea said her mom will prove “love trumps hate” and
  
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• Rickey Smiley encourages Franklin County voters to vote early

  26-10-2016 23:01
  Nationally-syndicated radio show host Rickey Smiley and his fellow crew members visited the Franklin County Board of Elections Wednesday to encourage voters to cast their ballots early.
  “Early voting is just awesome and we have to exercise this right,” said Smiley. “In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, and a lot of others who have died and given their lives and some have made the ultimate sacrifice where we can have a right to vote.”
  Smiley and The Rick
  
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• Zoup! Opens in Arena District, Bluescreek Announces New Chef and Cafe, Land-Grant to Open at Airport

  26-10-2016 22:35
  
  Bluescreek Announces New Chef and Cafe Bluescreek Farm Meats recently announced the addition of Chef Spencer Haney and the opening of a new cafe. Bluescreek, a former vendor for the North Market, opened their stand-alone location in Spring of this year and established their own market with local sources. Their new cafe features items like […]
  
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• Apple's new iOS 10.1 update fixes a big security flaw

  26-10-2016 22:35
  
  Attention iPhone owners: there’s a security update to iOS 10 that Apple says you should download without delay. The software update — called iOS 10.1 — patches a security hole that could allow hackers to infiltrate your phone through “maliciously crafted” JPEG photo files, the company said. The flaw was discovered by Marco Grassi, a security researcher at Keen Lab. So, how serious a problem is it? If a user inadvertently viewed a corrupted JPEG file, a hacker would
  
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• Cory Booker tells Ohio State students to 'fight for this country'

  26-10-2016 22:12
  
  U.S. Sen. Cory Booker didn't go after the red meat this afternoon while campaigning with Ted Strickland at the Ohio Union. The Democrat from New Jersey, who made Hillary Clinton's vice-presidential short list, instead tried to inspire about 50 students to make sure they— and others — vote in the Nov. 8 election.
  
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• LeBron James and Dwyane Wade make amazing World Series bet

  26-10-2016 22:10
  
  It’s Chicago vs. Cleveland in the World Series right now. But the cities’ baseball players aren’t the only ones facing off for bragging rights.Cleveland’s own LeBron James and Chicago native Dwyane Wade — two of the NBA’s biggest stars — just took to social media with a rather high stakes wager. On second thought, maybe it isn’t as much high stakes as it is high fashion.Whichever player’s city loses has to attend the winning city’s next
  
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• Chelsea Clinton says she doesn't want 'daily diet of hate speech' for country

  26-10-2016 22:10
  
  Chelsea Clinton encouraged volunteers in Grove City to "have a little extra sugar" today in honor of her mother's birthday. With less than two weeks until Election Day, the daughter of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton visited an organizing office in Grove City on Wednesday afternoon
  
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• Photos: Tegan and Sara at Express Live!

  26-10-2016 21:35
  
  While baseball dominated the bars and restaurants of Columbus, Canadian indie-pop-rock twins Tegan and Sara brought an alternative to bats and balls to town with almost two decades worth of infectious radio-friendly genre-hopping synth ‘n roll to the indoor Express! Live stage on Tuesday night. The band are currently touring “Love You to Death”, released […]
  
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• Police identify victims, suspect in Southwest Side shooting

  26-10-2016 21:17
  
  Columbus police have released the identity of the 2-year-old girl fatally shot Tuesday night. They said Amiyah Bice had just celebrated her birthday over the weekend. The girl’s parents, 25-year-old Jessica Stanford and 28-year-old Julian Bice, as well as a suspect, 51-year-old Norman Robert Burke suffered non-life threatening injuries and remain hospitalized at local hospitals.
  
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• Judge sentences last player in massive credit card scam

  26-10-2016 21:13
  
  A minor player in a major credit-card scam, the last of eight people to be sentenced in the case, pleaded for leniency on Wednesday, saying that he needed to be a father to his four siblings and his three children, including a fourth on the way. Joey Westbrook, 21, told U.S. District Court Judge Michael H. Watson on Wednesday that he and his siblings never had a father figure.
  
