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Ariel Castro Cleveland Kidnapping Suspect May Receive Additional Charges
Ariel Castro, who is accused of holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for nearly a decade, may receive charges in addition to 300-plus he pleaded not guilty to earlier this ...
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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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Grand Illusion (La grande illusion)
Digitally restored for its 75th anniversary theatrical re-release, Jean Renoirs masterpiece Grand Illusion (Le grand illusion) remains a monumental humanist work that does what all great works do: It transcends the specifics of its time and place and speaks to us in a ... ...
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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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