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• "We the People": Westerville students produce documentary-style film about inclusion

  25-08-2017 23:49
  Students in the English as a Second Language club at Westerville Central High School produced their own short film titled "We the People."The 15-minute documentary style clip shows what it's like to be teenage immigrant in today's America."It was hard because I left my friends, my country. I came to a different country like I didn't know anything about this country," said 17-year old Mohammed Al Ibraheem, who moved to the United States at the age of 14."Language, it was the hardest thing for me
  
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• Hurricane Harvey likely to boost gas prices for US drivers

  25-08-2017 23:22
  Hurricane Harvey is expected to hit a refinery-rich stretch of the Gulf Coast and U.S. drivers could soon see the impact at the gas pump.Some refineries are expected to shut down until the storm passes, possibly disrupting gasoline supplies.Wholesale gasoline futures rose Thursday 5 cents, or 3 percent, to $1.66 per gallon, and experts say that will quickly show up on service-station signs."Starting (Thursday night) you could start to see the Harvey effect being factored into gas prices," said P
  
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• Deadly fair ride accident could result in criminal charges

  25-08-2017 23:14
  August 26 marks the one month anniversary of a deadly incident at the Ohio State Fair.Friday, the Ohio State Highway Patrol was still guarding the Fire Ball ride that came apart in mid-air on July 26.The incident that was captured on camera sent seven people to the hospital and killed 18-year-old Tyler Jarrell.The teen had recently enlisted with the U.S. Marines.10TV has learned the Ohio State Highway Patrol has nearly completed its investigation into the deadly collapse and the Franklin County
  
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• Columbus slipping on list of bed bug-infested cities

  25-08-2017 22:35
  But that won't quite be cause for celebration at the 10th Annual Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force Summit, a public forum dedicated to providing all the latest research and guidance on the maddening, tenacious, blood-sucking pests. "What we ideally want to see is a decline," said Susan Jones, an Ohio State University entomologist and member of the Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force.
  
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• Statue vandalized at courthouse in Crawford County

  25-08-2017 22:15
  
  The Crawford County Sheriff's Office is investigating after a statue at the Crawford County Courthouse was vandalized.The sheriff's office provided a picture showing the head of the statue of Colonel William Crawford had been knocked off.Investigators said there is no indication that this is related to other recent vandalism around the state.Anyone with information is asked to call the Sheriff's Office at (419) 562-7906.Crawford County is named after Col. Crawford, who fought in the French and I
  
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• Blue Jackets Themed Playground Ribbon Cutting

  25-08-2017 21:51
  
  
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• Former Dublin teacher agrees to plead guilty in child porn case involving 15-year-old student

  25-08-2017 21:48
  
  A former Dublin high school teacher charged with sex crimes and child pornography involving a student has agreed to plead guilty to child pornography charges.Earlier this week 52-year-old Gregory Richard Lee was indicted in Franklin County court on two counts of sexual battery.He had already been charged in federal court with production and receipt of child pornography.Investigators said the images in question are of a 15-year-old student.Lee was a longtime teacher and track coach at Dublin Scio
  
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• Lunch & Learn Series: The Economy & Mental Health

  25-08-2017 21:35
  
  
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• Doppler 10: A nice weekend ahead!

  25-08-2017 21:32
  This Evening: Mainly clear skies, great for football!
  Tonight: Clear skies, a crisp night.Low 53.Winds: Light NE.
  Tomorrow: Lots of sunshine, very pleasant.High 77.Winds: NE 4-8 mph.
  Sunday: Mostly sunny, slight chance for a shower late.High 80.Winds: E 4-8 mph.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSpecial Information: High pressure will continue to influence us over the weekend which means more sunshine and pleasant weather!!!Things look great for football tonight
  
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• First & 10: Central Ohio high school football scores | Week 1

  25-08-2017 21:30
  
  The wait is over – high school football is back.First & 10 featured games this week:Westerville South at Dublin SciotoLogan at Dublin JeromeOlentangy Orange at Worthington KilbourneToledo Central Catholic at Bishop HartleyHarvest Prep at BexleyFranklin Heights at Eastmoor AcademyDublin Coffman at PerrysburgHilliard Bradley at Findlay Chopper 10 will fly over the following games:Zane Trace at Logan ElmMiami Trace at CirclevilleChillicothe at Teays ValleyGranville at Hamilton Township Wa
  
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• 2017 COTA Annual Luncheon: "It's A Journey, Not Just a Ride"

  25-08-2017 21:12
  
  
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• Face The State with Scott Light | August 27, 2017

