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• Judge accused of sexual misconduct mounts defense in fight for job

  04-09-2018 23:19
  A Franklin County Judge accused of sexual misconduct is fighting to save his career.Judge Tim Horton served 10 days in jail last year for campaign finance violations. And two women who worked for him accuse him of sexual harassment.With his criminal case behind him, now he is trying to keep his spot on the bench.In July, the Ohio Supreme Court Board of Professional Conduct heard graphic emotional testimony from two women accusing Judge Timothy Horton of sexual misconduct:"I was getting up to go
  
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• Columbus community recreation centers remain open Wednesday to help beat the heat

  04-09-2018 23:19
  
  As the excessive heat continues, the city of Columbus will keep community recreation centers open to help out residents.On Wednesday, September 5, 2018, Columbus Recreation and Parks Community Centers are open from noon until 9 p.m. with the following exceptions:Gillie Community Senior Center:8 a.m. to 5 p.m.Martin Janis Community Senior Center:8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.Barnett Community Center:9 a.m. to 8:45 p.m.Lazelle Woods Community Center:7 a.m. to 7:45 p.m.Marion Franklin Community Center:8 a.m.
  
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• As Kavanaugh Awaits Confirmation, Some Fear Future of Abortion Access, Affordable Care Act

  04-09-2018 23:14
  DC isn’t the only place gathering protesters speaking out against the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for lifetime appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Local activists from a number of organizations gathered outside of Sen. Rob Portman’s office on Tuesday afternoon, during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, to call on Portman and Sen. Sherrod Brown to oppose Kavanaugh’s […]
  
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• Nurse realizes she cared for doctor when he was a preemie baby in the NICU

  04-09-2018 22:27
  
  A California nurse had a heartwarming reunion with a baby she cared for nearly three decades ago. He's now grown up and works in the same hospital he was born in. Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford shared the tale of the serendipitous reunion on Facebook, and the powerful story has gained widespread attention.Nurse Vilma Wong has been on the job for 32 years, a local publication, The Mercury News, reports. A recent chance encounter exemplifies the long-lasting bond nurses like Wong can
  
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• Lawyer for homeless man: $400K in donations is all gone

  04-09-2018 22:07
  
  MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. — The lawyer for a homeless man in Philadelphia whose selflessness led to donations of over $400,000 through an online fundraising page said Tuesday that all the money is gone.Johnny Bobbitt's attorney, Chris Fallon, told the Philadelphia Inquirer he learned the cash was gone in a call with lawyers for Kate McClure and Mark D'Amico."It completely shocked me when I heard," Fallon told the newspaper. "It came as a complete surprise to me."McClure and D'Amico are the couple
  
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• Former Arizona U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl to replace John McCain

  04-09-2018 18:56
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The governor of Arizona announced Tuesday that he will appoint former Sen. Jon Kyl to fill the late Sen. John McCain's seat in the U.S. Senate.Gov. Doug Ducey made the announcement on Twitter minutes before a scheduled news conference.Kyl, a Republican, is currently shepherding Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. Kyl's appointment may make it possible for him to vote for the nomination.Ducey, also a Republican, added the hashtag #KavanaughConfirm
  
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• Ohio prisons investigate death of dog fostered by inmate

  04-09-2018 18:08
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio prison system says the agency has "zero tolerance" for animal abuse following a report that a dog died a violent death after it had been placed in a program that pairs inmates with foster dogs.JoEllen Smith is the spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. She said Tuesday that the prison system will conduct a thorough investigation of the incident at Warren Correctional Institution as well as review animal programs at other prisons
  
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• Amazon is 2nd US company to reach $1 trillion market value

  04-09-2018 17:56
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has become the second publicly traded company to be worth $1 trillion, hot on the heels of Apple.Amazon has revolutionized how people shop online and is the world's dominant internet retailer. In two decades the company expanded far beyond its bookseller beginnings, combining its world-spanning retail operation with less flashy but very profitable advertising and cloud computing businesses.The company's blowout success made its founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, No. 1 on F
  
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• Heat forces school closures, early dismissals across Ohio

  04-09-2018 16:52
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The late summer heat wave has forced several schools in Ohio to close or schedule early dismissals.Columbus city schools announced schools would close about two hours early Tuesday because of "persistent high temperatures and humidity." The forecast called for temperatures in the low 90s in central Ohio.ALERT: Beat the Heat. All Columbus City Schools will dismiss 2.5 hours early on Tuesday (9/4) due to persistent high temperatures and humidity. Please plan accordingly
  
