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• Whitehall creates "do not knock" registry to keep solicitors away

  26-02-2019 23:21
  Whitehall city officials say an initiative to curb aggressive solicitation in their neighborhoods, seems to be working."Citizens started complaining a lot about door to door sales, and how they were interrupting their lives," Mayor Kim Maggard explained.Mayor Maggard and city council members received complaints through the city's crime Facebook page."They would literally stand here and argue with me," said Carolyn Ingold, who says salespeople would bombard her front door at least twice a week."I
  
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• United Methodist delegates defeat bid to ease LGBT bans

  26-02-2019 23:01
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — The United Methodist Church, America's second-largest Protestant denomination, faces a likely surge in defections and acts of defiance after delegates at a crucial conference Tuesday rejected a move to ease the faith's ban on same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT clergy.Some supporters of greater LGBT inclusion were in tears, while others vented their anger after delegates, on a 449-374 vote, defeated a proposal that would have let regional and local church bodies decid
  
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• 6 overdose deaths in Scioto County in 3 weeks

  26-02-2019 22:23
  The Scioto County Health Department says it is experiencing an unusual number of sudden overdose deaths.The county says it most likely represents extremely potent opiates.Until toxicology reports are complete, the county is not certain if this is heroin, fentanyl, a mixture of the two or something else.The health department warns drug users that the product they are using may be disguised as heroin. Symptoms include rapid respiratory depression.In the last three years, the Portsmouth Health Depa
  
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• FDA issues another nationwide recall for blood pressure medication

  26-02-2019 22:01
  
  The FDA is recalling more blood pressure medication.The medication continues to be Losartan, which has been involved in several other recalls, however this time it's Macleods Pharmaceuticals Limited that is issuing the recall.The tablets, which are 100mg/25mg, have been recalled due to an impurity that could cause cancer."The impurity detected is N-nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA), which is a substance that occurs naturally in certain foods, drinking water, air pollution, and industrial processes, and
  
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• Franklin County man sentenced to 20 years for dealing drugs that resulted in death

  26-02-2019 21:44
  
  A Franklin County has been sentenced to 240 months in prison for dealing drugs that resulted in an overdose death.According to court documents, 39-year-old David Dobbins distrusted heroin, cocaine and fentanyl that caused the death of at least one person in February 2017.The victim was found dead at the Star City Inn in Grove City. After four 911 hang up calls, a man stated someone had overdosed in the hotel and then the call disconnected.When law enforcement arrived, no one was in the room with
  
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• Pedestrian critically injured during pursuit by Franklin County Sheriff's Office

  26-02-2019 21:00
  
  FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ohio – One person is in critical condition after being hit by a vehicle being pursued by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, according to an agency spokesperson.Public information officer Marc Gofstein told 10TV the pedestrian was hit in southeast Franklin County near South Hamilton Road and Winchester Pike Tuesday afternoon.Gofstein did not have information pertaining to why the vehicle was being chased.The pedestrian was taken to Grant Medical Center.No other inf
  
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• Facebook taking steps to prevent spread of misinformation about vaccines

  26-02-2019 20:12
  
  Facebook is taking steps to make sure misinformation about vaccines isn’t spread on its platform.According to a Facebook spokesperson, the social media website will take several different approaches to limit information presented by anti-vaccination groups.The groups will not be taken down, but they will not show up as recommendations from Facebook.Posts with misinformation about vaccines will also appear further down news feeds.Public health experts point to social media as a factor in sp
  
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• Navy pilot who went missing in Vietnam will finally be laid to rest

  26-02-2019 19:40
  Charlotte Shaw and Rich "Tito" Lannom, met in 1964 and were married soon after. For the next two and a half years, they moved around the country as Lannom trained to be a Navy pilot."We were there for each other. And we were just, we were just one. And soul mates. And we still are," Shaw said.Lannom got his wings and was shipped off to Vietnam on the USS Enterprise. On March 1, 1968, his plane never returned from a combat mission. He was declared missing in action."No one knew where his plane ha
  
