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• Police: 14-year-old girl fatally shot in Ohio

  31-03-2019 22:28
  
  CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Police say a 14-year-old girl has been fatally shot in Ohio.Canton police say the Canton Fire Department responding to a report of an unconscious person around 4 a.m. Saturday found the girl in an alley. Authorities say she had been shot in the head.The Canton Repository reports that Harry Campbell, an investigator with the Stark County Coroner's Office said the girl was pronounced dead at the scene.Police say the teen has been identified as Sylvia McGhee, an eighth-gra
  
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• Chief: Ride share mistake led to death of SC college student

  31-03-2019 18:49
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. — The man accused of killing a woman who got into his car thinking it was her Uber ride had turned on the child locks in his backseat so the doors could only be opened from the outside, police in South Carolina say.Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook also said investigators found the victim's blood in Nathaniel David Rowland's vehicle. Rowland, 24, was arrested and charged in the death of 21-year-old Samantha Josephson of Robbinsville, New Jersey.Investigators would not say
  
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• Biden defends his behavior with women

  31-03-2019 17:19
  
  WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday he doesn't believe he ever acted inappropriately toward women but will "listen respectfully" to suggestions he did.Biden, who is deciding whether to join the 2020 presidential race, released a new statement in response to allegations from a Nevada politician that he kissed her on the back of the head in 2014 and made her uncomfortable."In my many years on the campaign trail and in public life, I have offered countless handshakes, hug
  
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• Police offer reward for information on missing man

  31-03-2019 14:47
  COLUMBUS - Columbus police have asked for the public's help to find Rayvon Mcauley-Bowers.The 22-year-old man was last seen on February 12th leaving his apartment around 3:00 a.m. Friends told police that Mcauley-Bowers was struggling with mental health issues and left without taking his cell phone or wallet.Rayvon is described as a black man standing at 6' tall. He weighs about 155 lbs with brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing black and grey baggy camouflage pajama bottoms, black
  
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• Woman ambushed by gunmen at her front door in northeast Columbus

  31-03-2019 13:42
  
  COLUMBUS - A woman is recovering after she says three men attacked her inside her northeast Columbus apartment.The victim, 20, told police she heard a knock on her door on Cassady Village Trail around midnight. She opened it after hearing a woman's voice, but was met by three men. She said one of them yelled "shoot her!" before they opened fire.The woman was taken to Grant Medical Center and is expected to make a full recovery.If you know anything about this assault you are asked to contact poli
  
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• Police search for driver involved in deadly hit-skip crash in southeast Columbus

  31-03-2019 13:06
  
  COLUMBUS - A woman was killed in a hit and run crash near Driving Park Community Recreation Center in southeast Columbus.Police were called to 1100 Rhoads Avenue just after 12:30 a.m. They found the woman dead, but the driver did not stop.Investigators say evidence on the scene shows the woman was hit by a car and dragged from the area of East Whittier Street and Fairwood Avenue to the area near the rec center. They believe they are looking for a silver vehicle with front end damage.Police are w
  
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• Veterans provided with 'Final Roll Call'

  31-03-2019 05:48
  COLUMBUS - More than 100 families impacted by the loss of a veteran gathered at Afrocentric Early College to honor the lives of their loved one.The “Last Roll Call Ceremony of Remembrance” is an event organized by the Columbus VA to honor the veterans who passed in the previous months.“I thought it was nice they honored those who have passed away,” participant Connie Jennings said.Jennings ventured from Morgan County to honor her husband Joe, a Navy Veteran. “He lov
  
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• Atkinson, Panarin lead Blue Jackets over Predators 5-2

  31-03-2019 05:36
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Cam Atkinson scored twice and Artemi Panarin had four assists to lead the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 5-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on Saturday night for their fourth straight win.David Savard, Oliver Bjorkstrand and Boone Jenner also had goals, and Sergei Bobrovsky made 23 saves for Columbus, which maintained its hold on the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference playoff race.Viktor Arvidsson and Filip Forsberg scored for Nashville, which had its
  
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• Suspect arrested in University of South Carolina student's death

  31-03-2019 03:35
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Police in South Carolina say they've arrested a suspect in connection with the death of a college student.Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook said at a news conference that 24-year-old Nathaniel David Rowland was detained early Saturday after a traffic stop. He says police found what appeared to be blood in his car.Holbrook says Rowland will be charged with murder and kidnapping in connection with the death of 21-year-old University of South Carolina student Samantha
  
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• Judge restores Obama-era drilling ban in Arctic

  31-03-2019 00:50
  
  President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he reversed bans on offshore drilling in vast parts of the Arctic Ocean and dozens of canyons in the Atlantic Ocean, a U.S. judge said in a ruling that restored the Obama-era restrictions.U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason in a decision late Friday threw out Trump's executive order that overturned the bans that comprised a key part of Obama's environmental legacy.Presidents have the power under a federal law to remove certain lands from de
  
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