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• Reward offer continues to grow in case of tortured cat in Richland County

  16-07-2018 23:53
  
  The reward offer in the case of a tortured cat in Richland County continues to grow as the cat continues to recover.The long-haired tabby cat named Katy P. was found severely injured after a firework was inserted and detonated in her rectum on July 8, 2018.According to the Mansfield News Journal, the reward leading to an arrest and conviction has grown to at least $18,000. That total includes donations online and pledges from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and The Humane Society of
  
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• Columbus Rotary Club Meeting 7/16/2018

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• Columbus man arrested after brief standoff with police on south side

  16-07-2018 23:25
  
  COLUMBUS -- A man was arrested after he threatened to kill his father in law and was in a barricade situation with police on the south side last night, according to Columbus police.Officers responded to the 500 block of East Gates Street where a suspect, identified as Zachary Richardson, 27, allegedly threatened to shoot his live-in father-in-law at about 9:30 p.m. Sunday.Police say Richardson refused to allow officers entry to the home. Richardson had warrants for his arrest, and police were to
  
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• Galion Police: Crawford County corrections officer cursed, insulted police during arrest

  16-07-2018 23:16
  
  According to a police report released by the Galion Police Department, Crawford County corrections officer Jason Tupps allegedly held a woman a gunpoint while off duty after a traffic crash on Kroft Street.According to the report, when Galion officers arrived on scene a little after 7 p.m. on July 9, Tupps was holding the woman at gunpoint with his weapon still drawn, the woman lying facedown on the road.Tupps alleged in the report that she was “brake checking him” while driving on C
  
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• Columbus to give 800 disposal bags to public to get rid of prescription medications

  16-07-2018 22:54
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – The city of Columbus will give away hundreds of bags so people can rid of unused prescription medications safely, according to the city attorney’s office.The 800 Deterra bags will be given to the public by the police and fire departments.The bags were donated to the city by a federal policy group, Addiction Policy Forum, and the Alcohol, Dug and Mental Health Board of Franklin County (ADAMH).ADAMH donated 500 bags and the Addiction Policy Forum donated 300.The bags u
  
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• Fox is 9th casualty after jaguar's weekend escape at zoo

  16-07-2018 22:44
  
  NEW ORLEANS — The death of a wounded fox brings to nine the number of animals that have died as the result of the weekend escape of a jaguar from its enclosure at the zoo in New Orleans.Rusty was one of three foxes attacked by the big cat. Audubon Zoo officials say on the zoo's website that Rusty died Monday.The jaguar, Valerio, escaped his enclosure before the zoo opened Saturday morning and was captured less than an hour later.The zoo reopened Sunday.Details on how the jaguar escaped hav
  
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• OSHP seizes $300,000 worth of heroin in Hamilton County

  16-07-2018 22:40
  
  Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers seized more than 4 pounds of heroin after a traffic stop in Hamilton County.Troopers stopped the vehicle with Arizona plates on Interstate 275 for an impeding traffic violation.A drug-sniffing canine alerted troopers to the vehicle and a probable cause search revealed the contraband valued at approximately $300,000.Twenty-five-year-old Gloria Lopez of Tucson, Ariz. And 19-year-old Lizbeth Sophia Morales of Losarcos Sierra Vista, Ariz. were both charged with pos
  
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• FDA issues recall for blood pressure medication due to cancer risk

  16-07-2018 22:20
  
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a recall for several drugs used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure due to the risk of cancer.The voluntary recall includes drugs containing the active ingredient valsartan.There has been an impurity found in valsartan called N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). NDMA is classified as a probable human carcinogen based on lab tests.The following are products listed in the recall, according to the FDA:Valsartan from Major PharmaceuticalsValsarta
  
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• Lawsuit: Ohio State failed to protect victim after alleged sexual assault by former diving coach

  16-07-2018 21:59
  
  A former member of the Ohio State University Diving Club claims a former coach used his position to sexually abuse her and says the college did not do enough to protect her or other female athletes.The class-action lawsuit was filed against the university on Wednesday. The suit also names the coach, Will Bohonyi, and USA Diving Inc.In court documents, a victim alleges Bohonyi sexually assaulted her while she was a member of the Ohio State University Diving Club.The victim says she was 16 when Bo
  
