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• House Democrat issues subpoenas for Trump tax returns

  10-05-2019 23:24
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A top House Democrat on Friday issued subpoenas for six years of President Donald Trump's tax returns, giving Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig a deadline of next Friday to deliver them.Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., issued the subpoenas days after Mnuchin refused to comply with demands to turn over Trump's returns. Mnuchin told the panel he wouldn't provide Trump's tax records because the panel's request "lack
  
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• 'It was my life or his': Woman who shot and killed husband speaks publicly for first time

  10-05-2019 23:11
  A woman who shot and killed her husband last year is speaking publicly for the first time.A Franklin County grand jury has cleared Jillian Caplinger of wrongdoing in her husband's killing.Jillian says her marriage to Frank was born of genuine love."He was so sweet and kind and I had so much fun with him when we were first together," she said.Just one week into that marriage, she says everything changed."Once I started finding out lies and stuff that was going on that he was hiding from me, I did
  
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• Police: 7-week-old puppy shot and killed during South Linden armed robbery

  10-05-2019 22:43
  
  Columbus police have arrested two people accused of robbing a woman at gunpoint and killing her 7-week-old puppy.According to Columbus police, officers responded to a robbery in progress at a South Linden home on May 7.The female victim said the suspects, 22-year-old Patrick Agee and a 16-year-old, came to her home to purchase the pit bull puppy.The victim told police the teen and Agee both pulled out guns and demanded cash after entering her home.Police said the 16-year-old pistol-whipped the v
  
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• Columbus group hosting Mother's Day brunch for homeless women

  10-05-2019 22:27
  Some mothers in central Ohio will get a Mother's Day meal and celebration Sunday, something they may not have had otherwise.The Coalition for the Homeless Mother’s Day Brunch is in its 19th year. The organizers invite women in central Ohio homeless shelters.Last year, they served more than 300 meals. There are activities for the kids and the women get gifts ranging from cosmetics to jewelry. Each woman leaves with a family portrait,The event is put on purely by volunteers and donations.&ld
  
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• Nearly 4,000 speeding tickets issued in Franklin Township in 5-month span

  10-05-2019 21:40
  
  All Franklin Township Police Officer Dwayne Queen has to do to catch a speeder is pull a trigger on his speed gun — no need to pull anyone over.Thanks to a new laser-pointed handheld camera, every car he sees that the camera detects going more than 12 miles above the posted speed limit is captured.The license plate of the car tells the computer where to send the ticket and the township waits for the money to roll in.Since December, the police department estimates it sent between 3,500 and
  
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• National Veterans Memorial and Museum named Ohio's best-designed building

  10-05-2019 20:26
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The National Veterans Memorial and Museum in Columbus was recently named the best-designed building in the state of Ohio by Architectural Digest.In an article published last week, the magazine says it broke down each state in the U.S. to determine which building "stands out among all the rest."For Ohio, that building was the Veterans Memorial which opened into the public in October of 2018.Here's what Architectural Digest had to say about their number one pick for Ohio: "The $7
  
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• Ohio State football season tickets on sale Monday, new flex plans coming in June

  10-05-2019 20:16
  
  Season tickets for Ohio State football go on sale next week and the university will be offering new flex plans next month.Beginning Monday, May 13, full season ticket packages for east side stadium seats will go on sale. You can get more information and purchase tickets at this link.Then in June, the school will be offering a trio of flexible ticketing options for the first time.The university said the flexible three and four game ticketing plans won’t require a Buckeye Club membership.Sin
  
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• Physicians Consider Ohio’s Latest Proposed Abortion Law “Pure Science Fiction”

  10-05-2019 20:06
  The Ohio legislature is considering its fourth abortion restriction in just six months.  Aimed at blocking private insurance companies from covering abortions, the bill is getting attention from physicians in Ohio and beyond for including misinformation about ectopic pregnancies, a serious, life-threatening condition that is a leading cause of maternal mortality. If passed, House Bill […]
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• Parents of local firefighter highlight need for mental health awareness after son’s death

