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• Whitehall police ask for help identifying burglary suspects

  21-04-2017 23:41
  
  Whitehall police are searching for two people wanted for robbery.Police said the suspect forced their way into a residence on April 14 and stole jewelry, televisions and tools.A surveillance camera captured images of the suspects. The suspects arrived and fled the scene in a vehicle driven by a third person. Police said the vehicle is possibly a newer model white Nissan.Both suspects are described as black males in their late teens to early 20s. One suspect has medium length hair with braids or
  
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• Trump tells young immigrants in US illegally to 'rest easy'

  21-04-2017 23:27
  
  Young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and now here illegally can "rest easy," President Donald Trump said Friday, telling the "dreamers" they will not be targets for deportation under his immigration policies.Trump, in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, said his administration is "not after the dreamers, we are after the criminals."The president, who took a hard line on immigration as a candidate, vowed anew to fulfill his promise to construct a wall along the U.S.-Me
  
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• Generous donation provides mobile crime lab for Fairfield County

  21-04-2017 22:53
  A donation by the Violet Township Fire Department means Fairfield County can investigate major crimes more efficiently.The sheriff's office now has a fully equipped mobile crime lab.“We’ve had to call out our SWAT equipment truck to provide lighting for a scene before,” said Sgt. Collins.That's been the struggle for years for Fairfield County detectives.They had a mobile crime lab but even getting it on the road was a challenge.“It was not reliable, it wouldn’t star
  
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• Authorities: Ohio firefighter said he sexually assaulted teens

  21-04-2017 22:53
  
  Authorities say an Ohio firefighter confessed to sexually assaulting four teenagers in his department's cadet program, sometimes in paid sexual encounters, while he was an instructor.Twenty-three-year-old Jonathan Monroe is charged in Clark County with crimes including rape and compelling prostitution. He pleaded not guilty in court Friday. A message seeking comment was left for his attorney.Investigators say Monroe approached police this month to report his actions and indicated his encounters
  
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• Police officer killed in Paris was on duty at Bataclan

  21-04-2017 22:18
  
  The Paris police officer who was shot to death while at work on the French capital's most famous boulevard had seen firsthand the horror that could be carried out in the name of the Islamic State group.Xavier Jugele was one of the officers who raced to the Bataclan concert hall the night three armed men in suicide bombs stormed a show and slaughtered 90 people on Nov. 13, 2015.In the latest attack, Jugele was the only person killed when an assailant opened fire with an assault rifle on a police
  
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• Ohio Highway Patrol drug seizures skyrocket over last year

  21-04-2017 21:42
  10TV has obtained Ohio Highway Patrol's 2016 drug seizures and the numbers are astonishing.Last year troopers seized more than 550 pounds of cocaine.That's up 72 percent from the previous year.Heroin seizures also increased 315 percent from 2015.Seizures of methamphetamine were off the chart; an astonishing 1,200 percent increase."Last year in Ohio there was just over one thousand traffic deaths, and unfortunately 3 times that many people died from drug overdose," said Lt. Robert Sellers.While v
  
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• Caretaker's suspicions led cops to missing teacher, student

  21-04-2017 21:38
  
  After the caretaker of a remote northern California property became suspicious of two people he initially thought were in distress, his tip led police to a teacher accused of kidnapping his 15-year-old student and taking her on a 2,500-mile cross-country journey.Griffin Barry said the pair told him their names were John and Joanna and they needed money for food, gas and a place to stay, ABC News Good Morning America reported Friday. But Barry, 29, said he became suspicious when the older man tri
  
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• Proposed sanctuary city ban plugged on pro-white hosta s show

  21-04-2017 21:32
  For 27 years, the Wright-Patt Fisher Houses have provided an invaluable service to more than 20,000 wounded, injured and ill military men an Try some of Greene County's best foods all in one place! City BBQ is one of the featured restaurants! COLUMBUS, Ohio - A state lawmaker says she wouldn't have promoted her proposed Ohio ban of "sanctuary cities" on a radio show if she'd known that its host advocates white culture and power. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports Rep. Candice Keller, of Middletown,
  
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• Doppler 10: Cooler with the chance for weekend rain.

