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• High-speed "Hyperloop" tubes could connect Chicago, Columbus and Pittsburgh

  03-08-2017 23:42
  The almost 500-mile corridor from Chicago to Columbus to Pittsburgh could become a "mega-region" connected by high-speed tubes that drive economic growth across four states, officials for Hyperloop One believe. Now, "there's not even a direct highway linking the three" cities, Y.J. Fischer of Hyperloop One told a Columbus audience of freight experts Thursday.
  
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• West Virginia governor, a Democrat, to switch to Republican

  03-08-2017 23:22
  
  West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is switching parties to join Republicans as President Donald Trump plans a visit to the increasingly conservative state.Justice's plans were confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday by a Democratic Party official with knowledge of his plans. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the decision before the announcement.The governor is expected to publicly announce his decision Thursday evening at a campaign rally wit
  
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• Metal detection technology key to answering why fair ride broke

  03-08-2017 23:21
  Inside the Edison Weld Institute on the campus of Ohio State, Senior engineer Roger Spencer holds what looks like a clear computer mouse over a solid piece of steel.The Ultra Sound machine, similar to what is used in a hospital can see what the human eye can't. It's what investigators are likely to use to figure out why the Fire Ball ride at the Ohio State Fair snapped killing one person and injuring seven others.Spencer says the machines like this will answer the question why the metal arm of t
  
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• BrewDog announces plan to build bar that ‘straddles’ US-Mexican border

  03-08-2017 22:49
  
  Scotland-based brewer, BrewDog, has announced plans to open a new craft beer bar that will be placed on the border between the United States and Mexico.BrewDog, which U.S. headquarters are located in Canal Winchester, said the new bar will be named ‘The Bar on the Edge’ and “reflects the Scottish brewery’s intention to expand to the farthest reaches of the United States.”“’The Bar on the Edge’ will be set up in the furthest outskirts of the United
  
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• Franklin County Sheriff creates Community Response Bureau to "strengthen relationships"

  03-08-2017 22:33
  The Franklin County Sheriff's Office is forming a new Community Responses Bureau.The goal is to strengthen relationships between the office and the people it serves.The Bureau will include a Community Advisory Council made up of people from diverse ethnic, social and faith backgrounds, as well as neighborhood organizations and business leaders.The group will meet regularly with Franklin County Sheriff Dallas Baldwin to talk about ways to expand community programs and events.Sheriff Baldwin said
  
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• All lanes of I-70 reopened after crash west of Columbus

  03-08-2017 21:19
  A crash closed Interstate 70 in both directions, between Interstate 270 and Hilliard Rome Road, near mile marker 93, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation. The incident happened just after 9 a.m. on the West Side.
  
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• Large Apartment Complex Planned for Former Andersons Site

  03-08-2017 21:11
  Preferred Living plans to build a 614-unit apartment complex on the site of the recently-closed Andersons store at 7000 Bent Tree Boulevard, just north of Dublin-Granville Road and east of Sawmill Road. The rezoning of the parcel to residential use was approved by the Columbus City Council on Monday, and the Far Northwest Coalition of […]
  
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• 'Dukes of Hazzard' star faces indecent assault, drug charges

  03-08-2017 20:05
  
  WALTHAM, Mass. — The actor who played Luke on the 1980s television show "The Dukes of Hazzard" has been charged in Massachusetts with groping a female member of the cast of a musical he was supposed to appear in.Tom Wopat pleaded not guilty Thursday to indecent assault and battery and drug charges. He was released on $1,000 bail and told to stay away from the woman. He refused to comment outside court.Waltham police arrested the 65-year-old Wopat at about 11 p.m. Wednesday. Police say duri
  
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• Mega Weekend: Pelotonia, Sports + Jorts, Film Festival and more!

