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• On the House: HGTV exposure opens doors for couple

  18-02-2018 23:37
  P.J. and Thomas McKay will arrive in Columbus later this week with a message: There is life after HGTV. Last summer, the couple, who call themselves the "Property Lovers," filmed an HGTV pilot called "Down to the Studs" about renovating Thomas's childhood home in Cleveland, Tennessee.
  
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• Judge: Administrators not liable for Ohio school shooting

  18-02-2018 23:12
  
  CLEVELAND — Five former administrators at a northeastern Ohio school district where three high school students were fatally shot and a fourth permanently disabled are not liable for the shootings six years ago, a judge presiding over a lawsuit filed on behalf of the victims ruled Thursday.The administrators, including the district's superintendent, were the last remaining defendants in a lawsuit filed after student T.J. Lane opened fire in the Chardon High School cafeteria while waiting to
  
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• No. 22 Michigan tops No. 8 Ohio St 74-62, helps other rival

  18-02-2018 21:46
  
  ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Jordan Poole scored 12 of his 15 points in the first half to help No. 22 Michigan take the lead and it never trailed in the second half of a 74-62 win over No. 8 Ohio State on Sunday.The Wolverines (22-7, 11-5 Big Ten) beat a rival and helped out another rival, giving No. 2 Michigan State a one-game lead atop the conference standings with two games left in the regular season.The Buckeyes (22-7, 13-3) have fallen out of first place by losing consecutive Big Ten games for
  
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• Forecast: Warmer week ahead

  18-02-2018 21:07
  This Evening: Pleasant and clouds will begin to increase late. SE wind 5-10 mph.
  Tonight: Increasing clouds with early morning showers. Low 39. SE wind 5-10 mph.
  Monday: Warming up and breezy with rain showers likely in the first part of the day. High 63. S wind 10-20 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph.
  Tuesday: Record breaking warmth. Cloudy and remaining gusty. High 72. S wind 10-20 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live Radar | School closings, delaysSpeci
  
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• Pres. Trump vents frustration over Russia probe, rails against FBI

  18-02-2018 20:47
  
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Venting his fury over the Russia investigation, President Donald Trump on Sunday asserted that the Obama administration bears some blame for the election meddling, insisted he never denied that the Kremlin interfered in the 2016 U.S. campaign and said "they are laughing their asses off in Moscow."In a rapid-fire series of tweets from his Palm Beach estate, the president unloaded over the Russia investigation, days after an indictment from special counsel Robert Muel
  
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• Pickerington native missing from L.A. leaves family in fear

  18-02-2018 20:02
  
  COLUMBUS -- A Los Angeles man, originally from Central Ohio, has vanished. His family and friends are frantically looking for him after he, his car and his cell phone have been missing for a week.Josh Thiede is a 2007 graduate of Pickerington High School North. He was reported missing to LA Police on Thursday after his mother hadn't heard from him since February 11.Friends in both cities are now doing everything they can to find him."You're kind of helpless," said Tim Starkey, track coach for Pi
  
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• Missing pregnant woman found dead in national forest in Minnesota

  18-02-2018 19:46
  
  MINNEAPOLIS – Authorities say the body of a woman who was pregnant and who was reported missing earlier this month was found Saturday in Cass County. CBS Minnesota reports Kara Blevins, 27, had not been seen since Friday, Feb. 2. She was last seen in the Akeley area, southwest of Walker and reported missing on Feb. 5.The Cass County Sheriff's Office says authorities found her body at about 8:15 p.m. Saturday in a wooded area in the Chippewa National Forest in rural Akeley. Her body was tra
  
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• OGP And MadLab Announce @thespeedofjake By Jennifer Maisel

  18-02-2018 19:02
  OGP's Ohio premiere co-production with MadLab of @thespeedofjake by Jennifer Maisel will take place Fridays and Saturdays, Apr. 6 - 21, 2017, with a special preview performance on Thursday, Apr. 5, at MadLab, 227 N. 3rd St ., in Columbus. Admission is $18 for the general public, $15 for students and seniors and $13 for MadLab members.
  
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• Russia: 5 dead in church shooting; police kill suspect

  18-02-2018 18:06
  
  MOSCOW — Russian media are reporting that a gunman opened fire with a hunting rifle on churchgoers leaving a service in the Dagestan region, killing five people and wounding four others. Police then killed the assailant.The shooting took place Sunday evening in Kizlyar, a town of about 50,000 people on the border with Chechnya.Four people were reported dead at the scene and state news agency Tass cited regional health ministry spokeswoman Zalina Murtazalieva as saying a fifth person died a
  
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• Life or death main decision for school shooting suspect

  18-02-2018 17:45
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The evidence against the Florida school shooting suspect is so overwhelming, the only question left for the courts if he is convicted is whether he will be sentenced to death or spend the rest of his life in prison.The fate of 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, who faces 17 counts of first-degree murder in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, will depend on his mental state and the wishes of the victims' families, which have a say in how the prosecution proceeds.Br
  
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• Police: Body found burning in trash pile

  18-02-2018 15:54
  
  CLEVELAND — Ohio authorities say a body has been found burning in a trash pile in Cleveland.A Cleveland police spokeswoman says the city Division of Fire was called to an east side address around 7 p.m. Saturday after someone reported a fire in a yard. Firefighters found what's believed to be a man's body in the trash pile.A fire department spokesman says the body had signs of trauma and a possible gunshot wound.The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office will seek to identify the body a
  
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• Sisters join local effort to throw birthday parties for homeless children

  18-02-2018 15:37
  COLUMBUS - Campbell and Paisley Barber ripped through dozens of unopened boxes from Amazon. The sisters received tons of packages from people across the country, and it wasn't even Christmas.The girls opened each box in awe."Paw Patrol cups. paw Patrol napkins," said Paisley in excitement. Those certainly aren't typical gifts, but the 9-year-old and 8-year-old didn't receive them for a typical reason."We decided to start gathering birthday supplies and we're going to throw Birthdays for those ki
  