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• Lawsuit: Ohio State diving coach sexually abused athletes; university failed to stop him

  16-07-2018 21:59
  A central Ohio diving coach is accused of sexually assaulting underage athletes. And a lawsuit says Ohio State failed to stop it.The explosive and disturbing allegations are part of a class action lawsuit filed last week in federal court.The former Ohio State coach in question is Will Bohonyi. The defendants named in the lawsuit include USA Diving and the Ohio State University Diving Club.The suit accuses Bohonyi of forcing two former athletes into repeated sex acts, and USA Diving and Ohio Stat
  
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• Uprising Meadworks Opening Soon in East Columbus

  16-07-2018 21:39
  There’s a new meadery in town, and it’s opening soon in east Columbus. Uprising Meadworks, owned by local mead makers Jennifer Ganoe and Nate Rhone, will bring a production facility and taproom to 687 N. James Rd, across from Actual Brewing. The doors open to the public on Friday, August 3. Rhone has been brewing […]
  
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• How to maintain brain health in your golden years

  16-07-2018 21:20
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Challenging your mind and staying sharp can help you in your golden years.“The best ways, studies have shown, to do that is learning new activities," Dr. Kathleen Hager, DO, an OhioHealth Geriatrician, said. "Crosswords, reading, those are all fantastic ways to do it but the best bang for your buck in a sense is continuing to learn new things and activities.”Dr. Hager at OhioHealth’s Gerlach Center for Senior Health said doing these things can help your brain
  
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• Minnesota candidate arrested on suspicion of revenge porn

  16-07-2018 19:53
  
  ST. PAUL, Minn.— A City Council candidate in St. Paul, Minnesota, has been arrested on suspicion of violating the state's revenge porn law after a topless picture of his estranged wife was posted to his campaign website.Police say David Martinez was arrested at his office Monday, two days after a post on his website that included the photo and reported that she had obtained a restraining order against him.Martinez had already been banned from the city's libraries following his July 5 arres
  
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• Citizens Commission on Elected Officials Compensation, July 16, 2018

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• Court: Drug users can be jailed for relapsing on probation

  16-07-2018 19:28
  
  BOSTON — In a case that has attracted national attention, Massachusetts' highest court ruled Monday that judges in the state have the authority to order people to remain drug free as a condition of probation and under some circumstances order a defendant jailed for violating the drug-free requirement.The Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously that such a requirement does not violate the constitutional rights of people with substance use disorder or unfairly penalize them because of a med
  
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• Pranksters plant marijuana in city-owned flower pots

  16-07-2018 18:48
  
  City workers in Wyoming were surprised when they found something a little out of the ordinary growing in the community potted plants -- real pot.The city of Powell, Wyoming, is home to some cheeky pranksters, who, officials believe, planted marijuana seeds in city-owned flower pots this spring. City workers then unknowingly cared for the plants, The Powell Tribune reports.Parks and Recreation staff noticed the distinctive looking leaves last month while tending to the pots. One planter with flou
  
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• Mother accused of killing baby with drug-laced breast milk

  16-07-2018 18:27
  
  DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A 30-year-old woman with a painkiller addiction has been accused of killing her 11-week-old son with a lethal mix of drugs in her breast milk.Samantha Jones was charged Friday with criminal homicide in the April 2 death of her baby.An autopsy found the baby died from a combination of methadone, amphetamine and methamphetamine, the Bucks County District Attorney's office said in a statement.According to an affidavit, Jones told police she'd been too tired to make the
  
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• US Naval Academy: New hair rules don't apply to midshipmen

  16-07-2018 17:50
  
  ANNAPOLIS, Md.— A Navy rule change that lets servicewomen wear ponytails and other longer hairstyles won't apply to the U.S. Naval Academy.The Capital reports that academy spokesman Cmdr. David McKinney said the updated policy does not include midshipmen at this time. McKinney says the academy "will look at the policy and discuss how the regulations for midshipmen will change moving forward."Many black women had asked for changes to the female grooming standards.Chief of Naval Operations A
  
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• Community Shelter Board selected for funding to help end youth homelessness in central Ohio

