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• Bodies found on suspected serial killer's lot ID'd as married couple

  09-11-2016 23:44
  
  Two bodies found on the rural property of a South Carolina man linked to five other deaths were a couple who had a history of panhandling and had been buried there for nearly a year, authorities said Wednesday.One of the victims was 25-year-old Meagan Coxie of Spartanburg, who appears to have died from a gunshot wound to the head. The other was her husband, 29-year-old Johnny Coxie, who was shot in his chest, Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger said.Their families were told the couple was
  
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• Expert: Expect market changes for several days following election

  09-11-2016 23:42
  The Dow and Nasdaq have taken a ride this week. Now financial advisors weigh in on what the newly voted upon presidential selection may mean to your finances.
  "The market had already priced in a Hillary market. So I think when you look at that market up big, up Monday up big on Tuesday. I think it expected Hillary was going to win so we were just going to have more of the same that we've had for the last eight years, now we've got this. What's going to happen? You see uncertainty," Libertas Weal
  
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• Gunman gets 23 years to life for fatal shooting caught on video

  09-11-2016 23:36
  
  The family of Maxx A. McDaniel gasped in a Franklin County courtroom this week when the prosecution showed surveillance video of his shooting death outside a Hilltop gas station.
  
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• Person in critical condition after shooting in Linden area

  09-11-2016 23:31
  
  One person is in critical condition after a shooting in the Linden area Wednesday evening.Police were called to the scene along Genessee Avenue and Joyce Avenue just before 5 p.m.The victim was taken to Grant Medical Center.Authorities have not released any suspect information at this time.
  
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• Close Ohio Supreme Court race awaits final vote tally

  09-11-2016 23:28
  
  Republican Pat DeWine won election to the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday, while a second seat awaited the counting of provisional and absentee ballots before a winner could be determined.
  
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• Next week's Supermoon to be largest in nearly 70 years

  09-11-2016 23:06
  The full moon is almost here but this month sky watchers are getting a special treat, they’re getting a Supermoon. To understand why we have Supermoons you need to think about how the moon orbits the Earth. It’s not an exact circle, it’s an ellipse. As a result, there are times when the moon is farther away in its orbit and times when it’s closer to the Earth. When the moon is at its farthest point from the Earth it’s at apogee, when it’s at its closest point
  
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• What a Trump presidency could mean for Planned Parenthood, women's health

  09-11-2016 22:44
  
  Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump vowed to defund Planned Parenthood and end Obamacare. Now with his victory — in a campaign marked by degrading language about women that sharply divided male and female voters — many women are expressing concern about what his administration might mean for their reproductive rights and health care options.As women flooded social media last night and today urging others to get birth control now, Planned Parenthood issued a statement on where it st
  
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• How the Supreme Court could change during Trump's presidency

  09-11-2016 22:38
  When Donald Trump takes office in 2017, he will try to fill the vacant seat currently on the Supreme Court.
  The Supreme Court went down to eight when Justice Scalia died. Republicans stopped President Obama's nomination.
  “We could go down to six and they could continue to function,” said OSU Constitutional Law Professor Ruth Colker.
  Colker explains nine isn't the set number and Senate Democrats do, right now, have the power to keep the court at eight. Trump could make a nomination, R
  
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• Ohio voters approve of 77 percent of tax requests for schools across state

  09-11-2016 22:31
  
  Ohio voters approved more than three-fourths of the tax requests for schools on Tuesday's statewide ballot.
  
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• More fear than hope among Clinton supporters following concession speech

  09-11-2016 22:19
  As Hillary Clinton delivered her concession speech Wednesday, dozens of Ohio State students stopped inside the student union and hung on every word.
  “To all the little girls out there who are watching this know that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every opportunity in the world,” Clinton said.
  Amy Lacava tried to hold back her tears as she listened to Clinton concede the election.
  “Tomorrow I have to return to my patients in Baltimore who are mostly minorities,&r
  
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• Far East Side man charged with murder in Reynoldsburg shooting

  09-11-2016 22:19
  
  Reynoldsburg police have arrested a 24-year-old Columbus man after witnesses say he biked over to a man, got off the bike and then shot him with a 9mm handgun in September.
  
