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14.05.2021 / 21:11

Andre Hill shooting: Columbus reaches $10M settlement for family of Black man killed by police

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio’s capital city will pay a $10 million settlement for the family of Andre Hill, a Black man who was fatally shot by a white Columbus police officer in December as he emerged from a garage holding a cellphone, the Columbus city attorney announced Friday.It's the largest such settlement in city history.Hill, 47, was fatally shot by officer Adam Coy on Dec. 22 as Hill emerged from a garage holding up a cellphone.

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EXPLAINER: Ohio offers $1M weekly prize as vaccine incentive

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has made many newsworthy statements in his long political career, but perhaps none has generated such an immediate and intense response as announcing a weekly $1 million prize and full-ride college scholarships to entice more Ohioans to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Ohio to award $1M each to five adults who received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Five lucky Ohioans have a chance to win one million dollars if they’ve received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.Governor Mike DeWine said the lottery drawing will be held each Wednesday for five weeks starting on May 26."I know that some may say, ‘DeWine, you’re crazy! This million-dollar drawing idea of yours is a waste of money’," the governor posted on Twitter.

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Victoria's Secret to be spun off a year after sale collapsed

A year after an agreement to sell Victoria’s Secret fell apart as the pandemic emptied malls nationwide, the chain will be spun off by its owner to become a separate company.

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Tortorella out after 6 years as Columbus Blue Jackets coach

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Columbus Blue Jackets have mutually agreed to part ways with John Tortorella, the franchise’s winningest coach, following a six-year tenure, the team announced Sunday.

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On social media, memories pop up from a pandemic still going

COLUMBUS, Ohio – When the pandemic passed the one-year mark, Lisa Phillips wasn't exactly eager to walk down memory lane. She had developed symptoms and quarantined with a suspected case of COVID-19 last spring, lost her mother to the disease in July and been hospitalized in November from what she describes as a nervous breakdown fueled by grief and isolation.

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States push back against use of facial recognition by police

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. have used facial recognition technology to solve homicides and bust human traffickers, but concern about its accuracy and the growing pervasiveness of video surveillance is leading some state lawmakers to hit the pause button.

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Records: Ma'Khia Bryant's sister sought help before shooting

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The younger sister of 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant called 911 a few weeks before Bryant's fatal shooting by a Columbus police officer, saying the girls had been in a fight with each other and she wanted to leave their foster home, records show.

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Ma'Khia Bryant: Family attorney calls for federal investigation into teen's police shooting death

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - There should be a federal investigation into the fatal shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant by a Columbus police officer, along with a probe into the handling of Bryant’s foster care placement, a lawyer representing the teen's family said Wednesday.Attorney Michelle Martin wouldn't discuss details of why Bryant was in foster care, but said she was there too long.Bryant "was a 16-year-old vibrant, bubbly girl, whose life was cut short by many of our failing systems," Martin told reporters Wednesday.

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Six people killed at hands of U.S. police within 24 hours of George Floyd verdict

the Derek Chauvin case was fresh in memory — the reading of the verdict in a Minneapolis courtroom, the shackling of the former police officer, the jubilation at what many saw as justice in the death of George Floyd — even then, blood flowed on America’s streets.And even then, some of that blood was shed at the hands of law enforcement.At least six people were fatally shot by officers across the United States in the 24 hours after jurors reached a verdict in the murder case against Chauvin on Tuesday.A 16-year-old girl in Columbus, Ohio.An oft-arrested man in Escondido, California.A 42-year-old man in eastern North Carolina.The deaths, in some cases, sparked new cries for justice.

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1 verdict, then 6 police killings across America in 24 hours

Even as the Derek Chauvin case was fresh in memory — the reading of the verdict in a Minneapolis courtroom, the shackling of the former police officer, the jubilation at what many saw as justice in the death of George Floyd — even then, blood flowed on America’s streets.

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35 minutes of chaos colored fatal shooting of Ma'Khia Bryant

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A chaotic 911 call. An officer’s nearly nine-minute, non-emergency response without lights or sirens. A convulsive 11 seconds of violence ending in the death of an Ohio teen. A historic verdict being broadcast in the police cruiser.

