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• Trump administration asks Supreme Court to hear case on transgender military ban

  23-11-2018 23:53
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to issue an unusually quick ruling on the Pentagon's policy of restricting military service by transgender people. It's the fourth time in recent months the administration has sought to bypass lower courts that have blocked some of its more controversial proposals and push the high court, with a conservative majority, to weigh in quickly on a divisive issue.Earlier this month, the administration asked the high cou
  
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• Local businesses prepare for small business Saturday

  23-11-2018 23:50
  With Thanksgiving over and Christmas now on the horizon, many in central Ohio are working early to fill those holiday wishlists."This season obviously starting black Friday is the beginning of our holiday season and it runs through the beginning of the year," Amber Wilson owner of Fabtique said.To ensure everyone gets just what they want many shoppers like Julie of Upper Arlington are going local"I think if you don’t support local businesses and you shop online then there’s no local
  
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• School district: Free-speech protects those in viral photo

  23-11-2018 23:30
  
  BARABOO, Wis. (AP) — Officials with a Wisconsin school district say free-speech rights would make it difficult to discipline students who appeared in a photograph that showed several high school boys giving what appears to be a Nazi salute.The State Journal reports that Baraboo Superintendent Lori Mueller said in a letter to parents Wednesday that officials cannot know the "intentions in the hearts" of those involved. She also said the district isn't in a position to punish the students be
  
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• Pataskala teen makes, collects, donates scarves for homeless

  23-11-2018 21:30
  
  PATASKALA, Ohio - This is the time of year to think about giving back to those less fortunate. especially as the cold weather sets in.One 9-year-old girl in Pataskala made it a personal mission to help the homeless this Thanksgiving. It is a gesture she hand-crafted with two knitting needles and a ball of yarn."She said 'Mom, I really want to learn how to knit because I would like to give my first scarf to the homeless'," Sara Friebe said.Friebe saw the need near her office in downtown Columbus.
  
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• Pataskala girl makes, collects, donates scarves for homeless

  23-11-2018 21:30
  PATASKALA, Ohio - This is the time of year to think about giving back to those less fortunate. especially as the cold weather sets in.One 9-year-old girl in Pataskala made it a personal mission to help the homeless this Thanksgiving.It is a gesture she hand-crafted with two knitting needles and a ball of yarn."She said 'Mom, I really want to learn how to knit because I would like to give my first scarf to the homeless'," Sara Friebe said.Friebe saw the need near her office in downtown Columbus.
  
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• Christmas tree farms short on supply this year

  23-11-2018 20:27
  Christmas tree farms are doing a brisk business."The trend is people are buying trees earlier either they are cutting them down or buying fresh cut," said Brent "Mr. Tree" Patterson.Christmas tree farmers are a bit shaken by the lack of trees. It's not a question of not finding a tree, it's more of a lack of supply.During the recession, a lot of Christmas tree farmers went out of business and because it takes between 10 to 12 years to grow a tree inventory didn't meet demand, as a result, there'
  
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• Government climate report warns of worsening US disasters

  23-11-2018 20:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A massive new federal report warns that extreme weather disasters, like California's wildfires and this year's hurricanes, are worsening in the United States.The White House report quietly issued Friday also frequently contradicts President Donald Trump.The National Climate Assessment was written long before the California fires and the hurricanes. It warns of more, stronger and longer disasters triggered at least in part by global warming.Report co-author Katharine Hayho
  
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• Trump says time for action on 'the Wall,' visits golf course

  23-11-2018 20:16
  
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump was back at his West Palm Beach golf course on another sunny Florida day.Trump began his Friday on Twitter, saying Democrats and Republicans "MUST come together, finally, with a major Border Security package, which will include funding for the Wall."He says it's "time for action," even though the idea is opposed by many Democrats, who recently won control of the House.Trump also is calling on Congress to pass criminal justice reform legis
  
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• Development Roundup: News from Italian Village, Franklinton, and More

  23-11-2018 18:00
  The latest Development Roundup features news from German Village, Franklinton, the Near East Side and more. Read on for an assortment of project updates, new proposals, and other nuggets from the world of Columbus development: A preliminary proposal for a small piece of land in the larger Jeffrey Park development was heard by the Italian Village […]
  
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• Minnesota house destroyed in massive explosion

  23-11-2018 17:51
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — Authorities are investigating after a house exploded in St. Paul Friday morning. CBS station WCCO reports the incident occurred shortly before 9 a.m. at the intersection of Payne Ave. and Edgerton St. in St. Paul.Video at the scene shows wreckage was sent flying all around the area.LIVE: #Sky4 is on the scene at a house explosion in St. Paul this morning. | https://t.co/9pMQzexpYS#BreakingNews pic.twitter.com/TIaUcICSNP— WCCO - CBS Minnesota (@WCCO) November 23, 2018
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• Salt stress: Road salt prices higher as winter looms

