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• Joe Biden's niece, pleads guilty in $110,000 theft

  10-06-2017 23:42
  
  NEW YORK -- A niece of former Vice President Joe Biden has pleaded guilty in a $110,000 credit-account theft at a New York City drugstore.Caroline Biden admitted Friday to grand larceny and petty larceny, with an agreement to get two years' probation if she repays the money, does 10 days of community service and avoids re-arrest for a year.Her lawyer didn't immediately respond Saturday to a request for comment.A complaint says the 29-year-old used a borrowed credit card to open a customer accoun
  
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• Geese dump droppings on Disneyland guests, hitting 17 people

  10-06-2017 22:26
  
  ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Disneyland visitors got more adventure than they bargained for when a flock of geese let go in flight, fouling the guests.Anaheim police and fire officials say 17 people, including six children, were hit by bird droppings just before 9 p.m. Friday.A hazardous materials team was sent to Main Street near the Sleeping Beauty Castle after a report that feces had been thrown on people.It was quickly determined the real culprit was a flock of geese flying overhead.Authorities sa
  
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• Crawford Sheriff Office investigating how several train cars derailed near Bucyrus

  10-06-2017 22:21
  
  Deputies are on the scene of a train derailment near Bucyrus in Crawford County.Authorities say several train cars came off of the tracks near State Route 30 Saturday afternoon.It is unknown what the train cars were carrying, according to the Sheriff's Office.Deputies say it was nothing hazardous and there are no evacuations in the area.Sheriff's Office dispatchers say State Route 30 was closed for a short time during the cleanup process, but since reopened.Several roads are blocked at the rail
  
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• London Bridge attacker tried to rent larger truck

  10-06-2017 21:49
  
  LONDON (AP) — British police have arrested two more suspects over the London Bridge attack, and revealed that the carnage could have been worse had the attackers succeeded in their goal of renting a larger truck, rather than a van, to mow down pedestrians.The bloodthirsty gang was also shot dead before they could make their way back to the van where their petrol bombs were stored.London's Metropolitan Police said Saturday that they arrested a 27-year-old man and a 28-year-old man overnight
  
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• Man awaiting trial in brother's death found dead in jail

  10-06-2017 21:43
  
  SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a 21-year-old man awaiting trial in South Carolina on charges he killed his brother has been found dead in a county jail.Spartanburg County Coroner Chief Investigator Randy Bogan said in a statement that Amarendra Dasa was found dead around 5:10 a.m. Saturday. Bogan didn't release details about where Dasa was found or how he may have died. An autopsy is scheduled.Authorities say Dasa stabbed his 16-year-old brother Aja in the stomach at their home i
  
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• 2 children killed after car avoids deer, hit by truck

  10-06-2017 21:40
  
  STRONGSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The state Highway Patrol says two children have been killed after the car they were riding in swerved to avoid a deer and was struck by a semi-trailer on the Ohio Turnpike outside Cleveland.The patrol has not identified the occupants of the car or the children's ages. Two adults and one other child were in the car during the accident early Saturday in Strongsville.The patrol says the car was rear-ended by the semi and then hit the deer the driver tried to avoid.Al
  
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• Ohio to pay man a judge refused to release from prison

  10-06-2017 21:36
  
  SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Ohio has agreed to pay a man $110,000 because a judge refused to release him from prison after his drug conviction was overturned.The Dayton Daily News reports the state Controlling Board is expected to vote Monday on the settlement for Frank Davis.Davis was convicted in 1999 in central Ohio's Clark County and sentenced to 11 years. Authorities said 3 pounds of cocaine were found in Davis' Springfield home.Davis denied the drugs were his. An appeals court overturne
  
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• 52-year-old man missing from Morgan County

  10-06-2017 21:34
  
  The Morgan County Sheriff's Office is searching for a missing 52-year-old man. Authorities say Phillip Mattick was last seen on Friday evening in the area of Elliott Cross Road in Homer Township, Morgan County. He is described as a white male, 5-foot-3-inches tall,220 pounds and has brown hair and hazel eyes. Mattick was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and stone-washed jeans. Authorities are asking for help in locating Mattick, who has a reported medical condition. Anyone who has information o
  
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• 'The Grand Tour' host Richard Hammond injured in car crash

