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• Trump touts "stop and frisk" in speech to police group

  08-10-2018 23:18
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump drew an enthusiastic response from a law-and-order crowd Monday, advocating the use of "stop and frisk" policing and saying he has directed the Justice Department to work with local officials in Chicago to stem violence in the nation's third-largest city."The crime spree is a terrible blight on that city," he said at a convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.Trump said he had ordered Attorney General Jeff Sessions to "imme
  
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• Trump website selling 'Stand Up For America' football jerseys

  08-10-2018 22:13
  
  A popular Trump merchandise store is selling 'Stand Up for America' football jerseys to take a stand against protests during NFL games.The red and blue jerseys are sold for men and women retailing at $99 each.The jerseys also have Trump's name written on the back along with No. 45.“Our theme originated out of President Trump’s love for the American flag and his fervent belief that Americans should always stand for our National Anthem,” Lara Trump, senior advisor for Donald J. T
  
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• Police: "Milli Vanilli look-a-likes" stealing from men's locker rooms

  08-10-2018 21:43
  The Columbus Division of Police said it needs your help identifying two thieves who should stand out like a sore thumb."The running joke is Milli Vanilli.And maybe they do look like Milli Vanilli," laughed Columbus Police Detective Bruce Beard.The suspects, with their long, flowing hair, have been caught on surveillance camera casually sauntering into a half-dozen LA Fitness gyms in central Ohio.Police said the crooks used a fake ID to obtain a temporary workout pass and said they head straight
  
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• Animal welfare workers save 71 beagles crammed in small home

  08-10-2018 20:59
  
  Animal welfare workers removed 71 beagles from a cramped house in rural Pennsylvania, where officials say a woman had been breeding them without a license before she died last month.The Lehigh County Humane Society got a call late Saturday night from police who responded to noise complaints at a home outside Allentown, said Barbara Morgan, the Humane Society's police officer.The officers estimated about 25 dogs were inside the home. Four animal welfare workers and two trucks responded."Six hours
  
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• Press Conference: 2018 Safe Streets Program

  08-10-2018 20:56 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Pickup truck lands on top of car in Arizona, no one hurt

  08-10-2018 20:49
  
  PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a pickup truck landed on top of a car after the truck was hit by another vehicle and went flying through the air. The car was crushed but no one was hurt.Firefighters in the small city of Prescott north of Phoenix say it was amazing that the two people in the car and the woman driving the pickup were not hurt after the crash Sunday night.Prescott Fire Department spokesman E. Conrad Jackson said Monday that the pickup truck driver was hit by another pi
  
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• Blue Jackets' Dubinsky out 4-6 weeks with strained oblique

  08-10-2018 20:37
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Columbus Blue Jackets forward Brandon Dubinsky is expected to miss four to six weeks with a strained oblique muscle.Dubinsky suffered the injury at practice Sunday. General manager Jarmo Kekalainen announced the time frame Monday when Columbus put Dubinsky on injured reserve.The 32-year-old had a goal and an assist and won 68.8 percent of his faceoffs in the Blue Jackets' first two games of the season. Dubinsky has 148 goals and 278 assists for 426 points in 764 regul
  
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• Trump apologizes to Kavanaugh, says he was 'proven innocent'

  08-10-2018 20:14
  
  Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has been sworn in —again — at an event at the White House, but not before President Donald Trump slammed Kavanaugh's opponents for a "campaign of personal destruction."Trump is apologizing to Kavanaugh and his family for "the terrible suffering you have been forced to endure."He says that "under historic scrutiny," Kavanaugh was "proven innocent."The bitter partisan fight over Kavanaugh's nomination became a firestorm after sexual misconduct alle
  
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• Police seize multiple drugs, guns in Whitehall search

  08-10-2018 20:08
  
  A man has been arrested after police found multiple drugs and guns during a search last week in Whitehall.The Whitehall Division of Police Narcotics Unit executed the search warrant in the 5300 block of Great Oak Drive on Friday as part of an investigation into drug trafficking.Detectives seized 52 grams of cocaine, 7 grams of crystal methamphetamine, 5 grams of heroin, 3 grams of marijuana, 19 oxycodone pills along with nine guns (two of which were stolen) and $4,697 in cash.Twenty-six-year-old
  
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• Ohio governor candidates to meet in Cleveland for 3rd debate

