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• Jurors convict man of killing New Orleans police officer

  24-03-2018 23:49
  
  NEW ORLEANS — A man accused of killing a New Orleans police officer in 2015 was convicted Saturday, as jurors rejected his insanity defense.After a six-day trial, the jury deliberated just 66 minutes before finding 35-year-old Travis Boys guilty of first-degree murder in the death of 46-year-old Daryle Holloway, a 22-year veteran officer. Boys had pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity.Holloway was shot in a police SUV in June 2015 as he was transporting Boys to jail after
  
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• Survivor marks 6 minutes of strength and silence at rally

  24-03-2018 23:28
  
  Chin high and tears streaming, Florida school shooting survivor Emma Gonzalez stood silent in front of thousands gathered for the "March for Our Lives" rally in Washington, D.C.She continued to stand silently as a few crowd members shouted out support. She remained silent as tentative chants broke out. Her silence continued as those attending also fell quiet, many weeping.The gripping moment stretched for 6 minutes and 20 seconds, the amount of time Gonzalez said it took a shooter to kill 17 peo
  
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• Can Facebook restore public trust after Cambridge Analytica scandal?

  24-03-2018 22:54
  
  CHICAGO -- It's a scandal of privacy, politics and an essential ingredient of business success -- public trust. Facebook is confronting a costly, embarrassing public relations debacle after revelations that Cambridge Analytica may have misused data from some 50 million users to try to influence elections. Among its marquee clients: President Trump's general election campaign.Now a company known as much for reminders of a long-lost friend's birthday and documentation of acquaintances' every whim
  
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• SWAT officers kill woman who fired from Southeast Side house

  24-03-2018 22:45
  A 25-year-old woman was killed Saturday morning by Columbus police SWAT officers after they say she fired shots from a house on the Southeast Side. Police said they were called to the residence at 4:27 a.m. after Demeo barricaded herself inside with a rifle.
  
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• 7 months after Harvey, flood-control projects' fate unclear

  24-03-2018 21:35
  
  HOUSTON — Large-scale projects long considered essential to easing Houston's flooding woes went to the top of the area's to-do list after Hurricane Harvey inundated large swaths of the nation's fourth-largest city.Seven months later, local officials are still looking for funding to undertake plans that include a new reservoir, deeper and wider bayous and a costal barrier system — all of which have fallen victim to a lack of money or political will in the past.Yet local leaders insist
  
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• Columbus surpasses Cleveland metro area in population

  24-03-2018 20:36
  U.S. Census estimates show the Columbus metro area now has more people than metro Cleveland and is on pace to surpass Cincinnati at its current rate of growth. The Columbus Dispatch reports the Columbus metro area - which includes 10 counties within commuting distance of the city - exceeds the Cleveland metro area for population by about 20,000 people.
  
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• Forecast: Sunny Sunday ahead

  24-03-2018 20:16
  This Evening: Cloudy and cool. Temps in the 30s. NE wind around 10 mph.
  Tonight: Skies gradually clear and brisk. Low 24. NE wind around 10-15 mph.
  Sunday: Sunny, below average with a cool breeze. High 46. NE wind around 15 mph.
  Monday: Mostly sunny, breezy and milder. High 53. SE wind 10-15 mph.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live Radar | School closings, delaysWeather Discussion: A low pressure system will clip SW Ohio this evening bringing snow and a wintry mix to th
  
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• Forecast: Clouds break; Sunshine returns

  24-03-2018 20:16
  Today: Becoming mostly sunny.Chilly & breezy.High 46. Winds: E 8-16 mph.
  Tonight: Few clouds, still breezy out.Low 29.Winds: E 8-15 mph.
  Tomorrow: Increasing clouds, breezy but warmer out.High 53. Winds: E 7-14 mph.
  Tuesday: Scattered rain showers, breezy and mild.High 56.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live Radar | School closings, delaysWeather Discussion: High pressure will builds today, allowing for mostly sunny skies this afternoon.Winds will stay on the breezy
  
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• Scenes From March for Our Lives Columbus

  24-03-2018 19:54
  March for Our Lives movements are happening throughout the country today. Thousands of people participated in the March For Our Lives in Downtown Columbus. A rally began at West Bank Park at 10am, then participants marched to the Ohio Statehouse. Marches have been organized by students and survivors of gun violence. “As a child of […]
  
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• Police identify woman killed in officer-involved shooting in southeast Columbus

