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• One flown to hospital after crash closes Ohio 16 in Newark

  20-08-2017 23:37
  
  NEWARK -- According to officials from the Newark Fire Department, a two car crash on Ohio 16 westbound near Church Street in Newark closed the road Sunday afternoon.The crash involved two vehicles, and a middle-aged woman driving the car was flown to Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. She was in serious, but non-life threatening condition.An older male driving the truck was taken to Licking Memorial Hospital.Newark Firefighters busy at StRt 16 and Church St. on an MVA with entrapment.
  
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• Trump will address path forward on Afghanistan

  20-08-2017 22:45
  
  CAMP MOREHEAD, Afghanistan — Signaling that the U.S. military expects its mission to continue, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Sunday hailed the launch of the Afghan Army's new special operations corps, declaring that "we are with you and we will stay with you."Gen. John Nicholson's exhortation of continued support for the Afghans suggested the Pentagon may have won its argument that America's military must stay engaged in the conflict in order to insure terrorists don't once agai
  
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• Person found dead in Northland area

  20-08-2017 22:44
  Columbus police homicide detectives are investigating the death of a person who was found Sunday morning in the Northland area.
  
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• Groveport Madison Local School get an all clear from police after threat

  20-08-2017 22:33
  
  Groveport Police were investigating a threat to Groveport Madison elementary schools on Sunday.Groveport Madison Schools told 10TV that an anonymous threat was received around noon on social media against Groveport Elemtary Schools.The threat was not directed at just one elementary school. The district is home to six elementary schools according to its website.An automated telephone message was sent to families in the district alerting them the schools would start Monday morning on a level one l
  
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• Doppler 10: A warm evening and a hot Monday

  20-08-2017 22:19
  This Evening: Hot with decreasing clouds.
  Tonight: Mostly clear to partly cloudy, a little muggier with patchy fog.Low 68.Winds: Light SE.
  Tomorrow: Partly cloudy hot & humid with a few late-day storms.High 90.Winds: SW 5-10 mph.
  Tuesday: Off and on storms through the day.Some storms could have gusty winds.High 85.Winds: 10-15 mph.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSpecial Information: Expect clouds to break a little heading through the evening but things wil
  
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• Eclipse eve: Millions converge across US to see sun go dark

  20-08-2017 21:56
  
  Millions of Americans converged on a narrow corridor stretching from Oregon to South Carolina to watch the moon blot out the midday sun Monday for a wondrous couple of minutes in the first total solar eclipse to sweep coast to coast in 99 years.Veteran eclipse watchers warned the uninitiated to get ready to be blown away.Planetariums and museums posted "Sold out of eclipse glasses" on their front doors. Signs along highways reminded motorists of "Solar Eclipse Monday," while cars bore the messag
  
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• Iraq launches operation to take back IS-held town near Mosul

  20-08-2017 21:44
  
  ABU GHADDUR, Iraq — U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Sunday launched a multi-pronged assault to retake the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, marking the next phase in the country's war on the Islamic State group.Tal Afar and the surrounding area is one of the last pockets of IS-held territory in Iraq after victory was declared in July in Mosul, the country's second-largest city. The town, about 93 miles east of the Syrian border, sits along a major road that was once a key IS supply route."The c
  
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• Hospital officals: Nearly 500 dead in Sierra Leone mudslides

  20-08-2017 21:09
  
  FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Churches across Sierra Leone held special services Sunday in memory of those killed in mudslides and flooding earlier this week, as hospital officials announced the toll had risen to nearly 500 bodies collected.More than 600 people remain missing and rescue officials have warned that the chances of finding survivors are decreasing each day. The death toll earlier stood at 450.The Inter-Religious Council called for the services to be held Sunday in honor of the dece
  
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• Air quality alert issued for Columbus Monday

  20-08-2017 20:34
  
  An Air Quality Alert has been issued for central Ohio on Monday, August 21, by the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission.The alert has been issued for the Columbus Region which includes Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Knox, Madison and Licking counties.These counties are likely to experience conditions that are unhealthy for sensitive groups on the Air Quality Index scale.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSunday August 20: An upper-level ridge of high pressure ov
  
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• Publicist: Jerry Lewis, comedian , telethon host, dies at 91

  20-08-2017 20:05
  
  LOS ANGELES — Jerry Lewis, the manic, rubber-faced showman who jumped and hollered to fame in a lucrative partnership with Dean Martin, settled down to become a self-conscious screen auteur and found an even greater following as the tireless, teary host of the annual muscular dystrophy telethons, has died. He was 91.Publicist Candi Cazau says Lewis died Sunday morning of natural causes at age 91 in Las Vegas with his family by his side.Lewis' career spanned the history of show business in
  
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• Jerry Lewis, comedy icon and telethon host, dies at 91

