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• Fort Lauderdale airport shooting impacts flights to and from Columbus

  07-01-2017 23:42
  COLUMBUS - Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport was reopened early Saturday morning after a gunman opened fire in the baggage claim area. Five people were killed and eight others were injured during the attack.
  Flights from Ft. Lauderdale to Columbus were cancelled Friday evening and Saturday. There was one departing flight scheduled for 2:35 p.m. Saturday. That plane was delayed by 15 minutes.
  “We were watching a lot of the news. I was following the airport on Twitter,” sa
  
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• Donald Trump urges "good relationship" with Russia in tweets

  07-01-2017 22:06
  
  President-elect Donald Trump advocated Saturday for better relations with Russia, less than 24 hours after receiving an intelligence briefing about Kremlin-led cyberattacks to influence the U.S. election.“Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing,” Mr. Trump tweeted Saturday morning. “Only ‘stupid’ people, or fools, would think that it is bad!”In his series of tweets, he promised that during his presidency, Russia will “resp
  
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• Fort Lauderdale airport shooting suspect's brother says U.S. gov't failed him

  07-01-2017 21:54
  
  PENUELAS, Puerto Rico -- The brother of a man accused of killing five people at a Florida airport questioned Saturday why his brother was allowed to keep his gun after U.S. authorities knew he’d become increasingly paranoid and was hearing voices.Esteban Santiago, 26, had trouble controlling his anger after serving in Iraq and told his brother that he felt he was being chased and controlled by the CIA through secret online messages. When he told agents at an FBI field office his paranoid t
  
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• Man says "I'm going to have to shoot somebody," then is taken into custody

  07-01-2017 21:35
  
  SEATTLE -- A man was taken into custody by Washington State Patrol troopers Friday evening after he made a threat on a ferry at the Colman Dock terminal on the Seattle waterfront, Seattle affiliate KIRO reports. The incident happened on the passenger deck of the ferry Puyallup.According to officials with the Washington State Ferries, the man boarded the vessel when it was docked. He was complaining and said he was supposed to get off at Bainbridge Island.The man then became agitated and threaten
  
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• Hillary Clinton for New York mayor?

  07-01-2017 21:18
  
  The New York Post may have endorsed Donald Trump for president, but now it’s appealing to his campaign opponent Hillary Clinton to campaign for another office. “New York City needs Hillary Clinton to run for mayor,” the Post editorial board declared Friday night. Admitting that “[y]es, we were highly critical of Hillary Clinton in the runup to Election Day,” the Post loves the idea that with Clinton at Gracie Mansion, “Above all else, she’d actually focu
  
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• Doppler 10 Forecast: Arctic blast through Sunday

  07-01-2017 21:13
  This Evening: Partly cloudy and bitterly cold. Temps in the teens but the breeze makes it feel like single digits. W wind 5-10 mph.Tonight: Frigid and partly cloudy. Low around 8. Subzero wind chills as low as -5. W wind around 10 mph.Sunday: Sunny, but bitterly cold again. High near 19. Subzero wind chills as low as -5. W wind 5-10 mph.Monday: Partly sunny and more average. High 32. S wind 8-13 mph. A chance for flurries overnight into Tuesday morning.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weat
  
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• Judge to Facebook attack suspects: "Where was your sense of decency?"

  07-01-2017 21:12
  
  CHICAGO -- A judge has denied bond for four suspects accused in the beating of a mentally disabled man broadcast live on Facebook.The four appeared before Cook County Associate Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil on Friday afternoon, when she asked them “Where was your sense of decency?”Prosecutors offered new details of the assault, explaining that one of the suspects demanded $300 from the victim’s mother and that the beating started in a van and continued at a house.
  The suspects ar
  
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• Construction Roundup: The University District

  07-01-2017 21:01
  
  After checkin in on construction The Short North and Downtown Columbus, our third “Construction Roundup” stop this month is the University District, where multiple large-scale development projects are under way. While the High Street area may currently feel like one long construction zone around the Ohio State University, there’s still other projects likely to commence […]
  
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• Syria car bomb kills dozens in busy market, opposition says

