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• Bengals sign head coach Marvin Lewis through 2019

  02-01-2018 23:19
  
  The Cincinnati Bengals have signed head coach Marvin Lewis to a two-year contract through the 2019 season.Lewis will extend his Bengals-record head coaching tenure to 16 seasons in 2018. He is the winningest coach in Bengals history with 125 victories.“Marvin Lewis has been an important member of the Cincinnati community and the Bengals family for the past 15 years, and we are happy to have reached this agreement,” said Bengals President Mike Brown. “Marvin has made significant
  
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• Pickerington company offers jobs to teens to earn money

  02-01-2018 22:59
  The sound of shoveling snow, for some people, is a sound that makes them cringe.It's a sound that reminds them of cold temperatures and having to work hard while clearing off the sidewalk or driveway.Alec Hammer, 16, doesn't see it that way.The sound of a snow shovel is the sound of money in his pocket."It's a nice, fun way to make money," he said.The Pickerington Central sophomore has been hitting the pavement, this winter.He works with Sno Mo. It's a company that gives local teens the chance t
  
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• Columbus man vanishes while on vacation in Germany

  02-01-2018 22:38
  A Northwest Ohio family says their son went on a hiking vacation in Southern Germany but never returned as planned.Now they are asking for anyone's help for clues as to what may have happened.Twenty-four-year-old Stephen Berichon landed in Munich on December 9 and checked into a hotel in the town of Fussen on December 11."So far nobody has seen or heard him since the 11th no cell phone signal, no bank records, no credit card use it's still a complete mystery," says Uncle Michael Berichon of Powe
  
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• Tips to prevent the threat of hypothermia

  02-01-2018 22:33
  You may not know what the term hypothermia means but you surely know the first sign of the emergency medical condition: shivering.Hypothermia happens when your body loses heat to the point that your body temperature drops below 95 degrees Fahrenheit.Your body's first reaction is to aggressively try to warm its inside by shivering-- as your muscles start to move in an effort to create heat.Dr. Mike Patrick, who is an emergency medical expert at Nationwide Children's Hospital, said it can happen i
  
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• Cops: Man leaves kids at restaurant, says walk home in cold

  02-01-2018 21:43
  
  Authorities say a Pennsylvania man left three children at a McDonald's and told them to walk home in bone-chilling temperatures.The (Easton) Express-Times reports that 55-year-old Craig Alercia, of Upper Nazareth Township, is facing three counts of child endangerment. It's not known if he's retained an attorney who could comment on the accusations.Easton police say they went to the restaurant Friday night after someone reported three unsupervised children. The children told officers that Alercia
  
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• Police: Girl seriously hurt when dad crashes in street race

  02-01-2018 20:42
  
  Police say a 4-year-old girl riding in a vehicle driven by her father suffered life-threatening injuries when he crashed while racing another car on a Cincinnati street.WCPO-TV reports the vehicles made contact while racing Monday afternoon, and the car carrying the girl veered and hit an oncoming vehicle before going over a guardrail. The second racing car hit a separate oncoming vehicle.Cincinnati police Sgt. Mike Machenheimer says the child was hospitalized. He says some of the four drivers i
  
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• Ohio Gubernatorial Election Heats Up as More Democrats Have Entered the Race

  02-01-2018 20:39
  Since Ohio’s gubernatorial candidates first started filing, a lot has changed, with more candidates entering the Democratic primary and one leaving the Republican primary. Ohioans now have three Republican candidates and seven Democratic candidates to pick from for the state’s next leader, as the February deadline for petition-filing draws nearer. The GOP’s frontrunner, Attorney General […]
  
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• Cleveland woman pleads not guilty in death of son, 5, buried in yard

  02-01-2018 20:34
  
  The mother of a developmentally disabled 5-year-old boy found buried in the backyard of a Cleveland home has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges.Larissa Rodriguez didn't speak during her arraignment Tuesday. She remains in jail on a $1 million bond.Authorities on Dec. 19 found the body of Jordan Rodriguez buried in bags in the yard of his Cleveland home.Police say Larissa Rodriguez showed authorities where the boy was buried. Court documents say she told police she and her boyfriend b
  
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• Columbus led nation in home-value jump

  02-01-2018 20:26
  The real-estate service found that the total value of central Ohio homes rose 15.1 percent to $152.3 billion in 2017. That's the biggest percentage jump of any of the 35 largest metropolitan areas in the report.
  
