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• FDA finds asbestos in more cosmetics from Clarie's

  07-06-2019 23:54
  
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has found asbestos in more cosmetics sold by Claire's Stores and Beauty Plus Global, with the agency warning consumers to steer clear of the products. Both companies last week voluntarily recalled products that tested positive for the known carcinogen during the agency's ongoing testing of cosmetics for asbestos, the FDA stated in its alert. The recalled products include:Beauty Plus Global Contour Effects Palette 2, Batch No. S1603002/PD-C1179Claire's JoJo S
  
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• FDA finds asbestos in more cosmetics from Claire's

  07-06-2019 23:54
  
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has found asbestos in more cosmetics sold by Claire's Stores and Beauty Plus Global, with the agency warning consumers to steer clear of the products.Both companies last week voluntarily recalled products that tested positive for the known carcinogen during the agency's ongoing testing of cosmetics for asbestos, the FDA stated in its alert. The recalled products include:Beauty Plus Global Contour Effects Palette 2, Batch No. S1603002/PD-C1179Claire's JoJo Si
  
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• Toledo Zoo announces death of giraffe, cites multiple 'severe abnormalities'

  07-06-2019 22:42
  
  TOLDEO, Ohio — The Toledo Zoo announced Friday that a 1 1/2-year-old giraffe has died.Binti, a female Masai giraffe, was found Monday in the indoor giraffe holding area and was unable to stand, according to a Facebook post from the zoo. Binti was sedated and the animal care team drew blood for analysis."Test results indicated multiple severe abnormalities and euthanasia was elected to prevent suffering," the zoo said.A necropsy was conducted and histopathology results are pending.
  
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• I-270 west reopens after 5-vehicle injury crash on south side

  07-06-2019 22:15
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — A crash involving five vehicles left two people injured on I-270 west on the city's south side Friday afternoon.The westbound lanes were closed between U.S. 23 and I-71 as a result.Authorities say a van hit three stationary vehicles in the main portion of the highway going at normal traffic speed. A fifth vehicle could not avoid the crash and struck them. The Franklin County Sheriff's Office says the reason is unknown for why the vehicles were stationary.The crash happened
  
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• Whitehall police searching for suspect in 2 robberies taking place within 2-hour span

  07-06-2019 22:01
  
  WHITEHALL, Ohio — Whitehall police are investigating two robberies that took place within a two-hour time span Friday morning.Police say at approximately 5:22 a.m. a male suspect entered the UDF in the 4800 block of E. Main Street and demanded money. He then left with an undetermined amount of cash.At approximately 7:17 a.m., police say the same suspect entered the Taco Bell located in the 3900 block of E. Broad Street, He showed a note to the cashier demanding money and left the area with
  
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• Organizers finish setting up for Buckeye Country Superfest with main focus on safety

  07-06-2019 21:27
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Production crews have been setting up for the Buckeye Country Superfest in the Ohio Stadium since last Wednesday while organizers put plans in place for safety.Assistant Vice President for Business Advancement Mike Gatto said safety is their number one priority.Organizers are expecting around 50,000 people to be in the stadium on Saturday for the concert. Several artists will be performing, such as George Strait and Blake Shelton.Production crews have been working to trans
  
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• Sunbury man found guilty sexually assaulting 3 minors

  07-06-2019 21:14
  
  A 51-year-old man from Sunbury was found guilty of multiple counts of sexual assault against three minors, including rape and gross sexual imposition.The Delaware County Prosecutor’s Office said David Nunley was charged in February 2019 after an investigation by the sheriff’s office.“No child should have to endure being a victim of sexual violence,”Delaware County Prosecutor Melissa Schiffel said. “I applaud the victims for speaking out and thank the Sheriff’s
  
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• Restaurant Roundup: News from Sideswipe Brewing, Skillet and more

  07-06-2019 21:12
  Columbus has so many new restaurants, expansions, menu updates and other changes, sometimes it’s hard to keep up with everything. That’s why our Restaurant Roundup series was designed to keep you informed with the latest and greatest updates. This week, get your know-how on Sideswipe Brewing, Condado Tacos, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams and Skillet: Sideswipe […]
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• Police investigating homicide at Westerville home; 1 in custody

  07-06-2019 21:02
  
  WESTERVILLE, Ohio — Police are investigating a homicide that took place at a Westerville home Friday.Westerville police say it happened Friday morning at a home on Kanpur Place. Police identified the victim as 44-year-old Ranae Baxter.Tyrone Lauderdale, 42, turned himself in to the Montgomery County Jail and is in custody of the Dayton Police Department. He is charged with one count of murder in Baxter’s death.The incident remains under investigation with Westerville Police, Ketterin
  