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• Columbus City Schools to close Wednesday due to prolonged hot temperatures

  04-09-2018 16:52
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Columbus city Schools announced schools would close Wednesday because of "prolonged hot temperatures and high humidity."The forecast is calling for temperatures in the low 90s in central Ohio.ALERT: Classes at all Columbus City Schools are CANCELLED for Wednesday (9/5) due to the prolonged hot temperatures and high humidity. Additional Beat the Heat updates will be coming shortly.— ColumbusCitySchools (@ColsCitySchools) September 4, 2018
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• People are burning their Nike shoes in protest of Colin Kaepernick "Just Do It" ad

  04-09-2018 16:12
  
  Nike's long-running "Just Do It" campaign is geared toward getting consumers to pay attention to the brand, but analysts say its decision to add Colin Kaepernick risks drawing the wrong type of notice.Shares of the shoe and apparel giant dropped about 3 percent in pre-market trading after the company announced that the unsigned free agent, who is known for kneeling during the national anthem to bring attention to racial injustices, would join the company's signature campaign. Other players also
  
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• Photos: Columbus Crew SC’s Win Against NYCFC

  04-09-2018 15:24
  Justin Meram scored his first goal since his return to Columbus, as the Crew fought back from a goal down and bested New York City FC 2-1 on a rain-soaked Saturday night at MAPFRE Stadium. After a scoreless first half that saw chances fall to both teams, it was the visiting New Yorkers that took the […]
  
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• Police officer accused of punching softball umpire

  04-09-2018 14:32
  
  MONROE, La. — A police officer in Louisiana is accused of attacking an umpire at a University of Louisiana at Monroe softball game.News outlets report 45-year-old Pineville police Sgt. Edric Smith is charged with battery of a school or recreation athletic contest official. An arrest affidavit says Smith was at the university Saturday to coach a softball game in which his daughter was playing.The affidavit says Smith told police the umpire had threatened his daughter. It says the umpire tol
  
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• Feds: Stolen ruby slippers worn in 'Wizard of Oz' recovered

  04-09-2018 14:02
  
  MINNEAPOLIS— Federal authorities say they have recovered the pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz" that were stolen from a Minnesota museum 13 years ago.The slippers were taken from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids in August 2005 when someone went through a window and broke into the small display case. The shoes were insured for $1 million.Four pairs of ruby slippers worn by Garland in the movie are known to exist. The shoes are made from about a dozen dif
  
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• “We Fight Isolation With Community” Josh Fox’s The Truth Has Changed

  04-09-2018 14:00
  Josh Fox burst into wider American consciousness with his 2010 documentary Gasland, about fracking, and expanded his reach and activism with subsequent films like How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change; and Awake, A Dream From Standing Rock. It’s less well known but before his work as […]
  
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• USA Gymnastics CEO Kerry Perry resigns

  04-09-2018 13:57
  
  INDIANAPOLIS — USA Gymnastics CEO Kerry Perry resigned Monday evening, effective immediately.USA Gymnastics confirmed the resignation Tuesday morning, saying the search for an interim CEO and permanent replacement would begin immediately.“On behalf of the Board of USA Gymnastics, I want to thank Kerry for her leadership under very difficult circumstances,” Karen Golz, chair of the USA Gymnastics Board, said in a statement Tuesday.“In the wake of horrific events that have
  
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• Kerry Perry quits as president of scandal-hit USA Gymnastics

  04-09-2018 13:57
  
  Kerry Perry resigned under pressure as USA Gymnastics president Tuesday, the move coming days after the U.S. Olympic Committee questioned her ability to lead a path forward for an organization rocked by scandal.Perry spent nine months on the job and repeatedly came under scrutiny by athletes who felt she was mishandling the fallout from the tumult surrounding disgraced former team doctor Larry Nassar.Perry, a former communications executive with no background in gymnastics, became president of U
  
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• American sentenced to hang for killing ex-wife in Malaysia

  04-09-2018 13:13
  
  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Malaysian court sentenced an American man to death by hanging for killing his ex-wife, but the man will appeal Tuesday's ruling on the grounds that he acted in self-defense.Lawyer K.A. Ramu said the High Court found his client, 63-year-old Gerald Wayne Mickelson, guilty of murder in the November 2016 strangulation death of his ex-wife Guilda Mickelson.Gerald Wayne Mickelson was working as a consultant in Malaysia but planned to move to the Philippines to be with
  
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• Trump says Sessions’ DOJ has placed GOP in midterm jeopardy

