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• General Motors considering $175 million Ohio engine plant

  14-09-2019 23:58
  
  DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — General Motors says it's considering a $175 million truck engine plant in Ohio that could employ more than 100 people.GM spokesman Dan Flores tells the Dayton Daily News the new plant could open late next year in the Dayton area. It would expand on work being done at the jointly owned GM-Isuzu DMAX plant in Moraine in suburban Dayton.Flores said a new plant and the DMAX facility would both produce diesel engines. He says the company needs more engine production volume.A
  
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• Dobbins, No. 6 Ohio State run over Indiana in 51-10 win

  14-09-2019 22:08
  BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — J.K. Dobbins ran for 193 yards and scored twice Saturday while Justin Fields threw three touchdown passes to lead No. 6 Ohio State to a 51-10 rout at Indiana.The Buckeyes (3-0, 1-0 Big Ten) have won each of their first three games by at least 24 points and extended their winning streak in the series to 24, dating to a tie in 1990. Ohio State hasn't lost to Indiana since 1988.And with Peyton Ramsey starting at quarterback in place of the injured Michael Penix Jr., t
  
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• Police: Ohio man caught going 131 mph in Lamborghini says he was trying to "show off"

  14-09-2019 19:55
  
  NEWBURGH HEIGHTS, Ohio (WKYC) — The community is well known for its infamous traffic cameras, but one guy wasn’t too keen on that.On Wednesday, Joshua Lines was clocked doing 131 miles per hour in a 60 mile per hour zone in Newburgh Heights. For what?“The man said that he was trying to show off,” Sgt. Sarah Bittner said.According to police, he wasn’t gunning it for the other drivers on the road. He was speeding for a special lady in his passenger seat.“It appe
  
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• Public safety alert issued by OSU Police after student robbed near campus

  14-09-2019 19:04
  
  COLUMBUS - The Ohio State University Police Division issued a public safety alert due to a crime that happened near campus.It happened Saturday around midnight near High Street and 12th Avenue.A male Ohio State student was approached by three males who forcibly stole his necklace before fleeing the area.No weapons were involved, and nobody was hurt.Anyone with information is asked to call Columbus police at 614-645-4545.
  
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• 'Send your prayers': Girl in medically-induced coma after contracting brain-eating amoeba infection

  14-09-2019 17:38
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas — A 10-year-old girl is now fighting to live at a hospital in Fort Worth after she contracted a brain-eating amoeba while swimming near her Central Texas home. Lily Mae Avant was flown to Cook Children's Medical Center on Tuesday after her family said she started to get a headache, had a fever and became incoherent. Avant is now in a medically-induced coma.Doctors said she contracted a Naegleria fowleri, a single-celled living organism commonly found in warm freshwater th
  
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• Ohio senators propose renaming NASA site for Neil Armstrong

  14-09-2019 16:47
  
  SANDSUKY, Ohio — Ohio's U.S. senators want Congress to rename a NASA research facility in northern Ohio after astronaut Neil Armstrong.Republican Rob Portman and Democrat Sherrod Brown introduced legislation Thursday to honor the Ohio native by renaming the NASA Plum Brook Station in Sandusky.Portman says he raised the idea with Armstrong in 2012, a year before Armstrong's death. The senator says Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, wasn't comfortable with the attention it would b
  
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• White House says bin Laden son killed in US operation

  14-09-2019 16:08
  
  WASHINGTON — The White House says Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaida leader who had become an increasingly prominent figure in the terrorist organization, has been killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.A White House statement gives no further details, such as when Hamza bin Laden was killed or how the United States confirmed his death.The statement says Hamza bin Laden's death "not only deprives al-Qaida of important leadership skills and
  
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• Google Earth leads to remains of missing Florida man in lake

  14-09-2019 14:48
  
  WELLINGTON, Fla. — It took 22 years, but a missing man's remains were finally found thanks to someone who zoomed in on his former Florida neighborhood with Google satellite images and noticed a car submerged in a lake, authorities said.The skeletal remains were of William Moldt, who went missing in 1997 at the age of 40, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.Sheriff's office spokeswoman Teri Barbera said on Thursday that a previous resident of the Grand Isles neighborhood in
  
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• Teen with vape-related lung illness sues e-cigarette maker Juul Labs

  14-09-2019 13:50
  
  A recently hospitalized Chicago teen is suing the makers of an e-cigarette he used as well as the place where he got it from, CBS Chicago reports. In a complaint filed on Friday, the civil suit names Juul Labs Inc., as well MFD Mobile, also known as The Gas Stop in Waukegan, for allegedly illegally selling nicotine-based products to 18-year-old Adam Hergenreder.According to the lawsuit, Mergenreder had been vaping for about a year and a half but was recently hospitalized for severe lung damage.O
  