  10-05-2019 19:00
  
  Trever Murphy had a contagious smile and was an outgoing guy who loved music, baseball and career.“To us, Trever was that all-American boy you would see depicted in every Norman Rockwell painting,” said his mom, Kathrine Hardin. “From the age of three, the boy knew he was a firefighter."But the career Trever loved also caused pain.“The last two runs he took, a girl died in his arms as a child. Then, the very last run he was able to go on, he laid down with a man who had g
  
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• Dayton woman who fraudulently obtained SNAP benefits sentenced to prison

  10-05-2019 18:06
  
  A Dayton woman who pleaded guilty to federal charges of fraudulently obtaining receiving SNAP benefits was sentenced to prison on Wednesday.According to WHIO, 34-year-old Cynthia A. Faulkner was sentenced to 21 months after pleading guilty to making false documents, filing false income tax returns and additional charges.WHIO reported Faulkner made false statements in an application for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits in April 2013. In that application, she falsely reported the
  
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• Photos: The Crew End Their Five Game Losing Streak

  10-05-2019 18:03
  Columbus Crew SC put an end to their five-game straight loss by stunning the visiting Zlatan Ibrahimovic and his LA Galaxy friends 3-0 on Wednesday evening at MAPFRE Stadium. Former Galaxy players Gyasi Zardes and Hector Jimenez each grabbed a goal to help Crew SC get back on track after a miserable few weeks. Federico Higuain got the […]
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• Opinion: CoverMyMeds Abatement Not Worth the Cost

  10-05-2019 15:52
  In total, Columbus schools will lose an estimated $35.5 million over 15 years due to a generous tax abatement package the city is awarding to software company, CoverMyMeds, according to a new report by Policy Matters Ohio.  Tax abatements, a central part of state and local economic development strategy, eliminate all or part of an […]
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• Review: A Messy, Rewarding Task of Living in ‘Remain in Light’

  10-05-2019 15:41
  Available Light end their roller coaster of a 2018-2019 season with Remain in Light, written and directed by executive director Matt Slaybaugh. This kaleidoscopic, physical collage tackles some of the biggest questions facing us today: how do we find meaning? What makes us happy? How do we get out of bed and try to make […]
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• OVI checkpoints scheduled for Friday night in Licking County

  10-05-2019 14:14
  
  LICKING COUNTY -- The Ohio State Highway Patrol, Licking County Sheriff’s Office and the Pataskala Police Department will be holding two OVI checkpoints Friday night in Licking County.The first checkpoint will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on State Route 16, Broad Street near Cedar Street in Pataskala. The second checkpoint is scheduled from 10 p.m. through midnight on State Route 79 near Reinhart Drive in Heath.The OVI checkpoint is done to deter motorists from driving under the influence
  
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• Man arrested in 1985 killing of Hollywood TV director

  10-05-2019 13:18
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man charged with bludgeoning and strangling to death a Hollywood television director more than three decades ago was arrested Thursday in North Carolina after police said DNA and a confession linked him to the crime.Edwin Hiatt was arrested in Burke County for the 1985 death of Barry Crane in Los Angeles. He has been charged with murder in California and will be returned there, Los Angeles police announced.A housekeeper found Crane, 57, dead in his garage in his Studio
  
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• Why does Facebook fail to fix itself? It's partly humans

  10-05-2019 13:16
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The question comes up over and over, with extremist material, hate speech, election meddling and privacy invasions. Why can't Facebook just fix it?It's complicated, with reasons that include Facebook's size, its business model and technical limitations, not to mention years of unchecked growth. Oh, and the element of human nature.The latest revelation: Facebook is inadvertently creating celebratory videos using extremist content and auto-generating business pages for t
  
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• Court sets execution date for Ohio man who killed bar owner

  10-05-2019 13:16
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has set an execution date nearly five years in the future for a man who killed a bar owner in 1997.Authorities say death row inmate Scott Group was a regular delivery man to the Downtown Bar in Youngstown when the shooting happened.Records say Group forced owners Robert and Sandra Lozier into the bar restroom Jan. 18, 1997 and shot both in the head, then stole more than $1,200 in cash.Sandra Lozier survived and testified against Group at trial.
  
