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• Breaking News: Crew SC Likely to Stay in Columbus

  12-10-2018 23:13
  Nearly one year ago today, news officially broke that Columbus Crew SC owner Anthony Precourt of Precourt Ventures was planning to relocate the Columbus Crew to Austin, Texas. Today, Sports Illustrated confirmed the rumored news that the team would be able to stay put through a change in ownership. Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and […]
  
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• Hurricane Michael Relief: How you can help

  12-10-2018 23:04
  
  10TV is partnering with Dream Center Columbus and The American Red Cross to help people impacted by Hurricane Michael.On Tuesday, Oct. 16, we are collecting new non-perishable food and cleaning supplies at two locations:10TV Studios located at 770 Twin Rivers DriveChick-fil-A Dublin located at 6051 Sawmill Road Your donations will go to the hardest hit areas to help families who need it most.ITEMS TO DONATENon-perishable food:Peanut ButterJellyHearty SoupsMac N’ CheeseGranola/Energy BarsCa
  
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• "It hurt deep inside": Cancer survivor says he was asked to cover face at South Carolina store

  12-10-2018 21:18
  
  A cancer survivor says he was brought to tears after a store owner told him to cover his face or leave on Monday. Kirby Evans' daughter wrote a Facebook post about her dad's experience at Forks Pit Stop in Walterboro, South Carolina.Brandy Evans says her dad went into the store to buy something to eat, but before he could grab a seat at a table, the owner "grabbed him by his shirt and pulled him into her office.""She told him 'IF HE WAS GOING TO EAT IN HERE HE WOULD HAVE TO COVER HIS FACE!!,'" B
  
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• Ex-Ohio Highway Patrol trooper gets prison for drug charges

  12-10-2018 20:30
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — A former Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for his role in a drug trafficking ring.Jason Delcol, of Delaware, Ohio, apologized at sentencing in Columbus on Friday, The Columbus Dispatch reports. His attorney attributed Delcol's actions to substance abuse problems.Delcol pleaded guilty in May to a drug conspiracy charge, witness tampering and possessing an unregistered firearm and silencer.Prosecutors said Delcol sold illega
  
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• Browns owners, local investors in negotiations to purchase Columbus Crew SC

  12-10-2018 20:01
  Here's what we know about the Columbus Crew SC negotiations:Haslam confirms he's trying to buy Crew SCMLS confirms local ownership group would join himA new downtown stadium would be part of the dealAnthony Precourt would still get an expansion team in Austin
  --Cleveland Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam said Friday they are part of a group trying to buy the Columbus Crew to keep the MLS team in the city.The group, which also includes Columbus-area investors, said in a statement it is moving fo
  
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• Browns owner, local investors in negotiations to purchase Columbus Crew SC

  12-10-2018 20:01
  Here's what we know about the Columbus Crew SC negotiations:Haslam confirms he's trying to buy Crew SCMLS confirms local ownership group would join himA new downtown stadium would be part of the dealAnthony Precourt would still get an expansion team in Austin
  --Crew SC appears to be staying in Columbus.MLS released a statement announcing that the family of Cleveland Browns owner and Jimmy Haslam and a local investor group has joined together to purchase the team and keeping them in Columbus.MLS
  
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• Announcement expected regarding future of Columbus Crew SC

  12-10-2018 20:01
  
  Rumors have been circulating that a major update concerning the future of Crew SC in Columbus is expected today.A source issued the following statement to 10TV’s Dom Tiberi:“Lots of rumors swirling involving the Columbus Crew including Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam as a possible owner. We expect some kind of statement later today concerning the ongoing negotiations to save the Crew.”Anthony Precourt, owner of Crew SC, has been pushing for months to move the team to Austin
  
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• Facebook says hackers accessed 29 million people's accounts