  21-04-2017 21:32
  This Evening: Mostly cloudy to overcast and cooler.
  Tonight: Cloudy skies, chance for rain late in Southern Ohio.Low 44.Winds: NE 8-12 mph.
  Tomorrow: Showers possible in the afternoon and evening.Cooler and a little breezy.High 55.Winds: NE 8-12 mph.
  Sunday:A few showers early then partly cloudy.High 66.Winds: NE 5-10 mph.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSpecial Information:We’ll see cooler air working in tonight behind a cold front and the chance for rai
  
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• 2017 City of Columbus Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony

  21-04-2017 21:28 via youtube.com
  
  
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• 2 more charged in Columbus dog fighting ring case

  21-04-2017 20:58
  
  A federal grand jury has charged two additional Columbus men for their role in a central Ohio dog fighting ring.Dwayne Robinson, 33, and 21-year-old Gerald Hill Jr. have been charged with conspiracy.According to the indictment, Robinson and Hill allegedly bred, schooled trained and conditioned pit bull terriers.During searches in April 2016, officers seized evidence at five houses in Columbus including more than 40 dogs along with cages, treadmills, heavy chains, collars and other items.Agents f
  
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• Trump says he will release tax reform package next week

  21-04-2017 20:06
  
  President Donald Trump says businesses and individuals will receive a "massive tax cut" under a tax reform package he plans to unveil next week.In an interview with The Associated Press, Trump says the plan will result in tax cuts for both individuals and businesses. He would not provide details of the plan, saying only that the tax cuts will be "bigger I believe than any tax cut ever."The president says the package will be released on "Wednesday or shortly thereafter" — just before his 10
  
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• Man found guilty of killing, dismembering Mansfield woman

  21-04-2017 18:51
  
  The man accused of killing and dismembering a Mansfield woman was found guilty of aggravated murder Friday.According to the Mansfield News Journal, Walter Renz was found guilty on other charges including aiding and abetting murder, abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence, receiving stolen property, misuse of a credit card and identity theft.Authorities said Renz and his girlfriend, Linda Buckner, "violently killed" Patsy Hudson in 2015. The couple also "dismembered and discarded" her body in
  
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• Ohioans step up to challenge to recycle and reuse more

  21-04-2017 17:56
  Dianne Kadonaga calls recycling, reusing and replanting some of the most important daily decisions you can make. She has stepped up to the Zero Waste challenge."Just take a look in your trash can. What is in there that you can make different decisions and eliminate? That is how you get started," said Kadonaga.Across Franklin County residents are taking part in a green challenge called "Zero Waste". It's the goal of re-using, recycling and composting to the point where you throw absolutely nothin
  
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• President Obama to hold first public event of his post-presidency

  21-04-2017 17:28
  
  Former President Barack Obama will speak Monday in Chicago to young community leaders and organizers at the University of Chicago, where his presidential library is planned.Obama's first public engagement comes as President Donald Trump nears his 100-day mark in office next week.The news release announcing the event says Obama's post-presidential goal is "to encourage and support the next generation of leaders driven by strengthening communities around the country and the world."Students from sc
  
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• Wells Fargo ups sales practices settlement to $142 million

  21-04-2017 16:55
  
  Wells Fargo is agreeing to expand a recently settled class-action lawsuit by an additional $32 million as well as extend claims for fraudulent accounts that may have been opened going back to 2002.Wells Fargo will now pay $142 million to customers for damages caused by any accounts opened without their customers' permission, the company said Friday. That's on top of the $185 million that Wells Fargo was fined by federal and local authorities back in September.While the increase of $32 million is
  
