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• Creation of the East Main Special Improvement District

  21-03-2017 23:36 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Press Conference: Columbus Police Assess Cruiser Video System

  21-03-2017 23:24 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Recreational marijuana recalled because of pesticide residue

  21-03-2017 23:14
  
  The Oregon Liquor Control Commission issued its first recall of recreational marijuana after samples of a type of pot were found to contain a level of pesticide residue above the state limit.The Blue Magoo marijuana was sold at Buds 4 U in Mapleton, a community 45 miles west of Eugene, The Capital Press reported. The commission, which oversees retail sales of recreational pot, said people who bought the drug should return it to the retailer or throw it out.The retailer notified the agency immedi
  
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• UConn fraternity chapter closed months after sophomore run over

  21-03-2017 23:10
  
  The Delta Gamma Fraternity, a national Greek women’s organization, announced it has decided to close a University of Connecticut chapter in the wake of the death of a sophomore who was part of the organization, CBS affiliate WFSB reports.Jeffny Pally, 19, was run over last fall after leaving a party. She was sitting on the ground with her back against a bay door at the university’s fire station when the door opened. A fire department SUV ran over Pally and kept moving, CBS New York r
  
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• Delta Gamma closes UConn chapter months after sophomore run over

  21-03-2017 23:10
  
  The Delta Gamma Fraternity, a national Greek women’s organization, announced it has decided to close a University of Connecticut chapter in the wake of the death of a sophomore who was part of the organization, CBS affiliate WFSB reports.Jeffny Pally, 19, was run over last fall after leaving a party. She was sitting on the ground with her back against a bay door at the university’s fire station when the door opened. A fire department SUV ran over Pally and kept moving, CBS New York r
  
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• Tornado sirens sound statewide for Severe Weather Preparedness Week

  21-03-2017 22:59
  
  A statewide tornado drill was conducted in Ohio Wednesday as a part of Severe Weather Preparedness Week.Sirens were activated at 9:50 a.m. for three minutes. The tone was the same used in an actual tornado warning.“The annual Statewide Tornado Drill is the perfect opportunity for schools, businesses and families to discuss and practice their emergency plan,” said Jeffrey J. Young, Director, Franklin County Emergency Management & Homeland Security.“Regardless of where you ar
  
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• Statewide tornado siren test scheduled for Wednesday morning

  21-03-2017 22:59
  
  If you hear a tornado siren Wednesday morning, it is part of a statewide tornado drill.The sirens will be activated at 9:50 a.m. for three minutes.The tone will be the same used in an actual tornado warning.The 9:50 a.m. test will be used in place of the regular weekly noon test.“The annual Statewide Tornado Drill is the perfect opportunity for schools, businesses and families to discuss and practice their emergency plan,” said Jeffrey J. Young, Director, Franklin County Emergency Ma
  
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• Family: Conflicting coroner's reports let repeat drunk driver avoid justice

  21-03-2017 22:37
  In 2014, The Franklin County Coroner said Debbie Meadows died in a crash caused by a drunk driver. Today, the coroner says it was cancer, not the crash, that killed Meadows.And her family says that change let a repeat drunk driver off the hook.When Debbie Meadows died, she had already been living with a dark diagnosis."She was so much more than a cancer patient or an accident victim," said her friend Cecelia Call. "Debbie was a wife, a mother, a sister, a daughter, and a friend to many of us."He
  
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• Compassion Fatigue: Are we getting tired of hearing about heroin?

  21-03-2017 22:31
  
  While I was doing some research on the rising cost of anti-overdose drugs, I encountered a startling statement from a local drug treatment professional. “I have yet to give a community talk about Narcan without at least one person wanting to know why we are wasting limited public dollars on saving ‘drug addicts who do this to themselves.’ Is compassion fatigue beginning to creep into the conversation over the heroin epidemic?The increase in drug overdoses has brought an increas
  
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• Trump to GOP: Pass health care bill or seal your fate

  21-03-2017 21:35
  
  Time for talk running out, President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned wavering House Republicans that their jobs were on the line in next year's elections if they failed to back a GOP bill that would overhaul Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.The countdown quickened toward an expected vote Thursday on legislation undoing much of the law that provided health coverage to some 20 million Americans. Trump huddled behind closed doors with rank-and-file Republicans just hours after GOP leaders unveiled
  
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• #bigbinkshow New Hairstyle taking Over Columbus

  21-03-2017 21:13
  According to reports, Women everywhere are running into salons across the 614 to get this hairstyle below. Why, I'm not sure.
  
