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• No. 21 Wisconsin outlasts Ohio State 73-67 in OT

  10-03-2019 23:52
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Khalil Iverson had a career-high 22 points and 14 rebounds as No. 21 Wisconsin survived Ohio State's second-half rally and won 73-67 in overtime on Sunday.Wisconsin (22-9, 14-6) led by as many as 23 points early in the second half. But Ohio State (18-13, 8-12) outscored the Badgers 27-5 over the last seven minutes of regulation to force overtime.Wisconsin's defense held tough as the Badgers outscored the Buckeyes 10-4 in the extra period to win it.Iverson was 10 of 14
  
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• NHL Hall of Famer Harry Howell, Rangers games leader, has died at 86

  10-03-2019 23:03
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — NHL Hall of Fame defenseman Harry Howell, who played the most games in New York Rangers' history, has died. He was 86.Howell died Saturday night. He had been living at an assisted care facility near his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario.A seven-time All-Star, Howell played 1,160 games for the Rangers from 1952-69 and had his No. 3 retired by the team. He also played in the NHL for the Oakland/California Golden Seals and Los Angeles before finishing in the World Hockey Associati
  
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• Proposed Arkansas bill would limit using SNAP benefits to buy junk food

  10-03-2019 21:40
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (WTHR) — A proposed law would limit the amount of junk food available to people on food stamps.Arkansas Rep. Mary Bentley filed HB1743 to prohibit Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs (SNAP) recipients from spending their benefits on soft drinks, candy, energy drinks or dietary supplements.Bentley is advocating for a healthy lifestyle while addressing the state’s obesity problem.Arkansas ranks seventh in the nation in adult obesity, according to the State of O
  
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• Babe Ruth's last surviving daughter has died at 102

  10-03-2019 20:36
  
  HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Julia Ruth Stevens, the last surviving daughter of Hall of Fame baseball slugger Babe Ruth and a decades-long champion of his legacy, has died at age 102, her family has announced.Tom Stevens said Sunday that his mother died Saturday morning at an assisted living facility in Henderson, Nevada, after a short illness.In keeping with her wishes, her remains will be cremated with burial sometime this spring in Conway, New Hampshire, where she used to live, Tom Stevens sa
  
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• Jaguar attacks woman who was taking a selfie at Arizona zoo

  10-03-2019 20:20
  
  A jaguar attacked a woman who crossed a barrier to take a photo with the animal at an Arizona zoo Saturday evening, officials said. The woman sustained non-life-threatening injuries in the attack at the Wildlife World Zoo in Litchfield Park, about 20 miles outside of Phoenix.The Rural Metro Fire Department said the woman attempted to "take a selfie near the fence of the Jaguar enclosure when the cat reached out and attacked her arm."The zoo tweeted a statement saying paramedics were called at th
  
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• Jaguar attacks woman who crossed barrier for photo at Arizona zoo

  10-03-2019 20:20
  
  A jaguar attacked a woman who crossed a barrier to take a photo with the animal at an Arizona zoo Saturday evening, officials said. The woman sustained non-life-threatening injuries in the attack at the Wildlife World Zoo in Litchfield Park, about 20 miles outside of Phoenix.The Rural Metro Fire Department said the woman attempted to "take a selfie near the fence of the Jaguar enclosure when the cat reached out and attacked her arm."The zoo tweeted a statement saying paramedics were called at th
  
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• Trump expected to seek $8.6B for border wall in new budget

  10-03-2019 20:09
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will seek $8.6 billion in his new budget to build the U.S.-Mexico border wall, an administration said Sunday, setting up another showdown with Congress, which has resisted giving him more money for his signature campaign promise.The request would more than double the $8.1 billion already available to the president after he declared a national emergency at the border in order to circumvent Congress after lawmakers refused his funding demands. That st
  
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• As Trump renews demands for border wall, still no signs that Mexico will pay for it

  10-03-2019 20:09
  It was a common refrain for then-candidate Donald Trump during his oftentimes raucous campaign rallies: "Mexico is going to pay for the wall, 100 percent." But with President Trump heading back to the drawing board, once again demanding funding for his long-promised border wall in the new White House budget requests, there's still no sign that Mexico will pay for any of it. While Trump made the claim that Mexico would pay for the wall at least 15 times over the course of the 2016 campaign, he's
  
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• Kasich on potential 2020 run: 'I don't know what I'm going to do'

  10-03-2019 19:56
  
  John Kasich says he still has not decided whether or not he will make a bid for the 2020 presidential race.The former Republican governor spoke at the SXSW Conference in Texas Saturday where he said he hasn’t ruled anything out yet."I don't know what I'm going to do. At some point, there's an internal clock for all of us and there are deadlines, but they're not here yet. I'll tell you this though. I'm not in a Hail Mary. I run when I think I can win. So, we assess things just about every w
  
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• Attorney: Another tape appears to show R. Kelly with girls

  10-03-2019 19:47
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Attorney Gloria Allred says a client has turned a tape over to law enforcement that appears to feature R&B singer R. Kelly sexually abusing girls.The client, Gary Dennis, said at a news conference in New York on Sunday that he doesn't know Kelly and doesn't know where the tape came from. He says he came across it while cleaning out a collection he had for years.He says a man who appears to be Kelly was on the recording engaged in sexual acts with young girls.Kelly faces
  
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• 1 dead after vehicle crashes into fallen tree in Knox County

  10-03-2019 15:22
  
  KNOX COUNTY - The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a single-vehicle crash that left one person dead in Knox County.It happened early Sunday morning on Earlywine Road (County Road 56) in Jackson Township.According to OSHP, the driver of the Ford F-250 was traveling south on the road at approximately 4 a.m. when he struck a tree that had fallen across the road.The driver, identified as 32-year-old Adam A. Harris of Frazeysburg, died of his injuries at the scene.Authorities say seatbelts
  
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• 1 dead after single-vehicle crash in Knox County

  10-03-2019 15:22
  
  KNOX COUNTY - The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a single-vehicle crash that left one person dead in Knox County. It happened just after 8 a.m. Sunday morning in 2600 block of Earlywine Road. OSHP told 10TV they are working to determine how the vehicle crashed.No other information was immediately available. Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com on this developing story.
  
