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• Cleveland Orchestra fires 2 musicians over sexual misconduct

  24-10-2018 23:43
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Orchestra says an independent investigation into sexual misconduct allegations has led to the firing of two prominent musicians.The orchestra on Wednesday announced the dismissals of concertmaster William Preucil and principal trombonist Massimo La Rosa.The orchestra says in a statement that the investigation was conducted after the publication of media reports in July detailing allegations of misconduct involving Preucil. The investigation was expanded after
  
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• Phone scam impersonates Franklin County Sheriff, demands money

  24-10-2018 23:25
  Investigators say someone is impersonating the Franklin County Sheriff and demanding money.But the real Sheriff wants to get the word out about this scam.The Sheriff’s Office learned someone is calling around, claiming to be Sheriff Dallas Baldwin and asking for money, threatening arrest if he doesn’t get it.Baldwin wants the word out -- he would never make this call. It is a total scam.“I will never call you to tell you that you need to pay money for any reason,” Baldwin
  
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• Dublin teacher performs Heimlich, saves 7th grader from choking

  24-10-2018 23:11
  
  A Dublin City Schools seventh-grade teacher, reading to her class, saw a student choking and leaped into action, saving a student with the Heimlich Maneuver last week.According to teacher Annie Fussner, on Oct. 18, she was reading "The Butterly Effect: How Your Life Matters" by Andy Andrews to her fifth-period class.A student by the name of Jack approached her while reading, and was leaning over on the desk in from of her.Fussner stopped reading to check on Jack, realizing he wasn't breathing. F
  
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• City Chat: 2018 Veterans Day Parade

  24-10-2018 23:08 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Stephen King gives students movie rights to story for $1

  24-10-2018 22:46
  
  PORTLAND, Maine — Horror writer Stephen King is giving a deal to student filmmakers at the Blaenau Gwent Film Academy in Wales.King sold them the movie rights to a short story, "Stationary Bike," for $1.Kevin Phillips, a tutor at the school, tells The Boston Globe the deal is "great for our students who are fans of his writing and a great scoop for the academy."The story is about a man who begins using a stationary bike after his doctor tells him to lose weight because of high cholesterol.
  
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• $2.3+ Million For Early Childhood Education And Youth Homelessness Through Our Kids Critical Need Alert

  24-10-2018 22:17
  In just 44 days, generous donors of The Columbus Foundation helped eclipse the $1.5 million goal of the Foundation’s recent Critical Need Alert (CNA) by more than $800,000, making it the largest and most successful CNA in the Foundation’s history. The Our Kids CNA, a sharply focused, high impact fundraising campaign, was developed to address two pressing […]
  
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• Michigan man leads police to wife's body; officials deny rewarding him with Xbox

  24-10-2018 22:03
  
  KALAMAZOO COUNTY, Mich. -- The Michigan Department of Corrections is refuting media reports they agreed to an inmate's demand for an Xbox in exchange for him leading investigators to the body of his long-missing wife.The inmate, Doug Stewart, was convicted in 2011 of killing his estranged wife, Venus Stewart, who disappeared the previous year from her parents' home in southwestern Michigan. Doug Stewart had long maintained his innocence in the killing, but on Monday he led authorities to a buria
  
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• Oat cereals, snack bars test positive for trace amounts of weed killer in Roundup

  24-10-2018 21:58
  
  Two months after releasing an alarming report on herbicides in cereals and other food marketed to children, an environmental advocacy group is back with additional findings. This time, tests detected trace amounts of glyphosate -- the active ingredient in Monsanto's weed killer Roundup -- in all of the nearly 30 samples of oat-based cereal and snack bars tested.All of the samples tested within the range of limits deemed acceptable by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Food and
  
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• Kansas man guilty in death of boy found encased in concrete

  24-10-2018 21:58
  
  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the horrific abuse and slaying of a 3-year-old boy whose body was found encased in concrete in the laundry room of his home four months after his death.Stephen Bodine, 41, of Wichita, was convicted Wednesday in the May 2017 death of Evan Brewer. Bodine was also found guilty of child abuse, aggravated child endangerment and two counts of kidnapping. He will be sentenced December 17.Bodine faces a potential sen
  
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• U.S. woman found murdered near Club Med in Turks and Caicos

