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• Ohio State Highway Patrol warns against drinking and driving over holiday

  03-07-2019 23:43
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The State Highway Patrol warns it will be cracking down on motorists in Ohio who drink and drive during the Fourth of July holiday reporting period.The reporting period beginning at midnight Wednesday continues through 11:59 p.m. Sunday. The patrol's zero-tolerance policy is part of the national Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over enforcement campaign aimed at removing impaired drivers from the roads.Motorists are encouraged to report impaired drivers, drug activity or str
  
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• Family of deadly Vegas shooting victim suing gun makers

  03-07-2019 23:28
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The parents of a young woman killed in the 2017 Las Vegas massacre said Wednesday his family is blaming gun manufacturers for their daughter's death."Someone murdered our daughter," said James Parsons, whose 31-year-old daughter Carrie Parsons was one of 58 people killed when a gunman rained down gunfire from a high-rise hotel. "Someone should be held accountable for that."A wrongful death lawsuit filed Tuesday targets Colt and seven other gun manufacturers, along with gun
  
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• Storm sends tree crashing across 3 yards, onto bicyclist in Merion Village

  03-07-2019 23:24
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Strong winds Tuesday brought down trees all over central Ohio.On Moler Street in Merion Village, one massive tree crashed across three backyards and onto a bicyclist.Part of the 80-foot tree landed on the hood of Ben Moran's car."I had been out of the car maybe all of 10 seconds before it came down," he said. "Started to hear this tree cracking, looked up and started to see it fall, freaked out and bolted for my house."He says that's when he heard a cry for help."I definit
  
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• 1 dead, 1 injured after motorcycle crash in Crawford County

  03-07-2019 23:03
  
  CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ohio — A man is dead and a woman is in critical condition after a motorcycle crash in Crawford County Tuesday afternoon.According to the Crawford County Sheriff's Office, 61-year-old Kevin Wakely was driving a motorcycle down U.S. 30 just east of State Route 602 when he went into the median and struck a drain.Wakely was ejected from the motorcycle and was pronounced dead at the scene.The passenger was also ejected from the motorcycle and was transported to an area hospital
  
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• Columbus woman seeks answers after storm causes city tree to crash into her yard

  03-07-2019 22:19
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Tuesday's storms left damage across some parts of central Ohio.One Merion Village woman says a tree on city property crashed into her backyard.So, what happens when a public tree damages private property?The tree in question stands on city property along South 8th Street.The problem is, it hangs over Christine Henry's backyard, and Tuesday night, a big chunk of it came crashing through her fence. It knocked a seven-foot hole in her wooden privacy fence and left her entire
  
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• Counter Louis CK Event to Make Sexual Assault Victims ‘Seen and Heard’

  03-07-2019 22:09
  A counter event to comedian Louis CK’s appearance at the Columbus Funny Bone wants to put more of a focus on victims and survivors of sexual violence. Christine Horvath, a Columbus standup and founder of BabeRoar — a platform created to uplift female, queer and other marginalized comedians — organized ‘Seen and Heard’ with her partner, […]
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• Ohio’s Six Week Abortion Ban Blocked by Federal Judge

  03-07-2019 22:03
  Ohio’s six week abortion ban has been blocked by a federal judge. Planned to go into effect on July 11, the state’s most restrictive abortion measure has now been delayed. Senior US District Judge Michael Barrett issued an injunction on Wednesday, temporarily preventing the ban from becoming law.  “Inasmuch as this Court has determined that […]
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• Federal judge blocks Ohio heartbeat abortion ban from going into effect

  03-07-2019 21:37
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked an Ohio law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, allowing clinics to continue to provide the procedure as a legal battle advances.Wednesday's decision halts enforcement of the so-called heartbeat bill law that opponents argued would effectively ban the procedure as early as six weeks into pregnancy, before many women know they're pregnant.Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed the Ohio law in April, after
  
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• Refrigeration unit explodes at Fairfield County Fairgrounds amid 4th of July preparations

  03-07-2019 19:57
  
  LANCASTER, Ohio — Festivities are still scheduled to go on as planned for 4th of July at the Fairfield County Fairgrounds after a refrigeration unit exploded early Wednesday morning.The explosion happened at approximately 4 a.m., sending debris flying across the fairgrounds. Officials believe a leak from a propane tank was the cause,"We inspect all of these mobile food truck vendors, every year, every festival we have. We didn't miss anything," said Lancaster Division of Fire Assistant Chi
  
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• Man accused of killing 12-year-old Newark girl indicted for aggravated murder, rape

  03-07-2019 19:55
  
  An 18-year-old accused of killing a 12-year-old Newark girl has been indicted by a grand jury.On Wednesday, a grand jury indicted Keegan Mummey on three counts including on aggravated murder, rape and tampering with evidence charges.Authorities say Isabella Barnes was shot on the front porch of her home by Mummey on June 21. She was rushed to the hospital, where she later died.Mummey fled the scene and was later found riding his bike on Route 79 between Heath and Hebron.In a court appearance on
  
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• Columbus Underground Wins 11 Journalism Awards from Ohio Society of Professional Journalists

