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• Police investigating after men found shot to death outside Mansfield home

  15-01-2017 23:29
  
  MANSFIELD, Ohio -- Police are investigating after two men were found dead outside of a home in Mansfield. It happened around 3:30 a.m. Sunday on the 100 block of Helen Avenue.The Mansfield Division of Police said officers responded after receiving calls about "shots fired".When they arrived, officers found two men outside the home with fatal gunshot wounds. According to police, the Major Crimes Unit is in the process of identifying the victims and notifying family members.The incident is still u
  
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• State asks for help curbing coyote population

  15-01-2017 22:49
  
  Coyotes are on the prowl across Ohio, including in its cities, putting some people on edge about letting their pets out at night to do their business.
  
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• Cub Shrub Opening Second Location

  15-01-2017 22:47
  
  It’s been just over a year since kid-focused Cub Shrub opened in the Short North, and owners Niki and Josh Quinn have announced a second location for the venture. “We opened the first Cub Shrub when our daughter, Emma, was born and we realized that there were not many local places to find interesting, well […]
  
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• Ohio State beats Michigan State for first Big Ten win 72-67

  15-01-2017 22:42
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — JaQuan Lyle made 5 of 7 shots from the 3-point line and scored 22 points as Ohio State pulled away down the stretch and beat Michigan State 72-67 on Sunday for the Buckeyes' first Big Ten win this season.Marc Loving and Jae'Sean Tate each added 12 for the Buckeyes (11-7, 1-4 Big Ten), whose season was on the verge of collapsing after a disastrous start in the conference, inconsistent play and the loss of a key player to season-ending injury.Ohio State grabbed a 59-58 lead
  
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• 3 adults, child die in early morning apartment fire in Ohio

  15-01-2017 22:38
  
  TOLEDO, Ohio - Fire officials say a fourth body has been found in what remains of an apartment complex severely damaged by a fire in northern Ohio.Toledo's fire chief says the fourth victim is a man whose body was found Sunday afternoon, hours after the fire broke out at the complex that sits along the Ohio Turnpike.Firefighters earlier Sunday found the bodies of two adults and a child. They say everyone else now is accounted for.About 50 people were forced out of their homes by the fire.Witness
  
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• Official: Boys hurt in deadly Baltimore house fire improving

  15-01-2017 21:42
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) -- A Baltimore fire official says two young boys who were injured in a massive house fire last week that killed six of their siblings are improving.Fire Department spokesman Chief Roman Clark said Sunday that the boys, ages 4 and 5, have been upgraded from critical condition to good condition. They remain at a hospital.Clark says their mother, who also escaped the fire in northeast Baltimore, is still in critical condition.Firefighters encountered heavy flames coming from all thre
  
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• Doppler 10 Forecast: Warm up ahead this week

  15-01-2017 21:28
  This Evening: Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of a shower later this evening south of I-70. Fairly calm wind.Tonight: Cloudy and seasonable.Low 28.Light variable winds.Tomorrow: A slight chance for freezing rain early changing to rain by mid morning, otherwise cloudy during the day and warming up. Chance of an isolated shower again later in the evening. High 46.SE winds 2-4 mph.Tuesday: Above average and rain most of the day. A chance for thunder in the afternoon.High 59.S winds around 10 mph
  
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• Lynch to speak at Alabama church that was bombed in 1963

  15-01-2017 21:25
  
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch will deliver her final speech as attorney general at a Birmingham church that was the site of one of the most violent attacks of the civil rights movement.Lynch will speak Sunday afternoon at the city's 16th Street Baptist Church. The church was the target of a KKK bombing that killed four girls in 1963.The speech will commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. and comes on the eve of the national holiday named for King.Lynch's speech comes day
  
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• Human trafficking cases increase more than 50 percent in Florida

  15-01-2017 21:11
  
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Officials say the number of human trafficking cases have increased more than 50 percent in the state from the previous year.
  The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) says Florida received 1,892 reports of human trafficking. That’s a 54 percent increase from the previous year. The increase in reported allegations of human trafficking was due in large part to increased training and a new screening tool developed between DCF, the Florida Department of Juvenil
  
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• Third wave of freezing rain hits central U.S.

