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• Stephen Colbert challenges Alex Trebek to trivia face-off

  12-09-2018 22:54
  
  Alex Trebek has been sporting a beard lately, and "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert is not happy about it. Colbert, who has also grown out his facial hair, says there's only room for one "Colbeard" on TV, and has challenged the "Jeopardy!" host to a trivia face-off.On Tuesday's "Late Show," Colbert announced the challenge after Trebek showed off his new beard on the season premiere of "Jeopardy!" on Monday. He played a clip of Trebek talking about his new look and joking that his mustache hairs "
  
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• Photos: FIDLAR Return to Columbus to Rock Newport Music Hall

  12-09-2018 22:41
  California rockers FIDLAR made a long overdue return to Columbus on Monday night as they hit the Newport Music Hall stage. It was a night packed with mosh-pit-ripe guitar-punk and weirdly infectious songs about drug and alcohol abuse. Along for the ride were a double hitter of some outstanding talent from Canada in the forms […]
  
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• Two from Columbus charged in Ohio-to-Canada gun smuggling ring

  12-09-2018 22:11
  
  COLUMBUS – A federal grand jury has charged four individuals -- two from Columbus -- with conspiring to illegally purchase firearms in an indictment returned Aug. 30 and unsealed Sept. 12.Those charged include, Jeremy Hearn, 40, and Marcedes Green, 28, both of Columbus, Jerome Watkins, Jr., 33, of Niagara Falls, N.Y. and Kristina DeLorenzo, 31, of Lewiston, N.Y.According to the indictment, from at least January 2018 until April 2018, co-conspirators served as either straw purchasers, couri
  
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• Lab test may identify dangerous gene mutations, study finds

  12-09-2018 21:40
  
  NEW YORK — Scientists say they've found a new way to help determine whether specific genetic abnormalities are likely to make people sick, a step toward avoiding a vexing uncertainty that can surround DNA test results.Researchers used genetic engineering to create thousands of tiny variations in a gene linked to breast cancer, and tested each one in a lab to predict whether it would promote the disease if it appeared in a person.When those predictions were checked against what scientists a
  
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• Ohio neighborhood celebrates Christmas early for 2-year-old boy dying of brain cancer

  12-09-2018 21:37
  
  It's only September, and we're a whole season away from winter, but an Ohio neighborhood is already decorated for Christmas. Several homes in the Cincinnati suburb of Colerain Township have put up their Christmas lights and hung wreaths on their doors. The premature Christmas celebration is an effort to bring holiday cheer to 2-year-old Brody Allen, who has a rare type of brain cancer and may have just weeks to live. Brody was diagnosed with cancer in May of this year. When Brody fell ill, docto
  
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• Experts weigh next steps, possible capture to save ill orca

  12-09-2018 21:18
  
  SEATTLE — A young, sick whale is skinnier than ever and in poor condition nearly two months after an international team of experts began taking extraordinary measures to save her.Now, a U.S. agency and its partners are weighing whether to intervene further to help the female orca known as J50 by temporarily capturing her, treating her on the spot and releasing her, or holding her for a short time for rehabilitation before returning her to the wild.Veterinarians believe they have exhausted
  
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• Ex-Ohio cop sentenced to 43 years for sexual assaults

  12-09-2018 20:57
  
  DAYTON — A former Ohio police officer has been sentenced to 43 years in prison for sexually assaulting four women while in uniform.The Dayton Daily News reports the sentence handed down Wednesday in Dayton to 33-year-old Justin Sanderson, of Huber Heights, provides his first parole opportunity in 33 years.Sanderson was a police officer in the tiny Montgomery County village of Phillipsburg. He was found guilty by a judge in August of rape, kidnapping and other charges.Prosecutors say Sander
  
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• Metro Parks Launch Campaign for Proposed 0.95-Mill Levy