  04-09-2018 13:04
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Showing his disregard for the Justice Department's independence, President Donald Trump tweeted that federal indictments against two Republican congressmen placed the GOP in midterm election jeopardy.Trump again attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the tweet suggesting that the Justice Department consider politics when making decisions: "Obama era investigations, of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the M
  
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• What to watch for as senators consider Kavanaugh nomination

  04-09-2018 12:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is set for a week of marathon hearings before the Judiciary Committee, where senators will drill down into the judge's background, writings and legal philosophy.Republicans who mostly back President Donald Trump's pick are focusing on Kavanaugh's 12-year career as an appellate court judge, which has produced more than 300 opinions. Democrats are expected to take a more pointed tack, grilling the 53-year-old conservative on hot-button
  
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• Rancorous, partisan start for Kavanaugh high court hearing

  04-09-2018 12:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh declared fervently at his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday the court "must never, never be viewed as a partisan institution." But that was at the end of a marathon day marked by rancorous exchanges between Democrats and Republicans, including dire Democratic fears that he would be President Donald Trump's advocate on the high court.The week of hearings on Kavanaugh's nomination began with a sense of inevitability that the 53-year-o
  
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• Chaos marks start of Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearing

  04-09-2018 12:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Quarreling and confusion disrupted the start of the Senate's confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday, with Democrats trying to block the proceedings over documents withheld by the White House while protesters interrupted the session in a persistent display of opposition.In his opening remarks released ahead of delivery, Kavanaugh sought to tamp down the controversy over his nomination, which would likely shift the closely divided court t
  
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• Monica Lewinsky storms off stage over question about Bill Clinton

  04-09-2018 12:23
  
  Monica Lewinsky said Tuesday that she stormed offstage at a Jerusalem speaking event because of an interviewer's "off limits" question about former President Bill Clinton. The former White House intern turned anti-bullying activist tweeted that there were agreed-upon parameters regarding the topics of her televised conversation Monday night with a well-known Israeli news anchor, following a speech she gave about the perils of the internet.She called Yonit Levi's first question about her relation
  
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• Taliban say founder of Haqqani network dies in Afghanistan

  04-09-2018 12:18
  
  The founder of Afghanistan's much-feared Haqqani network, a former U.S. ally turned fierce enemy, has died after years of ill health, a Taliban spokesman said Tuesday. Jalaluddin Haqqani was 71.Haqqani died Monday inside Afghanistan, Zabihullah Mujahed told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. The elderly founder of the outlawed Afghanistan-based organization, once hailed as a freedom fighter by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, had been paralyzed for the past 10 years.In announcing his de
  
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• GOP official resigns over racist Facebook posts about NFL players

  04-09-2018 12:08
  
  A Republican county official in Pennsylvania has resigned after writing Facebook posts calling NFL players who protest during the national anthem "baboons" and "ignorant blacks."Carla Maloney, who served as secretary of the Beaver County Republican Committee, wrote in a resignation letter Friday that her posts were "distasteful, inappropriate and insensitive." "I know my posts and comments were disrespectful to not only the people I love, but families across the country," she wrote.Maloney wrote
  
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• Powerful typhoon slams into western Japan, flooding airport

  04-09-2018 12:00
  
  TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon blew through western Japan on Tuesday, causing heavy rain to flood the region's main offshore international airport and high winds to blow a tanker into a connecting bridge, disrupting land and air travel.Jebi was the strongest typhoon to make landfall in Japan since 1993, according to Japan's Kyodo News service.The storm was heading north across a swath of Japan's main island of Honshu toward the Sea of Japan. It was off the northern coast of Fukui on Tuesd
  
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• Mom is sole survivor of Lake Superior kayaking accident that killed husband, 3 children

  04-09-2018 11:46
  
  A father and his three children were killed when their kayak capsized on Lake Superior on Thursday, officials said. Their mother was the sole survivor of the kayak accident.The family from Loyal, Wisconsin, set out from Madeline Island in an open-top tandem kayak Thursday for a 4-mile paddle across open water to Michigan Island. But their 13½-foot kayak capsized after the wind picked up.Eric Fryman, 39, and his three children, Kyra, 9, Annaliese, 5, and Jansen, 3, were found dead in the f
  
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• Man charged with inducing panic after allegedly claiming to have bomb at Dublin retirement community

  04-09-2018 07:05
  
  DUBLIN, Ohio - A Columbus man is facing charges after police say he walked into a retirement community claiming to have a bomb.The alleged incident happened around 11:45 p.m. Monday at The Sanctuary at Tuttle Crossing in Dublin.Police received a call that someone was attempting to break into the retirement community. When officers arrived, they located 29-year-old Robert Hackler. Police said Hackler claimed that he had discarded an explosive device in the nursing home.Authorities immediately eva
  