  03-08-2017 20:00
  Happy Weekend! Here’s what we have going on for fun. Get a preview of some of the tacos at next week’s Taco Festival. Pelotonia weekend is here! Enter to win tickets to the Breakaway Music Festival. It’s the final weekend to get a meal in at the original Max & Erma’s in German Village. It’s […]
  
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• Official: Rapper accused of murder thought man hit on him

  03-08-2017 19:00
  
  A founding member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five stabbed a homeless man to death after a passing remark made him think the man was hitting on him, a law enforcement official said Thursday.Kidd Creole, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, was walking in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday near where he worked security and maintenance when he passed by 55-year-old John Jolly, police said.Jolly said something that offended Glover, and they argued, said the official, who spoke to The Associate
  
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• UV treatment from Xylem deployed at two major surface water plants in Columbus, Ohio

  03-08-2017 18:57
  Xylem, , a leading global water technology company dedicated to solving the world's most complex water issues, has secured contracts worth USD $4.8 million to supply state-of-the-art ultraviolet disinfection solutions to two major drinking water plants in the City of Columbus, Ohio. The energy-efficient UV technologies will be used to provide an additional treatment barrier for Cryptosporidium at the Dublin Road Water Plant and Hap Cremean Water Plant each providing safe, clean drinking water fo
  
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• Grand jury: Driver was texting when she killed 2 teen girls

  03-08-2017 18:44
  
  An Ohio woman has been indicted on charges she was texting when she crossed a marked curb line and struck three teenagers, killing two 14-year-old girls and seriously injuring a 15-year-old boy.A grand jury indicted 24-year-old Natasha Boggs, of New Franklin in Summit County, on Wednesday on two counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and charges that include tampering with evidence and texting while driving.Boggs is charged with killing Taylor Galloway, o
  
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• Coaches Poll Top 25: Ohio State No. 2 in preseason rankings

  03-08-2017 18:28
  
  The first Amway Coaches Poll of the 2017 college football season was released Thursday.Alabama begins the season as No. 1 and the Ohio State Buckeyes take the second spot in the Top 25 rankings.The Buckeyes will kick off the season against Indiana on Thursday, August 31 in Bloomington. Kickoff is scheduled at 8 p.m.The poll is conducted weekly throughout the regular season using a panel of head coaches at FBS schools.---Amway Projected Top 25 Preseason1. Alabama (49) 16032. Ohio State (5) 15123.
  
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• Outage leaves nearly 4,000 without power in Grandview area

  03-08-2017 18:00
  
  American Electric Power said crews are on the scene of an emergency outage in the Grandview area.The AEP outage map shows more than 3,900 outages in Franklin County as of noon Wednesday.AEP said they are aiming to restore power by 1:30 p.m.You can track AEP Outages on their website.Stay with 10TV for updates on this story.
  
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• Free Bus Passes for Downtown Workers Coming in 2018

  03-08-2017 17:56
  The board of the Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District gave its stamp of approval yesterday to a plan to provide free bus passes for as many as 40,000 downtown workers. The program has been in the planning stages for over two years, including a small pilot program that ran from June of 2015 to December […]
  
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• Woman who sent texts urging suicide gets 15 months in jail

  03-08-2017 17:25
  
  A woman who encouraged her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself in dozens of text messages and told him to "get back in" a truck filled with toxic gas was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in jail for involuntary manslaughter.Michelle Carter was convicted in June by a judge who said her final instruction to Conrad Roy III caused his death. Carter was 17 when the 18-year-old Roy was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in July 2014.Juvenile Court Judge Lawrence Moniz gave Carter a 2½-year j
  
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• Woman to be sentenced in teen texting suicide case

  03-08-2017 17:25
  
  TAUNTON, Mass. — A Massachusetts woman who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself in dozens of text messages and told him to "get back in" a truck filled with toxic gas faces up to 20 years in prison when a judge sentences her on a charge of involuntary manslaughter.Michelle Carter was convicted in June by a judge who said her final instruction to Conrad Roy III caused his death. Juvenile Court Judge Lawrence Moniz will sentence Carter Thursday.Carter was 17 when the 18-year-old Roy was
  
