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• Man gets 18 years to life in fatal shooting of wife

  27-10-2016 23:55
  
  Bryon L. Brisco Sr. will be eligible to seek parole after serving 18 years in the shooting death of his wife, but his chances of surviving until then appear bleak.
  
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• Tim Kaine to urge college students in Ohio to vote early

  27-10-2016 23:34
  
  GAMBIER — Tim Kaine is going back to college with a message for students and a request that they vote early — for Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Columbus adding new crime surveillance cameras

  27-10-2016 23:29
  Columbus City council members approved new surveillance cameras to be installed across the city.
  The City already has cameras in Weinland Park, Linden, Hilltop, Mount Vernon Ave and East Livingston.
  The second phase of installments will add three locations: Franklinton, far East and far North.
  “Video evidence is always important to investigators,” Sgt. Shaun Laird of the Columbus Division of Police Robbery Unit said. “Having the city have cameras in different areas gives detect
  
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• Major interchange upgrades planned for Delaware County

  27-10-2016 23:24
  Residents and business owners in Delaware County will be some of the first to tell you they are in a booming area.
  "This is one of the most attractive of the 33-hundred counties in America," A.D.Farrow Harley Davidson owner Bob Althoff said.
  His store has been lonely along Interstate 71 for about eight years, but he said lately that's changed. He has seen major traffic tie-ups since the launch of the Tanger Outlet Mall next door. Now, he's excited transportation officials are announcing plans fo
  
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• Columbus schools' first all-preschool building is bustling

  27-10-2016 23:05
  
  The class of 2030 already is hard at work in North Linden.
  
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• Clown costumes banned in Newark City Schools

  27-10-2016 22:48
  Newark City Schools have banned clown costumes for all grade levels this Halloween.
  At the Costume Holiday House, parents share what they know about keeping Halloween safe at school.
  “You can't bring weapons, anything that looks like a gun or a shooter, they can't bring to school,” Eugene Heflin. “I definitely wouldn't want my kid to wear a clown if it was to incite anything in a negative way."
  The Newark City School district says because of recent rumors and some students' fea
  
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• Trump rally draws thousands in Springfield

  27-10-2016 22:46
  
  Donald Trump's speech in Springfield touched on familiar things like wiping out ISIS, building a wall Mexico will pay for and suspending the Syrian refugee program.
  He also spent a lot of his time, talking about repealing Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act.
  "Here in Ohio another five insurance companies are dropping out of Obamacare...good luck in negotiations folks that means all the residence covered by plans from these companies will be getting cancellation notices very soon," T
  
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• Loophole allows sex offenders to live closer to schools, children

  27-10-2016 22:37
  WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:10 Investigates uncovered flaws in Ohio’s sex offender registration system. Those flaws include a loophole that allows sex offenders to stay in a home within 1,000 feet of a school zone by choosing not to sleep in that home. Sex offenders are also registering private business parking lots as their home address. 10 Investigates discovered multiple sex criminals staying overnight at area Walmart parking lots.In one case, a failure to communicate between law enforcement
  
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• Veterans museum under construction in Columbus, Ohio

  27-10-2016 22:18
  A soldier's lucky number 7 playing card that he carried through Desert Storm until returning home is one of the items considered for a new museum dedicated to veterans. The museum is under construction in downtown Columbus, Ohio, and will focus on the military service of veterans, as well as their struggles and achievements after they returned home, said Amy Taylor, chief operating officer of the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation, the project developer.
  
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• Suspect arrested in destruction of Trump's Hollywood star

  27-10-2016 21:28
  
  Los Angeles police arrested a man suspected of using a sledgehammer to destroy Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, officials said Thursday.Jamie Otis was taken into custody early Thursday on suspicion of felony vandalism, Officer Andrew Chambers said. It wasn't immediately known if he has an attorney.Otis told Deadline Hollywood after Wednesday's pre-dawn attack that he originally intended to remove the star. He said he wanted to auction it off to
  
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• At Ohio rally, Donald Trump jumps on Wikileaks revelation about Clintons

  27-10-2016 21:21
  
  SPRINGFIELD — Wikileaks handed Donald Trump a new campaign issue today, and he didn’t hesitate to use it during the first of three stops today in Ohio. He pounced on a 2011 memo from a longtime Bill Clinton aide describing how the former president and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made tens of millions of dollars from complex interrelationships between the family’s foundation and for-profit endeavors.
  
