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• Trump says he feels 'so badly' for Kavanaugh

  18-09-2018 23:45
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Trading accusations, Democratic and Republican senators quarreled Tuesday over who will testify at what promises to be a dramatic and emotional hearing next Monday with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who says he sexually assaulted her when they were in high school. But doubts were raised whether she would appear.Kavanaugh was at the White House for a second straight day, but again did not meet with President Donald Trump. The president said he was "to
  
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• Founder of drum corps for Columbus youth receives life-saving organ donation

  18-09-2018 23:29
  Marshall Cheatham has always been a man on a mission.Fifteen years ago, that took the form of founding the Columbus Saints, a drum and bugle corps aimed at keeping kids off the streets."We started out with six kids beating on a picnic table in the park," Cheatham said. "Next thing you know we ordered the drums and then we had four drums and two sets of cymbals. And we performed at a pee-wee football game, halftime.And we became competitive. we traveled all over the country. And we started kickin
  
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• "I did everything I could": Mom recalls son being swept away as flooding grips N.C.

  18-09-2018 23:26
  
  It has stopped raining in the Carolinas, but the remains of Hurricane Florence are still creating danger. The swollen Cape Fear River reached nearly 58 feet on Monday and is expected to crest soon. It's already causing floodwaters to rush into downtown Fayetteville, North Carolina, which is mostly underwater, reports CBS News' DeMarco Morgan.Hope Mills resident Brandon Plotnick is worried about the Cape Fear River's crest."I think people are getting complacent and that's dangerous," Plotnick sai
  
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• CBS' Julie Chen officially exits 'The Talk'

  18-09-2018 23:17
  NEW YORK (AP) — Julie Chen announced Tuesday that she was leaving the cast of the CBS daytime show "The Talk" a week after her husband, CBS Corp. boss Leslie Moonves, was ousted from the company due to sexual misconduct allegations.Chen hadn't appeared on the show during its season-opening week last week. She wasn't on the set Tuesday, either, making her announcement via a taped message from the set of "Big Brother," the prime-time CBS show that she also hosts.She made no mention of the ca
  
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• Documents released in Ohio State fraternity investigations

  18-09-2018 23:01
  New documents are released in the suspension of three fraternities at Ohio State.Alpha Epsilon Pi, Phi Kappa Psi and Sigma Alpha Mu were all suspended in 2018. for endangering behavior, hazing, alcohol and other infractions.10TV has obtained reports showing an underage student was found passed out in a dorm bathroom after an Alpha Epsilon Pi event.The fraternity was also found to have recruited when they weren't cleared to do so, provided marijuana to recruits and is linked to a sexual impositio
  
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• OHSAA high school football computer ratings | Week 5

  18-09-2018 22:34
  
  The Ohio High School Athletic Association released the first official weekly football computer ratings Tuesday afternoon of the 2018 season.The weekly computer ratings are released every Tuesday beginning in the fifth week of the season, leading up to the final report on Sunday morning, Oct. 28, when 224 schools (top 8 in each region) will officially qualify for the playoffs.The complete report showing all teams in every region is posted on the OHSAA's website.Division IRegion 1 - 1. Mentor (4-0
  
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• OHSAA high school football computer ratings | Sept. 18, 2018

  18-09-2018 22:34
  
  The Ohio High School Athletic Association released the first official weekly football computer ratings Tuesday afternoon of the 2018 season.The weekly computer ratings are released every Tuesday beginning in the fifth week of the season, leading up to the final report on Sunday morning, Oct. 28, when 224 schools (top 8 in each region) will officially qualify for the playoffs.The complete report showing all teams in every region is posted on the OHSAA's website.Division IRegion 1 - 1. Mentor (4-0
  
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• Invest in US

  18-09-2018 21:48 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Sesame Street writer: Bert & Ernie are gay

  18-09-2018 20:52
  
  A man who wrote for Sesame Street says popular characters Bert and Ernie are gay.In an interview with Queerty, Mark Saltzman said “I always felt that without a huge agenda, when I was writing Bert & Ernie, they were. I didn’t have any other way to contextualize them."Saltzman, who wrote scripts and songs for the show for 15 years, said that Bert and Ernie delved into things from his own relationship he was in.Sesame Workshop, which produces the long-running children's series, rel
  
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• ‘Otherworldly’ Immersive Art Experience Coming to Columbus

  18-09-2018 20:30
  You could call it a large-scale art installation or an immersive art experience, but regardless, Otherworld — a 25,000 square foot immersive art attraction coming soon to Columbus — is highly ambitious. The attraction is centered around a sci-fi narrative reminiscent of TV shows and films like Westworld and Jurassic World, where a common theme […]
  
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• Mom teaches son lesson about bullying with 'I am a bully' shirt