  12-09-2018 20:52
  On Wednesday, the Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks kicked off the campaign for their proposed 10-year levy, which will appear on the local ballot as Issue 3 for the general election on Tuesday, November 6. At 0.95-mill, this levy is a 0.2-mill increase from the levy the public passed in 2009, which expires at […]
  
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• Got $1,100? Apple shows off its most expensive iPhone yet

  12-09-2018 20:13
  
  CUPERTINO, California (AP) — Apple unveiled three new iPhones on Wednesday, including its biggest and most expensive model yet, as the company seeks to widen the product's appeal amid slowing sales.CEO Tim Cook showed off the Apple XS, which has a bigger screen than the one on last year's dramatically designed model, the iPhone X. It'll cost about $1,000. A bigger version will be called the iPhone XS Max, which looks to be about the size of the iPhone 8 Plus, though the screen size is much
  
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• '60 Minutes' chief Jeff Fager out at CBS

  12-09-2018 20:08
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — CBS "60 Minutes" executive producer Jeff Fager says he's leaving the company, after being named in recent stories that accused him of fostering an abusive workplace.CBS News President David Rhodes announced the departure on Wednesday. It came only three days after CBS Corp. Chairman Leslie Moonves was ousted following sexual misconduct charges.An outside law firm has been investigating Fager following reports in the New Yorker that he groped women in parties and protected m
  
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• '60 Minutes' chief Jeff Fager fired over policy violation

  12-09-2018 20:08
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — CBS News on Wednesday fired "60 Minutes" top executive Jeff Fager, who has been under investigation following reports that he groped women at parties and tolerated an abusive workplace.The network news president, David Rhodes, said Fager's firing was "not directly related" to the allegations against him, but came because he violated company policy. A CBS News reporter working on a story about Fager revealed that he had sent her a text message urging her to "be careful."Fage
  
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• The State of Alternative Transportation in Columbus

  12-09-2018 19:51
  Over the course of the last five years, there has been a lot of transportation news in Columbus. CoGo bike share arrived in 2013 and was the first of what would be several new mobility options, including Zagster bike share at OSU, Lyft (which came, left, and then came back), Uber, Lime dockless bikes, and, […]
  
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• 2 wounded in fatal Cincinnati shooting have been released from hospital

  12-09-2018 19:19
  
  CINCINNATI -- The two shooting victims who survived a gunman's attack in downtown Cincinnati have been released from the hospital.Thirty-seven-year-old Whitney Austin was discharged Tuesday evening from UC Medical Center, five days after a man opened fire inside the Fifth Third Bancorp headquarters and killed three people. Austin, a Fifth Third vice president, was shot at least 12 times and faces what her husband calls "a long road" in recovering physically and mentally.Forty-five-year-old Brian
  
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• Ohio woman killed in crash involving police cruiser on chase

  12-09-2018 18:58
  
  DAYTON — An Ohio woman whose car was struck by a police officer chasing a stolen vehicle has been killed.The Dayton Daily News reports 57-year-old Mary Taulbee, of Lebanon, died at a hospital after Tuesday evening's crash in southwest Ohio's Miami Township.Officials say a Moraine police cruiser collided with Taulbee's vehicle as it chased an 18-year-old woman in a stolen Jeep. The woman crashed the Jeep and was arrested.Moraine police spokesman Jon Spencer wouldn't name the officer involve
  
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• Amazon to sell live, 7-foot Christmas trees starting in November

  12-09-2018 18:58
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Watch out for the 7-foot box on the doorstep. Amazon plans to sell and ship fresh, full-size Christmas trees this year.But a live tree is no paperback book. Amazon says the Christmas trees, including Douglas firs and Norfolk Island pines, will be bound and shipped without water in the usual sort of box. Amazon said they'll be sent within 10 days of being cut down, possibly even sooner, and should survive the shipping just fine.Amazon.com said the trees, wreaths and garlands
  
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• Teacher accused of recording students changing clothes in Florida high school