  15-01-2017 20:57
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A third wave of sleet and drizzle glazed swaths of the central U.S. on Sunday, extending icy weather that some meteorologists began acknowledging fell short of dire forecasts.
  Much of the region remained under an ice storm warning on the eve of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday as stretches continued getting pelted by rain, often in areas where temperatures hovered around freezing.
  The freeze made roads harrowing. In Kansas near Kansas City, two troopers escaped injury when
  
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• Scottish paper describes Trump inauguration as return of “The Twilight Zone”

  15-01-2017 20:53
  
  Satirists and late-night comics have not spared President-elect Donald Trump -- and neither has a Scottish newspaper’s TV critic.Sunday Herald reviewer Damien Love’s writeup for this Friday’s broadcast of the inauguration of the reality TV star as the 45th President of the United States characterized the proceedings as the return of “The Twilight Zone.”The satirical TV review has since gone viral:President Trump: The Inauguration
  4pm, BBC One/STVAfter a long absence
  
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• Thousands march in Columbus advocating for women's rights

  15-01-2017 20:50
  Thousands of people marched along West Broad Street Sunday afternoon, one week before the Women’s March on Washington in D.C.
  The event was part of a grassroots effort advocating for women’s rights in healthcare and politics.“I never thought I would be doing this in my wildest dreams,” said Mary Relotto, who participated in the Columbus march and plans to travel to Washington D.C. next weekend.“Our rights are human rights. Human rights are women's rights,” sai
  
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• Wearable sensors may soon alert you to sickness before symptoms show

  15-01-2017 20:40
  
  WASHINGTON -- A next step for smart watches and fitness trackers? Wearable gadgets gave a Stanford University professor an early warning that he was getting sick before he ever felt any symptoms of Lyme disease.Geneticist Michael Snyder never had Lyme’s characteristic bulls-eye rash. But a smart watch and other sensors charted changes in Snyder’s heart rate and oxygen levels during a family vacation. Eventually a fever struck that led to his diagnosis.Say “wearables,” and
  
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• Internet, animal rights activists helped shut down Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

  15-01-2017 20:27
  
  SARASOTA, Fla. - Goodbye to death-defying feats - daring young men (and women) on the flying trapeze, whip-wielding lion tamers, human cannonballs. Goodbye to the scent of peanuts and popcorn, the thrill of three rings, the jaunty bum-bum-dadadada of circus music.Send out the clowns. The Big Top is coming down - for good.On Saturday, officials of the company that owns the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced that it will close in May, ending a 146-year run that dates back to a
  
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• Sister March proceeding down Broad Street, will finish with Statehouse rally

  15-01-2017 19:59
  
  An estimated 1,500 women from across Ohio are marching together down Broad Street this afternoon as a demonstration in support of women's rights and gender equality.
  
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• John Kasich, still an anti-Trump holdout, faces fading influence

  15-01-2017 19:46
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - In less than a year’s time, Ohio Gov. John Kasich has gone from an “adult in the room” alternative in a fractious Republican presidential field, to a potential convention spoiler in Cleveland, to now facing a hostile new president who reached down personally to seize control of the state GOP.The roller coaster ride has left many wondering whether Kasich’s political star and personal influence have faded. To this, Kasich had a direct answer this week: &ldq
  
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• First Look: What the Rock?! Reopens in Clintonville

  15-01-2017 19:44
  
  After finishing out their final holiday shopping season in the Short North, husband-and-wife duo Mike Renner and Heather Ziegler have finished relocating What the Rock?! to its new location at 3039 Indianola Avenue in Clintonville. The store soft-opened today for the first time since the move, with a grand opening to be announced in the […]
  
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• Celebrating King

  15-01-2017 19:25
  
  The life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King will be celebrated Monday with a variety of events, including the annual breakfast and march in Columbus.
  