  08-10-2018 19:51
  CLEVELAND (AP) — With a month until Ohio's high stakes governor's election, the state's major party governor candidates are ready to meet in Cleveland for their final debate.The faceoff between Republican Attorney General Mike DeWine and Democrat Richard Cordray, the former federal consumer watchdog, takes place Monday at Cleveland State University.Cordray and DeWine are in a tight race to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. John Kasich next month. It's one of the hardest fought and most
  
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• Ohio governor candidates spar over pre-existing conditions

  08-10-2018 19:51
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — The major-party candidates for Ohio governor are sparring over insurance protections for people with pre-existing conditions, each saying the other has misrepresented the issue.Republican Mike DeWine and Democrat Richard Cordray faced off Monday at Cleveland State University with the final month of their closely watched contest closing in.DeWine is Ohio’s attorney general. He says Cordray’s ads saying he opposes protections for pre-existing conditions are misle
  
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• Cordray, DeWine spar over issues in final debate before election

  08-10-2018 19:51
  The men vying to be Ohio's next Governor, took the stage together for the final time Monday.Democrat Richard Cordray is facing Republican Mike DeWine on the November ballot.The candidates clashed on protecting Ohioans with pre-existing conditions.DeWine says he supports it, but Cordray points out he sued to end the Affordable Care Act."There's only ever been one law in this country that protected people with pre-existing conditions, and it was the Affordable Care Act," Cordray said. "He filed a
  
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• Long-Stalled Project in Olde Towne East Now Under Construction

  08-10-2018 19:31
  Preliminary construction work has begun at 122 Parsons Ave., a vacant lot in Olde Towne East that has seen numerous development proposals over the years. The latest concept calls for a four-story building that will hold 78 apartments, a first-floor parking garage, and about 1,900 square feet of retail space. The project, which was first […]
  
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• Hillary and Bill Clinton to go on tour this year

  08-10-2018 19:21
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Now that Beyonce and Jay-Z are off the road, another power couple is taking their place: Hillary and Bill Clinton.The Clintons announced Monday they will visit four cities in 2018 and nine in 2019 across North America in a series of conversations dubbed "An Evening with President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton." It is being produced by tour promoter Live Nation, the company behind Michelle Obama's massive tour to promote her new book as we
  
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• Michael strengthens into Category 3 hurricane

  08-10-2018 18:34
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A fast and furious Hurricane Michael sped toward the Florida Panhandle on Tuesday with 120 mph winds and a potential storm surge of 13 feet, giving tens of thousands of people precious little time to get out or board up.Drawing energy from the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the storm strengthened rapidly into a potentially devastating Category 3 by evening. It was expected to blow ashore around midday Wednesday near Panama City Beach, along a lightly populated
  
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• Michael becomes hurricane, could hit Florida Panhandle as Category 2 storm

  08-10-2018 18:34
  
  MIAMI (AP) — A tropical weather system that rapidly strengthened into Hurricane Michael on Monday is likely to keep growing stronger ahead of an expected strike on Florida's Panhandle by midweek, forecasters said.Michael could strengthen into a major hurricane with winds topping 111 mph by Tuesday night before an expected strike Wednesday on the Panhandle or Big Bend, according to the National Hurricane Center.Since the storm will spend two to three days over the Gulf of Mexico, which has
  
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• Hurricane Michael gains strength, takes aim at north Florida

  08-10-2018 18:34
  MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Michael intensified into a Category 2 over warm Gulf of Mexico waters Tuesday amid fears it would strike Florida on Wednesday as an even stronger hurricane. Mandatory evacuations were issued as beach dwellers rushed to board up homes just ahead of what could be a devastating hit.A hurricane hunter plane that bounced into the swirling eye off the western tip of Cuba found wind speeds rising. By 8 a.m. Tuesday, top winds had reached 100 mph, and it was forecast to stre
  
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• Fast-strengthening hurricane closes in on Florida Panhandle

  08-10-2018 18:34
  MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Michael intensified into a Category 2 over warm Gulf of Mexico waters Tuesday amid fears it would strike Florida on Wednesday as an even stronger hurricane. Mandatory evacuations were issued as beach dwellers rushed to board up homes just ahead of what could be a devastating hit.A hurricane hunter plane that bounced into the swirling eye off the western tip of Cuba found wind speeds rising. By 8 a.m. Tuesday, top winds had reached 100 mph, and it was forecast to stre
  