  20-08-2017 20:05
  
  LOS ANGELES — Jerry Lewis, the manic, rubber-faced showman who jumped and hollered to fame in a lucrative partnership with Dean Martin, settled down to become a self-conscious screen auteur and found an even greater following as the tireless, teary host of the annual muscular dystrophy telethons, has died. He was 91.Publicist Candi Cazau says Lewis died Sunday of natural causes in Las Vegas with his family by his side.Tributes from friends, co-stars and disciples poured in immediately."Tha
  
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• Man found shot to death in South Linden

  20-08-2017 18:20
  A deceased man with gunshot wounds was discovered in the back lot of an abandoned home early Saturday morning in South Linden. The call came in at 8:21 a.m. and officers were on scene in the 900 block of 15th Avenue by 8:23 a.m., according to Columbus police.
  
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• The Angry Baker Announces Third Location

  20-08-2017 17:12
  One year after opening their second location, The Angry Baker is ready to expand one again. Owner Vicki Hink confirmed the new store will open in a small space at 1247 North High Street, just north of Fifth Avenue, in a spot that was most recently home to Elena’s Specialty Cakes. “This location will be […]
  
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• Police investigate apparent homicide in north Columbus

  20-08-2017 16:37
  
  Columbus Police are investigating after a man was found dead early Sunday morning. According to police, a man was found along Belcher Drive around 7:30 a.m. Sunday with what they described as a severe head wound. He was pronounced dead on the scene by Columbus medics. Detectives on scene tell 10TV that they are investigating the case as an "apparent homicide."The victim's name has not yet been released.
  
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• Police looking for man accused of robbing bank in downtown Columbus

  20-08-2017 14:52
  
  Police are trying to identify a man accused of robbing a bank in downtown Columbus.It happened on July 7th at the PNC Bank at 155 East Broad Street. Central Ohio Crime Stoppers says the man used an ATM in the lobby -- or pretended to do so -- before entering the bank and presenting a teller with a note demanding money.After the teller complied, authorities say the man ran from the building and headed south on 4th Street. According to authorities, the man is described as between 5-foot-8 and 5-fo
  
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• 1-year-old grazed by bullet in NYC, police say

  20-08-2017 14:37
  
  NEW YORK -- Police say a 1-year-old child sitting in his stroller has been grazed by a bullet in Brooklyn.The toddler was with his mother and grandmother when he was struck by gunfire around 5:15 p.m. Saturday in the Brownsville neighborhood.The gunshots also hit a 20-year-old man in the right thigh.Both victims were taken to hospitals and are expected to survive.Witness Noel Love told CBS New York he heard what sounded like seven shots."You see the kids, they're yelling. Some guy, he's bleeding
  
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• Barcelona terrorist attack: Whereabouts unclear for missing Australian boy

  20-08-2017 14:27
  
  Spanish police said Saturday that the earlier reports were false that a 7-year-old British and Australian boy missing since the Barcelona terrorist attack had been found.In two tweets on their English language account, Catalon police said they "had not found any lost child in the Barcelona attack" and the priority would be to notify the child's family. All the victims and injured have been located, the Catalon police said.Julian Alessandro Cadman became separated from his mother during the terro
  
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• Suspect in Kissimmee police shootings is former Marine, records show

  20-08-2017 14:21
  
  KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- The man accused of killing two police officers in what appeared to be an ambush in in Kissimmee, Florida, on Friday is a former Marine, records show.Everett Miller, 45, was arrested at a bar several hours after the shooting.Officer Matthew Baxter died Friday night, and Sgt. Sam Howard died Saturday afternoon at a hospital.According to Miller's online resume, he performed intelligence analysis during Operations Noble Eagle, Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom while working with
  
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• Man killed in motorcycle crash on East Side

  20-08-2017 14:00
  John R. Wharton, 29, was riding northbound on Stelzer Road between East 7th Avenue and East 11th Avenue, just south of John Glenn Columbus International Airport, shortly before 12:30 a.m. when he lost control of the motorcycle, Columbus police said.
  
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• No winner in massive Powerball jackpot

  20-08-2017 13:54
  
  Don't despair if you didn't match the Powerball jackpot in Saturday's drawing -- there was no winner, Powerball said.The next drawing, on Wednesday, will now be an estimated $650 million, Powerball said. The one-time, lump-sum is an estimated $411.7 million, or it can be collected over 30 years.The winning numbers in Powerball's massive $535 million jackpot drawn Saturday were 17, 19, 39, 43, 68 and Powerball number 13.Tickets are $2, and sales time cut offs vary by state but are usually one to
  
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• Police find 3 vans linked to attacks in Spain