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• Woman's body recovered at nature preserve near Hocking Hills

  07-06-2019 20:22
  
  The Ohio Department of Natural Resources said a woman’s body was recovered Thursday in a remote location at Conkles Hollow State Nature Preserve near Hocking Hills State Park.The Hocking County Coroner’s Office identified the woman as 55-year-old Dana M. Busson of Doylestown.The investigation into Busson’s death is ongoing.ODNR is reminding all visitors to stay on the trail and follow park safety instructions.
  
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• How to Fit Recyclables into the Recycling Container

  07-06-2019 20:02 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Veterans Voices: 75th Anniversary of D-Day

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• Minneapolis cop who shot 911 caller sentenced to 12½ years in prison

  07-06-2019 19:47
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an unarmed woman who had called 911 apologized to the woman's family Friday for "taking the life of a perfect person," just moments before a judge brushed off a defense request for a light sentence and ordered him to prison for 12½ years.Mohamed Noor was convicted in April of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the July 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a 40-year-old dual citizen of the
  
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• West Point identifies cadet killed in rollover crash as 22-year-old from New Jersey

  07-06-2019 19:43
  
  WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — The U.S. Military Academy has identified the cadet killed in a vehicle rollover during a training exercise as a 22-year-old from New Jersey.West Point on Friday announced that Cadet Christopher J. Morgan of West Orange, New Jersey, died when the vehicle carrying cadets overturned in wooded terrain Thursday morning.West Point says 19 cadets and two soldiers operating the vehicle suffered non-life-threatening injuries. All the cadets have been treated and released.Mor
  
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• New SWACO Tool Helps Safely Dispose of Unwanted Items

  07-06-2019 19:43
  Have you ever cleaned out a closet and wondered where to take the clothes you’re no longer wearing? Have you organized your garage and questioned how to dispose of expired paint, pesticides and pool chemicals? Have you updated a room and deliberated whether to throw away or donate the old furniture?  If you find yourself […]
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• Former Mount Carmel doctor charged with murder released from jail after posting bond

  07-06-2019 18:23
  
  A former Mount Carmel doctor who was charged with murder in connection with 25 patient overdose deaths has been released from jail after posting bond.Dr. William Husel was indicted on Wednesday and made his first court appearance later in the day.COMPLETE COVERAGE: Mount Carmel patient deaths investigationHusel pleaded not guilty to all counts and his bond was set at $1 million.To date, 35 patients have been identified as having received excessive doses of pain medication – 29 of the patie
  
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• Review: Revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch Closes Short North Stage Season

  07-06-2019 17:57
  Drag and rock-and-roll both — among other duties — provide a tough, velvet chrysalis for a dark past to transform into something beautiful and defiant. One of the finest examples of the glory and transformative power of those art forms in a theatre is John Cameron Mitchell (book) and Stephen Trask’s (music and lyrics) cult […]
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• Nonstop Flights Between Columbus and San Francisco

  07-06-2019 17:20
  Note: This announcement was originally published on Oct 16, 2018. The latest announcement for nonstop service flights at John Glenn Columbus International Airport (CMH) comes courtesy of United Airlines, who will begin offering daily nonstop service to San Fransico International Airport (SFO) in June 2019. “United Airlines’ announcement of CMH-SFO service is another win for […]
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• 4.7 million gallons of sewage released into river during Ohio tornado outbreak, officials say

  07-06-2019 16:40
  
  DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Officials say 4.7 million gallons of untreated sewage was released into a river during Ohio's Memorial Day tornado outbreak.The Dayton Daily News reports county sewer workers had to divert wastewater directly into the Stillwater River after two pump stations lost power during the storms.Hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed and many more were damaged during the outbreak that saw at least 18 tornadoes touch down in western Ohio.Dina Pierce is a spokeswoman for
  
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• US commander says he believes Iran threat still 'very real'

  07-06-2019 14:09
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran has chosen to "step back and recalculate" after making preparations for an apparent attack against U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf region, but it is too early to conclude the threat is gone, the top commander of American forces in the Mideast said.In an interview with three reporters accompanying him to the Gulf, Gen. Frank McKenzie said he remains concerned by Iran's potential for aggression and he would not rule out requesting additional U.S. forces to bolster defense
  
