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• Major new study finds no link between vaccines and autism

  05-03-2019 23:28
  
  A new study finds the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine does not raise the risk of Autism and it does not trigger Autism in kids who are at risk of it.Those are the conclusions of a study of more than 650,000 children in Denmark, published in the Journal Annals of Internal Medicine on Monday.The lead researcher said the idea that vaccines cause Autism is still around is getting a lot of attention of social media.He said they wanted to provide solid scientific answers on the issue.The World Heal
  
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• Treatment over arrests: Delaware combats crime with drug prevention

  05-03-2019 23:22
  City of Delaware officers are celebrating a small win, as statistics show a near 10 percent decrease in crimes reported to the department."Generally, those are reports that our officers generated when a crime occurred," said Captain Adam Moore with the City of Delaware Police Department. "Either they witnessed a crime, [or] a crime got reported to them, but they represent an investigation of criminal activity."Delaware saw a 9.4 percent drop in reports for crimes like petty theft and domestic vi
  
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• Prosecutors targeting drug dealers in deadly overdoses

  05-03-2019 22:59
  Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien said he's targeting hardcore drug dealers who are fueling Ohio's deadly opiate epidemic. He has a message for dealers who are selling dangerous drugs, especially heroin laced with fentanyl."They're going to get caught, they're going to be prosecuted, and the dealers are going to go to prison," said O'Brien.The prosecutor credited Franklin County's H.O.P.E Task Force, led by Franklin County Sheriff Chief Deputy Rick Minerd, for leading the way investigating
  
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• Fate of Fairview Memorial Park still undecided

  05-03-2019 22:46
  A dispute over a Delaware County cemetery continues in the courts. Those who have family buried there, want to know why there's no decision yet.The owners of Fairview Memorial Park were convicted of defrauding families and put in prison. The cemetery has been in a receivership since.The receiver says he is trying to sell an adjacent plot of land so those owed money from the cemetery can get something back. But the township trustees filed a motion in court, asking for the cemetery and land to be
  
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• Catholic Diocese of Columbus adds to lists of priests accused of abuse

  05-03-2019 22:38
  
  The Catholic Diocese of Columbus has added two names to the list of priests it says have been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors.The original list was released on March 1.The Diocese released the following on March 5:After review and consultation with the Diocese of Steubenville, Msgr. Robert A. Brown has been added to Section V, “Extern or religious clergy who served in the Diocese of Columbus that were credibly accused of sexual abuse of minors elsewhere (alleged conduct occurre
  
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• City Chat: Columbus Growth & Development

  05-03-2019 22:32 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Franklin County Sheriff's Office makes changes after crashes, 10TV investigation of pursuits

  05-03-2019 21:47
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Changes are underway at the Franklin County Sheriff's Office after a 10 Investigates story.As 10TV first reported February 25, high-ranking officers within the Columbus Division of Police raised concerns about the sheriff's office pursuit policy.Internal emails obtained by 10TV detailed worries about chases officers called dangerous and unnecessary Now the sheriff's office is making changes.The concerns come after multiple sheriff's pursuits ended in crashes.In the most recent
  
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• Columbus police talk man from jumping off bridge

  05-03-2019 21:38
  
  Columbus police were able to save a man’s life after he threatened to jump into the Scioto River this past weekend.Helicopter pilot officers saw the man on the south side of West Broad Street outside of the railing Saturday night around 7 p.m.Patrol officers responded and spoke with the 53-year-old man who said he was homeless and upset.Officers were able to call his daughter and told him that she loves him. Police said the man was hesitant to move to safety to get on the phone with her.Af
  
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• Girl Scouts - The State of Girl

  05-03-2019 21:32 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Vice President Pence to visit Columbus Friday

  05-03-2019 21:18
  
  Vice President Mike Pence will be in Columbus on Friday to speak at Ohio Oil and Gas Association’s annual meeting.The meeting is being held at the Hilton Columbus at Easton.Pence is scheduled to take the stage at noon as the event’s closing keynote luncheon speaker.
  