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• Expansion of Ohio concealed carry law goes into effect

  21-03-2017 21:09
  Tuesday marked the first day firearms are legally allowed inside day care centers, certain places in airports and college campuses in the state of Ohio.Firearms are allowed if the owner of the business or property gives consent. Businesses and institutions can still determine if firearms will be permitted. Also, the person carrying the firearm has to have a concealed carry permit.Summer Jeffers owns BabyBears Day Care Center in Carroll and says she doesn't mind having a gun in the building, as l
  
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• Apple debuts red iPhone to fuel fight against AIDS

  21-03-2017 21:03
  
  Apple announced the latest addition to its iPhone family Tuesday: a bright, cherry red iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. The new iPhone is part of Apple’s partnership with (RED), an initiative that mobilizes brands to support the nonprofit Global Fund’s efforts to rid the world of HIV and AIDS.The Global Fund specifically works in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 70 percent of the world’s HIV-positive live, according to the Gates Foundation. The organization provides testing, coun
  
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• Company bloats price of magazine subscription with mail-in offer

  21-03-2017 20:59
  Lots of people love their magazine subscriptions but if you have several, it can be tough keeping track of when to renew this one and that one.The scammers out there know this and they come after your money in seemingly innocent ways with offers to ‘help’ you.Jerry Mayes loves his magazines like Time and National Geographic but he hates getting 'offers' like one from a company called Southwest Publication Processing out of Yuma, Arizona.It offered to manage Jerry's National Geographi
  
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• Ohio State announces Lou Holtz & Phil Knight as spring game guest coaches

  21-03-2017 20:36
  
  Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer has asked two of his close friends to serve as guest coaches for the scarlet and gray teams: Hall of Fame coach Lou Holtz and NIKE Inc. Chairman Emeritus Phil Knight.“I am very close to each of these individuals and I have enjoyed their friendship over many years,” Meyer said, “but even more I respect the impact they have had on Ohio State and college football. I am looking forward to having Coach Holtz and Phil Knight on our campus as guest co
  
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• 'No man is above the law' Supreme Court pick says on Trump

  21-03-2017 20:20
  
  Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch said Tuesday that "no man is above the law" when pressed on whether President Donald Trump could reinstitute torture as a U.S. interrogation method.The exchange with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina came on Day Two of Gorsuch's confirmation hearing to fill the 13-month vacancy on the Supreme Court.Graham suggested Trump might be watching the hearing, and asked Gorsuch what would happen if the president tried to reinstate waterboarding, the now-b
  
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• Car crashes into home, catches fire in Pickaway County

  21-03-2017 20:03
  
  A car smashed into a house Tuesday afternoon, according to The Ohio State Highway Patrol.Dispatchers tell 10TV they received a call at 1:30 p.m. that a vehicle crashed into a home along Black Garrett Rd near Talton in Pickaway County.Authorities say the car accident started a fire at the home. Firefighters were called to put out the fire.Troopers say the crash remains under investigation.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com for updates.
  
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• Dylann Roof's friend gets over 2 years for lying to FBI

  21-03-2017 19:43
  
  The only person with whom Dylann Roof shared his racist plot to massacre parishioners at a historic black church was sentenced Tuesday to more than two years in prison for hampering the investigation and lying to the FBI after the attack."I'm really, really sorry. A lot of beautiful lives were taken," 22-year-old Joey Meek told the court. He began to cry as he added: "I don't know if I'll make it out of prison alive. I'm scared."Meek was handed 27 months behind bars by the same federal judge who
  
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• Doppler 10 Forecast: Mid-week cool down

  21-03-2017 19:29
  This Evening: Partly sunny and feeling like spring with temperatures in the 50s. N wind around 5 mph.
  Tonight: Clouds will decrease and temperatures get chilly. Low 26. NW wind 10-15 mph.
  Tomorrow: Sunny and breezy, but well below average. High 40. NW wind 10-15 mph.
  Thursday: Starting off cold, but it will be sunny and milder in the afternoon. High 52. E wind 5-10 mph.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Closings, DelaysSpecial Information:What a beautiful spring afternoon
  
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• New Franklinton Educational Garden

  21-03-2017 19:28
  
  START, a fund powered by Columbus startups and launched by Rev1 Ventures, made its first grant of $5,000 to Franklinton Gardens to help create a new educational garden.
  The fund brings capital and startup support from an entrepreneur-led advisory board to help initiatives and people in central Ohio that are “starting up” something special in the community
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  The Columbus Foundation is working to capture The Spirit of Columbus through images that s
  
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• Mixed-Use Project in Franklinton to Break Ground Next Month

  21-03-2017 19:26
  
  The long wait for actual construction to begin on the first new large-scale residential development in Franklinton appears to be over. Casto announced that a groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for April 3rd for its 230-unit mixed-use project between Rich Street and the Scioto River.
  The nine-building project, now called River & Rich, has been developed in partnership with the Robert Weiler Company, Kelley Companies, Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority and Smoot Construction. It was app
  
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• Professor to share story of 'Axis Sally'

  21-03-2017 18:56
  During World War II, an American woman broadcast Nazi propaganda to Allied troops, who dubbed her "Axis Sally."
  
