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• Two people injured after crash in west Columbus

  17-06-2017 23:19
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - One person is being treated for critical injuries after a crash in west Columbus on Saturday.Another person is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.Police said the crash happened just after 4:30 p.m. at the intersection of Hilliard-Rome Road and Renner Road.One person was taken to Mount Carmel West Hospital in what police described as very critical condition.Authorities said the intersection is closed while police investigate.
  
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• Police: 4 arrests, 2 officers hurt at Columbus Pride Festival

  17-06-2017 23:04
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Columbus Division of Police said four people were arrested and two officers were hurt during the Columbus Pride Festival on Saturday.According to police, the people arrested did not obey the officers' orders to leave the road after the parade.Police said one person tried disarming an officer and the officer was hurt.Police said another officer was injured while arresting someone else.Police said the charges for those arrested range from aggravated robbery, resisting arrest-c
  
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• 19-year-old man from Dublin dies after being shocked by electric current while helping father, family dog at Put-in-Bay

  17-06-2017 22:37
  
  PUT-IN-BAY - A 19-year-old man from Dublin is dead after the Ohio Department of Natural Resources said he was shocked by an electrical current while saving the family dog at Put-In-Bay.ODNR said the Currie family docked their boat at Miller Marina around 6:30 p.m. Friday and plugged the shore power to the boat.ODNR said the dog fell into the water and the father jumped in after it when he noticed it was struggling.The father then began to struggle so his two sons jumped in to help, according to
  
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• 19-year-old Dublin man dies after being shocked at Put-in-Bay

  17-06-2017 22:37
  A 19-year-old from Dublin died over the weekend after being shocked by an electrical current at Put-In-Bay in northern Ohio.Evan Currie, of Dublin, was boating with his family when they docked at Miller Marina around 6:30 p.m. Friday and connected the boat to shore power.According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, the family’s dog fell into the water in the Marina, and Evan’s father went in after to help to pet.The father then began to struggle so his two sons jumped in to
  
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• Afghan soldier wounds 7 American soldiers

  17-06-2017 22:00
  
  ABUL, Afghanistan — The Latest on the shooting of several U.S soldiers by an Afghan army soldier (all times local):9:30 p.m.The U.S. military says that seven American soldiers were wounded in the insider attack by an Afghan soldier. A statement on the Resolute Support Twitter feed Saturday says the seven were wounded when an Afghan army soldier opened fire. The attacker was shot and killed and one Afghan soldier was wounded. There were no U.S. fatalities.A Taliban spokesman praised the att
  
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• 9/11 Memorial designer to create church shooting memorial

  17-06-2017 21:47
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C.— The architect who designed the 9/11 Memorial in New York has been chosen to create a memorial to honor the nine worshipers gunned down in a racist shooting attack on a South Carolina church.The decision came Saturday on the second anniversary of the massacre at Emanuel AME church in Charleston — a day also marked by a crowd singing "Amazing Grace" as they marched to the church. Emanuel's bells rang nine times at the end of the "Hate Won't Win Unity Walk."Last year,
  
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• Trump goes from regal to rustic this weekend at Camp David

  17-06-2017 21:37
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump chose simple over swanky this weekend.Nearly five months into his presidency, Trump flew for the first time Saturday to Camp David, the government-owned retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. A frequent weekend traveler, Trump has favored his palatial residences in Florida and New Jersey over the wooded hideaway used by many presidents for a break from Washington.Few expect the luxury-loving leader to make this a regular thing. After all, Trump told f
  
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• Doppler 10: Storms possible on Father's Day

  17-06-2017 21:26
  This Evening: Hot and muggy with partly cloudy skies.
  Tonight: Partly cloudy skies.Warm and muggy.Low 71.Winds: S 5-10 mph.
  Sunday: Scattered afternoon storms.Some could have strong winds and heavy rain.High 86.Winds: SW 10-15 mph.
  Monday: Showers linger early then clouds decrease.Cooler and less muggy.High 80.Winds: W 8-12 mph.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSpecial Information: We’ll see another warm and muggy night with partly cloudy skies.Showers and
  