  16-07-2018 17:47
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio --Columbus is one of 11 communities nationwide to receive federal grant money to combat homelessness among young people.Watch the event live in the player below:The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is awarding $43 million to cities like San Diego, Boston and Snohomish, Washington to support rapid re-housing, permanent supportive housing, transitional housing and host homes programs.Columbus specifically will be awarded $6.07 million, the second highest award follow
  
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• Columbus Receives $6.1 Million To Fight Youth Homelessness

  16-07-2018 17:30
  The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded $6.1 million to the Community Shelter Board in Columbus today, to help fund the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP). The funding came as a part of a larger announcement where $43 million was distributed across 11 cities in the U.S. “Young people who are victims […]
  
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• Portsmouth police find 14-year-old boy suspected of touching girls in Kroger

  16-07-2018 16:36
  
  PORTSMOUTH, Ohio -- Police have made contact with a 14-year-old boys suspected of inappropriately touching a girl at Kroger grocery store.The incident happened about 1:20 p.m. Saturday at Kroger at 811 Gay St. in Portsmouth, according to police.Police say a customer approached a Kroger employee and said her juvenile daughter had been touched inappropriately by an unknown person.The boy left in an awaiting vehicle and was accompanied by an older white woman. The vehicle appears to be a tan Ford m
  
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• Reynoldsburg police looking for missing "endangered" 13-year-old girl

  16-07-2018 16:05
  
  REYNOLDSBURG -- Reynoldsburg police are looking for a missing 13-year-old girl named Lillian Richardson.Police said she is considered "at risk" due to health concerns.Richardson was last seen in the area of Rose Hill Elementary at about 7:30 p.m. on July 15. She was wearing a purple jersey with the number "33."She had not returned home as of 5:30 a.m.She was also wearing blue jean shorts, black shoes and carrying a skateboard.She is 5-foot-3-inches, 120 pounds with blonde hair.If you've seen her
  
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• Toys, eyeglasses, cellphones surface in Cincinnati sewer system

  16-07-2018 15:55
  
  CINCINNATI— Workers in a metropolitan sewer district in Cincinnati have amassed an impressive collection of toys, eyeglasses and other objects that made their way through the sewer system.The Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati provides wastewater collection and treatment for businesses and residents in Hamilton County and small portions of adjacent Butler, Warren, and Clermont counties. Its combined sewer system takes in water from storm drains and sanitary sewers. WVXU radi
  
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• Photos: Courtney Barnett’s Sold Out Show at Newport Music Hall

  16-07-2018 15:53
  Australian slacker-rock singer/songwriter Courtney Barnett stopped by Columbus on Saturday night for an evening of jangly power-pop guitars, downplayed apathetic vocals and a healthy dose of wry, observational, Aussie humour. A packed and sweaty sold-out Newport Music Hall played host to Barnett, who is currently touring her critically acclaimed sophomore album, Tell Me How You […]
  
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• Royals release new photos to mark Prince Louis's christening

  16-07-2018 15:31
  
  LONDON (AP) — Kensington Palace has released family photos of Prince Louis in the arms of his mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, to mark the baby boy's christening.The four official photos were taken at Clarence House in London after Louis was baptized in the chapel at St. James's Palace on July 9. Official photograph to mark the christening of Prince Louis (Matt Holyoak/Camera Press/Duke and Duchess of Cambridge via AP)
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• Obama praises Kenya's political reconciliation

  16-07-2018 14:23
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya — Former U.S. President Barack Obama says Kenya is making progress in getting the government and opposition to work together.Obama, on his first visit to Africa since stepping down as president, on Monday praised President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga for cooperating following a last year's disputed presidential election.Speaking in Kogelo, the rural birthplace of his father, Obama said more needs to be done to face challenges such as corruption.Obama we
  
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• 1 teen killed, 1 injured in Marion County crash

  16-07-2018 14:03
  
  MARION -- Troopers from the Marion Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol are investigating a fatal crash that left a teenage boy dead and his passenger injured.The crash happened Sunday just after 8 p.m. on State Route 4 in Marion County, according to OSHP.Authorities say Logan R. Stevens, 16 of Marion, was driving a black 2002 Ford Mustang northbound on SR 4 and drove off the right side of the road and struck a mailbox and crashed into a tree.Troopers say he was pronounced dead on the scene by
  
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• AP Analysis: Billionaires fuel powerful state charter groups

