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• “Why I Chose Abortion”: Three Women Share their Late Abortion Stories

  29-05-2019 23:58
  Everyone has an opinion on abortion. Politicians are passing laws about it, organizations are busy funding it or advocating against it, women and people and families are making decisions about it.  With 22 reproductive healthcare restrictions passed to date, including bans on abortions after 20 weeks and now after a fetal heartbeat is detected, Ohio […]
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• The Limits of Choice: Three Women Share their Late Abortion Stories

  29-05-2019 23:58
  Everyone has an opinion on abortion. Politicians are passing laws about it, organizations are busy funding it or advocating against it, women and people and families are making decisions about it.  With 22 reproductive healthcare restrictions passed to date, including bans on abortions after 20 weeks and now after a fetal heartbeat is detected, Ohio […]
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• Family, friends, local restaurant honor Celina man killed by tornado

  29-05-2019 23:12
  
  CELINA - Melvin "Dale" Hanna had his very own spot at the Celina Bob Evans."He was here every morning at 7 o’clock," server Marsha Houston said. "He was our first customer every day. And he was waiting in the parking lot for us every day­­­­­­­­ ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­to unlock the doors.­­­­­­Houston and fellow server Elena Beougher knew his o
  
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• Police searching for missing 14-year-old girl from Gahanna

  29-05-2019 23:02
  
  GAHANNA, Ohio – Gahanna police are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing 14-year-old girl.Police said Elizabeth Sowers left school early on May 28 and is believed to be in the area of Creekside Park and Olde Gahanna.Sowers is 5-feet, 3-inches tall and weighs 115 pounds.She has brown hair, brown eyes, and wears braces.She was last seen wearing black leggings and a gray shirt but she may have changed her clothes.If anyone has any information about Sowers, they are asked to
  
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• Local electrical company says there aren't enough tradesmen compared to storm damage

  29-05-2019 22:51
  Two days after strong storms hit central Ohio, a local electrical company is saying there are not enough tradesmen to repair damages when it comes to a large storm impacting many.He said that goes for whether it's damages in Dayton or right here locally. They say it's an important job that takes time and safety precautions.President of Jess Howard Electric Co., Jonathon Howard, said their company is devastated to see what is happening in Dayton. Howard, said even here locally, several houses wit
  
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• Central Ohio organizations seeking donations for tornado victims

  29-05-2019 22:07
  Central Ohio organizations are now in "recovery mode" as they have to deploy volunteers to assist families affected by tornadoes in Dayton and Celina."Some of what we are seeing in the area today is a lot destruction," said Capt Darell Houseton, with the Salvation Army. "And, folks who are trying to make the best of a situation cleaning out their yards trying to get what they can out of their homes that are still safe to enter into."The Salvation Army has fed more than a thousand people in need.
  
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• New lawsuit against Ohio State involving Dr. Strauss includes former football players

  29-05-2019 20:46
  Thirty-seven former Ohio State athletes have filed a lawsuit against the university involving Doctor Richard Strauss.Strauss is the former Ohio State doctor accused of sexually abusing as many as 177 students during his two decades at the university.Strauss died by suicide in 2005 and was never prosecuted for his alleged crimes.Nearly all the names inside the new lawsuit are listed as John Does. Former wrestler Michael DiSabato was the only named plaintiff.This lawsuit, filed by Dayton attorney
  
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• More than 142,000 gallons of sewage, stormwater overflows into Lake Erie

  29-05-2019 20:31
  
  Officials in northeast Ohio have issued a warning after raw sewage and stormwater overflowed into Lake Erie caused by the severe weather this week.According to WOIO, The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District issued a public advisory for Edgewater Beach on Wednesday.The storms led to an estimated 142,600 combined gallons of sewage and stormwater being discharged into the lake over a period of 15 minutes.Visitors to Lake Erie, especially children, the elderly, and those in poor health, are tempor
  
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• 19 Capital Improvement Budget.: Westgate Community Rec Center 5/28/2019

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• 14-year-old arrested after gun threats against Finland Middle School near Grove City

  29-05-2019 19:31
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - A 14-year-old has been charged after authorities said he made threats against Finland Middle School.The Franklin County Sheriff's Office was contacted Monday about the threats posted on social media.According to Southwestern City School Officials, parents notified the district about the threats and classes were canceled on Tuesday.The Franklin County Sheriff's Office said it was able to identify the student who created the post. He was arrested and taken to Franklin County Juven
  
