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• Ohio Senate budget closes $1B gap, adds $6M for opioid crisis

  12-06-2017 23:40
  
  Senate Republicans in Ohio said Monday that their version of the state budget closes a projected $1 billion gap while preserving essential services and pumping more money into fighting the opioid crisis.Senate President Larry Obhof said the Senate was proud it "found a way to do more with less," while acknowledging the causes of Ohio's lagging revenues are still a bit of a mystery."Let me be clear: This budget is not pain-free," the Medina Republican said. "Many government agencies, including th
  
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• 49 victims of Pulse massacre remembered in daylong services

  12-06-2017 23:37
  Church bells tolled 49 times, a giant rainbow flag hung from a county government building and the names of the victims of the Pulse nightclub attack were read aloud at various ceremonies Monday as people in Orlando and beyond remembered the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.At 2:02 a.m., survivors, victims' families, club employees and local officials were gathered for a private service at the gay club at the exact time Omar Mateen opened fire a year ago and pledged allegiance to the Is
  
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• Authorities ID teen who drowned at Hoover Resrervoir

  12-06-2017 23:10
  According to police records, Abdiaziz Omar, 17, of Columbus, was with a group of other youths, whom police say were "cliff jumping" when he failed to resurface just before 8 p.m. A Facebook post from Genoa Township Police said the boy had struggled with a strong current prior to submerging. Swimming is prohibited in all reservoirs owned by the city of Columbus.
  
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• Knox County man charged with murder in cousin’s death

  12-06-2017 22:33
  Authorities in Knox County have charged a wanted man with the murder of his cousin.The Knox County Sheriff’s Office said they are still searching for 48-year-old Kevin Remillard in connection with the death of 20-year-old Nick Remillard. Nick Remillard
  Nick was found dead around 8:45 p.m. Sunday in an abandoned pool behind the house where both men lived.The Knox County Sheriff’s Office said Kevin is considered armed and dangerous and should not be approached.Authorities said Kevin of
  
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• Police arrest suspect in murder of Ashville 16-year-old

  12-06-2017 22:17
  Police have arrested a suspect in the murder of an Ashville teen.Ashville Police say Justin R. Blevins,19, was arrested Tuesday morning in Circleville. He was charged with one count of murder in the death of 16-year-old Sam Nicholson. Justin Blevins
  Nicholson was shot to death Sunday morning in an apartment on Jefferson Avenue in Ashville, according to police.Ashville Police Chief Doug Clark said Nicholson had been staying as the apartment of a close family friend. That friend told police he was
  
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• Investigators search for killer of Ashville 16-year-old

  12-06-2017 22:17
  Investigators in Pickaway County are searching for the person who shot to death a 16-year-old boy.It happened around 5:40 a.m. Sunday in an apartment on Jefferson Avenue in Ashville.Ashville Police Chief Doug Clark said Nicholson had been staying as the apartment of a close family friend. That friend told police he was awakened by gunfire."He said he was in bed and he heard what appeared to be gunshots. He didn't know if he was dreaming, or what. but he got up and he comes downstairs, and he loc
  
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• Police deliver bait packages to catch "porch pirates"

  12-06-2017 21:56
  
  Some police departments are trying new methods to catch brazen criminals known as "porch pirates" -- thieves who steal packages left on doorsteps.Reports show at least 23 million Americans have fallen victim to the crime.Police are now turning to technology for help, and doing their own deliveries, using bait packages with GPS trackers inside to find and arrest thieves.In Campbell, California, homeowner Terry Bohlan's security cameras caught a man approaching his porch before apparently making o
  
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• Glick Road bridge closed for next two weeks, traffic rerouted

  12-06-2017 21:54
  Road crews began resurfacing the Glick Road Bridge over the O'Shaughnessy Dam, Monday.It's a process that is expected to take the next two weeks.While the reconstruction is taking place, traffic is being rerouted.Drivers can travel three miles north of Glick Road to Home Road, or three miles south of Glick Road to cross the river at Emerald Parkway.Some drivers say the road closure is an inconvenience, while others say the resurfacing is a much-needed project, especially with all the traffic tha
  