  18-09-2018 20:11
  
  A Texas mom said she wanted to make it clear to her young son that he was turning into a bully and that was not okay with her.She said making him wear a t-shirt to school with her message on it worked for her son. Now, her efforts are going viral."I did what I had to do to stop it from progressing,” Star, who only wanted to be identified by her first name, said.This mother was not willing to put up with the put downs."He was calling other boys stupid and calling them idiots,” she sai
  
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• Ted Cruz campaign sends mail to voters that resembles legal summons

  18-09-2018 19:48
  
  The campaign of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who is seeking re-election this year, has sent mail to voters this month in envelopes marked "official summons" and "open immediately."A photograph of the mailer was tweeted by a Texas resident who said that his grandmother received the letter. The envelope says in the top left corner that it is an "official summons" by a "Voter Enrollment Campaign Division." The words "Summons enclosed - open immediately" are written across the envelope in large, block lette
  
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• WATCH: First glimpse of Brie Larson as Captain Marvel

  18-09-2018 19:34
  
  Both Marvel and DC Comics – the giants of the cinematic superhero world – have had massive successes in recent years with blockbusters that shatter the mold of what a traditional superhero looks like. In 2017, Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot's "Wonder Woman" took the world by storm, inspiring young girls and adult women across the globe with a gripping portrayal of a powerful superhero who, at long last, looked like them. Then, in January 2018, came Marvel's groundbreaking smash hit, "Bl
  
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• Smart Columbus Roundup: New Plans for Electric Vehicles, Event Parking and More

  18-09-2018 19:07
  Smart Columbus opened its new Experience Center Downtown in June. Also revealed at that time was a plan to purchase a self-driving shuttle bus that will run in a loop between the new center and COSI. That project is still on track to open before the end of the year, but there have been a series […]
  
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• Kent State grad says gun rally will now be open-carry walk

  18-09-2018 18:55
  
  KENT, Ohio (AP) — A Kent State University graduate who has caused a stir in her defense of gun rights says a planned open-carry rally on the northeast Ohio school's campus is off because of security costs.Kaitlin Bennett says she's instead organizing an open-carry walk later this month.The Akron Beacon Journal reports Bennett said Monday the rally sponsored by the student group Liberty Hangout was canceled after the university required $14,000 for security and other costs. The school said
  
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• Restaurant Roundup: News From Condado, Stauf’s and more

  18-09-2018 18:36
  Columbus has so many new restaurants, expansions, menu updates and other changes, sometimes it’s hard to keep up with everything. That’s why our Restaurant Roundup series was designed to keep you informed with the latest and greatest updates. Here’s what’s new in the local dining scene: D.P. Dough D.P. Dough customers can now download a […]
  
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• Columbus Rotary: The Business of Peace

  18-09-2018 18:00 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Rescued twin manatees leave Columbus Zoo, return to Florida

  18-09-2018 17:37
  
  POWELL, Ohio – Twin manatees began their journey back to Florida Monday night after completing their 22-month rehabilitation at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.Millennium and Falcon were rescued as orphans off the coast of Florida.A member of the Columbus Zoo’s animal care team, along with a staff veterinarian, traveled with the twins to the Miami Seaquarium. There, the zoo says the manatees will complete their final preparations to be released back to the area in the Florida Keys wher
  
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• Ohio National Guard no longer needed in North Carolina

  18-09-2018 16:51
  
  COLUMBUS -- Emergency management officials in North Carolina rescinded their request for help from the Ohio National Guard.A convoy was scheduled to leave at noon Tuesday from the Army Enclave at the Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base in Columbus."After re-evaluating ongoing operations and noting the rapid progress that has occurred, state of North Carolina emergency management officials rescinded the request for the Ohio National Guard to provide personnel, tanker trucks and fuel to assist in
  
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• Gov. Kasich sends Ohio National Guard to help Florence victims

  18-09-2018 16:51
  
  COLUMBUS -- Ohio Governor John Kasich signed an agreement Tuesday to send Ohio National Guard members and equipment to help flooding victims in North Carolina."Our state is always ready to help and we wish the best to all those assisting in the wake of Hurricane Florence," he wrote in a tweet.A convoy was scheduled to leave at noon Tuesday from the Army Enclave at the Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base in Columbus.Hurricane Florence pummeled the Carolinas late Thursday and early Friday as a ca
  
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• The Emmy Awards 2018: Full list of winners

  18-09-2018 16:21
  
  Amazon's "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" became the first streaming series to win top Emmy comedy honors and HBO's "Game of Thrones" recaptured the best drama series award Monday at a ceremony that largely slighted its most ethnically diverse field of nominees ever.With the exception of "Saturday Night Live," broadcast shows were shut out of the top awards as 21st-century platforms continued to overshadow traditional network fare like "This Is Us."HBO, which had ceded its top-dog status in total nom
  