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• Police: Florida man beat six-year-old stepson to death over cookie

  02-01-2018 20:11
  
  Deputies say a Florida man beat his stepson to death for sneaking out of bed to get a cookie on Dec. 30, and then may have made the boy's siblings lie in bed with the boy's body. Jack Junior Montgomery, 31, has been charged with first degree felony murder and three counts of aggravated child abuse.Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office deputies wrote in an arrest warrant for Montgomery that he and four children were staying in an extended stay hotel room in Seffner, Florida, around midnight on Dec
  
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• Bills fans flooding Andy Dalton's foundation with donations

  02-01-2018 19:41
  
  Giddy Buffalo fans are making a surge in donations to Andy Dalton's foundation, their way of thanking the Bengals quarterback for making the Bills' long-awaited playoff appearance possible.Dalton's foundation reported Tuesday it has received more than $100,000 in donations since the Bengals beat the Ravens 31-27 on Sunday. Dalton threw a 49-yard touchdown pass with 44 seconds left to eliminate the Ravens.We are blown away and so grateful for the amount of generosity we have been receiving! Keep
  
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• Deadly, bone-chilling cold grips wide swath of US

  02-01-2018 18:59
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Bone-chilling cold gripped much of the U.S. as 2018 began, breaking century-old records and leading to several deaths that authorities attributed to exposure to the dangerously low temperatures.The National Weather Service issued wind chill advisories and freeze warnings Tuesday covering a vast area from South Texas to Canada and from Montana through New England. Authorities opened warming shelters in the South as temperatures dipped notably close to zero in Alabama and Ge
  
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• YouTube star Logan Paul apologizes after video showed apparent suicide victim

  02-01-2018 18:47
  
  TOKYO — American blogger Logan Paul apologized Tuesday after getting slammed for a video he shared on YouTube that appeared to show a body hanging in a Japanese forest known as a suicide spot.Paul, who has millions of Twitter followers and YouTube subscribers, posted an apology on his Twitter site , saying, "Where do I begin. Let's start with this. I'm sorry."Although the video has been taken down, segments were still online. Critics, who have also gone online, say what was offensive was P
  
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• Strength Training for a New You this Year

  02-01-2018 17:50
  Here we go again with another new year. It’s the official end of the big holiday season, Halloween to New Year’s (where Americans average 7 to 12 pounds of weight gain), and the kick-off of many people’s hopes and dreams for a better version of themselves. 2018 is going to be different for you, because […]
  
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• Details emerge about teen accused of killing parents, sister, family friend

  02-01-2018 17:30
  
  LONG BRANCH, N.J. (CBS/AP) -- New details are emerging about a 16-year-old New Jersey boy who authorities say shot and killed his parents, sister and a family friend just before midnight on New Year's Eve inside the home where they lived. The teen is expected to make an initial court appearance Tuesday.Monmouth County Prosecutor Chris Gramiccioni said the teen will be charged with four counts of murder and a weapons offense stemming from the shooting that occurred late Sunday night, less than 20
  
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• Yavonne Sarber on the Coming Closure of deNOVO and the Decline of Fine Dining

  02-01-2018 16:54
  When Yavonne Sarber moved her upscale eatery deNOVO to Columbus Commons, she didn’t anticipate hurting for clientele. While an increasingly busy area come sundown, Downtown still doesn’t get the foot traffic common to neighborhoods further north on High Street, unless there’s a show at the theatre, or an event in the park. After holding on […]
  
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• Renovation forces move for peregrine falcons on Rhodes Tower

  02-01-2018 16:47
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — The exterior renovation of the tallest building in downtown Columbus has naturalists hoping peregrine falcons will find a new, temporary roost.A nest box atop the 41-story Rhodes Tower state office building has been moved around the corner to the Riffe Center, another government office building.The Columbus Dispatch reports the Ohio Department of Natural Resources is hopeful the birds will join other peregrine falcons at the Riffe Center but says there's no guarantee.Offic
  
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• Democrat in Ohio governor's race picks running mate

  02-01-2018 16:21
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — State Sen. Joe Schiavoni on Tuesday became the first Democrat in the Ohio governor's race to pick a running mate, selecting a state school board member vocal in her criticism of for-profit charter schools.Board of Education member Stephanie Dodd adds a woman to the Schiavoni ticket as he faces a female-dominated primary field in May. It also solidifies the central role of education in Schiavoni's push for the Democratic nomination to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Jo
  
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• 1 of 6 Democrats in Ohio governor's race picks running mate

  02-01-2018 16:21
  
  Democratic gubernatorial candidate and state Sen. Joe Schiavoni has chosen Ohio Board of Education member Stephanie Dodd as his running mate.Dodd lives at Buckeye Lake east of Columbus and was elected to the state school board in 2012.Among the six Democrats vying to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. John Kasich, Schiavoni is the first to pick his would-be lieutenant governor.Also running are former consumer watchdog Richard Cordray; former U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton; former state lawmaker Connie
  
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• Doctors save baby of pregnant woman fatally shot on Hilltop, reports say

  02-01-2018 15:47
  Columbus police were called to a home in the 600 block of South Hague Avenue, two blocks south of Sullivant Avenue, at 11:43 p.m. on a report of a shooting, a police dispatcher said. One person was pronounced dead at the scene at midnight, the dispatcher said.
  