  25-08-2017 20:46
  This week on Face The State with Scott Light:Confederate Statue debate - Just days after a statue here in Columbus is damaged, our panel looks at how the issue could impact Ohio.Presidential Unity - Is President Trump's message coming across nationally, or are conflicting statements getting in the way?Opioids In Ohio - After a series of roundtables this week, our guests look at the impacts the drugs are having on the economy. Guests this week:Rep. Steve Stivers (R) - Ohio 15thKirstin Alvantitaki
  
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• Ohio crews head to Texas ready to assist with Hurricane Harvey fallout

  25-08-2017 20:30
  As people in the direct path of Hurricane Harvey brace for a potential disaster, organizations from around the country are lending a hand, including those from the Buckeye state.10TV spoke with Keith Parrill, a senior disaster program manager for the Red Cross disaster services.Parrill will head down Houston Saturday, where he will be directed on the best ways he can help out.“Not knowing exactly how large this is going to be, we’re leaning forward, and that means we’re prepari
  
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• Crews search Ross Lake for missing Chillicothe woman

  25-08-2017 18:41
  
  ROSS COUNTY - Chillicothe Police confirm they received a tip last night to search Ross Lake for the body of Wanda Lemons.They passed that tip to the Missing Women Task Force and the Ross County Sheriff’s Office, who began coordinating a search, which is now underway.Chief Washburn says there was nothing special about this tip that gave it added credibility, but that as they have from the start, they will investigate and pursue every lead to its end.Between 2014 and 2015 six women disappear
  
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• “Columbus Has No Offseason” Trail Launches to Spur Sports Engagement

  25-08-2017 17:56
  The Greater Columbus Sports Commission (GCSC) is offering a new way to engage with local sports teams and national sporting events with the launch of their Columbus Has No Offseason Trail. The trail, comprised of 18 sporting events, spans from August 30 to April 1. Stopping at any four of them will earn participants a […]
  
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• In attacking Columbus, Antifa tries to finish what the Klan started

  25-08-2017 17:54
  In an effort to fight the hateful rhetoric of neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan in the wake of the violent protests in Charlottesville earlier this month, many protestors and government officials have called for the removal of Confederate monuments throughout the country. But for some, Confederate monuments represent just the tip of the iceberg - and they are actually doing the very thing the KKK worked for a century ago.
  
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• Former Ohio State coach Earle Bruce diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's

  25-08-2017 17:46
  
  Former Buckeye coach Earle Bruce has been diagnosed with the early stages Alzheimer's disease, according to his family.Coach Bruce has spent years raising money for Alzheimer's research. He and his late wife, Jean, started the Earle and Jean Bruce Foundation for Alzheimer's Research in memory of Earle's father, who passed away from the disease. Bruce's two sisters also suffered from Alzheimer's.Bruce took the reigns to the Buckeyes after the dismissal of legendary coach Woody Hayes. He lead the
  
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• Former Ohio State coach Earle Bruce diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's

  25-08-2017 17:46
  
  Former Buckeye coach Earle Bruce has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, according to his family.Coach Bruce has spent years raising money for Alzheimer's research. He and his late wife, Jean, started the Earle and Jean Bruce Foundation for Alzheimer's Research in memory of Earle's father, who passed away from the disease. Bruce's two sisters also suffered from Alzheimer's.The late Jean Bruce passed away from the disease in 2011.Bruce took the reigns to the Buckeyes after the di
  
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• Amazon planning warehouse on former Ohio shopping mall site

  25-08-2017 17:38
  
  CLEVELAND — E-commerce giant Amazon plans to build a massive warehouse outside Cleveland on the site of a closed shopping mall.The Plain Dealer reports Amazon finalized a lease deal Thursday to build an 855,000-square-foot warehouse in North Randall, a village of just over 1,000 people.The newspaper reports Amazon will create more than 2,000 full-time jobs. Construction costs are estimated at $177 million.Randall Park Mall was billed as the world's largest indoor mall when it opened in 197
  
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• Taylor Swift releases new song 'Look What You Made Me Do'

  25-08-2017 16:59
  
  NEW YORK — You can finally shake it off: Taylor Swift has released her new single.The 27-year-old singer dropped the upbeat song "Look What You Made Me Do" — which uses an interpolation from Right Said Fred's 1991 hit "I'm Too Sexy" — late Thursday to streaming platforms and iTunes. The song, featuring elements of pop, dance and house, includes sharp lyrics like: "Honey, I rose up from the dead I do it all the time/I got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined I check i
  
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• Basebrawl! 8 tossed in testy game, Tigers top Yankees 10-6

