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• Youth Aviation Adventure aims to spark interest of future aviators

  01-10-2017 23:23
  When Steve Wathen was growing up, airports weren't surrounded by tall fences, so a kid with an interest in aviation could wander in and talk to pilots and view aircraft. Now the pilot and aviation enthusiast worries that a lack of access to airports and planes could negatively impact the number of kids who pursue aviation-related careers or hobbies.
  
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• OSHP troopers investigating serious crash in Marion County

  01-10-2017 23:03
  
  MARION - Troopers from the Marion post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol are investigating a crash that sent five people to area hospitals.The three-vehicle crash occurred at Ohio 309 and County Road 162 in Marion County, according to a press release.According to the release, a 2013 Kia Sorento, driven by Lillian R. Hager, 74, of Bucyrus, failed to yield to oncoming traffic while traveling northbound on County Road 162. The car crossed Ohio 309 and struck a 2000 Chevrolet Silverado, driven by Eli
  
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• Dalton throws 4 TD passes, Bengals blow out Browns 31-7

  01-10-2017 22:24
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Andy Dalton threw three of his four touchdown passes in the first half and Cincinnati's offense found the perfect opponent to work out some early season struggles and the Bengals rolled to a 31-7 win on Sunday over the overmatched Cleveland Browns.Dalton only missed on one throw in the first half, going 17 of 18 for 215 yards as the Bengals (1-3) built a 21-0 lead.He connected with A.J. Green, Tyler Croft and Giovani Bernard while dissecting the young Browns (0-4), who wer
  
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• Child finds body in Millersport canal, no foul play suspected

  01-10-2017 22:02
  
  MILLERSPORT -- A child found a body in a canal in Millersport Sunday afternoon, according to the Fairfield County Sheriff's Office.The body was described as a male in his 20s. Police say there does not appear to be anything suspicious about the death, though the body was there for several days.There is a wooden walkway in the area and deputies characterize it as a likely accident. No missing person report for the man had been filed.The man will be taken to the Licking County coroner's Office.
  
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• Body in Millersport canal identified, still no foul play suspected

  01-10-2017 22:02
  
  MILLERSPORT -- A body was found in a canal in Millersport Sunday afternoon, according to the Fairfield County Sheriff's Office.The body was identified as 24-year-old Chaz B. Coakley. Police say there does not appear to be anything suspicious about the death, though Coakley appeared to have been there for several days.There is a wooden walkway in the area and deputies characterize it as a likely accident. No missing person report for the man had been filed.The man will be taken to the Licking Cou
  
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• Trump says envoy 'wasting his time' talking to North Korea

  01-10-2017 21:25
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Sunday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was "wasting his time" trying to negotiate with North Korea over its nuclear and missile programs, raising speculation about whether Trump could be undermining efforts to maintain channels of communication or somehow bolstering the diplomat's hand in possible future talks.It was not immediately clear what prompted Trump's tweets, among a series of weekend posts that ranged from hurricane recovery efforts
  
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• Doppler 10: Warmer weather ahead

  01-10-2017 20:48
  This Evening: Sunny and seasonable this evening. High 71. SE wind 5-10 mph.
  Tonight: Mostly clear and seasonably cool. Low 48. E wind 3-5 mph.
  Tomorrow: Sunshine returns and a tad warmer. High 76. SE wind 5-10 mph.
  Tuesday: Sunny and warmer than average. High 80. S wind around 5 mph.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSpecial Information: Sunny and seasonable this evening. Dry conditions are expected through the middle of the week as high pressure influences the w
  
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• AP Top 25: Ohio State back in top 10, USC out

  01-10-2017 20:14
  
  Alabama's big win over Mississippi didn't keep Clemson from cutting into its lead in The Associated Press college football poll.Ohio State is back in the top 10 after dropping out last week for the first time in 43 straight polls.The defending national champion Tigers more than doubled their number of first-place votes after their 31-17 win over then-No. 12 Virginia Tech. Clemson lost ground a week ago after struggling for three quarters against Boston College, but its sharp performance against
  
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• Ex-Ohio principal convicted of failing to report abuse