  16-07-2018 13:03
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Dollar for dollar, the beleaguered movement to bring charter schools to Washington state has had no bigger champion than billionaire Bill Gates.The Microsoft co-founder gave millions of dollars to see a charter school law approved despite multiple failed ballot referendums. And his private foundation not only helped create the Washington State Charter Schools Association, but has at times contributed what amounts to an entire year's worth of revenues for the 5-year-old chart
  
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• Local business owners hoping to cash in on Amazon Prime Day

  16-07-2018 12:59
  POWELL -Some central Ohio business owners are among the thousands of vendors hoping to cash in on Amazon Prime Day.Chris Guiher runs Vintage Book Art in Powell. He says orders on Amazon Prime Day yield several times more than an ordinary day of sales."It is a huge day for me. I have about 2000-percent my average day sales," said Guiher.Amazon Prime Day runs from 3 p.m. Monday through Tuesday night. Guiher said his preparation begins in April or May to get ready for the lightning sales and deals
  
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• Jared Kushner's family firm accused of pushing out tenants

  16-07-2018 12:13
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The hammering and drilling began just months after Jared Kushner's family real estate firm bought a converted warehouse apartment building in the hip, Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.Tenants say it started early in the morning and went on until nightfall, so loud that it drowned out normal conversation, so violent it rattled pictures off the walls. So much dust wafted through ducts and under doorways that it coated beds and clothes in closets. Rats crawled through holes in
  
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• Trump-Putin summit opens without talk of election meddling

  16-07-2018 10:58
  
  HELSINKI (AP) — With a wink and a slouch, respectively, President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin opened their summit Monday as the American president declared that "the world wants to see us get along." Trump laid out a list of topics for discussion that notably did not include Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election."We have not been getting along well for the last number of years," Trump said as he and Putin sat down at the Presidential Palace in Finland's capital. "
  
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• Trump, Putin hold joint news conference after summit

  16-07-2018 10:58
  
  HELSINKI — President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin opened their long-awaited summit Monday with a wink and slouch, respectively, then talked one on one behind closed doors for two-plus hours before the American leader declared their meeting was off to a "very, very good start for everybody."Putin said during the news conference the Cold War is over and the United States and Russia need to solve problems together. Putin went on and said Moscow is ready for intelligence cooperatio
  
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• Trump 1-on-1 with Putin at Helsinki summit

  16-07-2018 10:58
  
  HELSINKI (AP) — President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin arrived Monday at Helsinki's presidential palace for a long-awaited summit, hours after Trump blamed the United States, and not Russian election meddling or its annexation of Crimea, for a low-point in U.S.-Russia relationsThe drama was playing out against a backdrop of fraying Western alliances, a new peak in the Russia investigation and fears that Moscow's aggression may go unchallenged."Our relationship with Russia has
  
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• Putin says he wanted Trump to win in 2016, didn't interfere

  16-07-2018 10:58
  HELSINKI — Russia's Vladimir Putin said Monday he did want Donald Trump to win the 2016 U.S. presidential election but took no action during the campaign to make it happen. He said he favored the celebrity businessman because of his policies.CBS SPECIAL REPORT: President Trump and Russia's President Putin hold a joint news conference:Trump and Putin "spent a great deal of time" discussing allegations of Russian election meddling as they met for several hours Monday, the U.S. president said
  
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• Amid investigations and tensions, Trump-Putin going 1-on-1

  16-07-2018 10:58
  
  HELSINKI (AP) — President Donald Trump blamed the United States, and not Russian election meddling or the country's annexation of Crimea, for a low-point in U.S.-Russia relations hours before a summit with Vladimir Putin that played out against a backdrop of fraying Western alliances, a new peak in the Russia investigation and fears that Moscow's aggression may go unchallenged."Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse," Trump tweeted from Helsinki Monday morning, blaming "many yea
  
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• Indiana gym in 1986 'Hoosiers' film needs repairs

  16-07-2018 10:20
  
  A historic gym in eastern Indiana that was featured in the 1986 basketball film "Hoosiers" needs a new roof, brick repairs and new windows.The Hoosier Gym, a rustic, 1920s-era structure in the farming town of Knightstown, served as a functioning gym until the mid-1960s, WISH-TV reported.It's now used as a community center where kids play basketball, said Bob Garner, events coordinator at the gym. The facility serves 70,000 people a year, including visitors from foreign countries, he said.Many up
  