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• Doppler 10 Forecast: Showers Thursday Morning

  26-10-2016 21:06
  This Evening: Partly to mostly cloudy.
  Tonight: Cloudy with a few scattered showers towards morning.Low 51.Winds: SE 5-10 mph.
  Tomorrow: Showers likely (mainly in the morning) and breezy.High 60.Winds: SW 10-20 mph.
  Friday: Sunny skies and seasonable.High 62.Special Information: Increasing clouds tonight with scattered showers towards morning. Showers and even an isolated thunderstorm in the morning with rain gradually ending by early afternoon.Sunshine returns Friday with highs in the 60s follo
  
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• Doppler 10 Forecast: Light showers early, cooler later

  26-10-2016 21:06
  
  This Morning:A few light showers early. Cloudy.
  This Afternoon:Lingering clouds and may turn cooler. Upper 50s W 5-15 mph
  Tonight:Partially clearing. Near 40 NW 5-10 mph
  Tomorrow:Brightening skies. Near 60 S 3-6 mph
  Saturday:Sun and clouds. Unseasonably warm for late October. 74Special Information:A weak cold front will move across the state today bringing a few showers early and more cool temperatures this afternoon.High pressure returns Friday, bringing some clearing and a bit of a warm-up. Th
  
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• Pet thefts on the rise in Columbus

  26-10-2016 20:57
  Columbus Police are responding to an increasing number of stolen pet reports.
  Dog owner Becca Six told CrimeTracker 10 she was beside herself when her pit bull, Cuddles, disappeared from her fenced in back yard in south Columbus.
  "All of a sudden I couldn't find her and the gates weren't open. Nothing was open. and I was like ‘she couldn't have got out,’"Six said.
  She said she was especially worried because she didn't believe Cuddles would abandon her litter of three-week-old puppies
  
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• Pet theft on the rise in Columbus

  26-10-2016 20:57
  Columbus Police are responding to an increasing number of stolen pet reports.
  Dog owner Becca Six told CrimeTracker 10 she was beside herself when her pit bull, Cuddles, disappeared from her fenced in back yard in south Columbus.
  "All of a sudden I couldn't find her and the gates weren't open. Nothing was open. and I was like ‘she couldn't have got out,’"Six said.
  She said she was especially worried because she didn't believe Cuddles would abandon her litter of three-week-old puppies
  
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• Jurors can hear about marijuana in car of black man slain by officer in Cincinnati

  26-10-2016 20:57
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio judge has ruled that jurors can be told about marijuana in the car driven by an unarmed black man fatally shot by a white police officer after a traffic stop. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Megan Shanahan, however, rejected defense efforts Wednesday to also introduce records of 43-year-old Sam DuBose's long conviction history or about his health.
  
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• Bill Clinton to campaign in Columbus area Saturday

  26-10-2016 19:25
  Bill Clinton campaigns for his wife, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, at the Delaware County Fairgrounds on October 14. Credit: Lantern File Photo Former President Bill Clinton is set to campaign in the Columbus area on Saturday for his wife, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Ohio State football is set to play Northwestern in Columbus on Saturday, with kickoff set for 3:30 p.m. Hillary Clinton's campaign website currently lists the time as "Afternoon ."
  
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• Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star destroyed

  26-10-2016 19:20
  
  LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) — Los Angeles police are investigating the vandalizing of Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Det. Meghan Aguilar says investigators were called to the scene before dawn Wednesday following reports that the presidential candidate's star was destroyed by blows from a hammer.
  A man who identified himself as Jamie Otis says he's responsible for the damage. Otis tells Deadline Hollywood that he originally intended to remove Trump's star. He says he wanted to
  
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• Short North Support

  26-10-2016 19:14
  
  They knew Short North before it became what it is today. Jack and Zoe Johnstone continue to invest in the culture of our community through funds like Johnstone Fund for New Music. Read more. The Columbus Foundation is working to capture The Spirit of Columbus through images that showcase the determination, dedication, and commitment of people in […]
  
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• Victims identified in southwest Columbus shooting that left 2-year-old girl dead