  01-10-2017 19:56
  
  NEW LEXINGTON — A former Ohio high school principal has been found guilty of failing to tell authorities that a student had reported being abused by a family member.The Lancaster Eagle-Gazette reports former Sheridan High School Principal Chris King was found guilty of a misdemeanor charge of failing to report Friday in Perry County Juvenile Court in central Ohio.A Perry County assistant prosecutor argued in court that King failed to protect the student earlier this year. A counselor at th
  
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• Southern Ohio awarded $3 million to fight opioid abuse

  01-10-2017 19:20
  J.T. Barrett threw three touchdown passes and became Ohio State's career passing yardage leader in leading the 11th-ranked Buckeyes to a 56- Brandon Wimbush threw for three touchdowns and ran for another and No. 22 Notre Dame beat Miami 52-17 on Saturday night for the 900th FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2010 file photo, a pharmacy tech poses for a picture with hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets, the generic version of Vicodin in Edmond, Okla.
  
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• Police: Indianapolis teen fatally shot by family member

  01-10-2017 18:55
  
  INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis police say a teenager is dead after being fatally shot by a family member.The shooting took place early Sunday. The teenager was pronounced dead at the scene.Police believe the teen was trying to sneak out of the house and a family member heard noises and woke up. Authorities say the family member confronted the teenager when shots were fired. The alleged shooter remained on the scene and is cooperating with the investigation.Authorities have not detailed circumstance
  
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• Now a shadow of its former self, CompuServe blazed trails online Updated at

  01-10-2017 17:21
  Once the darling of the computer world - making Columbus, not Silicon Valley, the center of the tech world - CompuServe suffered through a series of takeovers and today lives in the shadows. Little exists of the first major commercial service that gave home-computer users access to cyberspace.
  
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• Saints kneel before, not during, anthem as NFL Week 4 begins

  01-10-2017 16:59
  
  New Orleans Saints players, coaches and staff knelt before the start of the national anthem but stood in unison once it began ahead of their game against the Miami Dolphins at London's Wembley Stadium on Sunday.A week ago, demonstrations were organized across the NFL in response to President Donald Trump's criticism of players who kneel during the national anthem. The Jacksonville Jaguars' Shad Khan was the first owner to join his players before the game, standing arm-in-arm with them.Some on th
  
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• "Yes" side wins Catalonia independence vote marred by chaos

  01-10-2017 16:50
  
  BARCELONA, Spain — Catalonia's regional government declared a landslide win for the "yes" side in a disputed referendum on independence from Spain that degenerated into ugly scenes of mayhem on Sunday, with more than 800 people injured as riot police attacked peaceful protesters and unarmed civilians gathered to cast their ballots.Catalonia has "won the right to become an independent state," Catalan president Carles Puigdemont said after the polls closed, adding that he would keep his pled
  
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• Spanish police fire rubber bullets near voters in Catalonia

  01-10-2017 16:50
  
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish riot police smashed their way into polling stations in Catalonia and fired rubber bullets Sunday at protesters outside one Barcelona polling station to try to halt a disputed independence referendum. Nearly 350 people, including some police, were injured in the melee, officials said.The officers fired the rubber bullets while trying to clear protesters who were trying to prevent National Police cars from leaving after police had confiscated ballot boxes from
  
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• Melee in Catalonia as Spanish police violently attack voters

  01-10-2017 16:50
  
  BARCELONA, Spain — Spanish riot police smashed their way into Catalan polling stations Sunday to try to halt a disputed referendum on independence, firing rubber bullets and attacking voters who were trying to stop them from confiscating ballots. The daylong melee injured at least 460 civilians and 11 police, authorities said.Police were acting on orders from the Spanish government to stop the voting, which Spain's Constitutional Court had declared illegal.The dispute over the independence
  
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• Media titan Si Newhouse is dead at 89, family says

  01-10-2017 16:12
  
  NEW YORK — Media titan Samuel Irving "Si" Newhouse Jr. has died at 89.His family says Newhouse, together with his brother Donald, owned Advance Publications, owned properties including Conde Nast, dozens of newspapers across the United States, and a controlling stake in Discovery Communications.Newhouse bought and remade The New Yorker and Details magazines, revived Vanity Fair and bought and sold the Random House book empire.The family paid tribute to Newhouse on Sunday, describing him as
  
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• Media titan Samuel 'Si' Newhouse is dead at 89

  01-10-2017 16:12
  
  NEW YORK — S.I. Newhouse Jr., the low-profile billionaire media mogul who ran the parent company of some of the nation's most prestigious magazines, died Sunday. He was 89.Newhouse's death was confirmed by his family, who said he died at his New York home.The chairman of Conde Nast since 1975, Si Newhouse, as he was known, bought and remade The New Yorker and Details magazines and revived Vanity Fair. Other magazines in the Conde Nast stable included Vogue, Wired, Glamour, W, GQ, and Self.
  