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• Cincinnati celebrates hometown star Pete Rose with statue

  17-06-2017 21:23
  
  CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Reds are celebrating the unveiling of hometown star Pete Rose's statue.Baseball's all-time hits leader is still banned from major league baseball for betting on games, but the Reds have been allowed in recent years to recognize his on-field accomplishments.Rose was inducted into the team's hall of fame last year.A viewing party Saturday takes place at The Banks entertainment area next to Great American Ball Park before the unveiling. On-field ceremonies before t
  
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• Excommunicating mobsters? Vatican eyes new legal doctrine

  17-06-2017 20:56
  
  VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has long railed against corruption and the mafia, but now the Vatican is considering developing a whole doctrine around excommunicating corrupt and mafia-tinged Catholics.The Vatican this week hosted its first conference on corruption and organized crime, inviting 50 prosecutors, U.N. officials, bishops and victims of organized crime for a day of talks.Organizers said in a statement Saturday that the time had come to develop a new legal doctrine for the Catholic
  
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• 3 firms picked to score Ohio medical-pot grower applications

  17-06-2017 20:45
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Three companies have been selected to review Ohio's anticipated flood of applications for medical marijuana grow licenses.A spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Commerce said Friday the companies are iCann Consulting, B&B Grow Solutions and Meade & Wing. A fourth bidder, GenFin Services, was not selected.Friday was the deadline for small-scale cultivators to apply to compete for 12 available licenses. Companies seeking to become one of the state's 12 large-scale
  
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• Friends decorate Pride parade float to honor local man who died from AIDS

  17-06-2017 20:34
  
  In the middle of 500,000 people you can find him.
  His laughter gives him away, along with his outgoing personality.
  Alden Carney came out a few years ago.
  He calls it a life-changing experience. It's what he says Pride is all about.
  "Being yourself," he said. "[And] feeling comfortable with yourself."
  He's able to be comfortable with himself and walk in the middle of the street, proudly, because of his best friend.
  A best friend who is not able to walk with him.Carney with Dominic Munafo"He died
  
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• Columbus Club Shooting Leaves 1 Dead Others Injured

  17-06-2017 19:40
  A shooting happened at Delfin Night Life Nightclub in the Continent on the north side early this morning in Columbus. One person is dead and two others are in critical condition and being treated at Riverside Hospital.
  
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• UK police: 58 dead and presumed dead in London blaze

  17-06-2017 19:08
  
  LONDON — Fifty-eight people who were in Grenfell Tower are still missing and are presumed to be dead, London police announced Saturday, raising the death toll in the horrific inferno that turned the public housing block into a charred hulk.Public anger is mounting as residents and neighbors demand answers for how the blaze early Wednesday spread so quickly and trapped so many of the tower's 600-odd residents. British media have reported that contractors installed a cheaper, less flame-resi
  
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• Jazz group announces schedules for 2017-18

  17-06-2017 17:28
  The October show will mark the first of five Swingin' With the CJO concerts featuring the orchestra and Artistic Director Byron Stripling - all presented at the Southern Theatre.
  
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• Mistrial declared; Bill Cosby jury deadlocked on verdict

  17-06-2017 16:30
  
  NORRISTOWN, Pa. -- The judge in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial declared a mistrial after jurors said they were deadlocked after five days of deliberations.The fast-moving case went to the jury of seven men and five women Monday, on day six of the trial, after closing arguments painted different pictures of what happened between Cosby and Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia estate in 2004. But the sequestered jury failed to reach a verdict, pausing a half-dozen times to revisit key ev
  
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• "Rocky" director John G. Avildsen dies at 81