  26-10-2016 18:05
  COLUMBUS, Ohio --- The victims of a southwest Columbus shooting that took the life of a 2-year-old have been identified by police.
  Detectives for the Columbus Division of Police say shots were fired at a home on Parkwick Drive on Tuesday evening. Twenty-eight-year-old Julian Bice and 25-year-old Jessica Stanford suffered gunshot wounds. Their 2-year-old daughter, Amiyah Bice, was shot and killed during the deadly exchange.
  Bice and Stanford were transported to a nearby hospital and are expected
  
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• Woman, man guilty of cocaine-related crimesPair plead guilty to felony charges. Today at

  26-10-2016 17:14
  Katina D. Ross, 43, of Columbus, and Jose I. Escobedo, 39, of 305 Woodbine St. , Willard, have their respective sentencing hearings scheduled for Dec. 14 in Huron County Common Pleas Court. There was no sentencing agreement between the state and Huron County Public Defender David Longo.
  
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• 11 charged over widespread damage after Penn State's upset win

  26-10-2016 16:34
  
  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Eleven people have now been charged over widespread damage following Penn State's upset victory over Ohio State on Saturday night.Ten of those charged are current or former Penn State students. State College Police Chief John Gardner says he expects more people will be charged.Fans pulled down five streetlights, damaged streetlight globes and took about 20 streets signs and stop signs. Several small fires were also set, and at least one vehicle was damaged.Police say 5,000
  
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• Baby found in back seat when Indiana mom overdosed on heroin

  26-10-2016 15:25
  
  HOPE, Ind. (WTHR) - A picture, released by the Hope Police Department, shows a near lifeless woman in the driver's seat of her vehicle.She was parked outside a Hope, Indiana Dollar General Saturday, reports WTHR in Indianapolis.Hope Police Chief Matt Tallent says officers arrived on scene and found the woman passed out with a needle still in her hand. She wasn't alone.25-year-old Erika Hurt's Facebook page shows numerous smiling photos with her ten-month-old son.But on Saturday it wasn't a happy
  
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• Huntington profit hurt by expenses from FirstMerit deal

  26-10-2016 15:04
  
  Huntington Bancshares said this morning that its third-quarter profit fell 17 percent from the same period in 2015 because of expenses tied to its recently completed acquisition of Akron-based FirstMerit.
  
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• Third suspect in October fatal shooting in custody

  26-10-2016 14:29
  
  A third suspect in the Oct. 2 shooting death of a man on the Near East Side has surrendered, Columbus police said. Tivon D. Green, 20, of the 1000 block of E. Long Street, turned himself in on Tuesday, police said. He was charged with murder in the death of Daegio Heron, 29, who was killed in an alley behind the 1500 block of Harvard Avenue, near where he lived on Taylor Avenue. On Oct. 5, police arrested Tyrik M. McDonald-Glaslo, 18, of the Near East Side, and Dajuan A. Crowley, 18, of the Sout
  
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• Cleveland Indians get boost from newborn babies in onesies

  26-10-2016 14:05
  
  CLEVELAND -- Newborn babies at an Ohio hospital have joined the ranks of Cleveland Indians fans.The Cleveland Clinic says at least five babies born Tuesday at its Fairview Hospital were dressed in World Series onesies. It says babies born throughout the World Series at several of its hospitals will be dressed in the outfits to help cheer on the Indians' quest for a championship as they take on the Chicago Cubs.
  The clinic says babies at its Hillcrest, Main Campus SDU, Medina and Cleveland Clinic
  
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• Brian Harnetty’s Shawnee, Ohio Premieres at the Wexner Center on October 27-28

  26-10-2016 14:00
  
  Columbus-based composer-musician Brian Harnetty is one of today’s shining examples of making fresh, surprising work that speaks to today and tomorrow made stronger by its direct, explicit connection to what’s come before. Grown up in Westerville, through the years he’s put out records on prominent underground labels like Dust-to-Digital and Atavistic, lectured and performed around […]
  
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• Busch Gardens shuts rapids ride after fatal Aussie incident