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• First Look: Scout & Molly’s Boutique

  18-09-2018 16:04
  Scout & Molly’s is the latest women’s fashion boutique to arrive at Easton Town Center. The boutique celebrated its grand opening on Saturday, September 15 at 4042 Fenlon Street, across from American Girl and Zest Juice Co. Mother-daughter owners Beth Gittins and Jayme Jurkovac met Scout & Molly’s Founder Lisa Kornstein in 2017, and soon after […]
  
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• Opinion: F Rating on State Report Cards Not the Full Story for South High

  18-09-2018 15:30
  Last week the Ohio Department of Education released report cards for 608 school districts across the state. Each school receives an A-F grade based on three different performance metrics. Since those grades were published I’ve read and heard quite a bit of feedback – from both laypeople and hardcore public education experts alike – decrying […]
  
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• A green beer that looks like algae? It's all for clean water

  18-09-2018 15:19
  
  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — There are spicy beers and even peanut butter beers, made to stand out on crowded shelves. Then there's a murky, green brew that looks a lot like algae. It's making a statement on the one ingredient brewers can't do without — clean water.The ghastly-looking "Alegae Bloom" beer made by Maumee Bay Brewing Co., which relies on Lake Erie for its water, is a good conversation starter that reminds customers about the toxic algae that show up each year in the shallowest o
  
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• US again slashing number of refugees it will accept

  18-09-2018 14:14
  
  WASHINGTON — The U.S. will slash the number of refugees it will accept for a second straight year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, insisting amid criticism from human rights groups that the country is still committed to providing sanctuary to people fleeing the world's danger zones.Up to 30,000 refugees will be allowed into the country next year, down from a cap of 45,000 this year. It will be the lowest ceiling on admissions since the program began in 1980. The announcement Monday ca
  
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• China looks unlikely to give in after US tariff hike

  18-09-2018 14:05
  
  BEIJING (AP) — Exporters scrambled to replace lost orders after U.S. President Donald Trump raised tariffs in July on $50 billion of Chinese imports. Waves of job losses loom over factory towns. But Chinese leaders expressed confidence in their $12 trillion-a-year economy and refused to budge on tactics they see as a path to prosperity and global influence.Economists, political analysts and business groups say China's leaders appear no more likely to back down after Trump approved penaltie
  
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• GOP, Dems unite behind Senate bill fighting addictive drugs

  18-09-2018 13:57
  
  WASHINGTON— Republicans and Democrats joined forces to speed legislation combating the misuse of opioids and other addictive drugs through Senate passage Monday, a rare campaign-season show of unity against a growing and deadly health care crisis.The measure passed by a 99-1 vote Monday evening. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, voted against it.It takes wide aim at the problem, including increasing scrutiny of arriving international mail that may include illegal drugs. It makes it easier for the Nat
  
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• Champion golfer found dead at golf course; man charged with her murder

  18-09-2018 13:39
  
  AMES, Iowa -- A former Iowa State University golfer was found dead at a golf course Monday, and a man was charged with murder. Police said in a news release that 22-year-old Celia Barquin Arozamena was found dead Monday at Coldwater Golf Links in Ames and officers determined she had died after being assaulted.They said 22-year-old Collin Daniel Richards was charged with first-degree murder. Additional details about the incident weren't immediately available. Police said Richards has no known add
  
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• Wilmington Isle: Food, water handouts set in isolated city

  18-09-2018 13:23
  
  WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — With one of North Carolina's largest cities still mostly cut off by floodwaters from Hurricane Florence, officials prepared to begin distributing food, water and tarps to Wilmington residents as yet more people were rescued from submerged inland neighborhoods.Workers will begin handing out supplies to stranded residents in the city of 120,000 people beginning Tuesday morning, county officials say.One road was opened into Wilmington at least briefly, officials said,
  
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• Korean leaders meet in Pyongyang for potentially tough talks

  18-09-2018 13:02
  
  PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in began his third summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday with possibly his hardest mission to date — brokering some kind of compromise to keep North Korea's talks with Washington from imploding and pushing ahead with his own plans to expand economic cooperation and bring a stable peace to the Korean Peninsula.Kim gave the South Korean president an exceedingly warm welcome, meeting him and his wife at Pyong
  
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• Emmys 2018: An award diversity showing and an epic proposal

  18-09-2018 12:27
  
  "The Proposal." It was a 2009 movie starring Sandra Bullock, but now will forever be the informal title of the 2018 Emmys telecast, thanks to a memorable romantic gesture from Emmy-winning director Glenn Weiss — who summoned the courage to propose to his girlfriend on live TV.She said yes — thank the Lord. The stars in the audience responded with gasps (we saw you, Leslie Jones) and even tears (we saw you too, Queen Elizabeth — er, Claire Foy.)That feel-good moment — alon
  