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• Ohio governor outlines overhaul for county jail inspections

  07-06-2019 13:18
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is more than doubling the size of the state's jail inspections team.The change comes following a review that was prompted by discrepancies in reports about a county jail in Cleveland where eight inmates died in 2018.The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's 2017 report showed few issues with the Cuyahoga County jail other than overpopulation. But a year later, U.S. marshals found "inhumane" conditions and civil rights abuses.DeWine s
  
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• Gov. DeWine outlines overhaul for county jail inspections

  07-06-2019 13:18
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is more than doubling the size of the state's jail inspections team.The change comes following a review that was prompted by discrepancies in reports about a county jail in Cleveland where eight inmates died in 2018.The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's 2017 report showed few issues with the Cuyahoga County jail other than overpopulation. But a year later, U.S. marshals found "inhumane" conditions and civil rights abuses.DeWine s
  
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• Coroner: Franklin County overdose deaths through March up from 2018

  07-06-2019 13:16
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The coroner for the county that includes Ohio's capital city says the number of fatal overdoses during the first three months of 2019 grew from the total for the same period last year.Franklin County Coroner Anahi Ortiz on Thursday reported preliminary figures of 120 overdoses from Jan. 1 through March 31.Ortiz says that's an 8% increase from the same three months in 2018. She says the deaths continue to be driven by opioids, including fentanyl, a powerful synthetic p
  
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• Walmart service to deliver groceries inside customers' homes

  07-06-2019 12:56
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The online delivery wars are heating up inside shoppers' homes.Walmart is now offering to have one of its employees deliver fresh groceries and put them in your refrigerator when you're not home.The nation's largest grocer said Friday that it will be offering the service this fall for more than one million customers in three cities: Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Missouri, and Vero Beach, Florida. Later this year, the service, called InHome Delivery, will also accept returns for
  
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• US opens new mass facility in Texas for migrant children

  07-06-2019 12:48
  
  The federal government is opening a new mass facility to hold migrant children in Texas and considering detaining hundreds more youths on three military bases around the country, adding up to 3,000 new beds to the already overtaxed system.The new emergency facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas, will hold as many as 1,600 teens in a complex that once housed oil field workers on government-leased land near the border, said Mark Weber, a spokesman for Office of Refugee Resettlement.The agency is also
  
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• Joe Biden reverses position on federal dollars for abortions

  07-06-2019 12:42
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — After two days of intense criticism, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden reversed course Thursday and declared that he no longer supports a long-standing congressional ban on using federal health care money to pay for abortions."If I believe health care is a right, as I do, I can no longer support an amendment" that makes it more difficult for some women to access care, Biden said at a Democratic Party fundraiser in Atlanta.The former vice president's reversal on the
  
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• Prosecutors will update Ohio serial killer confessions probe

  07-06-2019 12:30
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Two prosecutors in Ohio plan to update their efforts to identify women a serial killer claims he killed decades ago.Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters' (DEE'turs) and Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien on Friday will discuss cases linked to Samuel Little.Prosecutors have linked Little to the 1981 slaying of Anna Stewart, abducted in Cincinnati. Her body was dumped near Columbus.Little told authorities he killed five women in Ohio among some 90 across the nation. He
  
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• GOP officials rehash old fight against Volkswagen union vote

  07-06-2019 12:28
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Top Tennessee Republicans predicting economic harm if workers at Volkswagen's car assembly plant in Chattanooga vote to unionize are following a blueprint that helped GOP officials sink a similar vote five years ago.Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga voted 712-626 against unionization through the Detroit-based United Auto Workers in 2014, heeding the advice of then-U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, then-Gov. Bill Haslam and other GOP officials who urged a "no" vote.During that e
  
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• Spike Lee calls for Hollywood to 'shut it down' in Georgia

  07-06-2019 12:18
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Director Spike Lee is calling for Hollywood production companies to leave Georgia over a law that would ban abortions as early as six weeks, upon detection of a fetal heartbeat.Most studios that have commented have said they're waiting to see if the so-called "heartbeat" law actually takes effect next year, or if the courts will block it. But at the arrivals line for Denzel Washington's AFI Lifetime Achievement tribute Thursday, Lee said now is the time for Georgia-based
  
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• Julia Roberts, Spike Lee toast Denzel Washington at event