  26-10-2016 13:52
  
  TAMPA, Fla. -- Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Florida has decided to close a river rapids ride after four people were killed on a similar water ride at an amusement park in Australia.News outlets report Busch Gardens officials say the Congo River Rapids ride was shut down Tuesday "out of an abundance of caution" while they work to understand what happened in Australia.Officials there say two men and two women died while on the Thunder River Rapids ride after it malfunctioned at Dreamworld, a popular
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: Democrats ask U.S. Supreme Court to halt GOP voter provisions

  26-10-2016 13:51
  
  Democrats have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to change some of the state's election laws back to the way they were, fearing thousands of registered and eligible voters will have their ballots rejected.
  
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• Dems seek halt to Ohio voting restrictions

  26-10-2016 12:54
  
  Halfway between the start of early voting and Election Day in Ohio, an emergency motion was filed Tuesday with the U.S. Supreme Court to change some of the state’s election laws back to the way they were. The Ohio Democratic Party and a pair of groups representing the homeless asked Justice Elena Kagan to stop Secretary of State Jon Husted from carrying out a pair of 2014 statutes requiring Ohioans to accurately complete five fields of information — name, address, date of birth, sign
  
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• UPDATE: Police arrest second suspect in shooting that killed 2-year-old

  26-10-2016 12:40
  UPDATE:Columbus Police have arrested the second suspect in the shooting that killed a two-year-old gitl in south Columbus on Tuesday.Police arrested Jaquon Lamont Poindexter, 22, on Thursday.Officers say they identified Poindexter through their investigation and arrest warrants.A SWAT team found Poindexter in his car and arrested him.UPDATE: Columbus Police have identified a suspect in Tuesday's shooting that took the life of a two-year-old in south Columbus.Police say Norman Robert Burke, 51, h
  
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• 2-year-old killed in southwest Columbus shooting

  26-10-2016 12:40
  Friends raced to the scene of a shooting that claimed the life of a 2-year-old girl in southwest Columbus and sent three people to area hospitals.The shooting happened on Parkwick Drive Tuesday evening.One man who didn’t gave his name, raced up to the police tape blocking Parkwick Drive at Teller Street, looked at the scene and turned right back around.“It’s my sister and I need to go check on the baby,” the man said.Like Columbus Police, friends and family of a young cou
  
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• 2-year-old killed in south Columbus shooting; Police search for second suspect

  26-10-2016 12:40
  UPDATE: Columbus Police have identified a suspect in Tuesday's shooting that took the life of a two-year-old in south Columbus.Police say Norman Robert Burke, 51, has been charged with one count of murder and two counts of felonious assault.Columbus Police say the second suspect in the shooting, described as a black male, is still at large. 51-year-old Norman Robert Burke (seen here from a booking photo on 8/2010)
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• Obamacare premium spikes in Ohio to be soothed by subsidies

  26-10-2016 12:18
  
  Ohioans who get their health-care coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s federal marketplace can relax a bit; those premium spikes averaging 25 percent in the news since Monday won’t apply in many cases here. In fact, in Cleveland, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the premium for one popular plan used as a benchmark actually will go down by $5 for a hypothetical consumer who is 40, doesn’t smoke and earns $30,000 per year.
  
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• Buckeye Ranch to offer same-day behavioral help to kids

  26-10-2016 12:09
  
  Families with kids in the throes of a serious behavioral-health problem will soon be able to walk into Buckeye Ranch offices and get immediate help. “We’ve heard back from the community, and people are saying, ‘We’re sick of these wait lists,”’ said Kim Miller, a vice president at the agency. “We’ve found that there is such a need for same-day access.”
  
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• Medical marijuana legal in Ohio, but patients still can’t get it

  26-10-2016 11:53
  
  Can you legally buy medical marijuana in Ohio? If so, can you get it from a licensed medical marijuana dispensary, family member or friend, drug dealer or grow it yourself? You would think the answers to these questions would be simple and straightforward under the letter of the law. Not so much.
  
