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• 'There's no need for further bloodshed': Cleveland Police ask man suspected of streaming killing on Facebook to turn himself in

  16-04-2017 22:35
  
  CLEVELAND, Ohio - Police in Cleveland are asking the man suspected of killing a person while streaming live on Facebook to turn himself in.During a news conference Sunday evening, Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams said his officers and other police departments in the area are working diligently to find Steve Stephens."We want this to end with as much peace as we can bring right now. We want him to turn himself in, but if that doesn't happen ... we'll look until we find him," Chief Williams
  
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• Cleveland Police looking for man who streamed killing on Facebook

  16-04-2017 22:35
  
  CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cleveland Police said Sunday they are looking for a man who streamed the killing of a person on Facebook.Police said Steve Stephens also claimed to have killed more people, but that claim is still being investigated.According to police, the homicide happened in the 600 block of E. 93rd St.Police said Stephens is black, bald, and has a full beard. He's 6-foot-1, weighs about 244 pounds, and was last seen wearing a dark blue and gray or black-striped polo shirt.Stephens may be dr
  
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• Cleveland Police ask man suspected of streaming killing on Facebook to turn himself in

  16-04-2017 22:35
  
  CLEVELAND, Ohio - Police in Cleveland are asking the man suspected of killing a person while streaming live on Facebook to turn himself in.During a news conference Sunday evening, Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams said his officers and other police departments in the area are working diligently to find Steve Stephens."We want this to end with as much peace as we can bring right now. We want him to turn himself in, but if that doesn't happen ... we'll look until we find him," Chief Williams
  
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• A year on, few answers from probe into Prince's death

  16-04-2017 22:04
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — It's been nearly a year since Prince died from an accidental drug overdose in his suburban Minneapolis studio and estate, yet investigators still haven't interviewed a key associate or asked a grand jury to consider whether criminal charges are warranted, according to an official with knowledge of the investigation.Prince was 57 when he was found alone and unresponsive in an elevator at his Paisley Park home on April 21. His death shocked fans and led to tributes worldwi
  
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• Police say victims of club shooting are making investigation difficult

  16-04-2017 21:54
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Columbus Division of Police are investigating after nine people were injured in a shooting Sunday morning.
  The crime happened at the J & R Party Hall off Cleveland Avenue.
  Police said an argument early Sunday morning and escalated to gunfire.
  Josiah Murphy found out with a phone call.
  "Her brother called me at like 4:00 in the morning and said 'My sister's been shot, my sister's been shot'," Murphy said. "So, I actually tried to call her phone and it went straight to voi
  
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• Ohio schools struggle to get students vaccinated

  16-04-2017 21:54
  
  DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Schools in Ohio are struggling to get students vaccinated and keep track of those who are immunized.The Dayton Daily News reports that 75 percent of Ohio elementary schools have failed to document every incoming kindergartener as vaccinated or exempt from vaccination by the state deadline this school year. At 158 schools, at least 30 percent of students started the 2016-17 school year without documentation of all needed shots.Health officials say students who don't rece
  
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• Virginia Tech marks decade since shooting that killed 32

  16-04-2017 21:50
  
  BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Ten years after a mentally ill student fatally shot 32 people at Virginia Tech, survivors and families of the slain are returning to campus to honor the lives that were lost that day.Virginia Tech is holding a series of events Sunday to mark the anniversary of the deadly campus shooting on April 16, 2007. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine will be among the 10,000 to 20,000 people expected at the Blacksburg campus for the solemn occasion.Kaine, who was gover
  
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• Pope decries 'vile' attack on Syrians in Easter address

  16-04-2017 21:44
  
  On Christianity's most joyful day, Pope Francis lamented the horrors generated by war and hatred, delivering an Easter Sunday message that also decried the "latest vile" attack on civilians in Syria.Both in his impromptu homily during Mass in St. Peter's Square and later in his formal "Urbi et Orbi" Easter message delivered from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, Francis reflected on a litany of suffering in the world, including wars, oppressive regimes,human trafficking, corruption, famine an
  
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• Christians celebrate Easter around the world

  16-04-2017 21:32
  
  Christians around the world celebrated Easter on Sunday, as Pope Francis and others expressed concern over embattled communities in the cradle of the faith following church bombings in Egypt and attacks on civilians in Syria's civil war.At St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, Francis lamented the horrors generated by war and hatred, delivering an Easter Sunday message that decried the "latest vile" attack in Syria — a bombing Saturday that killed more than a hundred people.
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• Meet the woman behind the White House Easter Egg Roll

