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• Popular Short North dog bakery to close at end of January

  05-01-2018 23:23
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - Susan Gates took orders for puppy cakes at Three Dog Bakery Friday like she's done every day for the last decade."We do birthday cakes and anything you can think of," said Gates.But the month of January 2018 feels a bit different for Gates. The gourmet dog bakery will shut down at the end of the month after being a staple for a decade in the Short North."I had to make the hard decision that we were going to close," she said. "The rent structure was going to be more than I could
  
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• Central Ohio company hiring Puerto Rico hurricane victims to help fill jobs

  05-01-2018 23:17
  Ohio's low unemployment rate left an Ohio company with a problem it was trying to solve.It needed workers and it needed them quickly. The solution: Puerto Rico.NEX, which operates in East Liberty, supplies car parts to Honda.When company Vice President Tod Johnson was having a hard time finding workers he remembered a 60 minutes story about an Illinois company that started hiring people displaced from Hurricane Maria that tore apart the Island of Puerto Rico.Many of those people fled to Orlando,
  
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• FBI probing Clinton Foundation corruption claims

  05-01-2018 22:44
  
  WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating whether the Clinton Foundation accepted donations in exchange for political favors while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, two people familiar with the probe confirmed Friday. The revelation comes as President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have been urging the Justice Department to look into corruption allegations involving the foundation.It is unclear when or why the probe began, but the sources told The Associated Press it has been
  
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• The Latest: Woman, 4-year-old daughter dead outside home

  05-01-2018 22:32
  Columbus police say officers were called to the home around 9 a.m. Friday on a report of a shooting. Police didn't immediately release the cause of death.
  
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• Columbus Division of Police Graduation Ceremony

  05-01-2018 22:05 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Ex-firefighter in Ohio pleads guilty to sexually assaulting minors

  05-01-2018 21:31
  
  An ex-firefighter in Ohio has pleaded guilty to charges that he sexually assaulted minors in the department's cadet program, where he was a training instructor.Twenty-four-year-old Jonathan Monroe pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges including sexual battery, gross sexual imposition, compelling prostitution and rape. Prosecutors said that one of the four victims was about 9 years old at the time of the crimes.The former Springfield Township firefighter could face up to 37 years in prison.Monroe's
  
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• Lawyer: Akron man thought "Wheel of Fortune" host told him to kill

  05-01-2018 21:28
  
  An Ohio man who reportedly believed "Wheel of Fortune" host Pat Sajak instructed him to kill his elderly mother has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.The Akron Beacon Journal reports that a judge made the ruling Thursday in the murder case against 48-year-old Derrick Williams.Defense attorney Brian Pierce says the Williams believed he was getting messages from the TV game show when he heard his hometown mentioned. He thought Sajak was telling him to kill his mother when Sajak said, "Do
  
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• Forecast: Sub-0 wind chills continue tonight

  05-01-2018 21:26
  This Evening: Bitterly cold with sub-0 wind chills.
  Tonight: Light flurries, mostly cloudy and bitter with wind chills of -10 to -20.Low 1.Winds: W 4-8 mph.
  Tomorrow: Bitterly cold with more sun and single digit afternoon wind chills.High 13.Winds: WNW 5-10 mph.
  Sunday: Increasing clouds with the chance for flurries late.High 30.Winds: S 8-12 mph.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSpecial Information: The deep freeze is almost over!Tonight will be bitterly cold a
  
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• Review: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds

  05-01-2018 21:00
  Have you ever watched The Hunger Games and thought, “You know what, I could probably do this?” Well, you crazy sociopath, you’re one step closer to that goal with PlayerUnkown’s Battlegrounds, or PUBG for short, and even closer yet with the game’s Xbox One Game Preview release earlier this month, or the 1.0 release two […]
  
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• PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Review

  05-01-2018 21:00
  Have you ever watched The Hunger Games and thought, “You know what, I could probably do this?” Well, you crazy sociopath, you’re one step closer to that goal with PlayerUnkown’s Battlegrounds, or PUBG for short, and even closer yet with the game’s Xbox One Game Preview release earlier this month, or the 1.0 release two […]
  
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• Proposal Calls for Three-Story Building at Maennerchor Site

  05-01-2018 20:37
  A proposal to build a three-story, 18-unit residential building at 966 S. High St. was presented to the Brewery District Commission last night. The plan calls for the demolition of a two-and-a-half story building – along with its one-story front addition – that sits immediately north of the Valters at Maennerchor restaurant, where the Columbus Maennerchor […]
  