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• Columbus Police: 100,000 cruiser video files dating back to 2015 inadvertently deleted

  21-03-2017 18:11
  
  Columbus Police says approximately 100,000 cruiser video files were inadvertently deleted.In a press release sent Tuesday, Columbus Police said the Columbus Police Technical Services Bureau recently became aware of a potential mass deletion of cruiser video footage dating back to 2015.The Columbus Division of Police Technical Services Bureau says they are working closely with the city’s Department of Technology on solutions and a possible recovery of the video files.The impact of the delet
  
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• Authorities investigating possible drug overdose death at AMC Lennox in Columbus

  21-03-2017 17:46
  
  The HOPE Task Force is investigating the death of a man found in cardiac arrest inside a movie theater, according to Clinton Township Fire Department.Authorities responded Monday evening to the AMC Lennox Town Center for a report of an unconscious man in cardiac arrest inside a screening of “Beauty and the Beast.”Twenty-six-year-old Cody Derby, of the Columbus area, was transported to Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center where he later died, according to Franklin County Sherif
  
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• State Audit: Fraud, illegal spending uncovered at correctional facility in southern Ohio

  21-03-2017 16:44
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Officials at a southern Ohio halfway house illegally spent thousands of taxpayer dollars on alcohol, hotels, travel costs for family members and a strip club, and forged receipts for personal and unauthorized purchases, according to a state audit released Tuesday.The report from Auditor David Yost found $20,000 in illegal spending by employees at STAR Community Justice Center in Scioto County, with about half involving conferences in Las Vegas; Reno, Nevada; Orlando, Flori
  
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• Target unveils ambitious redesign; Here's what to expect

  21-03-2017 16:25
  
  NEW YORK - In a move to bring shoppers back to its stores, Target is embarking on an ambitious redesign aimed at helping people who need to dash in for milk to get out quickly while encouraging those who want to wander the aisles to linger.The new layout was unveiled by CEO Brian Cornell in Las Vegas Monday. It will feature a separate entrance and 10-minute parking for shoppers looking to pick up an online order or some essentials. New center aisles will be curved rather than squared off, to ins
  
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• Deadline set in case of Bellefontaine mother accused of killing sons

  21-03-2017 16:08
  
  Attorneys in the case of an Ohio woman accused of suffocating her three young sons out of jealousy at the attention her husband gave them have been given a deadline for filing any additional motions.A judge set a May 15 deadline Monday in the case of Brittany Pilkington. Attorneys for the 25-year-old Bellefontaine woman said they need more time to prepare for trial. No trial date has been set.Pilkington has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder charges. Authorities allege she killed her toddle
  
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• Juvenile critical after being struck by semi on I-71 in Grove City

  21-03-2017 14:43
  
  GROVE CITY, Ohio -- Interstate 71 was closed in Grove City after a juvenile was struck by a semi Tuesday morning.The Ohio Department of Transportation says I-71 north and south was closed from Stringtown Road to Route 665. Both the northbound and southbound lanes have since reopened.Grove City Police says the juvenile walked in path of the semi truck on I-71 north.The victim was transported to Grant Hospital in critical condition, according to the Jackson Township Fire Department. No additional
  
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• Ohio municipalities challenge law allowing wireless antennas

  21-03-2017 14:42
  By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio - A law taking effect Monday that allows telecommunications companies to place wireless antennas on municipal buildings is an unconstitutional violation of cities' rights to control how they regulate such economic activity, according to lawsuits filed by multiple communities. The complaints filed in Columbus and Cleveland say the law prohibits cities from effectively managing where wireless facilities are placed in communities by undermini
  
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• School bus involved in crash in Ross County

  21-03-2017 13:35
  A pickup truck caught fire after crashing into a school bus Tuesday in Green Township.The two-vehicle crash happened early Tuesday morning along State Route 159 near Sulphur Spring Road, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.There were kids on the bus when the collision happened but no injuries were reported.Troopers are on the scene investigating what caused the crash.No additional details were immediately available.
  