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• Man killed in house fire died of smoke inhalation

  09-11-2016 22:07
  
  Columbus police have determined that a man died from smoke inhalation after they were called to an apartment fire Monday on the Near East Side.
  
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• Ohio mom charged after young son drinks vodka from sippy cup

  09-11-2016 21:54
  
  An Ohio woman has been charged with child endangerment after she sneaked a sippy cup of vodka into a high school football game and her toddler son drank from it and became ill.Thirty-year-old Andrea Mucciarone pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge Tuesday in Conneaut Municipal Court.The public defender assigned to represent Mucciarone said Wednesday he had no comment.Police say Mucciarone brought the sippy cup and her 23-month-old son to a Conneaut High School football game Oct. 28 and a
  
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• Clinton on pace to win popular vote, despite losing election

  09-11-2016 21:44
  
  Despite losing Tuesday's presidential election, Hillary Clinton appears to be on pace to win the popular vote, an ironic twist in an election in which her opponent repeatedly said the system was rigged against him.Just two days before Election Day, Republican businessman Donald Trump tweeted: "The Electoral College is a disaster for a democracy."As it turns out, without the Electoral College, Trump probably wouldn't be the president-elect.A day after Election Day, Clinton held a narrow lead in t
  
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• Mom gets 10 years in infant daughter's death

  09-11-2016 21:39
  
  A 21-year-old woman was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for the beating death of her 8-month-old daughter. Evette M. Taylor pleaded guilty in Franklin County Common Pleas Court to one count of involuntary manslaughter.
  
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• Ex-veterans official gets 3 years for stealing money, Nazi flag from office

  09-11-2016 21:31
  
  CIRCLEVILLE — Before a judge sentenced her to three years in prison today, Rebecca Lee listened as two experts tried to put a value on a historical Nazi flag that a veteran donated to the Pickaway County Veterans Services Office and Lee stole while she was director there. The expert opinions were necessary, both prosecutors and the defense attorney said, so the judge could decide how much restitution Lee must pay the county for the flag, since it wasn't found after she stole it and its dis
  
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• Pair gets 180 days in jail for threatening to shoot up neighborhood on Periscope

  09-11-2016 21:19
  
  A Franklin County judge Wednesday decided to give a break to two men who threatened to shoot up a Columbus neighborhood and handed a loaded assault rifle to a toddler while live-streaming on the Periscope app.
  
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• Libraries in central Ohio, elsewhere in state did well on Election Day

  09-11-2016 21:15
  
  Voters across Ohio approved 15 public library levies, including five in central Ohio, continuing the state's strong support of literacy and diverse library services.
  
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• Columbus, Ohio, to Pay Homeowners $37K for Damage from 2015 Blast

  09-11-2016 20:49
  Columbus, Ohio, has agreed to pay more than $37,000 to the owners of one of more than two dozen homes damaged last year when a home exploded after a gas leak. The Hamilton's made a claim with the city to pay for damage stemming from the March 2015 explosion in Upper Arlington.
  
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• Fairfield County man killed in head-on crash

  09-11-2016 20:42
  
  A Fairfield County man was killed in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday morning.According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the crash happened just before 9 a.m. on SR 159 in Clearcreek Township.James Braden, 26, was traveling northeast when he crossed the center line into the path of a Freightliner semi truck, resulting in a head-on collision.Braden died as a result of his injuries. A juvenile was in the vehicle with Braden. The juvenile was secured in a car seat and was taken to Nationwide Children
  
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• Man killed, 5-year-old injured in head-on crash in Fairfield County

  09-11-2016 20:29
  
  A driver died and a 5-year-old in in the car's backseat was injured in a head-on crash with a semi this morning in Fairfield County, the State Highway Patrol said. James W. Braden, 26, of Stoutsville, was driving northeast in a Toyota Tercel on Route 159 in Clearcreek Township, also known as Chillicothe-Lancaster Road, when the car went left of center and into the path of an oncoming, oil-hauling Freightliner at about 8:51 a.m.
  
