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Artsy Fartsy Saturdays hosts june 8 open house at Milford Main
Artsy Fartsy Saturdays kids create finger labyrinths after learning about the ancient meditative paths and walking one. From left are: Elizabeth Fox, Emijah Johnson, Layla Harrison, Renee Diaz, teen mentor Autumn Barney, Anjela Lehmkuhl, Kelvin Davis, Jr., mentor Everett Nabors and Angel Honican. / Thanks to Cathy ...
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Covington launches park-by-phone for meters
Covington launches park-by-phone for meters Parking by using your smart phone is now available on downtown Covington meters. Most of the city’s parking meters are on and around Madison Avenue ...
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Ross cop accused of leaving kids in truck outside bar
PANAMA CITY BEACH, FLA. — A Ross Township police officer and his wife face aggravated child neglect charges after their young children were left unsupervised in a truck outside a Panama City Beach bar. Bay County Jail officials say 35-year-old Michael Webb and 29-year-old Staci Hall left jail Thursday night after posting $500 bonds. The Florida Department of Children and Families took ...
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Three Rivers hosting ceremonies to close its schools
The Three Rivers Local School District will host ceremonies to mark the closing of four of its school buildings on Sunday, June 2. / Kurt Backscheider/The Community ...
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Oak Hills grateful for support of fundraiser
The Oak Hills Local School District thanks community members, students, staff and parents who participated in the One Hope, One Heart volleyball competition at Oak Hills High School May ...
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Colerain Twp. continues budget talks
Colerain Township will continue working on its budget for 2014 with a town hall meeting planned for 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 4, at the Colerain Community Center, 4300 Springdale Road. This is an opportunity for the residents to speak on the reports that were to be presented at the township meeting May ...
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Reds Paul has seized opportunity
Of the three players who make up the triumvirate that has played left field in the absence of Ryan Ludwick and Chris Heisey, Xavier Paul stands out the least.He ...
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Seton student wins scholarship from Sisters of the Poor
Seton High School sophomore Brittany Oestreicher was the recipient of a Vocation Essay Contest scholarship from the Franciscan Sisters of the ...
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PG Replaces Current CEO with a Former CEO
CINCINNATI (AP) - Procter & Gamble says it is replacing CEO Bob McDonald with former CEO A.G. Lafley, effective immediately.Lafley, 65, served as CEO at the world's largest consumer goods maker from 2000 to 2009. He will also take the chairman title.McDonald, who has worked for P&G for 33 years, and became CEO after Lafley retired, will retire on June 30.Under McDonald, ...
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Boy Scouts To Accept Gay Scouts
GRAPEVINE, Texas In one of their most dramatic choices in a century, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization. Gay adults will remain barred from serving as Scout leaders.Of the local Scout leaders voting at their annual meeting in Texas, more than 60 percent ...
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Kenwood Womans Club awards annual scholarships at lunch
Six high school seniors and two women received scholarships for college. From right to left are scholarship winners Nora and Ellen Molinaro of Mount Notre Dame High School, Ashley Schlissel of Indian Hill High School, Lynn Kendall of Cincinnati State Technical and Community College and Alexis Teeters of Indian Hill High School. / Thanks to Dawn ...
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Finneytown meets new school superintendent
Finneytown Local School District Superintendent Tyrone Olverson, 45, meets with Finneytown resident Bob Briggs, 86, during a meet and greet with the community at the Finneytown secondary campus. / Monica Boylson/The Community ...
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Friends tie for first in Girls on the Run 5K
DELHI TWP. — Mady Nutter and Erica Schloemer had just yards to go to pass the finish line in the Girls on the Run 5K at Paul Brown Stadium. Exhausted the two knew they had to increase their speed to take first place in the girls ...
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Rookie on the move
Tanner Hawkinson, the Bengals fifth-round pick, is a young man the Bengals are hurrying along the offensive line. Envisioning Hawkinson as the next Dave Lapham, he's working at left tackle and left guard this week as OTAs opened at Paul Brown Stadium."Being versatile is what he's going to be really good at," said Kyle Caskey, offensive line coach Paul Alexander's ...
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CMHA looking for properties in Green Twp.