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• LIVE: Michelle Carter to be sentenced in teen texting suicide case

  03-08-2017 17:25
  
  TAUNTON, Mass. — A Massachusetts woman who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself in dozens of text messages and told him to "get back in" a truck filled with toxic gas faces up to 20 years in prison when a judge sentences her on a charge of involuntary manslaughter.Michelle Carter was convicted in June by a judge who said her final instruction to Conrad Roy III caused his death. Juvenile Court Judge Lawrence Moniz will sentence Carter Thursday.Carter was 17 when the 18-year-old Roy was
  
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• Ohio man killed, brother hurt when SUV crashes on NY Thruway

  03-08-2017 17:16
  
  New York State Police say an SUV crashed and overturned on the Thruway in the Mohawk Valley, killing an Ohio man and injuring his brother.Troopers say the vehicle was headed west on Interstate 90 on Wednesday evening when it drove off the right shoulder, returned to the roadway and overturned several times before coming to a rest on the left shoulder in the Montgomery County town of Florida, 30 miles northwest of Albany.Police say 75-year-old James Hollo, of North Royalton, Ohio, and 62-year-old
  
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• Eat Right: 10 Desserts to Try This Summer

  03-08-2017 16:50
  Even if most of us don’t get three months of freedom each June, July and August, it’s still fun to recapture the indulgence of childhood summer vacation as an adult. Treat yourself this month with a seasonal dessert at one of the city’s independent restaurants. Acre 2700 N. High St.; 1717 Northwest Blvd.  Acre may […]
  
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• Columbus man spit on Florida police officers on way to jail

  03-08-2017 16:41
  
  An Ohio man ended up in a "spit hood mask" after spitting on two Florida police officers who were taking him to jail.A police report says 30-year-old Joshua McLaughlin of Columbus, Ohio, continued to scream and bang his head on the police cruiser's window following his July 28 arrest at a Key West resort.The police report says McLaughlin was cursing his partner as police officers talked to him. McLaughlin refused officer's commands to stop so he was placed in handcuffs.The report says McLaughlin
  
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• 2 men charged with terrorism in Australian plane plot

  03-08-2017 16:37
  
  Two men were charged with terrorism offenses in Australia on Thursday in connection with an alleged plot to bring down an airplane, police said.The men, ages 49 and 32, were each charged with two counts of planning a terrorist act, Australian Federal Police said in a statement. They were among four men arrested during a series of raids in Sydney on Saturday in connection with what authorities described as a credible threat to bring down a plane.. On Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates' national ai
  
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• Blast at Minnesota school kills 2, injures others

  03-08-2017 16:31
  MINNEAPOLIS — An explosion at a school in Minneapolis killed two people, injured several others and reduced part of a building to rubble, fire officials said.City Fire Chief John Fruetel said the body of the second person killed in the blast was recovered around 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Minnehaha Academy, a private Christian school that serves students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grades. Fruetel said the medical examiner's office was working to notify relatives.The blast occurred in
  
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• Ohio’s Own: Pork & Pickles

  03-08-2017 16:00
  The alliteration in Pork & Pickles’ moniker is a promising start. But before you notice its name, the hues of its wares stand out in the refrigerator case. The business pickles everything: bright magenta beets, golden curry cauliflower, shiny onions, glowing orange carrot wedges, green jalapeño slices. You name it, it’s probably there in a […]
  
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• FedEx, in online pivot, backs away from holiday surcharges

  03-08-2017 15:39
  
  FedEx will forego special charges for most packages shipped during the chaotic holiday season this year as it squares off against rival UPS in a fight for a larger share of the millions of items now bought online.The announcement Thursday comes two months after UPS announced new surcharges that will effect shipments near Black Friday and the holidays.FedEx will charge extra for packages that need additional handling and, or are oversized.The FedEx Corp. surcharge for special packages will be in
  