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Lakers star LeBron James tweets, deletes call for police 'accountability' in Columbus teen's shooting death

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James is making headlines off the court for his post on social media about the Columbus, Ohio shooting that killed a Black teenager.On Tuesday, police in Columbus released body camera video that showed one of the responding officers opening fire at Ma'Khia Bryant, a Black teenager, killing her. Police shot and killed a teenage girl Tuesday afternoon in Columbus just as the verdict was being announced in the trial for the killing of George Floyd.In the video, the girl appears to try to stab two people with a knife before she was gunned down by the officer.PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Columbus police release body camera video of shooting that killed 15-year-old Black girlHours after police released the

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Black teen girl shot and killed by police in Columbus, Ohio: officials

Just hours before the verdict was read in the Derek Chauvin trial, a Black teenager in Columbus, Ohio was shot and killed by police responding to a call of a person with a knife. In body cam video released by police, a girl can be seen charging at another girl while holding a knife.

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Columbus police release bodycam video of officer fatally shooting 15-year-old girl who appears to hold knife

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Columbus Police Department released body camera footage Tuesday night that showed an officer fatally shooting Ma’Kiyah Bryant, a 15-year-old girl who appeared to be attacking two other people with a knife.The shooting happened after officers had received a report of an attempted stabbing.The footage began with an unidentified officer’s arrival at the scene and appears to show Bryant chasing another person, who fell to the ground trying to get away.RELATED: Columbus, Ohio police shooting: Family says 15-year-old girl killedThe video then appears to show Bryant go after another person who was pinned against a car.

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Columbus police fatally shoots Black teen swinging knife

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The fatal shooting of a knife-wielding Black teenage girl by police in Columbus, Ohio, came within minutes of the verdict in George Floyd’s killing — causing outrage by some in the community over the continued police use of lethal force.

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Teenage Black girl shot and killed by police in Columbus, Ohio: officials

Columbus police shot and killed a teenage girl who swung at two other people with a knife Tuesday, according to bodycam footage from the officer who fired the shots just minutes before the verdict in George Floyd’s killing was read.Officials with the Columbus Division of Police showed a segment of the footage Tuesday night just hours after the shooting took place in a neighbourhood on the city’s east side.

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Columbus police show video of officer fatally shooting girl

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Police shot and killed a teenage girl Tuesday afternoon in Columbus just as the verdict was being announced in the trial for the killing of George Floyd.

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Columbus, Ohio police shooting: Family says 15-year-old girl killed

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Authorities are investigating an officer-involved shooting that left a "young woman" dead, according to Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther.According to local news station FOX 28, family members identified the victim as a 15-year-old girl but her name continues to be withheld by officials. Earlier in the day, Ginther confirmed the shooting, describing the victim as a "young woman.""This afternoon a young woman tragically lost her life.

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Police department investigating after helicopter pilot is accused of 'joyriding'

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Columbus, Ohio, police department is investigating after complaints about its helicopter pilot's use of flight time. A tracking website shows that the pilot spelled out "CPD" during a recent midnight flight over the city."We were told over and over again how essential every second of airtime was," said Columbus City Council Member Rob Dorans. "This joyride was just plain dumb and a waste of taxpayer dollars."In a statement, Columbus Police said that "leadership became aware of negative online comments about a helicopter patrol flight conducted early this morning.

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Ohio State quarterback derby to remain unsettled until fall

COLUMBUS, Ohio – With spring practice in the books, Ohio State's quarterback derby will carry over into fall workouts.

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Protesters storm Columbus PD headquarters after Black man shot dead by police at hospital

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A crowd breached the locked doors of the Columbus Police Department’s headquarters Tuesday night, there to protest the deadly police shooting of a Black man named Miles Jackson at a hospital earlier this week.Authorities posted on social media that protesters forced their way through locked doors at police headquarters. The video they shared showed one protester hitting an officer with a club as police tried to stop the crowd from getting further into the building. Police say the suspected protester is 20-year-old Hunter Mattin, who was arrested and faces an aggravated battery charge.

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Court delays execution of inmate who slipped through cracks

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday delayed the execution of a convicted killer whose case federal public defenders said slipped through the cracks of the legal system.

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Celebrity zookeeper Jack Hanna diagnosed with dementia

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Celebrity zookeeper and animal TV show host Jack Hanna has been diagnosed with dementia and will retire from public life, his family said.

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Ohio State's Liddell speaks out about social-media abuse

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State star E.J. Liddell says he'll continue speaking out against social-media users who direct racist, abusive and threatening messages at him and other athletes.