  25-08-2017 16:43
  
  DETROIT — Once slugger Miguel Cabrera wrestled Yankees catcher Austin Romine to the ground at home plate, an afternoon game at Comerica Park collapsed into total chaos.All the testiness that had been building between the Detroit Tigers and New York finally boiled over. The toll of Thursday's fury — three bench-clearing altercations, eight ejections, one beaning and a lot of angry words."I'm sure there are going to be suspensions on both sides," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said after
  
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• Cincinnati Zoo's baby hippo to star in Facebook video series

  25-08-2017 16:06
  
  CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Zoo says its popular baby hippo will star in an internet video series called "The Fiona Show" starting next week.The zoo says the first video will be available on the show's Facebook page on Tuesday. It's not clear how many videos are planned or how regularly they will be produced.Fiona has already garnered millions of views on the zoo's Facebook page since her premature birth in January.Since then, her face has appeared on ice cream and beer, she was named an h
  
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• Indies Aplenty during H’wood’s Weekend Off

  25-08-2017 16:00
  Hollywood is taking a breather this weekend. No major studio releases. Not one. Some dreck, surely, but nothing big market. There are, however, some amazing indies you can find in theaters around town this weekend, and you should definitely take advantage. Here are some of the best choices. Whose Streets? Screening this weekend only at […]
  
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• High school cheerleader forced into splits by coach: "The world is a scary place"

  25-08-2017 15:46
  
  Denver police are investigating a series of disturbing videos involving high school cheerleaders showing students screaming in pain as they are forced into splits by their coach. The footage was recorded earlier this summer, but surfaced this week. Five Denver public school officials have been placed on leave.Kirsten Wakefield is the mother of one of the girls in those videos. She says her daughter quit the team because she was afraid to be in the same room as her coach. That coach was dismissed
  
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• Rescues efforts mount in Houston as Harvey pours it on heavy

  25-08-2017 15:09
  Hundreds of rescues already have been made in Houston and many more were expected Sunday as rescuers battling severe weather and heavy downpours tried hard to reach those left stranded in Harvey's wake, one day after the once-fearsome hurricane spun deeper into the Texas coastline in a blow that killed at least two people and injured up to 14.Throughout the region between Corpus Christi and Houston — where rescue efforts increased as water levels rose to dangerous levels — many peopl
  
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• Rescuers pluck hundreds from rising floodwaters in Houston

  25-08-2017 15:09
  HOUSTON — Tropical Storm Harvey sent devastating floods pouring into the nation's fourth-largest city Sunday as rising water chased thousands of people to rooftops or higher ground and overwhelmed rescuers who could not keep up with the constant calls for help.Governor Greg Abbott held a press conference today on the current situation in Texas following Hurricane Harvey.The incessant rain covered much of Houston in turbid, gray-green water and turned streets into rivers navigable only by b
  
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• Menacing Harvey makes landfall on Texas coast as Category 4 storm

  25-08-2017 15:09
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — With time running out, tens of thousands of people fled Friday from the path of an increasingly menacing-looking Hurricane Harvey as it took aim at a wide swath of the Texas Gulf Coast that includes oil refineries, chemical plants and dangerously flood-prone Houston, the nation's fourth-largest city.Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned that the monster system would be "a very major disaster," and the forecasts drew fearful comparisons to Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadl
  
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• Menacing Harvey knocking on Texas coast as Category 4 storm

  25-08-2017 15:09
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — With time running out, tens of thousands of people fled Friday from the path of an increasingly menacing-looking Hurricane Harvey as it took aim at a wide swath of the Texas Gulf Coast that includes oil refineries, chemical plants and dangerously flood-prone Houston, the nation's fourth-largest city.Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned that the monster system would be "a very major disaster," and the forecasts drew fearful comparisons to Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadl
  
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• Hurricane Harvey strengthens to Category 4 storm

  25-08-2017 15:09
  HOUSTON — The Latest on Hurricane Harvey as it takes aim at the Texas coast (all times local):6:05 p.m.The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Harvey has strengthened to a Category 4 storm.The center says Harvey has sustained wind speeds of 130 mph (209kph) as the powerful storm churns off the Texas coast. Forecasters are labeling it a "life-threatening storm."The storm quickly grew Thursday from a tropical depression into a Category 1 hurricane, and then developed into a Category 2 s
  
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• Hurricane Harvey strengthens to Category 3 storm

  25-08-2017 15:09
  HOUSTON — The Latest on Hurricane Harvey as it takes aim at the Texas coast (all times local):2:10 p.m.The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Harvey has strengthened to a Category 3 storm.The center says Harvey has maximum wind speeds of 120 mph (193.11 kph) as the powerful storm churns off the Texas coast. Forecasters are labeling it a "life-threatening storm."The storm quickly grew Thursday from a tropical depression into a Category 1 hurricane, and then developed into a Category 2
  