GREEN TWP. — The Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority is searching for multifamily buildings available for sale in the ...
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Colerain woman benefits from Repair Affair
Eva Taylor can get in and out of her Colerain Township home more easily thanks to the installation of a wheelchair ramp by a group of Northwest Community Church members volunteering through the People Working Cooperatively's Repair Affair. / ...
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Test Program Would Allow Pilots To Text While Flying
An experiment is under way to see if pilots should be allowed to text while flying. Not to their friends, but back and forth with the control tower. It's a small experiment in the United States, but texting in the sky is widely used in other places. Local 12 news reporter Jeff Hirsh shows us how it works and why it may be coming to your flight. When pilots and air traffic controllers ...
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Bob McDonald out as CEO at Procter Gamble
Bob McDonald is retiring from P&G after a 33 year career. Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble Co. is replacing CEO Bob McDonald with a familiar name. The company's board of directors has named A.G. Lafley as the new CEO and chairman of the consumer goods giant. Lafley returns to the job after an absence of about four years, having served as president and CEO from 2000 to 2009. We thank Bob ...
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Security Training To Protect Rail Cars in Rural Areas
Being more prepared in the event of a hazardous materials accident or even worse, a terrorist attack aimed at rail cars was the focus of a powerful seminar in Symmes Township today. First responders and government officials from across the Tri-State attended the class sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security and Hamilton County Homeland Security. It's not unusual at rail sidings ...
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New Push To Find Missing Children in Ohio
This Saturday is Missing Children's Day. There are thousands of missing children in America-20,000 alone are reported missing just in Ohio every year. Most are found within days. But there are many others.-their faces are on all on the Ohio Attorney General's missing persons website. You can log and help look for them. It is manned by a special unit that helps find the children. Local ...
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Four Years in Prison For Driver In Fatal Boat Crash
A judge sentenced the man behind the wheel during a fatal boat crash to four years in prison. Last June, Glenn Riegelsberger ran his boat over the top of another man's boat. The impact killed Jeffrey Foster and seriously injured a woman. Prosecutors say Riegelsberger docked his boat after the crash and took off. After he serves time, Riegelsberger will spend five years on probation. The ...
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Body Found in Bellevue Near Party Source
Bellevue Police are investigating the discovery of a body in a woods.Officers were called to a wooded area off Riviera Drive, near the Party Source, around 3 p.m.Witnesses tell Local 12 they became suspicious because of a foul odor in the area.Officers have not yet said whether they have any indication that the person's death was natural or whether it was the result of foul play.The ...
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Motorcycle Hits Man Near UC Campus Knocks Him Under Car
A pedestrian and motorcyclist are taken to the hospital after the biker hit the pedestrian as he crossed the street.It happened around 2:45 p.m. Thursday on Clifton Avenue and Terrace Avenue, near the University of Cincinnati campus.Witnesses say a young man and woman were crossing Clifton, but were not inside a crosswalk. One lane of traffic had stopped to let the couple pass but a motorcyclist ...
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Hyperactivity in Kids Linked To Traffic Pollution
If you live near a busy highway a report just released from environmental health researchers at the University of Cincinnati says it could up the odds that your child will be hyperactive. Local 12's Liz Bonis says it appears diesel engines emit very small particles into the air that can get into a child's brain and impact behavior. "There are a lot of areas that are close to ...
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Cincinnati Library Reaches Card Milestone
Bob Herzog helped with the effort to get people signed up for cards to the Cincinnati Hamilton County Public Library. (Cincinnati Hamilton County Public ...
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Cincinnati’s streetcar named bureaucracy
Cincinnati once had a streetcar system that carried 100 million people each year, but it was scrapped in favor of the bus in the mid-twentieth century. Today, just 25 million people use the bus network in Cincinnati, which has led to a proposal for a new streetcar line, but red-tape is blocking the tracks.
Cincinnati, throughout the first half of the twentieth century, had over 200 miles of streetcar tracks and the system carried over 100 million people per year. By the 1950’s the system was deemed unfeasible and was dismantled, with the last streetcar being retired in 1951. Several decades later, the faith that everyone had in the efficiency and convenience of busses has proven unfounded. Read more
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