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• Josh Mandel ending his campaign for US Senate

  05-01-2018 20:08
  
  Republican Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel (man-DEHL') says he is dropping his U.S. Senate bid, citing his wife's health.Mandel's decision announced Friday in an open letter to "friends and family" leaves Cleveland banker Mike Gibbons on the Republican side for now. Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is seeking a third term, after defeating Mandel in 2012.Mandel says in his letter that his wife has a health issue that will require him being there for her and their three children. He calls the decision "di
  
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• Man shot and killed by officers during drug raid at Whitehall apartment

  05-01-2018 20:07
  Whitehall police shot and killed a 28-year-old man who they said was armed as they executed a search warrant at a Whitehall apartment complex. According to Whitehall police, the Joint Eastside Tactical Response Team went to an apartment in the 5300 block of Great Oak Way north of East Main Street about 8 a.m. Friday where they said someone was selling fentanyl-laced heroin.
  
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• Community paramedics stem non-emergency calls to 911

  05-01-2018 20:07
  In this Dec. 11, 2017, photo, Randy Jones, a paramedic with the Whitehall Division of Fire, walks up the driveway to Maxine Welsh's home in Whitehall, Ohio. In this Dec. 11, 2017, photo, Randy Jones, a paramedic with the Whitehall Division of Fire, walks up the driveway to Maxine Welsh's home in Whitehall, Ohio.
  
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• Authorities: Police fatally shoot armed man in confrontation

  05-01-2018 20:07
  Authorities say police officers executing a narcotics search warrant were confronted by an armed man and fatally shot him at an apartment complex in suburban Columbus. Whitehall police say a person at an apartment in the complex was selling fentanyl-laced heroin.
  
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• Columbus Film Critics Name Best of 2017

  05-01-2018 20:00
  The Columbus Film Critics Association (CoFCA) gathered at that weird upstairs room at Ace of Cups last night to formally announce the winners of their 16th annual awards for the best in film of 2017. Greta Gerwig’s coming of age indie Lady Bird racked up the most awards with a total of four: Best Film, […]
  
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• Fast Forward: North Fourth Street in Italian Village

  05-01-2018 19:00
  While the High Street stretch of the Short North has become very well known as ground zero for construction, there’s an even larger amount of new development occurring along the strip of North Fourth Street in Italian Village just two blocks east. Just a few short years ago, this street was best known for being […]
  
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• Stranger than Fiction Oscar Contenders in Theaters This Weekend

  05-01-2018 18:00
  A January release date can mean terrible, awful, unwatchable things. It can also mean Oscar. You just have to choose carefully. The first week of the new year treats CBUS moviegoers pretty well, with at least one sure-fire Oscar contender in the mix. Maybe two. I, Tonya Director Craig Gillespie, armed with a whip-smart script […]
  
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• Misery march: Browns fans facing bitter cold for 0-16 parade

  05-01-2018 17:56
  
  CLEVELAND — The weather conditions will be suitably brutal. Like the Cleveland Browns' season.Despite temperatures forecast in the single digits, thousands of disillusioned fans are expected to attend a parade on Saturday to commemorate — and protest — the historically inept 0-16 season.Nothing like some floats and frostbite.The "Perfect Season Parade" organizer Chris McNeil's tongue-in-cheek tweet more than a year ago spawned a small uprising within Cleveland's passionate fan
  
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• Columbus graduates new police recruits as violence continues

  05-01-2018 17:50
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio's largest city graduated its latest class of police recruits Friday at a time of soaring street violence, a point underscored by reports of a double homicide as the ceremony got underway.Columbus recorded 143 killings last year, four more than the number of people slain in 1991 during the crack cocaine epidemic. At least four people have died this year, including the two on Friday.Mayor Andrew Ginther, a Democrat, noted the challenges facing officers as he addressed t
  
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• Two dead after Southeast Side shooting

  05-01-2018 17:39
  Columbus police are investigating after two people were pronounced dead after a shooting call on the Southeast Side Friday morning.
  