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• Baby fighting for life after pregnant mom, man killed in shooting

  02-01-2018 15:47
  COLUMBUS - Columbus police are investigating after a shooting in the Hilltop area left a pregnant woman and a male dead, and the woman's baby fighting for his life. According to the Columbus Division of Police, at about 11:44pm, Monday, officers were called to the area of S. Hague Avenue and Whitehead Road on the report of a shooting.
  
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• All-SEC Title Game: Alabama vs. Georgia for national championship

  02-01-2018 15:47
  
  Alabama and Georgia won their College Football Playoff semifinals on Monday and will meet in the national championship next week in Atlanta, the home of the Southeastern Conference title game."Couldn't have scripted it better in some ways," SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said. "It will be one of the sweetest drives from Birmingham (Alabama, where the SEC offices are located) to Atlanta that we've ever experienced."The fourth-ranked Crimson Tide smothered No. 1 Clemson 24-6 in their Sugar Bowl rubb
  
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• Ohio girl seriously hurt when dad crashes in street race

  02-01-2018 14:47
  
  Police say a 4-year-old girl riding in a vehicle driven by her father suffered life-threatening injuries when he crashed while racing another car on a Cincinnati street.WCPO-TV reports the vehicles made contact while racing Monday afternoon, and the car carrying the girl veered and hit an oncoming vehicle before going over a guardrail. The second racing car hit a separate oncoming vehicle.Cincinnati police Sgt. Mike Machenheimer says the child was hospitalized. He says some of the four drivers i
  
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• NBC names Hoda Kotb as Lauer replacement on 'Today' show

  02-01-2018 14:36
  
  NEW YORK — NBC News opened the new year by appointing Hoda Kotb as co-anchor of the "Today" show's first two hours with Savannah Guthrie, replacing Matt Lauer following his firing on sexual misconduct charges in late November.Kotb will continue to co-host the show's fourth hour with Kathie Lee Gifford.She has subbed for Lauer beginning on the day he was fired. Despite the turmoil, "Today" won four straight weeks in the ratings over ABC's "Good Morning America," after it has spent much of t
  
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• Investigators: strong winds could be to blame for Costa Rica plane crash

  02-01-2018 14:07
  
  SAN JOSE, Costa Rica--Investigators in Costa Rica are trying to determine if strong winds caused a plane crash that killed 10 Americans near the town of Punta Islita on New Year's Eve. All 12 people on board died, including a family from New York and another from Florida.Two investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board in the U.S. are traveling to Costa Rica to help with the investigation, reports CBS News' Don Dahler. Costa Rican officials say they're focused on two things that c
  
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• Craftin’ Outlaws Announces Move to New Venue for Spring Show

  02-01-2018 14:00
  Craftin’ Outlaws has announced a new location for its Spring Fling show, one that will challenge the notion of ‘is it art or is it craft’? This year’s Spring Fling show will be held Sunday, March 18, 2018 at the Columbus Museum of Art. Outlaws organizer Megan Green is excited about the opportunities the new […]
  
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• 14 Things to Look Forward to in 2018

  02-01-2018 14:00
  2017 is a thing of the past and 2018 has officially arrived. We’re already excited for the things that are in store for this year, and thought it would be a great time to recap what’s coming soon to your city. 1. Free Bus Passes for Downtown Workers A program being launched by a joint […]
  
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• Leader of NYC Ballet retiring amid misconduct investigation

  02-01-2018 13:49
  
  NEW YORK - The longtime leader of the New York City Ballet is retiring in the midst of an investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct by him.Peter Martins wrote a letter to the company's board of directors on Monday announcing his retirement, saying the scandal had "exacted a painful toll on me and my family."The 71-year-old Martins told board members he continues to deny sexually harassing or abusing members of the company, including dancers. He said he had been the subject of news arti
  
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• Ohio court to hear big online school's funding case in February

  02-01-2018 13:44
  
  COLUMBUS - The Ohio Supreme Court will hear arguments in February over the state's efforts to recoup $60 million from one of the nation's largest online charter schools.The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow is challenging how officials tallied student logins to determine that the virtual school was overpaid for the 2015-16 school year.The state says that ECOT didn't sufficiently document student participation to justify its funding and could owe millions more from 2016-17.The court has scheduled
  
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• Drugs, gangs fuel record Columbus homicide numbers

  02-01-2018 13:29
  Candles illuminated first grief and then horror on the faces of children at the vigil for a slain friend as dark-clothed gunmen sprayed the crowd of mourners with bullets. The group had gathered on Barthman Avenue on the South Side in mid-December to remember Brandon Meeks, 29, who had been gunned down there two days earlier.
  