  12-10-2018 19:06
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook says hackers accessed data from 29 million accounts as part of the security breach disclosed two weeks ago.The exact number hadn't been known before. Originally Facebook said 50 million accounts could have been affected, but Facebook didn't know if they had been misused.The hackers accessed name, email addresses or phone numbers from those 29 million accounts. For 14 million of those accounts, hackers got even more data, such as hometown, birthdate, the last 10 pla
  
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• Search crews look for the dead and the living in Florida

  12-10-2018 18:56
  MEXICO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida authorities fielded a barrage of calls about people missing in Hurricane Michael's aftermath as search-and-rescue teams Friday made their way through ravaged neighborhoods, looking for victims dead or alive. The death toll stood at 11 across the South.The number of dead was expected to rise, but authorities scrapped plans for setting up a temporary morgue, indicating they had yet to see signs of mass casualties from the most powerful hurricane to hit the c
  
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• Roosevelt Coffeehouse Among Three Tenants Headed for Gravity Development in Franklinton

  12-10-2018 18:29
  Roosevelt Coffeehouse is doubling its impact. The Gravity development in Franklinton will house the second location of the local social enterprise. They’re one of three tenants announced today, along with Pelotonia, which is moving its headquarters there, and Cova Cowork. Roosevelt Coffeehouse will have an 1,800-square-foot space on the first floor of the middle segment […]
  
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• Full Roster of Good Flicks Hits Theaters this Week

  12-10-2018 18:00
  Holy cow, a lot of movies come out this week — loads and loads, and a lot of them are gunning for Oscars. Some are just gunning for — well, it’s tough to say, but that’s the fun of a lot of movies, isn’t it? The point is, whatever your bag, it’s tough to go […]
  
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• Leaves are still green: The best time to see Fall foliage in central Ohio

  12-10-2018 17:47
  
  Some of the best things about Ohio's Autumn season are the rustling of the leaves under your feet, the cooler temperatures and the Fall smell in the air.But some people are wondering, where are the Fall colors?This year the Fall foliage is expected to peak around the week of October 22 in the northeast portion of the state and in central and southern Ohio will peak the last 10 days of October.This year is different from 2017, when almost all of the country had reached peak or beyond peak by earl
  
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• Delaware County Sheriff's K9 dies 6 months after retirement

  12-10-2018 17:42
  
  A former K9 deputy has died six months after retiring from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office.The sheriff's office announced Lacey's death Friday morning.The accomplished K9 retired in April at 9 years old due to hip problems and a heart murmur.According to the sheriff's office, Lacey has several career accomplishments with her partner Deputy Scott Gaines, including being called upon by the FBI to help with cases throughout the country. In one case she helped locate a serial killer and in anot
  
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• Toyota recalls trucks, SUVs and cars to fix air bag problem

  12-10-2018 17:28
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Toyota is recalling nearly 188,000 pickup trucks, SUVs and cars worldwide because the air bags may not inflate in a crash.The recall covers 2018 and 2019 Tundra pickups and Sequoia SUVs as well as 2019 Avalon sedans.Toyota says the air bag control computer can erroneously detect a fault when the vehicles are started. With a fault, the air bags may not deploy in a crash. The company wouldn't say if the problem has caused any injuries.Toyota will notify owners and dealers will
  
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• Available Light Channels the Magic of Becoming Yourself in Dear Piqua

  12-10-2018 17:06
  Local actor and singer-songwriter Drew Eberly opens his sweet, earnest song cycle Dear Piqua this weekend in a charming Available Light production directed by Matt Slaybaugh. Drew Eberly gets the elephant in the theatrical room out of the way early by opening with a snatch of Bruce Springsteen’s “Hungry Heart” and winkingly accusing the boss […]
  
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• Ohio patrol, 2 other states' police focus on safety on I-70

  12-10-2018 16:15
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's State Highway Patrol and state police from two adjacent states are collaborating this weekend along Interstate 70 on focused enforcement of laws related to speeding, safety and operating vehicles impaired (OVI).The enforcement effort that began at 12:01 a.m. Friday will continue through the weekend, ending at 11:59 p.m. Sunday. It includes state police from Indiana and Pennsylvania as well as Ohio state troopers.All three agencies are members of a multi-state l
  