  07-01-2017 20:45
  
  BEIRUT -- At least 43 people were killed Saturday when a car bomb went off in a busy market in a rebel-held Syrian town along the Turkish border, activists and rescue workers said.The explosion ripped through the central market in the town of Azaz in the northern province of Aleppo, damaging a government building and local courthouse as well. Rami Abdurrahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, said those killed included six opposition fighters. He said the exp
  
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• Possible human remains found in plane wreckage

  07-01-2017 20:31
  Crews searching Lake Erie have found what may be human remains on a seat from a plane that was carrying six people from Powell when it disappeared near Cleveland over a week ago. Officials said Friday night the remains are being analyzed by a medical examiner to determine if they are human remains.
  
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• Gunman shoots, wounds U.S. consular official in Mexico

  07-01-2017 20:31
  
  MEXICO CITY -- Mexican police are searching for a gunman who opened fire on an official of the U.S. Consulate in the western city of Guadalajara.The Attorney General’s Office said on Saturday the official was wounded by a gunshot Friday in Guadalajara -- and the U.S. Consulate said on its Facebook and Twitter pages that the FBI was offering a $20,000 reward for information on the attacker.Surveillance video of the attack shows the gunman following the official in a parking garage. The offi
  
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• Freed from prison early by Obama, Columbus woman working toward becoming addiction counselor

  07-01-2017 20:23
  
  Kimberly Richardson had a choice after doctors removed the razor blade she had swallowed. It was 2008, and she was in the fifth year of a 15-year drug-and-gun sentence. She could try again to kill herself. Or she could just do her time, then go back to being a crackhead in North Linden, stealing from relatives and friends and leaving her mother to raise her two boys.
  
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• Obama "heartbroken" after Fort Lauderdale shooting

  07-01-2017 20:21
  
  President Obama said on Friday he was “heartbroken” for the families of victims of the Fort Lauderdale shooting, giving his first comments on the tragedy in an interview with ABC News.Asked if the shooting was an act of terrorism, the president declined to say.“As a general rule, until I’ve got all the information, I don’t want to comment on it -- other than just to say how heartbroken we are for the families who’ve been affected,” Mr. Obama told ABC&rsq
  
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• Charles Manson returns to prison after stay at hospital, report says

  07-01-2017 20:18
  
  Mass murderer Charles Manson has returned to prison after he was taken to a hospital earlier this week, a corrections official told the Los Angeles Times.Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said on Friday that Manson was back in jail.“Inmate Manson is at California State Prison-Corcoran,” she said in an email, without elaborating.On Wednesday, Manson, now a grizzled, shuffling 82-year-old, lay hospitalized with an undisclosed
  
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• Fort Lauderdale shooter traveled to Florida for massacre, FBI says

  07-01-2017 20:14
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The Iraq war veteran accused of killing five travelers and wounding six others at a busy international airport in Florida appears to have traveled there specifically to carry out the attack, authorities said Saturday, but they don’t know yet why he chose his target and have not yet ruled out terrorism.Authorities said during a news conference that they had interviewed roughly 175 people, including a lengthy interrogation with the cooperative suspect, 26-year-old Es
  
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• FBI: Gunman flew to Florida specifically to attack airport

  07-01-2017 20:14
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The Iraq war veteran accused of killing five travelers and wounding six others at a busy international airport in Florida appears to have traveled there specifically to carry out the attack, authorities said Saturday, but they don't know why he chose his target and have not ruled out terrorism.Authorities said during a news conference that they had interviewed roughly 175 people, including a lengthy interrogation with the cooperative suspect, 26-year-old Esteban Santiago
  
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• Despite boosted security, many parts of airport terminals are vulnerable

  07-01-2017 18:35
  
  There was nothing to stop the Fort Lauderdale airport shooter from doing what he did.Investigators believe the gun used in the baggage claim shooting was checked as luggage -- something the TSA allows but requires the gun to be unloaded and locked in a case. It and ammunition must be disclosed to the airline prior to checking. Since Sept. 11, 2001, airports have seen a dramatic increase in security. But many parts of the terminals, like check-in and baggage claim, are outside secured areas and r
  