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• Ohio family members plead for tips to solve massacre of 8

  21-04-2017 16:34
  In this May 3, 2016, file photo, hearses for six of the eight members of the Rhoden family found shot April 22, 2016, at four properties near Piketon, Ohio, depart during funeral services from Dry Run Church of Christ in West Portsmouth, Ohio. The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, ordered the Pike County coroner to submit unredacted autopsy reports from the unsolved slayings for justices to review outside of public view, as the court considers media lawsuits seeking access to thos
  
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• After Paris shooting, France looks toward weekend presidential vote

  21-04-2017 15:55
  
  PARIS -- The Champs-Elysees gunman who shot and killed a police officer just days before France’s presidential election was detained in February for threatening police but then freed, officials said on Friday. He was also convicted in 2003 of attempted homicide in the shootings of two police officers, CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports.The French government pulled out all the stops to protect Sunday’s vote as the attack deepened France’s political divide.“Not
  
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• Hillary Clinton warns LGBT progress may not be secure under Trump

  21-04-2017 15:21
  
  New York, N.Y. — Hillary Clinton told an audience of LGBT advocates Thursday night that the progress they’ve achieved in recent years may not be secure under the Donald Trump administration, and urged them to keep fighting.“I know that the election hit a lot of us hard,” Clinton said of her bitter loss to Trump in November. “But I can tell you this: Even when it feels tempting to pull the covers over your head, please keep going.”The audience at the fundraisin
  
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• L Brands breaks another Race for the Cure record

  21-04-2017 15:02
  
  The team boasts 10,270 members this year - the largest team ever.L Brands has been a strong supporter of Komen Columbus Race for the Cure for the past 19 years and is this year's Co-Presenting Sponsor."We are thrilled to once again be named the world's largest corporate race team. The steady growth of the Think Pink team reflects our associates' dedication and commitment to Komen's mission of ending breast cancer forever," said Janelle Coleman, President of the L Brands Foundation and Vice Presi
  
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• Rhoden family makes a plea for tips one year after the Pike County murders

  21-04-2017 14:41
  
  The family of the eight people found dead on April 22, 2016 plea for more information on the murders.The Ohio Attorney General's Office released a video message from Geneva Rhoden and Teresa Grebing, asking for information that could help the investigation.Geneva Rhode is the mother to viictims Christopher Rhoden, Sr. and Kenneth Rhoden, the grandmother to Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden, Hanna Rhoden, Christopher Rhoden Jr., aunt to Gary Rhoden and the ex-mother-in-law to Dana Rhoden.Teresa Grebing i
  
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• On eve of Rhoden murders anniversary, family pleads for answers

  21-04-2017 14:41
  The family of the eight people found dead on April 22, 2016 plea for more information on the murders.The Ohio Attorney General's Office released a video message from Geneva Rhoden and Teresa Grebing, asking for information that could help the investigation.Geneva Rhoden lost two sons, and three grandchildren. She is the mother to victims Christopher Rhoden, Sr. and Kenneth Rhoden, the grandmother to Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden, Hanna Rhoden, Christopher Rhoden Jr., aunt to Gary Rhoden and the ex-m
  
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• Singer Cuba Gooding Sr. found dead in car in Los Angeles

  21-04-2017 13:23
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cuba Gooding Sr., who sang the 1972 hit "Everybody Plays the Fool," has died.Authorities say the 72-year-old singer and father of Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. was found dead in a car Thursday in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles.Coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter says the cause of death is under investigation, but drug paraphernalia and alcohol were found in the car parked on a busy street.The elder Gooding rose to fame for "Everybody Plays the Fool," which he
  
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• FDA says children should not take certain medications

  21-04-2017 12:45
  U.S. regulators are strengthening warnings about the dangers of two types of powerful painkillers due to risks of slowed breathing and death.The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it is requiring makers of prescription versions of the medicines, codeine and tramadol, to change the products' labels to warn against giving them to children under age 12, and to limit use in older children. The FDA also said breastfeeding women shouldn't take them because of possible harm to the baby.Many of
  
