Friday, November 27, 2015

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  • Police: 4 officers injured in Colorado shooting

    Police: 4 officers injured in Colorado shooting
    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A gunman opened fire at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday, wounding multiple people and engaging in gun battles with police as patients and staff members ducked behind tables to hide and keep away from the crossfire.At least nine people were taken to hospitals amid the shooting that spanned several hours.Three officers were injured while responding to the initial report of shots fired at the clinic before noon, authorities said. More than two ..
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  • Ohio drivers enjoy some of lowest gas prices in nation

    One of the best deals this Black Friday is on gasoline.The price of regular unleaded dropped to below $1.70 at some central Ohio locations and the average price is the lowest since 2008.“Believe me, the rest of the country is envious of the prices you’re seeing right now,” said Gregg Laskoski, an analyst for GasBuddy.com.The region’s average on Friday was $1.87, down a penny from the day before, according to AAA. This isn’t the low for the year, however. That was on Monday, when the price d..
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  • Excitement growing in Columbus before The Game | NBC4i

    Excitement growing in Columbus before The Game | NBC4i
    COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Anticipation is growing in Columbus for Saturday’s Ohio State v. Michigan game. The team and the band had final practices Friday before hitting the road and despite that disappointing loss last week to Michigan State, there’s a lot of excitement.The Ohio State Football team pulled out of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center around 3 p.m. The band left just a few hours before that. It’s only 160 miles to the Big House in Ann Arbor and for some it’s the final trip.“How can you n..
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  • Missing: 75-year-old woman from east Columbus area | News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | WSYX

    Missing: 75-year-old woman from east Columbus area | News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | WSYX
    ©WSYX | Portions are ©Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or distributed.WSYX ABC 6 is On Your Side, providing local news, first warning weather forecasts and alerts, traffic updates, consumer advocacy, and the latest information about sports, politics, law enforcement, community events, government waste, and much more, including ABC network news and entertainment programming. WSYX proudly serves Columbus and nearby towns and communiti..
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  • Black Friday's allure blunted by Thanksgiving deals

    Thanksgiving stole the thunder from Black Friday this year as retailer after retailer saw shoppers stop in after a turkey dinner to pick up bargains or shop from the comfort of grandma’s couch.Shoppers who did head out early on Black Friday found relatively little competition locally compared with previous years.The appeal of Black Friday “has been diluted by sales that take place earlier in the week, plus online shopping,” said retail analyst Chris Boring, principal at Boulevard Strategies..
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  • Online sales surge past brick-and-mortar retailers' big day

    Online sales surge past brick-and-mortar retailers' big day
    U.S. e-commerce sales surged on Thanksgiving, raising questions about how many shoppers will show up for brick-and-mortar promotions on Black Friday, the traditional kickoff to the holiday season.By 5 p.m. in New York on Thursday, $1.1 billion was spent online, according to Adobe Systems Inc. The full day was expected to total $1.7 billion, a 22 percent jump from the same period a year ago, the company said. Toy demand, especially for Star Wars products, helped drive the increase.The online..
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  • Documents: White House fence jumper left suicide note

    Documents: White House fence jumper left suicide note
    WASHINGTON (AP) - A man accused of jumping the White House fence while draped in an American flag left a suicide note with friends and a will with his mother, telling her she may never see him again, court documents show.Joseph Caputo, 22, of Stamford, Connecticut, was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation on Friday, a day after authorities said he scaled the fence while President Barack Obama was celebrating Thanksgiving with his family, prompting a lockdown.Caputo is charged wit..
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  • OSU-Michigan weather chilly, but it's not the Snow Bowl

    COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH)–Our mild November pattern leading up to the Ohio State-Michigan game is a far cry from what players, coaches, fan and the field crews had to contend with on Saturday, November 25, 1950, in Columbus.Mary Lou Nack, 85 years old and a current resident at Westminster Thurber Community, remembers what field conditions were like at the infamous Snow Bowl played here 65 years ago this weekend.  Remarkably, a little more than 50,000 of the hardiest fans braved wind-whipped snow and..
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  • Kids making oral history with StoryCorps holiday project

    Kids making oral history with StoryCorps holiday project
    High school students across the country are making oral history this week by recording interviews with their elders in an unprecedented effort to stockpile wisdom for the ages.The Great Thanksgiving Listen was conceived by leaders of the nonprofit oral history project StoryCorps. They're encouraging kids to send their audio recordings to a Library of Congress archive, using a free smartphone app available online at StoryCorps.me.StoryCorps president and found Dave Isay hoped to double, in o..
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  • Strikes on IS city, focus of international campaign, kill 8

    Strikes on IS city, focus of international campaign, kill 8
    BEIRUT (AP) — A new wave of airstrikes targeting the Syrian city of Raqqa, the headquarters of the extremist Islamic State group and the focus of an international military campaign, killed at least eight people, including five children, Syrian opposition groups said Friday.The strikes came as France's foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, declared that destroying the IS headquarters and "neutralizing and eradicating" the extremist group is the main objective of the international campaign.It was..
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