  16-04-2017 21:18
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Anna Cristina Niceta Lloyd auditioned for the job of White House social secretary and may not have known it.The veteran event planner's creativity and handicraft were prominently on display at President Donald Trump's inaugural luncheon at the Capitol, the fifth one she has worked on. Maine lobster and Gulf shrimp, grilled Angus beef and chocolate souffle with cherry vanilla ice cream were on the menu. Sprays of roses in shades of pink, cream and melon spruced up Statuary
  
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• Ohio man arrested after authorities find meth lab in car with toddler

  16-04-2017 20:59
  
  NEW LEXINGON, Ohio -- A man was arrested after authorities discovered a methamphetamine lab in his car -- next to a 2-year-old child.The Perry County Sheriff said 34-year-old Charles E. Huff was pulled over Friday on Mill Street in New Lexington.
  Sergeant David Briggs originally stopped Huff for a minor violation, but his canine partner alerted that illegal drugs were inside Huff's car.According to the sheriff's office, Sgt. Briggs conducted a probable cause search of the car, a 2003 Chevrolet M
  
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• Records: Drugmakers tussle over Ohio opioid bill's price tag

  16-04-2017 20:12
  In this Sept. 17, 2015, file photo, Ohio state Rep. Nickie Antonio, left, D-Lakewood, Ohio, demonstrates tamper resistant pain pills by unsuccessfully trying to pulverize them with a hammer, as state Rep. Robert Sprague, R-Findlay, Ohio, awaits his turn during a news conference at the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio.
  
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• Out-of-town investors snap up central Ohio apartments

  16-04-2017 18:02
  In the past three years, investment firms searching for bargains outside the nation's largest cities have paid more than $1.2 billion for 145 central Ohio complexes containing 30,000 apartments, according to Yardi Matrix, a commercial real-estate data company that tracks complexes with at least 50 apartments. "Interest from investors is incredibly strong," said D.J. Effler, senior vice president of Bellwether Enterprise's Columbus office.
  
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• Crew SC Tops Toronto FC 2-1 in Home Game Win

  16-04-2017 14:55
  
  Columbus Crew SC racked up another impressive home win and jumped back into top spot in the Eastern Conference with a 2-1 victory over the previously unbeaten Toronto FC.
  Toronto started the game looking much the better side as Crew SC struggled to get a hold of the ball, despite having playmaker and team centerpiece Federico Higuain back in the team after missing last weeks out-of-sorts performance at Chicago.
  Jozy Altidore gave the visitors a deserved lead in the 21st minute with a precise hea
  
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• Professor sues Wal-Mart over 'clean toilets' description

  16-04-2017 14:38
  
  A Montana State University professor is suing Wal-Mart for libel after he says an employee at the Bozeman store listed his occupation on a fishing license as a "toilet cleaner."Gilbert Kalonde, assistant professor of technology education at MSU, filed the suit this past week in Gallatin County District Court.Kalonde is seeking unspecified damages.Wal-Mart spokesman Ragan Dickens told The Associated Press: "To our knowledge an administrative process to resolve this with Dr. Kalonde is ongoing. We
  
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• Supreme Court, with Gorsuch, set to hear church-state case

  16-04-2017 14:25
  
  Justice Neil Gorsuch's first week on the Supreme Court bench features an important case about the separation of church and state that has its roots on a Midwestern church playground. The outcome could make it easier to use state money to pay for private, religious schooling in many states.The justices on Wednesday will hear a Missouri church's challenge to its exclusion from a state program that provides money to use ground-up tires to cushion playgrounds. Missouri is among roughly three dozen s
  
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• William, Kate join Queen Elizabeth II for Easter service

  16-04-2017 14:22
  
  Senior royals have joined Queen Elizabeth II to celebrate Easter with a special service at Windsor Castle.The monarch was joined at St. George's Chapel on the castle grounds by Prince William, his wife Kate, and other close family members.William and Kate did not bring 3-year-old Prince George or 1-year-old Princess Charlotte to the church.Easter proved far easier for the 90-year-old monarch than Christmas, when illness kept her and her husband Prince Philip from attending the traditional servic
  