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• Neil Goldberg Brings Inhibited Bites, Life Improbable as Science Fiction, to the Idea Foundry through the Wexner Center

  18-02-2018 15:00
  Time Out New York said artist Neil Goldberg “imbues familiar visions with unexpected associations and unforeseen grace.” In collaboration with CCAD, where Goldberg is both teaching and giving a public lecture on February 22, the Wexner Center brings his beguiling one-man show Inhibited Bites to the Idea Foundry on February 21. I spoke with Goldberg […]
  
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• Balani Custom Clothiers expanding made-to-measure menswear in Cleveland

  18-02-2018 14:25
  David Tinter, a stylist with Balani Custom Clothiers, slides a sheaf of fabric samples across Frank Ewing's desk as if he were showing off fine jewelry. He flips over the first few swatches, and points out the spring jacket patterns he thinks will best complement the young CEO's taste and complexion.
  
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• Funeral held for soldier who died saving others in NYC fire

  18-02-2018 14:22
  
  NEW YORK -- A funeral was held Saturday in New York City for 28-year-old Emmanuel Mensah, whom the U.S. government honored by posthumously awarding him two military valor medals after he died rescuing some of more than a dozen people trapped in the deadliest fire in the city in a quarter of a century.Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, celebrated the funeral Mass for an Army National Guard soldier and native of Ghana.In December, Mensah was staying with a family on
  
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• Police searching for aggravated robbery suspect

  18-02-2018 14:00
  COLUMBUS - Police are working to identify a man who attacked an employee and robbed a gaming house at gunpoint.On January 5, 2018, around 10:46 a.m. the suspect followed the owner of Jax Gaming House as he opened his store, pulled out a gun, and demanded money.The suspect then pistol-whipped the owner in the head and forced him into an office where he had to open a cash drawer.Authorities say the suspect fled with an unknown amount of cash in a dark colored 4-door vehicle possibly a Chrysler.If
  
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• Forecast: Skies clear, mild day ahead

  18-02-2018 11:44
  Today: Cloudy start, skies clear through the day.Mild & dry.High 45. Winds: S 5-9 mph.
  Tonight: Increasing clouds, spotty rain overnight.Low 37. Winds: SE 4-9 mph.
  Tomorrow: Scattered rain showers.Warm & Breezy.High 65. Winds: S 10-15 mph.
  Tuesday: Spotty showers.Warmer, cloudy and breezy. High 73.Weather Discussion:Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live Radar | School closings, delaysSpecial Information: High pressure slides overhead today allowing for partly to
  
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• Iran plane crash: 65 killed as commercial flight goes down in southern Iran

  18-02-2018 09:26
  
  TEHRAN, Iran -- An Iranian commercial plane crashed on Sunday in a foggy, mountainous region of southern Iran, killing all 65 people on board, state media reported. An Aseman Airlines ATR-72, a twin-engine turboprop used for short-distance regional flying, went down near its destination of the southern Iranian city of Yasuj, some 485 miles south of the Iranian capital, Tehran.IRNA reported Sunday night that one passenger did not make the flight. That puts the toll at 65, with 59 passengers and s
  
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• Commercial plane crashes in southern Iran, killing 66 people

  18-02-2018 09:26
  
  TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian commercial plane crashed on Sunday in a foggy, mountainous region of southern Iran, killing all 66 people on board, state media reported.An Aseman Airlines ATR-72, a twin-engine turboprop used for short-distance regional flying, went down near its destination of the southern Iranian city of Yasuj, some 485 miles south of the Iranian capital, Tehran.Aseman Airlines spokesman Mohammad Taghi Tabatabai told state TV that all on the flight were killed. The plane carrie
  
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• Businesses raise money for fallen officers' families

  18-02-2018 05:39
  WESTERVILLE -- Many businesses across central Ohio are doing what they can to help support and raise money for the families of two Westerville police officers killed in the line of duty a week ago.“I was heartbroken,” James Anderson, owner of Ray Ray’s Hog Pit said.“I have a family, too, and I couldn’t imagine what they are going through.”This weekend, all three Ray Ray’s locations are giving away pork sandwiches free of charge, but donations are encoura
  
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• Startup EmpowerBus rolls for greater social mobility

  18-02-2018 05:06
  "I have fond memories of the school bus," said Rodriguez, who is the daughter of a bus mechanic and visited him often at work. Those experiences and her passion for social advocacy, she believes, resulted in her having a recurring dream in which she helped children get to school on a bus that also served as a rolling classroom with computer monitors installed on the seats.
  
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• Mourners: Fallen Chicago officer was 'one of the good guys'

  18-02-2018 02:27
  
  CHICAGO — Mourners remembered a fallen Chicago Police commander Saturday as a model officer and "one of the good guys" who was uninterested in self-promotion, even as he moved up the department's ranks.Of all of Commander Paul Bauer's responsibilities, the ones that mattered the most to him were being a good husband to his wife, Erin, and good father to his daughter, Grace, several speakers said during his funeral at the Nativity of Our Lord Church."Erin and Grace were everything," said fo
  
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• Pres. Trump focuses on first responders after Florida shooting

  18-02-2018 00:28
  
  POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump has made a grim trip to a Florida community reeling from a deadly school shooting, meeting privately with victims and cheering the heroics of first responders.But he extended few public words of consolation to those in deep mourning, nor did Trump address the debate over gun violence that has raged since a 19-year-old gunman killed 17 and injured 14 others.Two days after the shooting, Trump visited Broward Health North Hospital Friday, where he
  
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