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Biden announces extension of deadline to sign up for Affordable Care Act coverage on law’s 11th anniversary

COLUMBUS, Ohio - On Tuesday, President Joe Biden showcased health insurance cost cuts in a speech in Ohio marking 11 years since the Affordable Care Act became law.Speaking at the James Cancer Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, Biden celebrated the 11th anniversary of the adoption of the health care legislation, announcing that his administration is extending the deadline for Americans to sign up for coverage to Aug. 15. "Our government can fulfill its most essential purpose to care for and protect the American people," Biden said. Biden's COVID-19 relief law pumps up "Obamacare" premium subsidies to address longstanding problems of affordability, particularly for people with solid middle-class incomes.

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Town holds parade for 5-year-old boy who completed 3 years of chemotherapy

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A 5-year-old boy was treated to a parade in his town after completing three years of chemotherapy treatments.Aiden Fulton was diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia when he was 2 years old in 2017."He has been on chemotherapy and in active treatments since that first day he was diagnosed," his mother, Katherine, said to Storyful. "1,174 days of chemo, steroids, blood draws, and procedures!"Katherine said the parade was a surprise for her son organized by No Kids Fight Cancer Alone, or NC4K, a local nonprofit that works with families affected by pediatric cancer. She said other organizations also contributed to the celebration.

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Dosunmu's return powers No. 4 Illinois over No. 7 Ohio State

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ayo Dosunmu returned after missing three games with a concussion and facial injuries to score 19 points, and No. 4 Illinois rallied to beat No. 7 Ohio State 73-68.

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Garza, Weiskamp lead No. 9 Iowa over No. 4 Ohio State 73-57

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Luka Garza had 24 points and 11 rebounds as No. 9 Iowa bounced back from a midweek loss to take down No. 4 Ohio State 73-57 on Sunday.

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Fraud overwhelms pandemic-related unemployment programs

COLUMBUS, Ohio – With the floodgates set to open on another round of unemployment aid, states are being hammered with a new wave of fraud as they scramble to update security systems and block scammers who already have siphoned billions of dollars from pandemic-related jobless programs.

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Some GOP state lawmakers help spread COVID-19 misinformation

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Many Republican lawmakers have criticized governors’ emergency restrictions since the start of the coronavirus outbreak. Now that most legislatures are back in session, a new type of pushback is taking root: misinformation.

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What's in an adjective? 'Democrat Party' label on the rise

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Two days before the assault on the U.S. Capitol, Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano, a Republican, said supporters of then-President Donald Trump's claims of election fraud were basically in a “death match with the Democrat Party.”

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Officer dies after searching for teens who fell through ice at Ohio lake; 1 girl also dies

Officer Jason Lagore served ODNR for 15 years and was in charge of the department’s first K-9 academy. (Source: Ohio Department of Natural Resources) COLUMBUS, Ohio - A 13-year-old boy is the lone survivor of an incident that claimed two lives at Rocky Fork State Park Tuesday evening.Around 6:30 p.m., authorities learned of two teenagers who had fallen through the ice and into the frigid waters near the North Shore boat docks.Officials said the boy managed to get out of the water, but divers had to pull the 16-year-old girl out.

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Dickinson's 22 lifts No. 3 Michigan over No. 4 Ohio St 92-87

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Hunter Dickinson had 22 points and nine rebounds and Eli Brooks scored 17 as No. 3 Michigan held off a late flurry to beat No. 4 Ohio State 92-87 Sunday.

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GOP's Josh Mandel joins race for open Senate seat in Ohio

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Republican Josh Mandel, a Marine veteran and former state treasurer, says he will make a third run for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, taking a pro-Trump message in a bid for the seat being vacated by the GOP’s Rob Portman.

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Ohio officer who fatally shot Andre Hill to plead not guilty

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The white Ohio police officer charged with murder in the December shooting death of Andre Hill, a Black man, is set to appear virtually Friday in court, where his attorney says he will plead not guilty.

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Dr. Amy Acton leaves nonprofit to explore run for US Senate

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Dr. Amy Acton, the former state health director who became the face of Ohio's early pandemic response, is stepping down from her nonprofit position to “carefully explore” running as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate, she said Thursday.