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• What you need to know now about the upcoming tax season

  15-01-2017 19:04
  
  It's a new year and time to put the last one to bed, which means filing your taxes.The Internal Revenue Service says to expect a few changes when the nation's individual income tax filing season opens on Jan. 23.Here are some of the changes you should be aware of:NEW DATE: Taxes are usually due on April 15, but this year that falls on a Saturday. And Emancipation Day, a holiday in Washington, D.C., will be observed on Monday, April 17.So that pushes the nation's deadline to file returns and pay
  
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• Eddie Long, megachurch pastor embroiled in scandal, dies

  15-01-2017 18:09
  
  LITHONIA, Ga.— Eddie Long, the pastor of a Georgia megachurch whose reputation was tarnished after former congregants accused him of sexual misconduct, has died. He was 63.New Birth Missionary Baptist Church said in a statement to multiple media outlets that Long died Sunday after battling cancer.Long has been senior pastor at New Birth Missionary Baptist since 1987. The church said it grew from 300 members to more than 25,000 under Long's leadership and became one of the nation's largest
  
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• Gunman who killed football player gets 25 years to life

  15-01-2017 17:56
  
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A gunman who shot and killed a 23-year-old football player outside a New York restaurant has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
  Authorities say 26-year-old Jesmond Hart ambushed Jamar Paige in a Rochester Parking lot in 2014, shooting him four times. A jury convicted Hart of second-degree murder in November. He was sentenced Friday in state Supreme Court in Rochester. The victim was a standout high school football player who went on to play semi-professional fo
  
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• Man walking along Lake Erie beach finds body near state line

  15-01-2017 17:44
  
  CONNEAUT, Ohio— Authorities in Ohio say a man walking along a Lake Erie beach found a partially decomposed body near the Pennsylvania state line.The county medical examiner in Cleveland will attempt to identify the body.Police say the body was discovered about 300 yards from the Pennsylvania state line near the Ohio city of Conneaut.Cleveland officials say it's not known yet whether the discovery is related to the crash of a plane that was carrying six people more than two weeks ago.The pl
  
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• Columbus Charter Review Committee Meeting January 12, 2017

  15-01-2017 17:28 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Man walking along Lake Erie beach in Conneaut finds body

  15-01-2017 17:04
  
  CONNEAUT — Authorities say a man walking along a Lake Erie beach found a partially decomposed body near the Pennsylvania state line. The Cuyahoga County medical examiner in Cleveland will attempt to identify the body.
  
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• Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Calling it Quits

  15-01-2017 16:35
  
  After 146 years, the owners of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus have decided to end the production of “The Greatest Show on Earth”. A release issued by the company yesterday citied increased costs and declining ticket sales as the main reasons to cease the production of their shows. Last May, the organization […]
  
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• Buckeye Lake’s Fairfield Beach neighborhood due for spruce-up

  15-01-2017 14:12
  
  The Buckeye Lake region’s Fairfield Beach neighborhood is poised for multiple projects that local and county officials say will improve its streets, shoreline and houses. The unincorporated community in Fairfield County’s Walnut Township could use the help, officials said.
  
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• John Switzer | From the Stump: Frontier surveyors in Ohio found the job dangerous, lucrative

  15-01-2017 14:09
  
  Nowadays, when we see a surveying crew in the neighborhood or around town, the job does not appear to be that dangerous. I guess there’s a chance a vehicle might go out of control and run a surveyor down, but that’s about it. It wasn’t that way when our country was young.
  
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• Grassroots: The Socialist Alternative Fights for Columbus’ Working Class

  15-01-2017 14:00
  
  If there’s mobilization behind a progressive policy, more than likely the Socialist Alternative is involved. The international organization, originating in the UK in the 50s and landing stateside in 1984, established its Columbus chapter in 2013. “We’re not a single issue organization,” said Kyle Landis, local activist and member of the Socialist Alternative. “Anywhere people […]
  
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• Ky. woman shot by officers before bodies of slain family found, police say

  15-01-2017 13:49
  
  Police in southeastern Kentucky say officers shot a woman brandishing a handgun after she allegedly killed her husband and two teenage daughters at their home.
  Whitley County Sheriff Colan Harrell says officers were called to the home of Larry and Courtney Taylor on Friday night after a relative went there to check on the family.
  Harrell told The Lexington Herald-Leader that 41-year-old Courtney Taylor pointed a gun at two deputies who arrived at the home. One of the deputies shot her. She was t
  
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• Delaware County United Way takes lead on help for human trafficking victims

  15-01-2017 13:39
  
  Human traffickers often exploit the vulnerable: people from broken families or those who have mental illness or are dependent on drugs.
  