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• Hip Hop Architecture Camp Will Introduce Middle Schoolers to New Career Paths

  26-02-2019 19:40
  A hip hop-inspired camp at Columbus State Community College will introduce West Side-area middle schoolers to architecture and urban planning. The free program, which takes place from Friday, March 22 to Sunday, March 24, will teach students 3D printing and modeling while making music and solving architectural issues in their community. The camp will bring […]
  
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• Council Passes Resolution Supporting Undocumented Immigrants in Sanctuary

  26-02-2019 19:34
  It’s a symbolic gesture, but Columbus City Council has passed a resolution in support of two undocumented residents currently in sanctuary. The resolution, introduced and passed on Monday, Feb. 25, recognizes the economic and social impact of immigrants on Columbus and calls on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to handle the cases of Edith […]
  
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• House to vote on revoking Trump's emergency order for wall

  26-02-2019 19:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's allies in the House say they are confident of minimal GOP defections Tuesday on a vote to roll back his declaration of a national emergency to siphon billions of dollars from the military to fund his proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.The Democratic-controlled chamber is expected to approve the measure and send it to the Republican-held Senate, where it would take only a handful of GOP defections to pass. The legislation would revoke Trump
  
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• Field House Proposed for Next Phase of Bridge Park in Dublin

  26-02-2019 18:32
  A two-story field house capable of holding 5,000 people for events as well as multiple basketball and volleyball courts has been proposed for the next phase of Bridge Park. The field house would be flanked by a five-story office building, a six-story parking garage, and a 70-unit residential building. The residential building would be five […]
  
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• Wrongful death lawsuit filed against Columbus nursing home

  26-02-2019 18:24
  COLUMBUS -- Attorneys have identified a man who allegedly died due to care he received at a Columbus nursing home.A wrongful death lawsuit was filed on behalf of the family of James Chandler against Whetstone Care Center.On Feb. 14, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced involuntary manslaughter and patient neglect indictments against individuals at the center."This man literally rotted to death and it could've been prevented," Yost said.The investigation into the facility alleged one patient
  
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• Gov. DeWine says 'no executions' in Ohio without court-backed drugs

  26-02-2019 18:11
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Recent statements and actions by Gov. Mike DeWine suggest Ohio could go years without executing another death row inmate.Last month, the Republican governor ordered the prison system to come up with a new lethal drug protocol after a federal judge's scathing critique of the first drug in Ohio's method.Last week, DeWine said Ohio "certainly could have no executions" during that search and the court challenges that would follow adopting a new system.After Ohio started l
  
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• Massive fire at plastics manufacturing facility in Michigan

  26-02-2019 17:50
  
  AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — A large fire broke out at a plastics plant in Auburn Hills, Michigan Tuesday morning.According to WXYZ the facility is the U.S. Farathane Corporation located at High Meadow Circle.Several fire crews are on the scene are working to put out the fire.No other information was immediately available.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com on this developing story.
  
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• The Pit BBQ Grille to Open Second Location this Spring

  26-02-2019 17:41
  Columbus is doubling up on locations of The Pit BBQ Grille, the second one coming to Parsons Avenue — and with a full bar — this spring.  The Pit first opened up at 3545 Cleveland Ave. in 2016, following that up with the debut of their food truck a year later. This second location is […]
  
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• Snake in dryer gives Florida woman 'near death experience'

  26-02-2019 17:27
  
  SAFETY HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman says she "about had a near death experience" when she opened her dryer and saw a snake curled up in her laundry.Tampa's Fox 13 News reports Amanda Wise was almost finished unloading the dryer in her garage on Sunday when she saw what appeared to be a corn snake.She described the startling discovery in a Facebook post . She says her husband used a broom to coax the snake out of the dryer and outside.Wise told the TV station the dryer vent cover on
  
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• Woman, 5-year-old child die in fall from Miami high-rise

