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1 In Custody After North Columbus Shooting

The U.S. Attorney General's Office says three people are in custody accused of holding a woman and her child captive for more than two ...
Delaware County Sheriff’s Office Adds Bloodhound To Force

The U.S. Attorney General's Office says three people are in custody accused of holding a woman and her child captive for more than two ...
Prosecutor 3 Ohioans enslaved disabled mom child

CLEVELAND (AP) -- A mentally disabled woman and her young child were enslaved for more than a year, sometimes denied food and threatened with a pet python and pit bulls, and the woman was beaten and forced to get pain medication for her captors, authorities said Tuesday in announcing federal charges against three ...
Expert Warns About Dangers Of Smoking Alcohol

It's called the latest smoking trend online.Only it involves alcohol rather than cigarettes tobacco. Those who smoke alcohol claim they can get a quick alcohol buzz without the calories.The Internet is filled with people who claim they’ve invented a way to smoke alcohol vapors and get drunk without every taking a sip.But the head of the Central Ohio Poison Center at Nationwide ...
3 Indicted In Knox County For Alleged Sex Crimes Involving Children

Leo Jones, 42, of Mount Vernon, Anthony Ferrito, 44, of Chagrin Falls, and Stephen Randrup, 34, of Mount Vernon, were indicted on Tuesday. Jones allegedly sent text messages to a 12-year-old boy asking the boy to engage in sex acts with him. Jones also allegedly photographed his genitals and sent them to the boy. Ferrito allegedly traveled from Chagrin Falls to Mount Vernon on June 4 ...

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It's a Wonderful Life [DVD]

Since falling into the public domain and being used by PBS stations as December counter-programming during the 1970s, Frank Capras Its a Wonderful Life, which was a dud in theaters when first released in 1946 and confined to obscurity for years, has become a Christm ... ...

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Court Upholds Juvenile Sex Offender Provision

An Ohio appeals court has upheld a provision that allows some minors convicted of sex offenses to be required to register as sex offenders beyond their 21st birthday. The ruling stems from the appeal of a 16-year-old Cincinnati boy convicted of a sex charge, with a sentence requiring him to register as a sex offender until he's at least 24 years old. The teen's attorneys had argued the ...
Scattered Showers Expected Tuesday Evening

Your Doppler 10 ForecastThis Evening: Scattered showers and storms mainly south of I-70.Tonight: Showers south, otherwise partly cloudy. Low 55.Tomorrow: Sunny and less humid. High 78.Thursday: Sunny and pleasant. High 81.Special Information: Scattered showers and thunderstorms mainly south of Columbus this evening. Then skies turn cloudy later tonight. Tomorrow will be partly sunny and less ...
Pickerington Babysitter Accused Of Leaving Toddler In Car While Tanning Pleads Not Guilty

The U.S. Attorney General's Office says three people are in custody accused of holding a woman and her child captive for more than two ...
Two more plead guilty in federal probe of Pilot Flying J

Two more employees of the truck stop chain owned by the family of Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam have pleaded guilty in a federal probe of the company's business practices. Pilot Flying J regional sales managers Kevin Wallace Clark and Jay Stinnett pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, according to Knoxville NBC ...
3 charged in Ohio with enslaving mother daughter

Federal agents and Ashland police said Tuesday that the trio forced the woman to do housework, threatened her and the girl with violence and fed their pets better than the mother and ...

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TCS holds camp in US for science, maths students

India's leading IT services, Tata Consultancy Services, held its goIT summer camp programme in the Cincinnati area exposing students to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related career paths.

The fifth annual three-day camp providing hands on activities and projects that increase exposure to industry specific technologies, culminated with a competition at TCS' largest North American software delivery centre in Milford, Ohio.

Free for all students, the TCS goIT programme provides in-school IT career awareness workshops and hands-on technology education, according to a media release.

Since its inception, the programme has reached more than 7,000 students across 35 school districts in Ohio and Michigan.

"We believe that TCS is uniquely positioned to use its core IT competencies and technology leadership to address the STEM education issue," said Amar Naga, director of operations, TCS.

"The innovative goIT programme is an outstanding investment by TCS in young Ohioans," said Mark Patton, JobsOhio Managing Director for Information Technology.

By 2018, research shows that STEM occupations are projected to grow by 17 percent, with 71 percent of STEM jobs focused on computing including cloud, data, app and security. ...