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• 2018 Firefighter Memorial

  08-10-2018 18:30 via youtube.com
  
  
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• WATCH: Urban Meyer press conference | Ohio State vs. Minnesota week

  08-10-2018 17:19
  
  COLUMBUS -- Ohio State head football Urban Meyer addressed the media Monday morning from the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.Meyer recapped the Buckeyes' 49-26 win over the Indiana Hoosiers and discussed this weekend's home game against Minnesota.Watch this week's press conference in the video player below:Latest Ohio State News: Dwayne Haskins named Big Ten Player of the Week for 4th time this seasonOhio State remains at No. 3; picks up first-place voteVIDEO: Urban Meyer post-game press conference
  
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• Dwayne Haskins named Big Ten Player of the Week for 4th time this season

  08-10-2018 17:02
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Big Ten Conference named Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins its offensive player of the week Monday for a third consecutive week and a fourth time this season.Haskins threw for 455 yards and a school-record-tying six touchdown passes in Ohio State's 49-26 win over Indiana on Saturday.Haskins, who missed Art Schlichter’s 1978 school record of 458 yards passing by just three yards, threw two touchdown passes each to Parris Campbell and Terry McLaurin and one api
  
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• MadLab’s Intriguing Science Fiction Drama The Wave that Set the Fire

  08-10-2018 16:51
  MadLab’s season focusing on science fiction as commentary continues with the opening of their regional premiere of Ellen K. Graham’s The Wave that Set the Fire, directed by Kyle Jepson. In near-future Colorado – it’s implied the economic crash was 5 years ago – a government agent (Petra) shows up at a dilapidated house looking for […]
  
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• Roads where limo crash killed 20 a longtime known danger, resident says

  08-10-2018 16:11
  
  SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — The site of a devastating accident that killed two pedestrians and 18 occupants of a limousine headed to a birthday party, including four sisters, is a known danger spot that has long worried locals, according to a manager of the store that sits at the intersection where the accident happened.The intersection had been redone in 2008 because of a fatal accident there, said Jessica Kirby, managing director of the Apple Barrel Country Store and Cafe, which is an institu
  
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• Governor: Limo that crashed shouldn't have been on the road

  08-10-2018 16:11
  
  SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — The supersized limousine involved in a crash that killed 20 people outside a country store failed a recent safety inspection and shouldn't have been on the road, and the driver wasn't properly licensed, New York's governor said Monday.The state ordered the owner, Prestige Limousine, shut down while an investigation continues into what caused Saturday's wreck in Schoharie."In my opinion, the owner of this company had no business putting a failed vehicle on the road,"
  
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• New Kids On The Block bringing 'The Mix Tape' tour to Columbus in June

  08-10-2018 15:22
  
  COLUMBUS, OH – New Kids On The Block announced the lineup for their 2019 tour.Special guests on "The Mix Tape" tour include Salt-N-Pepa, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson and Naughty by Nature.The five acts will hit the road together for the first time ever on a 53-city tour across North America next summer.The tour kicks off in Cincinnati in Cincinnati and Cleveland in early May and will stop at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus on Saturday, June 22.TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general
  
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• Unusual number of Minnesota kids diagnosed with rare, paralyzing disorder

  08-10-2018 14:52
  Health investigators are trying to figure out how some Minnesota children contracted a rare illness with polio-like symptoms. At least six children in Minnesota have been diagnosed and hospitalized with acute flaccid myelitis (or AFM) since September 20. On average, the Minnesota Department of Health sees only about one case per year.Health experts say the disease can lead to paralysis and even death.For one Minneapolis boy, he started to have trouble moving as he recovered from a cold. Elaine a
  
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• What's Happening at the Cultural Arts Center? Hypotheses

  08-10-2018 14:41 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Indians eliminated from playoffs after being swept by Astros

  08-10-2018 13:55
  
  CLEVELAND — The Houston Astros advanced to the AL Championship Series for the second straight year, completing a division-round sweep of Cleveland on Monday with an 11-3 win in Game 3 helped by two key throwing errors from Indians reliever Trevor Bauer.Marwin Gonzalez hit a two-run double off Bauer on a shoulder-high pitch as the Astros scored three runs in the seventh inning and closed a series that figured to be much more competitive.George Springer homered twice, Carlos Correa hit three
  
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• Deep dig: Indians face familiar 2-0 hole in ALDS vs. Astros