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• 2017 Miss Teen Universe dies at 20 after suffering heart attack

  10-03-2019 14:46
  
  Lotte van der Zee, a Dutch model who was 2017 Miss Teen Universe, has died after suffering from cardiac arrest, her parents posted on Instagram. She was 20."Our pearl, our everything passed away on Wednesday evening March 6th at 22:47," her parents, Bert van der Zee and Eugeniek van het Hul, posted on Instagram. "It is incredibly surreal that our dearly beloved Lotte is not around us anymore. Our hearts are truly broken."View this post on Instagram Onze parel, ons alles is op woensdagavond 6 maa
  
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• Local company seeks to promote women in construction industry

  10-03-2019 14:28
  A local construction company is working to bridge the gap between the number of male and female employees.Less than 10 percent of the employees at Turner Construction are women."It seems to hover around 9 percent," said Heather Cassady, project manager for Turner Construction. "Here in Columbus, and with Turner, we do see numbers rising — which is great."Cassady helps to make up that 9 percent. She serves as an administrator over site projects."It’s a lot of constant trying to prove
  
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• Police: Puppy stabbed during break-in 'getting lots of love'

  10-03-2019 14:04
  
  MIDDLETON, N.H. — Police in New Hampshire say a 4-month-old puppy who was stabbed during a break-in at a home has had surgery and is recovering.WMUR-TV reports police said no one was home during the burglary on Thursday in Middleton. When the residents came home, they found the black Lab named Jax with stab wounds to his chest and abdomen.Police said Jax was taken to an emergency veterinarian in Portsmouth.Andrea Dube is a supervisor at the Port City Veterinary Referral Hospital. Dube says
  
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• California lawmakers mull ways to make police liable for deaths

  10-03-2019 13:12
  
  Sacramento, Calif. -- California legislators are exploring ways to make police liable for deaths related to the use of lethal force.This comes after investagators concluded that the officers who shot and killed Stephon Clark last year did not commit a crime. Clark was unarmed at the time of his death.Council to its streets, shouts of "Stephon Clark" have pitted police against the community. The shooting death of 22-year-old Clark by Sacramento police last year -- and other high-profile shootings
  
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• Police searching for information on robbery in Whitehall

  10-03-2019 12:49
  WHITEHALL, Ohio-- Police are searching for answers in a robbery that took place last month.On Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 7:50 p.m., two men with bandanas covering their faces entered the Rich Tobacco shop located on the 700 block of South Hamilton Road. One of the men jumped the front counter, pushed the clerk out of the way and loaded up a bag with cartons of Newport cigarettes. The other male stood near the front counter and acted as a lookout.After getting the cigarettes, the suspects fled the st
  
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• State TV: No survivors on crashed Ethiopian Airlines flight, 157 dead

  10-03-2019 12:22
  
  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — An Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ethiopia's capital on Sunday morning, killing all 157 people thought to be on board, the airline and state broadcaster said.It was not immediately clear what caused the crash of the Boeing 737-8 MAX plane, which was new and had been delivered to the airline in November, records show.The state-owned Ethiopian Airlines, widely considered the best-managed airline in Africa, calls itself Africa's large
  
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• Family thankful suspect in custody after murdering their loved one in south Columbus garage

  10-03-2019 05:25
  Family members are still grieving the loss of their beloved family member Tonya Daniels, glad the suspect is behind bars.Columbus police say Daniels was left unresponsive in a garage in the 900 block of Seymour Avenue on Feb. 24.The suspect 48-year-old Troy Hairston turned himself in to authorities Thursday and has been charged with murder, according to the affidavit obtained Franklin County Municipal Court.The affidavit also says Daniels' death was the result of blunt force trauma to the head a
  
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• Man arrested after SWAT barricade situation in west Columbus

  10-03-2019 04:54
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – A man involved in a domestic violence incident was arrested by Columbus Police SWAT after a standoff Saturday in west Columbus.Police were called at 2:16 pm to a residence in the 700 block of Kingsford Road.Authorities say when officers arrived they spoke with the victim involved in the domestic incident and attempted to talk with the male involved until he shut the door.According to police,the man 41-year-old Peter Wallace refused to open the door after several attempts b
  
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• Atkinson scores twice to lift Blue Jackets over Penguins

  10-03-2019 04:09
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Cam Atkinson had two goals, Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 28 shots and the Columbus Blue Jackets broke an eight-game losing streak against the Pittsburgh Penguins with a 4-1 victory Saturday night.Boone Jenner and Oliver Bjorkstrand also scored for the Blue Jackets. They had lost four of their last six — including a 3-0 loss to the Penguins on Thursday night — and desperately needed a win to stay in the mix for an Eastern Conference wild-card playoff spot. Colu
  
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• Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are engaged

  10-03-2019 03:58
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Superstar Jennifer Lopez and retired baseball star Alex Rodriguez are engaged.The couple posted an Instagram photo of their hands with a massive engagement ring on Lopez's ring finger. The former Yankees shortstop captioned his photo with "she said yes" and a heart emoji.View this post on Instagram ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️A post shared byJennifer Lopez (@jlo) on Mar 9,
  
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