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Springfield's Jonathan Winters sports the Wildcat blue at his home in Montecito, Calif. Photo by Michael Moriatis, special to the News-Sun

Springfield legend Winters dies at 87

Jonathan Winters, the Springfield-raised comic genius who once told his wife he’d come back to Ohio and sell farm equipment if his comedy career in New York didn’t pan out, has died. Winters, 87, died Thursday evening of natural causes at his home in Montecito, Calif., long-time family friend Joe ...

“He was an effortless writer,” said Mike O’Connor, a Pulse-Journal consulting editor, of Pete Conrad. “He was never a show-off, never a hot dog. His work was as unassuming as he was.”

Pete Conrad, long-time sports journalist, dies at 56

Pete Conrad will be remembered as a “gentle giant,” a kind, softspoken man and a journalist who always gave everyone a fair shake. Conrad, editor of The Oxford Press and longtime Miami University sports reporter, died March 4 at University Hospital in Cincinnati. Born March 22, 1956, in Hamilton, Conrad ...

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BOYS BASKETBALL Saturday’s Results Carlisle 70, TC North 45 Cin. Christian 77, Miami Valley Chr. 60 Dayton Christian 66, Badin 52 Hamilton 48, Milford 35 Little Miami 41, Edgewood 33 Madison 65, Midd. Christian 37 Northwest 64, Talawanda 58 Ross 65, Mt. Healthy 59 Winton Woods 75, Middletown 61   ...

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Middletown guard Denarius Dean tries to drive past Winton Woods guard Devon Goodson during their game at Wade E. Miller Gym in Middletown Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013.

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Area fighters boxing to benefit vets

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Traveling Wall leaves the Wright State University Nutter Center under escort by the Patriot Guard Riders motorcycle club while passing under crossed aerial ladders from Wright Patterson AFB and the City of Fairborn fire departments, the memorial wall will be on display at the Greene County Fairgrounds.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Traveling Wall leaves WSU

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon and a native of Ohio, died Saturday, Aug. 25, at age 82.

Ohioans remember Armstrong as quiet presence in region

“He used to come in for lunch and would sit at the counter. All of the businessmen would eat in the balcony, and I told him he should go eat with them and he said, ‘They never asked me to.’ He wasn’t very talkative, but a real gentleman and very ...

Hrnyak, former administrator, Fairfield athletic director, dies at age 64

Nick Hrnyak, former Fairfield high School athletic director and also an administrator in the Hamilton, Talawanda and Ross school districts, died at the age of 64 Friday at Fort Hamilton Hospital.Hrnyak, a resident of Hamilton, retired two years ago as assistant principal at Talawanda High School but still remained active ...

Matt McQuinn’s stepfather, David Jackson, speaks in his Springfield home on Saturday, July 21. Matt McQuinn was one of 12 people killed by lone gunman James Eagen Holmes at a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” in Aurora, Colorado, on Friday. McQuinn died shielding his girlfriend Samantha Yowler from the gunfire. Staff photo by Barbara J. Perenic

Local victim in theater shooting died a hero, loved ones say

Though shocked and saddened by his death, friends and family of Matt McQuinn were not surprised to learn that he died protecting his girlfriend, Samantha Yowler, in a mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater early Friday morning. “I know he’s a hero,” McQuinn’s stepfather, David Jackson, said at his ...

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