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• Central Ohio Film Critics Announce Top 10 Films of 2016

  07-01-2017 18:23
  
  A movie that puts a smile on your face for two solid hours made enough Columbus-area film critics happy to honor it with five awards on Thursday. La La Land was the Central Ohio Film Critics Association big winner, claiming top honors for picture, director (Damien Chazelle), cinematography (Linus Sandgren), film editing (Tom Cross) and […]
  
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• Skywatch: Look for the hunter, Venus and the first full moon of 2017

  07-01-2017 17:44
  
  As you look into the night sky this week you may notice one of the most famous constellations in the world looking down on you.Actually it’ll be around all month.
  Orion was a hunter in Greek mythology.In one tale he supposedly claimed he could kill any beast on Earth.In response to his hubris, he was stung by a lowly scorpion and died.
  As a result, the gods placed the two in opposite skies which explains why Orion is a winter constellation and Scorpius is a summer one. This constellation i
  
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• Ohio communities, counties have nearly $1.2B less in aid for 2017 because of state cuts

  07-01-2017 16:29
  Cuts made by the state will leave counties and communities across Ohio collectively with nearly $1.8 billion less in 2017 than in 2010, a new report shows. Chief among those cuts were elimination of the state's estate tax, the halving of local government money and accelerated phase outs of tax reimbursements that communities for state changes in local business taxes.
  
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• Police ID bicyclist hit and killed on Morse Road

  07-01-2017 15:31
  
  Columbus Police have identified the bicyclist killed after he was hit by two cars early Friday morning on the North Side.
  
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• Flow Your Way Into the New Year, Try a Yoga Class

  07-01-2017 14:00
  
  When it’s less than 30 degrees outside, the last thing you want to do is, well, go outside. This year, I want to encourage you to get out of your house, slip off your shoes, and try a yoga class. By now you’ve heard about the many benefits of yoga, but here are some that […]
  
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• Blue Jackets' success drawing more fans to Arena District bars, restaurants

  07-01-2017 13:30
  
  he R Bar in the Arena District had a terrible year during the Columbus Blue Jackets’ dreadful 2015-16 campaign. This season has been different — for everyone. The Blue Jackets are the top team in the National Hockey League, having won 16 in a row until they lost Thursday for the first time since November, and they are playing the best hockey in the franchise’s history. Things are pretty good at R Bar, too.
  
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• Judge refuses to release 4 accused of beating disabled youth

  07-01-2017 12:27
  
  A Chicago judge refused to allow four black people caught on cellphone footage taunting and beating a mentally disabled white man to post bail and leave jail, saying they are accused of such "terrible actions" that they are a danger to society."Where was your sense of decency?" Cook County Circuit Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil asked them on Friday during their first court appearance, sounding baffled that the suspects could be charged with such cruelty toward the 18-year-old victim.The beating wa
  
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• FBI deletes details about hacking effort in document release

  07-01-2017 12:20
  
  The FBI has released 100 pages of heavily censored documents related to its agreement with an unidentified vendor to hack into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California, shooters, but it did not identify whom it paid to perform the work or how much it cost.The records were provided Friday in response to a federal lawsuit filed against the FBI by The Associated Press, Vice Media and Gannett, the parent company of USA Today.The media organizations sued in September to learn how much
  
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• Snow storm blankets parts of North Carolina, Virginia

  07-01-2017 12:04
  
  A winter storm blanketed parts of North Carolina and Virginia with snow early Sunday as its slow march across the Southeast left grocery store shelves empty and roads icy and impassible.The National Weather Service said North Carolina cities including Winston-Salem, Greensboro and Roxboro had received six inches or more of snow overnight, while sleet and ice were making roads treacherous in Raleigh and areas southeast. Next on the storm's path was southeast Virginia, where the weather service sa
  
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• Columbus, county to continue with rec program despite Browns' decision

  07-01-2017 12:03
  
  The Cleveland Browns won’t be bringing their training camp to Columbus, but the city and Franklin County aren’t giving up on a plan for joint programming at a recreation center. It likely won’t be as robust as the $15 million to $17 million plan that would have replaced the Tuttle Park recreation center with one three times larger, and it could materialize elsewhere.
  