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• Trump returning to Ohio Friday to rally Republican voters

  12-10-2018 16:09
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — President Donald Trump is returning to Ohio to try to boost GOP candidates in a Republican-dominated area.Trump will headline a Friday evening rally at the Warren County Fairgrounds in Lebanon, northeast of Cincinnati. The county is a GOP stronghold, and Trump won two out of every three votes there in 2016 as he decisively carried Ohio.The Warren County Sheriff's Office is warning drivers to expect heavy traffic and road closures in the city of 21,000. The Lebanon High Sc
  
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• President Donald Trump holds rally at the Warren County Fairgrounds

  12-10-2018 16:09
  CINCINNATI (AP) — President Donald Trump is returning to Ohio to try to boost GOP candidates in a Republican-dominated area.Trump will headline a Friday evening rally at the Warren County Fairgrounds in Lebanon, northeast of Cincinnati. The county is a GOP stronghold, and Trump won two out of every three votes there in 2016 as he decisively carried Ohio.
  The Warren County Sheriff's Office is warning drivers to expect heavy traffic and road closures in the city of 21,000. The Lebanon High S
  
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• At Ohio rally, Trump touts 'historic week for America'

  12-10-2018 16:09
  
  LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — President Donald Trump took a victory lap in Ohio on Friday, touting a "really historic week for America" that began with the installation of his second Supreme Court justice and concluded with the release of an American detained in Turkey.Jocular and boastful, Trump barnstormed — in what was a barn on a rural fairgrounds — for Ohio's gubernatorial and congressional candidates, but, as he often does, spent much of the hour-plus speech touting his own track
  
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• Ohio Air National Guard getting its 1st female brigadier general

  12-10-2018 15:44
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Air National Guard will soon have its first female brigadier general.A guard release says Col. Rebecca O'Connor will become brigadier general in the Ohio Air National Guard during a promotion ceremony Friday afternoon in Columbus.O'Connor also will become the guard's chief of staff.The guard says O'Connor has served in numerous operational and staff positions and commanded units at the squadron and group level. She has served as commander of the 124th Intelli
  
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• Florida: Grim search through ruined landscape after Michael

  12-10-2018 15:03
  MEXICO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Search and rescue teams looked for bodies through a ruined landscape of smashed homes and piles of sand Friday, while more deaths were reported in Virginia, 600 miles (965 kilometers) from where Hurricane Michael made landfall.Michael, so powerful that it remained a hurricane for 12 hours after making landfall in Mexico Beach, thrashed the Carolinas and Virginia and was growing stronger again over the Atlantic, where the National Hurricane Center predicted it woul
  
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• Florida: Authorities say 11 now dead from Hurricane Michael

  12-10-2018 15:03
  PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Linda Marquardt rode out Hurricane Michael with her husband at their home in Mexico Beach. When their house filled with surging ocean water, they fled upstairs. Now their home is full of mud and everywhere they look there's utter devastation in their Florida Panhandle community: fishing boats tossed like toys, roofs lifted off of buildings and pine trees snapped like matchsticks in 155 mph winds.Row after row of beachfront homes were so obliterated by Michael's sur
  
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• Domestic Violence Awareness Month

  12-10-2018 14:46 via youtube.com
  
  
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• CPD: Woman in critical condition after accidental shooting in east Columbus

  12-10-2018 13:19
  
  COLUMBUS - A woman is in critical condition after an accidental shooting in east Columbus, according to Columbus police.It happened on Thursday at 7:35 p.m. in the 1800 block of E. Long Street.Police say that a man and a woman were driving in a vehicle when the man allegedly shot the woman in the back. Police are investigating this incident as an accidental shooting.Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the Columbus Police Assault Unit at 614-645-4141 or Central Ohio C
  
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• Georgia girl, 11, dies as Michael hurls debris through roof