  17-06-2017 16:07
  
  LOS ANGELES- John G. Avildsen, who directed "Rocky" and "The Karate Kid" -- two dark-horse, underdog favorites that went on to become Hollywood franchises -- died Friday at age 81.Anthony Avildsen said his father died Friday in Los Angeles from pancreatic cancer."Rocky" was a huge success. It won Oscars for best picture, director (Avildsen) and editing and was nominated for seven others. No less a Hollywood eminence than Frank Capra loved it, telling The New York Times in 1977, "When I saw it, I
  
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• Merkel: Pope urged her to fight for Paris climate deal

  17-06-2017 14:47
  
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Pope Francis encouraged her to work to preserve the Paris climate accord despite the U.S. withdrawal and shared her aim to "bring down walls," and not build them.Merkel and Francis met for about 40 minutes Saturday in the Apostolic Palace, focusing on the Group of 20 summit that Germany is hosting in Hamburg on July 7-8.The Vatican said the talks focused on the need for the international community to combat poverty, hunger, terrorism and climate change.Merkel
  
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• Applications reveal where 12 medical marijuana farms could go

  17-06-2017 12:55
  Tucked among the auto shops, paint stores and storage units in Columbus' manufacturing districts and business parks, a new business could soon flourish: medical marijuana. As of Friday, 12 applicants for state licenses to grow medical marijuana on 11 sites in Columbus have asked the city to sign documents verifying that it would not prohibit cultivation sites.
  
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• Walmart buying internet retailer Bonobos for $310M

  17-06-2017 12:52
  
  Walmart is buying internet retailer Bonobos for $310 million in cash.Bonobos launched as a menswear brand online in 2007, expanding into brick and mortar retail in 2011 and partnering with Nordstrom in 2012. Bonobos Founder and CEO Andy Dunn will join Walmart to oversee the company's online consumer brands."Adding innovators like Andy will continue to help us shape the future of Walmart, and the future of retail." Marc Lore, president and CEO of Walmart's U.S. ecommerce division said in a statem
  
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• Canoe returning to Hawaii after epic round-the-world voyage

  17-06-2017 12:37
  
  No modern navigation instrumentation guided a Polynesian voyaging canoe as it followed the horizon during a three-year journey around the globe.About a dozen crewmembers for each leg of the voyage relied only on their understanding of nature's cues — ocean swells, stars, wind, birds— and their own naau, or gut, to sail across about 40,000 nautical miles (74,000 kilometers) to 19 countries, spreading a message of malama honua: Caring for the earth.On Saturday, thousands are expected t
  
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• Trump rolls back some, not all, changes in US-Cuba relations

  17-06-2017 12:25
  
  Pressing "pause" on a historic detente, President Donald Trump thrust the U.S. and Cuba back on a path toward open hostility Friday with a blistering denunciation of the island's communist government. He clamped down on some commerce and travel but left intact many new avenues President Barack Obama had opened.The Cuban government responded Friday evening by rejecting what it called Trump's "hostile rhetoric." Still, Cuba said it is willing to continue "respectful dialogue" with on topics of mut
  
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• Director John Avildsen dies at 81; won Oscar for 'Rocky'

  17-06-2017 12:20
  
  John G. Avildsen, who directed "Rocky" and "The Karate Kid" — two dark-horse, underdog favorites that went on to become Hollywood franchises — died Friday at age 81.Anthony Avildsen said his father died Friday in Los Angeles from pancreatic cancer."Rocky" was a huge success. It won Oscars for best picture, director (Avildsen) and editing and was nominated for seven others. No less a Hollywood eminence than Frank Capra loved it, telling The New York Times in 1977, "When I saw it, I sa
  
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• Grim search at London blaze site continues as anger mounts