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• China again rejects Trump's suggestion to negotiate Taiwan

  15-01-2017 13:39
  
  China's foreign ministry on Sunday again rejected President-elect Donald Trump's suggestion that he might use American policy on Taiwan as a bargaining chip between the two sides.Spokesman Lu Kang said Sunday that the "one China" policy is "non-negotiable." Since recognizing Beijing in 1979, Washington has maintained only unofficial ties with Taiwan, the self-governing island that Beijing considers its territory - a status quo that Trump has repeatedly threatened to upend since winning the Novem
  
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• Israel says Nazi camp excavations unearth link to Anne Frank

  15-01-2017 13:34
  
  Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial says researchers excavating the remains of one of the most notorious Nazi death camps have uncovered a pendant that appears identical to one belonging to Anne Frank.Yad Vashem says Sunday it has ascertained the pendant belonged to Karoline Cohn - a Jewish girl who perished at Sobibor and may have known the famous diarist. Like Frank, Cohn was born in Frankfurt in 1929. Researchers are trying to confirm whether they were related.The Israel Antiquities Author
  
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• Capitol Insider: Trump’s Ohio win truly was historic

  15-01-2017 13:34
  
  With the ascension of Donald Trump coming this week, we decided to look again at Ohio’s presidential election results — and stumbled across some amazing facts that perhaps shed a different light on his victory than what we’ve seen to date.
  
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• Miss. town to reconsider "Great Americans Day" designation on MLK Day, mayor says

  15-01-2017 13:24
  
  The Biloxi City Council will meet Monday to discuss using the name “Great Americans Day” on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the mayor posted on the city’s website on Saturday.The council will meet Monday at 10 a.m. to reconsider the designation; just one hour before the city’s annual MLK Day parade, CBS affiliate WLOX reports.Biloxi was at the center of a social media firestorm when the city published now-deleted Twitter and Facebook posts that read “Non-emergency munic
  
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• What can Columbus police do to stem spike in homicides?

  15-01-2017 13:22
  
  The small house that Habitat for Humanity built in 2015 on a busy street in South Linden was supposed to be a place of hope and dreams. But the owner, a woman who also worked on the house she lives in, has since barred the door, installed an alarm that remains on even when she’s home, and owns a pit-bull mix. It has become a prison, of sorts, a nightmare for the woman who declined to give her name because she fears for her safety.
  
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• OxyContin, other narcotic pain pills still plentiful in Ohio

  15-01-2017 13:18
  
  Heroin and fentanyl grab the headlines, but narcotic painkillers still fill Ohio medicine cabinets. Increasingly, heroin and fentanyl are responsible for overdose deaths. But narcotic pain pills such as OxyContin continue to be a problem.
  
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• Jennifer Holliday backs out of Trump inauguration gig

  15-01-2017 13:14
  
  Broadway star Jennifer Holliday has backed out as a performer at next week's presidential inaugural following protests from her gay and black fans, further dimming the event's already low celebrity wattage.Holliday, best known for her Tony-winning role in Broadway's "Dreamgirls," said in an interview Saturday she hadn't considered that singing at a Thursday concert by Washington's Lincoln Memorial would be judged a statement of support for President-elect Donald Trump.She decided to withdraw at
  
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• Rumpke hikes price in Columbus recycling bid

  15-01-2017 13:13
  
  The cost of curbside recycling and yard-waste pickup in Columbus could skyrocket in the next five years after the city received only one bid for its contract. Rumpke, the city’s current collection vendor, was the only company to bid on the five-year contract to empty the blue recycling bins and collect paper bags filled with lawn clippings and leaves.
  