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• Ohio teen tells Senate why he defied his mom to get vaccinated

  05-03-2019 20:51
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An Ohio teen defied his mother's anti-vaccine beliefs and started getting his shots when he turned 18 — and told Congress on Tuesday that it's crucial to counter fraudulent claims on social media that scare parents.Ethan Lindenberger of Norwalk, Ohio, said his mother's "love, affection and care is apparent," but that she was steeped in online conspiracies that make him and his siblings vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases like the ongoing measles outbreaks."I
  
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• First Look: Condado Tacos at Bridge Park West

  05-03-2019 19:58
  Condado Tacos’ sixth Columbus location and 11th location overall will open at Bridge Park West in Dublin this Thursday. The new restaurant sits at 102 N. High St., near The Avenue Steak Tavern and upcoming locations of No Soliciting and The Pearl. It offers 3,100 square feet, with 600 square feet dedicated to the patio. […]
  
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• Alabama's tornado dead range from 6 to 89; one family lost 7

  05-03-2019 18:57
  
  BEAUREGARD, Ala. (AP) — The youngest victim was 6, the oldest 89. One family lost seven members.The 23 people killed in the nation's deadliest tornado in nearly six years came into focus Tuesday when the coroner finished identifying them and released their names."Just keep those families in your prayers," Lee County Coroner Bill Harris said, two days after the disaster. "It's a tragic situation."The search for victims in and around the devastated rural community of Beauregard continued, wi
  
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• Gov. DeWine pushes Ohio gas tax hike, water quality in State of the State speech

  05-03-2019 18:45
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gov. Mike DeWine used his first State of the State speech Tuesday to push lawmakers to raise the Ohio gas tax by 18 cents to fix crumbling roads and dangerous bridges and to announce plans to focus on the state's deadly addictions epidemic and other health issues like infant mortality.The Republican governor also said Ohio must address its water quality problems, and in particular, the algae blooms that have threatened portions of the western Lake Erie basin for years
  
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• Feds: Mount Carmel out of compliance with Medicare due to lack of training on new policies

  05-03-2019 17:49
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – The latest documents released by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services show that Mount Carmel Health System remains out of compliance with federal Medicare requirements because not all nurses and physicians have been trained on new policies and procedures that have been adopted in wake of the patient overdose scandal.After 35 patients were found to have received excessive doses of pain medication between 2014 and 2018, Mount Carmel made a series of changes in an e
  
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• Outlaw Music Fest featuring Willie Nelson, Avett Brothers & more coming to Columbus

  05-03-2019 17:26
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Willie Nelson, Blackbird Presents, and Mark Rothbaum announced the lineup for the Outlaw Music Festival Tour - Summer 2019 leg which includes a stop in Columbus.The tour will be at Nationwide Arena on Sunday, June 23.The lineup includes Willie Nelson & Family, The Avett Brothers, Alison Krauss, Old Crow Medicine Show and Dawes. More performances will be announced at a later date.Tickets go on sale Friday, March 8 at 10 a.m.
  
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• Denison University Presents Immersive Play Information For Foreigners

  05-03-2019 17:00
  Plays of protest don’t get much more powerful than Argentinian writer Griselda Gambaro’s 1974 Information for Foreigners. Denison University presents an intriguing new staging of this underrated classic. As with many things, necessity was the mother of invention, as director Eleni Papaleonardos told me when we spoke by phone. “Denison is finishing up building a […]
  
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• Columbus Destroyers begin search for team’s female mascot, "Captain Destroyer"

  05-03-2019 16:13
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Columbus Destroyers announced Tuesday it's searching for a woman to fill the role of the new team mascot.The organization says "Captain Destroyer" will be the team’s female humanized mascot -- "a watchful protector of Destroyers Nation who embodies the spirit of the team and the Columbus fan base."The team says it's seeking a strong, athletic, passionate and outgoing woman to fill the role. Even though the successful candidate will physically resemble warrior and
  