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• Trump rips NFL QB Kaepernick during speech in Kentucky

  21-03-2017 13:25
  
  LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — President Donald Trump has taken a swipe at controversial NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick at a campaign-style rally in Louisville, Kentucky.Kaepernick, who played for the San Francisco 49ers but now is a free agent, hasn'tyet been signed to another team.Trump told the crowd he read an article reporting that NFL owners don't want to pick Kaepernick up "because they don't want to get a nasty tweet from Donald Trump.""Do you believe that?" he asked the enthusiastic cro
  
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• Dealers could disable your car over a missed payment

  21-03-2017 13:15
  
  The auto industry could be reshaped by a repossession device for cars. "Starter interrupter" technology makes a vehicle impossible to start after the owner misses a payment, but federal regulators are asking questions about how at least one auto finance company uses the equipment, reports CBS News correspondent Anna Werner. Willie Conner needs a kidney transplant and gets dialysis five times a week. She needed a car, but she and her husband didn't have a lot of money, so Car Credit City offering
  
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• March freeze could impact your grocery bill

  21-03-2017 13:04
  Last week's deep freeze in the Southeast appears to have nearly wiped out Georgia's blueberries and South Carolina's peaches.The South Carolina Department of Agriculture said 85 percent of the state's peaches were damaged by two days of temperatures dipping into the 20s Wednesday and Thursday.South Carolina is the second biggest producer of peaches in the U.S.Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black says up to 80 percent of the blueberry crop in the southern part of the state was destroyed.Ap
  
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• Man who published early obituary dies after event celebrating his life

  21-03-2017 12:24
  
  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- A Michigan lawyer and Republican activist has died, a day after hundreds of people responded to his published invitation to attend an open house to celebrate his life. Bob Eleveld died Sunday at age 80. He was too ill from cancer to attend the event Saturday at a Grand Rapids-area golf club. Guests ate roast beef and shrimp and wrote messages that were delivered to Eleveld by family members. His partner, Michelle McIsaac, says the reception fulfilled Eleveld’s wishes
  
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• 1-year-old boy survives 25-foot drop off waterfall

  21-03-2017 12:16
  
  LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. -- A 1-year-old boy was rescued from the water after surviving a 25-foot drop off the Aztec Falls near Lake Arrowhead, Calif., in the San Bernardino Mountains Sunday afternoon.The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department reports the boy was on a day hike with his family when the fall occurred at around 2:10 p.m., according to CBS Los Angeles.A helicopter from the San Bernardino County Sheriff Department’s Air Medic Program. SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SHERIFF DEPAR
  
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• Drivers in Ohio now must leave 3-foot gap to pass bicyclists

  21-03-2017 12:12
  
  A new Ohio law requires drivers to allow at least 3 feet of space when passing bicyclists on the road, though some cyclists say it's tough to enforce and not a strong enough deterrent to cars zipping past too closely.Some Ohio cities, including Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus, already had similar requirements.The measure that took effect Tuesday is among 17 bills that Republican Gov. John Kasich signed late last year. It adds the specific 3-foot passing provision to Ohio law, which previously
  
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• Rare 59 carat pink diamond on display before going up for auction

  21-03-2017 11:44
  Sotheby's is displaying the startling "pink star" diamond in London before it's auctioned in Hong Kong next month.The company says the gem should fetch more than $60 million when put on the block April 4, which would represent a record for a pink diamond sold at auction.It said Monday the 59.60-carat gem is the largest flawless fancy pink diamond ever graded by the Gemological Institute of America.
  Sotheby's jewelry division chief David Bennett said that the gem's size and color "surpassed any k
  
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• New WiFi-equipped Google school buses help students get online on the go

  21-03-2017 11:37
  For eighth-grader Lakaysha Governor, her daily two-hour school bus commute had been spent catching up with friends and trying to tune out distractions from unruly preschoolers.Now, thanks to Google, the aspiring forensic anthropologist said she’s able to spend that time finishing up her daily school work so she’s free to engage in her favorite activity once she gets home: reading.Lakaysha is one of nearly 2,000 students in South Carolina’s rural Berkeley County benefiting from
  
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• Edamame recalled over listeria fears

  21-03-2017 11:37
  Advanced Fresh Concepts issued the voluntary recall after random quality testing found potential Listeria contamination in its Edamame product.Listeria cause symptoms that may include fever, muscle aches, diarrhea or other gastrointestinal problems, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Symptoms appear a few days or up to a few weeks after eating the contaminated food.Healthy people made sick by the bacteria often suffer only short-term symptoms, such as high fever, severe
  
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• Firefighters make 4-year-old's birthday special after no one came to party

