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• Columbus Sculpture Replicated with Chinese Knockoff

  19-03-2019 23:14
  In 2017, a 14-foot, interactive 3D sculpture, dubbed “As We Are,” was unveiled at a newly renovated Greater Columbus Convention Center. The sculpture came from the mind of College of Art & Design associate professor and artist Matthew Mohr as a comment on social media, diversity, and “representation of self.” At the time of its […]
  
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• Storage Facility Planned for Former Giant Eagle

  19-03-2019 22:09
  A Georgia-based company plans to convert the former Giant Eagle store at 1000 E. Dublin-Granville Rd. into a self-storage facility. The Columbus City Council approved a rezoning of the nine-acre site in February, which will also allow for two commercial buildings to be built on outlots located closer to the main road. The gas station […]
  
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• Whitehall police searching for missing 17-year-old boy

  19-03-2019 21:34
  
  The Whitehall Police Department is searching for a missing 17-year-old boy.Police said Taeveyante Eugene Pyform was diagnosed with several medical conditions that require medications that he does not have.Pyform was last seen leaving his home on Woodcliff Drive on March 14 around 6 p.m.He is described as a black male, 5 feet 7 inches and weighing 170 pounds. There is no known clothing description.Anyone with information about Pyform’s location is asked to contact the Whitehall Police at 61
  
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• Shotspotter leads to arrest of former Ohio State football player

  19-03-2019 21:29
  The new Shotspotter technology being used by Columbus police lead to the arrest of a former Ohio State football player.Shotspotter is a program that detects gunfire and alerts police. The system notified officers of shots fired over the weekend in the Linden area.Officers tracked down shell casings and questioned 26-year-old Corey Smith. They discovered the former Buckeye had warrants out of Summit County, including one for aggravated robbery.Shotspotter has netted seven arrests in two months."T
  
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• NCAA Tournament expected to bring $6 million to Columbus economy

  19-03-2019 20:52
  COLUMBUS - Will be a part of March Madness as the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament will be played at Nationwide Arena.North Carolina, Tennessee, Cincinnati, Iowa, Washington, Utah State, Colgate and Iona are all headed our way along with their fans."We expect this event will draw over 25,000 fans to the city generating over $6 million in direct visitor spending into the local community," says Jeremy Leifel Director of Business Development Greater Columbus Sports Commission.Columbus
  
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• WATCH: "Ahead of the Storm" - What you need to do when severe weather hits

  19-03-2019 20:32
  
  Severe weather season is once again here in central Ohio.The 10TV weather team wants to keep you "Ahead of the Storm."Join us Wednesday, March 20 at 7:30 p.m. for a 30-minute special.Meteorologists Mike Davis, Ashlee Baracy, Jeff Booth and Ross Caruso will have everything you need to know to help keep you safe when severe weather hits.Plus, get an inside look at how Doppler 10 Radar works and separate weather fact vs. fiction.
  
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• Doppler 10: Ahead of the Storm | Wednesday, March 20 at 7:30 p.m.

  19-03-2019 20:32
  
  Severe weather season is once again here in central Ohio.The 10TV weather team wants to keep you "Ahead of the Storm."Join us Wednesday, March 20 at 7:30 p.m. for a 30-minute special. Meteorologists Mike Davis, Ashlee Baracy, Jeff Booth and Ross Caruso will have everything you need to know to help keep you safe when severe weather hits.Plus, get an inside look at how Doppler 10 Radar works and separate weather fact vs. fiction.
  
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• How to Associate a City of Columbus License or Registration

  19-03-2019 19:36 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Press Conference: City Sues Ohio Over New Gun Rules

  19-03-2019 19:18 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Third Angry Baker Location Now Open

  19-03-2019 18:38
  The Angry Baker brand is spreading throughout the Columbus area, getting a third location in Upper Arlington this past weekend. The Angry Bakery, the baked goods-centric offshoot of the full Angry Baker restaurant, has replaced Purple Sage Bakery at 1962 N. Mallway Dr. Purple Sage closed its storefront earlier this month, leaving behind an intimate […]
  
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• Trump: "I was never a fan of John McCain, and I never will be"

  19-03-2019 18:37
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is not backing down from his longstanding criticism of the late Sen. John McCain.Trump declared Tuesday at the White House: "I was never a fan of John McCain, and I never will be."President Trump: "I was never a fan of John McCain and I never will be" https://t.co/AKBB0Q5j3N pic.twitter.com/97IIUTrh38— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 19, 2019
  Trump drew criticism over the weekend for tweeting insults about McCain, a Vietnam war hero, Arizona senator
  
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• 1 critical after crash on 1-71 north near 11th Ave

  19-03-2019 15:52
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – Columbus police say one person was critically injured Tuesday morning in a crash on Interstate 71.Police say they were called at 9:53 a.m. to I-71 north near East 11th Avenue after reports of an injury crash.According to police, one person was ejected from their vehicle. First responders transported the victim to a local hospital in critical condition.It is unclear how many vehicles were involved in the crash at this time.Officers closed several lanes of I-71 north as they
  
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• Construction Roundup: East Side, South Side & Grandview