  24-03-2018 17:34
  
  COLUMBUS -- Homicide detectives are investigating after police responded to a "shots fired" call in southeast Columbus Saturday that ended with a woman’s death.Authorities have identified the woman killed as 25-year-old Kaitlin Demeo.Police responded to a report of shots fired in the 6000 block of Whims road at 4:30 a.m. When they arrived, a woman was firing shots outside her bedroom window, according to Public Information Officer Dean Worthington.Police said officers attempted to negotiat
  
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• Homicide detectives investigating officer-involved shooting

  24-03-2018 17:34
  
  COLUMBUS -- Homicide detectives are investigating after police responded to a "shots fired" call Saturday morning ended with a woman’s death.Police responded to a report of shots fired in the 6000 block of Whims road at 4:30 a.m. When they arrived, a woman was firing shots outside her bedroom window, according to Public Information Officer Dean Worthington.Police said the woman continued to fire and officers returned fire. The woman was pronounced dead at 8 a.m.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com
  
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• Sentencing set for man accused of cyberstalking Ohio sheriff

  24-03-2018 16:04
  An Ohio man who pleaded guilty to harassing a county sheriff in the state for nearly 20 years via letters, emails and websites has a sentencing date. A criminal affidavit filed last year said the harassment began in 1999 when Columbus resident William Young was arrested by a Delaware County officer on a menacing charge.
  
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• March for Our Lives: Students press for gun control in Columbus

  24-03-2018 14:03
  
  Students from Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School arrive in Washington ahead of Saturday's gun control rally, March for Our Lives. Rallies are taking place in about 800 cities around the world.In Washington, hundreds of thousands of protesters are expected to attend the march. The students will be accompanied by a number of celebrity performers, including Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson, Common, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato and Vic Mensa.In a statement, the organizers s
  
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• Jay-Z & Beyonce Announce Additional Otr II Tour Dates Due To Overwhelming Demand

  24-03-2018 13:45
  Z AND BEYONC have announced additional OTR II stadium tour dates due to overwhelming demand. Kicking off Wednesday, June 6 in Cardiff, UK, the international leg has added just added a second London show on June 16 in addition to additionsl dates announced earlier this week in Amsterdam date on June 20 and in Paris on July 15. In the US three new cities will go on-sale: Columbus, OH, Columbia, SC, and Seattle, WA and due to sold out shows, second dates have also been added in Washington, DC, East
  
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• Protests in Sacramento over unarmed man's death grow unruly

  24-03-2018 13:26
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Demonstrators broke at least one car window, doused a bystander with drinks, and blocked busy downtown Sacramento thoroughfares in the second day of protests over the fatal officer-involved shooting of an unarmed black man. The Sacramento Bee reports Friday's protests grew unruly and sometimes violent.About 200 protesters confronted drivers in traffic, breaking the rear window of one car as it made its way through the throng.One video shows a protester jumping on an SUV's h
  
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• Improbable Theatre’s Opening Skinner’s Box Comes to the Wexner Center

  24-03-2018 13:00
  Almost 30 years after his death, and 80 years after his early research at Harvard, BF Skinner still looms large over our contemporary understanding of behavior. One of the most discussed looks at what he taught us and how those lessons have reverberated with later experimental psychologists – and why we still don’t always want […]
  
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• Washington teen pulled from bike by officer awarded $500K

  24-03-2018 12:16
  
  TACOMA, Wash. — A Washington state teenager who was pulled from her bicycle in a mall parking lot four years ago and shocked with a stun gun by an off-duty officer working security has been awarded $500,000 in federal court.The jury issued the award to Monique Tillman on Thursday after she sued Officer Jared Williams and the city of Tacoma over the May 2014 encounter caught on surveillance video.Her brother Eric Branch was awarded $50,000.Attorney Rick Friedman told The News Tribune that i
  
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• French hero officer who swapped himself for hostage dies

  24-03-2018 11:15
  
  TREBES, France — A French police officer who offered himself up to an Islamic extremist gunman in exchange for a hostage died of his injuries, raising the death toll in the attack to four, and the officer was honored Saturday as a national hero of "exceptional courage and selflessness."Col. Arnaud Beltrame was among the first officers to respond to the attack on the supermarket in the south of France on Friday.Beltrame, who first took his place among the elite police special forces in 2003
  
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• U.S. service academy applications sought

  24-03-2018 09:15
  U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman are encouraging Ohioans interested in 2019 admission to U.S. military service academies to apply to each senator's office for a congressional nomination. "Ohio's students have the integrity, courage and knowledge needed to enroll in our nation's prestigious military academies, and I am honored to nominate students for this high honor," Brown says.
  