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• West Liberty-Salem shooting suspect to be tried as an adult

  12-06-2017 21:43
  
  The West Liberty-Salem High School student accused of shooting a classmate earlier this year will be tried as an adult.Champaign County Judge Lori Reisinger decided to move the case against Ely Serna out of juvenile court Monday.Serna is accused of entering the school on the morning of January 20 with a shotgun and shooting a classmate.According to the police report, Serna assembled the weapon inside a bathroom stall.After exiting the stall, Serna ran into Logan Cole and fired two rounds at him.
  
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• Columbus ready to approve union contract for 2,500 employees

  12-06-2017 20:59
  The Columbus City Council will vote Monday night on a three-year contract with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 1632. AFSCME represents about 2,500 workers in several city departments, including public utilities, parks and public safety.
  
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• Store Closures Announced for Ann Taylor, Dress Barn and Lane Bryant

  12-06-2017 20:57
  The Connecticut-based Ascena Retail Group is the latest chain store owner to jump on the Retailpocolypse bandwagon, announcing last Thursday that it would be closing somewhere between 250 and 650 of its locations over the course of the next two years. Those closures would include Ann Taylor, Dress Barn and Lane Bryant locations.
  Retail brick-and-mortar closures continue to mount up, and are generally being cited to several factors that include a switch to onlin
  
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• Gallery: Royal Blood at Newport Music Hall

  12-06-2017 20:54
  British power-rock band Royal Blood returned to Columbus’ Newport Music Hall on Saturday night with an electrifying dose of loud guitars and heart-pounding drums as the duo of bassist Mike Kerr and drummer Ben Thatcher prepare to continue their meteoric rise up the rock and roll ladder with the launch of their sophomore album, How Did We Get So Dark?
  Opening the show were another relatively new band, The Shelters, an L.A.-based rock band that’s picked up a bit of buzz recently and is
  
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• Doppler 10: Pop-up showers & storms

  12-06-2017 20:54
  Weather Alert: Several central Ohio counties are under a Flash Flood Warning Tuesday. | Latest warnings & watches >>Today: Mostly cloudy, hot & humid. Chance for pop-up showers and/or storms. Near 90 SW 5-10 mph
  Tonight: Lingering clouds. Lesser chance for showers or storms. 71 SW 5-10 mph
  Tomorrow: Scattered showers & storms likely, especially PM. Near 90
  Thursday: More of the same. 87.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSpecial Information: War
  
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• Doppler 10: Hot and humid Tuesday

  12-06-2017 20:54
  This Evening: Mostly sunny, hot and breezy. Temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s.
  Tonight: Partly cloudy and warm with a low of 71. SW wind 5-10 mph.
  Tuesday: Few clouds to start, but a chance for afternoon showers and storms. High 90, but feeling like mid 90s with the heat index. SW wind around 5 mph.
  Wednesday: Showers and storms are likely. High 87. Light SW wind.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSpecial Information: Mostly sunny this evening and hot. We
  
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• Board of Education orders ECOT to pay $60 million over attendance records

  12-06-2017 20:38
  
  Ohio's State Board of Education says one of the nation's largest online charter schools owes the state $60 million because of a lack of documentation to justify the disputed funding.The board voted Monday to have the Ohio Department of Education pursue that repayment from the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, or ECOT.ECOT has argued, among other things, that its original legal agreement with the state allowed a different way of logging student attendance and learning and that the agreement still
  
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• Another US appeals court keeps Trump's travel ban blocked

  12-06-2017 19:49
  
  SEATTLE — Another U.S. appeals court upheld a decision blocking President Donald Trump's revised travel ban Monday, dealing the administration another legal defeat as the Supreme Court considers a separate case on the issue.The ruling from a unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the president violated U.S. immigration law by discriminating against people based on their nationality and by failing to demonstrate that their entry into the country would hurt
  
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• Bibibop makes a Hot Conceptsa list

  12-06-2017 18:42
  On Friday, Nation's Restaurant News, a popular trade publication, handed the Columbus-based chain one of its five annual Hot Concepts awards. The last central Ohio chain to land on the list was Piada in 2013.
  