  19-03-2019 15:51
  While it may seem like most of High Street is under construction through Downtown and the Short North, there’s quite a bit of new development occurring throughout traditionally quieter areas throughout the central city. This update includes a new look at projects throughout Olde Towne East, The King-Lincoln District, The Brewery District, Parsons Avenue Corridor, […]
  
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• Columbus sues state of Ohio over ability to pass local gun laws

  19-03-2019 15:15
  It's city versus state, in a legal battle over the right of Columbus to restrict guns.Tuesday the City of Columbus filed a lawsuit against the State of Ohio.The subject of the suit pertains to gun laws, but the issue at the center of the debate is the city's ability to enact those laws.Celeste LaCour-Belyn lives daily with the consequences of gun violence."On August 11, 2011, I received a call saying that my daughter has been shot," she said.Leigh LaCour-Belyn was just 18 years old, with dreams
  
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• City of Columbus suing Ohio to stop new gun law from going into effect

  19-03-2019 15:15
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Columbus Mayor Andrew J. Ginther and City Attorney Zach Klein are holding a press conference to announce the city’s lawsuit against gun legislation enacted by the state late last year.Watch the press conference in the video player below:On December 27, 2018, the General Assembly overrode Governor John Kasich’s veto of Am. Sub. House Bill 228, which makes changes to Ohio Revised Code Section 9.68, the state’s so-called “Right to bear arms – challeng
  
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• City of Columbus sues Ohio to stop new gun rules from going into effect

  19-03-2019 15:15
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The City of Columbus is accusing state lawmakers of passing bills that prevent the city from making its own laws.Mayor Andrew J. Ginther and City Attorney Zach Klein held a press conference Tuesday to announce the city’s lawsuit over gun legislation enacted by the state late last year.In December, the General Assembly overrode Governor John Kasich’s veto of House Bill 228, which makes changes to Ohio Revised Code Section 9.68, the state’s so-called “Righ
  
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• Artist Laura Parnes Brings Hybrid Rock Doc to Wex

  19-03-2019 14:35
  Thursday won’t be Laura Parnes’s first visit to the Wexner Center for the Arts, and she’s excited about that. “I had a film/video residency there, and it was wonderful. I’m very impressed,” she said. Parnes, a New York-based artist and filmmaker, brings her “hybrid” music documentary Tour Without End to the Wex for a screening and Q&A […]
  
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• Next Round of Student Apartments Aiming for Summer Openings

  19-03-2019 14:26
  A new apartment building rising over Tuttle Park in the University District now officially has a name and an opening date. The Urban is a six-story building at 200 W. Norwich Ave. that will open before the start of fall semester, according to banners posted on construction fencing at the site. The development, from Kansas-based […]
  
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• Twin basketball stars head to March Madness, thanks to a major assist from Mom

  19-03-2019 12:15
  College basketball players will be battling it out in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. But there's one pair of twins who have already beaten the odds.Caleb and Cody Martin were born one minute apart and have just completed one more step in their unlikely journey. They won the Mountain West Conference title, celebrating on senior night at the University of Nevada.It's a whole country and generation away from North Carolina, where they were raised by a single mom in a single-wide t
  
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• 2-alarm apartment fire in east Columbus ruled accidental

  19-03-2019 12:08
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -Multiple firefighters responded to a 2-alarm apartment fire east of downtown Columbus Tuesday morning.The Columbus Division of Fire was called at 6:40 a.m. to a fire at an apartment building in the 1400 block of East Broad Street.Fire officials said the fire started in one unit and was quickly contained by firefighters. First responders transported two residents from the scene for minor smoke inhalation.Fire investigators called to the scene determined the cause of the fire was a
  
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• Smoking medical marijuana becomes legal in Florida

  19-03-2019 12:06
  
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday that now makes smokable medical marijuana legal in the Sunshine State, which had been a priority for the Republican governor since taking office in January. However, qualified patients may have to wait a bit before they are prescribed a smokable form of pot.The state previously had a ban on smoking medical marijuana that was enacted in 2017 and signed by then-Gov. Rick Scott. The bill repeals that ban, which was passed by Florida state legislature W
  
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• Over 1,000 feared dead after cyclone slams into Mozambique

  19-03-2019 11:56
  
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — More than 1,000 people were feared dead in Mozambique four days after a cyclone slammed into the country, submerging entire villages and leaving bodies floating in the floodwaters, the nation's president said."It is a real disaster of great proportions," President Filipe Nyusi said.Cyclone Idai could prove to be the deadliest storm in generations to hit the impoverished southeast African country of 30 million people.It struck Beira, an Indian Ocean port city of a half-m
  
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• White House foresees long economic boom where others don't

  19-03-2019 11:51
  
  Contrary to the views of most economists, the Trump administration expects the U.S. economy to keep booming over the next decade on the strength of further tax cuts, reduced regulation and improvements to the nation's infrastructure.The annual report from President Donald Trump's Council of Economic Advisers forecasts that the economy will expand a brisk 3.2 percent this year and a still-healthy 2.8 percent a decade from now. That is much faster than the Federal Reserve's long-run forecast of 1.
  