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• Police officer helps move a 94-year-old stranger into his new home

  14-09-2019 13:42
  
  Fort Myers, Florida — A lot of police officers go above and beyond — playing basketball with kids, mowing grass for seniors — we see examples on the news all the time. But few officers have gone further out of their way than Sergeant Jeff Turney of the Glendale, Arizona police department.It started with a call to dispatch: "I have a 94-year-old father. He's loaded up a trailer and thinks he can drive his vehicle and the trailer to Florida. And I'd like to have somebody talk to
  
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• Woman arrested after throwing liquid on California Senate

  14-09-2019 13:30
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California police have arrested a woman who threw a feminine hygiene device containing "what appeared to be blood" onto the floor of the state Senate, splashing onto lawmakers and forcing them to finish their work in a committee room on the final day of the legislative session.Senators had just finished taking a vote about 5:14 p.m. Friday when a woman tossed the substance onto the floor of the Senate from the public gallery, saying: "That's for the dead babies."T
  
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• Medical marijuana advocates disagree with rejection of autism, anxiety as qualifying conditions

  14-09-2019 05:14
  HILLIARD, Ohio — Tim Johnson says he sees the need."Without a doubt," he said. "On a daily basis."He's behind Ohio Cannabis and Hemp Chamber of Commerce and Cannabis Safety First, which are organizations in favor of medical marijuana. The need he sees is with those struggling with high anxiety who could benefit from medical marijuana."Medication should be between a doctor and the patient and that should be handled within a doctor's office," Johnson said.Wednesday, the state Medical Board o
  
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• Doctor, church youth director among suspects arrested in trafficking, online child sex sting

  14-09-2019 03:39
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — More than 100 people have been arrested in a massive human trafficking and internet sex sting.The operation focused on three central Ohio counties: Franklin, Fairfield, and Delaware. Among those charged include a doctor and church youth director.Austin Kosier, a 31-year-old doctor, works in the emergency department at Genesis Healthcare System in Zanesville. He has been employed there since July 2018. Prior to that, he was an ER resident at OSU’s Wexner Medical Cente
  
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• Man dies at campground pond in Coshocton County

  14-09-2019 03:25
  
  COSHOCTON COUNTY, Ohio — A man is dead after he tried to swim across a pond in Coshocton County, according to the sheriff’s office.The Coshocton County Sheriff’s Office said it received a 911 call transfer from Tuscarawas County just before 2 p.m. on Friday.The caller said a friend, a man in his 20's, had been under water for about five minutes at Frogtown Campground.Deputies said another man tried to reach him but was not successful.Dive teams from three counties were called t
  
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• Severe Thuderstorm Warning issued for Morrow, Richland, Ashland County until 9:30 p.m.

  14-09-2019 02:47
  
  Doppler 10 Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Live Radar | Weather Warnings | Updated Forecast10TV Meteorologist Jeff Booth is tracking showers and storms moving through central Ohio tonight:8:44 p.m. Update: Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Ashland, Morrow, and Richland County until 9:30 p.m.___Friday evening weather: We’ll see a warm & muggy evening with the chance for showers and storms as we head towards and past sunset. First for the north then for the rest of the area. A few s
  
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• Doctor, youth pastor among suspects arrested in trafficking, online child sex sting

  14-09-2019 01:31
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — More than 100 people have been arrested in a massive human trafficking and internet sex sting.The operation focused on three central Ohio counties: Franklin, Fairfield, and Delaware. Among those charged include a doctor and youth pastor.Austin Kosier, a 31-year-old doctor, works in the emergency department at Genesis Healthcare System in Zanesville. He has been employed there since July 2018. Prior to that, he was an ER resident at OSU’s Wexner Medical Center.Now, th
  
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• Police: Woman missing from Kentucky may be in Columbus

  14-09-2019 00:28
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A woman reported missing from Louisville, Kentucky, may be in Columbus according to police.Louisville police said Sakeia Bates, 39, was reported to be in Columbus in August, possibly near Mount Carmel West Hospital.Columbus police said Bates has mental health issues and there is concern for her safety.If anyone has any information on where she may be, they are asked to call Columbus police at 614-645-4545.
  
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• 104 arrested in massive central Ohio trafficking, online child sex sting

  14-09-2019 00:25
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - More than 100 people have been arrested in a massive human trafficking and internet sex sting.Among those charged - a medical doctor and a church youth pastor.The operation focused on three central Ohio counties: Franklin, Fairfield, and Delaware.One by one, they were marched in front of a judge. Twenty-four men over three days.All accused of the same crimes: attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and importuning.Major Steven Tucker with the Franklin County Sheriff's Off
  
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