  21-03-2017 11:26
  Turning four years old is supposed to be a time to celebrate. But for Braxton Young, it was a different story after none of his friends showed up to his birthday party.To help her son forget about what happened, his mother Sarah Young asked everyone she could think of to send letters to him."Try to get him some mail. That way he knows he is special. Just because no one showed up doesn't mean he isn't special," Young said.Braxton's mother says her son wants to be a fireman when he gets older."Tha
  
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• Police: Boy, 14, critically hurt as kids play with gun in Detroit

  21-03-2017 11:22
  
  Police say a shotgun fired while the weapon was being played with by children at a Detroit home, wounding a 14-year-old boy.Police say the shooting happened Monday night on the city's east side and the boy was taken to a hospital in critical condition. Captain Eric Decker says the gun wasn't kept locked up and the boy's 10-year-old brother is believed to have fired the gun.Decker says the boys were playing with more than one gun at the time of the shooting. No one else was injured and the circum
  
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• Dividing Lines | Minimum wage, training top list of concerns

  21-03-2017 10:21
  Business leaders don't want workers teetering on the edge of poverty, but they don't want to be pushed to pay them more. Government and civic leaders want all neighborhoods to thrive, but research shows that economic divides have worsened in the past several years.
  
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• Expanded 40th Annual Jazz Festival features performances, education

  21-03-2017 06:17
  Ohio State Jazz Ensemble is set to perform March 26 to close the annual Jazz Festival. Credit: Courtesy of Tamara Morris Ryan Gosling's character in "La La Land" isn't the only one who cares about jazz.
  
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• Historic Columbus building to be demolished

  21-03-2017 03:23
  
  The owner of a historic building in Columbus has plans to knock it down, but some neighbors don't like the idea. The old McNabb Funeral Home at East Long Street and Talmadge Street will be demolished within the next 30 days.The structure was built in the 1920's. The corporation that now owns the property, Columbus Next Generation, says it would like to include the community on development."As an organization, I want to put forth the best project we possibly can for the community. I think the com
  
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• Trump going outside Washington for support on health bill

  21-03-2017 02:42
  
  President Donald Trump is deploying an outside and inside strategy to fulfill his campaign promise to repeal and replace "Obamacare," seeking support beyond Washington before making an in-person pitch on Capitol Hill.Trump rallied supporters Monday night in Louisville, Kentucky, alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., after meetings and phone calls in Washington aimed at steadying the troubled legislation designed to erase President Barack Obama's signature health care law. He p
  
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• Police: Robbery suspect demanded narcotics from pharmacy

  21-03-2017 02:16
  
  Columbus police are searching for a man who robbed a CVS pharmacy Monday.The man presented a threatening note and demanded narcotics from the pharmacy inside the CVS in the 3500 block of Gender Road in Canal Winchester around 1:30 p.m.The person behind the counter complied with the demands. The employee was not injured.The man only wore sunglasses to try to disguise his face.Anyone with information can call the Columbus Police Robbery Unit at (614) 645-4665 or Crime Stoppers at (614) 461-8477.
  
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• Tyson Beckford Says Chris Brown Needs Help

  21-03-2017 02:03
  Who was tuned into #RHOA last night? As Peter's birthday comes to a close, you know there had to be some drama. Especially with Ms.
  
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• Are You Ready For A 'Sister Sister' Reboot?

  21-03-2017 02:03
  Hands down, "Sister Sister" is one of the most ICONIC shows of my childhood. What happened to shows like this? Well, we may not have to look any further.
  
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• Former addict shares her story at town hall addressing drug epidemic

  21-03-2017 01:59
  Ohio now ranks fourth in the nation for the most heroin addicts in the country.Heroin deaths are up 753 percent from 2007 to 2016, according to the Ohio Department of Health.Citizens, clergy, educators, social workers and law enforcement came together Monday night to find solutions.One of the speakers is a former recovering heroin addict, Nicole Manual."I'm a liar a manipulator, a cheater, and a thief and I'm very honest with myself to keep me
  grounded," she said.She went from working as a corre
  
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• Most electronics being banned on certain US-bound flights

  21-03-2017 01:22
  
  The U.S. government is temporarily barring passengers on nonstop U.S.-bound flights from eight Middle Eastern and North African countries from bringing laptops, iPads, cameras and some other electronics in carry-on luggage starting Tuesday.The ban was revealed Monday in statements from Royal Jordanian Airlines and the official news agency of Saudi Arabia.A U.S. official said the ban will apply to nonstop flights to the U.S. from 10 airports in eight countries. The official did not name the airpo
  
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