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• New trend in crime fighting at the tip of your fingers

  09-11-2016 20:24
  Several central Ohio law enforcement agencies are taking advantage of a smartphone app that allows people to communicate with officers and submit crime tips.
  The Marysville Division of Police recently launched the My PD app and it's striking a chord with people, like Jamie Hemp, who works at the Fifth Street Cafe.
  Hemp told 10TV she thinks of Marysville as small, friend, and for the most part, safe.
  "It's dark when I come in to open.It's a little scary, maybe," said Hemp.
  Marysville police are t
  
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• Republican Pat DeWine wins Ohio Supreme Court seat; 2nd race remains too close to call

  09-11-2016 20:02
  
  Republican Pat DeWine won election to the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday, while a second seat awaited the counting of provisional and absentee ballots before a winner could be determined.
  
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• Blue-Collar, Rural Voters Give Presidency to Trump

  09-11-2016 19:42
  
  “Politicians are all talk, no action. Nothing’s gonna get done. They will not bring us, believe me, to the promise land,” Donald Trump said in his 2015 speech announcing his run for president. The message resonated. Although Trump was unable to win the popular vote, he’s claimed 276 electoral votes and is the victor in […]
  
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• WATCH: President Obama comments on results of presidential election

  09-11-2016 19:35
  
  WASHINGTON -- Conceding Hillary Clinton's staggering defeat, President Barack Obama on Wednesday said he was heartened by Donald Trump's call for unity after his stunning victory and "we are now all rooting for his success in uniting and leading the country."Obama spoke to reporters in the Rose Garden of the White House in a post-election ritual meant to signal the peaceful transition of power from one president to the next. He vowed to do all he could to ensure a smooth transition and tried to
  
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• What John Kasich, Rob Portman and others are saying about Trump's win

  09-11-2016 18:42
  
  A look at the reaction of Ohio's elected leaders to Republican Donald Trump winning Ohio -- and the presidency.
  
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• Grant Commons Preservation

  09-11-2016 17:40
  
  The State Historic Preservation Office awarded the Preservation Merit Award to the rehabilitation of Grant Commons on East 11th Avenue in Weinland Park! Learn more here 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 […]
  
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• Delaware regroups after road repair levy fails

  09-11-2016 17:22
  
  After voters in Delaware soundly rejected an income tax increase for transportation, city officials are looking for new options. The proposed permanent 0.15 percent tax hike, which lost 60 to 40 percent, would have raised about $2 million annually, most for ongoing repairs to residential streets.
  
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• Driver killed, baby injured in head-on crash in Fairfield County

  09-11-2016 17:02
  
  A driver died and a baby in the car's backseat was injured in a head-on crash with a semi this morning in Fairfield County, a State Highway Patrol dispatcher said.
  
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• Wendy’s financial results beat expectations for third quarter

  09-11-2016 16:56
  
  Wendy’s financial results for its third quarter, announced this morning, beat analysts’ expectations. The Dublin-based burger chain also raised its full-year earnings outlook.
  
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• Local Filmmaker Brings Video Game Documentary to Wexner Center

  09-11-2016 16:37
  
  Filmmaker Kurt P. Vincent is drawn to peculiar topics. For instance, his first movie, for which he served as cinematographer. “It’s called Out of Place,” he says. “It’s about the surfing scene in Cleveland, Ohio.” Since that 2009 documentary, the Bexley native has done cinematography, editing and commercial work, all leading to his directorial debut […]
  
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• Dispatch printing ‘extra’ to reflect Trump win

  09-11-2016 16:32
  
  The news of Republican Donald Trump's historic win in the presidential election came after the Dispatch deadlines for home delivery.
  