  10-06-2017 21:29
  
  GENEVA (AP) — Richard Hammond, a presenter of Amazon's car-themed TV show "The Grand Tour," escaped serious injury Saturday in a fiery crash while filming in Switzerland.Program-makers said Hammond was airlifted to hospital with a fractured knee. The Rimac Concept One electric supercar was reduced to a twisted, blackened mess after it crashed and caught fire.The program said in a statement that Hammond crashed after completing a climb of Hemburg Hill in the east of the alpine country."Rich
  
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• Police: Severed head found at Mississippi home; body missing

  10-06-2017 21:14
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The severed head of a young man was found on the front steps of a Mississippi home and police are working to identify him.Jackson Police Cmdr. Tyree Jones says the rest of the man's body has not been located.The head was found Saturday about 9 a.m. Jones says authorities do not yet have a motive for the killing. Asked whether it might be gang-related, he refused to speculate. He did say that finding just the head was not a typical homicide scene.Officials say the cause of d
  
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• Air quality alert issued in central Ohio will extend through weekend

  10-06-2017 20:19
  
  An air quality alert has been issued for Sunday, June 11, in central Ohio, in addition to the one already in effect for Saturday.The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission said Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Knox, Madison, and Licking counties are likely to have ozone pollution levels that are "unhealthy for sensitive groups on the national Air Quality Index scale."According to the MORPC, sunny skies and warm temperatures Saturday will enhance ozone production, and southwesterly winds will bring
  
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• Adam West, star of TV's "Batman," dead at 88

  10-06-2017 18:07
  
  Adam West, the actor best known for his role in the 1960s "Batman" series, has died, CBS News has learned. He was 88.West's representative, Mark Measures, said he died in Los Angeles surrounded by family."Our dad always saw himself as The Bright Knight, and aspired to make a positive impact on his fans' lives. He was and always will be our hero," his family said in a statement to Variety, adding that he died after a short battle with leukemia.West's campy version of Batman became a hit for ABC i
  
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• Pentagon: 3 US soldiers killed, 1 wounded in Afghanistan

  10-06-2017 17:06
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Pentagon says three U.S. soldiers were killed and another was wounded Saturday in eastern Afghanistan.An Afghan official says the deaths and injury stem from an attack by an Afghan soldier, who also died.In a statement from Washington, the Pentagon doesn't provide details about what led to the deaths of the U.S. soldiers. It says the incident is under investigation.A spokesman for the provincial governor in Nangarhar province, Attahullah Khogyani, says the att
  
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• Afghan official: Afghan soldier kills 2 US soldiers

  10-06-2017 17:06
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two U.S. soldiers were killed Saturday when an Afghan army solider opened fire on them in eastern Afghanistan, an Afghan official said.Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor in Nangarhar province, said that two other U.S. soldiers are wounded in the attack, which took place in the Achin district. He said the Afghan soldier was killed after the attack.The U.S. military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Such insider attacks hav
  
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• 2017 NHL Draft Profile: Ryan Poehling

  10-06-2017 17:06
  Ryan Poehling has an opportunity to do something kind of amazing. He can go from dawning the best logo in American college hockey on his chest to the best logo in American professional hockey on his chest.
  
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• Oldest Trump son fires off 80-plus tweets in support of dad

  10-06-2017 14:08
  
  President Donald Trump surprisingly refrained from tweeting during James Comey's testimony. Donald Trump Jr., not surprisingly, did not.The president's eldest son, whose Twitter feed can at times be as inflammatory as his father's, was a one-man rapid-response team as the fired FBI director testified before a Senate panel Thursday. He delivered denunciations with the same force that made him an effective, if controversial, campaign surrogate and could signal his own political ambitions.Donald Tr
  
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• Fraternity brothers due in court in pledge's fatal fall

  10-06-2017 14:01
  
  Members of a Penn State fraternity facing charges related to the death earlier this year of a pledge after a night of heavy drinking are due in court Monday for a hearing about whether there's enough evidence to head to trial.Prosecutors in the case against the now-shuttered Beta Theta Pi chapter and 18 of its members are leaning heavily on video surveillance recordings made the night 19-year-old sophomore engineering student Tim Piazza was injured in a series of falls at the fraternity after a
  