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Ohio police officer charged with murder in shooting death of Andre Hill

COLUMBUS, Ohio. - A white Ohio police officer was indicted Wednesday on a murder charge in the latest fallout following the December shooting death of 47-year-old Andre Hill, a Black man, the state's attorney general said.Columbus Police Officer Adam Coy was indicted by a Franklin County grand jury following an investigation by the Ohio Attorney General's office. The charges faced by Coy, a 19-year veteran of the force, also include dereliction of duty for failure to use his body camera and for failing to tell the other officer he believed Hill presented a danger."In this case, the citizens of Franklin County, represented by the individual grand jurors, found probable cause to believe that Mr.

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Activists: Next Columbus police chief must be an outsider

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The next police chief of Columbus must come from outside the agency and through a national search, community activists critical of policing in Ohio's largest city insisted Friday.

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Hours after Dubois trade, Blue Jackets beat Lightning 5-2

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Hours after trading disgruntled center Pierre-Luc Dubois, the Columbus Blue Jackets got three first-period goals and beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-2 Saturday.Nick Foligno, Mikhail Grigorenko, Vladislav Gavrikov, Zach Werenski and Eric Robinson scored, and Elvis Merzlikins had 30 saves as the Blue Jackets played their most explosive game of the season.

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Florida woman dies after head gets stuck between car, payment kiosk

MIAMI – A graduate student from South Florida died this week in a horrific accident inside a parking garage in Columbus, Ohio, authorities said.According to the Columbus Police Department, the incident occurred shortly after 11:30 p.m. Monday.

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Legislator who questioned Black hygiene to lead health panel

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Republican lawmaker and doctor who questioned whether members of “the colored population” were disproportionately contracting the coronavirus because of their hygiene is drawing new criticism from Black lawmakers after his appointment to lead the state Senate Health Committee.“Could it just be that African Americans – or the colored population — do not wash their hands as well as other groups? Or wear masks? Or do not socially distance themselves?” state Sen. Stephen Huffman asked a Black health expert in June 11 testimony.

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Ohio governor signs bill requiring fetal abortion remains to be buried or cremated

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine speaks to mourners at a memorial service in the Oregon District held to recognize the victims of an early-morning mass shooting in the popular nightspot on Aug.

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Inmate who survived execution attempt dies; COVID suspected

COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio death row inmate who survived an attempt to execute him by lethal injection in 2009 died Monday of possible complications of COVID-19, the state prisons system said.At the time of the 2009 procedure, condemned prisoner Romell Broom was only the second inmate nationally to survive an execution after they began in modern times.Broom, 64, has been placed on the “COVID probable list” maintained by the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, spokesperson Sara French said Tuesday. Inmates on that list are suspected to have died of COVID-19, pending a death certificate, she said.

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Ohio judge pulled from cases over coronavirus concerns

COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio judge who failed to adopt written rules for mask wearing and other coronavirus prevention measures has been removed from two cases by the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.

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Clemson and Ohio State get CFP rematch in Sugar Bowl

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Shortened schedule and all, Ohio State is headed back to the College Football Playoff and a familiar foe will be waiting.Despite playing just six games because of a COVID-19 issues, the third-ranked Buckeyes were picked as the No. 3 seed by the CFP and will face No.

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Google glitch, snowstorm bring virtual learning frustrations

COLUMBUS, Ohio – It wasn't the weather that delayed school this week, at least not the first time.Students in the Northeast might be giddily anticipating a storm that the National Weather Service says could drop a foot or more of snow across the region Wednesday and Thursday.The glitch that came Monday, though, wasn't in the forecast.“Google is down across the globe, which is the COVID version of a snow day,” Superintendent Joe Clark tweeted to followers from his Nordonia Hills City School District in northern Ohio. “Until it’s back up, Nordonia students, read some books, play outside, and help your parents around the house.”All-virtual learning — in use by many U.S.

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5 years and counting: Ex-treasure hunter still stuck in jail

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A former deep-sea treasure hunter is about to mark his fifth year in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of 500 missing coins made from gold found in an historic shipwreck.Research scientist Tommy Thompson isn't incarcerated for breaking the law. Instead, he's being held in contempt of court for an unusually long stretch — well past the normal maximum limit of an 18-month internment in cases of witnesses refusing to cooperate.[TRENDING: First doses of vaccine sent across US | OK if drivers can’t see out rear window? | Pilot killed in Fla. gyroscope crash]But nothing is usual about Thompson's case, which dates to his discovery of the S.S.

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