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• Restaurant Review: Press Pub on Fifth

  09-11-2016 16:00
  The Press Grill expanded its empire this spring and opened a spot up on Fifth Avenue. People who don’t like parking in the Short North will be pleased to find that Press #2 has its very own parking lot, along with outdoor seating, and a pretty traditional, darkish pub atmosphere inside. The new Press Pub […]
  
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• Democrats win five of six contested Franklin County office races

  09-11-2016 16:00
  
  Democrats nearly swept contested races for Franklin County offices, winning five of six offices on the ballot Tuesday. Two county commissioner seats, treasurer, clerk of courts, recorder and prosecutor were all on the ballot. In the marquee race, Prosecutor Ron O'Brien, a Republican, defeated Columbus City Council President Zack Klein, O'Brien's first challenger in more than a decade.
  
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• WATCH: Hillary Clinton to speak to supporters after loss to Donald Trump

  09-11-2016 15:55
  
  Hillary Clinton will be speaking to her supporters Wednesday morning. It will be her first public remarks since her stunning defeat to Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election.Her campaign says she'll speak to staff and supporters at a New York hotel at 10:30 a.m.Clinton did not give a formal concession speech. But she did call Trump early Wednesday to congratulate him on his victory in Tuesday's election.Watch the speech live in the video player below:
  
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• WATCH: Hillary Clinton delivers concession speech following Trump win

  09-11-2016 15:55
  
  Hillary Clinton says she's "sorry" she didn't win the election, adding "this is painful, and it will be for a long time."The Democratic presidential candidate was delivering what her campaign billed as a concession speech to Republican Donald Trump after his upset victory in Tuesday's election. She spoke at a New York hotel.With her onstage are husband Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton.Watch the speech in the video player below:------Decision 2016 CoverageInteractive results mapElection
  
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• Clinton: 'We owe him an open mind, chance to lead'

  09-11-2016 15:55
  
  A day after Donald Trump, against all odds, won election as America's 45th president, Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said the nation proved to be "more divided than we thought" but urged unity and told her supporters, "We owe him an open mind and a chance to lead."Standing before a crowd of crestfallen but cheering supporters, she said, "This is painful and it will be for a long time."Trump's triumph over Clinton, not declared until well after midnight, will end eight years of Democratic dominance
  
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• Photos: The Naked and Famous at The Newport

  09-11-2016 15:45
  
  New Zealand’s electronic indie-rock band The Naked and Famous came to town on Monday night to play to a small but enthusiastic crowd at the Newport Music Hall. Support came from brother/sister duo, XYLO and Kamtin Mohager’s The Chain Gang of 1974. To view more upcoming live music events, CLICK HERE to visit our Events Calendar. […]
  
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• Six assumptions about politics that are no longer true after Trump's victory

  09-11-2016 15:33
  
  CBS NEWS - Donald Trump did what almost no one expected he could do Tuesday night: he overcame a daunting electoral map, virtually all national polling and the expectations of the entire political class to win the presidency.There will be plenty of time for recriminations in the days to come -- and oh, will there be recriminations -- but in the meantime, everyone is asking one big question: how could so many people have been so wrong?What it comes down to is that Trump's victory has demolished s
  
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• 6 assumptions about politics that are no longer true after Trump's victory

  09-11-2016 15:33
  
  CBS NEWS - Donald Trump did what almost no one expected he could do Tuesday night: he overcame a daunting electoral map, virtually all national polling and the expectations of the entire political class to win the presidency.There will be plenty of time for recriminations in the days to come -- and oh, will there be recriminations -- but in the meantime, everyone is asking one big question: how could so many people have been so wrong?What it comes down to is that Trump's victory has demolished s
  
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• Marijuana, gun control, minimum wage hikes win at the polls in various states