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• Forecast: Subzero wind chills into the weekend

  05-01-2018 17:39
  This Afternoon: Mostly to partly cloudy, frigid & brisk.Scattered flurries.High 12. Winds: W 7-14 mph.
  Tonight: Partly cloudy, dangerously cold. Wind chills near 10-15 below.Low -1.Winds: W 6-9 mph.
  Saturday: More sunshine, but still unseasonably cold.High 13.Winds: W 4-8 mph.
  Sunday: Becoming cloudy, not as cold.Chance snow late.High 30.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSpecial Information: Temperatures climb into the low teens this afternoon but we'll feel
  
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• Shadowbox Looks Back at Hits from Its Run in Epic

  05-01-2018 17:17
  This weekend Shadowbox opened Epic, a best-of retrospective looking back at material since they merged into the Front Street location in 2011. The eight sketches in this tight hour-and-forty-five-minutes trip down memory lane highlight Head Writer Jimmy Mak’s off-kilter look at human relationships and shine a light on director Julie Klein’s instincts for editing and forward motion. […]
  
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• First Look: Fox in the Snow German Village

  05-01-2018 16:25
  Italian Village-born coffee shop and bakery Fox in the Snow will open its second location in German Village on Saturday, January 6. Owner Jeff Excell made the announcement in 2016, two years after the original shop opened its doors on North Fourth Street. Though the new shop is twice the size of Fox in the […]
  
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• Intel CEO sold millions in shares before chip security flaw disclosed

  05-01-2018 16:13
  
  Intel's CEO sold shares in his company several months after Google informed the chipmaker of a serious security problem affecting its products.CEO Brian Krzanich sold about $39 million in stocks and options in late November, before the security vulnerability was publicly known. Intel says it was notified about the bugs in June.Intel (INTC) didn't respond to inquiries about the timing of Krzanich's divestments, but a spokeswoman told the financial website MarketWatch it was unrelated to the secur
  
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• 13-Year Harrison West Staple Caffe’ Apropos to Close this Month

  05-01-2018 16:09
  For 13 years, Caffe’ Apropos, located on the corner of Third and Michigan, has served up espresso, coffee, snacks, wine and beer, satisfying customers’ cravings from dawn ’til dark. That’ll come to an end this month, as owner Anton Wood confirmed the building will close its doors on January 19. “It is true we will […]
  
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• Ohio’s Own: Dutch Creek Wine

  05-01-2018 16:00
  Dutch Creek Winery isn’t an import from the Netherlands. It’s an operation based out of Athens. The business is the culmination of several pursuits: beekeeping, harvesting (it grows its own apples, peaches and pears), and alcohol production in the form of small batch meads and fruit wines*. Priced around $20-25 per bottle, its wares can […]
  
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• Police arrest, charge man involved in death of mother, 4-year-old in southeast Columbus stabbings

  05-01-2018 15:38
  Police arrested a 24-year-old man and charged him with two counts of murder in the stabbing of a 34-year-old mother and her 4-year-old daughter.Kristofer D. Garrett, 24, was arrested and charged with two counts of murder in connection with a stabbing outside a home in southeast Columbus Friday morning, according to police.Police identified the victims as 34-year-old Nicole Duckson and 4-year-old Christina.The Columbus Division of Police were called to the home on Fleet Road, near Refugee Road, j
  
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• Police arrest, charge man in stabbing of 4-year-old daughter, child's mother in southeast Columbus

  05-01-2018 15:38
  Police arrested a 24-year-old man and charged him with two counts of murder in the stabbing of a 34-year-old mother and her 4-year-old daughter.Kristofer D. Garrett, 24, was arrested and charged with two counts of murder in connection with a stabbing outside of a home in southeast Columbus Friday morning, according to police.Police identified the victims as 34-year-old Nicole Duckson and 4-year-old Christina.According to court documents, Garrett is the father of Christina. The stabbings happened
  
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• Police arrest, charge man in deaths of 4-year-old daughter, child's mother in southeast Columbus

  05-01-2018 15:38
  Police arrested a 24-year-old man and charged him with two counts of murder in the deaths of a 34-year-old mother and her 4-year-old daughter.Kristofer D. Garrett, 24, was arrested and charged with two counts of murder after the mother and daughter were found dead with stab wounds outside of a home in southeast Columbus Friday morning, according to police. Photo courtesy of the Columbus Division of PoliceMedia Folder: Media Root
  Police identified the victims as 34-year-old Nicole Duckson an
  
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• Mother, 4-year-old girl murdered outside home in southeast Columbus

  05-01-2018 15:38
  
  UPDATE: Columbus Police say a mother and her 4-year-old daughter were murdered outside their home on the southeast side.---Two people were found dead in southeast Columbus Friday morning.Columbus Police responded to a home on Fleet Road and Refugee Road just after 9 a.m. The call was initially reported as a shooting.Two people were pronounced dead at the scene, according to the police.No additional information was immediately available.Stay with 10TV for updates on this developing story.
  