  07-06-2019 11:52
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Denzel Washington was the man of the hour Thursday night with everyone from Julia Roberts to Spike Lee turning out to celebrate him as this year's recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award. But when he finally took the stage to accept the honor he did something unexpected: At his own award ceremony, Washington turned the spotlight away from himself and gave his wife of 40 years, Pauletta Washington, her own standing ovation.The crowd of multigenerational Hollywood A-li
  
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• Police: 3 students had thousands of fentanyl pills on campus

  07-06-2019 11:31
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Police in a small city on the U.S.-Mexico border say three students were arrested Wednesday for possessing fentanyl pills on campus, including one who had over 3,000 pills with her.San Luis, Arizona, police say 18-year-old Noemi Hernandez-Madrigal had three plastic bags with over 3,200 blue fentanyl pills on her. The pills have an estimated street value of up to $48,000.Hernandez-Madrigal and the other student, Alessandra Cardenas-Hernandez, 18, face several drug charges and
  
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• Family, friends remember Amber Evans following release of coroner's report

  07-06-2019 03:40
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Like so many fathers, Brian Peters felt a special connection to his daughter."[We] just had this connection that I just always had to her that I just always felt," he said.It's why on that night when the phone rang, he says he already knew."I was asleep and my phone rang and I was scared to answer it," he said. "I just knew. I was scared to answer the phone."His daughter, 28-year-old Amber Evans, was missing. It was January 28th. Her car was found near the Scioto Mile, but
  
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• Columbus Metropolitan Library cuts ribbon to new Dublin branch

  07-06-2019 03:13
  
  DUBLIN, Ohio — A large crowd of people gathered Thursday as the Columbus Metropolitan Library cut the ribbon to its new Dublin branch.This new, 41,000 square foot library is double the size of the former 20,100 square foot branch and has a variety of features including an interactive children's area, a homework help center and a cafe.The branch also has a “Ready for Kindergarten” area to help preschoolers prepare for school, meeting rooms, a quiet room and public computers that
  
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• New Superintendent Promises Better Days for Columbus Schools

  07-06-2019 02:14
  New Columbus City Schools Superintendent Dr. Talisa Dixon imagines a new future for the district. Last week, at a community gathering at the King Arts Complex in King-Lincoln, she acknowledged the shortcomings of the school system to date and articulated a plan to change course. Columbus Board of Education, staff and stakeholders from Columbus City […]
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• Face the State with Scott Light | June 9, 2019

  07-06-2019 01:51
  This week on Face The State:National Pride Month Brings Debate - House Speaker Larry Householder gets some backlash after backing a decision to keep a Drag class out of public libraries.Despite being told not to come to two libraries, the Drag 101 event was well received.Biden Supports LGBTQ Group - The Presidential candidate showed support for the community during a recent trip to Ohio.We look at the laws he says are unfair to same sex couples.A Battle Over Plastic - Several local governments h
  
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• Health & Human Services: State of Youth Homelessness in Columbus

  07-06-2019 01:33 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Council Health & Human Services Cmte.: State of Youth Homelessness in Columbus

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• Convicted serial killer Shawn Grate facing new charges in Marion County

  07-06-2019 00:40
  
  MARION COUNTY, Ohio — Convicted serial killer Shawn Grate is facing new charges.A grand jury indicted him yesterday on four new counts — aggravated murder, kidnapping, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence.The new charges stem from a case just revealed earlier this week.Investigators announced that remains found along Victory Road in Marion County back in March 2007 belonged to 23-year-old Dana Nicole Lowrey.Lowrey had been selling magazines in Ohio at the time. She was origi
  
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• 97-year-old World War II veteran reflects on D-Day

  07-06-2019 00:31
  On the 75th anniversary of D-Day, it was standing room only to hear history retold by those who lived it.Three World War II veterans took part in a panel at the National Veterans Memorial and Museum to share their memories of the day that changed history.“It builds your confidence when you have people like this come and take their time and pay their respects to veterans,” said World War II veteran Don Jakeway.At 97 years old, Jakeway is a four-time Bronze Star awardee and recipient o
  
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• New cameras added to Franklin Co. Courthouse; sheriff's officials say more deputies needed

  07-06-2019 00:23
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — More than 3,000 people pass through the Franklin County Courthouse in downtown Columbus each weekday.Some of the tense moments can play out on floors three through six. That is where the domestic and juvenile courts are found."Essentially, everyone that gets assigned a court date has roughly the same court time, so everybody shows up to court at the same time," said Franklin County Sheriff's Major David Oyer, who oversees the security operations division. "At its high poin
  
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