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• People in Franklin County now can text 911 dispatchers in emergencies

  23-01-2019 23:30
  If you're experiencing an emergency in Franklin County, you now have the option of texting a 911 dispatcher. Franklin County Commissioner Marilyn Brown, who chairs a county-wide 911 planning commission, said it's always better to call when you can and text when you can't. First responders said there are plenty of instances where silence is the best weapon. Last February, a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Students who called 911 dispatchers spoke in a
  
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• Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen delaying testimony to Congress

  23-01-2019 23:29
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, will not testify before a House committee next month as scheduled, his adviser said Wednesday, depriving Democrats for now of a prime opportunity to scrutinize Trump, his links to Russia and payments to buy the silence of a porn star.Cohen indefinitely delayed his Feb. 7 appearance before the House Oversight and Reform Committee. He blamed threats from Trump and the president's attorney-spokesman, Rudy Giuliani, and c
  
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• Police: 5 fatally shot inside Florida bank, suspect arrested

  23-01-2019 22:47
  
  SEBRING, Fla. (AP) — A gunman who opened fire inside a Florida bank Wednesday afternoon killed five people before surrendering to SWAT negotiators, police said.Zephen Xaver, 21, was arrested after the shooting at a SunTrust branch, Sebring police Chief Karl Hoglund said at a news conference."Today's been a tragic day in our community," Hogland said. "We've suffered significant loss at the hands of a senseless criminal doing a senseless crime."The victims were not immediately identified.A m
  
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• Covington Catholic student at center of viral video gives first interview

  23-01-2019 22:47
  The high school student at the center of a controversy that went viral is telling his side of the story.Nick Sandemann's classmates at Covington Catholic in Northern Kentucky returned to school Wednesday after classes were canceled Tuesday over threats.Multiple videos emerged from a stand-off Friday, some showing a radical group known as the Black Hebrew Israelites taunting the group of Covington Catholic High School students who had just participated in a March for Life rally."They started shou
  
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• Westerville announces pair of interim police chiefs for next six months

  23-01-2019 22:42
  
  The City of Westerville announced Wednesday Assistant Chief Charles Chandler and Assistant Chief Holly Murchland will alternate terms in three-month periods as Acting Chief of Police for the Westerville Division of Police (WPD).WPD Chief Joe Morbitzer was appointed superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) by Attorney General Dave Yost.Assistant Chief Chandler will serve as Acting Chief beginning Friday, January 25. Assistant Chief Murchland is expected to serve in that role b
  
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• Missing boy, 3, found alive in North Carolina

  23-01-2019 22:07
  
  ERNUL, N.C. — Authorities in North Carolina say a 3-year-old boy who was missing for two days has been found alive in good health near the home he disappeared from.In a news release Thursday night, FBI spokeswoman Shelley Lynch says Casey Hathaway was found by professional search and rescue crews in Craven County in eastern North Carolina.Lynch says Casey is with his family and being evaluated at a hospital.Craven County Sheriff Chip Hughes says the boy was playing with two other children
  
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• Downtown Update: Grant Oak, Reach on Goodale and Hotel All Heard by Commission

  23-01-2019 21:44
  A four-story office building is the latest addition to the Reach on Goodale project to go before the Downtown Commission. It was a conceptual review, meaning no vote was taken, but the plan was received favorably by the commission, according to Daniel Thomas, Urban Design Manager for the City of Columbus. Jonathan Grubb, Lead Designer […]
  
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• Red Twig Farms to Host First American Grown Field to Vase Dinner in Ohio

  23-01-2019 21:08
  Red Twig Farms, a cut flower and branch farm in New Albany, will be one of six stops for the 2019 American Grown Field to Vase Dinner. The annual dinner tour is a series of intimate gatherings centered around locally “grown” flowers, beer, wine, and food served by a farm-to-table chef. The dinner sets out […]
  
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• Ryan Day announces assistant coaching staff

  23-01-2019 20:27
  
  Ohio State head football coach Ryan Day has released his assistant coaching staff for the Buckeyes in 2019.“I am really excited with this foundation of coaches who will mentor, coach and prepare in all areas the young men in our program,” Day said. “I am obviously very comfortable with the coaches who have been here and helped us win consecutive Big Ten championships and bowl games, and I am thrilled they want to continue to help this program pursue championships and achievemen
  
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• CoGo Ridership Down in 2018