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• Looking Back: 10 Years After the Closure of the City Center Mall

  05-03-2019 15:27
  On March 5, 2009, the Columbus City Center Mall officially closed its doors forever. A decade later, the mall’s successes and failures can still be felt in Downtown Columbus where retail business has struggled to regain the foothold lost when the mall went away, even though the Downtown residential population has continued to climb. “When […]
  
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• Professional wrestler King Kong Bundy dead at age 61

  05-03-2019 15:21
  
  GLASSBORO, N.J. (AP) — Professional wrestler King Kong Bundy has died at age 61.Promoter and longtime friend David Herro says Bundy died on Monday. Herro posted on Facebook : "Today we lost a Legend and a man I consider family." The cause of death and other details were not disclosed.Bundy, whose real name was Christopher Pallies, was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The 6-foot-4, 458-pound wrestler made his World Wrestling Federation debut in 1981.He was best known for facing Hulk Hogan
  
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• Dressed up, ready for fun: New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras

  05-03-2019 14:42
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The streets of New Orleans will be filled Tuesday with excited kids catching beads from atop ladders, revelers in fancy costumes walking through the French Quarter and Mardi Gras Indians wearing finely beaded costumes.Tuesday marks the final day of the Mardi Gras season, which began on Jan. 6.After rainy weather affected some parades Sunday, the weather Tuesday is expected to be cold but sunny.The festivities kick off early in the morning when the Northside Skull and Bon
  
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• Ohio Highway Patrol made more drug arrests in 2018 than in previous year

  05-03-2019 12:18
  
  COLUMBUS (AP) — The State Highway Patrol has reported it made more drug arrests in Ohio in 2018 from the previous year.A patrol statement says troopers made 16,956 drug arrests last year for about a 2 percent increase compared with 16,653 in 2017.The patrol says the quantities of drugs seized were up substantially from 2017. The patrol reports a 197 percent increase in methamphetamine and a 151 percent increase in fentanyl, while there was a 94 percent increase in cocaine and a 78 percent
  
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• Mayor Andrew Ginther supports bill that would increase state gas tax

  05-03-2019 12:16
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — The mayor of Ohio's capital city and other area leaders are supporting a bill that would increase the state's gas tax by 18 cents a gallon to help maintain roads and bridges.Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther and other central Ohio leaders said in a statement Monday they support House Bill 62, the transportation budget recommended by Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's administration.Part of the increase would go to help cities and counties maintain roads and bridges. State tran
  
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• Board to vote on Stoneman Douglas superintendent's future

  05-03-2019 12:13
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board is set to decide whether to fire its superintendent over the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.The Broward County school board is scheduled to vote on Tuesday whether to dismiss Superintendent Robert Runcie. The measure is being pushed by member Lori Alhadeff, who was elected to the board last year after her daughter and 16 others were killed at the school.Alhadeff says Runcie "has a history of leadership failures." She says o
  
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• Ohio man and ex-wife sentenced for defrauding homeowner associations

  05-03-2019 12:12
  
  PHOENIX — A California woman and her ex-husband have been sentenced to more than a year in federal prison for defrauding Phoenix-area homeowner associations while an Arizona resident will serve probation.A federal judge Monday sentenced 47-year-old Kelsey Powell of Lemon Grove, California; 53-year-old Michael Powell of Wellsville, Ohio; and Rachel Ellerbrock of Gilbert, Arizona.The Powells and Ellerbrock previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for misusing about
  
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• More than 80 arrests at Sacramento protest over Stephon Clark decision

  05-03-2019 12:03
  
  Sacramento, Calif. (CBS News) -- A protest over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by Sacramento police ended with police arresting more than 80 demonstrators. Scores of people staged a march Monday evening in a wealthy area of the city.It came two days after prosecutors announced they weren't going to file charges against police who shot Stephon Clark after a chase that ended in his grandparents' back yard last March. The officers said they thought the 22 year old had a gun, but it turn
  
