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Wooden beam could be detached part of shipwreck
FAIRPORT, Mich. -; Archaeologists say a wooden beam found embedded in the floor of Lake Michigan wasn't attached to a larger vessel, but that it could be a detached piece of wreckage from a ship that disappeared while exploring the Great Lakes in the 17th ...
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1 Dead After Semi Car Collide In Madison County
State Route 29, between U.S. Route 42 and Interstate 70 in Madison County, was closed Wednesday afternoon because of a crash involving a car and a semi.The crash also closed the ramp from I-70 west to S.R. 29.According to Ohio State Highway Patrol officials, the crash occurred shortly before noon. The name of the person who was killed in the crash was not immediately released.It was unknown if ...
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Serena Williams Says She Is Sorry After Steubenville Rape Case Comments
Serena Williams says she's reaching out to the family of the victim in the Steubenville rape case after the tennis star was quoted in a Rolling Stone article saying "she shouldn't have put herself in that position." In a statement released through her agent Wednesday, Williams says: "What was written - what I supposedly said - is insensitive and hurtful, and I by no ...
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Crews Search Indian Lake After Report Of Possible Drowning
The Logan County Sheriff’s Office was on scene at Indian Lake on Wednesday afternoon after a man reportedly fell overboard.According to the sheriff’s office, a man was reported to be in the water at about 12:21 p.m. Crews launched boats to try to find the man after the report of the possible drowning.The Ohio State Highway Patrol also was on scene helping with the water rescue ...
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Ariel Castro gets August trial date in Ohio kidnap case
A man accused of kidnapping three women and holding them in his home and raping them over a decade was given a late summer trial date Wednesday. Ariel Castro, 52, appeared in court for a brief hearing as Judge Michael Russo said he was aiming to begin the trial by Aug. 4, meeting a 90-day speedy trial requirement. Castro was arrested May 6, and the speedy trial requirement could be waived to ...
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Police Investigating Man Found Dead Inside Southeast Columbus Home
Police say a man was found dead by his roommate early Wednesday morning.According to police, the man was found dead around 6 a.m. in his home in the 900 block of Carpenter Street in southeast Columbus.Police are calling the man’s death suspicious.Detectives said the man did have some apparent injuries, though.Police said that neighbors told them that the man was known to fall down a lot ...
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Details Emerge About Large Hilliard-Area Heroin Bust
The Drug Enforcement Administration now says that 16 people were arrested and more than 11 kilos of heroin were found at two condos near Hilliard earlier this month.Columbus SWAT, Franklin County Sheriff’s deputies and DEA officers raided more than eight locations in Columbus, Grove City and Hilliard as part of a year-long investigation into heroin trafficking.Agents raided the two condos ...
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Accused Cleveland kidnapper utters few words in court
Ariel Castro, who is accused of keeping three women captive for a decade in his Cleveland home, appeared before Judge Michael J. Russo for a pre-trial ...
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Prosecutors plan more charges against accused Cleveland kidnapper
Cleveland women held captive 'like they were POWs' CLEVELAND - Prosecutors want to bring additional charges as soon as possible against a former Cleveland school-bus driver accused of holding three women captive in his home and torturing them for a decade, authorities said on Wednesday. Ariel Castro, 52, has pleaded not guilty to more than 300 charges against him including rape and ...
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Ky. museum to bid on historical papers
OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) -- A western Kentucky museum is raising money in an effort to purchase the personal papers of two community pioneers that have a link to a famous ...
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EPA official Ohio fracking study wont be done until 2016
A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official said a study of the threat to drinking water from the shale-drilling process won't be completed until 2016. Jeanne Briskin, coordinator of hydraulic fracturing research at the EPA's Office of Research and Development, spoke Tuesday at a conference in Cleveland. The Akron Beacon Journal reports that Briskin said the EPA could release a ...
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Columbus Bomb Squad Responds To Hocking County Plant Where Box With Threat Was Found
A Hocking County Plant was evacuated Wednesday morning after a threat was found.According to the Hocking County Sheriff’s Office, officials were responding to the threat at the Rocky Boots Warehouse, located on state Route 595 and Rocky Boots Way.Columbus Bomb Squad officials were on scene in addition to the sheriff’s office and fire officials. The Logan Daily News reported that the ...