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• Man ticketed for warming up car loses case

  21-04-2017 12:29
  Warming up your car in the driveway might be a Michigan winter tradition, but a judge says it's not legal in a Detroit suburb if no one's behind the wheel.Nick Taylor challenged a $125 ticket in court Thursday and lost. His lawyer, Nicholas Somberg, says a Roseville ordinance against unattended running vehicles shouldn't apply to driveways.But Judge Marco Santia says the law is in the public interest.Taylor got attention in January when he posted a photo of the ticket on Facebook. The post was s
  
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• Arkansas conducts first execution since 2005, plans 3 more

  21-04-2017 12:08
  Arkansas was able to conduct its first execution in nearly a dozen years despite a flurry of legal challenges that had spared three convicted killers, but courts still could scuttle the remainder the nation's most ambitious death penalty schedule since capital punishment was restored in 1976.Ledell Lee was pronounced dead at 11:56 p.m. Thursday, four minutes before his death warrant was due to expire at midnight, capping a chaotic week of legal wrangling. Arkansas originally wanted to put eight
  
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• Ohio Democrats to remember, claim John Glenn

  21-04-2017 07:00
  In this May 5, 2012, file photo astronaut and former Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, speaks before a campaign rally for President Barack Obama at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. The Ohio Democratic Party will air videos remembering Glenn at its annual dinner Saturday, April 22, 2017, according to state party spokeswoman Kirstin Alvanitakis, in a tribute state Democrats hope will help claim the late space hero's legacy of patriotism and public service as part of the party's political brand.
  
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• One suspect dead, two in custody after two police officers shot in Seattle

  21-04-2017 05:38
  
  SEATTLE— The Latest on the shooting of two police officers in Seattle (all times local):6:55 p.m.Police say a third suspect has been taken into custody in connection with a shooting that wounded two Seattle officers.Seattle police say that suspect was arrested shortly after 6 p.m. and that officers were interviewing the person.Police said one of the other two suspects was dead and another was in custody.The officers were shot while responding to a robbery at a downtown convenience store.__
  
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• Police looking for missing 12-year-old girl from west Columbus

  21-04-2017 05:17
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Columbus Division of Police is looking for 12-year-old Julie Zeilman who was last seen walking away from her home in west Columbus on Thursday.Police said Zeilman lives in the area near Sullivant Avenue and Galloway Road.She was last seen wearing a blue, hooded sweatshirt with a white stripe and blue sweatpants.She has brown hair, brown eyes, is 5'0" and weighs around 115 or 120 pounds.If anyone has any information on where she may be, they are asked to call the Columbus Pol
  
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• Police locate missing 12-year-old girl from west Columbus

  21-04-2017 05:17
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Columbus Division of Police sayr 12-year-old Julie Zeilman returned home Friday after having last been seen in Columbus on Thursday.She had last been seen wearing a blue, hooded sweatshirt with a white stripe and blue sweatpants.She has brown hair, brown eyes, is 5'0" and weighs around 115 or 120 pounds.If anyone has any information on where she may be, they are asked to call the Columbus Police Missing Persons Unit at 614-645-4624.
  
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• Police: Man shot as he was about to get into his vehicle in Olde Towne East

  21-04-2017 04:37
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Columbus Division of Police is investigating after a man said he was shot in Olde Towne East.29-year-old Jamal Moore told police he was leaving a restaurant in the 800 block of Oak Street around 6:45 p.m. Thursday and was about to get into his vehicle when he was shot.Police said Moore said a male fired at him multiple times and Moore was shot in the foot as he was running away.Police said Moore drove himself to the hospital and is expected to be okay.Police asked anyone wit
  
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• Officials say Nalaxone is being used at an alarming rate in Gahanna