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• Injury crash closes both directions of I-70 near I-270 in west Columbus

  03-08-2017 15:32
  
  Interstate 70 is closed in both directions between I-270 and Hilliard Rome Road due to an injury accident, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation.Multiple vehicles were involved in the crash. Columbus Police said five people were transported to nearby hospitals. Of those five, two people were in serious/life-threatening condition. Eastbound I-70 traffic is being forced to exit at Route 142 and take Rt. 40 or Broad Street. Westbound 70 traffic is being re-routed to I-270 north.ODOT sa
  
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• I-70 in west Columbus reopens after injury crash closes highway for several hours

  03-08-2017 15:32
  UPDATE: Interstate 70 is now reopenedInterstate 70 is closed in both directions between I-270 and Hilliard Rome Road due to an injury accident, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation.Multiple vehicles were involved in the crash. Columbus Police said five people were transported to nearby hospitals. Of those five, two people were in serious/life-threatening condition.Eastbound I-70 traffic is being forced to exit at Route 142 and take Rt. 40 or Broad Street. Westbound 70 traffic is be
  
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• I-70 in west Columbus reopens after injury crash closes highway

  03-08-2017 15:32
  Interstate 70 was closed in both directions between I-270 and Hilliard Rome Road for several hours Thursday because of an injury crash.According to Columbus Police, three vehicles were struck from behind by a tractor-trailer on I-70 eastbound just east of Hilliard-Rome Road.Police said all three drivers sustained injuries and were taken to local hospitals.The driver of the tractor trailer was not injured.A second tractor-trailer was hit by one of the vehicles and sustained minor damage.Police sa
  
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• Eden Burger Popup Finds Permanent Home at Old Dare Devil Dogs Space

  03-08-2017 15:27
  Vegetarian pop-up Eden Burger is no longer a pop-up. The trio of owners made the business permanent last Friday, opening up at the old Dare Devil Dogs space next to the Village Idiot at Eighth Avenue and High Street. The business went through a long journey, first popping up in their own living room before […]
  
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• Florida women trash Chick-fil-A during argument over order

  03-08-2017 15:04
  
  Two women trashed a Florida Chick-fil-A restaurant during an argument over an order.Allison Music, who was in the restaurant and posted videos of the tirade online, tells Action News Jax it happened Monday night in Jacksonville. She wrote in a Facebook post that two women beat on a locked door trying to get inside as the store was closingVideo she posted shows the women arguing with employees, tossing condiments on the floor and throwing an object that could be heard breaking in the background.A
  
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• Ex-bodyguard defends candid Princess Diana documentary

  03-08-2017 14:39
  
  A new documentary about Princess Diana has ignited controversy in Britain, with producers saying it offers insights into the strains of royal life and critics saying it's pure exploitation.Friends of the late princess have slammed a British broadcaster's decision to air private recordings in which she speaks frankly about her unhappy marriage to Prince Charles, commenting on their sex life, her fury at her husband's mistress and her love for another man.But former bodyguard Ken Wharfe says Diana
  
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• Ohio Man's death being investigated as possible lightning strike

  03-08-2017 14:28
  
  BREWSTER, Ohio (AP) — Authorities are investigating whether an 82-year-old Ohio man found dead in a field behind his house was struck by lightning.The Repository reports the body of Richard Lutes, of Brewster, was found Wednesday afternoon by his wife. Authorities say Lutes was outside during a brief storm that rolled over Stark County in northeast Ohio.A coroner's investigator says Lutes had a lesion on his chest that could have been caused by lightning.The Stark County Coroner's Office i
  
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• Pelotonia'17 announces former VP Biden as headline speaker at Opening Ceremony