  12-09-2018 18:48
  
  TAMPA, Fla. — Authorities in Florida have arrested a high school teacher who they say placed two camera phones in a changing room to secretly record female students undressing.Hillsborough County Sheriff's spokeswoman Crystal Clark said in a news release that 49-year-old Bloomingdale Senior High School fashion design teacher Mark Ackett told deputies he put the cameras in a classroom where students were changing for a class assignment. He was arrested Tuesday on one count of video voyeuris
  
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• Man accused of kidnapping, raping teen has charges dismissed

  12-09-2018 18:25
  
  COLUMBUS -- The case has been dismissed against a man accused of kidnapping and raping a young man who later took his own life.Dwight Orr, Jr., was charged with raping 18-year-old Garon Hall in April.Hall took his own life two months later. The prosecution said it no longer had enough evidence to proceed.10TV spoke to Hall’s mother, Terri Olmedo, said she felt the system failed her son. She had a message for Orr.“You’re a monster, and you don’t deserve to be walking free.
  
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• Supporting Our Kids: Critical Need Alert

  12-09-2018 18:00
  When kids in our neighborhoods are in need, it is our collective responsibility to step forward and invest in their future—our future. This Critical Need Alert by The Columbus Foundation was developed as an efficient, effective, immediate opportunity to join together and address needs of two groups of kids who need our help. With the […]
  
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• Family of toddler found wandering in east Columbus has been located, Children Services says

  12-09-2018 17:25
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The family of a young girl found wandering alone on the east side of Columbus early Wednesday morning has been located.A spokesperson with Franklin County Children Services says the father came forward Wednesday afternoon and the agency is working with him to confirm his and the girl’s identity.Children Services is now investigating to determine whether the incident is a child endangerment situation.The toddler was found at approximately 12:45 a.m., when a Columbus Police
  
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• Children services seek help identifying toddler found wandering on east side

  12-09-2018 17:25
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Authorities are seeking the assistance of the public in identifying a girl found wandering alone on the east side of Columbus early Wednesday morning.She is being cared for by Franklin County Children Services.The girl was found at approximately 12:45 a.m., when a Columbus Police officer was flagged down by a citizen in the area who had found a child in an alley near Livingston and Fairwood Avenues.The name and the address of the child is unknown to authorities. The toddler is
  
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• Children services caring for unidentified toddler found wandering on east side

  12-09-2018 17:25
  
  Children's services is seeking the assistance of the public in identifying a girl found wandering alone on the east side early Wednesday morning.She is being cared for by Franklin County Children Services.The girl was found at approximately 12:45 a.m., when a Columbus Police officer was flagged down by a citizen in the area who had found a child in an alley near Livingston and Fairwood Avenues.The name and the address of the child is unknown to authorities. The toddler is safe but not aware of h
  
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• Fighter jets arrive in central Ohio as East Coast military bases brace for Florence

  12-09-2018 17:17
  
  HAMPTON, Va. (AP) — The Navy is moving people and ships ahead of Hurricane Florence, and the Air Force and Army are both flying advanced aircraft elsewhere as a safeguard. Some remaining Marines, meanwhile, are digging in their heels.Florence is headed for a region with some of the most well-known military bases in the country, including Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia and the Marine Corps Recruit Depot on Parris Island in South Carolina.While thousands of
  
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• FDA calls teen vaping an 'epidemic,' weighs flavor ban

  12-09-2018 17:13
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials say teenage use of e-cigarette has reached "epidemic" levels and are calling on the industry to address the problem or risk having their flavored products pulled off the market.The warning from the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday marks a stark shift in the agency's tone on e-cigarettes, which have become the most used tobacco product among teenagers.Since 2017, FDA officials have discussed e-cigarettes as a potential tool to ween adult smok
  
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• State releases first AP High School football poll of season