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• Police investigating deadly shooting of 16-year-old at Ashville apartment building

  12-06-2017 18:41
  ASHVILLE, Ohio – Authorities are investigating a deadly shooting in Pickaway County.A 16-year-old boy was shot inside an apartment on Jefferson Avenue on Sunday morning. The teen’s identity has not yet been released.Police tell 10TV they are searching for a known suspect but are not releasing the name at this time.Stay with 10TV for updates to this developing story.
  
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• Police investigating deadly shooting of 16-year-old at Ashville apartment

  12-06-2017 18:41
  ASHVILLE, Ohio – Authorities are investigating a deadly shooting in Pickaway County.A 16-year-old male was shot inside an apartment on Jefferson Avenue on Sunday morning, police said. The teen’s identity has not yet been released.Police told 10TV they are searching for a known suspect but are not releasing the name at this time.Stay with 10TV for updates to this developing story.
  
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• Sessions to testify in open session before Senate Intelligence Committee

  12-06-2017 17:49
  
  WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions' testimony to the Senate Intelligence committee Tuesday will be open to the public. Sessions is expected to face sharp questioning from his former Senate colleagues about his role in the investigation into contacts between Trump campaign associates and Russia during the 2016 election.The Justice Department said Monday that Sessions requested Tuesday's committee hearing be open because he "believes it is important for the American people to hear t
  
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• Cosby defense rests without calling the comedian to testify

  12-06-2017 17:25
  
  NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby's lawyers put on a case consisting of just one witness and six minutes of testimony Monday, wrapping up the defense side in the sexual assault trial without the comedian himself taking the stand.The jury was expected to hear closing arguments next and could get the case in the afternoon.The big question going into Monday's proceedings was whether Cosby would testify — a high-stakes gamble that could have allowed him to work his charm on the jury but could
  
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• WATCH LIVE: Ohio State introduces Chris Holtmann as men’s basketball coach

  12-06-2017 16:57
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State University is holding a press conference Monday to introduce its new men’s basketball head coach.The university announced last Friday that Chris Holtmann will be taking over the program.Monday’s press conference introducing the new coach is scheduled for 11 a.m.Watch live in the video player below or on the 10TV Facebook page: Holtman, the former Butler coach, replaces Thad Matta.Matta was fired Monday, nearly three months after Ohio State missed the
  
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• WATCH: Chris Holtmann introduced as Ohio State men’s basketball coach

  12-06-2017 16:57
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State University held a press conference Monday to introduce its new men’s basketball head coach.The university announced last Friday that Chris Holtmann will be taking over the program. Holtman, the former Butler coach, replaces Thad Matta.Matta was fired last week, nearly three months after Ohio State missed the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season.Ohio State said Holtmann, the reigning Big East coach of the year, will be paid about $3 million a year
  
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• Woodland Cigar in 12th year downtown Delaware

  12-06-2017 16:32
  Nearly 12 years ago Ed Paxton took a leap of faith. Paxton made the decision to leave his 60-hour-a-week job working for an auto dealership in Columbus and opened Woodland Cigar Company at 46 N. Sandusky St. "It was conceived on the back porch of my parents' house the week before Memorial Day in 2005.
  
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• Gas leak closes New Albany Road

  12-06-2017 16:30
  
  New Albany Road is closed at Walton Parkway as crews work to repair a gas line leak. New Albany Police tell 10TV that there are no evacuations and that they do not believe the situation presents any danger to residents. A police dispatcher says that the roadway is expected to be closed for at least an hour.
  