  03-08-2017 14:09
  
  Organizers for the event announced the speakers for Pelotonia’s 2017 Opening Ceremony,Former Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden, founder of the Biden Cancer Initiative, will be in Columbus Friday to kick off Pelotonia'17.Joining The Biden's is cancer survivor and "Survivor: Africa" winner Ethan Zohn.Pelotonia has raised more than $130 million for cancer research since 2008.The three-day cycling experience is one of the largest cancer fundraisers.All proceeds are donated to The Ohi
  
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• Pelotonia'17 announces former VP Biden as headline speaker at  Opening Ceremony

  03-08-2017 14:09
  
  Organizers for the event announced the speakers for Pelotonia’s 2017 Opening Ceremony,Former Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden, founder of the Biden Cancer Initiative,will be in Columbus Friday to kick off Pelotonia'17.Joining The Biden's is cancer survivor and Survivor: Africa winner Ethan Zohn.Pelotonia has raised more than $130 million for cancer research since 2008.The three-day cycling experience is one of the largest cancer fundraisers.All proceeds are donatedtoThe Ohio Sta
  
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• Prisoners won't get early release from Columbus halfway house

  03-08-2017 13:57
  The U.S. Bureau of Prisons won't release four inmates early from a Columbus halfway house, after a federal judge challenged the move. The bureau had planned to free the inmates from Alvis, which the bureau said "is currently over the maximum quota."
  
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• Round Two: Cast Your Vote for the Best Food Truck of 2017!

  03-08-2017 13:26
  The seventh annual Columbus Food Truck Festival returns on August 18 and 19 and this year the festival has a new home spread across Bicentennial Park and along the Scioto Mile. All of your favorite food trucks will be lined up for the two day event that also features live music, family-friendly activities, beer tents […]
  
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• Ohio attorney general awards $2.7M for drug use prevention

  03-08-2017 12:59
  Ohio's attorney general says he is awarding $2.7 million in grants to help with drug abuse awareness and prevention programs in public schools.Attorney General Mike DeWine announced Wednesday that the funds will go to numerous law enforcement agencies for drug use prevention education programs in the schools.A total of 130 sheriffs' offices and police departments will receive a portion of the money. The funds must be used to establish or maintain drug abuse prevention education and awareness pro
  
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• Ohio lawmaker proposes memorial to honor fallen police chief

  03-08-2017 12:49
  A state lawmaker wants to honor a fallen Ohio police chief by renaming part of a road for him.The Newark Advocate reports that state Sen. Jay Hottinger introduced a proposal this week to designate part of U.S. 40 as "Steven Eric DiSario Memorial Highway."DiSario had been police chief in Kirkersville for only three weeks when he was fatally shot May 12 while responding to reports of an armed man at a nursing in the city about 24 miles (39 kilometers) east of Columbus.DiSario was killed by 43-year
  
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• Ohio lawmaker proposes memorial to honor fallen Kirkersville police chief

  03-08-2017 12:49
  A state lawmaker wants to honor a fallen Ohio police chief by renaming part of a road for him.The Newark Advocate reports that state Sen. Jay Hottinger introduced a proposal this week to designate part of U.S. 40 as "Steven Eric DiSario Memorial Highway."DiSario had been police chief in Kirkersville for only three weeks when he was fatally shot May 12 while responding to reports of an armed man at a nursing in the city about 24 miles (39 kilometers) east of Columbus.DiSario was killed by 43-year
  
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• Child, 4 others hurt in Amish buggy crash in northern Ohio

  03-08-2017 12:36
  
  WOOSTER, Ohio (AP) — Police in Ohio are searching for the driver who hit an Amish buggy, injuring a child and four others, before fleeing the scene.Cleveland.com reports the crash happened Wednesday night in Wayne County. The Ohio State Highway Patrol says the buggy was knocked off the side of the road into a ditch.The child was taken to Akron Children's Hospital for treatment. The child's current condition is not known.Four other passengers were taken to a hospital with injuries that were
  
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• WATCH: Lightning hits plane, knocks airline employee over