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• Pa. teen sentenced for stabbing, sexual assault of 83-year-old woman

  16-04-2017 14:09
  
  A teenager has been sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison in a sexual assault and stabbing of an 83-year-old woman in northeastern Pennsylvania.
  Now-17-year-old Azaiah Williams was sentenced Thursday in Wayne County in the September 2015 attack, which occurred when he was 15 years old. Williams pleaded guilty in December to attempted homicide and sexual assault.
  State police said he knocked on the victim’s door in Dreher Township and asked to use the phone, then stabbed her with a steak kn
  
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• Last surviving person born in 1800s dies at age 117

  16-04-2017 13:57
  
  Emma Morano, at 117 the world’s oldest person who is also believed to have been the last surviving person born in the 1800s, died Saturday at her home in northern Italy, her physician said.Dr. Carlo Bava told The Associated Press by phone that Morano’s caretaker had called him to say she had stopped breathing in the afternoon while sitting in an armchair at her home in Verbania, a town on Italy’s Lake Maggiore. Bava said he had last seen his patient on Friday when “she th
  
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• Mike Pence says North Korea "provocation" reminder of risks to military

  16-04-2017 13:45
  
  U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday that North Korea’s “provocation” underscored the risks faced by American and South Korean service members, hours after the North conducted a failed missile launch shortly before Pence’s arrival.
  Pence landed in South Korea at the start of a 10-day trip to Asia and was quickly confronted with the stakes facing the United States as Pyongyang seeks to flex its muscles around the birth anniversary of the country’s late founder
  
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• Nine people shot at South Linden party hall

  16-04-2017 13:35
  Columbus police were called to the area of Cleveland and 18th avenues at 3:20 a.m. on a report of a shooting, a police dispatcher said.
  
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• Virginia Tech marking 10 years after shooting that killed 32

  16-04-2017 13:24
  
  Ten years after a mentally ill student fatally shot 32 people at Virginia Tech, survivors and families of the slain are returning to campus to honor the lives that were lost that day.Virginia Tech is holding a series of events Sunday to mark the anniversary of the deadly campus shooting on April 16, 2007. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine will be among the 10,000 to 20,000 people expected at the Blacksburg campus for the solemn occasion.Kaine, who was governor at the time of
  
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• Doppler 10: Easter showers and storms

  16-04-2017 12:27
  Today: Warm with scattered showers and storms. Thunderstorms mainly south of Columbus during the late afternoon. Windy! High 75.Winds: SW 10-18 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
  Tonight: Comfortable with showers and storms lingering.Low 53.Winds: West 5-10 mph.
  Tomorrow: .A little cooler but still above average with partly cloudy skies. High 68.Winds: North 3-6 mph.
  Tuesday: Warm with mostly sunny skies.High 72.Winds: East 5-7 mph.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSp
  
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• Doppler 10: Dry and mild start to the work week

  16-04-2017 12:27
  This Evening: Warm and windy again. Chances of showers and storms start to diminish through the evening. SW wind 10-20 mph; Gusts up to 30 mph.
  Tonight: Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of a shower or storm. Low 52. Winds start to taper off. W wind 5-10 mph becoming light and variable into the morning.
  Monday: Partly sunny and a little milder in the wake of Sunday’s cold front. High 72. N wind 3-5 mph.
  Tuesday: Mostly sunny and a tad warmer. High 73. SE wind 3-8 mph.Weather Resources: In
  
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• North Market plan will do no harm if it keeps the charm

  16-04-2017 11:24
  Plans for a renovated market were unveiled last week, showing the old, two-story building remodeled and connected to a steel-and-glass tower by an atrium. I'm OK with atriums and office towers, but when I enter the market itself, l still want to feel as if I'm entering something authentic and enterprising.  I love to eat there in no small part because it's the polar opposite of a mall food court.
  