  23-01-2019 20:26
  2018 saw the first significant decline in CoGo ridership since the bike share system was established in 2013. Just over 40,700 rides were logged on the network over the course of 2018, while 2017 saw more than 52,000 rides, according to data available on the CoGo website and compiled by Columbus Underground. CoGo Rides 2018 […]
  
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• COTA offering free 31-day passes to government employees impacted by shutdown

  23-01-2019 18:42
  
  The Central Ohio Transit Authority is offering free fares to federal workers due to the government shutdown.COTA is providing a 31-day frequent/standard or rush hour pass to those employees. The offer began Wednesday.Eligible workers are asked to show their government ID and furlough letter to obtain the pass. Employees can bring these items to COTA’s Pass Sales Office on the first floor of 33 N. High Street in Columbus between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.Should the shutdown e
  
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• Columbus woman struck by vehicle, killed while walking with son in Morrow County

  23-01-2019 18:23
  
  A 34-year-old Columbus woman was struck and killed while walking on State Route 61, just north of I-71 in Morrow County Wednesday morning, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.Amanda E. Cumpton was walking on State Route 61 when she was struck by a southbound vehicle, according to OSHP. The driver left the scene and has not been identified.Cumpton was transported to Morrow County Hospital where she was pronounced dead. Cumpton had her teenage son with her at the time of the crash, but the
  
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• City Government, Local Cultural Institutions Offer Relief for Federal Employees

  23-01-2019 18:19
  It’s day 33 of the government shutdown, and 800,000 federal employees are going on a month without pay. As the shutdown has gone on, businesses have announced deals offering free food, movie tickets, and even visits to the Columbus Zoo. Since then, the City of Columbus, the Columbus City Auditor and a handful of cultural […]
  
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• Trump plans to deliver State of Union next week as planned

  23-01-2019 17:23
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump made clear Wednesday that he intends to deliver his State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress next week, telling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a letter that there are no security concerns stemming from the government shutdown and "therefore I will be honoring your invitation."Pelosi had asked Trump to postpone the Jan. 29 address. But Trump wrote back: "It would be so very sad for our Country if the State of the Union were not deliver
  
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• President Trump says he'll give address once shutdown ends

  23-01-2019 17:23
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is postponing his State of the Union address until after "the Shutdown is over," following a standoff with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.Trump says in a pair of tweets Wednesday night that he's not looking for an alternative venue "because there is no venue that can compete with the history, tradition and importance of the House Chamber."As the Shutdown was going on, Nancy Pelosi asked me to give the State of the Union Address. I agreed. She th
  
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• Pelosi denies Trump access to House for State of the Union

  23-01-2019 17:23
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday derailed President Donald Trump's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, forcing the president to put his views before the nation another way. She said he can't have access to the House chamber for the speech until the government reopens.Trump shot back that her decision was "a great blotch on the country that we all love" as the snub confronted him with the need for a backup plan. "We'll do something in the alte
  
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• Governor Mike DeWine makes surprise stop at anti-abortion rally

  23-01-2019 17:22
  
  COLUMBUS — Ohio's new governor has validated his anti-abortion stance with a surprise appearance at a Statehouse rally.The Columbus Dispatch reports Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, first lady Fran DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted showed up unexpectedly Tuesday at the Ohio version of the national March for Life event.DeWine told the crowd that government functions to "take care of those who cannot take care of themselves." He said that includes the unborn.DeWine has parted with predecessor John
  
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• Nurse arrested in case of incapacitated woman who gave birth

  23-01-2019 16:37
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police say a licensed practical nurse has been arrested on a charge of sexual assault in the impregnation of an incapacitated woman who gave birth last month at a long-term health care facility.Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams said Wednesday that investigators arrested 36-year-old Nathan Sutherland on one count of sexual assault and one count of vulnerable adult abuse.Williams says Sutherland worked at the Hacienda HealthCare facility where the woman lived and had
  
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• Treat to Try: Matt’s Bakery

  23-01-2019 16:00
  Matt’s Bakery is a kosher joint located inside the Broad Street Kroger on the East Side. It is there that you can find something called Cinnamon Roll Cake, which is the best thing to hit the food scene in a long time. Of course, you’ll find a lot more than Cinnamon Roll Cake. You’ll find […]
  
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• Meat Packers Outlet Downtown Now Closed

  23-01-2019 15:57
  Downtown’s 61-year-old Meat Packers Outlet has closed, as of Tuesday, Jan. 22. The business made the announcement in a post on their Facebook page. “After 61 years of serving the city of Columbus we are sorry to say we have closed our doors as of January 22, 2019. Thank you for your patronage over the […]
  