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• Students and supporters ready to rally in Columbus and in D.C. against gun violence

  24-03-2018 04:43
  At 9 years old, Owen Knight realizes there might not be many protesters his age when he attends the March for Our Lives at noon Saturday in Washington, D.C. "I'm perfectly fine with that, as long as I'm there participating and trying to make a difference," he said. "That's what really matters to me."
  
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• Ashland women's basketball team loses in title game, 73-game winning streak snapped

  24-03-2018 04:02
  
  SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota - The Ashland University women's basketball team saw its title defense fall short Friday night as they lost to 10th-ranked Central Missouri 66-52 in the Division II championship game.The loss also snaps Ashland's 73-game winning streak.Ashland senior Laina Snyder scored 16 point and grabbed nine rebounds.Snyder was named to the all-Elite Eight tournament team along with senior forward Andi Daugherty.This is Central Missouri's second national title.
  
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• Organizations get ready for March for Our Lives weekend in Columbus

  24-03-2018 02:42
  A handful of Ohio State students made signs, Friday evening, in preparation of Saturday's Sibling March.The person manning the markers - more important than the message being penned on the poster."I am making a sign to protest gun violence," OSU Freshman Cole Wallis said. "I think it's our duty as citizens to speak our minds and let people know that this is an issue that we believe needs solving.""I think people have given up their lives for this cause," OSU Freshman Deepthi Reddy said. "People
  
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• White House announces ban on most transgender service members

  24-03-2018 02:35
  
  The White House announced Friday that the Trump administration would implement its ban on all transgender service in the military "except under certain limited circumstances." It would also stop all use of Defense Department or Homeland Security resources to fund new sex reassignment surgeries, except to protect the health of individuals who have already begun treatment to reassign his or her sex. The announcement was expected, since it was part of President Trump's executive memo in August 2017
  
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• 'Vote them out!': Hundreds of thousands demand gun control

  24-03-2018 02:18
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a historic groundswell of youth activism, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied across the U.S. against gun violence Saturday, vowing to transform fear and grief into a "vote-them-out" movement and tougher laws against weapons and ammo.They took to the streets of the nation's capital and such cities as Boston, New York, Chicago, Houston, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Oakland, California, in the kind of numbers seen during the Vietnam e
  
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• 'This just needs to stop': Hundreds of thousands decry guns

  24-03-2018 02:18
  
  WASHINGTON — Summoned to action by student survivors of the Florida school shooting, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied in the nation's capital and cities across America on Saturday to press for gun control in one of the biggest youth protests since the Vietnam era."If you listen real close, you can hear the people in power shaking," David Hogg, a survivor who has emerged as one of the student leaders of the movement, told the roaring crowd of demonstrators at
  
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• March for Our Lives: Students press for gun control

  24-03-2018 02:18
  
  Students from Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School arrived in Washington Friday ahead of Saturday's gun control rally, March for Our Lives. Rallies are taking place in about 800 cities around the world.In Washington, hundreds of thousands of protesters are expected to attend the march. The students will be accompanied by a number of celebrity performers, including Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson, Common, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato and Vic Mensa.In a statement, the orga
  
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• Hundreds of thousands march for gun control in the US

  24-03-2018 02:18
  
  WASHINGTON — Summoned to action by student survivors of the Florida school shooting, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied in the nation's capital and cities across America on Saturday to press for gun control in one of the biggest youth protests since the Vietnam era."If you listen real close, you can hear the people in power shaking," David Hogg, a survivor who has emerged as one of the student leaders of the movement, told the roaring crowd of demonstrators at
  
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• District arms teachers with rocks in case of school shooter

  24-03-2018 00:46
  A rural school district in Pennsylvania is arming teachers and students with buckets of rocks as a last resort should an armed intruder burst in, the superintendent said Friday.Every classroom in the district about 90 miles northwest of Philadelphia has a 5-gallon bucket of river stones, said Blue Mountain School District Superintendent David Helsel."We always strive to find new ways to keep our students safe," Helsel told The Associated Press in a telephone interview, adding that the rocks are
  
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