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• Hurricane Harvey poses "grave risk," forecasters say

  25-08-2017 15:09
  HOUSTON — Hurricane Harvey intensified as it steered toward the Texas coast on Friday, with forecasters saying it had strengthened to a Category 2 storm with the potential to swamp communities more than 100 miles inland.The slow-moving hurricane could be the fiercest such storm to hit the United States in almost a dozen years. Forecasters labeled Harvey a "life-threatening storm" that posed a "grave risk" as millions of people braced for a prolonged battering.The storm has the potential to
  
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• Hurricane Harvey makes landfall on Texas coast, weakens to tropical storm

  25-08-2017 15:09
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The National Hurricane Center has downgraded Harvey from a Category 1 hurricane to a tropical storm.But officials say they are still worried about potentially catastrophic rainfall that will continue for days, with more than 40 inches and flash flooding possible even well inland.Harvey came ashore Friday along the Texas Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm with 130 mph winds, the most powerful hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade.Experts say hurricanes almost
  
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• Hurricane Harvey makes landfall on Texas coast, weakens to Category 3 storm

  25-08-2017 15:09
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — With time running out, tens of thousands of people fled Friday from the path of an increasingly menacing-looking Hurricane Harvey as it took aim at a wide swath of the Texas Gulf Coast that includes oil refineries, chemical plants and dangerously flood-prone Houston, the nation's fourth-largest city.Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned that the monster system would be "a very major disaster," and the forecasts drew fearful comparisons to Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadl
  
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• Hurricane Harvey makes landfall on Texas coast, weakens to Category 2 storm

  25-08-2017 15:09
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — With time running out, tens of thousands of people fled Friday from the path of an increasingly menacing-looking Hurricane Harvey as it took aim at a wide swath of the Texas Gulf Coast that includes oil refineries, chemical plants and dangerously flood-prone Houston, the nation's fourth-largest city.Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned that the monster system would be "a very major disaster," and the forecasts drew fearful comparisons to Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadl
  
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• Hurricane Harvey makes landfall on Texas coast, weakens to Category 1 storm

  25-08-2017 15:09
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — With time running out, tens of thousands of people fled Friday from the path of an increasingly menacing-looking Hurricane Harvey as it took aim at a wide swath of the Texas Gulf Coast that includes oil refineries, chemical plants and dangerously flood-prone Houston, the nation's fourth-largest city.Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned that the monster system would be "a very major disaster," and the forecasts drew fearful comparisons to Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadl
  
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• Harvey spins deeper inland; full scope of damage is unknown

  25-08-2017 15:09
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Harvey spun deeper into Texas and unloaded extraordinary amounts of rain Saturday after the once-fearsome hurricane crashed into vulnerable homes and businesses along the coastline in a blow that killed at least one person and injured up to 14.Throughout the region between Corpus Christi and Houston, many people feared that toll was only the beginning. Authorities did not know the full scope of damage because weather conditions prevented emergency crews from getting
  
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• Catastrophic floods strike Houston; thousands flee homes

  25-08-2017 15:09
  HOUSTON — Tropical Storm Harvey sent devastating floods pouring into the nation's fourth-largest city Sunday as rising water chased thousands of people to rooftops or higher ground and overwhelmed rescuers who could not keep up with the constant calls for help.Governor Greg Abbott held a press conference today on the current situation in Texas following Hurricane Harvey.The incessant rain covered much of Houston in turbid, gray-green water and turned streets into wide channels navigable on
  
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• The Keep at LeVeque Tower Adds Dinner Service Next Week

  25-08-2017 14:02
  The Keep at LeVeque Tower, open since spring, will begin a dinner service next Monday, August 28. While the restaurant and bar share an address with the tower, they’re separate entities, and while they’ll offer delivery service to Hotel LeVeque guests, The Keep is intended to offer a unique and public access to the iconic […]
  
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• Coroner: Baby's death in car appears to be heat-related

  25-08-2017 13:43
  
  An Ohio coroner says preliminary findings indicate the death of a 15-month-old girl who was left inside a car by her mother as the woman worked in a nearby office building was heat-related.The mother found Sofia Aveiro motionless Wednesday evening in the parking lot of Procter & Gamble offices in the southwest Ohio city of Mason. The mother has been identified as P&G employee Karen Osorio-Martinez.She made a frantic 911 call, telling the dispatcher her daughter was dead when asked to per
  
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• US seeks prison sentence for VW engineer in diesel scandal

  25-08-2017 13:35
  
  U.S. prosecutors are seeking a three-year prison sentence for a Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal.Robert Liang will be sentenced Friday in federal court in Detroit. He is one of two VW employees to plead guilty, although others charged in the case are in Germany and out of reach.Prosecutors say Liang was aware that VW used software to cheat U.S. emission rules on nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles. His lawyer says he's not "greedy or immoral" but follow
  
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• 2 years later, PNC bank robber sentencing delayed again

  25-08-2017 13:20
  The sentencing hearing for the man who pleaded guilty to robbing the PNC Bank in downtown Delaware in 2015 has been delayed again in U.S. District Court.Alonzo D. Groce, 21, of Columbus, was scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 18 for one charge of bank robbery, but the sentencing was delayed to Sept.
  
