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• Opioid talks at impasse; Purdue Pharma bankruptcy filing expected

  07-09-2019 23:55
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is expected to file for bankruptcy after settlement talks over the nation's deadly overdose crisis hit an impasse, attorneys general involved in the talks said Saturday in a message to their counterparts across the country.The breakdown puts the first federal trial over the opioid epidemic on track to begin next month and sets the state for a complex legal drama involving more than 30 states and 2,000 local governments.Purdue, its owners, the
  
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• Cut by Raiders, Antonio Brown signs with Patriots

  07-09-2019 23:39
  
  ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Antonio Brown has signed with the New England Patriots hours after the Oakland Raiders cut him, going from the NFL's cellar to the defending Super Bowl champions on Saturday despite wearing out his welcome with two teams in one offseason.Brown's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, confirmed the signing to The Associated Press. Brown had been scheduled to earn up to $50 million from Oakland over the three-year deal. Instead, the Patriots guaranteed him $9 million this season, with
  
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• TV Review: Big Little Lies Season Two

  07-09-2019 23:09
  Big Little Lies returned over the summer, continuing the story from the book it was based on. The second season is based off a novella that author Liane Moriarty wrote after the series was renewed for the second season by HBO. The central driver of season two is how each woman of ‘The Monterey Five’ […]
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• Ohio University police investigating reported rape on campus

  07-09-2019 23:06
  
  ATHENS, Ohio — Ohio University police are investigating a reported rape on campus.University police say it occurred at approximately 11:30 p.m. Friday night in an unknown room in Shively Hall. The victim reported that a male engaged her in sexual conduct without consent.The woman also said she was hit on her head and sustained minor injuries.Ohio University police describe the suspect as male, 5'10" with brown hair and square-shaped glasses. He also was described to have a "deeper voice" a
  
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• Fields, No. 5 Ohio State bury Cincinnati 42-0

  07-09-2019 21:58
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Justin Fields passed for two touchdowns and ran for two more scores, and No. 5 Ohio State cruised to a 42-0 rout of Cincinnati on Saturday.J.K. Dobbins rushed for 141 yards and two touchdowns — all in the first half — as the Buckeyes (2-0) dismantled Cincinnati in Luke Fickell's return to Ohio Stadium. The third-year Bearcats coach played at Ohio State then spent years on the other sideline as an assistant, and interim coach in 2011.The Bearcats (1-1) came
  
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• NOAA backs Trump's claim about Hurricane Dorian's path, faces criticism

  07-09-2019 20:45
  
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration backed up President Trump's ongoing assertions that Alabama appeared initially to be in the path of Hurricane Dorian. "From Wednesday, August 28, through Monday, September 2, the information provided by NOAA and the National Hurricane Center to President Trump and the wider public demonstrated that tropical-storm-force winds from Hurricane Dorian could impact Alabama," a NOAA spokesman said in a statement Friday evening."This is clearly demonst
  
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• WATCH: Ohio State Marching Band "Salute to Ohio Artists" halftime show

  07-09-2019 19:57
  The Best Damn Band in the Land was joined by a guest band to celebrate Ohio artists.Huntertones was formed by alumni of Ohio State and has performed around the world.The group played a song written by the Huntertones along with other songs from Ohio bands.Music:Love Rollercoaster/FireLove Train/For the Love of MoneyAll of MeTogoTrees
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• Raiders cut Antonio Brown before playing a game with team

  07-09-2019 19:11
  
  ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — The Oakland Raiders released disgruntled star receiver Antonio Brown on Saturday before he ever played a game for the team.The Raiders made the move just hours after Brown requested his release in the latest turn in a dramatic first summer with the team.Brown was upset about his latest team fine over an outburst at practice at general manager Mike Mayock. That fine allowed the Raiders to void more than $29 million in guarantees over the next two years in Brown's cont
  
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• 1 in life-threatening condition, 1 taken to NCH due to crash on SR-315 southbound

  07-09-2019 18:15
  
  COLUMBUS – Columbus police are on the scene of a crash that injured multiple people.It happened Saturday morning just after 10:30 on the State Route 315 southbound ramp at North Broadway.Authorities told 10TV one person was taken to OhioHealth Riverside Hospital in life-threatening condition, one was taken to Nationwide Children’s Hospital and is expected to be OK, and a third person was taken to Grant Medical Center and is expected to be OK.The right lanes of 315 south are currently
  
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• CBUS Filmmaker Releasing Horror Anthology

  07-09-2019 18:00
  In time for the holiday shopping season—no, the other holiday shopping season—is a Halloween-ready anthology of horror short films collected by local filmmaker and film festival organizer Jason Tostevin. Hellarious, distributed by Film Spawn and available for pre-order now, contains seven shorts hand chosen by Tostevin, whose appreciation for short subject filmmaking has always impressed. […]
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• Fort Bragg soldier killed in Afghanistan, 4th US service member killed in past 2 weeks

  07-09-2019 17:40
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has identified the U.S. soldier who was killed Thursday by a car bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan.The Defense Department says Sgt. 1st Class Elis A. Barreto Ortiz, 34, from Morovis, Puerto Rico, was killed in action when the explosive device detonated near his vehicle.Ortiz was assigned to the 82nd Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.He was the fourth U.S. service member killed in the past two
  
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• Stranded North Carolinians take stock of Dorian's damage

  07-09-2019 16:50
  ATLANTIC BEACH, N.C. — As the sky cleared and floodwaters receded Saturday, residents of North Carolina's Outer Banks began to assess the damage wrought by Hurricane Dorian.Steve Harris has lived on Ocracoke Island for most of the last 19 years. He's ridden out eight hurricanes, but he said he'd never seen a storm bring such devastation to his community, which is accessible only by boat or air and is popular with tourists for its undeveloped beaches."We just thought it was gonna be a norma
  