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• Man fatally knifes 2 at French station, yells 'Allahu akbar'

  01-10-2017 15:58
  
  MARSEILLE, France — A man with a knife killed two women at the main train station in the French city of Marseille on Sunday, shouting "Allahu akbar" during an attack that French authorities were working to determine had links to Islamic extremism.Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, who went to Marseille to meet with local authorities and troops on the scene, said local police have video that shows a man attacking a woman and running away, then coming back and attacking a second woman.The vid
  
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• IS claims fatal stabbings of 2 women at French train station

  01-10-2017 15:58
  
  MARSEILLE, France — A man with a knife stabbed two women to death Sunday at the main train station in the southern French city of Marseille as he reportedly shouted "Allahu akbar!" — an attack the Islamic State group claimed was the work of one its "soldiers."French soldiers shot the man to death after the attacks and authorities were working to determine if he had links to Islamic extremism.Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, who went to Marseille to meet with local authorities and tr
  
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• 2 women killed by man with knife at French train station

  01-10-2017 15:58
  
  MARSEILLE, France — A man with a knife attacked people at the main train station in the southeastern French city of Marseille on Sunday, killing two women before soldiers fatally shot the assailant, officials said.French police warned people to avoid Saint Charles train station, tweeting that an operation was underway. Soldiers and police took up positions outside the station, which was evacuated.Three police officials said one woman was stabbed to death. Two of the officials said the othe
  
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• Evolution’s World Premiere Traveling is a Warm Look at Life’s Last Days

  01-10-2017 14:00
  Evolution Theatre Company continues their season with a strong, delicate world premiere of Kenneth Talbert’s Traveling directed by Dee Shepherd. Traveling focuses on the last days of acclaimed dancer and choreographer Winston Lambert (Mark Phillips Schwamberger). He takes what comfort he can in his much younger lover Tyler (Nick Hardin), as we see his comfort […]
  
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• Crew Heads to Playoffs with 2-0 Win Over DC United

  01-10-2017 13:59
  A 12th home win, an unbeaten run of eight matches and a spot secured in the 2017 MLS Playoffs made for a pretty good night at MAPFRE Stadium as Columbus Crew SC continued their red-hot end of season run with a 2-0 victory over D.C. United. The home team produced another dominant performance to brush […]
  
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• Theodore Decker: A dozen years after woman shot, kidnapping charge filed Updated at

  01-10-2017 13:27
  On a September night in 2005, Diona Clark burst out of her North Side apartment in a mad dash to escape an abusive ex-boyfriend. She didn't get far.
  
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• Grove City voters to consider increasing council seats

  01-10-2017 13:27
  A proposed city-charter amendment would overhaul Grove City's government, adding two city council members and a fifth ward if voters give it the go-ahead. Since then, Grove City's population has more than doubled.
  
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• Doppler 10: Sunny and seasonable Sunday

  01-10-2017 11:48
  Today: Some areas starting with patchy frost this morning. Otherwise sunny and seasonable today. High 71. SE wind 5-10 mph.
  Tonight: Mostly clear and seasonably cool. Low 48. E wind 3-5 mph.
  Tomorrow: Sunshine returns and a tad warmer. High 76. SE wind 5-10 mph.
  Tuesday: Sunny and warmer than average. High 80. S wind around 5 mph.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSpecial Information: Some areas to our NE are starting with patchy frost this morning. Otherwise, su
  
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• Postdoctoral Associate in Biocircuit Engineering

  01-10-2017 11:34
  A postdoc position is open in the Laboratory for Biocircuits and Embedded Biosystems in the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Neuroscience at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, . The research program is highly interdisciplinary, employing approaches of stem cell, synthetic biology, tissue engineering, biomaterials and microfabrication to engineer biological circuits, devices and systems for medical applications.
  