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• Woman overcomes challenges after losing limbs to illness

  05-01-2018 15:17
  Pete Ueberroth helps his wife Eileen Ueberroth put on her arm and hook attachments at their home, Thursday, August 17. An afternoon of laughter with her sons and grandchildren. At 69, Eileen Ueberroth has an extraordinary zest for life - a life she nearly lost seven years ago when pneumococcal pneumonia turned to septic shock overnight.
  
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• Police: Officers shoot, kill man during drug raid at Whitehall apartment

  05-01-2018 15:13
  
  WHITEHALL, Ohio -- Authorities are investigating an officer-involved shooting at an apartment in Whitehall.Around 8 a.m. Friday, the Joint Eastside Tactical Response Team executed a narcotic search warrant at an apartment on Great Oak Way.Whitehall police say a person at the apartment was selling fentanyl-laced heroin and a search warrant was issued by the Franklin County Municipal Court.According to police, when officers entered the apartment they encountered an armed man, leading to a confront
  
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• Police identify suspected drug dealer killed during raid at Whitehall apartment

  05-01-2018 15:13
  WHITEHALL, Ohio -- Authorities are investigating an officer-involved shooting at an apartment in Whitehall.Around 8 a.m. Friday, the Joint Eastside Tactical Response Team executed a narcotics search warrant at an apartment on Great Oak Way.Whitehall police say a person, later identified as 28-year-old Ledarren D. Mixon, at the apartment was selling fentanyl-laced heroin and a search warrant was issued by the Franklin County Municipal Court.According to police, when officers entered the apartment
  
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• One injured in shooting at Whitehall apartment complex

  05-01-2018 15:13
  
  WHITEHALL, Ohio -- One person was injured in a shooting in Whitehall on Friday morning.Whitehall Police responded to a report of a shooting at an apartment complex on Great Oak Way near US-40.One person was transported to Grant Medical Center. The victim’s condition is unknown at this time.Columbus Police is assisting in the investigation. No other details were immediately available.Stay with 10TV for updates on this developing story.
  
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• Hundreds of water fixtures in Ohio schools found with lead

  05-01-2018 14:56
  
  TOLEDO, Ohio — Ohio school districts in the past year and a half have tested drinking fountains and faucets inside hundreds of older buildings, finding that about 10 percent of the fixtures had elevated levels of lead in the water, state records show.About half of the kitchen and classroom faucets and drinking fountains have been replaced while the others have been simply shut off or are no longer used.Nearly all of the voluntary testing was done after Ohio in 2016 overhauled its oversight
  
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• Safety Net: EP2 – Chris Riley

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• One person hospitalized after being hit by vehicle near Worthington Kilbourne H.S.

  05-01-2018 13:37
  
  COLUMBUS -- One person is in the hospital after being hit by a vehicle near Worthington Kilbourne High School, according to dispatchers with Columbus Police.Police said it happened along Hard Road at about 7 a.m.One person was taken to Nationwide Children's Hospital in stable condition, according to dispatchers.The westbound lanes of Hard Road were closed as police investigated.10TV has a crew on scene. Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com for the latest on this developing story.
  
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• First snow, now bitter cold disrupts life on East Coast

  05-01-2018 13:11
  BOSTON — Frigid temperatures, some that could feel as cold as minus 30 degrees, moved across the East Coast on Friday as the region attempted to clean up from a massive winter storm that brought more than a foot of snow, hurricane-force winds and coastal flooding a day earlier.Forecasters predict strong winds and record-breaking cold air will sweep the region, from the mid-Atlantic to New England, and hang around through the weekend."This is chilly, chilly stuff," Brian Hurley, a meteorolo
  
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• East Coast braces for a deep freeze following massive storm

  05-01-2018 13:11
  
  BOSTON — East Coast residents are bracing for a deep freeze a day after a massive winter storm slammed the region with heavy snow, hurricane-force winds and coastal flooding.Forecasters predict that record-breaking cold air and strong winds will set people's teeth chattering like castanets from the mid-Atlantic to New England on Friday and that the frigid weather will hang around through the weekend."This is chilly, chilly stuff," Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Ser
  
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• Let the Games begin? Why Kim Jong Un might be interested

  05-01-2018 12:00
  
  With little time to spare, North and South Korea are preparing to hash out Kim Jong Un's offer to send a delegation to next month's Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.Skeptics are calling the offer, floated by Kim during his annual televised New Year's address, a cynical tactic to drive a wedge between Washington and Seoul, while optimists see it as a sign of hope that Kim has decided to dial back his defiance and come in from the cold.The answer probably lies somewhere in between.But why, after a year
  
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• Homicide detectives investigating person found dead in southeast Columbus

  05-01-2018 11:51
  
  COLUMBUS -- Homicide investigators are looking into the death of a person found in southeast Columbus.Police say a person's body was found in an alley in the 1600 block of East Whittier Street.Officers arrived on the scene just after 5:00 a.m. Friday.Officers did not know how that person died, according to dispatchers.Investigators remained on the scene early Friday.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com for the latest on this developing story.
  