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• Dublin Police: Man claims he brought an explosive to a retirement community

  04-09-2018 07:05
  
  DUBLIN, Ohio- Dublin police have detained a man after they say he walked into a retirement community claiming he had a bomb.It happened around 11:45 p.m. Monday at the Sanctuary at Tuttle Crossing in Dublin.Police immediately evacuated the facility and set up a perimeter to keep residents safe.Dublin Police had to shut down some roads around the retirement community to keep people away.A bomb dog swept the area for explosives but did not find any, according to investigators.Officers began cleari
  
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• Dr. apologizes for saying pay gap exists because female docs "do not work as hard"

  04-09-2018 04:13
  
  A North Texas doctor entered a firestorm of backlash for his comments over the pay gap between male and female physicians. CBSDFW reports that Dr. Gary Tigges is quoted in the Dallas Medical Journal, saying there is a pay gap because female physicians "do not work as hard.""This is because they choose to, or they simply don't want to be rushed, or they don't want to work the long hours," Dr. Tigges is quoted saying.Since the backlash ensued and the comments were posted on social media, Dr. Tigge
  
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• Senate given 42,000 pages of Kavanaugh documents, Schumer says

  04-09-2018 04:02
  
  Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, said late Monday that the Senate had been given an additional 42,000 pages of documents about Brett Kavanaugh, the night before confirmation hearings are due to start. The White House said Friday that it would not be releasing 100,000 Kavanaugh's records from the Bush White House on the basis of presidential privilege.The late Monday release "underscores just how absurd this process is. Not a single senator will be able to review these records be
  
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• Stars defend "Cosby Show" actor from "job-shaming" after photos of him bagging groceries go viral

  04-09-2018 02:25
  
  It might have been the stains on his shirt, or the name tag, or the look of concentration as he priced a shopper's bag of potatoes. But pictures of former "Cosby Show" star Geoffrey Owens, who played the son-in-law of Bill Cosby's character for five seasons, now working as a cashier in Clifton, New Jersey, stirred people this Labor Day weekend.It started after the customer who snapped the photos sent them to a tabloid. "From learning lines to serving the long line!" read the Daily Mail headline.
  
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• Local football coach reunited with little league baseball glove after 40 years

  04-09-2018 02:10
  
  The story of one man polishing diamonds in the rough begins with another story of a 12-year-old boy, 40 years ago, playing in the dirt on a baseball diamond in Willoughby, Ohio.In 1978, Chris Lisi was an All-Star baseball player."Yeah," he said. "I was just a little kid that liked to hit the ball and run around the bases." Lisi, in 1976, as a little league baseball player.
  In '78, Lisi was playing in a semi-final baseball game."That particular game I didn't start," he said. "But, I came in and p
  
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• Fans pack MAPFRE Stadium for Yoga with the Crew night

  04-09-2018 02:08
  
  COLUMBUS – The soccer field at MAPFRE Stadium doubled as one huge yoga mat when OhioHealth hosted “Yoga night with the Crew.”Dozens of fans came together to get fit and practice their downward dog and warrior pose.Crew fans like Andy Jacques and his daughters were able to get in some exercise on the field where their favorite team plays, and the girls loved it.“I want to make sure they’re active and healthy,” Jacques said. His daughters are avid soccer fans, s
  
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• Chick-fil-A offering customers chicken nuggets for downloading app

  04-09-2018 01:49
  
  The concept is simple enough, download the app, get the chicken.Chick-fil-A announced on its website that it will give customers a free eight-piece nugget box simply for downloading its app and creating a Chick-fil-AOne account.The app and account need to be downloaded and signed up for, respectively, by Sept. 29.Chick-fil-AOne is a tiered membership program that gives you the ability to earn points with every purchase.Members can receive points by placing an order through the Chick-fil-A App, a
  
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• Reds' Votto trades jersey for fan's shirt during game

  04-09-2018 01:30
  
  PITTSBURGH — This trade was too good for Joey Votto to turn down.The Cincinnati Reds star first baseman spotted a fan sitting along the first base line Monday at PNC Park wearing a T-shirt that read "Votto for President." It was from a Nike promotional campaign in 2012 and Votto hadn't kept any of the shirts.Votto got the shirt, but wound up with little else, shut down by Trevor Williams and the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-1.In the middle of the fourth inning, Votto walked over to the fan and ask
  
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