  12-09-2018 16:54
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — How a state panel of sports writers and broadcasters rates Ohio high school football teams in the weekly Associated Press poll of 2018, by OHSAA divisions, with won-lost record and total points (first-place votes in parentheses):DIVISION I1, Cincinnati Colerain (8)3-01542, Mentor (6)3-01373, Pickerington Central (5)3-01334, Cincinnati Elder3-0945, Hilliard Davidson3-0876, Pickerington North3-0757, Reynoldsburg3-0698, Austintown-Fitch3-0669, Westerville Central3-04210,
  
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• Blue Jackets extend coach John Tortorella until 2020-21 season

  12-09-2018 16:29
  
  COLUMBUS, OHIO – The Columbus Blue Jackets have signed Head Coach John Tortorella to a two-year contract extension through the 2020-21 season, General Manager Jarmo Kekalainen announced Wednesday. Tortorella is the franchise’s all-time leader in wins and points percentage as he has guided Columbus to a 129-87-23 record (.588 points percentage) in 239 games since being named head coach on Oct. 21, 2015. He led the Blue Jackets to appearances in the Stanley Cup Playoffs in each of his
  
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• Court declines appeal from Bellefontaine woman charged with killing 3 sons

  12-09-2018 16:15
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A woman accused of suffocating her three young sons over a 13-month period has unsuccessfully appealed a court order that she undergo a psychiatric evaluation.At issue is whether a confession made by defendant Brittany Pilkington can be used at her trial.The Bellefontaine woman faces three counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of a toddler and two infants in 2014 and 2015. She has pleaded not guilty.Pilkington's attorneys argue the confession should be tossed afte
  
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• Restaurant Review: Oshio

  12-09-2018 16:00
  For a strip mall joint, the Fifth Avenue address that hosts Oshio has enjoyed a robust culinary history. It was once a Hawaiian joint, and then a GoCupz Korean place. Now it’s a sushi stop. The basic bones of the place are similar to its former incarnations, but with clean lines and a neutral color […]
  
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• Trump administration gave nearly $10 million of FEMA funds to ICE

  12-09-2018 15:39
  Newly revealed documents show the Trump administration took nearly $10 million away from FEMA and other federal agencies to apparently pay for immigration detention centers. A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, the agency which FEMA is a part of, said under no circumstances was any disaster relief funding transferred from FEMA to immigration enforcement efforts.Over the last year there have been questions about whether FEMA's resources are stretched thin as it responds to hurrica
  
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• Child struck by vehicle in north Columbus

  12-09-2018 14:56
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Columbus Police are investigating after a child was struck by a vehicle in north Columbus.The incident happened Wednesday around 8:30 a.m. on Hard Road near Worthington Kilbourne High School, according to police.Authorities say the child was transported to Nationwide Children's Hospital with non-life threatening injuries and the driver of the vehicle did stop and is cooperating with police.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com on this developing story.
  
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• Pope summons bishops for February abuse prevention summit

  12-09-2018 14:37
  
  VATICAN CITY— Pope Francis is summoning the presidents of every bishops conference around the world for a February summit to discuss preventing clergy sex abuse and protecting children — evidence that he realizes the scandal is global and that inaction threatens to undermine his legacy.Francis' key cardinal advisers announced the decision Wednesday, a day before Francis meets with U.S. church leaders who have been deeply discredited by the latest accusations in the Catholic Church's
  
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• 1 critically injured in east Columbus shooting

  12-09-2018 13:33
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Columbus Police says one person is in critical condition after a shooting in east Columbus.The shooting happened Wednesday around 7 a.m. at Garfield Avenue & Atcheson Street, according to police.Investigators say the victim was transported to Grant Medical Center in critical condition and police have no suspects at this time.Authorities have not released the name or age of the victim.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com on this developing story.
  