  17-06-2017 11:42
  
  Public fury over the London high-rise fire is mounting as exhausted London firefighters continue their grim search Saturday for victims of the inferno that killed at least 30 people.Residents and neighbors are demanding answers for how the blaze spread so quickly amid reports that contractors installed a cheaper, less flame-resistant type of exterior paneling in a renovation of Grenfell Tower that ended in May 2016.Around 70 people are missing, according to Britain's Press Association, and ident
  
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• If it flies or hovers, it will be at the Paris Air Show

  17-06-2017 11:27
  
  While Airbus and Boeing will again hog the spotlight at the Paris Air Show with their battle for ever-larger slices of the lucrative pie in the sky, a lot of the really interesting stuff will be going on elsewhere at the upcoming biennial aviation and defense industry gathering.Lockheed Martin's F-35 jet will crane necks with high-speed aerial displays, drones will again be a hot topic and a would-be flying car will aim to show that it is closer to getting off the ground as a consumer ride. Defe
  
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• Cemetery owners indicted again

  17-06-2017 08:31
  The owners of Fairview Memorial Park were re-indicted Friday by a Delaware County grand jury and charged with numerous additional counts of theft.The grand jury returned a second indictment against Theodore L. Martin and Arminda K. Martin alleging that the Martins took money from Delaware County residents for headstones and other items as well as ... (more)
  
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• Police identify victims after fatal shooting inside north Columbus nightclub

  17-06-2017 07:09
  Columbus Police have identified the five victims after a fatal shooting inside Delfin Night Life Nightclub.Police say it happened around 12:30 Saturday morning at 6252 Busch Boulevard in the Continent.Two people were transported to Riverside Hospital in critical condition.According to Columbus Police, Domineek Sharp, 21 died from a gunshot wound. The other four people were injured by gunshot wounds: Quisaiah Davis, 23; William Campbell, 24; Dejon Lockett 23; and a 17-year-old who was not identif
  
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• 1 person dead, 4 injured after shooting inside north Columbus nightclub

  17-06-2017 07:09
  
  Columbus Police say one person is dead and four others are injured after a shooting inside Delfin Night Life Nightclub.Police say it happened around 12:30 Saturday morning at 6252 Busch Boulevard in the Continent.Two people were transported to Riverside Hospital in critical condition.Columbus Police say there could be more than one shooter, but no other suspect information is available at this time.. @ColumbusPolice say they are dealing with multiple locations with evidence. @10TV pic.twitter.co
  
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• 1 person dead, 2 injured after shooting inside north Columbus nightclub

  17-06-2017 07:09
  
  Columbus Police say one person is dead and two others are injured after a shooting inside Euphoria Nightclub.Police say it happened around 12:30 Saturday morning at 6252 Busch Boulevard in the Continent.Two people were transported to Riverside Hospital in critical condition.Right now, there is no suspect information.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com for updates on this story.
  
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• Circleville Police investigating reports of man impersonating an officer

  17-06-2017 04:43
  
  The Circleville Police Department is warning their community that someone is impersonating officers.According to the department, there have been three separate reports of drivers being pulled over by a man impersonating an officer.Each report includes the same descriptions – an older white male in street clothes, driving a dark, unmarked sedan.In all three incidents, the bogus officer pulled the driver over for speeding. In the latest incident, the impersonating officer searched the driver
  
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• Michael Phelps to race great white for 'Shark Week'

  17-06-2017 04:10
  
  "Shark Week" has a new star attraction: Michael Phelps.Discovery Channel's list of "Shark Week" programming next month includes a July 23 show titled "Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White."Discovery Channel billed it as "an event so monumental that no one has ever attempted it before" and added that "the world's most decorated athlete takes on the ocean's most efficient predator: Phelps V Shark — the race is on!"The release announcing this event didn't offer many details or specifi
  
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• #WordEyeHeard: Jada Pinkett Smith "Deeply Hurt" by Portrayal in Tupac Biopic

  17-06-2017 04:07
  Jada Pinket-Smith is none too pleased with the Tupac biopic and she's making it clear on social media. The actress and friend of the late rapper apparently watched the Benny Boom-directed "All Eyez On Me" movie and was "deeply hurt" by the depiction of her relationship with the rapper, so much so, that she released a statement.
  