  20-08-2017 13:01
  
  Police in Spain have linked three rental vans to the main fugitive from an Islamic extremist cell that carried out deadly vehicle attacks in Barcelona and a nearby seaside resort.A police official says Sunday that all three vans were rented using the credit card of Younes Abouyaaquoub, the 22-year-old Moroccan suspected of plowing down pedestrians on Barcelona's Las Ramblas promenade Thursday, killing 13 and injuring 120.He remains at large and is the subject of a massive manhunt in northeastern
  
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• Doppler 10: Heating up on Sunday

  20-08-2017 11:38
  Today: Patchy fog early then mostly sunny and hot.High 88.Winds: SE 4-8 mph.
  Tonight: Mostly clear, a little muggy.Low: 68.Winds: Light SE.
  Tomorrow: Partly cloudy to mostly sunny, hot & muggy.High 90.Winds: SW 5-10 mph.
  Tuesday: Showers and storms arrive with heavy rain and gusty winds.High 85.Winds: SW 10-15 mph.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSpecial Information: High pressure is here which means we’ll see sunshine today.Expect patchy dense fog ea
  
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• One person killed in motorcycle crash on Columbus' near east side

  20-08-2017 07:55
  
  One person was killed in a motorcycle crash near east Columbus Sunday morning.The crash happened around 12:30 a.m. on Stelzer Road near E. 5th Avenue.Columbus police said the motorcycle was the only vehicle involved in the crash.The northbound lanes of Stelzer were shut down during the investigation.The motorcycle rider's name was not immediately released.Stay with 10TV and refresh 10TV.com for updates.
  
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• One person killed in motorcycle crash in east Columbus

  20-08-2017 07:55
  
  One person was killed in a motorcycle crash in east Columbus early Sunday morning.It happened around 12:30 a.m. on Stelzer Road near East 7th Avenue.Columbus Police said John Wharton was northbound on Stelzer Road when he lost control of his motorcycle. Witnesses told police that Wharton was traveling at a high rate of speed when he lost control, leaving the roadway. Police said his motorcycle went into a ditch and struck a small culvert, throwing Wharton from the bike.The 29-year-old was taken
  
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• Comedian, civil rights activist Dick Gregory dies at 84

  20-08-2017 05:31
  
  LOS ANGELES — Dick Gregory, the comedian and activist and who broke racial barriers in the 1960s and used his humor to spread messages of social justice and nutritional health, has died. He was 84.Gregory died late Saturday in Washington, D.C. after being hospitalized for about a week, his son Christian Gregory told The Associated Press. He had suffered a severe bacterial infection."Years of severe fasting, not for health but for social change, had damaged his vasculature system long ago.
  
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• Comedian, civil rights activist Dick Gregory dies

  20-08-2017 05:31
  
  LOS ANGELES -- Dick Gregory, who broke racial barriers in the 1960s and used his humor to spread messages of social justice and nutritional health, has died. He was 84.Gregory's son, Christian, told The Associated Press his father died late Saturday in Washington, D.C. after being hospitalized for about a week. He had suffered a severe bacterial infection.Gregory was one of the first black comedians to find mainstream success with white audiences in the early 1960s. He rose from an impoverished
  
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• Ohio artists covering racist tattoos for free

  20-08-2017 05:00
  A Lancaster tattoo artist has joined a national movement to cover up any racist symbols for free.
  Richard Conrad has been a tattoo artist for 13 years. In that time, he has created body art and started his own business called Modified Studios in Lancaster.
  Now, he is embarking on a new kind of creativity -- erasing symbols of racism.
  "If that's not art, I don't know what is," Conrad said.
  Conrad and artists in his studio have joined a national movement called "Project Hate Cover-Up."
  "I'm on soc
  
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• Doppler 10: Clearing out with patchy fog.

  20-08-2017 04:03
  This Evening: Storms early then a gradual clearing.
  Tonight: Becoming mostly clear and seasonable with patchy fog late.Low 63.Winds: Light & variable.
  Tomorrow: Mostly sunny and hot.High 88.Winds: SE 3-6 mph.
  Monday: Mostly sunny, hot and a little humid.High 90.Winds: SW 4-8 mph.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSpecial Information: We’ll quiet down through the evening and clear out overnight with average lows.Sunday will be sunny and hot and above ave
  
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• California tightens rules on popular pesticide for farmers

  20-08-2017 03:05
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — California is tightening the strictest rules in the nation on a pesticide that is popular with farmers over new health concerns, officials said Friday.Farmers use chlorpyrifos to kill pests that attack a wide variety of crops like grapes, almonds and cotton grown in California, the nation's agricultural leader, as well as across the country.State officials are taking steps to put it on a list of chemicals known to be harmful to humans and to also increase the distance from
  
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• Finland stabbings 'a likely terror act;' Ties to Spain eyed