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• Forecast: Dangerously cold this morning

  05-01-2018 09:58
  Today: Partly cloudy, frigid & brisk.Wind chills near 20 below this am.Flurries pm.High 12. Winds: W 7-14 mph.
  Tonight: Partly cloudy, dangerously cold. Wind chills near 20 below.Low -1.Winds: W 6-9 mph.
  Saturday: More sunshine, still frigid.Not as brisk.High 13.Winds: W 4-8 mph.
  Sunday: Becoming cloudy, not as cold.Chance snow late.High 30. Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live RadarSpecial Information: Wind chills well below 0 this morning.Areas could see wind chil
  
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• Clarification: Neo-Nazi Website Sued Story

  05-01-2018 05:58
  In a story Dec. 28 about a neo-Nazi website publisher's whereabouts, The Associated Press reported that the publisher, Andrew Anglin, mocked a process server's claim that he recently spotted Anglin at an Ohio grocery store.
  
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• Businesses feel pain of below-freezing temperatures

  05-01-2018 03:53
  
  SHORT NORTH -- The flakes are flying, the thermometer keeps dipping and customers are staying home.Just ask Jason Holden whose BBQ truck is a lonely place this time of year."Nobody comes to the bar, nobody comes to eat," he said. "It's rough. It's been a hard winter so far."His Glass City BBQ food struck sits on the Patio of Endeavor Brewing Company where this winter weather isn't making it easy on the sales manager."It does make things tough," said Oliver Convertini. "We're still going to be op
  
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• Ryan Shazier's father says the injured Steelers star is improving, has some feeling in his legs

  05-01-2018 01:50
  
  The father of Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Ryan Shazier says his son has made significant progress since suffering a spinal injury in Cincinnati last month.Vernon Shazier told WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh that he is "a long ways from where he was on that Monday night when he was lying on the field." Ryan Shazier left the first quarter of Pittsburgh's victory over the Bengals on Dec. 4 with a spinal injury. He underwent spinal stabilization surgery on Dec. 6. The extent of his injury has not been disc
  
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• Complaint: Lawyer stole $35,000 from client in nursing home

  05-01-2018 01:15
  A Columbus lawyer is accused of stealing more than $35,000 while serving as the court-appointed guardian of an elderly man in a nursing home. John David Moore Jr. faces a disciplinary hearing before a panel of the Ohio Board of Professional Conduct after being charged with theft and neglecting the cases of other clients.
  
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• Former Democratic legislative leader may seek Tiberi's seat

  05-01-2018 01:14
  WASHINGTON - Former Ohio House Majority Whip Jay Goyal is seriously considering whether to enter this year's Democratic primary in the race to succeed Republican Pat Tiberi in the U.S. House - the latest and a significant potential addition to an increasingly crowded field. Goyal, 37, who as a member of the Ohio House represented Richland County, said he has "had some people reach out to me, encouraging me to run." "It's something I am giving some thought to," Goyal said.
  
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• Officials warn about eating romaine lettuce amid E. coli outbreak

  05-01-2018 00:57
  
  A warning from the CDC is urging people to be cautious of eating romaine lettuce after nearly 60 people were infected by E. coli bacteria, CBS Los Angeles reports. Health officials say the illnesses were reported in Canada and 13 states including New York, California, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio.According to Consumer Reports, the dangerous strain of bacteria has sent five people to the hospital and killed one person in the U.S. Another patient reportedly died of the illness in Canada, where the
  
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• 'Jeopardy!' host Alex Trebek recovering after head injury

  05-01-2018 00:56
  'Jeopardy!' host Alex Trebek will soon return to work after being treated for a subdural hematoma.In a statement, CBS said Trebek fell in October and hit his head.In a video statement, he said he had blood clots on his brain.CBS said he received treatment after some symptoms lingered.Trebek said he underwent surgery and spent two days in the hospital before going home for recovery.“The prognosis is excellent and I expect to be back in the studio taping more 'Jeopardy!' programs very, very
  
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