  24-10-2018 21:51
  
  Police in the Turks and Caicos Islands say an American woman has been murdered and her body found near the Club Med Resort. In a statement on their Facebook page, the Turks and Caicos police confirmed they launched a murder investigation after finding the body of Marie Kuhnla, 61, in bushes near the resort on Oct. 16.CBS New York said Khunla was a resident of Wantagh, Long Island."Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Marie at this time. This is an active investigation into
  
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• After stem cell transplant, man with MS able to walk and dance for first time in 10 years

  24-10-2018 21:43
  
  For a decade, Roy Palmer had no control of his legs. The man from Gloucester, England, had multiple sclerosis, or MS, which results in the body's immune system eating away at the protective covering of nerves, disrupting communication between the brain and the body.Palmer had no feeling in his legs and used a wheelchair. But last year, he received a life-changing treatment that restored his ability to walk -- and dance -- again, the BBC reports. The dad first heard of the treatment, called HSCT
  
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• Wounded soldier embarks on road to recovery with the dog who received "Purple Paw"

  24-10-2018 21:29
  SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The bond between two soldiers goes beyond the call of duty. Army Spc. Alec Alcoser and his bomb-sniffing dog, Alex, have spent three years together on countless missions, most recently on a tour in Afghanistan."We find IEDs, we find bombs, these dogs put themselves on the front line and make sure no one gets hurt behind them," Alcoser said.It was on their last mission in August that their lives were changed forever. While on foot patrol, a suicide bomber attacked."He w
  
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• Ohio village has 10 years to pay drivers in traffic camera case

  24-10-2018 21:21
  
  NEW MIAMI, Ohio — A judge will allow an Ohio village 10 years to refund an estimated $3.2 million collected from drivers for speeding citations from automated camera.New Miami's automatic camera enforcement was ruled unconstitutional in 2014. Butler County Judge Michael Oster later ruled the village must pay back about 33,000 drivers who paid fines under that system.The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports Oster recently ruled to allow New Miami to pay the judgment plus interest over a
  
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• U.K. cops confirm "Friends" actor David Schwimmer didn't steal beer

  24-10-2018 21:09
  
  LONDON -- A U.K. police force has received thousands of comedy responses after posting an image from a security camera showing a man strongly resembling "Friends" character Ross Geller stealing beer from a restaurant.Police in Blackpool, in northern England, shared the photo of the man on Tuesday, which shows the David Schwimmer lookalike clutching a crate of beer.Blackpool Police shared the image on their Facebook page and were inundated with comedy responses inspired by some of the iconic line
  
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• Woman saves husband who emerges from coma to see son's birth

  24-10-2018 20:46
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man awoke from a medically-induced coma just in time for the birth of his son after his wife, at 39 weeks pregnant, saved him from cardiac arrest.Ashley Goette says she awoke Oct. 16 to hear her husband, Andrew Goette, gasping for air in their West St. Paul home. She called 911 and a dispatcher guided her through administering CPR. First responders arrived and rushed Andrew to United Hospital in St. Paul, where he was placed in a coma to minimize possible bra
  
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• New Concept Revealed for 26-Story Convention Center Hotel

  24-10-2018 20:39
  The latest plans for a new hotel attached to the Greater Columbus Convention Center were presented yesterday to the development committee of the Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority. The new hotel will technically be an addition to the existing Hilton Downtown Columbus, located across North High Street from the convention center. The two buildings together […]
  
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• Man sets his parents' home on fire after using blowtorch to kill spiders

  24-10-2018 20:33
  
  Call it an extreme case of arachnophobia.A man in California went way overboard trying to kill black widow spiders in his parents’ home.He accidentally started a house fire after using a blowtorch to kill the spiders Tuesday night.He was house-sitting for his parents at the time.Firefighters said he made it out safely and no one was hurt.More than two dozen firefighters responded and put out the fire which damaged the second-story and the attic.
  
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• US approves first new type of flu drug in 2 decades

  24-10-2018 20:24
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. health regulators have approved the first new type of flu drug in two decades.Wednesday's approval of Xofluza for people age 12 and older comes ahead of the brunt of this winter's flu season.Xofluza is a pill that can reduce severity and shorten duration of flu symptoms after one just dose. It was developed by the Roche Group and Shionogi & Co.It works about as well as Tamiflu, Roche's older flu treatment, which is also available in cheaper generic versions. T
  
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• Pipe bombs target Democrats, CNN as political tensions mount