  03-08-2017 12:17
  Southwest Florida International Airport has released video of a lightning strike incident involving a NavStar employee on the tarmac back in July.Austin Dunn, 21, suffered third-degree burns, muscle damage and bleeding in the brain when lightning struck a plane near him at the Southwest Florida International Airport.While the airport activated its inclement weather alarm system, it’s up to individual carriers to decide whether to follow system precautions, officials said.Reports says that
  
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• No lie, says Sanders: Trump got praise from Mexico, Scouts

  03-08-2017 12:15
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Fake news or fib?Two phone calls described by President Donald Trump that didn't actually happen represent the latest chapter in a long-running series of disputes revolving around the president's rocky relationship with facts.White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Wednesday found herself explaining that compliments Trump had described receiving in phone calls from the Mexican president and the Boy Scouts did happen — just not on the phone."I wouldn't say it wa
  
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• Congress OKs big boost in GI Bill college aid for veterans

  03-08-2017 11:55
  
  Congress sent President Donald Trump legislation to provide the biggest expansion of college aid for military veterans in a decade.The Senate cleared the bill by voice vote on Wednesday, passing the second piece of legislation aimed at addressing urgent problems at the beleaguered Department of Veterans Affairs in as many days. The House passed the bipartisan college aid legislation last week.The measure is a broad effort to better prepare veterans for life after active-duty service amid a rapid
  
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• Police file murder charges in two separate homicide cases

  03-08-2017 04:53
  Columbus police homicide detectives filed charges this week against three people in connection with two separate homicide cases that occurred in July. Damon L. Wright, 24, of the University District, and his sister, Asia J.L. Wright, 22, of Italian Village, are each charged with murder in the July 17 shooting death of Joshua G. Martin, 17. Martin was at an Exxon gas station in the 600 block of E. 5th Avenue near the Interstate 71 entrance with some of his friends just before 7 p.m. tha
  
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• McCain says he expects to return to Senate next month

  03-08-2017 04:44
  
  Arizona Sen. John McCain said in a radio interview Wednesday that he hates the healthy diet his wife and daughter are forcing on him as he fights an aggressive form of brain cancer but expects to return to the Senate next month.McCain made the remarks in his first extended interview with Arizona media since his diagnosis last month. On KFYI radio's Mike Broomhead show, the Republican said he's facing a tough challenge but the best thing to do when facing adversity is to stay busy. He said plans
  
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• Girl's baby successfully delivered after she is shot in the abdomen

  03-08-2017 02:34
  Doctors were able to successfully deliver a baby after the 16-year-old mother was shot in the abdomen at a South Linden home Wednesday morning, Columbus police said. Columbus police and fire paramedics were called at 11:30 a.m. to a home in the 2300 block of Grasmere Avenue on the report of a shooting.
  
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• Update on the victims from the Ohio State Fair ride accident

  03-08-2017 02:05
  
  We have an update on the four people are still in the hospital following last week's ride accident at the Ohio State Fair.Eighteen-year-old Jennifer Lambert is critical at Grant Medical Center. Her mother tells 10TV she still hasn't woken up.Thirty-six-year-old Tamica Dunlap is at the Wexner Medical Center in serious condition.Her uncle, Russell Franks, is in critical condition.Eighteen-year-old Keziah Lewis is at Wexner Medical in serious condition. Lewis is a student at the University of Cinci
  
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• Columbus Metropolitan Club; JD Vance - On Poverty

  03-08-2017 02:03
  
  
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• Press Conference: Attorney General Jeff Sessions Delivers Remarks on Opiate Epidemic

  03-08-2017 01:49
  
  
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• Long-time Newark High School choir director passes away

  03-08-2017 01:46
  
  NEWARK, Ohio – A long-time Newark High School choir director has passed away, just days after current Newark High School choir students and alumni sang a special recital her.On Sunday, the group put on a special performance for Kim Wigglesworth, who was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer a little more than a week ago.She was able to watch a recording of the recital on Tuesday from her hospital bed.To see coverage of the performance, click here.
  
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