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• Suspects in Colorado school shooting due back in court

  10-05-2019 13:14
  
  DENVER (AP) — Both suspects in a suburban Denver school shooting are due back in court Friday as prosecutors file charges in the attack that killed a student and wounded eight others.The district attorney's office also is expected to decide whether the younger suspect will be charged as an adult in Tuesday's shooting.Kendrick Castillo, the 18-year-old senior killed during the shooting, and two classmates at the STEM School Highlands Ranch have been credited with helping thwart the attack b
  
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• Memorial to honor 4 men killed in Illinois plant explosion

  10-05-2019 13:13
  
  WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — A memorial is planned to honor four men from Illinois and Wisconsin who died in a silicone plant explosion.AB Specialty Silicones factory general manager Mac Penman says the service will be Friday morning at the site north of Chicago. Fire officials say they believe the May 3 blast was the result of an accident in factory processes. Crews have spent the last week finding the remains of the men who died.Those killed were 53-year-old Byron H. Biehn of Brighton Township,
  
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• James Cameron salutes 'Endgame' for sinking 'Titanic' record

  10-05-2019 12:58
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Filmmaker James Cameron has no bad blood with the Avengers, even though "Endgame" has eclipsed "Titanic's" worldwide record and bumped the 1997 blockbuster to third place.Cameron tweeted a note Wednesday to Marvel president Kevin Feige and its employees congratulating the company for its success. Cameron writes that an iceberg sank the real Titanic, but it took the Avengers to sink his "Titanic." The accompanying image shows the Titanic crashing into a massive Avengers l
  
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• LeBron James announces $1M grant for new gym at I Promise School

  10-05-2019 12:31
  
  AKRON, Ohio-- LeBron James continues to supprt his I Promise School in northeast Ohio.James surprised students who go to the school by announcing a $1 million grant from the DICK'S Sporting Goods Foundation. That money will go towards building a new gym for students to use for physical education and afterschool sports.I Promise School students gathered at LeBron's alma mater, St. Vincent-St. Mary High School for the surprise announcement."To my kids, this is more than a gym. The DICK’S Spo
  
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• Farrakhan says he doesn't hate Jewish people

  10-05-2019 12:14
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan said Thursday that despite assertions by Facebook when it banned him from its platform, he is not a hater of Jewish people, is not a misogynist, nor a homophobe.During a speech at a Roman Catholic church on Chicago's South Side, Farrakhan asserted people shouldn't be angry with him if "I stand on God's word."Farrakhan was invited to speak at the church by the Rev. Michael Pfleger after Facebook banned Farrakhan, conspiracy theo
  
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• Facebook and France haggle over regulating online hate

  10-05-2019 12:10
  
  PARIS (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is meeting French President Emmanuel Macron as the tech giant and France try to pioneer ways of fighting hate speech and violent extremism online.Macron's office is releasing a progress report Friday on a pilot project that allows French regulators to embed within Facebook's facilities to observe how it monitors and removes racist or other content.Friday's meeting comes amid concern about hate speech and disinformation around this month's European
  
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• Warren bringing opioids message to hard-hit W.Va., Ohio

  10-05-2019 11:49
  
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Elizabeth Warren is set to visit a state that hasn't been friendly to Democrats lately to pitch her plan to combat the opioid addiction crisis by boosting taxes on the wealthy.The Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential candidate will travel to Kermit, West Virginia, on Friday before moving on to Chillicothe and Columbus, Ohio. By starting in West Virginia, she'll be in a place that President Donald Trump carried by 42 points in 2016, but one that is suff
  
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• Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes: Time to break up company

  10-05-2019 11:27
  
  Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says it's time to break up the social media behemoth.In a New York Times opinion piece published Thursday, Hughes said CEO Mark Zuckerberg has turned Facebook into an innovation-suffocating monopoly.Hughes called Zuckerberg's power "unprecedented and un-American" and said his co-founder's focus on growth "led him to sacrifice security and civility for clicks."Hughes roomed with Zuckerberg at Harvard and left Facebook in 2007 to campaign for Barack Obama. Hughes s
  
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• 1 person is dead following home invasion shooting in Blacklick

