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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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In the Heat of the Night [DVD]

In the Heat of the Night [DVD]

Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the Night was released in 1967, the height of the Civil Rights movement and one of the most violent years in modern American history (between 1967 and 1968, there were 384 riots in 298 different cities, including the most infamous in Detroit and Newark). As the film is both a mystery-detective story and a socially conscious exploration of the relations b ... ...

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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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