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• One dead after shooting in west Columbus

  12-06-2017 16:15
  
  One person is dead after a Monday morning shooting in west Columbus.Columbus Police were called to a home on South Roys Avenue near Sullivant Avenue just before 10:00 a.m. for an unknown issue.They arrived to find a victim who had been shot. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.Columbus Police homicide detectives were called to investigate.Information about the victim or any possible suspects was not immediately released.
  
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• 80-year-old man killed in west Columbus shooting

  12-06-2017 16:15
  
  Police are investigating the shooting death of an 80-year-old man in west Columbus.Columbus Police were called to a home on South Roys Avenue near Sullivant Avenue just before 10 a.m.Police said Richard Cardwell had suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.There is no suspect information or motive at this time.Anyone with information surrounding this case should contact the Columbus Division of Police, Homicide Unit at 614-645-4730.
  
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• Police identify mother, 2 daughters found dead at northeast Ohio home

  12-06-2017 15:40
  
  NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio — Police say a mother and her two adult daughters have been found dead at a home in Ohio.Police say a family friend found the three Sunday night at a home in North Royalton, south of Cleveland.Police on Monday identified the victims as 45-year-old Suzanne Taylor and her daughters, 21-year-old Taylor Pifer and 18-year-old Kylie Pifer.Police say it appears all three of the women suffered gunshot wounds.A motive for the shooting remains unclear. No arrests have been made.
  
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• Search resumes in South Carolina for missing Worthington teen

  12-06-2017 15:14
  
  FRIPP ISLAND, S.C.— Sheriff's deputies in South Carolina have resumed the search for a central Ohio teen missing in the water off a coastal island.The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office said the search resumed Monday morning for Eric Clark of Worthington, in the water off Fripp Island.Kate Hines with the local property owners' association says the boy was reported missing around 2:30 p.m. Sunday while swimming with friends in about 8-foot deep water.The sheriff's office said those swimming w
  
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• Divers locate body of missing Worthington teen off Fripp Island in S.C.

  12-06-2017 15:14
  BREAKING UPDATE: The body of a missing central Ohio teen who disappeared while swimming off Fripp Island Sunday has been recovered, The Beaufort Gazette reports.Divers located the body of 16-year-old Eric Clark around noon Monday, according to the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office.The Sheriff’s Office was not immediately aware of where Clark’s body was found.---Original story:Sheriff's deputies in South Carolina have resumed the search for a central Ohio teen missing in the wate
  
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• Body of missing Worthington teen found in ocean off South Carolina

  12-06-2017 15:14
  Sheriff's deputies in South Carolina have found the body of a central Ohio teen who was missing in the water off a coastal island.Divers located the body of 16-year-old Franklin "Eric" Clark around noon Monday, according to the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office.Clark was reported missing around 2:30 p.m. Sunday while swimming with friends in about 8-foot deep water.The sheriff's office said those swimming with Clark think he was caught in an undertow. The other swimmers made it out of the w
  
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• Police ask for help locating suspect in armed robbery of northeast Columbus CVS

  12-06-2017 13:51
  
  Columbus Police are asking for your help finding a man they say robbed a northeast Columbus CVS Pharmacy.It happened on April 10 at the CVS on Morse Road and Cherry Bottom Road.Surveillance video shows the man go behind the pharmacy counter with a gun in his hand.Police say he demanded Codeine from the pharmacists before stealing three bottles of medication from the shelf.If you have any information, you can give an anonymous tip to Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at (614) 461-TIPS. You could earn a
  
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• Video shows former President Jimmy Carter shaking hands with everyone on flight