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• If a Tree Mural Falls: An Analysis on the Revamp of the SoHud Mural

  10-06-2017 14:00
  A Humble History
   
  You’ll forgive SoHud if it seems a little disoriented. It’s just not used to all of this attention. The modest neighborhood south of Hudson and north of Ohio State has spent the last 50 years in quiet anonymity; its particularly charmless version of charm being largely overshadowed by more prosperous enclaves to the north (Glen Echo and Clintonville) and more newsworthy neighbors to the south (the OSU campus and its environs).
  For most people, SoHud was little
  
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• Bono-roo: U2 make their first U.S. festival appearance

  10-06-2017 12:52
  
  U2 turned their first headlining appearance at a U.S. music festival into Bono-roo.The Irish rockers performed a two-hour set on Friday night at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, as part of their world tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of their Grammy-winning "The Joshua Tree" album.They played the full album, as well as some of their other hits, including "New Year's Day" and "Beautiful Day," to tens of thousands of music fans.Toward the end of the performance,
  
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• Marches against Islamic law to be held in many US cities

  10-06-2017 12:47
  
  Marches against Islamic law were planned Saturday in more than two dozen cities across the United States, but scholars and others say the protesters are stoking unfounded fears and promoting a distorted and prejudiced view of the religion.The group organizing the rallies, ACT for America, claims Shariah "is incompatible with Western democracy and the freedoms it affords."But most Muslims don't want to replace U.S. law with Islamic law, known as Shariah, and only "radical extremist groups" would
  
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• Buffett charity lunch sold to highest bidder for over $2.6M

  10-06-2017 12:35
  
  An anonymous bidder has agreed to pay more than $2.6 million for a private lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett, with the auction proceeds going to a California homeless charity.The winning bid of $2,679,001 was announced Friday night, as the online auction that started Sunday wrapped up. That's lower than last year's winning bid of $3,456,789, which tied for the record set in 2012. Organizers said in a news release that they still are grateful for the generous support.For the 18th consecutive
  
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• Board of Trustees approve of Pelotonia Corp., various construction projects

  10-06-2017 12:35
  There is an exception for faculty and their dependents who have enrolled in the plan before Dec. 31, 2017, who will be given coverage through the 2018 year. The Board voted that the created corporation be fused with Pelotonia, and include an appointment of three university representatives to serve on the board of directors.
  
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• Toshiba to pay $3.68 billion for Westinghouse reactors in US

  10-06-2017 12:29
  
  Money-losing Japanese nuclear and electronics company Toshiba Corp. will pay $3.68 billion toward the construction of two reactors in Georgia by its U.S. unit Westinghouse, which has filed for bankruptcy protection.Tokyo-based Toshiba said Saturday the payment, under agreement with the operator of the Vogtle plant, will be made from October through January 2021.Toshiba said the expense has already been figured in its earnings. Toshiba reported a 950 billion yen ($8.6 billion) loss for the fiscal
  
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• Bill Cosby on the stand? Experts say it would be a huge risk

  10-06-2017 11:59
  
  Entertainer Bill Cosby didn't answer when asked the question so many want to know, but his spokesman dangled the possibility.Cosby might testify at his sexual assault trial. Spokesman Andrew Wyatt told reporters on Friday that Cosby's team was still evaluating whether to have him take the witness stand.Legal experts, however, say putting the 79-year-old on the stand would be an enormous risk as he fights charges he drugged and violated Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. C
  
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• As Tillerson calls for calm, Trump calls out Qatar on terror

  10-06-2017 11:50
  
  President Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on Qatar to stop what he calls a "high level" of financial support of terrorism, even as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tries to calm the worst diplomatic crisis in the Persian Gulf in years.Trump's demand that there be "no more funding" by Qatar for extremists groups contradicted the message delivered Friday by Tillerson, who had urged Qatar's neighbors to ease their blockade while calling for "calm and thoughtful dialogue." Only an hour later, Ti
  
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• Doppler 10: Expect a hot weekend