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• Jail worker placed on leave amid financial investigation

  25-08-2017 13:06
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An employee at an Ohio jail has been placed on leave amid an investigation into potential mismanagement of funds.The Columbus Dispatch reports that 63-year-old Rickey Hodge, an accounts receivable analyst at the Franklin County Community Based Correctional Facility, was placed on leave Thursday.The Franklin County auditor has requested the state's help investigating "suspicious activity" related to the jail's financial management and reporting. He noted issues includi
  
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• Rosa Parks' house may be returned to US from Germany

  25-08-2017 12:52
  
  Section by section, American artist Ryan Mendoza painstakingly disassembled the small wood-frame home of civil rights icon Rosa Parks after learning that the struggling city of Detroit was going to have it demolished. He shipped it across the Atlantic Ocean and rebuilt it in the German capital of Berlin, saving the home and creating a new tourist attraction.The house has been up in Berlin less than a year, but after violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the grow
  
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• Inmate condemned in Ohio prison riot murders seeks review

  25-08-2017 12:52
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A death row inmate convicted and sentenced in the slayings of five fellow inmates during a 1993 prison riot in Ohio is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case.The state has until Sept. 18 to respond to 48-year-old Keith LaMar's request.LaMar was convicted of aggravated murder in 1995 for the deaths of five inmates during the riot at Lucasville's Southern Ohio Correctional Institution. He received the death penalty for four of the five murders.The 6th U.S. Cir
  
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• South Korean court sentences Samsung heir to 5 years prison

  25-08-2017 12:32
  A South Korean court sentenced the billionaire chief of Samsung to five years in prison for bribery and other crimes in a stunning downfall for the heir to South Korea's biggest family fortune and a global consumer electronics empire.The Seoul Central District Court said Friday that Lee Jae-yong, 49, was guilty of offering bribes to Park Geun-hye when she was South Korea's president, and to Park's close friend, to get government support for efforts to cement his control over the Samsung empire.
  
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• Doppler 10: Fall-like Friday

  25-08-2017 10:23
  Today: A mix of sun and clouds, but still feeling like fall. High 75. N wind around 5 mph.
  Tonight: Mostly clear, cool and crisp. Low 53. NE wind around 5 mph.
  Tomorrow: Pleasant with plenty of sunshine and a few degrees warmer. High 77. NE wind 5-10 mph.
  Sunday: Mostly sunny and beautiful. High 80.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSpecial Information: Feeling like fall again today. High pressure and a seasonably cool airmass will be in place across the region b
  
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• Opioid crisis: What can be done to protect kids? -

  25-08-2017 08:53
  Representative Steve Stivers held a roundtable discussion Thursday in Columbus to discuss the opioid epidemic in Ohio, which has claimed the lives of more than 4,000 people already this year. The focus of the meeting was on the affects of opioid addiction on children and communities.
  
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• Community honors missing Ohio sailor at vigil

  25-08-2017 05:32
  
  NORTH LEWISBURG, Ohio - Hundreds of people gathered at the North Lewisburg ball park for a vigil in honor of sailor Jacob Daniel Drake.The 21-year-old man from Champaign County is one of the missing sailors from the USS John S. McCain, his family tells 10TV.Members of the community volunteered their time in song and prayer Thursday night."I felt compelled to come because I think I have a similar story or background of this young man," said Alvin Birt, who also served in the U.S. Navy. Birt was i
  
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• Miss Dorothy Lee to be star of pageant at fairHere are the top...

  25-08-2017 04:32
  Miss Dorothy F. Lee of Norwalk has been selected to be Miss Progress, the star of the Pageant of the Firelands, to be the big spectacle at the Huron County Fair. Decision was reached today when the Fair Board awarded the prize of $100 cash to Mrs. Mert Day for having sold the most contest tickets, and the second prize of $50 to J.H. Henninger of Monroeville.
  
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• 2017 COTA Annual Luncheon, August 24, 2017

  25-08-2017 04:12
  
  
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