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• Ohio set to award latest prizes in opioid science challenge

  12-09-2018 13:22
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio is set to announce prize winners in the second stage of its global technology challenge aimed at finding solutions to the U.S. opioid crisis.The contest's challenge phase culminates Wednesday. It invited business and innovation experts from around the world to propose technologies for diagnosing, treating or fighting opioid addiction or for protecting medical professionals and first responders from exposure to dangerous opioid residue.Republican Gov. John Kasich
  
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• Vladimir Putin: "Nothing criminal" about suspects ID'd in ex-spy poisoning

  12-09-2018 12:52
  
  President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia has identified the two men that Britain named as suspects in the poisoning of a former Russian spy, and that there is "nothing criminal" about them. Britain last week charged two alleged agents of Russia's military intelligence agency in absentia with the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.Britain, and the U.S., blame the Russian government for the attack, a claim that Moscow has vehemently denied.Speaking
  
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• White House prepares executive order to sanction those meddling in U.S. elections

  12-09-2018 12:49
  
  CBS News confirms that an executive order that will sanction individuals and entities that meddle in U.S. elections is in the final stages of development and could be rolled out as soon as Wednesday, according to sources familiar with its drafting. According to the sources, the executive order does not mention Russia by name. Instead, it depends on implementation and is structured a bit like the DETER bill (Defending Elections from Threats by Establishing Redlines Act of 2018) which was introduc
  
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• Trump signs executive order to sanction those meddling in U.S. elections

  12-09-2018 12:49
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is signing an executive order authorizing sanctions against foreigners who meddle in U.S. elections.Trump has drawn widespread criticism for not taking threats to the U.S. electoral system seriously enough, particularly Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race.National Security Adviser John Bolton and National Intelligence Director Dan Coats told reporters Wednesday that the executive order is evidence the president is making election security
  
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• Trump OKs sanctions for foreigners who meddle in elections

  12-09-2018 12:49
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday authorizing sanctions against foreigners who meddle in U.S. elections, a move that counters critics who claim he has not taking election security seriously enough.The executive order covers not just interference with campaign infrastructure, but it also covers the distribution of disinformation and propaganda, national security adviser John Bolton told reporters. The order requires the Office of the National Intel
  
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• Great-grandson to attend fundraiser named for President Taft

  12-09-2018 12:41
  
  Former Ohio Gov. Bob Taft is set to address attendees at a political fundraiser named for his famous great-grandfather.The Hamilton County Republican Party is calling Friday's event its first annual President William Howard Taft Luncheon. The Cincinnati-born William Howard Taft was the 10th U.S. president, serving from 1909 to 1913, as well as the nation's 10th chief justice.His great-grandson, Bob, served two terms as governor, from 1999 to 2007. The Republican currently works at the University
  
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• Ex-employees: Doc in sex abuse inquiry aimed ads at students

  12-09-2018 12:26
  
  The Ohio State University team doctor accused of groping scores of young men decades ago also had an off-campus men's clinic that was marketed in the campus newspaper with a series of ads promising prompt treatment of genital problems, plus a student discount, according to two former employees.The ads published in the fall of 1996 labeled it as a "Men's Clinics of America" and didn't mention the now-deceased physician, Richard Strauss, but the connection was confirmed by two former nursing stude
  
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• Moon rock hunter searching for states’ final missing stones

  12-09-2018 11:42
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A strange thing happened after Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew returned from the moon with lunar rocks: Many of the mementos given to every U.S. state vanished. Now, after years of sleuthing, a former NASA investigator is closing in on his goal of locating the whereabouts of all 50.In recent weeks, two of the rocks that dropped off the radar after the 1969 mission were located in Louisiana and Utah, leaving only New York and Delaware with unaccounted-for souveni
  
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• MGM offers deal to shooting victims it's suing

  12-09-2018 11:17
  
  MGM Resorts International drew criticism Tuesday for saying hundreds of survivors of the Las Vegas mass shooting, who are being sued by the casino operator, could opt to have the money that will be used to serve them a lawsuit instead donated to a charity.The company in July sued more than 1,900 victims of the Oct. 1 mass shooting at one of its properties and has been working to notify them as it faces a standard 90-day deadline.MGM told the victims' attorneys it would rather make the donations
  