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• Restaurant Space Planned for Self-Storage Building on Goodale

  29-05-2019 19:25
  A plan to renovate a 75-year-old building that is being used as a self-storage facility was presented to the Downtown Commission yesterday. The building is located at 134 E. Goodale St. – across North Fourth Street from the Smith Brothers Hardware building – and the proposal calls for converting it into a multi-tenant space geared […]
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• Franklin County residents now have access to free golf

  29-05-2019 18:21
  COLUMBUS - Golf can be both time-consuming and expensive but the Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks are working to change that for Franklin County residents.This month the Metro Parks updated their costs, now allowing all Franklin County residents to have free access to the 3-hole practice course and 9-hole learning course at Blacklick Woods Golf Course.Carts, food and the 18-hole championship course will still cost residents but Metro Parks executive director, Tim Moloney tells 10TV they
  
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• Trump pledges to help Ohio recover from devastating tornadoes

  29-05-2019 18:13
  
  President Donald Trump has pledged to help Ohio recover from devastating tornadoes.Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine's office Wednesday provided an audio recording of Trump's call Tuesday as DeWine was touring hard-hit Trotwood with the city's mayor and other officials.Trump told DeWine he saw "that you got hit very hard."He asked DeWine if the damaging storms were a surprise, but DeWine credited the news media with "a very good job of telling us that this thing was coming." DeWine said people wh
  
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• Katalina’s Clintonville Location Opening Soon

  29-05-2019 17:53
  Katalina’s second location in Clintonville is nearing its grand opening. After nine years of operating in its intimate first location in Harrison West, Katalina’s II will open at a much larger space at 3481 N. High St. on Monday, June 3. At 2,600 square feet, this second location is six times bigger than the original […]
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• Apartments Proposed for Main Street Downtown

  29-05-2019 17:33
  A small grass lot at 554 E. Main St. could soon be home to 19 new apartments, if a project presented to the Downtown Commission yesterday comes to fruition. The four-story building would sit at the corner of the Main Street-Rich Street Connector and would include 11 parking spaces on its ground floor. The parcel […]
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• The Confluence Cast: The City of Whitehall

  29-05-2019 17:25
  
  
  Columbus’s suburbs will play a big role in how we’re able to grow in the future. Reporter Brent Warren sat down with Whitehall’s mayor Kim Maggard and Economic Development Director Zach Woodruff to discuss the new mixed-use development plans in Whitehall, how they believe they are uniquely positioned to grow in the years to come, and […]
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• Interview: Whitehall Leaders on Planning for a Changing Suburbia

  29-05-2019 17:25
  The recently-released Corridor Concepts study takes a deep dive into the impact that building dense development and better transit along five major corridors could have on the region. One of those corridors, East Main Street, runs directly through Whitehall, a suburb of about 19,000 people located six miles east of Downtown Columbus. Incorporated in 1947 […]
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• Robert Mueller says special counsel probe did not exonerate President Trump

  29-05-2019 16:09
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Mueller said Wednesday he was legally barred from charging President Donald Trump with a crime but pointedly emphasized that his Russia report did not exonerate the president. If he could have cleared Trump of obstruction of justice he "would have said so," Mueller said.The special counsel's remarks, his first in public since being tasked two years ago with investigating Russian interference to help Trump win the 2016 presidential election, stood as
  
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• Robert Mueller makes 1st public statement on Russia probe, resigns as special counsel

  29-05-2019 16:09
  
  Special counsel Robert Mueller says he's leaving the Justice Department now that he's concluded his Russia investigation.Mueller made the announcement Wednesday in his first public statement since his appointment two years ago.Mueller has been on the Justice Department's payroll since he formally concluded his probe in March. Last month, Attorney General William Barr publicly released a redacted version of his Russia report.It's unclear what Mueller has been doing at the Justice Department since
  
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• Review: Evolution Presents Area Premiere of The Vultures

  29-05-2019 16:00
  Evolution kicks off their 2019 season with a handsome mounting of the area premiere of Mark Ridge’s riff on classic drawing room murder mysteries, The Vultures, directed by David S. Harewood. The Vultures unfurls at the mansion of a deceased publishing magnate 20 years after his death. Mr. West’s hatred of all living prospects for […]
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• Ohio’s Own: Koki’s Tortillas