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• Execution date sought for convicted Ohio prison riot killer

  18-09-2018 12:26
  
  A prosecutor has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to set an execution date for an inmate sentenced to die in the slayings of five fellow inmates during a 1993 prison riot in Ohio.Forty-nine-year-old Keith LaMar was convicted of aggravated murder in 1995 for the deaths of five inmates during an uprising at the Southern Ohio Correctional Institution at Lucasville. He received the death penalty for four of the five killings.Mark Piepmeier is a Hamilton County prosecutor serving as special prosecutor fo
  
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• 2 Utah wildfires have burned more than 87,000 acres combined

  18-09-2018 12:20
  
  Two Utah wildfires had burned 87,000 acres combined by Monday night, CBS Salt Lake City affiliate KUTV reports. The fires were started by lightning within Unita National Forest; Pole Creek started Sept. 6 and is 2 percent contained and Bald Mountain began on August 24 and is 0 percent contained. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert says the next few days are critical as firefighters try to keep a raging wildfire away from hundreds of homes. Herbert spoke Friday evening after meeting with fire officials at the
  
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• Rain, floods still in Florence's forecast

  18-09-2018 05:07
  MIAMI (AP) — The forecast for Florence has not changed, unfortunately: It's still raining, and rivers are still rising. All but one road in and out of a North Carolina city of 120,000 people are underwater or blocked by debris. Residents of inland communities who thought they were safe from the storm have to find high ground because of expected flooding. When the sun finally comes out later this week, it's going to take a long time to dry out.BY THE NUMBERS—Storm deaths: Florence is
  
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• SpaceX announces first private passenger on solo rocket trip around the moon

  18-09-2018 04:01
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Latest on SpaceX's announcement of the first private moon flight passenger (all times local):6:50 p.m.Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa says he will invite six to eight artists, architects, designers and other creative people on a weeklong journey to circumnavigate the moon.Maezawa said Monday that the SpaceX BFR rocket will make the trip in 2023.The 42-year-old entrepreneur says he wants his guests to be inspired to create once they return to Earth.He appeared at an ev
  
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• Donations help Short North artist move in to own apartment after being stabbed in the eye

  18-09-2018 03:38
  COLUMBUS, Ohio- Malcolm Jones, a Short North artist, was attacked earlier this year after helping a bartender."This has been a hell of a year," he said. "This really [has] been a hell of a year for me."No other sentence holds as much truth.Malcolm Jones goes by Malcolm J. He's a well-known artist in the Short North area. This year, he has lost two siblings. He's also lost sleep because of what happened to him."I try not to remember because it's a reoccurring nightmare," he said.In March, while a
  
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• Trump declassifies documents related to FBI Russia probe

  18-09-2018 02:45
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday declassified a trove of documents related to the early days of the FBI's Russia investigation, including a portion of a secret surveillance warrant application and former FBI Director James Comey's text messages.Trump made the extraordinary move in response to calls from his allies in Congress who say they believe the Russia investigation was tainted by anti-Trump bias within the ranks of the FBI and Justice Department. It also came as Tru
  
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• Trump imposes tariffs on $200B more of Chinese goods

  18-09-2018 02:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will impose tariffs on $200 billion more in Chinese goods starting next week, escalating a trade war between the world's two biggest economies and potentially raising prices on goods ranging from handbags to bicycle tires.The tariffs will start at 10 percent, beginning Monday of next week, and then rise to 25 percent on Jan. 1.President Donald Trump made the announcement Monday in a move that is sure to ratchet up hostilities between Washington an
  
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• Columbus City Council Meeting 9/17/2018

  18-09-2018 02:16 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Community meetings being held for Columbus City Schools' Superintendent candidates

  18-09-2018 01:58
  COLUMBUS - ​ A small crowd gathered at Independence High School in east Columbus to meet one of the three finalists for the job of Superintendent of Columbus City Schools.Dr.Talisa Dixon is currently Superintendent of Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District.She answered approximately two dozen questions from the crowd and ended the community meeting by asserting she meets the criteria for the job."Someone who leads with integrity, trust, and transparency. That's me. That's bee
  
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• New Ticket Tax Exemptions Announced for Smaller Venues and Events

  18-09-2018 00:00
  After multiple rounds of public input, representatives from the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) have unveiled some revisions and exemptions to its ticket fee proposal that would help fund local arts and performance venues through a seven percent tax. Essentially, the new exemptions would apply to smaller venues and smaller events, keeping them outside the realm […]
  
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