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• Poll: Majority of Americans think Trump should end shutdown without border wall

  23-01-2019 15:24
  
  Seven in 10 Americans don't think the issue of a border wall is worth a government shutdown, which they say is now having a negative impact on the country. But partisans don't want their own side to budge: 65 percent of Republicans say President Trump should refuse a budget unless it includes wall funding, and 69 percent of Democrats think congressional Democrats should keep refusing to fund it.Among Americans overall, and including independents, more want to see President Trump give up wall fun
  
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• Pelosi has edge over President Trump on budget negotiations, CBS News poll shows

  23-01-2019 15:24
  
  Seven in 10 Americans don't think the issue of a border wall is worth a government shutdown, which they say is now having a negative impact on the country. But partisans don't want their own side to budge: 65 percent of Republicans say President Trump should refuse a budget unless it includes wall funding, and 69 percent of Democrats think congressional Democrats should keep refusing to fund it.Among Americans overall, and including independents, more want to see President Trump give up wall fun
  
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• Reden Yoga Therapy & Thai Massage Opens

  23-01-2019 14:00
  “I really want to continue to grow what I began way back in 1999,” says Thai yoga massage teacher and practitioner Elizabeth Miller who moved Reden Yoga Therapy to 219 E. Arcadia Ave. in the University District after ten years on North High Street in Clintonville. “This new, larger space will let us offer more […]
  
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• Dueling Senate bills would end shutdown in different ways

  23-01-2019 12:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leaders agreed to hold votes this week on dueling proposals to reopen shuttered federal agencies, forcing a political reckoning for senators grappling with the longest shutdown in U.S. history: Side with President Donald Trump or vote to temporarily end the shutdown and keep negotiating.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., set up the two showdown votes for Thursday, a day before some 800,000 federal workers are due to miss a second paycheck.One vote will
  
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• Teen to be tried as adult in highway shooting of 3-year-old

  23-01-2019 12:34
  
  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A judge says a 17-year-old from Detroit will be tried as an adult in the shooting death of a 3-year-old who was riding in a car on an Ohio highway.The decision came Tuesday after the boy's father testified that he was driving his children home in Toledo after Thanksgiving dinner when another car pulled up and someone opened fire.The father says the teen charged in the shooting had disagreements with members of his extended family.The teen already had been charged with c
  
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• Fund awards more than $90,000 to stop trafficking in Ohio

  23-01-2019 12:30
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A children's advocacy group has awarded more than $90,000 in grants to help keep at-risk youth in Ohio safe from human trafficking.The awards from the Ohio Children's Trust Fund come during Human Trafficking Awareness Month, which is recognized each January. The grants are given in collaboration with the Ohio governor's Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force.The money includes $15,000 each to COMPASS Family & Community Services in Mahoning County, YMCA Youth Opportunit
  
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• Power restored for 2,600 AEP customers in central Ohio

  23-01-2019 12:21
  
  UPDATE: Power has been restored to 2,600 AEP customers in Franklin and Delaware County. ---COLUMBUS, Ohio (10TV) -- American Electric Power reports more than 2,000 customers are without power across central Ohio on Wednesday morning.AEP's power outage map shows approximately 2,600 customers are without power in north Columbus, Worthington, and in parts of Delaware County.AEP has not said what has caused the outage, but estimates all power to be restored by noon on Wednesday.
  
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• Alec Baldwin due in court on charges he punched over parking

  23-01-2019 12:19
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Alec Baldwin is due in court in New York City for a hearing on charges that he slugged a man during a dispute over a parking spot in last fall.The 60-year-old actor is scheduled to appear in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday morning. He's charged with misdemeanor attempted assault and harassment, a violation.Baldwin has denied punching anyone in the Nov. 2 clash . The former "30 Rock" star's lawyer says he'll be vindicated by "incontrovertible video evidence ."Police say the
  
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• Russell Baker, author and NY Times columnist is dead at 93

  23-01-2019 12:10
  
  LEESBURG, Va. — Russell Baker, the genial, but sharp-witted writer who won Pulitzer Prizes for his humorous columns in The New York Times and a moving autobiography of his impoverished Baltimore childhood and later hosted television's "Masterpiece Theatre," has died. He was 93.Allen Baker told The Associated Press that his father died on Monday from complications after a fall.Baker in his later years, lived in Leesburg, Virginia, not far from the rural community of his native Morrisonville
  
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• 911 texting capability now available in central Ohio