  29-05-2019 16:00
  Koki’s Tortillas are something of a niche find. They’re not just an Ohio business, they’re from right here in Columbus, made out on Sullivant Avenue. Although produced nearby, the tortillas went unnoticed until a friend recommended them. This friend is a tortilla snob, and the term is meant affectionately. For our purposes, it refers to […]
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• Alex Trebek shares 'mind-boggling' pancreatic cancer update

  29-05-2019 15:04
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek says his doctors say he's in "near remission" of advanced pancreatic cancer and his response to the treatment is "kind of mind-boggling."The 78-year-old TV personality tells People magazine he's responding very well to chemotherapy and the doctors have told him "they hadn't seen this kind of positive results in their memory." Trebek says some of the tumors have shrunk by more than 50%.Trebek announced his diagnosis in March, but said he inten
  
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• Tornadoes stretch into Pennsylvania

  29-05-2019 13:31
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A vicious storm tore through the Kansas City area, spawning tornadoes that downed trees and power lines, damaged homes and injured at least a dozen people in the latest barrage of severe weather that saw tornado warnings as far east as New York City.Parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey also were under tornado warnings hours after a swarm of tightly packed twisters swept through Indiana and Ohio overnight, smashing homes, blowing out windows and ending the school yea
  
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• Louisiana debates 'Saggy pants' law after man shoots himself

  29-05-2019 13:26
  
  SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Officials in a Louisiana city are reconsidering a 2007 ordinance outlawing "saggy pants" after a man's death in a confrontation with police.Anthony Childs, 31, died in February. North Louisiana news outlets say he ran from a police officer who tried to stop him for wearing saggy pants. A coroner's report said he appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. He also had three nonlethal wounds from bullets fired from a distance by a police off
  
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• 1 injured, 4 dogs saved from burning building by Newark firefighters

  29-05-2019 13:20
  
  NEWARK, Ohio-- Four dogs are now safe after being saved from a burning building in Newark.It happened on Tuesday on the 400 block of North Cedar Street. One person in the building was taken to Licking Memorial Hospital for smoke inhalation. Newark firefighters managed to save the four dogs in the building but two cats died in the fire.Authorities say the fire started in the back of the building and extended into the first and second floors.Newark, Ohio Division of Fire tweeted a video of their r
  
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• AP Report: 'Pain League' allegedly pushed opioids in Italy

  29-05-2019 12:44
  
  PARMA, Italy (AP) — Managers with Mundipharma, the international arm of Purdue Pharma, have been swept up in a corruption case in Italy alleging they and other pharmaceutical executives paid a prominent pain doctor to help push more opioids in this country long leery of the powerful painkillers.It is the first known case outside the U.S. where employees of the pharmaceutical empire owned by the billionaire Sackler family have been criminally implicated, more than a decade after Purdue exec
  
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• Tens of thousands in Ohio without power after twisters

  29-05-2019 12:40
  DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Tens of thousands of Ohio residents were still without power or water Wednesday in the aftermath of strong tornadoes that spun through the Midwest.Hospitals in the state reported that nearly 140 people were injured in the storms late Monday night, although only one person was killed as the destructive storms sent people cowering in basements, closets and bathrooms.At least 60,000 people lacked water service in the Dayton area, where ice and water distribution centers we
  
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• Kit Harington checks into wellness center post-'Thrones'

  29-05-2019 12:40
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Game of Thrones" star Kit Harington has checked into a wellness retreat to work on what his representative says are "personal issues."A representative for Harington said Tuesday the British actor was utilizing a post-"Game of Thrones" break in his schedule to spend time at the facility. No additional details were released.Harington played Jon Snow in HBO's widely popular fantasy series "Game of Thrones," which ended after eight seasons this month.The 32-year-old actor i
  
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• Heeded alarms may have limited deaths in Ohio tornadoes

  29-05-2019 12:40
  
  CELINA, Ohio (AP) — Strong Memorial Day tornadoes that spun through Ohio and Indiana smashed homes and businesses and sent thousands of people cowering in basements and closets, but just a single death was reported in the aftermath of the destructive storms.Hospitals reported that as many as 130 people were injured after the tornadoes pounded communities in and around Dayton on Monday night amid a severe weather outbreak.Officials said more fatalities were prevented by people doing what th
  
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• More remains identified as US troops killed in Korean War