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• Prime time: A day of deals at Amazon, and at its rivals

  16-07-2018 10:13
  
  Amazon is extending its annual "Prime Day" promotion to 36 hours this year and will try to lure more deal-seekers to the aisles of Whole Foods. Shoppers will have plenty of sales to choose from as other retailers offer promotions to try to take a share of the spending.This year's sales event, which starts Monday afternoon, will be six hours longer than last year's and will launch new products. Amazon hopes to keep Prime attractive for current and would-be subscribers after raising the annual mem
  
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• Alert issued for 72-year-old man missing from western Ohio

  16-07-2018 09:50
  
  MIAMI COUNTY, Ohio - The Miami County Sheriff's Office is asking for agencies statewide to be on the lookout for an endangered missing man.According to authorities, Herschel Whitt left his home on Wisteria Drive in the city of Troy around 10 a.m. Sunday morning and never returned. Police say that Whitt, who is 72-years-old, suffers from Parkinson's and is extremely forgetful.Whitt is described as 5'10" tall, 185 pounds, and has gray hair and green eyes.He is believed to be driving a silver 2010
  
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• Suspicious activity on LabCorp network could slow customer test results

  16-07-2018 04:01
  
  Suspicious activity on the network at LabCorp prompted a shutdown of key systems over the weekend, according to Donald Von Hagen, Vice President of Corporate Communications at LabCorp.Von Hagen said the company took key systems offline to thwart the suspicious activity, which temporarily affected test processing and customer access to results.LabCorp has no reason to believe that it experienced any data breach, or that a loss of data privacy or security occurred, according to Von Hagen.LabCorp s
  
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• Stolen firetruck stopped after wild chase in California

  16-07-2018 03:22
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Police chased a stolen firetruck across four Northern California counties during a wild high-speed pursuit that lasted nearly two hours and ended with two suspects under arrest.Officials say the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District truck worth about $1 million was taken from the scene of a small grass fire Saturday.The truck reached 70 mph as it sped about 85 miles through Sacramento, Placer, Yuba and Butte counties.It was eventually stopped on State Route 70 near Lak
  
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• Police identify man killed in Newark two-vehicle crash

  16-07-2018 02:50
  
  NEWARK, Ohio -- Newark police have identified a man killed in a two-vehicle crash Sunday afternoon.The crash happened just before noon Sunday at the intersection of Mount Vernon Road and the State Route 16 eastbound off-ramp, according to police.Investigators said Aaron Madinger, 50, of Newark was driving a gray 2014 Honda and had just exited State Route 16 eastbound when he was struck by Charles Preston, 25, of Mount Vernon who was driving a 2006 Dodge Ram 1500. Preston was traveling southbound
  
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• Newark man dies in two-vehicle crash Sunday

  16-07-2018 02:50
  
  NEWARK, Ohio -- A 50-year-old Newark man died as the result of a crash at State Route 16 and Mt. Vernon Road late Sunday morning, according to Newark Police.The call came into police just before noon Sunday and two vehicles were involved in the crash.The driver of the other vehicle was a 25-year-old man.Police said more information would be forthcoming Monday.
  
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• Deadly fire shuts down key route to Yosemite National Park

  16-07-2018 02:16
  
  MARIPOSA, Calif. — A wildfire that killed a California firefighter grew quickly and forced the closure of a key route into Yosemite National Park as crews contended with sweltering conditions Sunday, authorities said.The blaze that broke out Friday scorched more than 6 square miles of dry brush along steep, remote hillsides on the park's western edge. It was burning largely out of control, and officials shut off electricity to many areas, including Yosemite Valley, as a safety precaution.G
  
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• Tantrum Theater’s Riotous, Devastating Next to Normal

  16-07-2018 00:14
  From the moment it premiered Off-Broadway in 2008, Next to Normalwas special. Tom Kitt (music) and Brian Yorkey’s (book and lyrics) leaped to the front of the pack of sophisticated musicals that grapple with serious, adult themes. It’s also one of the finest examples of the even rarer group (still) of stage musicals that integrate […]
  
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