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• Coroner: Carrie Fisher died from sleep apnea, other undetermined factors

  17-06-2017 03:15
  
  Officials say actress Carrie Fisher died from sleep apnea and a combination of other factors, but they could not conclusively determine what caused her death.Los Angeles coroner's officials said in a news release late Friday that Fisher had buildup of fat in the walls of her arteries. The release states that Fisher had taken multiple drugs prior to her death, but that investigators could not determine whether they contributed to her death in December.The agency did not immediately respond to a r
  
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• Ex-cop testifies in retrial over 2015 shooting of motorist

  17-06-2017 03:09
  
  A former University of Cincinnati police officer gave emotional testimony at his retrial Friday in the 2015 shooting of an unarmed motorist.Ray Tensing frequently paused to wipe away tears during his testimony at the retrial over his shooting of Samuel DuBose following a traffic stop.Jurors deadlocked last November in Tensing's first trial on the murder and voluntary manslaughter charges that he is facing again. He and his lawyer contend the shooting was justified, saying Tensing was in danger o
  
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• Thousands without power due to equipment fire in west Columbus

  17-06-2017 03:08
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – Approximately 5,500 American Electric Power customers on the west side of Columbus are without power Friday night.AEP told 10TV the power went out shortly before 8 p.m. after there was an equipment fire at the Wilson Road substation.The fire is out and crews are working to get the power back on.AEP estimates power will be restored by 10 p.m. The outage can be monitored here.
  
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• Tennessee "hero" says Georgia fugitives surrendered to him

  17-06-2017 02:50
  
  The man credited by law enforcement with holding two Georgia prison escapees at gunpoint until police arrived rejected the "hero" label on Friday, and said credit should go to forces well beyond his control."I realized I had two ex-cons wanted for murder who had just shot at law enforcement who had nothing to lose and for some reason they surrendered and laid down on the concrete in my driveway," Patrick Hale said. "If that doesn't make you believe in Jesus Christ, I don't know what does."Hale s
  
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• 7 Navy crew missing, skipper hurt after collision off Japan

  17-06-2017 01:26
  
  TOKYO —Seven Navy sailors were missing and at least two, including the captain, were injured after a U.S. destroyer collided with a merchant ship off the coast of Japan before dawn Saturday, the U.S. Navy and Japanese coast guard reported.Footage from the Japanese TV network NHK showed heavy damage to the mid-right side of the USS Fitzgerald and a person in a stretcher being lifted to a helicopter.The first, Cmdr. Bryce Benson, was taken to the U.S. Naval Hospital in Yokosuka and was in st
  
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• 7 missing from U.S. Navy ship after collision off the coast of Japan

  17-06-2017 01:26
  
  TOKYO — The Latest on a U.S. Navy ship collision (all times local):8 a.m.The Japan Coast Guard has confirmed that seven crew members of a U.S. Navy destroyer are missing after a collision with a Philippine-flagged merchant ship off the coast of Japan.Japan Coast Guard official Takeshi Aikawa said the USS Fitzgerald reports that seven are unaccounted for and one is injured.The injured sailor had a head injury, but details of his or her condition were unknown.Footage from Japanese broadcaste
  
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• Man with dementia missing from Obetz

  17-06-2017 00:09
  
  OBETZ, Ohio - The Obetz Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding a man with dementia who is missing.Police said 79-year-old Thomas Madden left his house on Meriline Avenue in Obetz around 3 p.m. Friday and did not return.Police said Madden was last seen wearing a white t-shirt and blue jeans and is traveling with a dog who is gray, brown, and black.He is said to be 5'9" tall, weighs about 230 pounds, and has gray hair and blue eyes.He is said to be driving a silver 2008 Ford
  
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