  24-10-2018 19:07
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A sudden wave of pipe bombs targeting Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, other prominent Democrats and CNN was thwarted without physical harm, but an anxiety-filled day on Wednesday deepened political tensions and fears two weeks before national midterm elections.None of the bombs detonated as law enforcement took them away for examination and disposal.The first crude bomb to be discovered had been delivered Monday to the suburban New York compound of George
  
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• Crude pipe bombs sent to Obama, Clintons, CNN; no injuries

  24-10-2018 19:07
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Crude pipe bombs targeting Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, CNN and others were intercepted Tuesday night and Wednesday in a rash of attacks aimed at prominent Democrats and a cable news network often criticized by political conservatives.New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said his office received a similar package, and the FBI said Florida Rep. Deborah Wasserman Schultz did, too, possibly misaddress and then sent to her as the return addressee. A similar device wa
  
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• Taylor Swift donates to fan struggling with medical bills

  24-10-2018 18:37
  
  OREM, Utah (AP) — Taylor Swift has donated $15,500 to a GoFundMe account of a fan whose family is struggling with medical bills.Sadie Bartell's mother has been in a coma for three years, and the family is worried about losing their Orem, Utah, home because of mounting medical bills. The 19-year-old tweeted that her mother became ill two days before she went to see Swift in a concert.Swift made the donation over the weekend with the message, "Love, Taylor, Meredith and Olivia Swift." Meredi
  
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• Child death toll hits 7 in viral outbreak at rehab center

  24-10-2018 18:34
  
  TRENTON, N.J. — Another child has died following a severe viral outbreak at a New Jersey rehabilitation center for "medically fragile children," bringing the death toll to seven, the facility said Wednesday.There have been 18 cases overall of adenovirus at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Haskell, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of New York, the state Health Department said. The 227-bed, for-profit facility cares for children and elderly residents.The agency ha
  
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• 3 Licking County men charged in case involving sexual abuse of toddlers

  24-10-2018 18:07
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – Documents were unsealed Tuesday evening charging three Ohio men with crimes related to child pornography.In May, a federal grand jury charged David E. Fairchild, 45, of Kirkersville, Jesse G. Szuba, 31, of Newark, and Mike Allen, 36, ofHeath, in a second superseding indictment unsealed yesterday evening. Fairchild and Szuba are each charged with conspiring to produce child pornography, among other related crimes.According to court documents, in January 2018, the Franklin C
  
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• Sandy Hook shooter's writings ordered released to public

  24-10-2018 17:04
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. — Some of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter's personal belongings, including personal journals containing stories about hurting children and a spreadsheet ranking mass murders, must be released to the public because they are not exempt from open record laws, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.Thousands of documents already have been released from the investigation that ended without determining a motive for the massacre of 20 first-graders and six educators
  
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• Restaurant Roundup: News From Block’s Bagels, Sweet Carrot and more

  24-10-2018 16:52
  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: The Window Cafe Billy Silva first opened The Window […]
  
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• Restaurant Review: Bulgogi at Saraga International Market

  24-10-2018 16:00
  Bulgogi, the eatery, set up shop inside of Saraga International Market this spring. Saraga makes a good spot to grow any upstart world eatery, it’s already renown for both its international grocery selection as well as its hosting duties for Momo Ghar. As for Bulgogi, it’s tucked inside the grocery store, near the checkouts. The […]
  
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• Officials: Suspicious packages sent to Clintons, Obamas and CNN

  24-10-2018 15:35
  
  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service has intercepted a bomb that was addressed to Hillary Clinton and also discovered a possible explosive that was sent to former President Barack Obama.Also Wednesday, a police bomb squad was sent to CNN's offices in New York City and the newsroom was evacuated because of a suspicious package.A U.S. official told The Associated Press that investigators believe the explosive that was discovered near the Clintons' home in Chappaqua, New York, is linked to on
  
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• State Fire Marshal investigating fatal house fire in Hebron

  24-10-2018 15:10
  
  HEBRON, OHIO - The State Fire Marshal Office is investigating a fatal house fire in Hebron early Wednesday morning.Firefighters were called just after 1:45 a.m. to a home located in 100 block of Newark Street in Hebron.The Hebron Fire Chief told 10TV they removed a male victim who died in the fire. Authorities said there is extensive damage to the front of the home and the entire structure is close to a total loss.A neighbor told 10TV they called 911 and told firefighters the resident who lived
  
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• Some police dogs now have cameras, too