  21-04-2017 04:04
  First responders in Mifflin Township say they are using the life saving heroin antidote, Nalaxone, at an alarming rate. Mifflin Township and Gahanna officials shared their concerns to the community at anopiate town hall meeting.
  Gahanna Police say they've seen an increase in crime in the city and they believe a growing heroin problem is to blame.
  Officials alerted the community to the issue Thursday night.
  Even in suburbia the heroin problem holds a tight grip. The Mifflin Township Fire Chief sa
  
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• Columbus Metropolitan Club: The First 100 Days

  21-04-2017 03:51 via youtube.com
  
  
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• 2017 schedules for Browns, Bengals released

  21-04-2017 02:35
  
  The NFL released the 2017 team schedules Thursday night.The schedules for the teams in Ohio are below.Cleveland Browns2017 Preseason scheduleAugust 10 - vs. New Orleans Saints, 8 p.m.August 21 - vs. New York Giants, 8 p.m.August 26 - at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 7:30 p.m.August 31 - at Chicago Bears, 8 p.m.2017 Regular Season ScheduleSeptember 10 - vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, 1 p.m.September 17 - at Baltimore Ravens, 1 p.m.September 24 - at Indianapolis Colts, 1 p.m.October 1 - vs. Cincinnati Bengals,
  
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• Author ties together causes of opiate epidemic

  21-04-2017 02:11
  Award-winning journalist Sam Quinones laid out the case for what has led to unprecedented increases in addiction and deaths resulting from heroin and other opiates during a talk at the Akron-Summit County Main Library April 12. His research led him to discover how Mexican drug organizations marketed their powerful and cheap black tar heroin to meet the need that was created by the U.S. pharmaceutical industry's massive campaign to make its potent painkillers a staple in medicine cabinets, he sai
  
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• Blue Jackets' season ends as Pittsburgh wins Game 5

  21-04-2017 01:09
  
  PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby and Scott Wilson scored 51 seconds apart in the third period, helping the Pittsburgh Penguins eliminate the Columbus Blue Jackets with a 5-2 win in Game 5 of their first-round series on Thursday night.Bryan Rust scored twice for Pittsburgh, Phil Kessel added his second of the playoffs and Marc-Andre Fleury finished with 49 saves. The defending Stanley Cup champions will face the winner of the Toronto-Washington series in the conference semifinals starting next we
  
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• Blue Jackets captain Nick Foligno out for Game 5

  21-04-2017 01:09
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Columbus Blue Jackets announced Thursday night that the team's captain Nick Foligno will miss Game 5 against the Pittsburgh Penguins because of a lower body injury.In the first four games of the series, Foligno recorded a total of two assists and averaged more than 20 minutes of ice time per game.The Penguins lead the best-of-seven series 3-1.Game 5 is on the road Thursday.Nick Foligno will miss tonight's game with a lower body injury.https://t.co/3QJVdPeziT #CBJ pic.twitter
  
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• Pipeline firm cited for 2M-gallon spill in Ohio wetlands

  21-04-2017 00:48
  
  A Texas company building a high-pressure pipeline to carry natural gas from Appalachia has been issued violation notices for spilling a total of about 2 million gallons of drilling fluid into two separate wetlands last week, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency said.About 2 million gallons of the non-toxic, clay-based lubricant spilled April 13 as Rover Pipeline employees drilled horizontally beneath the Tuscarawas River near Navarre in Stark County, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) south of C
  
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• Bigger reward is sought for slain family, but will it help?

  21-04-2017 00:05
  
  A year after the mysterious killings of eight family members in Ohio, investigators are concerned that more reward money hasn't been offered and fear that some victims' involvement in drug crime may be the reason.The amount for information leading to a conviction remains at $10,000, much less than similar recent offers.In Cleveland, for instance, the reward for information about a man who recorded himself fatally shooting someone and posted it on Facebook hit $50,000 almost immediately. Suspect
  
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