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• DA: Federal agent won't be charged in fatal shooting

  05-03-2019 11:59
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A prosecutor in North Carolina says a Homeland Security agent won't be charged in the fatal shooting of a man who hit him with a car outside a bar.The Charlotte Observer reports District Attorney Spencer Merriweather announced Monday that it's impossible to prove Jose Dugger wasn't acting in self-defense when he killed 30-year-old Donald Janvier.Dugger was working with state investigators to inspect a Charlotte bar last summer. Witnesses reported Janvier had caused a
  
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• Japan court OK's Nissan ex-Chairman Ghosn's release on bail

  05-03-2019 11:54
  
  TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo District Court approved the release of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn on 1 billion yen ($8.9 million) bail on Tuesday, although the end of his four months of detention in Japan was delayed when prosecutors appealed that decision.Prosecutors filed their objection to Ghosn's release within hours of the announcement he was going to be granted bail.A lawyer for Ghosn said he would not be able to leave the Tokyo Detention Center until Wednesday at the earliest, even
  
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• Hillary Clinton rules out a rematch with Trump in 2020

  05-03-2019 11:49
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton says she won't run for president in 2020, but vows she's "not going anywhere."The former secretary of state, senator and first lady ruled out another campaign during an interview posted Monday by New York TV station News12 .Clinton, who lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump, says, "I'm going to keep on working and speaking and standing up for what I believe."She says, "What's at stake in our country, the kind of things that are happening righ
  
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• FBI stepping up efforts to root out international corruption

  05-03-2019 10:38
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Aiming to crack down on money laundering and bribes to overseas governments, the FBI is stepping up its efforts to root out foreign corruption with a new squad of agents based in Miami.The squad will focus its efforts not only on Miami but also in South America, a continent that has been home to some of the Justice Department's most significant international corruption prosecutions of the last several years. The Miami squad joins three others based in the FBI's largest fi
  
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• Residents of Fredericktown remember Luke Perry

  05-03-2019 03:25
  Luke Perry, who gained instant heartthrob status as wealthy rebel Dylan McKay on "Beverly Hills, 90210," died Monday after suffering a massive stroke. He was 52.On the main street in Fredericktown, everyone is talking about Perry's passing.“Oh man, it shocked everybody.Everybody is talking about that.Someone came down to get their hair cut and 'did you hear about Luke?'” said long-time barber, Andy Weller.Weller first met Luke when the 90210 star was just a kid. Weller admits it was
  
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• Second man seems to be free of AIDS virus after transplant

  05-03-2019 02:39
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Researchers say a London man appears to be free of the AIDS virus after a stem cell transplant. It's the second such success including "Berlin patient" Timothy Ray Brown.Such transplants are dangerous and have failed in other patients. The new findings were published online Monday by the journal Nature.The London patient has not been identified. He was diagnosed with HIV in 2003. He developed cancer and agreed to a stem cell transplant to treat the cancer in 2016.His doctors
  
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• 7 women face array of charges after 2017 death of man in nursing home

  05-03-2019 02:14
  Seven women faced a Franklin County judge, Monday, and learned their individual charges relating to the death of a man who was allegedly in their care in March 2017.Sandra Blazer, Jessica Caldwell, Akosua Ayarkwa, Maegan Van Syckle, Shelia Dains, Kimberly Potter and Illuminee Muhongere face charges that range from tampering with evidence to involuntary manslaughter in the death of James Chandler.In court, Monday, all defendants pleaded not guilty to their individual charges and then were release
  
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• Early March temperatures can vary wildly

  05-03-2019 00:00
  As we turn the calendar and welcome March we start something known as "meteorological spring". While spring doesn't technically start until March 20 of this year the months of March, April and May make up what we call spring in the record books.That's because springlike weather is typically more common in those three months, it also makes record keeping easier.After another blast of arctic air spring is a far cry from what you're experiencing when you step outside. But if you find yourself askin
  
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