  08-10-2018 13:55
  
  CLEVELAND — The Indians are very familiar with the postseason hole they're currently stuck in. They saw one just like it last October — from above.At least they know it can be scaled.But Cleveland's climb in this AL Division Series seems much steeper than just the 2-0 deficit they're facing after dropping the first two games in Houston. The defending World Series champion Astros have shown their exceptional pitching and extraordinary depth while outplaying the swing-and-miss Indians
  
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• Girls' Night at the Garage teaches ins and outs of vehicle maintenance

  08-10-2018 13:14
  COLUMBUS - According to statistics, more women drive cars than men, and women are also the number one consumer at auto repair shops. But not all women feel comfortable when it comes to fixing a vehicle.AAA Ohio is trying to change that. The Girls Night at the Garage program focuses on making sure more women are knowledgeable about what's under the hood of their car.Women like Anne Nelson and Ruth Adams are getting a jump start on learning the ins and outs of their cars."I wouldn't know how to lo
  
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• Ohio town to celebrate famed high school basketball team

  08-10-2018 12:40
  
  WATERLOO, Ohio — An Ohio town is celebrating the exploits of a Depression-era basketball team that took the state by storm nearly 90 years ago.The tiny team from Waterloo in southern Ohio known as the Waterloo Wonders won back-to-back state championships in the early 1930s and at one point had a 56-game winning streak. The village is 106 miles south of Columbus.The team was famous for precision ball-handling skills unknown at the time. Several members turned pro after graduation and travel
  
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• Taylor Swift breaks political silence to support Tennessee Democrats

  08-10-2018 11:53
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Music superstar Taylor Swift announced Sunday to her 112 million Instagram followers she's voting for Tennessee's Democratic Senate candidate Phil Bredesen, breaking her long-standing refusal to discuss anything political. The 28-year-old has faced criticism in the past for not speaking about political issues despite having a global platform."In the past I've been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the p
  
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• Scuffle at Marion skating rink has a family demanding answers

  08-10-2018 05:27
  MARION, Ohio - A Marion mother, who did not want to release her name, wants answers after video shows an adult at a skating rink getting physical with her son.She says she dropped her 13-year-old son off at Zoomers Skate Club for an overnight lock-in. She tells 10TV she’s familiar with the rink and had no worries about the safety of her son.“There’s not too much to do around here and that’s something for him to do,” the victim’s mother said. “He gets to
  
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• Police: Elderly man assaulted during home invasion in northeast Columbus

  08-10-2018 05:15
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – A man was assaulted during a home invasion Sunday night, according to Columbus police.Police said officers responded to the 1100 block of Lenore Avenue in northeast Columbus around 8:20 p.m. after they were called about a robbery that happened 20 or 30 minutes before.Police described the victim as elderly.While his exact condition is not known, a police dispatcher said no one was taken to the hospital in connection with the report.Police said a suspect has not been arreste
  
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• U.N. report about global warming warns of "life-or-death situation"

  08-10-2018 04:40
  
  WASHINGTON — Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, an international panel of scientists reported Sunday. But they provide little hope the world will rise to the challenge.The Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its gloomy report at a meeting in Incheon, South Korea.In the 728-page document, the U.N. organization detailed how
  
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• Tropical Storm Michael expected to gain hurricane strength this week

  08-10-2018 00:00
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Sunday warned that a tropical storm headed for the Florida Panhandle could become a Category 2 hurricane with winds up to 100 miles per hour by the time it makes landfall at midweek.Scott issued an order for a state of emergency for 26 counties in the Florida Panhandle and the Big Bend area. The declaration will free up resources for storm preparation."This storm will be life-threatening and extremely dangerous," Scott said after receiving a brief
  
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• Tropical Storm Michael could bring heavy rainfall to Mexico, Cuba, Gulf Coast

  08-10-2018 00:00
  
  A tropical depression strengthened on Sunday into Tropical Storm Michael, which the National Hurricane Center says could bring heavy rainfall and flooding to Mexico, Cuba and the U.S. Gulf Coast.A tropical storm warning is in effect for the Cuban provinces of Pinar del Rio and the Isle of Youth. There's also a warning in effect for the coast of Mexico from Tulum to Cabo Catoche.Forecasters said the storm could become a hurricane by Tuesday night or Wednesday. The storm could bring rainfall total
  
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