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• New species of dinosaur discovered in Japan

  07-09-2019 16:39
  
  A new kind of dinosaur has been unearthed in Japan, and it's the largest dinosaur skeleton ever found in the country. Researchers believe the bones help to explain the origin and evolution of dinosaurs in the region. The dinosaur is a completely new genus and species of the plant-eating hadrosaur, which roamed the Earth in the late Cretaceous period, more than 65 million years ago. Its skeleton was discovered underneath 72-million-year-old marine deposits in the town of Mukawa, according to a st
  
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• I-71 Southbound lanes closed near Polaris Parkway; panhandler hit by vehicle

  07-09-2019 15:33
  
  COLUMBUS – Columbus Police are on the scene of a pedestrian struck on Interstate 71 southbound at Polaris Parkway.It happened Saturday morning just before 8:30, shutting down I-71 southbound between Gemini Place and I-270.Dispatchers told 10TV it was a panhandler that was struck by a vehicle. The panhandler was taken to OhioHealth Riverside Hospital in critical condition.Stay with 10TV and 10TV.com on this developing story.
  
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• Ohio State Highway Patrol investigating fatal crash in Marion

  07-09-2019 14:44
  
  MARION - The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash that happened Friday evening.It happened around 8:20 p.m. on Marseilles-Galion Road in Scott Township, according Ohio State Highway Patrol.Bonnie Davidson, 42, of Upper Arlington Sandusky, Ohio was traveling westbound on Marseilles-Galion Road.Davidson struck an embankment, a guardrail, and a bridge abutment, before ending up in a ditch off the north side of the road.Davidson was taken by First Consolidated EMS to Marion Gener
  
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• Skywatch: We'll get a Micromoon this week

  07-09-2019 12:00
  
  Saturn meets up with the moon on Sunday night. The two will pass close to each other in the southern sky after sunset. The Ringed Planet will be just to the right of a waxing gibbous moon. Neptune at Opposition
  Neptune reaches a milestone this week. The ice giant will reach opposition early Tuesday morning around 3 a.m. This is when Neptune is opposite of the sun in the sky as viewed from Earth. This is also when it’ll be at its brightest. Sadly you can’t see Neptune with the naked e
  
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• Dorian's floodwaters trap people in attics in North Carolina

  07-09-2019 02:25
  ATLANTIC BEACH, N.C. (AP) — A weakened Hurricane Dorian flooded homes on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday with a fury that took even storm-hardened residents by surprise, forcing people to climb into their attics. Hundreds were feared trapped by high water, and neighbors used boats to rescue one another.Medics and other rescuers rushed to Ocracoke Island — accessible only by boat or air — to reach those who made the mistake of defying mandatory evacuation orders along the
  
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• Authorities recover roller coaster stolen from Union County Fairgrounds; no arrests made

  07-09-2019 02:05
  
  The Union County Sheriff’s Office said a roller coaster that was reported stolen from the fairgrounds last week has been recovered Friday.According to authorities, a Go-Gator carnival roller coaster was taken from the Union County Fairgrounds at 845 N. Main Street on August 28.The coaster was on a purple and green trailer and has alligator-designed train cars, about 20 feet total length. The trailer has a rear license plate, 22-1246A, registered in Maine.In an update Friday, The sheriff's
  
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• Prosecutor: Teen accused of rape identified after sending Facebook friend request to victim

  07-09-2019 01:45
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — The teenager accused of attacking a mother pushing a stroller on a Columbus bike trail faced a judge on Friday.Desmond Thomas, 17, is charged with eight counts of rape, robbery and kidnapping.Prosecutors say, back on April 12, Thomas approached a mother pushing her baby in a stroller on the Camp Chase Rail Trail near Haldy Avenue.On the 911 call, the victim said he had a gun and stole her phone. She says he later returned, still holding the gun, and forced her off the trai
  
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• Teen indicted after rape of woman who was pushing child in stroller on Columbus bike trail

  07-09-2019 01:25
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — A teenager has been indicted on rape, robbery and kidnapping charges for a sexual assault that took place on a Columbus bike trail in April.On April 12, Desmond Thomas, who was 16 years old at the time, is accused of attacking a woman on the Camp Chase Rail Trail near Haldy Avenue in the Hilltop community.According to court documents, the police report and 911 calls, Thomas approached a woman, who was 34 at the time, with a gun. She was walking with her infant child in a s
  
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• Otterbein University football player killed in crash on I-270

  07-09-2019 00:45
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Otterbein University football player was killed in a crash in northeast Columbus Friday morning.The crash happened just before 6 a.m. Friday on Interstate 270 northbound at Morse Road near Easton.The university identified the victim as 21-year-old Nigel Chatman.Chatman, who was from Reynoldsburg, was a sophomore at Otterbein and a defensive lineman. He earned All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors last fall as a freshman.He was majoring in communication studies."We talk a lot ab
  
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• Good Samaritans help catch suspect who police say robbed elderly woman in Grove City

  07-09-2019 00:45
  GROVE CITY, Ohio — An 84-year-old woman was just outside the front doors at Walmart in Grove City when police say Michael Merritt walked up to her and tried to steal her purse.“We heard a scream and I looked up and I saw the old lady hit the ground,” said Mark Schwartz.Police say during the struggle, the woman was pushed to the ground and was injured.“It was horrible to see that little old lady bleeding like that. No elderly person should be treated like that,” said
  
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