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Authorities Search For Alleged Copper Thief With History Of Public Indecency
A man with three warrants out for his arrest is this week’s "fugitive of the week" out of the Columbus City Attorney’s Office.According to the attorney’s office, Tommy Allen Craft is wanted for violating his probation on assault and domestic violence charges and a separate public indecency conviction.He also is wanted for failing to appear in court to answer theft ...
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Stolen City Van Overturns Closing I-70 East Near Brice Road
Police shut down Interstate 70 eastbound on the east side Wednesday morning because of a rollover crash. According to 10TV News crews on the scene, a van with a City of Columbus license plate that read Columbus Water Operations overturned on the highway at about 10 a.m. Police confirmed that the city vehicle was stolen and then crashed. The vehicle was stolen from a "station," but ...
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Woman And Child Used As Slaves In Ohio
A mentally disabled woman and her child were allegedly kept as slaves by three people who threatened them with snakes and a pit bull dog. The woman and child, who the Federal Bureau of Investigation have not named, were held for many months in a basement in Ashland, Ohio. Ashland is just 60 miles south of Cleveland, where three missing women who had themselves allegedly been held captive ...
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Stepped-up patrols at OH complex after rape report
FAIRBORN, Ohio (AP) -- Southwest Ohio authorities are stepping up security in the area of an apartment complex with student residents, following a reported ...
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Court to hear fee debate in Cleveland killings
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The Ohio Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to decide a debate over fees paid to attorneys of a Cleveland man who killed 11 ...
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Man accused of kidnapping Cleveland women to face more charges
1 of 2. Ariel Castro (R), 52, enters the court room for a pre-trial hearing on charges including rape, kidnapping and murder in Cleveland, Ohio June 19, ...
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Trial date set for Cleveland man accused of imprisoning 3 women
A tentative Aug. 4 trial date has been set for an Ohio man accused of kidnapping three women and holding them in his home for about a decade. Ariel Castro, with his wrists and ankles shackled, appeared in court in Cleveland for a brief hearing Wednesday. As in previous court appearances, he kept his chin tucked in his chest. He answered "yes" and "no" to the judge's ...
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Judge sets Aug. trial date for Ohio kidnapping suspect
A tentative Aug. 4 trial date has been set for an Ohio man accused of kidnapping three women and holding them in his home for about a decade. Ariel Castro, with his wrists and ankles shackled, appeared in court in Cleveland for a brief hearing Wednesday. As in previous court appearances, he kept his chin tucked in his chest. He answered "yes" and "no" to the judge's ...
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Watch Disabled Mom Child Allegedly Held Captive in Ohio Home
Another chilling case of kidnapping an extended captivity have its surface in Ohio this is south of Cleveland in what's being described as a modern day slavery. Three people facing federal ...
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Ohio woman says 3 held her and daughter as slaves
Lil Wayne says he wasn't intentionally stepping on the American flag when shooting his latest video. In the video for the song "God Bless Amerika," he appears to be stepping on top of the American flag. But he said in a Facebook post Tuesday the flag on the ground will not appear in the ...
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Anti-Abortion Group In Ohio Is Fundraising By Selling Assault Rifles
Personhood Ohio , a far-right group attempting to outlaw all abortions by defining life as beginning at conception, is still attempting to get a ...
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Teen girls say doctor abused them at Ohio home
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- Two teenage girls have testified in court about alleged sexual abuse at the hands of a former Dayton emergency room physician during sleepovers at the family's ...
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Alcatraz escapees sister returns to robbery scene
After multiple escape attempts, two of them, J.W. and Clarence, eventually landed at the maximum-security prison on Alcatraz Island in northern ...
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Ohio farmers seem set to cash-in on wheat price increase
A series of natural disasters and droughts have pushed the world’s wheat price upwards, in the US and particularly Ohio our food security is sound, but the state may need to play a part in supplying the world with wheat in the coming months or even years.
Ohio farmers will begin planting their winter wheat around October time for harvest in the spring, but they will in all likelihood need to plant more in order to meet the global demand that has spiraled on the back of a bad year for natural disasters that have out global wheat production down by an estimated 4%. Read more
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