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• Ohio's tax revenue falls short of estimate again in December

  07-01-2017 11:59
  
  The latest report on state tax revenue is another sobering reminder that, despite Ohio’s relatively low unemployment rate and a few other positive indicators, the overall economy has struggles. State income-tax revenue in December came in below the estimate, making it the fifth-straight month that revenue missed its mark.
  
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• Reynolds, Fisher laid to rest at Hollywood Hills Cemetery

  07-01-2017 11:55
  
  Carrie Fisher, who has been laid to rest alongside her mother Debbie Reynolds, was adored by family, friends and fans for her gallows humor and frank talk about her struggles with mental illness.What better home for her ashes then, her brother Todd Fisher and daughter Billie Lourd decided, than a porcelain urn in the shape of an outsized anti-depressant?"Carrie's favorite possession was a giant Prozac pill that she bought many years ago," Todd Fisher said Friday as he left the private joint fune
  
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• Freed from prison early by Obama, Columbus woman working, studying toward big career goal

  07-01-2017 11:53
  
  Kimberly Richardson had a choice after doctors removed the razor blade she had swallowed. It was 2008, and she was in the fifth year of a 15-year drug-and-gun sentence. She could try again to kill herself. Or she could just do her time, then go back to being a crackhead in North Linden, stealing from relatives and friends and leaving her mother to raise her two boys.
  
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• This is why you shouldn't leave soda in your car when it's freezing outside

  07-01-2017 11:48
  
  The temperature in Lincoln County, Montana is hovering around the low twenties and teens this week. And in temperatures that frigid, leaving groceries in the car may be the last thing on a person’s mind. If those groceries contain soda cans, however, leaving them in your car can lead to a very messy situation.That’s way the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office took to their Facebook page with a cautionary tale (or rather, cationary image) about what happens to soda cans when they fr
  
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• Doppler 10 Forecast: A bitter weekend on tap

  07-01-2017 11:38
  Today: FRIGID to start with sub-zero wind chills.Morning clouds will make way for sun through the day.High 16.West winds 6-11 mph.
  Tonight: Partly cloudy & frigid with sub-zero wind chills.Low 7.W winds 8-11 mph.
  Sunday: Mostly sunny & frigid.High 19.West winds 5-10 mph.
  Monday: Partly cloudy and a little warmer.High 32.South winds 6-11 mph.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Closings, DelaysSpecial Information: Arctic high pressure is the driving force in this weat
  
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• Trump's pick, not Kasich's, named chair of Ohio GOP

  07-01-2017 07:42
  Kasich's hand-picked chairman of the Ohio GOP will step into an emeritus role, ceding leadership of the party to a Trump-backed challenger. Trump's pick, not Kasich's, named chair of Ohio GOP Kasich's hand-picked chairman of the Ohio GOP will step into an emeritus role, ceding leadership of the party to a Trump-backed challenger.
  
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• Police searching for missing Fayette County man with dementia

  07-01-2017 04:57
  
  FAYETTE COUNTY, Ohio - A statewide alert was issued asking the public for information on the location of 58-year-old Durrell Neitz of Washington Court House who suffers from dementia.Police said Neitz left his home on Jamison Road at 4:00 p.m. on Friday and did not return.Neitz is described as 5'6" tall and weighs 213 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes.His vehicle is a blue 2005 Chevrolet Cavalier with Ohio license plate GLG 4316.Police ask if anyone sees Neitz or the car that they call 91
  
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• Police have found missing Fayette County man with dementia (UPDATE)

  07-01-2017 04:57
  
  FAYETTE COUNTY, Ohio - A statewide alert was issued asking the public for information on the location of 58-year-old Durrell Neitz of Washington Court House who suffers from dementia and he has been found.Police said Neitz left his home on Jamison Road at 4:00 p.m. on Friday and did not return.Neitz was described as 5'6" tall and weighs 213 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes.His vehicle is a blue 2005 Chevrolet Cavalier with Ohio license plate GLG 4316.Police asked if anyone saw Neitz or t
  