  10-06-2017 10:21
  Today: Mostly sunny and hot.High 86.Winds: SW 7-11 mph.
  Tonight: Mostly clear and mild.Low 65.Winds: S 3-6 mph.
  Sunday: Mostly sunny, hot and a little muggier.High 90.Winds: SW 5-15 mph.
  Monday: More sunshine, hot and muggy.High 92, heat indices into the mid-90s.Winds: SW 5-10 mph.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSpecial Information: High pressure is settling in and that means lots of sunshine along with a blast of summer!We’ll see above average highs for
  
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• Man given community control for burglary

  10-06-2017 08:09
  A Hilliard man was given three years of community control for his role in an August 2016 burglary in Delaware.Cedrik Deshon Donnally, 20, appeared in Delaware County Common Pleas Court Friday afternoon to be sentenced for one count of burglary, a second-degree felony.Prosecutors report the charges stem from an Aug. 13 incident where Donnally ... (more)
  
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• Cavs end Warriors perfect postseason run in Game 4

  10-06-2017 06:29
  
  The Cavaliers stopped Golden State from celebrating and maybe started another comeback.Just like last year, the NBA Finals are at 3-1 after four games.LeBron James recorded a triple-double, Kyrie Irving scored 40 points and Cleveland outperformed the NBA's most electrifying offense in a testy Game 4 filled with technical fouls on Friday night, beating the Warriors 137-116 and ending their perfect postseason.A series that appeared to be headed for a quick conclusion is California bound for Game 5
  
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• CVS installs time-delay safes to deter robbers

  10-06-2017 05:05
  National pharmacy chain CVS is taking proactive steps to deter robbers by installing time-delay safes in their Columbus, Cincinnati and Dayton stores.Area Director of Loss Prevention, Nathan Watson said the three major markets were hit the hardest and this solution would work to deter theft.“We know that it is a proven solution or strategy that ultimately works.”Watson said the pharmacist begins by entering a code on the safe. That code then activates a wait time before the safe can
  
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• Polanski's victim pleads to end case: 'He owes me nothing'

  10-06-2017 04:45
  
  Roman Polanski's sexual assault victim made an impassioned plea Friday to end the fugitive director's four-decade legal saga, saying she felt more abused by the legal justice system than by the man who she said drugged, raped and sodomized her when she was 13."The trauma of the ordeal that followed was so great that, you know, the brief encounter with him that evening that was unpleasant just faded and paled," Samantha Geimer said outside a courtroom in Los Angeles Superior Court. "It just wasn'
  
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• Gianforte to plead guilty to assault charge

  10-06-2017 04:42
  
  U.S. Rep.-elect Greg Gianforte of Montana will plead guilty to assaulting a reporter the day before being elected the state's only congressman last month, a prosecutor said Friday.The Republican technology entrepreneur will enter his plea in court on Monday, when he is scheduled to be arraigned and sentenced on the misdemeanor charge, Gallatin County Attorney Marty Lambert told The Associated Press.Gianforte requested the court hearing after reaching a civil settlement this week.Guardian report
  
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• Crooksville family pizza shop torn down after sinkhole threatens business

  10-06-2017 04:18
  A Crooksville family pizza shop had to be torn down Friday after a sinkhole partially swallowed the business.Sprankle's Village Pizza had been serving up slices for 47 years and it's now a pile of rubble on Main Street.Demolition wasn't easy to watch for many community members standing near Main Street. Some didn't want to, but a Crooksville pizza shop staple had to come down."It's very sad. It really is because this is something Crooksville is known for," Donna Shuster said.Most neighbors looke
  
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• Witness says slain Ohio man's car moved after police gunshot

  10-06-2017 03:54
  
  A prosecution witness insisted Friday in a police officer's murder retrial she heard a gunshot before the car driven by an unarmed motorist moved.Alicia Napier took the stand during the second day of testimony in defendant Ray Tensing's case to tell about what she saw and heard as she was getting her two small children situated inside her car parked near the shooting scene.The fired University of Cincinnati police officer has said he feared for his life when Sam DuBose tried to drive away from t
  
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• Extra Butter: From Horsing Around To Life Lessons In 'The Mummy'

  10-06-2017 03:43
  Are you ready for the "dark universe"? Universal is getting all their old gods and monsters together for a brand new world of mayhem and The Mummy is your introduction. Tom Cruise, Jake Johnson, Courtney B., Vance signed on for this scary, funny and action-packed thriller.
  
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