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• Doppler 10 Forecast: Cloudy and cooler this evening

  27-10-2016 21:06
  This Evening:Cloudy skies, breezy and chilly
  Tonight:Gradual clearing and cool.Low 39.Winds: NW 5-10 mph.
  Tomorrow: Partly sunny skies.High near 60.Winds: S 5-10 mph.
  Saturday:Partly sunny, windy and unseasonably warm.High 74.Wind: SW 10-15 mph.Special Information:Skies will clear and temperatures will drop to chilly lows in the upper 30s tonight. But we warm back up quickly beginning tomorrow when highs climb into the lower 60s and Saturday when we make a run for the middle 70s. It will definit
  
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• It’s Pumpkin Season

  27-10-2016 21:04
  
  Aren’t you glad it’s fall? These pumpkins sure are. The Columbus Foundation is working to capture The Spirit of Columbus through images that showcase the determination, dedication, and commitment of people in our smart + open community. Be sure to check out columbusfoundation.org and follow along on Facebook as we continue to celebrate The Spirit of Columbus through photography. You can […]
  
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• Man sentenced for beating, attempting to rape 89-year-old Columbus woman

  27-10-2016 20:52
  
  The man charged with trying to rape an 89-year-old woman has been sentenced to 21 years in prison.The incident happened back in May when police arrested 45-year-old Leon Alexander after he broke into the woman’s home on Denune Avenue.Police say Alexander was armed with a box cutter and knife, had beaten the woman, removed his clothes and told her he was going to rape her.The quick action by the victim’s neighbors helped catch the suspect during the attack.89-year-old to alleged attem
  
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• New details revealed about deadly accident on MLB star's boat

  27-10-2016 20:22
  
  MIAMI -- More information has been made available about the tragic death of Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez, CBS station WFOR-TV reports.Almost exactly one month after a boating accident killed Fernandez and two of his friends, a search warrant affidavit says that all three bodies had a strong odor of alcohol when they were recovered by divers.Toxicology tests for all three men have been completed, but the results have yet to be released by state investigators. José Fernández
  
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• Mega Weekend Fall 2016 – Vol. 6

  27-10-2016 20:15
  
  Halloween Weekend! Hope you have a fun one planned. Of course, we have some ideas if you need any suggestions. Open contests include Promowest shows: Metro Station, Good Charlotte, James Vincent McMorrow, and Chase Rice, plus you can win tickets to CATCO’s Gross Indecency and CAPA’s The Plough and the Stars. Watch out for Trick-or-Treaters on […]
  
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• Ohio elections chief, US Senate candidate cast early ballots

  27-10-2016 19:58
  Ohio's elections chief and one of the state's candidates for U.S. Senate have both cast ballots ahead of Election Day. Early voting is underway in the presidential battleground.
  
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• Live now: Donald Trump speaks to thousands at rally in Springfield

  27-10-2016 19:32
  
  SPRINGFIELD — With thousands already inside the Clark County Fairgrounds horse arena to hear Donald Trump today, traffic was backing up onto nearby I-70 with people still trying to get in. Despite polls showing Trump having little chance of winning the presidency in 12 days, his crowds in battleground Ohio have remained strong.
  
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• WATCH LIVE: Donald Trump campaigns in Springfield

  27-10-2016 19:08
  
  Donald Trump is holding a campaign rally in Springfield, Ohio Thursday.Trump is expected to take the stage around 1 p.m. You can watch his speech in the video player below or on the 10TV Facebook page.
  