  26-02-2019 17:18
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say a woman and a 5-year-old child have died after falling from a high-rise in Miami.Miami Fire Rescue Capt. Ignatius Carroll tells news outlets they responded to a call about a possible "jumper" from a Brickell City Centre high-rise on Monday night.Officials say they likely fell from at least the 20th floor.Crews found the woman dead in the shrubs near the building. The boy was found unresponsive on a sixth-floor terrace and taken in "extremely critical" condition
  
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• 40,000 pounds of chicken get roasted on Georgia highway

  26-02-2019 16:53
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Around 20 tons (18,000 kilograms) of chicken were roasted on a highway near Atlanta when a tractor-trailer caught fire.The Georgia Department of Transportation announced on Twitter that all southbound lanes on Interstate 285 in Cobb County reopened just before 7 a.m. Tuesday, around three hours after the fire started.The truck's driver, Micesh Kamal, told WSB-TV that the chicken was bound for California from Georgia. He pulled over when he saw smoke and opened the back of th
  
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• Cohen expected to claim lying, racism and cheating by Trump

  26-02-2019 16:05
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, is expected to give a behind-the-scenes account of what he will claim is Trump's lying, racism and cheating, and possibly even criminal conduct, when he testifies publicly before a House committee on Wednesday, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.Cohen is expected to provide what he will claim is evidence, in the form of documents, of Trump's conduct, said the person, who requested anonymity to
  
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• Trump, Kim in Hanoi for second round of nuclear talks

  26-02-2019 13:31
  
  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — After long journeys to Vietnam, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are in place for their second summit Wednesday to address perhaps the world's biggest security challenge: Kim's pursuit of a nuclear program that stands on the verge of viably threatening targets around the planet.Trump arrived late Tuesday in Air Force One after a long flight that included refueling stops in England and Qatar. He waved from the stairs of the presidential p
  
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• Mirroring grandfather, Kim rides the rails to Trump summit

  26-02-2019 13:31
  
  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — For his second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un opted to go retro — riding the rails like his grandfather decades before.Kim's decision to take the train all the way across China was probably prompted at least in part by security considerations— his train is built like a tank and almost as slow. But it also marks a major attempt at showmanship designed to bring back memories of North Korean "eternal president" Kim Il
  
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• Kent State names director of Brain Health Research Institute

  26-02-2019 12:32
  
  KENT, Ohio — Kent State University has named a new director for its newly-created Brain Health Research Institute.Kent State President Beverly Warren announced the appointment of endocrinologist Michael Lehman on Monday. The Akron Beacon Journal reports Lehman will take over from interim co-directors Ernie Freeman and John Gunstad and will be paid $359,000 a year in his new position.Warren says the college was interested in finding someone who could speak across academic disciplines, sayin
  
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• Fierce winter storm that hit West reaches California

  26-02-2019 12:32
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — A winter storm that slammed the western U.S. was barreling through California on Tuesday, bringing threats of flooding, avalanches and blinding, blowing snow on roads in the Sierra Nevada.Heavy rain began falling Monday and the National Weather Service issued flood warnings and flash flood watches for the San Francisco Bay Area and many parts of the Sacramento area into Thursday morning.The latest storm will be a "marathon rather than a sprint," the weather service predicte
  
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• Using 1 germ to fight another when today's antibiotics fail

  26-02-2019 12:25
  
  NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Bacteria lodged deep in Ella Balasa's lungs were impervious to most antibiotics. At 26, gasping for breath, she sought out a dramatic experiment — deliberately inhaling a virus culled from sewage to attack her superbug."I'm really running out of options," said Balasa, who traveled from her Richmond, Virginia, home to Yale University for the last-resort treatment. "I know it might not have an effect. But I am very hopeful."Pitting one germ against another may sound
  
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• State elections chief to back election cybersecurity bill

  26-02-2019 12:23
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio's new elections chief is ready to voice his support for a bill he says aims to better protect the battleground state's election systems from cyberattacks.Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose took office in January. He's testifying on the measure Tuesday at the Statehouse.The legislation would empower LaRose's office and the Ohio National Guard to enhance resilience and improve responsiveness to elections cyberattacks. It also would give LaRose a seat on the Ohio
  