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• SWACO may trash its recycling drop boxes

  15-01-2017 13:11
  
  The row of green dumpsters lining Indianola Plaza in Clintonville is almost a dozen bins long. Last week, many of them were empty. That’s become an increasingly common state for public dropoff recycling sites across Franklin County parks, supermarkets and fire stations
  
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• Trump clashes with civil rights leader as inauguration looms

  15-01-2017 13:02
  
  Donald Trump's feud with civil rights icon John Lewis is highlighting the president-elect's willingness to attack any and all political rivals even with his inauguration less than a week away.The Republican billionaire slammed the Democratic congressman - and his Atlanta-area district - on Saturday, a day after Lewis described Trump as an illegitimate president. Lewis, like a handful of Democratic lawmakers, vowed to skip Trump's Friday swearing-in ceremony.Trump tweeted that Lewis "should spend
  
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• Theodore Decker: Arsonist’s actions set fire under Volunteers of America donors

  15-01-2017 12:51
  
  Outside the Volunteers of America thrift store on South High Street, Michael Coffee of Chillicothe doffed his fedora and showed off its inner label. “This is one of those old Lazarus hats,” he said. He’d scored the hat, as well as nearly everything else he was wearing on Friday, during previous shopping trips at the VOA.
  
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• Woman abducted as an infant reunites with biological parents

  15-01-2017 12:44
  
  The newborn baby who was abducted from a Florida hospital 18 years ago and located in South Carolina on Friday has reunited with her biological parents, her family said. The young woman born as Kamiyah Mobley reconnected with her biological family in a private reunion at the Walterboro Police Department, CBS affiliate WCSC reports. Her father, Craig Aiken, told WCSC that he is still in shock after the 45-minute reunion.Aiken told her he loved her and he missed her.“First meeting was beauti
  
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• Doppler 10 Forecast: Mild and mostly cloudy

  15-01-2017 12:12
  Today: A dreary day with mostly cloudy skies. High 40.NE winds 2-4 mph.Tonight: Clouds hanging around during the evening hours. Chance of a shower later this evening south of I-70.Low 29.Light variable winds.Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy during the day and warming up. Chance of an isolated shower later in the evening. High 46.SE winds 2-4 mph.Tuesday: Above average and rain most of the day.High 59.SW winds 5-10 mph.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Closings, DelaysSpecial Infor
  
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• Outdoors notebook | Weather blamed for Ohio’s lackluster deer season

  15-01-2017 12:01
  
  As of Tuesday Ohio’s deer season total, including the bow kill, was at 175,832 deer, some 5,100 behind the total of a year ago. Ohio Division of Wildlife biologist Mike Tonkovich had forecast a 2016-17 harvest of about 200,000 whitetails, bettering last year’s total of 188,335, though such an outcome now seems unlikely.
  
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• Columbus-based STAR licenses technology to protect asphalt worldwide

  15-01-2017 11:21
  
  Girish Dubey's name is well-known in his field. The polymer chemist created his company, STAR (Specialty Technology and Research), in 1986 after years working for leading sealcoating manufacturers in Ohio.
  
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• Wexner was wise to cut Limited stores loose when he did

  15-01-2017 11:16
  
  Les Wexner is looking like a genius these days. Almost 10 years ago — in August 2007, to be exact — Wexner's company (then known as Limited Brands) sold 75 percent ownership of The Limited chain to private equity firm Sun Capital Partners.
  
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• Ohio family’s focus on grating has served business well

  15-01-2017 11:06
  
  The cavernous building, machinery and steel at Ohio Gratings made an interesting playground for brothers David and John Bartley. As youngsters, the pair spent many Saturdays trying not to get into trouble inside the company their father and grandfather started, David recalled. For the most part, they succeeded at avoiding trouble. Since becoming full-time employees of family-owned Ohio Gratings Inc., they have succeeded in helping the company grow.
  
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• Ask the builder: Building bookcases? Make a prototype first

  15-01-2017 11:00
  
  Q: I live in a 100-year-old wooden house in Norway and am doing most the refurbishing and maintenance myself. I'm making floor-to-ceiling built-in bookcases for one of my living rooms and would love some tips. One of my challenges is the bookcase needs to span about 6 feet over a piano. What would you do to support those shelves so there's no sag from the weight of the books? Any information you can share that would make this project look magnificent and be trouble-free would be appreciated. &md
  
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• Car-SUV collision on Near East Side sends 4 to hospital

  15-01-2017 10:56
  
  Four people were hospitalized, one critically, after a collision between a car and an SUV early Sunday on the Near East Side.
  
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• Sun. Jan 15th, 2017

  15-01-2017 10:06
  Docket From the public records of the Findlay Police Department and the Hancock County Sheriff's Office: Police Department A dispute was reported in the 300 block of East Sandusky Street on Friday.
  
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