  09-11-2016 15:24
  
  Filling a void created by congressional inaction, voters in a scattering of states tightened gun control laws and approved increases in the minimum wage. The campaign to legalize marijuana achieved a major breakthrough, with victories in at least six states.In all, more than 150 measures appeared on statewide ballots in Tuesday's election.California, Nevada and Massachusetts approved measures legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, while Florida, Arkansas and North Dakota voted to allow po
  
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• Obama invites Trump to meet, congratulates him on victory

  09-11-2016 15:11
  
  Conceding his party's staggering electoral defeat, President Barack Obama on Wednesday invited President-elect Donald Trump to meet with him to discuss the handover of power from his administration to Trump's.The White House said Obama called the Republican in the early hours of the morning to congratulate him on his victory in the presidential campaign, which marked a forceful rebuke by voters to Obama's eight years in office. The two leaders planned to meet Thursday at the White House, where O
  
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• Republicans Pat DeWine, Pat Fischer win Ohio Supreme Court seats

  09-11-2016 14:51
  
  Republicans Pat DeWine and Pat Fischer won election to the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday. With 100 percent of the statewide vote counted early Wednesday, DeWine, an appellate judge from Cincinnati, easily defeated Democrat Cynthia Westcott Rice, an appellate judge from the Warren area, by 56 to 44 percent. Fischer’s victory over Democrat John P. O’Donnell was much closer. In unofficial results, Fischer, another appellate judge from Cincinnati, led O’Donnell, a Cuyahoga County C
  
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• Trump election raises questions about U.S. role in climate change agreement

  09-11-2016 14:41
  
  The election of a U.S. president who has called global warming a "hoax" is raising questions about America's involvement in the Paris Agreement on climate change - and the future of the deal itself.The first official reaction comes from an alliance of small island nations who fear they'll be washed away by rising seas.In a diplomatically worded statement, the Maldives' Energy minister says his administration will have to confront the challenge of climate change and the transition to cleaner ener
  
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• Wendy’s reports strong earnings, beating Wall Street forecasts

  09-11-2016 14:05
  
  Wendy’s Co. on Wednesday reported third-quarter net income of $48.9 million. The Dublin, Ohio-based company said it had profit of 18 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to 11 cents per share.
  
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• Mood of Clinton backers in central Ohio turns from anticipation to despair

  09-11-2016 13:23
  
  It turns out glass ceilings are not so easy to break. Nearly 100 years after women won the right to vote, and following a bruising campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton was unable to make history on Tuesday by becoming the first woman to be elected president of the United States.
  
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• Education Insider: ECOT official’s slip-up about lawsuit is telling

  09-11-2016 12:27
  
  In early October, the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow put all the written depositions in its lawsuit against the state Department of Education on its website.
  
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• Cardinal Health snared in West Virginia politics over opioids

  09-11-2016 12:23
  
  An ongoing legal battle and a contentious political race in West Virginia have put a renewed spotlight on the role of giant drug distributors, including Cardinal Health, in fighting the opioid epidemic. The surge in abuse of powerful drugs such as heroin and fentanyl is blamed in part on people first getting hooked on widely prescribed pain pills, such as hydrocodone and oxycodone.
  
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• Body found in Scioto River identified as Near East Side woman

  09-11-2016 12:18
  Columbus police have identified a body that was discovered by an angler near Lou Berliner Park more than a week ago. Diedre Woodford, 53, was reported missing to Bexley police after she was last seen leaving her home near the suburb driving a white 2016 Honda Pilot just after 5 a.m. on Oct. 16. Her family was concerned because she suffered a serious medical issue, police said.
  
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• Central Ohio credit scores lag most Ohio metro areas

  09-11-2016 11:57
  
  Credit scores in central Ohio lag most of the big metropolitan areas in Ohio and the country as a whole, a new report says. The number of young people living here — saddled with student-loan debt and mortgages — could be a major factor.
  
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