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• Project Update: 25 Jeffrey Park

  27-10-2016 18:34
  
  Construction continues on 25 Jeffrey Park, a condominium development nestled within the larger Jeffrey Park development in Italian Village. Developer Chad Seiber, of Mulberry, said that nine units have been completed in the first phase of the project, and that work will start on the second phase as soon as permits are secured. Interest has […]
  
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• Weather Geek Report: Major warmup returns this weekend

  27-10-2016 18:23
  
  It is going to feel like Indian Summer!
  Temperatures will be way above average this weekend with highs in the lower to middle 70s by Saturday.Looking ahead, I see several more waves of above average temperatures lasting into the first half of November.
  Today's average high temperature is 61 degrees. We made it close to average this morning before the cold front passed over central Ohio changing the direction of our winds and cooling us down. Our high temperature was 59 at 8 a.m. and it's been sl
  
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• Columbus City Council: Islamophobia Roundtable

  27-10-2016 18:20 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Haiku Closing After 18 Years in The Short North

  27-10-2016 18:18
  Haiku, a near-20 year establishment of the Short North, is closing indefinitely on December 10. Owner Paul Liu and his daughter Josephine, who also works there, said the timing is just right. After abandoning plans to redevelop the site’s parking lot, Liu accepted a proposal to transform the entire space into a 10-story hotel and […]
  
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• Flaws in Ohio’s sex offender registration system

  27-10-2016 18:17
  10 Investigates uncovered flaws in Ohio’s sex offender registration system. Those flaws include a loophole that allows sex offenders to stay in a home within 1,000 feet of a school zone.Sex offenders are also registering private business parking lots as their home address. 10 Investigates discovered multiple sex criminals staying overnight at area Walmart parking lots.In one case, a failure to communicate between law enforcement agencies allowed a sex offender to register and live in a hou
  
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• Medicaid expansion credited for getting record number of kids insurance in Ohio

  27-10-2016 18:11
  
  More than 95 percent of Ohio children have health coverage as the uninsured rate fell to historic lows in the wake of Obamacare. A new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families credits Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act for the decline in uninsured children. In Ohio, 26,000 children gained coverage between 2013 and 2015, the analysis showed, leaving an estimated 115,000 under the age of 19 without health insurance.
  
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• Sale or no sale, changes could come to Twitter users

  27-10-2016 18:06
  
  NEW YORK (AP) -- Sale or no sale, Twitter users are bound to see changes as the beleaguered communications service tries to broaden its appeal to more people and advertisers.A new owner could clean up Twitter and curb some of the nastiness that's become synonymous with it. Or perhaps a new owner would just show more ads. Or let it languish while it mines the best of what Twitter now has into its existing products and services.All of this is speculation, of course, and there might not even be a n
  
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• Former Ohio State child-care worker sentenced in sexual abuse case

  27-10-2016 17:35
  
  A former Ohio State University child-care worker was sentenced to 18 years this morning after admitting in August that he sexually abused a child, beginning when the boy was in the university's day-care program, and eventually videotaped the sex acts.
  
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• Firefighter saves man from deadly NYC blaze with daring rescue

  27-10-2016 17:30
  
  NEW YORK -- As roaring flames consumed an apartment building in New York City early Thursday, a firefighter dangling from a rope plucked a trapped person from a window on the fifth floor and safely lowered him to the ground.Firefighter Jim Lee told reporters at the scene that the rope that colleagues had used to drop him from the roof burned through just 15 seconds after he touched the earth.
  "I told him to stay calm and when we got down, I said, 'I hope you enjoyed the ride,'" Lee said. "He sor
  
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• Columbus Metropolitan Club: 100 Years of Ireland's Abbey Theatre

  27-10-2016 17:30 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Pride Festival Relocating to Riverfront in 2017

  27-10-2016 17:21
  After six years of celebration in Goodale Park, the Columbus Pride Festival will be relocating Downtown next year, taking place in Bicentennial and Genoa Parks along the riverfront, with a footprint not unlike the Columbus Arts Festival and Jazz & Ribs Fest. “The Stonewall Columbus Pride Festival and Parade is a testament to the diversity […]
  
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• Video Game Expo Returns to Columbus This Weekend With a New Name

  27-10-2016 15:58
  
  If you’ve attended ODGE in the past, then you need to head to GDEX this year. That’s because the previously titled Ohio Game Developers Expo is now known more simply as GDEX. Event organizer Chris Volpe explained that the name change was to help alleviate confusion and to be more welcoming outside of Ohio. “We […]
  
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• Former Ohio State childcare worker sentenced in sexual abuse case