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• Man buys $540 worth of Girl Scout cookies so girls don't have to stay out in cold

  26-02-2019 12:18
  
  GREENVILLE, S.C. (CBS News) -- A Girl Scout troop was selling cookies outside in near-freezing weather Friday in South Carolina when a man approached their table and bought seven packs of the Girl Scout cookies. Then, he came back and bought the rest of them for a grand total of $540."When he told us to pack up all the cookies because he was going to buy them we were shocked. We stood there in shock for a little while," Kayla Dillard, the "cookie manager" of Troop 1574, told CBS News.Dillard, wh
  
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• 2 children recovering after possible exposure to carbon monoxide in Bexley

  26-02-2019 12:02
  
  BEXLEY, Ohio (10TV) -- 3 people, including two children, are recovering after possible exposure to carbon monoxide in east Columbus.The Columbus Fire Department says crews responded to a call of possible carbon monoxide poisoning at around 11:45 p.m. on Monday on Sherwood Road in the Bexley area.Fire officials say two children were transported to Nationwide Children's Hospital, while one adult was taken to the OSU Wexner Medical Center after exposure to carbon monoxide.Officials say they conside
  
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• Columbus police emails accuse sheriff's office of changing behavior since "Live PD"

  26-02-2019 03:54
  10 Investigates has uncovered police officers raising concerns about fellow officers.As we reported in Part 1 of our investigation, high-ranking Columbus Police officers are worried about what they call dangerous, unnecessary pursuits by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office.And they say, the problem has gotten worse since the Sheriff's Office teamed up with a popular national crime show."Live PD" purports to show the reality of law enforcement across America.Since last November, cameras for the
  
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• Columbus City Council Meeting, February 25, 2019

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• Ohio medical marijuana patients allege they were caught in “weed trap”

  26-02-2019 03:26
  COLUMBUS – Ohio has seen $1.1 million in medical marijuana sales since the program began this year.But with just eight dispensaries open statewide, 10 Investigates found some patients faced with limited supplies and high prices have turned elsewhere for their medical marijuana.One destination happens to be in Michigan – where Ohio medical marijuana patients are flocking.But that activity also comes with a risk of landing in trouble with law enforcement.The town of Morenci, Michigan h
  
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• 1 dead after reported shooting in west Columbus

  26-02-2019 03:22
  
  One person is dead after a shooting in west Columbus Monday night, police said.Officers and medics responded to the 2000 block of West Mound Street just before 9 p.m.One person was pronounced dead, according to police.Police said they have people detained but it is unclear how they may be involved.West Mound Street is closed in the area of the scene.
  
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• 1 charged with murder after deadly shooting in west Columbus

  26-02-2019 03:22
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (10TV) -- One person is dead after a shooting in west Columbus Monday night, police said.Officers and medics responded to the 2000 block of West Mound Street just before 9 p.m.Police identified the victim as 25-year-old Richard Pack.Police have arrested one person in connection with the shooting, charging 21-year-old Kandle Messenger with murder. Police say Messenger and Pack got into a physical confrontation before the shooting.
  
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• Woman allegedly killed by sister remembered as 'beautiful, intelligent'

  26-02-2019 02:56
  Outside an East 13th Avenue home in Columbus, candles are embraced in the arms of stuffed animals and balloons try their best to stay tied down in the late February breeze.These things are here representing someone who no longer is."She's very memorable," Shay Martin said. "She's beautiful, she's intelligent. She cares about everybody."It's what Martin remembers about her friend, Sade Garner."Everything," she said. "When she walked in the room, you know it's Sade."The two friends worked closely
  
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• City Council Appoints Rob Dorans to Replace Stinziano

  26-02-2019 01:28
  On Monday, Feb. 25, City Council appointed Rob Dorans as its newest member. Dorans, who is currently serving as commissioner for the Recreation and Parks Department, fills the vacancy left by former President Pro Tem Michael Stinziano, who was elected as County Auditor in the 2018 general election. “We are very pleased to have Rob […]
  
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