  10-05-2019 07:15
  
  BLACKLICK, Ohio (10TV) -- One person is dead following a home invasion that turned into a shooting in Blacklick.Columbus Police say it happened around 1:15 p.m. on Thursday at an apartment complex on Cotterrew Drive.Witnesses told police unknown suspects forced their way inside their apartment, where they ordered the victims onto the ground and took property from them at gunpoint.Police say one of the victims, 23-year-old Brandon Fenton, tried to confront one of the suspects and was shot.Fenton
  
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• Columbia Gas working to fix natural gas outage in Zanesville

  10-05-2019 04:56
  
  ZANESVILLE, Ohio - Approximately 600 people are without natural gas on the south side of Zanesville due to an outage, according to Columbia Gas.Columbia Gas said it asked AEP to turn off electric service to the area while they work fix the issue.The hope is that electric service is back on Friday but it could take several days for natural gas service to be restored, Columbia Gas said.Columbia Gas is going to each home affected to perform a safety inspection. Once those inspections are complete,
  
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• Columbus Zoo releases 1st pictures of recently hatched penguin chicks

  10-05-2019 03:25
  
  The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium released the first pictures of their recently hatched Humboldt penguins Thursday.The zoo says the male chicks, hatched April 3 and April 7, are now fledging the nest, taking swimming lessons and learning to eat fish.In the meantime, the penguin chicks are being cared for by their foster parents — one with Ava and Gunter, the other with Tressel and Watson. Their biological parents are Hans and Katja, who have surpassed the median life expectancy for penguins at
  
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• Sheriff: Ohio woman entered stranger's home, pet dog, washed dishes and left

  10-05-2019 02:46
  
  VINTON COUNTY, Ohio — A woman was arrested in Vinton County after she allegedly entered a stranger's home, pet the family dog and washed the dishes before leaving.The Vinton County Sheriff's Office says they received a call about a burglary Monday morning in Hamden. The victim told deputies a woman she didn't know entered through the back door, sat down on the couch and pet the family dog, washed the dishes and left.The sheriff's office then received a tip that a woman matching the descrip
  
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• Vote: Decide The Best Patio in Columbus

  10-05-2019 02:30
  Attention all patio goers! We’re putting together the ultimate Columbus patio list and we need your help! All we need is your vote to be cast in the survey below. If there’s any reason it won’t display properly, CLICK HERE to open in a new window.
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• Bust a move: Local nurses perform flash mob for National Nurses Week

  10-05-2019 01:58
  
  Nurses and employees at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center celebrated National Nurses week with an impromptu dance.About 70 nurses, physicians and staff members performed a flash mob on the plaza on The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Wednesday.The dancers practiced for hours in groups and at home to prepare for the performance.“We had a blast," said Sheila Johnson, a nurse manager at the hospital. "It’s a fun way to show appreciation for the dedicated, hard-
  
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• Face the State with Scott Light | May 12, 2019

  10-05-2019 01:25
  This week on Face The State:New life coming to Lordstown - President Donald Trump tweeted this week that the General Motors pant in Lordstown would be saved. State lawmakers quickly weight in saying 'not so fast'.We talk about the steps that still need to be taken before putting hundreds of people back to work."Rigged" Congressional Map - A federal court ruled Ohio's Congressional map was carved to benefit republicans.The judges also bumped up the date to change the current system to 2020.We bre
  
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• Former Ohio State coach Zach Smith arrested after altercation at school

  10-05-2019 01:09
  
  Former Ohio State assistant football coach Zach Smith was arrested Thursday after an altercation with staff at Scioto Ridge Elementary School.According to the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office, Smith got into a confrontation at the school when he was not allowed to pick up his children at 3:10 p.m.A deputy responded to the school and spoke with Smith and witnesses.It was confirmed by the deputy that Smith was in violation of a civil protection order.According to the sheriff’s office,
  
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• The List: 8 Most Endangered Buildings of 2019

  10-05-2019 00:00
  The Columbus Landmarks organization announced its annual list of Most Endangered Sites in Central Ohio, shining a spotlight on buildings that could potentially face the recking ball if not for continued historic preservation efforts. New buildings on the list this year include the Kroger Bakery facility at 457 Cleveland Ave, which recently closed, and the […]
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