  27-10-2016 15:56
  
  A judge handed down a sentence Thursday for a Hilliard man who engaged in sexual activity with a minor.Nathan Fassnacht, 34, was sentenced to 18 years in prison and must register as a Tier 3 sex offender.Fassnacht was accused of raping two young children between 2000 and 2005. He pleaded guilty in August to one count of sexual battery, three counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and three counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor.Fassnacht allegedly engaged in sexual contact with
  
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• Theatre Review: Abbey Theatre’s Gripping The Plough and the Stars Proves the Past is Never Far

  27-10-2016 15:50
  
  CAPA brings Ireland’s storied Abbey Theatre company (founded by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory) with director Sean Holmes’ blistering, vicious take on Seán O’Casey’s 1926 classic about 1916′s Easter Uprising. O’Casey’s play, named for the Irish Citizens’ Army flag of the time, was a riposte against the already rising tendency to sentimentalize revolution and the human […]
  
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• Twitter slashes staff with revenue under pressure

  27-10-2016 15:48
  
  NEW YORK -- Twitter, seemingly unable to find a buyer and losing money, is cutting about 9 percent of its employees worldwide.The social media site has failed to keep pace with rivals Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram and in recent months, rumors that it would be acquired have run rampant.Shares of Twitter, which have tumbled 27 percent in the past month as possible suitors have wandered away, rose 4 percent before the opening bell Thursday.The San Francisco company said it expects to take $10 mi
  
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• Grandview Crossing likely will open in 2018

  27-10-2016 14:08
  
  The developers of Grandview Crossing expect to begin construction in spring on the 43-acre site along Dublin Road. The Grandview Heights Planning Commission already has approved a major site-plan review for the project, which is headed to the Columbus Development Commission on Nov. 15. Most of the site — about 30 acres — is in Columbus with the rest in Grandview.
  
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• Tasty Made Burgers Opens in Lancaster Today

  27-10-2016 14:00
  
  Chipotle is entering the competitive burger market with the launch of Tasty Made, a new concept built to rival other chains like Five Guys and In-N-Out Burger. The first ever location officially opens at 10am today in Lancaster at 732 North Memorial Drive. Like its competitors, the new restaurant features a simple and streamlined menu of […]
  
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• Chipotle's 1st Tasty Made burger store to open Thursday in Lancaster

  27-10-2016 13:44
  
  Chipotle's first burger store will open this week in Lancaster, Ohio as the company continues working to expand its offerings and win back customers after a series of food safety scares.Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. says the new Tasty Made restaurant is scheduled to open Thursday in Lancaster, 30 miles southeast of Columbus. The Denver-based company says the Tasty Made restaurant will serve only burgers, fries, milkshakes and sodas.Chipotle says the grilled-to-order burgers will be made from fresh
  
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• Chipotle's 1st burger restaurant opens today in Lancaster

  27-10-2016 13:44
  
  Chipotle's first burger store will open Thursday in central Ohio as the company continues working to expand its offerings and win back customers after a series of food safety scares.Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. says the new Tasty Made restaurant is scheduled to open in Lancaster, 30 miles southeast of Columbus. The Denver-based company says the Tasty Made restaurant will serve only burgers, fries, milkshakes and sodas.Chipotle says the grilled-to-order burgers will be made from fresh beef from an
  
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• New Albany gives tax break to new data center

  27-10-2016 13:43
  
  The New Albany City Council has approved a tax incentive deal with Green Harbor Group to develop a data center in the city’s business park. The seven-year, 65 percent real property-tax abatement is valued at $193,311.
  
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• Ohio Politics Now: Donald Trump, Tim Kaine to make their cases in Ohio today

  27-10-2016 13:34
  
  GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is making three stops in the state and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine is making two.
  
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• 1 dead, 12 hurt in fire at 5-story NYC apartment building

  27-10-2016 13:16
  
  NEW YORK -- Fire officials say an overnight blaze that tore through a five-story apartment building in Manhattan has left one person is dead and 12 civilians and firefighters injured.The fire was reported around 3:30 a.m. Thursday in a building on East 93rd Street in the Yorkville neighborhood on the Upper East Side. The flames quickly spread throughout the building and, at one point, were shooting out the roof, sending burning embers onto nearby buildings. Some residents of the burning building
  
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• Surrogates all a part of Ohio campaign...at least for Clinton

  27-10-2016 12:16
  
  At overlapping events Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker and Chelsea Clinton rallied supporters for Hillary Clinton in central Ohio. Booker and Chelsea are among several high-profile surrogates who have stumped for the former secretary of state in recent months.
  