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• New rules likely coming but not to replay

  19-03-2019 11:39
  
  DENVER — In no sport but the NFL do players, fans, coaches and general managers annually debate the rules of the game, advocating ways to make pro football better, safer, fairer.Officiating is especially a hot topic around the league after a blown call late in the NFC championship game pretty much cost the New Orleans Saints a trip to the Super Bowl.That capped a season which began with the long-awaited clarification of what constitutes a catch and then was marred by widespread confusion o
  
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• Supreme Court set for case on racial bias in jury selection

  19-03-2019 11:36
  
  JACKSON, Miss. — Curtis Flowers has been jailed in Mississippi for 22 years, even as prosecutors couldn't get a murder conviction against him to stick through five trials.Three convictions were tossed out, and two other juries couldn't reach unanimous verdicts.This week, the Supreme Court will consider whether his conviction and death sentence in a sixth trial should stand or be overturned for a familiar reason: because prosecutors improperly kept African-Americans off the jury.The justice
  
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• Appeals court to hear arguments in Trump hotel lawsuit

  19-03-2019 11:07
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit that claims President Donald Trump is violating the Constitution by accepting profits from foreign and domestic officials through his hotel in Washington.The attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia say government spending at the Trump International Hotel violates the Constitution's emoluments clause. The clause bans federal officials from accepting benefits from foreign or state government
  
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• Ohio fire chief announces changes following firefighter's death

  19-03-2019 10:56
  
  HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio fire department chief says the department has made significant changes to officer training, ground communications and fire drills in response to a firefighter's death.Hamilton Fire Chief Mark Mercer announced the changes Monday as the department released an internal report on the death of Patrick Wolterman.Wolterman died in a 2015 blaze in Hamilton that authorities say was intentionally set by the homeowner and his nephew. Both men are in prison after their co
  
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• Report: National Enquirer paid $200K for private Bezos texts

  19-03-2019 10:27
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Wall Street Journal reports that the National Enquirer's publisher paid $200,000 to obtain intimate texts between Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his mistress Lauren Sanchez. American Media Inc., the supermarket tabloid's publisher, reportedly paid that sum to Michael Sanchez, Lauren's brother.The Journal's finding, attributed to people familiar with the matter, parallels the conclusion reached by private investigators working for Bezos as of early February. Those invest
  
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• Vice unit sees departures; Mitchell’s attorney argues his client should be released

  19-03-2019 03:24
  COLUMBUS – Three members of the vice unit have left within recent months and have taken other positions within the Columbus Division of Police, 10 Investigates has learned.The members who have left – Lt. Ron Kemmerling, Sgt. Scott Soha and Sgt. Mike Evans – have moved to other areas in the past two months, 10 Investigates confirmed Monday.10 Investigates was able to reach one of these officers who declined to comment; another did not return a message left for him before news ti
  
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• Friends remember mother who was hit and killed in west Columbus

  19-03-2019 03:21
  A mother of two died after being struck by a vehicle in west Columbus Sunday night.It happened just before 10 p.m. Sunday at the intersection of Eakin Road and Richardson Avenue.A man was driving a Ford pickup truck eastbound on Eakin Road and as he approached South Richardson Avenue he collided with 45-year-old Jody Lindsay.Lindsay was taken to Grant Medical Center where she later died.“There was not a dull moment with her. She had a bubbly personality,” Amanda Seymour said of Linds
  
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• Police investigating armed robbery at Upper Arlington CVS

  19-03-2019 03:00
  
  UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio – Police in Upper Arlington are investigating an armed robbery at a CVS Monday night.Police said officers were called to the CVS in the 1800 block of West Henderson Road just before 6 p.m.Three people entered the pharmacy and forced employees to hand over cash and drugs, according to police.No one was hurt.The suspects were last seen heading south away from CVS before turning west onto MacKenzie Drive.Police are asking people who live and own businesses nearby to see
  
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• 2019 Ohio State Fair Concert Series lineup announced

  19-03-2019 02:58
  
  Hank Williams Jr., Toby Keith and comedian Gabriel Iglesias are among the acts announced for this year’s Ohio State Fair.All concerts take place in the WCOL Celeste Center. Tickets purchased before arriving at the Fair include Fair admission.The fair runs July 24 through August 4 at the Ohio Expo Center. For more information on the Ohio State Fair click here or call 1-888-OHO-EXPO or 1-614-644-FAIR.Tickets will be available for purchase at ticketmaster.com/ohiostatefair or by phone, 1-800-
  
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• Columbus City Council Meeting 3/18/2019

  19-03-2019 02:17 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Columbus police looking for woman missing from the south side

  19-03-2019 02:15
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – Columbus police are looking for a missing woman last seen in south Columbus.Police said 68-year-old Linda Sue Crabtree was last seen on March 14 in the area of Harmon Avenue.She was driving a four-door gray Ford Taurus with an Ohio license plate FMD 3758.Crabtree is 5-feet 4-inches tall and weighs 250 pounds.She has brown hair and green eyes.Anyone with information is asked to call Columbus police at 614-645-4545.
  
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