  24-10-2018 14:22
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Police dogs have always helped their human counterparts through their eyes and nose, and now some of the dogs are getting their own backup — cameras that transmit live video.The devices generally attach to dogs' backs on a vest and transmit video to a handler watching from a screen, possibly on their wrist or around their necks. It's so the officers can better assess what they are up against before they go into a situation."If we have a really close encounter with ar
  
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• Sheriff feels 'outpouring of support' in missing girl case

  24-10-2018 12:39
  
  BARRON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin sheriff thanked volunteer searchers who helped canvass the area surrounding the home of a 13-year-old girl who is believed to have been abducted and whose parents were killed.Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said in a Facebook post Tuesday that investigators were assessing several items that volunteers found during an expanded search for clues that might lead them to Jayme Closs, but none of them seemed to be linked to her disappearance as of Tuesday e
  
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• Wall Street skeptical of Tesla's promise to post net profit

  24-10-2018 12:35
  
  Tesla is showing some promising signs that it will make money as advertised in the third quarter, but Wall Street isn't buying it.The electric car and solar panel maker delivered more than 80,000 vehicles from July through September, and CEO Elon Musk told employees late in the quarter that it was close to profitability.Still, of 15 analysts who follow the company, not one expects Tesla to make money. As a group, they expect a net loss of $173.8 million, or 95 cents per share."We'd be really ver
  
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• Former VP Biden to campaign for Democrats in key Ohio area

  24-10-2018 12:31
  
  YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden will try to rally Democratic support in a northeast Ohio area where Republican Donald Trump drew cross-over voters.The gubernatorial campaign of Richard Cordray said Tuesday that Biden will headline an Oct. 29 rally at Youngstown State University. The Vindicator newspaper reported earlier that a fundraising event also is planned.Cordray was the federal consumer protection chief in the Barack Obama administration. He's in a tight race
  
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• More than 1 million absentee ballots requested in Ohio

  24-10-2018 12:28
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State election officials say more than a million absentee ballots have been requested ahead of the Nov. 6 general election.The Ohio Secretary of State's Office says an estimated 1,053,697 absentee ballots had been requested and 332,663 had been cast statewide as of Oct. 19. The office said Tuesday that at that same point in 2014, a total of nearly 810,000 absentee ballots had been requested by Ohio voters and more than 272,000 ballots had been cast.Officials say this
  
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• Japan confirms ID of journalist freed from Syria

  24-10-2018 12:15
  
  TOKYO (AP) — Japan confirmed Wednesday that a man freed from Syria is a Japanese freelance journalist who was kidnapped three years ago and said he appears to be in good health.The man was identified as Jumpei Yasuda, Foreign Minister Taro Kono said."We are extremely pleased that we have confirmed the safety of Mr. Jumpei Yasuda," Kono told reporters. He said Japanese Embassy officials met with Yasuda at an immigration center in southern Turkey near the border with Syria, where he has been
  
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• Senate slipping away as Dems fight to preserve blue wave

  24-10-2018 12:08
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — In the closing stretch of the 2018 campaign, the question is no longer the size of the Democratic wave. It's whether there will be a wave at all.Top operatives in both political parties concede that Democrats' narrow path to the Senate majority has essentially disappeared, a casualty of surging Republican enthusiasm across GOP strongholds. At the same time, leading Democrats now fear the battle for the House majority will be decided by just a handful of seats."It's always b
  
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• Utah university slay suspect was sex offender, records show

  24-10-2018 12:00
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A University of Utah student and track athlete who was shot and killed on campus by a former boyfriend had filed a police complaint against him after she learned he was a sex offender and broke off the relationship, authorities said Tuesday.Investigators had been working to build a case after receiving the report from 21-year-old Lauren McCluskey, a senior from Pullman, Washington, university police chief Dale Brophy said. He declined to disclose further details on th
  
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• Winning $1.6B Mega Millions ticket sold in S. Carolina

  24-10-2018 08:16
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery officials say someone has won the record $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot.Mega Millions officials said a ticket purchased in South Carolina matches all six numbers in Tuesday night's drawing. The massive jackpot is the world's largest ever lottery grand prize.The winning numbers were5, 28, 62, 65, 70 and Mega Ball 5. No details on where the winning ticket was sold were immediately available. But the lucky player overcame miserable odds: The chance of match
  
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• South Carolina lottery website showing one Mega Millions jackpot winner