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• O.J. Simpson out of prison after 9 years for armed robbery

  01-10-2017 09:43
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former football legend O.J. Simpson became a free man Sunday after serving nine years for a botched hotel room heist that brought the conviction and prison time he avoided after his 1995 acquittal in the killings of his ex-wife and her friend.Simpson was released at 12:08 a.m. PDT from Lovelock Correctional Center in northern Nevada, state prisons spokeswoman Brooke Keast told The Associated Press. She said she didn't know immediately where Simpson was headed in his first
  
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• OJ Simpson is freed, with no word on where he went next

  01-10-2017 09:43
  LAS VEGAS — Officials at a remote Nevada prison where O.J. Simpson was set free early Sunday after nine years for armed robbery arranged the former football and Hollywood star's dead-of-night departure to avoid public scrutiny.It worked. Simpson signed release paperwork just before midnight and disappeared into the darkness minutes into the first day he was eligible for release. Through efforts by prison officials to keep the time and place secret, there were no journalists outside the pri
  
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• OJ Simpson freed; parole official says he'll live in Vegas

  01-10-2017 09:43
  LAS VEGAS — ​Officials at a remote Nevada prison where O.J. Simpson was set free after nine years for armed robbery arranged the former football and Hollywood star's dead-of-night departure to avoid public scrutiny.It worked. Simpson signed release paperwork and disappeared into the darkness early Sunday, minutes into the first day he was eligible for release. Through efforts by prison officials to keep the time and place secret, there were no journalists outside the prison gates to
  
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• Official: OJ Simpson freed from Nevada prison after 9 years

  01-10-2017 09:43
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) - A Nevada prison official says O.J. Simpson, the former football legend and Hollywood star, has been released from a Nevada prison in Lovelock after serving nine years for armed robbery.Unlike when he walked free after his murder trial in 1995, Simpson faces parole supervision for another five years.Nevada state prisons spokeswoman Brooke Keast told The Associated Press Simpson was released early Sunday.The 70-year-old Simpson told the parole board that he wanted to live in Flori
  
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• Hardwood Furniture Guild boasts new arena building

  01-10-2017 07:41
  The Hardwood Furniture Guild, which helped raise funds for the new arena building at Harvest Ridge at the new Holmes County fairgrounds, recently held the first of many future events to be enjoyed by the Holmes County community. Representatives from the Harvest Ridge Board, the Hardwood Furniture Guild and the Holmes County Fair Board were on hand for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the doors for the 2017 Fall Ohio Furniture Market in the newly constructed arena building.
  
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• Barrett, Weber help No. 11 Ohio State rout Rutgers 56-0

  01-10-2017 05:34
  
  J.T. Barrett threw three touchdown passes and became Ohio State's career passing yardage leader in leading the 11th-ranked Buckeyes to a 56-0 victory over Rutgers on Saturday night.Mike Weber ran for a career-high three touchdowns and Ohio State (4-1, 2-0 Big Ten) blanked Rutgers (1-4, 0-2) for the second straight year. The Buckeyes have won three straight after being upset by Oklahoma.This marked the second meeting between Ohio Stata coach Urban Meyer and former defensive coordinator and now Sc
  
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• Crew clinch playoff berth with 2-0 win over DC United

  01-10-2017 04:34
  
  COLUMBUS — Josh Williams and Justin Meram scored and the Columbus Crew clinched an Eastern Conference playoff spot with a 2-0 victory over D.C. United on Saturday night.Williams opened the scoring in the 14th minute, finishing Federico Higuain's corner with a header from the middle of the area. Meram scored in the 56th with a blast from the left corner of the 18-yard box that hit under the crossbar.The Crew (15-12-5) improved their unbeaten streak to eight games and finished the night alon
  
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• Construction worker struck, killed by suspected impaired driver Posted at

  01-10-2017 03:55
  A worker died from injuries after getting struck by a suspected impaired driver in a construction zone on Interstate 70 early Saturday morning, according to Columbus police. The 2009 Honda Odyssey operated by 30-year-old Edward A. Torres, of South Charleston, entered eastbound lanes at Hilliard-Rome Road before moving into the construction zone where three right lanes were closed to traffic at 1:35 a.m. He passed a marked deputy sheriff's cruiser that had emergency lights activated.
  