  12-06-2017 12:58
  
  Former President Jimmy Carter took time to shake the hand of every passenger aboard a recent commercial flight from Atlanta to Washington.James Parker Sheffield was aboard the flight last week and tweeted video of the smiling 92-year-old walking down the aisle and shaking hands with everyone aboard.Carter was flying to Washington ahead of Friday's funeral for his former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski.Sheffield's video of Carter exchanging pleasantries with passengers has been wide
  
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• Former President Carter shakes hands with everyone on flight

  12-06-2017 12:58
  
  Former President Jimmy Carter took time to shake the hand of every passenger aboard a recent commercial flight from Atlanta to Washington.James Parker Sheffield was aboard the flight last week and tweeted video of the smiling 92-year-old walking down the aisle and shaking hands with everyone aboard.Carter was flying to Washington ahead of Friday's funeral for his former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski.Sheffield's video of Carter exchanging pleasantries with passengers has been wide
  
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• Plane lands safely in Sydney with hole in engine casing

  12-06-2017 12:48
  
  A plane heading to Shanghai returned safely to Sydney after an in-flight problem left a gaping hole in an engine casing.China Eastern Airlines said the crew on Flight 736 noticed damage to the air inlet on the left engine after takeoff Sunday evening and the captain decided to return.The airline said on its Sina Weibo microblog that the plane landed safely and the airline was taking care of passengers' needs. The Airbus A330 plane has two engines.Passengers told Australian media they heard a mas
  
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• FDA issues nationwide recall for birth control pill

  12-06-2017 12:48
  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a nationwide recall on Mibelas 24 Fe birth control tablets, CBS Miami reports.The packages were "rotated 180 degrees within the wallet, reversing the weekly tablet orientation and making the lot number and expiration date no longer visible," the agency said.The four non-hormonal placebo tablets were incorrectly placed at the beginning of the sequence, pushing the active tablets back."As a result of this packaging error, oral contraceptive tabl
  
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• Half-staff flags, bells mark 1 year since Pulse massacre

  12-06-2017 12:37
  
  Church bells throughout Orlando will ring 49 times at noon Monday, a year after the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.Gov. Rick Scott ordered U.S. flags around Florida to be flown at half-staff, a giant rainbow flag will be unveiled at the Orange County government building, and three separate services at the Pulse nightclub will be held as well as a large evening gathering in the heart of downtown Orlando to honor the 49 patrons massacred at the gay nightclub.The first service, closed t
  
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• Columbus to sue landlords on lead-paint hazards

  12-06-2017 11:54
  Columbus city attorneys and public-health officials are preparing dozens of court cases against landlords who haven't removed hazardous lead paint from their properties despite city orders. Some orders have languished for six years.  The officials acknowledge that they haven't compiled cases as a group like this before, and are doing so only after an Ohio Department of Health report in May said that 51 Columbus residences, most of them rentals, must be vacated because of lead hazards.
  
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• Three wounded in shooting near Eastland Mall

  12-06-2017 09:48
  Three men were wounded in their car when a suspect in another vehicle pulled up along side them and opened fire at a traffic light in front of the Eastland Mall on the Southeast Side Sunday afternoon. The shooting occurred in the 4100 block of Refugee Road at the traffic light between the entrance to the Ohio Thrift Store and the south entrance to Eastland Mall, according to Columbus police.
  
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• Argument in study area led to library shooting, police say

  12-06-2017 05:48
  A tranquil Sunday afternoon at the Downtown Columbus Metropolitan Library turned chaotic when one man shot another after an argument in a second floor study area. Columbus police said the shooting, which happened about 3 p.m., was triggered when someone accidentally bumped into the suspect.
  