  03-07-2019 19:38
  For the fourth year in a row, the work of Columbus Underground was recognized as award winning by the Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists. This year’s awards reviewed published material from the 2018 calendar year, and Columbus Underground and its sister publication The Metropreneur collectively took home 11 first […]
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• Facebook images, video having outages worldwide

  03-07-2019 18:50
  
  Slow response time? Images not loading? It's not just you.Facebook is currently having issues worldwide.New images aren't previewing, but old ones seem to be showing up fine.Instagram is also having issues, as users are struggling to post content to their stories and images, are failing to load.We’re aware that some people are having trouble uploading or sending images, videos and other files on our apps. We're sorry for the trouble and are working to get things back to normal as quickly a
  
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• Young, Dobbins named to Sporting News Preseason All-America Team

  03-07-2019 17:45
  
  Ohio State defensive send Chase Young and running back J.K. Dobbins were named to the Sporting News Preseason All-America Team on Wednesday.Young was a first team selection while Dobbins was named to the second team.Young is coming off his sophomore season where he led the team in both tackles-for-loss and sacks.Entering his junior year, Dobbins has rushed for 2,456 yards and 20 touchdowns. He became the first player in program history to rush for over 1,000 yards as both a freshman and sophomor
  
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• Columbus Makes Art Presents Justin Withrow, Summer Jam West Muralist

  03-07-2019 16:52
  Summer Jam West is coming Saturday, July 13, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Westgate Park. It’s both an arts and music festival, and a non-profit organization committed to placing permanent, public art on the Hilltop. To date they’ve installed two sculptures, two major murals (one 80 feet long and one 95 feet long) […]
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• Theater Review: Imagine Productions’ Delightful Grease

  03-07-2019 16:47
  Since its stage debut in 1971, kicked into overdrive with the film version in 1978, America has swooned over the musical Grease by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey (additional songs by John Farrar, Barry Gibb, and Scott Simon & Louis St. Louis). Imagine’s season-closing production, directed by Cathy Cordy, restores and amplifies the ferocious hormones […]
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• The Danger of International Travel: This Week at the Movies

  03-07-2019 16:41
  It’s a big holiday mid-week “we need air conditioning” bash, and there are two excellent choices. They are very different. Very different — although, honestly, neither makes international travel seem as safe and fun as you might hope. Spider-Man: Far From Home by Hope Madden and George Wolf Spider-Man: Far From Home has more than […]
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• B-Movie Mania Takes Over at the Wex

  03-07-2019 16:27
  Who’s ready for a hot, lurid summer? Maybe a trip to a more transgressive Hollywood? The Wexner Center for the Arts has you in mind with their seasonal double series B-Movie Mania: A Low-Budget Summer. Beginning this weekend and running through the end of August, the Wex celebrates those maverick and rogue filmmakers of the […]
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• Thousands of barrels of Jim Beam bourbon burn in Kentucky

  03-07-2019 16:14
  
  VERSAILLES, Ky. — Firefighters in Kentucky are trying to extinguish a burning Jim Beam warehouse filled with about 45,000 barrels of bourbon.Woodford County Emergency Management Director Drew Chandler tells WKYT-TV that two barrel warehouses caught fire late Tuesday. Crews were able to put one out, but the other kept burning for hours.Chandler says it may have been caused by lightning.A nearby road has been shut down as crews fight the blaze. Chandler estimates firefighters will be working
  
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• Fire destroys Jim Beam warehouse, bourbon flows into river

  03-07-2019 16:14
  
  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A fire destroyed a massive Jim Beam warehouse filled with about 45,000 barrels of aging bourbon in Kentucky, and state officials worried that runoff whiskey seeping into nearby waterways would kill fish.Firefighters from four counties responded to the blaze that erupted late Tuesday. It sent flames shooting into the night sky and generated so much heat that firetruck lights melted.Lightning might have been a factor, but fire investigators haven't been able to start lo
  
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• Unusual Eats: Black Swamp Gouda Reserve

  03-07-2019 16:00
  The original mission for this week wasn’t particularly unusual. The intent was just to check out some Ohio-made cheeses loosely assembled in the refrigerator section at Weiland’s. A house recommendation called Black Swamp Gouda fairly jumped into the cart. It seemed seasonally appropriate, given that the swampy summer weather is now upon us.  But this was […]
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• Trump's July 4 extravaganza reportedly using $2.5 million meant for National Park Service

  03-07-2019 13:42
  
  The Pentagon is rolling out military hardware for a Fourth of July unlike any other. Tanks on the National Mall and military flyovers will be part of the capital's celebration, by order of President Trump. He'll be the first president to take an active role in any July Fourth ceremony in recent memory.These flyovers cost tens of thousands of dollars per hour, though military officials say they are essentially training flights and therefore not an extra cost to taxpayers. But the National Park Se
  
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• President Trump touts July 4 military 'salute'; critics see politics

  03-07-2019 13:42
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is marshalling tanks, bombers and other machinery of war for a Fourth of July celebration that traditionally is light on military might, while critics accused him of using America's military as a political prop.Under White House direction, the Pentagon was scrambling to arrange for an Air Force B-2 stealth bomber and other warplanes to conduct flyovers of the celebration on the National Mall. There will be Navy F-35 and F-18 fighter jets, the Navy Blue A
  