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• Cavs owner gets 'vile' voicemails after LeBron's 'bum' tweet

  01-10-2017 03:17
  
  CLEVELAND — Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert received "vile, disgusting" voicemails after LeBron James called President Donald Trump a "bum" on Twitter.Gilbert said he was flooded with phone messages when the NBA's most celebrated player criticized Trump for rescinding a White House invitation to Golden State's Stephen Curry to honor the team's NBA championship."I received voicemails after LeBron tweeted that were some of the most vile, disgusting, racist," Gilbert said Friday on CNBC
  
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• Report: Welsh climber killed in Yosemite tried to save wife

  01-10-2017 03:01
  
  LONDON — A British newspaper is reporting that the Welsh climber killed by falling rock in Yosemite National Park this week died while trying to shield his wife.The Times says Andrew Foster's wife, Lucy, told her husband's aunt that he jumped to cover her as tons of rock came cascading Wednesday down the face of El Capitan, a 3,600-foot (1,100-meter) granite monolith that attracts climbers from around the world.Gillian Stephens, in an interview with the Times published Saturday, says Lucy
  
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• 2 killed, 6 hurt in rollover crash in northeast Ohio

  01-10-2017 02:43
  
  WOOSTER — The state Highway Patrol says two people have been killed and six others injured after an SUV crashed and rolled over in northeast Ohio.The patrol says the accident Friday night in Wayne County's Wayne Township involved a 2002 Mercury Mountaineer that overturned after leaving the roadway.The driver, 22-year-old Kristine Hutchison, of Wooster, and 16-year-old passenger Alex Collett, of Creston, were killed.The patrol says three teens were seriously injured. Sixteen-year-old Kayla
  
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• Hurricane stresses Puerto Rico's already weak health system

  01-10-2017 02:19
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Martin Lopez was shot in the hand last Saturday by two thieves who made off with his precious cans of gas in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. He was rushed to Centro Medico, a trauma center in the Puerto Rican capital where in ordinary times he would be quickly treated by surgeons and sent on his way.But five days later, the 26-year-old cook was still waiting because only a fraction of the operating rooms were available due to an island-wide breakdown in the electr
  
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• 'Let's Make a Deal' host, philanthropist Monty Hall dies

  01-10-2017 01:18
  
  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Monty Hall, the genial TV game show host whose long-running "Let's Make a Deal" traded on love of money and merchandise and the mystery of which door had the car behind it, has died. He was 96.Hall, who had been in poor health, died Saturday morning of heart failure at his home in Beverly Hills, said his daughter, Sharon Hall of Los Angeles."Let's Make a Deal," which Hall co-created, debuted as a daytime show on NBC in 1963 and became a TV staple. Through the next f
  
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• Tillerson says US has direct channels to talk to North Korea

  01-10-2017 01:09
  
  BEIJING — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson acknowledged on Saturday that the United States is maintaining direct channels of communications with North Korea even as tensions rise over the North's nuclear and missile programs and the countries' leaders spar through bellicose name-calling.Tillerson said the U.S. was probing North Korea's willingness to talk, and called for a calming of the situation on the Korean Peninsula, adding it was incumbent on the North to halt the missile launch
  
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• Joe Tiller, Purdue's winningest football coach, dies at 74

  01-10-2017 00:30
  
  For decades, Purdue has billed itself the "Cradle of Quarterbacks."No coach did more to maintain that reputation than Joe Tiller. The man who guided Drew Brees as a Boilermaker and was the school's winningest football coach, died Saturday at age 74. He died at home of natural causes in Buffalo, Wyoming, the Harness Funeral Home said."Coach Tiller was an important person in my life and to so many other guys who played for him," Brees, the New Orleans Saints star who played for Tiller from 1997 to
  
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• Man shot after barber shop argument escalates, later dies from injuries

  01-10-2017 00:10
  Crime scene tape marked off Livingston Avenue Saturday afternoon after a man was killed in shooting following an argument at a Driving Park barber shop. The fight started inside the shop, Totally Different, 1626 E. Livingston Ave., and led outside the back with as many as four shots fired, according to residents.
  
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