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• Bigger, pricier iPhone expected at Apple event Wednesday

  12-09-2018 11:15
  
  Apple is expected to showcase three new iPhones on Wednesday, including its biggest and most expensive model yet, as the company seeks to widen the product's appeal amid slowing sales growth.Most of the buzz is swirling around a rumored iPhone that is supposed to boast a 6.5-inch OLED screen, up from 5.8 inches on the existing iPhone X. OLED is a step up from traditional LCD technology in offering a display without a backlight, so black is truly black rather than simply dark.If the speculation p
  
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• AEP Ohio, Red Cross prepare to head to Hurricane Florence aftermath

  12-09-2018 03:28
  More than a million people along the East Coast from South Carolina to Virginia were ordered to evacuate Tuesday as Florence continues to head toward the area.Spencer Rieser just started his sophomore year at Elon University in Burlington, North Carolina, at the end of August.He flew home to Columbus, Ohio on Tuesday with a one-way ticket."People are kind of rushing around right now just trying to figure out what to do," he said. "If they should go home or try to get out for the weekend."With Hu
  
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• "Miraculous": Boy survives after meat skewer pierces skull

  12-09-2018 02:16
  
  HARRISONVILLE, Mo. — A 10-year-old Missouri boy is recovering after he was attacked by insects and tumbled from a tree, landing on a meat skewer that penetrated his skull from his face to the back of his head.But miraculously, that's where Xavier Cunningham's bad luck ended. The skewer had completely missed Xavier's eye, brain, spinal cord and major blood vessels, The Kansas City Star reports .Xavier's harrowing experience began Saturday afternoon when yellow jackets attacked him in a tree
  
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• Police: Man buried dog because it didn't get along with cat

  12-09-2018 01:59
  
  UXBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man is accused of burying his dog alive because it wasn't getting along with his cat and he could not find it a new home.Richard Piquard was arraigned Tuesday on an animal cruelty charge in Uxbridge District Court and freed after posting a $1,000 bond.The 24-year-old Northbridge man ignored reporters who requested comment from him outside the courthouse. According to a police report, he said he thought the dog was dead when he buried it.Prosecutors sa
  
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• Florence could be costliest storm ever to hit the U.S.

  12-09-2018 01:20
  
  Hurricane Florence could cost the East Coast more than $170 billion and damage nearly 759,000 homes and businesses, according to analytics firm CoreLogic. That would make Florence the costliest storm ever to hit the U.S. in terms of property loss.Currently, a Category 4 hurricane packing 140 mile-per-hour winds, Florence is due to make landfall somewhere in the Carolinas late Friday or Saturday. The initial damage is likely due come from the high winds and storm surge–high tides carried by
  
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• Sheriff’s Office looking for 16-year-old girl missing from Licking County

  12-09-2018 01:07
  
  LICKING COUNTY, Ohio – The Licking County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a missing 16-year-old girl.Wendy Marielos Hernandez has been missing from the Pataskala/Etna area since Sunday morning.The sheriff’s office shared her picture on social media and said they are “very concerned for her safety."The sheriff’s office said they do not have information that foul play was involved.Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Shenan Day at 740-670-5599.
  
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• Columbus bans electric scooters on sidewalks

  12-09-2018 00:02
  
  The ban of electronic scooters on city of Columbus sidewalks proposed by mayor Andrew Ginther is now in effect.The order was issued by Department of Public Service Director Jennifer Gallagher on Tuesday.The order lists the below for how the scooters should be used.RoadwayE-scooters must be operated on a roadway and shall be operated in any bike lane, traffic lane, bike path, bike trail, or shared use path in the right of way where practicable, obeying all traffic laws and exercising due care whe
  
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