  23-11-2018 16:59
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Budget-busting road salt prices are leaving municipal officials in the Snow Belt hoping for a mild winter.Salt supplies are tight on the heels of a harsh winter last year that depleted reserves, leaving many localities in the Northeast and Great Lakes to pay prices that range from about 5 percent higher to almost double."Everybody's got their fingers crossed for good weather," said Rebecca Matsco, an official in western Pennsylvania's Beaver County, where one contract p
  
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• Impeach the president? House Democrats saying not so fast

  23-11-2018 16:15
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Whatever happened to trying to impeach President Donald Trump?As House Democrats begin laying out the vision for their new majority, that item is noticeably missing from the to-do list and firmly on the margins.The agenda for now includes spending on public works projects, lowering health care costs and increasing oversight of the administration.It's the balance that Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is trying to strike in the new Congress between those on her party's left f
  
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• For same-sex couples, a new path to legal parenthood

  23-11-2018 15:02
  
  BOSTON (AP) — When Sara Watson's partner got pregnant with their son through in vitro fertilization, they were overjoyed. Then the fear came.They weren't married, so Watson had no legal rights as Eli's parent even though her eggs were used to conceive him with donor sperm. If the worst happened, Watson wondered, would she even be able to bring their baby home from the hospital?"There was this possibility that if something were to happen to Anna, my son could end up in foster care and I had
  
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• Fire evacuees do their best on a sad Thanksgiving

  23-11-2018 14:42
  
  CHICO, Calif. (AP) — Patty Rough lost her Paradise home and most of her belongings in the Camp Fire, and she had no place to cook a family meal on Thanksgiving.But she and her husband are safe, and she was still able to spend the holiday with her children over plates of turkey, cranberry sauce and pie at a feast for thousands of people put on by volunteers.She's sad about everything she lost but realizes that others have far less."Today we're grateful; I don't know about happy," she said,
  
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• Stores usher Black Friday with easier ways to get deals

  23-11-2018 14:25
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Retailers aren't just ushering the official start of the holiday season with the usual expanded hours and fat discounts on big TVs and toys.They're offering new ways for shoppers to get deals online and in the store easier and faster in the age of instant gratification.Walmart introduced a digital map on its mobile app to make it easier for shoppers to find an item's exact location in the store. Kohl's has a new feature on its mobile app that lets customers take photos of p
  
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• Black Friday shoppers ditch their computers, flock to stores

  23-11-2018 14:25
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — It would have been easier to turn on their computers over plates of leftover turkey and take advantage of the Black Friday deals most retailers now offer online.But across the country, thousands of shoppers woke up before dawn the day after Thanksgiving to take part in this most famous ritual of American consumerism.Shoppers lined up outside the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota by 4 a.m., and the crowd had grown to 3,000 people by the time doors opened at 5 a.m. In
  
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• Separatists attack Chinese consulate in Pakistan, killing 4

  23-11-2018 14:19
  
  KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Armed separatists stormed the Chinese Consulate in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Friday, triggering an intense hour-long shootout during which two Pakistani civilians, two police officers and all three assailants were killed, Pakistani officials said.The Pakistani civilians killed were a father and a son had come to the consulate to pick up their visas to China, police said.The brazen assault, claimed by a militant group from the southwestern province
  
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• Police: Highway shooting killed 3-year-old, wasn't random

  23-11-2018 13:49
  
  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Police say a 3-year-old boy riding in a car was fatally shot on an Ohio highway when someone in another vehicle pulled up and opened fire on Thanksgiving night.Toledo police Lt. Kevan Toney says it's clear the gunfire wasn't random, but investigators couldn't immediately say why the vehicle driven by the boy's father was targeted, or whether it might be a case of mistaken identity.They say the gunfire occurred on northbound Interstate 75 in Toledo around 9 p.m. Thursday
  
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• 3-year-old dead after shooting on I-75 in northwest Ohio

  23-11-2018 13:49
  
  TOLEDO, Ohio – A three-year-old is dead after a shooting in Toledo Thanksgiving night.According to WTOL, the shooting happened on northbound I-75 and Collingwood around 9 p.m Thursday.Toledo Police say a car pulled up next to a vehicle with three children inside and opened fire.Malachi Barnes, 3, was sitting in the back seat of the vehicle and was shot. He was taken to the hospital where he later died.Authorities say the car Barnes was in was “littered with bullets” and believe
  
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• Authorities looking to locate family of a little boy found abandoned at a store in southern Ohio

  23-11-2018 13:09
  
  The Hamilton County Sheriff Office says a little boy was found in a JCPenney store alone and deputies are trying to find his parents.The store is located in Symmes Township Ohio,north of Cincinnati.Deputies say the boy is named Quincy and he is in good condition and sleeping.Authorities took to social media in an effort to find his family.Any information is asked to call Hamilton County Sheriff's Office at (513)825-1500.
  