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• 2017 Tony Awards: List of winners

  12-06-2017 05:42
  
  NEW YORK — "Dear Evan Hansen," the touching, heartfelt musical about young outsiders, has won the biggest theater popularity contest — winning the best new musical trophy at the Tony Awards along with five other statuettes, including best score, book and top actor honors for Ben Platt.The show came into the night as the second-leading Tony nominee but ended up on top, with a revival of "Hello, Dolly!" starring Bette Midler next with four Tonys. "Oslo," a three-hour meditation on dipl
  
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• Melania Trump, son Barron move into the White House

  12-06-2017 05:29
  
  WASHINGTON — The first family is together again under the same roof: the White House.After nearly five months of living apart, President Donald Trump's wife, Melania, announced Sunday that she and the couple's young son have finally moved into the presidential mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.Mother and son broke with tradition by living at Trump Tower in New York since the inauguration so that Barron, now 11, could finish the school year uninterrupted; the president lived and worked at th
  
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• Pittsburgh Penguins win 2nd straight Stanley Cup title

  12-06-2017 05:07
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Sidney Crosby is bringing the Stanley Cup back home to Pittsburgh for a second consecutive year.Patric Hornqvist scored with 1:35 left and Matt Murray made 27 saves for his second straight shutout as the Penguins became the NHL's first team in nearly two decades to repeat as champions following a 2-0 win over the Nashville Predators in Game 6 on Sunday night.The Penguins won their fifth title — all of which have been clinched on the road — to tie the Wayne Gr
  
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• Photos: Zombiewalk 2017

  12-06-2017 04:29
  Editor’s Note by Walker Evans: The 11th annual Zombiewalk event took place on Saturday, and hundreds of the undead filled the streets of Downtown Columbus. The event runs in conjunction with the annual Midwest Haunters Convention that also took place over the weekend, and doubles as a canned food drive fort the Mid-Ohio Food Bank.
  All photos by Matt Ellis.
  
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• Republicans urge Trump on tapes; Sessions to testify Tues

  12-06-2017 04:12
  
  WASHINGTON — Fellow Republicans pressed President Donald Trump on Sunday to come clean about whether he has tapes of private conversations with former FBI Director James Comey and provide them to Congress if he does — or possibly face a subpoena, as a Senate investigation into collusion with Russia or obstruction of justice extended to a Trump Cabinet member.It was a sign of escalating fallout from riveting testimony from Comey last week of undue pressure from Trump, which drew an an
  
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• Sump pumps next phase of Blueprint for Columbusa storm-water problems

  12-06-2017 03:46
  Rain gardens are just the tip of the iceberg better known as Blueprint Columbus. The next step is installing sump pumps in hundreds of homes.
  
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• Several Shootings in Columbus Over the Weekend

  12-06-2017 03:46
  The weekend of June 10th was a violent one in Columbus with several shooting around town. None of the incidents around town were fatal but many were injured and treated at area hospitals.
  
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• Death-penalty trial to begin after tricky process of selecting jury Updated at

  12-06-2017 03:46
  When attorneys questioned a 72-year-old man during jury selection for Franklin County's first death-penalty trial in three years, he said there was a time when he found himself at odds with his strong opposition to taking a human life. "When I was a young man, I had some pretty idealistic beliefs," the Northwest Side man said.
  
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• Member of Thomas Worthington High School boys basketball team missing in South Carolina

  12-06-2017 02:50
  
  SOUTH CAROLINA - A spokesperson for Worthington Schools said a member of the Thomas Worthington High School boys basketball team is missing in South Carolina while the team is visiting for a training camp.The spokesperson said Eric Clark is missing after he went into the ocean off of Fripp Island.The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said the search has been suspended Sunday night and will resume Monday morning.The sheriff's office said Clark, 16, was in the water with other swimmers when h
  
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• High school insisted student cover U.S. Army uniform at graduation

  12-06-2017 01:37
  
  BRENTWOOD, Calif. -- A high school student in California wanted to show off his military pride at his graduation ceremony by wearing his U.S. Army uniform, but school administrators insisted he cover it up, violating military code, CBS San Francisco reports.Harland Fletcher, a senior at Liberty High School in Brentwood, California, says the proudest achievement of his life was to wear his military uniform."I talked to my counselor the day before practice," he said, but when he showed up to the g
  
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