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• Police identify victims after club shooting in north Columbus

  16-04-2017 10:30
  Columbus Police identify 9 people in the hospital after a shooting in north Columbus.It happened around 3:30 Sunday morning on the 1700 block of Cleveland Avenue at J&R Party Hall.Seven people are at Grant Medical Center, and two people are at OSU Medical Center.MULTIPLE PEOPLE SHOT @AFTER-HOURS CLUB: Argument lead to 9 shot: 5 females/4 males. Minor to serious injuries. No suspect info. CPD:645-4141 pic.twitter.com/Kcjb0yoT64— Columbus Ohio Police (@ColumbusPolice) April 16, 2017
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• Nine people in Columbus hospitals after shooting in north Columbus

  16-04-2017 10:30
  
  Columbus Police say 9 people are in the hospital after a shooting in north Columbus.It happened around 3:30 Sunday morning on 18th Ave. and Cleveland Ave.Seven people are at Grant Medical Center, and two people are at OSU Medical Center.According to Columbus Police, 2 people are in stable at OSU Medical Center and 2 people are in critical condition at Grant Medical Center.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com for updates on this story.
  
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• Zornes hires private attorney -

  16-04-2017 09:08
  A private defense attorney will represent the former Plain City man charged in February with 34 sex-related offenses against a child. Gary L. Zornes, 52, of 230 1/2 North Ave. in the village, has retained Madeline Lamb of Columbus to represent him at a June 6 trial.
  
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• Police looking in south Columbus for missing man diagnosed with Alzheimer's

  16-04-2017 04:57
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - Columbus police are looking for an 88-year-old man with Alzheimer's and other medical conditions who was last seen in south Columbus.Police said Wheeler Sparro, Sr. was last seen walking in the area of Felix Drive and Bluefield Drive around 9 p.m. Saturday.He was wearing a gray, long-sleeve T-shirt and green, plaid pajama pants.He is 5'6" tall and weighs about 160 pounds.If anyone has any information, police ask them to call 614-645-4624.
  
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• Pedestrian struck by vehicle on East Broad Street

  16-04-2017 04:53
  A pedestrian struck by at vehicle on the city's East Side remained in critical condition Saturday night, according to dispatchers. Columbus police were called to the crash at East Broad Street and Cardinal Park Drive at 7:07 p.m. Saturday.
  
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• Brothers killed woman, set body on fire, police say

  16-04-2017 04:53
  Two brothers accused of killing woman on December 23 Two brothers are accused of killing a woman, dumping her body and setting it on fire with trash on the West Side just a couple of days before Christmas last year. Dawan C. Dortch, 24, and Thomas R. Dortch, 31, both face charges of murder and tampering with evidence.
  
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• Woman found dead in abandoned barn in Morrow County

  16-04-2017 04:29
  
  MORROW COUNTY, Ohio - The Morrow County Sheriff's Office is trying to figure out what happened to a woman who was found dead inside an abandoned barn.Deputies were called to the barn Saturday just after 7 p.m. after someone reported a body was in the barn.The sheriff's office said foul play is not suspected at this time.The sheriff's office said the woman has not yet been identified.The body will be transported to the Franklin County morgue for an autopsy. The sheriff's office said the woman is
  
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• OSU football team brings on honorary player for final play of Spring Game

  16-04-2017 02:14
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - When it is your senior year, you want to carry the ball. When you are a Buckeye, you want to drive down the field in scarlet and gray.The team gave Jacob Jarvis that opportunity during the Spring Game Saturday.Jacob Jarvis is not technically a player on the Ohio State University football team, but he may as well be. The team adopted Jarvis as an honorary player four years ago in 2013. Since then, he has attended practices, ate meals with the team, and cheered on the buckeyes. He
  
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• One person in critical condition after being hit by vehicle in east Columbus

  16-04-2017 01:40
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - Columbus police said one person is in critical condition after being hit by a vehicle in east Columbus on Saturday.Police said the person was hit on East Broad Street near Cardinal Park Drive just after 7 p.m.Police said the person who was hit was taken to Grant Medical Center.Police shut down East Broad Street between North Hamilton Road and Noe Bixby Road.
  
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• Two men arrested, charged with murder in death of woman found in trash fire in the Hilltop

  16-04-2017 01:23
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -According to police and court records, two men are in custody and charged with murder in connection to the death of a woman found dead in a trash fire in the Hilltop in December.24-year-old Dawan Dortch and 31-year-old Thomas Dortch are both charged with murder and tampering with evidence according to paperwork filed with Franklin County Municipal Court.Police said 39-year-old Demeki Lashae Walker was found in a trash fire behind a building in the 100 block of South Eureka Avenue
  
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• West Jefferson police reports -

  16-04-2017 00:21
  Editor's Note: The following individuals were arrested or cited by the West Jefferson Police Department. They are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
  
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