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• Columbus City Schools expands selective admission program

  02-01-2018 13:29
  Columbus City Schools' plan to expand the number of alternative buildings using "selective admission," in which students who maintain good grades and disciplinary records receive preference for getting into certain schools, is now official. An application for the district's new Africentric Early College campus is before the state Board of Education.
  
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• S. Korea offers to talk with North on Olympic cooperation

  02-01-2018 12:46
  
  South Korea on Tuesday offered high-level talks with rival North Korea to find ways to cooperate on next month's Winter Olympics in the South. Seoul's quick proposal following a rare rapprochement overture from the North a day earlier offers the possibility of better ties after a year that saw a nuclear standoff increase fear of war on the Korean Peninsula.In a closely watched New Year's address, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Monday that he was willing to send a delegation to the Olympics
  
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• 8 people injured in New York City building fire

  02-01-2018 12:43
  
  NEW YORK — The New York Fire Department says at least eight people have been injured in a fire raging through a Bronx building.Fire officials say they responded to the blaze at a four-story building near the Bronx Zoo in Van Nest at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.WABC-TV reports there are twelve apartments in the building, but the blaze appears to have started in a furniture store on the first floor. Most of the injuries appear to be not life-threatening.WNBC-TV reports at least 150 firefighters
  
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• 23 hurt, including firefighter, in Bronx blaze

  02-01-2018 12:43
  
  NEW YORK — The Fire Department of New York says 23 people, including a firefighter, are hurt following a Bronx blaze.All of them are expected to be OK.Investigators believe the fire started in a first-floor furniture store around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.Adults and children fled from the three stories of apartments above, including a man who ran outside with no shirt and no shoes. Nearby, icicles hung from power lines and ladders.Resident Erica Ortiz told WCBS that a window guard blocked a fire e
  
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• 16 hurt, 4 seriously, in New York City building fire

  02-01-2018 12:43
  
  NEW YORK — The Fire Department of New York says 16 people are hurt, four of them seriously, in a fire raging through a Bronx building.Officials say over 200 firefighters have responded to the blaze at a four-story building near the Bronx Zoo in Van Nest. It was reported about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.WABC-TV reports there are twelve apartments in the building, but the blaze appears to have started in a first-floor furniture store.The blaze comes only days after the deadliest residential fire to h
  
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• 12 hurt, 1 seriously, in New York City building fire

  02-01-2018 12:43
  
  NEW YORK — The Fire Department of New York says 12 people are hurt, one seriously, in a fire raging through a Bronx building.Fire officials say they responded to the blaze at a four-story building near the Bronx Zoo in Van Nest at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.WABC-TV reports there are twelve apartments in the building, but the blaze appears to have started in a furniture store on the first floor.WNBC-TV reports at least 150 firefighters are battling the fire.The blaze comes only days after the
  
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• Forecast: The bitter cold continues

  02-01-2018 10:14
  Today: Turning sunny and frigid.High 15.Winds: SW 5-10 mph.
  Tonight: Mostly clear and frigid with sub-0 wind chills.Low 1.Winds: S 3-6 mph.
  Tomorrow: Increasing clouds, a few flurries - cold.High 20.Winds: WSW 5-10 mph.
  Thursday: Mostly cloudy and bitterly cold with sub-0 wind chills.High 12.Winds: NW 10-15Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSpecial Information:The bitterly cold weather isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.Today skies will clear through the mid
  
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• No. 4 Alabama dominates No. 1 Clemson 24-6 in Sugar Bowl

  02-01-2018 06:31
  
  A pair of Alabama defensive players scored touchdowns 13 seconds apart in the third quarter, and the No. 4 Crimson Tide dominated top-ranked Clemson 24-6 in the Sugar Bowl semifinal game Monday night to give coach Nick Saban another shot at his record sixth national title.The third straight playoff meeting between the college football powerhouses was a dud compared to their previous two meetings, both high-scoring classics with the national championship on the line.Without Deshaun Watson, Clemso
  
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• Police: Woman in critical condition after shooting in west Columbus

  02-01-2018 06:02
  
  COLUMBUS -- Columbus police say a woman is in critical condition after a shooting in west Columbus.It happened at about 11:45 PM Monday on the 600 block of South Hague Avenue.Dispatchers could not release details about any arrests or suspects.Officers remained on the scene early Tuesday.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com for the latest on this developing story.
  