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• US report: Putin ordered effort to help Trump, hurt Clinton

  07-01-2017 04:45
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a hidden campaign to influence America's presidential election in favor of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, U.S. intelligence agencies declared Friday in the government's first formal allegation supporting sensational claims that Trump and his supporters have staunchly resisted.The intelligence report, an unclassified version of a more-detailed classified account given earlier to Trump, the White House and congressional leaders, withheld the government'
  
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• Columbus travelers react to Fort Lauderdale airport shooting

  07-01-2017 04:27
  The Horrific details of 26-year-old Esteban Santiago's alleged shooting spree began to emerge just as some travelers cross country headed back to Columbus, like Alex Kotchkoski, were getting on their own flights. "We were literally going on and people started looking up," said Kotchkoski. Some watched on TV and social media as law enforcement began evacuating Fort Lauderdale's airport.Others had a much closer view. Ray Brown said even before his flight out of Columbus landed in Ft. Lauderdale, i
  
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• Man burning Christmas tree in fireplace sparks fire

  07-01-2017 03:55
  
  Columbus fire officials have confirmed that it was someone trying to burn a Christmas tree in a fireplace that set off a two-alarm fire Wednesday afternoon that caused $2 million worth of damage to a Northeast Side apartment complex and chased more than 30 people out of their homes. The cause of fire in the area of the 5000 block of Buffalo Run in the Remington Station Apartment complex at Little Turtle was ruled accidental and no charges were filed, Division of Fire spokesman Battalion Chief St
  
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• How The Limited defined several generations of fashion

  07-01-2017 02:46
  Limited Stores, the parent company of the retailer The Limited, says it will be closing all of its brick-and-mortar stores this weekend. The news has fashion fans reminiscing about the clothes they bought there – especially in The Limited’s heyday.Amy Fredrick grew up in Upper Arlington. As she paged through her yearbook, she pointed out all the girls who wore the big retailer of the day: The Limited.“I still have a pair of shorts from 1987 that I love that I keep in my closet
  
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• What we know about suspected Fort Lauderdale shooter

  07-01-2017 01:17
  
  Esteban Santiago-Ruiz is believed to be the gunman at the Fort Lauderdale Airport on Friday which left at least five people dead and eight wounded. Early indications point to a man with psychiatric problems. There does not appear to be any known connections to terrorist groups.Santiago-Ruiz’s brother told the Associated Press that he had been receiving psychological treatment recently.Bryan Santiago said that he didn’t know what his brother was being treated for and that they never t
  
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• Infant among 7 people injured after SUV rolls over in Fairfield County

  07-01-2017 00:48
  
  FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Ohio - An infant, two toddlers, two teenagers and two adults are being treated for injuries after the SUV they were in rolled over on U.S. 33 near Pickerington Road in Fairfield County according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.Investigators with OSHP said the infant was ejected from the SUV when it rolled over.OSHP said everyone injured was taken to Diley Ridge Medical Center after the crash.From there, two people were taken to Grant Medical Center. OSHP told 10TV everyone is
  
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• Prosecutor: Suspect in Facebook attack demanded cash from victim's mom

  07-01-2017 00:38
  
  CHICAGO -- A judge has denied bond for four suspects accused in the beating of a mentally disabled man broadcast live on Facebook.The four appeared before Cook County Associate Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil on Friday afternoon, when she asked them “Where was your sense of decency?”Prosecutors offered new details of the assault, explaining that one of the suspects demanded $300 from the victim’s mother and that the beating started in a van and continued at a house.The suspects are
  
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• Cellmate: Mother killed 3-year-old son, said he was "soul of Hitler"

  07-01-2017 00:24
  
  PANAMA CITY, Fla. -- The former cell-mate of a Florida woman accused of killing her 3-year-old son told investigators the mother has no remorse because she believed the boy “was the soul of Hitler.”Authorities say 28-year-old Egypt Moneek Robinson remains in custody two years after the body of 3-year-old Aries Juan Acevedo was found in a suitcase floating in the swamp behind her Florida Panhandle home.The News Herald reports prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Robinson.Inve
  
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