  24-10-2018 08:16
  
  Someone may be $1.6 billion richer this morning.The South Carolina Education Lottery is showing on its website that one ticket matched all five numbers and the Megaball in Tuesday night's record jackpot drawing.The winning numbers were 5-28-62-65-70 and the Megaball was 5.The Mega Millions website has not yet been updated to show if there were any winners. There could still be winning tickets sold in other states.10TV is continuing to follow this breaking story and will bring you any updates as
  
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• $1.537 billion Mega Millions ticket sold in South Carolina

  24-10-2018 08:16
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lottery officials say someone bought a ticket in South Carolina to win the Mega Millions jackpot with a final total of $1.537 billion, shy of the all-time world record.The earlier Mega Millions estimate of $1.6 billion would have been a world record for lotteries, but actual sales came in below the $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot prize shared by winners in California, Florida and Tennessee in January of 2016.The ticket sold Tuesday is worth about $877.8 million in a
  
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• Numbers announced for $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot

  24-10-2018 05:02
  
  5, 28, 62, 65, 70 and Mega Ball 5Megaplier 3xThe jackpot's estimated cash value is $913 million, an option favored by most winners. Otherwise, the jackpot is doled out over 29 years. If nobody matches Tuesday's numbers, officials say the next drawing will be Friday for an estimated $2 billion jackpot.Mega Millions has more than 302 million possible number combinations. Lottery officials had expected to sell 75 percent of them by Tuesday night's drawing, where Mega Millions host John Crow announc
  
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• Michigan inmate's deal to reveal remains included Xbox

  24-10-2018 03:18
  
  FULTON, Mich. — A man serving a life sentence in the death of his estranged wife led authorities to where he buried her body in Michigan eight years ago in exchange for an Xbox, according to authorities.Doug Stewart, 37, will also be allowed to participate in some prison programs, the Sturgis Journal reported .Stewart took detectives on Monday to a wooded area in Kalamazoo County where he had buried 32-year-old Venus Stewart. He'd left two stumps at the site as a landmark."I knew I couldn'
  
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• Pataskala Police warn of spike in break-ins, robberies

  24-10-2018 02:42
  PATASKALA, Ohio - Pataskala police are warning of an increase in break-ins and robberies.Leighanna Visintine and her family work hard for what they have.Sadly, the cameras outside her Pataskala home are needed so they can hopefully keep what they have."The last four months, we've been broken into three times," she said.She said burglars, twice, broke into her husband's construction equipment building and stole supplies.Last Thursday, she said someone stole cans of gas, a grease gun, and an under
  
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• Family and friends rally for justice for Donna Castleberry

  24-10-2018 01:52
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - The parents of Donna Castleberry, Michelle and Mike Dalton, stood on the steps leading to the Columbus Division of Police headquarters on Tuesday demanding answers into their daughters' death."I don't know what happened to my baby, " said Michelle.Columbus police officer Andrew Mitchell is accused of fatally shooting Donna Castleberry during an alleged prostitution sting on August 23.Her dad questioned why Columbus police officer Andrew Mitchell was working that day considering
  
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• 5-year-old girl with autism mistakes bride for Cinderella, has magical moment

  24-10-2018 01:37
  
  A 5-year-old girl with autism saw a bride taking wedding photos in New York's Akron Falls Park last week and mistook her for Cinderella. Because she has autism, it's often difficult for Layla Lester to interact with strangers. But Cinderella is no stranger. Layla loves Disney, so when she saw a "Disney princess" at the park, she was thrilled.She ran up to Olivia Spark, who was posing with her groom — or rather, Prince Charming. Spark took a break from taking wedding photos to chat with the
  
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• Zach Smith pleads guilty to reduced charge of disorderly conduct

  24-10-2018 00:18
  
  DELAWARE COUNTY -- Zach Smith, a former Ohio State University wide receivers coach who was dismissed from the team before the season began, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge Tuesday in Delaware County Municipal Court.According to court records, Zach Smith was charged with criminal trespassing in May following an incident with his ex-wife Courtney Smith. On Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of disorderly conduct.Brad Koffel, Zach Smith's attorney, said both Zach and Courtney came to
  
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• U.S. health chief says overdose deaths beginning to level off

  24-10-2018 00:11
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of U.S. drug overdose deaths has begun to level off after years of relentless increases driven by the opioid epidemic, health secretary Alex Azar said Tuesday, cautioning it's too soon to declare victory."We are so far from the end of the epidemic, but we are perhaps, at the end of the beginning," Azar said at a health care event sponsored by the Milken Institute think tank.Confronting the opioid epidemic has been the rare issue uniting Republicans and Democrat
  
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