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• Education Insider: Ohio State’s Drake to lead top universities’ association

  26-10-2016 11:47
  
  Ohio State University President Michael V. Drake joked before a recent Columbus Metropolitan Club audience that his job, coming as it does with appointments to a number of prestigious boards, allows him often to be “in the room where it happens” — a lyrical reference to the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton.”
  
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• Fugitive Okla. double murder suspect Michael Vance has hit list, sheriff says

  26-10-2016 11:45
  
  The Oklahoma man who’s been wanted since Sunday in a string of violent crimes, including the killings of two relatives, had a hit list purporting to target several more people, authorities said Tuesday.Michael Dale Vance Jr., a 38-year-old man from Chandler, Oklahoma, is wanted on multiple charges, including two counts of first-degree murder. He was last seen early Monday about 30 miles from the Texas border in western Oklahoma - 165 miles from where the manhunt began Sunday night in Wells
  
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• ‘Hip’ Columbus’ real estate tagged as ‘market to watch’

  26-10-2016 11:31
  
  Columbus is the nation’s top city to watch for real-estate growth, according to a report released this morning. The annual Emerging Trends in Real Estate report, published by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Urban Land Institute, cites Columbus’ job growth, “hip factor” and educational opportunities in its selection.
  
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• Activity up in September at John Glenn, Rickenbacker

  26-10-2016 11:16
  
  Passenger numbers at John Glenn Columbus International Airport and cargo shipments at Rickenbacker Airport both increased by double digits for September, according to data released Tuesday by the Columbus Regional Airport Authority.
  
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• Astronaut among 4 inducted into Columbus Hall of Fame

  26-10-2016 10:44
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio's capital city has four new Hall of Fame members, including an Apollo 7 crew member and the city's first black supermarket owner.
  
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• Cops: Man killed roommate, hid body in closet, hosted barbeque

  26-10-2016 06:45
  
  A southern Arizona man strangled his roommate, stuffed the body in a suitcase in a closet and hosted a barbeque for two other people the next day at the apartment, police said.Keith Allen White, 50, was arrested Monday on suspicion of second-degree murder and tampering with evidence in the death of Brian Cook on Sunday, police said.The body remained hidden in the suitcase when White hosted the barbeque at the Sierra Vista home attended by a relative of Cook, police Sgt. Sean Brownson told The Si
  
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• N.J. police ID father who jumped off bridge with two sons

  26-10-2016 06:41
  
  A man died after jumping off a highway bridge with his two toddler sons in his arms, yet the boys survived the 100-foot plunge into a wooded area and are expected to make a full recovery.The father was identified by New Jersey State Police Tuesday as John Spincken, 37, CBS New York reports.Police said it began at Spincken’s home in Pequannock around 7 p.m. Monday when authorities received a frantic call from Spincken’s wife saying that the couple was quarreling and he was threatening
  
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• Man indicted for videotaping sexual assault of teenager

  26-10-2016 06:36
  
  The Franklin County Grand Jury has indicted a 30-year-old man for filming himself sexually assaulting a teenager and posting the video online.According to Prosecutor Ron O'Brien, Mario Miller allegedly assaulted the girl back on September 3 at a residence on Wedgewood Drive.“This man videotaped himself sexually assaulting a teenager, turned the cell phone to his face, and recorded the entire incident,” O'Brien said.Shortly after the assault, the video appeared on Facebook.Miller has
  
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• Irish tour of "The Plough and the Stars" to visit Columbus

  26-10-2016 06:34
  "The Plough and the Stars" was first performed in 1926 at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. Credit: Courtesy of Sarah Doyle When "The Plough and the Stars" first premiered at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland in 1926, the audience rioted, outraged at the play's depiction of the Irish Easter Rising.
  
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• Person in life-threatening condition after being shot in south Columbus

  26-10-2016 06:23
  
  One person was taken to Grant Medical Center in life-threatening condition after a shooting in south Columbus Monday night.The shooting happened in the area of E. Livingston and Fairwood Avenues.Police said the shots came from an ally behind shops along Livingston Avenue but the victim was found on the sidewalk.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com for updates.
  
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