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• GOP tying Democratic Ohio House candidates to Strickland

  27-10-2016 11:54
  
  Legislative Republicans are banking on attack ads that have pummeled former Gov. Ted Strickland for months will also negatively impact down-ticket Democrats. As Democrats try to tie some GOP candidates to Donald Trump, House Republicans are trying a similar tactic in about a half-dozen legislative races — linking Democratic candidates to Strickland, a U.S. Senate candidate who has been subjected to nearly $50 million in negative ad spending by Republican Sen. Rob Portman and his supporters
  
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• Sex offender says he’s ‘homeless’ to keep house near West Side school

  27-10-2016 11:46
  
  The case of a West Side sex offender reveals potentially significant loopholes in Ohio’s law requiring such felons to register the address of their residence. State law says that a sex offender can’t live within 1,000 feet of a school, but Timothy Phillips says he does not sleep at the house he owns near Westgate Alternative Elementary School.
  
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• For-profit nursing schools struggle with exam passage rates

  27-10-2016 11:34
  
  In central Ohio, if you want to be a nurse, you might face a bleak choice: If you don’t qualify for selective programs such as those at Ohio State University, Capital University or the Mount Carmel College of Nursing, and you aren’t in a position to wait years for spots in affordable programs at Columbus State Community College or Central Ohio Technical College, you’re left with private, for-profit nursing schools. The results at the for-profits are questionable.
  
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• NetJets creates subsidiary to help customers buy, sell planes

  27-10-2016 11:10
  
  Leveraging its expertise as the world’s largest private-aviation firm, NetJets has created an independent brokerage subsidiary to help customers buy and sell aircraft. The company, called QS Partners, is being led by John Odegard and Seth Zlotkin, both veteran NetJets executives. QS Partners is named after NetJets’ airline code, which stands for Quarter Share.
  
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• Rescuers in Italy fear mudslides after earthquakes

  27-10-2016 11:02
  
  CNN - Two powerful earthquakes Wednesday struck central Italy about 50 miles north of the site of a deadly August quake that killed nearly 300 people, the US Geological Survey said.The second quake -- with a magnitude of 6.1 -- was 3.2 kilometers (2 miles) north of Visso and 58 km (36 miles) from Perugia, the USGS reported.Just a few hours earlier, a magnitude-5.5 quake struck the same region. The epicenter was about 9 kilometers away, south-southwest of the town of Visso. The first quake hit at
  
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• Theodore Decker commentary: Community goes nuts for baby squirrels at Ohio Wildlife Center

  27-10-2016 10:51
  
  We begin with a word problem. The Ohio Wildlife Center is dealing with a glut of injured and orphaned baby squirrels. Though most of the squirrels will be released before the ground freezes, the center employees expect that up to 30 of the rodents might need to overwinter at the center.
  
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• Oh deer: Arby's to sell venison sandwiches

  27-10-2016 10:47
  
  CBS NEWS - Deer hunting season is on the way, but fans of venison might not have to trek out into the woods this year to get their fix.Arby’s has announced that it will be offering venison sandwiches this fall in six states where deer hunting is popular. The Atlanta-based chain says its sandwich will include thick-cut venison steak and crispy onions on a roll.In a release announcing the sandwich, Arby’s chief marketing officer Rob Lynch acknowledges that the new menu item is unusual,
  
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• AEP Ohio urging customers to unplug, save money on bill

  27-10-2016 09:19
  
  Take a look around your home.
  Chances are you’re wasting money and don’t even know it.
  “There’s roughly about 20 appliances and devices plugged in at any given time in a traditional home,” AEP Ohio Consumer Programs Manager, David Tabata said.
  Tabata says that means more money out of your pocket.
  “That consumption is small but an aggregate,” he said. “It’s about a hundred dollars a year that a customer is spending.”
  Across the country t
  
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