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• Authorities locate mother of a boy found abandoned at a store in southern Ohio

  23-11-2018 13:09
  
  UPDATE:The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office has located Quincy's mother. and the investigation is on-going to determine the circumstances of the child being found alone.Original Story:The Hamilton County Sheriff Office says a little boy was found in a JCPenney store alone and deputies are trying to find his parents.The store is located in Symmes Township Ohio,north of Cincinnati.Deputies say the boy is named Quincy and he is in good condition and sleeping.Authorities took to social media in an e
  
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• Two teens accusing of stealing small airplane

  23-11-2018 12:30
  
  VERNAL, Utah (AP) — Sheriff's deputies arrested two teenage boys they say stole a small airplane at a private airstrip in rural eastern Utah and flew about 15 miles (24 kilometers) before landing successfully at Vernal Regional Airport.The Desert News reported the 14- and 15-year-old boys stole the single-engine Cessna Thursday from a private airstrip in Jensen along U.S. Highway 40 about 15 miles (24 km) west of the Colorado line.The Uintah County sheriff's office said they left a group h
  
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• Man killed in west Columbus shooting

  23-11-2018 11:50
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – Columbus Police are investigating a deadly shooting in west Columbus.Officers responded to the 600 block of Wrexham Avenue at 12:43 a.m. on a report of a shooting.Police say the victim was found suffering from a gunshot wound and pronounced dead at 1:21 a.m.Authorities say witnesses told police the victim 28-year-old Matthew Sloan was involved in an argument with several individuals. The altercation became physical and a female produced a gun shooting Sloan in the chest, a
  
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• 1 teen dead, 2 others injured after Alabama mall shooting

  23-11-2018 11:32
  
  HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — One teen is dead and two others have been injured following a shooting at an Alabama mall prior to Black Friday shopping.Authorities say the shooting happened about 9:30 p.m. Thursday at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, a nearby suburb of Birmingham.Police say a fight between two teens, including an 18-year-old, resulted in a gunfire exchange. One teen fled but was confronted by two Hoover police officers.Captain Gregg Rector said at a news conference that a Hoover of
  
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• 1 person dead, 2 others hurt after Alabama mall shooting

  23-11-2018 11:32
  
  HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — A man was shot and killed by police after a fight at an Alabama mall ahead of Black Friday shopping resulted in gunfire that injured a teenager and a 12-year-old girl.The shooting occurred late Thursday at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, a Birmingham suburb, a police statement said.Lexi Joiner told Al.com she was shopping with her mother when the gunfire started. Joiner said she heard six or seven shots and was ordered, along with some other shoppers, into a supply c
  
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• Police identify woman killed in northeast Columbus shooting

  23-11-2018 05:24
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - A woman is dead after a shooting in northeast Columbus on Thursday, according to police.Police said officers responded to the area of Vendome Drive and Holt Avenue around 10:55 p.m.Officers located the victim on the floor of a home suffering from gunshot wounds. She was pronounced dead by first responders at 11:03 p.m.Witnesses told police the suspect or suspects forced entry into the back of the residences and starting firing shots.The victim 41-year-old Christie Howard was str
  
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• Samsung apologizes over sicknesses, deaths of some workers

  23-11-2018 04:06
  
  SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics has apologized for the sickness and deaths of some of its workers, saying it failed to create a safe working environment at its computer chip and display factories.The announcement by the South Korean technology giant on Friday came weeks after the company and a group representing ailing Samsung workers agreed to accept compensation terms suggested by a mediator and end a highly-publicized standoff that went on for more than a decade.Samsung's devic
  
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• First responders use Thanksgiving to serve California wildfire survivors

  23-11-2018 01:12
  
  CHICO, Calif. — Recovery crews in California aren't slowing down for Thanksgiving. They're back in the city of Paradise, searching for victims hours after a rainstorm all but extinguished the massive and deadly Camp Fire.The rain makes it harder to sift through wet ash and debris, but it's safer for cadaver dogs searching for human remains, according to deputy incident commander Mark Brown."It decreases the inhalation hazards both for the rescue and the canines," he said. "They're not inha
  
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