  12-10-2018 12:48
  
  ATLANTA — By all accounts, Sarah Radney was safe inside her grandparents' home when Hurricane Michael roared into southwest Georgia.If the family feared anything, it was probably falling trees — not a carport next to the house.In what could only be described as a freak accident, authorities say Michael's powerful winds lifted the portable structure high into the air and slammed it back down on the house. When it landed, one of the legs tore through the roof, fatally striking the 11-y
  
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• Large fire is out after transformer failure at AEP substation near Groveport

  12-10-2018 03:53
  FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ohio - The fire is out after an AEP Ohio substation transformer failed Thursday night. AEP said it happened around 8:30 at the substation on Bixby Road in the Groveport area.Madison Township Fire confirmed Friday that the transformer was burning oil and there was no fuel from the underground tank. No one was hurt, and no customers were affected, according to AEP.The Environmental Protection Agency was called to the scene, Martin said.The cause of the fire is still being investig
  
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• Large fire at AEP substation near Groveport after transformer failure

  12-10-2018 03:53
  FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ohio - There is a fire at an AEP Ohio substation after a transformer failed Thursday night around 8:30.AEP said the substation is on Bixby Road in the Groveport area.No one was hurt and no customers are affected, according to AEP.The Groveport Fire Department said the equipment on fire is a transformer that sends power long distances.Battalion Chief Steve Martin with the Columbus Division of Fire said there are between 20,000 and 30,000 gallons of flammable fuel in an undergroun
  
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• Members of Columbus City Council hear proposal, sides on ticket tax

  12-10-2018 03:30
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - Members of the Rules and Reference Committee with Columbus City Council heard arguments both for and against the proposed ticket tax on Thursday."We have convened this public hearing to review the proposal and, more importantly, to hear feedback from the community," Council President Shannon Hardin said at the start of the meeting.The hearing was on the seven percent ticket tax, proposed by the Greater Columbus Arts Council, which would be applied to non-profit arts and cultural
  
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• City Council Rules and Reference Committee 10/11/2018

  12-10-2018 03:04 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Shooting victim found at gas station in east Columbus, hospitalized in critical condition

  12-10-2018 02:27
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – A shooting victim was found at the Turkey Hill Mini Mart in the 1800 block of East Broad Street Thursday night, according to Columbus police.Police said the person was found there around 7:45 p.m. and was taken to Grant Medical Center.Police are still investigating and looking into where the shooting happened.Suspect information has not been released.
  
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• Shooting victim found at gas station in east Columbus

  12-10-2018 02:27
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – A shooting victim was found at the Turkey Hill Mini Mart in the 1800 block of East Broad Street Thursday night, according to Columbus police.Police said the person was found there around 7:45 p.m. and was taken to Grant Medical Center in critical condition.Police are still investigating and looking into where the shooting happened.Suspect information has not been released.
  
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• Growing number of U.S. children not vaccinated against any disease

  12-10-2018 01:11
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A small but growing proportion of the youngest children in the U.S. have not been vaccinated against any disease, worrying health officials.An estimated 100,000 young children have not had a vaccination against any of the 14 diseases for which shots are recommended, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Thursday."This is pretty concerning. It's something we need to understand better — and reduce," said the CDC's Dr. Amanda Cohn.Most
  
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• Runner becomes first pro athlete with cerebral palsy to sign with Nike

  12-10-2018 01:05
  Justin Gallegos, a runner at University of Oregon, has made history by becoming the first professional athlete with cerebral palsy to sign with Nike. Gallegos, a junior with the school's running club, made the announcement in an emotional video on his Instagram page.Gallegos was finishing a race on Saturday when he was met by a camera crew, a bunch of his teammates and Nike's Insights director, John Douglass, who told him of the deal. In the video posted to his social media account, Gallegos col
  
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• Greater Columbus Sister Cities International Annual Meeting

  12-10-2018 00:57 via youtube.com
  
  
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