  29-05-2019 12:37
  
  JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (AP) — The U.S. military says it has identified the remains of three more Americans killed during the Korean War, even as efforts to recover additional remains have stalled amid souring relations with North Korea.One family has been notified and notification of the other two families is pending, Lt. Col. Ken Hoffman, spokesman for the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency, said Tuesday.One set of remains has been identified as those of Army Cpl. Charles S
  
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• Homes, property damaged in EF2 tornado that hit Hocking County

  29-05-2019 12:32
  
  HOCKING COUNTY, Ohio - The National Weather Service confirmed that an EF2 tornado touched down in Hocking County on Tuesday morning.It was part of an outbreak that spawned at least 10 tornadoes across western and central Ohio.The twister struck near the Laurelville community.The damage was spread out along Union Road and Long Run Road.There were no reports of injury.Complete coverage on Monday's tornadoes, severe storms >>
  
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• 4 dead, 8 wounded in church van crash in Virginia

  29-05-2019 11:39
  
  FORD, Va. (AP) — Four people have been killed and eight others have been wounded in a crash in Virginia involving a church van.News outlets report the van carrying 11 people was turning into a church parking lot off of U.S. 460 Tuesday night when it was hit by a pickup truck hauling metal. A state police statement says the impact caused the van to flip several times and sent the truck off-road and into a guardrail.Four of the van's passengers died at the scene. Its seven other passengers w
  
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• Sources: 13-year-old arrested in connection to shooting death of 14-year-old in Columbus

  29-05-2019 06:34
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – Columbus police have arrested a 13-year-old in connection to the shooting death of a 14-year-old boy in east Columbus last week, sources told 10TV.Jaykwon Sharp was shot and killed not far from Shady Lane Elementary on May 22.Sources told 10TV the 13-year-old wanted in the case was arrested Tuesday night.Police said the shooting happened after the suspect and victim got into an argument.The name of the 13-year-old along with any charges have not been released.
  
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• Police: 13-year-old arrested in connection to shooting death of 14-year-old in Columbus

  29-05-2019 06:34
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – Columbus police have arrested a 13-year-old in connection to the shooting death of a 14-year-old boy in east Columbus last week, sources told 10TV.Jaykwon Sharp was shot and killed not far from Shady Lane Elementary on May 22.
  Police said the shooting happened after Peyton and Sharp got into an argument.Sources told 10TV the 13-year-old Juano Peyton wanted in the case was arrested Tuesday night.Police confirmed the arrest Wednesday via Twitter:MURDER SUSPECT ARRESTED: 13yo
  
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• Worthington Pools issues warning after man allegedly exposed himself to boy in bathroom

  29-05-2019 04:10
  A warning to parents was emailed after a local pool says a man exposed himself to a little boy while in the restroom.A mom posted to a Facebook group that while at the Worthington pool her son was in the men's room.A man was in the next stall to him, and then the man laid on the ground and exposed himself to her son.“It's something I know can happen anywhere, so when I talked to my kids I explained to them it did happen here, it may never happen again, but it could happen somewhere else. W
  
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• Drag 101 class moved from Delaware County Library after death threats

  29-05-2019 02:45
  
  DELAWARE COUNTY, Ohio - Selena West, who was going to teach a class on drag queens at the Delaware County Library, confirmed to 10TV on Tuesday the class has been moved to a new location after she received death threats.The class drew some backlash from the community which was seen at a meeting of library board commissioners last week.West argued last week the class is about theater and dressing up and not about sexuality.Some people still had concerns with one saying they thought it still indic
  
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• Bexley passes ban on single-use plastic grocery bags

  29-05-2019 02:25
  
  BEXLEY, Ohio - A ordinance banning single-use plastic grocery and carryout bags was passed by the Bexley City Council Tuesday night.The ordinance passed by a 6-1 vote.The rule would apply to all businesses in Bexley city limits and go into effect next January.A ban on plastic straws, drink stoppers, and cutlery would begin in 2021.
  
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• Chase ends in Upper Arlington after officer fires at robbery suspect in west Columbus

  29-05-2019 02:00
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – Two suspects are in custody after a chase that started in west Columbus and ended in Upper Arlington, according to Columbus police.Police said a man walked into the Certified gas station on West Broad Street near Orel Avenue around 6:30 p.m. demanding cash and showing a weapon.Employees told a special duty officer working in the store about the robbery, according to police.The officer chased the man down Orel Avenue.The officer fired at the suspect, according to police.Pol
  
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