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• Thousands marvel as total eclipse darkens Chile, Argentina

  03-07-2019 12:36
  
  LA SERENA, Chile (AP) — Tens of thousands of tourists and locals gaped skyward Tuesday as a total eclipse of the sun darkened the heavens over Chile and Argentina.Tourists from around the world gathered to witness the cosmic spectacle, which began in the morning as the moon crossed in front of the sun and cast a shadow that passed over a tiny uninhabited atoll in the South Pacific and headed to South America. Chile and Argentina were the only inhabited places where the total eclipse could
  
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• US Border Patrol searching Rio Grande for missing toddler

  03-07-2019 12:33
  
  DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — U.S. Border Patrol agents are searching for a missing 2-year-old girl in the Rio Grande near the Texas town of Del Rio. According to a news release Tuesday, agents from the Del Rio Border Patrol Station detained a woman from Haiti shortly after she crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico. The woman told agents she had lost her daughter while crossing the river.Higher-than-average snowfall in the Rocky Mountains is sending more water into the Rio Grande and adjacent canals,
  
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• Former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca has died at age 94

  03-07-2019 12:28
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Lee Iacocca, the auto executive and master pitchman who put the Mustang in Ford's lineup in the 1960s and became a corporate folk hero when he resurrected Chrysler 20 years later, has died in Bel Air, California. He was 94.Two former Chrysler executives who worked with him, Bud Liebler, the company's former spokesman, and Bob Lutz, formerly its head of product development, said they were told of the death Tuesday by a close associate of Iacocca's family.In his 32-year career
  
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• Disturbing photo shows mother bird feeding her chick a cigarette butt

  03-07-2019 12:28
  
  Photographer and Audubon volunteer Karen Catbird Mason late last month captured what she believed were sweet photos of a mother bird feeding her chick on a Florida beach. However, she soon discovered it was instead a sobering picture of the impact of littering on wildlife.Mason snapped the images of the black skimmers while educating people about the birds nesting on the beach -- in her role as volunteer bird steward. "I only knew it was not a fish," she told CBS News. "I saw what it was after I
  
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• 10TV anchor Pete Scalia & family OK after house damaged during storm

  03-07-2019 04:09
  FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Ohio - 10 This Morning anchor Pete Scalia and his family are ok after a storm caused extensive damage their home in Fairfield County on Tuesday.The storm moved through central Ohio Tuesday evening."Basically, our house was cut in half," Pete said. "I had just gone to bed."Pete said he ran into the living room when he heard the wind.A large tree limb fell more than 40 feet and pierced through the ceiling, collapsing onto Pete.His daughters were sitting at the table you see in th
  
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• 10TV anchor Pete Scalia & family are ok after house damaged during storm

  03-07-2019 04:09
  
  FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Ohio - 10 This Morning anchor Pete Scalia and his family are ok after a storm caused extensive damage their home in Fairfield County on Tuesday.The storm moved through central Ohio Tuesday evening."Basically, our house was cut in half," Pete said. "I had just gone to bed."Pete said he ran into the living room when he heard the wind.A large tree limb fell more than 40 feet and pierced through the ceiling, collapsing onto Pete.His daughters were sitting at the table you see in th
  
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• People camping out for Red, White & BOOM! offer advice ahead of the show

  03-07-2019 03:48
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - People started camping out a day early for Red White and BOOM! and they have advice for people who plan on making it to the event this year.Many people rushed downtown Tuesday trying to save their favorite spots. They placed their cones down along with wagons full of food, drinks, caution tape or lawn chairs.Kim Starr said she has been coming to the show for 32 years.For the past ten years, she has sat in the same spot at Bicentennial Park. She said it overlooks the bridge and i
  
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• Liberty Township residents file paperwork to potentially remove two trustees

  03-07-2019 03:06
  DELAWARE COUNTY, Ohio- Members of the group called Save Liberty Fire and EMS hand-delivered more than 4,000 signatures on a petition and about 5,500 pages of complaints to the Delaware County Courthouse on Tuesday to potentially remove two of the three Liberty Township trustees.Those trustees are Melanie Leneghan and Mike Gemperline."Today we're drawing a line in the sand," said Nico Franano who is with Save Liberty Fire and EMS."They have, depending on the day, said red and then blue," Franano
  
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• Tracking storms moving through central Ohio | Tuesday, July 2

  03-07-2019 00:06
  
  Interactive Radar | Live Radar | Weather WarningsUpdate: 6:30 p.m.Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Delaware, Franklin, and Licking County until 6:45 p.m.Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Knox County until 7:15 p.m.10TV Meteorologist Mike Davis is tracking the latest and what to expect the rest of the night.---Update: 6:20 p.m.Currently, AEP Ohio is reporting outages for roughly 480 in west Columbus/Upper Arlington and 697 in west Columbus/Hilltop area.---Update: 6:10 p.m.Severe Thunderstorm Warning
  
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