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Kings Island adds extra security for season opener
Kings Island will have an increased police presence today when it opens for the season. Three off-duty police officers and a police canine will be patrolling the park, according to Mason Police. The extra officers were commissioned because of the bombing almost two weeks ago at the Boston Marathon, according ...
Lebanon officials consider fire levy
Lebanon officials are mulling over asking voters to approve a 7.0-mill fire levy in November, which is necessary to prevent the shut down of a fire station, they said.A sharp decline in property values since the beginning of the recession and a reduction in Medicare reimbursements are the main issues ...
Seminar set to combat theft from nonprofits
In addition to the nearly $1 million that has been embezzled from charitable and youth sports organizations in Butler and Warren counties in recent years, there are probably many more embezzlers who have flown under the radar, officials said.Two recent notable cases — $439,455 stolen by the former treasurer of ...
No indictment in Hamilton store shooting
A Butler County grand jury did not indict a Hamilton store owner who shot and killed an alleged armed robber more than a week ago. Smail Gueddari was cleared of any wrongdoing Tuesday in the April 13 fatal shooting of 26-year-old Jeremy Scott Irvin at his Main Street shop, Mazagan ...
Hamilton homicide trial starts today
The man who allegedly killed a popular youth football coach goes on trial in Butler County Common Pleas Court today.Judge Michael Sage will preside over the three-day bench trial of 55-year-old Myron Lamar “Cowboy” Doby of Front Street. Doby has been in the Butler County Jail on a $250,000 bond ...
Middletown mural could be one of many
What do a 71-year-old Cuban man and a bunch of Middletown area students have in common? A vibrant mural that has emerged on the back and side of the Flowers by Roger building downtown. Luis Eliades was on hand Sunday afternoon to help put the finishing strokes on the mural ...
Neighbors claim compost center stinks
Neighbors of a compost facility south of Lebanon have joined others complaining about the facility’s smell and operating conditions. Tina and Kevin O’Sullivan recently complained to the Ohio EPA about a heavy fecal odor at their home, built in 1880. “My whole house stunk,” Tina O’Sullivan said, adding the smell ...
Butler County officials: We are prepared for disaster
Butler County police and emergency management officials say there are systems in place to handle any emergency, even one as massive as the events unfolding in Boston.Boston was locked down Friday as a massive man hunt took place for the 19-year-old college student from Russia, wanted in Monday’s bombing during ...
Third home invasion murder suspect to take plea
A third defendant is expected to plead guilty Monday in the botched robbery that resulted in the shooting death of a Fairfield teen last year.Anthony Givens “wanted to get it over with,” according to his attorney, David Washington. The 22-year-old Hamilton man will appear before Judge Patricia Oney Monday morning. ...
Bond remains at $750K for alleged killer
Corey A. White of Cincinnati, who allegedly shot and killed a 30-year-old Hamilton man in 2009, will stand trial June 10 on murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary charges.White appeared Thursday before Butler County Common Pleas Judge Keith Spaeth, who kept his bond at $750,000 and ordered him back to ...
Reconstruction of Jeremiah Morrow Bridge is on track
The Ohio Department of Transportation is urging people to use caution during lane closures in the construction zones on the Jeremiah Morrow Bridge.Workers began constructing the new $88 million bridge in 2010 and the project is on course, according to Sharon Smigielski, spokeswoman for ODOT’s District 8 office in Turtlecreek ...
Mason police reports: Gun shots were actually rocks being thrown
Mason Police April 14 Police received a report of gun shots being fired in the 300 block of Western Row Road at around 9:30 p.m. After an investigation, including a K-9 patrol, it was determined people were throwing rocks. April 13 A 20-year-old Mason woman was charged operating a vehicle ...
Fitton Center embezzler sentenced to 3 years
“It’s not a happy day,” Fitton Center Board President Sue Samoviski said after a former employee was sent to prison for three years after embezzling $164,139 from the Hamilton arts organization.“My heart breaks for her, her family and it’s sad for the Fitton Center,” Samoviski said. Judge Noah Powers imposed ...
FBI locks down Pilot Flying J corporate headquarters
The FBI has locked down the Knoxville, Tenn. headquarters of Pilot Flying J, the convenience store and truck stop chain that is planning to build a location along Interstate 71 in Warren County. Bill Killian, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, told the Journal that four search warrants ...
Lawsuit against Ohio lawmaker on hold
Motions that had been flying in the $1.2 million civil lawsuit against state law maker Pete Beck have come to a halt.Beck and a number of other people were sued in January by a group of investors lead by Thomas Walter. One of those co-defendants, Janet Combs, the widow of ...
Woman involved in Fairfield homicide pleads guilty
A second co-defendant in the fatal home invasion of Julian Slaven has pleaded guilty as charged and faces at least 18 years in prison.Misty Williams, 19, of Fairfield, was scheduled to be the first of five co-defendants to stand trial for the November shooting death of Slaven. She pleaded guilty ...
Neighbors claim compost center stinks
Neighbors of a compost facility south of Lebanon have joined others complaining about the facility’s smell and operating conditions. Tina and Kevin O’Sullivan complained to the Ohio EPA after returning home last weekend to find a heavy fecal odor throughout their home, built in 1880. “My whole house stunk,” Tina ...
Warren County considers merging courts
An appointment to fill a court vacancy in Warren County could muddy potential court consolidation plans. Warren County commissioners were approached by two municipal court judges before the 2012 November election with a plan to consolidate three courts into two. Since then, the commissioners have contracted the National Center for ...
New owners transform Shaker Run Golf Club
Shaker Run Golf Club’s new owners have made improvements both inside and out to update the course and its facilities.Gone is a dilapidated wood shake roof, almost all of the dark rust-colored wall paper, outdated lighting and carpeting, the wall that compartmentalized and blocked the bar area and weed infested ...
Lebanon Chamber names superintendent Citizen of Year
The Lebanon Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year not only gives generously of her time to a number of community organizations, but her talents have also ensured the success of many students.Warren County Career Center Superintendent Maggie Hess was among the honorees at the 62nd annual Chamber awards dinner ...
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