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• Police: Two people dead, one person in critical condition, in west Columbus shooting

  02-01-2018 06:02
  
  COLUMBUS -- Columbus police said two people were killed and one person was in critical condition after a west Columbus shooting.It happened at about 11:45 PM Monday on the 600 block of South Hague Avenue.One person died at the scene at 12:01 AM.Police said a woman who was initially listed in critical condition died at the hospital at 12:15 AM.Dispatchers could not release the victims' names. Police were looking for a Chevrolet TrailBlazer that might be carrying a suspect. Investigators could not
  
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• Police ID man, woman killed in west Columbus shooting; newborn remains critical

  02-01-2018 06:02
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Columbus police said two people were killed and another was critically injured in a shooting in west Columbus on Monday night.It happened at 11:45 p.m. in the 600 block of South Hague Avenue.When officers arrived on scene, they located three victims at the home suffering from gunshot wounds.Police say 23-year-old Keith Brian Williams III was pronounced dead at the scene.Marlazia Lashonda Jones-Mattox, 21, was transported by to Mount Carmel West Hospital in critical condition wh
  
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• Doctors save unborn child, mother dies in west Columbus triple shooting

  02-01-2018 06:02
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Columbus police said two people were killed and another was critically injured in a shooting in west Columbus on Monday night.It happened at 11:45 p.m. in the 600 block of South Hague Avenue.When officers arrived on scene, they located three victims at the home suffering from gunshot wounds.Police say 23-year-old Keith Brian Williams III was pronounced dead at the scene. Marlazia Lashonda Jones-Mattox, 21, was transported by to Mount Carmel West Hospital in critical condition w
  
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• Doctors save unborn child, mother dies in triple shooting

  02-01-2018 06:02
  
  COLUMBUS -- Columbus police said two people were killed and one person was in critical condition after a west Columbus shooting.It happened at 11:45 PM Monday on the 600 block of South Hague Avenue.One man died at the scene.A woman, who was 35 weeks pregnant, died at the hospital.Doctors were able to deliver and save her baby.Dispatchers could not release the victims' names.Police were looking for a Chevrolet TrailBlazer that might be carrying a suspect.They said it may have bullet holes on the
  
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• Teen Newark hunters save deer from frozen river

  02-01-2018 03:42
  NEWARK -- A trio of Newark teenagers came to the rescue of a deer on a frozen waterway last week.On their way to go hunting in a field, Alex Lupton, Fischer Nance and Games Claggett looked up to see a young deer struggling to make its way off a frozen riverbed.But the three refused to take the easy shot. Instead, they went to the deer's rescue.The video, posted Dec. 28, 2017, on Twitter, shows Nance walk out onto the ice and pick up the deer, walk to the side of the river and set it free.He said
  
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• Dawgs run wild: Georgia beats Oklahoma 54-48 in Rose Bowl

  02-01-2018 03:07
  
  Sony Michel burst through the line for a 27-yard touchdown run to give No. 3 Georgia a 54-48 victory Monday night against No. 2 Oklahoma, winning the first overtime Rose Bowl and sending the Bulldogs to the College Football Playoff championship game.Michel, who had a fumble in the fourth quarter returned for a go-ahead Oklahoma touchdown, ran for 181 yards and three scores for the Bulldogs (13-1), but none bigger than the last one in the second overtime.In the final game of one of the great coll
  
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• Feds employ data-driven early warning system in opioid fight

  02-01-2018 02:57
  
  The pain clinic tucked into the corner of a low-slung suburban strip mall was an open secret.Patients would travel hundreds of miles to see Dr. Andrzej Zielke, eager for what authorities described as a steady flow of prescriptions for the kinds of powerful painkillers that ushered the nation into its worst drug crisis in history.At least one of Zielke's patients died of an overdose, and prosecutors say others became so dependent on oxycodone and other opioids they would crowd his office, sometim
  
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• Worthington police searching for missing 82-year-old woman

  02-01-2018 02:26
  
  WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington Police department is looking for a missing 82-year-old woman. Florence Tooke has been missing since about 7 p.m. She left her home in the 200 block of St. Jacques.She is described as being 5-foot-2-inches tall and 100 pounds with red hair and green eyes and possibly wearing all black clothing. If you have any information on the woman's whereabouts, please contact Worthington Police at 885-4463.A photo is forthcoming from Worthington Police.
  
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