  20-08-2017 02:59
  
  HELSINKI — The knife attack in western Finland that left two people dead and seven others wounded is "a likely terror act," Finland's intelligence agency said Saturday, while police said Europol was investigating if it had any ties to deadly vehicle attacks in Spain.The suspect — an 18-year-old Moroccan asylum-seeker — was shot and wounded in the thigh by police during his rampage Friday in the city of Turku. He was hospitalized under guard — still in intensive care Satur
  
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• GOP doubts and anxieties about Trump burst into the open

  20-08-2017 02:42
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's racially fraught comments about a deadly neo-Nazi rally have thrust into the open some Republicans' deeply held doubts about his competency and temperament, in an extraordinary public airing of worries and grievances about a sitting president by his own party.Behind the high-profile denunciations voiced this week by GOP senators once considered Trump allies, scores of other, influential Republicans began to express grave concerns about the state of the
  
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• Licking County Sheriff's deputy struck by truck during shooting

  20-08-2017 01:58
  
  NEWARK – According to Licking County Sheriff Randy Thorp, a deputy in his office was treated at Licking Memorial Hospital and released after being struck by a truck and discharged his firearm.The deputy, Sgt. James Miller, who has 16 years with LCSO, was searching for suspects in a burglary when he fired shots and was struck by a vehicle while standing outside of his own. BCI is handling the shooting portion of the investigation."We were fortunate," Thorp said. Miller is being treated for
  
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• Licking County Sheriff's deputy being treated after being struck by vehicle during shooting

  20-08-2017 01:58
  
  NEWARK – According to Licking County Sheriff Randy Thorp, a deputy in his office is being treated at Licking Memorial Hospital after being struck by a vehicle and discharged his firearm.The deputy, who has not been named at this time, was searching for suspects in a burglary when he fired shots and was struck by a vehicle while standing outside of his own. BCI is handling the shooting portion of the investigation."We were fortunate," Thorp said. The deputy is being treated for non-life thr
  
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• Worthington schools preparing to hit the ground running for eclipse

  20-08-2017 01:28
  Teachers are getting kids excited to get back to school.In Worthington, one science teacher hit the ground running, preparing his kids for the eclipse."... This is one of those situations where I'm having to worry about how am I going to make a real world application of this...," teacher James Canterbury said. "It's happening, and they are excited about it, and they want to know how it works and then that way when they are watching it they can really appreciate it more so while they are watching
  
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• Prize-winning Polish-US playwright Janusz Glowacki dies

  20-08-2017 01:11
  
  WARSAW, Poland — Renowned Polish-U.S. playwright and screenwriter Janusz Glowacki, who won top prizes for his bitter, ironic analysis of the difficult lives of immigrants, died Saturday at 78.His wife, actress Olena Leonenko-Glowacka, announced his death but its cause was not immediately revealed.Popular in New York and Polish artistic and intellectual circles, Glowacki was the author of award-winning plays "Antigone in New York" and "The Fourth Sister," which set classic themes in the con
  
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• Demonstrators rally at City Hall to bring down Christopher Columbus statue

  20-08-2017 01:07
  Christopher Columbus was a villain of history and his statue should be removed, according to demonstrators who gathered today before one of several statues of the man in this city that bears his name. The hastily scheduled event at City Hall - drawing more than 100 people and no apparent counterprotestors - was in response to the clashes last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in the death of one woman.
  
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• Spain investigates missing imam, mysterious explosion

  20-08-2017 00:58
  
  RIPOLL, Spain — A missing imam and a house that exploded days ago became the focus Saturday of the investigation into an extremist cell responsible for two deadly attacks in Barcelona and a nearby resort, as authorities narrowed in on who radicalized a group of young men in northeastern Spain.Investigators searched the home of Abdelbaki Es Satty, an imam who in June abruptly quit working at a mosque in the town of Ripoll, the home of the Islamic radicals behind the attacks that killed 14 p
  
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• From age 3 to 80, Barcelona victims represent a wide world

  20-08-2017 00:41
  
  PARIS — An Italian father who saved his children's lives but lost his own. An American celebrating his first wedding anniversary. A Portuguese woman celebrating her birthday with her granddaughter.These were some of the 14 people from around the world killed in vehicle attacks in Barcelona and the nearby seaside resort of Cambrils on Thursday and early Friday. They spanned generations — from age 3 to age 80 — and leave behind devastated loved ones. The victims — who also
  
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• Counter-protesters block neo-Nazi march to Berlin prison

  20-08-2017 00:28
  
  BERLIN — Left-wing groups and Berlin residents prevented more than 500 far-right extremists from marching Saturday to the place where high-ranking Nazi official Rudolf Hess died 30 years ago.Police in riot gear kept the neo-Nazis and an estimated 1,000 counter-protesters apart as the two sides staged competing rallies in the German capital's western district of Spandau.Far-right protesters had planned to march to the site of the former Spandau prison, where Hess hanged himself in 1987, but
  
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