  23-01-2019 12:05
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Central Ohio residents with emergencies now have the option to text 911 instead of placing a call.Franklin County on Wednesday joins about a dozen other counties statewide allowing the emergency texts.Officials say a call is still preferable but texting is an important option if someone is hiding during an emergency and it would be dangerous to be heard on the phone.The Columbus Dispatch reports the $2.5 million program is funded by fees paid by device users on their month
  
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• Pete Buttigieg joins 2020 presidential race

  23-01-2019 11:45
  
  SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Democrat Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is forming an exploratory committee for a 2020 presidential bid, according to a video and email announcement obtained by The Associated Press."The reality is there's no going back, and there's no such thing as 'again' in the real world. We can't look for greatness in the past," Buttigieg says in a video that includes before-and-after footage of South Bend, a Rust Belt city once described as "dyin
  
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• Families keep trying to cross border, wall or no wall

  23-01-2019 11:28
  
  MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — Maria Orbelina Cortez says she fled El Salvador for the U.S. after her husband attacked her and knocked a pan of scalding oil onto her youngest son's head.After quietly planning for months, she took the 3-year-old boy and his two brothers and headed north without telling her husband. As she spoke in the yard of a Catholic Charities shelter in South Texas, the boy played nearby. He had a hairless scar on top of his head in the shape of a jagged, capital "T.""I will alw
  
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• Los Angeles teachers head back to school after reaching deal

  23-01-2019 11:08
  
  LOS ANGELES — Tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers planned to return to work Wednesday after voting to ratify a deal between their union and school officials, ending a six-day strike in the nation's second-largest district."I voted 'yes,' to approve," said second-grade teacher Wendy Perez. "I think the union negotiated in good faith, and I'd like to believe the district did too."A crowd of teachers roared its approval after the tentative deal was announced at City Hall following a 21-
  
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• Liberty Township parts ways with medical director, hires new one

  23-01-2019 04:31
  LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, Ohio - After 28 years of being the medical director for Liberty Township, Dr. Warren Yamarick's contract has not been renewed and trustees have voted to hire someone new.Before Tuesday night's meeting, Liberty Township Trustee Melanie Leneghan told the crowd talks are still in place concerning Delaware County coming in and helping with local emergency medical services.However, she said if things continue in the direction they currently are it appears as if Liberty Township will
  
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• Doctor promises to keep fighting for Newark teen battling cancer

  23-01-2019 03:50
  
  “It can have lifesaving consequences, it's a shame we have to continue to fight that,” said Dr. Floor Backes, a gynecological oncologist OSU’s James Cancer Center.She explains too many patients, like Emily Ball, have to fight for meds that can mean life or death.“It's very frustrating, and it happens for a lot of different patients, unfortunately,” Dr. Backes said.At age 18, Emily is in her fourth battle with cancer. Dr. Backes recommended an oral chemo Emily can ta
  
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• Blown-call lawsuit seeks do-over of Rams-Saints game

  23-01-2019 02:02
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In the legal equivalent of a Hail Mary pass, two New Orleans Saints season ticket holders asked a judge on Tuesday to order the NFL commissioner to reverse the results of the NFC championship game that sent the Los Angeles Rams to the Super Bowl, or schedule a do-over.Their lawsuit, filed in state court, says Commissioner Roger Goodell should implement a league rule governing "extraordinarily unfair acts." Remedies include reversal of a game's result or the rescheduling
  
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• Senate sets up showdown votes on shutdown plans

  23-01-2019 00:53
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leaders on Tuesday agreed to vote on dueling proposals to reopen shuttered federal agencies this week, forcing a political reckoning for senators grappling with the longest shutdown in U.S. history: Side with President Donald Trump or vote to temporarily end the shutdown and keep negotiating.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. set up the two showdown votes for Thursday, a day before some 800,000 federal workers are due to miss a second paycheck. One vote
  
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• Hot Chicken Takeover & Mikey’s Late Night Slice bringing back collaborative pizza

  23-01-2019 00:00
  
  For the fourth year in a row, Hot Chicken Takeover and Mikey’s Late Night are bringing back their collaborative pizza to all Late Night Slice locations.The Hot Mikey’s Takeover pizza will be available Monday, February 11 through Sunday, February 17.For every dollar spent on a slice or full pizza, both will donate a diaper to the Columbus Diaper Bank.The newest Late Night Slice across from the Columbus Convention Center will be hosting a VIP sneak preview event on Saturday, February 9
  
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