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TCS holds camp in US for science maths students
India's leading IT services, Tata Consultancy Services, held its goIT summer camp programme in the Cincinnati area exposing students to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related career paths. The fifth annual three-day camp providing hands on activities and projects that increase exposure to industry specific technologies, culminated with a competition at TCS' largest ...
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Reds turn to Arroyo to continue quality start streak
Of the five pitchers the Pirates broke Spring Training with in late March, Jeff Locke is the only remaining right now. Because of injuries to A.J. Burnett, Wandy Rodriguez and James McDonald, the rotation has seen a major overhaul since the beginning of the season. But Locke, the No. 5 starter when the year began, has been as reliable as they come. Locke will put his 6-1 record and 2.19 ERA on ...
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Latos streaks snap with first loss since August 12
PIT@CIN: Latos fans nine over five innings CINCINNATI -- Mat Latos' personal unbeaten streak came to an end Tuesday night against the Pirates, but that wasn't what drew the ire of the Reds' starting pitcher. The Reds lost a 4-0 game to Pittsburgh, but the tally Latos focused on was the hit batters between the two clubs this season. In that battle, the Pirates have a 10-6 lead, ...
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Water Rescue In Hamilton
A search is underway for a teenage boy missing in the Old Miami-Erie Canal in Hamilton. Three teens were fishing in the canal Tuesday evening when they decided to swim from the south bank to the north bank. One teenage boy made it across. A teenage girl had to be rescued from the water by firefighters from a log. The third teen, a 15 year old boy vanished. Crews have turned from rescue efforts ...
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Lutz showing strides off bench as pinch-hitter
Email CINCINNATI -- Learning the nuances of pinch-hitting is difficult for many hitters, but it can be compounded for rookies, like Reds outfielder Donald Lutz. Until his first big league callup on April 29, Lutz had not played above Double-A. In Cincinnati's last two games, Lutz has two hits as a pinch-hitter. He hit a two-run single in the sixth inning of Sunday's 5-1 win against ...
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Votto Rose exchange thumbs up after Monday homer
Email CINCINNATI -- Just before his ninth-inning at-bat against the Pirates on Monday, first baseman Joey Votto exchanged brief pleasantries with a person wearing a camouflage-colored Reds cap in the third row behind home plate. It wasn't just any fan, however. It was Reds great and all-time hits leader Pete Rose. Votto then connected on a 2-0 Bryan Morris pitch for a solo home run to left ...
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Cozarts homer brings hitting streak to seven
Email CINCINNATI -- Reds shortstop Zack Cozart extended his hitting streak to seven on Monday with a long solo home run to the upper deck in left field. Cozart's seventh homer of the season came in the fourth inning of Monday's 4-1 victory against the Pirates. Cozart, who batted second Tuesday after hitting seventh Monday, entered the night batting .326 (31-for-95) over his previous ...
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Cincinnati News Android App Review WKRC
app and not the content. I use all of the apps on a regular basis because I love local news and I do not have a bias towards any local news source. Each app will be scored in 5 categories; Headlines, Weather, Multimedia, Traffic, and Other Features. And the end of the reviews, I will tally the scores a post a ranked list. Stay ...
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Couple Busted In Daytime Burglaries
A Florence man is behind bars today facing 26 counts of burglary and theft. His favorite target? Golf clubs, taken from open garages during the day. Local 12's Joe Webb shows how Boone County Deputies caught their suspect. 23 year-old Brennan Durbin is accused of daytime burglaries between the last week of May and the second week of June, mostly in the Oakbrook subdivision near Florence. ...
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Hamilton County Deputies Train On New More Accurate Weapons
Before he left office, Hamilton County Sheriff Simon Leis gave his okay for a deal to provide all of his deputies with a new, and much improved weapon. That gun, the Smith and Wesson Military and Police or "M&P Model" is now making the transition into the hands of deputies. Local 12's Rich Jaffe joined Sheriff Jim Neal's top brass on Tuesday as they qualified with the new ...
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City Manager Signs Parking Lease
The City of Cincinnati announced late Tuesday afternoon that it's signed the controversial parking lease. The lease essentially privatizes the city's parking lots, garages, and meters for 92-million dollars. The lease was actually signed yesterday by City Manager Milton Dohoney. The announcement was delayed until it was clear that a temporary restraining order blocking the lease was ...
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Hamilton Woman Gets 90 Days in Jail For Starving Dog
A judge sentences a Hamilton woman to 90 days in jail after her dog had to be put down. 19-year-old Elizabeth Lewis pleaded no contest to a charge of cruelty to animals as her trial was about to start. Her dog Bruiser was starved and had fallen down the stairs. The dog warden ordered that he be put down. This is the second time Lewis has faced Judge Daniel Gattermeyer on animal cruelty charges. ...
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Hartwell Pizza Parlor Suspect Out on Bond At Time Of Murder
Police today say they're confident they will find John Deloney, a criminal with a history of taking what other people have. A judge put him on probation last month for selling a stolen truck. Detectives say Deloney shot Cosmic Pizza owner Richard Evans as he tried to rob him. Evans' security system helped track his accused killer. It was high-tech. The sign on the door lets people know ...
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Hamilton woman sentenced for animal cruelty in pit bull case
pitbull trial: Elizabeth Lewis didn't explain why she let her pit bull mix Bruiser starve to death. Watch her mother and her attorney try to defend her ...
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Ole Fisherman now a member of Zipper Club
Here is the rest of the story as to why there was no article last week. The Ole Fisherman started feeling a little poorly, so we went to our doctor. He did an E.K.G. and said the blood flow was not right for the heart. So he referred us to Dr. Joel Forman. He is in the old Kroger building in Anderson Township. He then sent us to Christ Hospital for an angiogram. This was done. The results was I ...
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Sycamore preps for annual twilight concert
The Jump n Jive Show Band, featuring former fire chief William Jetter, will perform at the ...
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Fry joins Dental Care Plus
The Dental Care Plus Group has added Madeira resident Sarah Fry to the marketing and corporate communications department. Fry will serve as marketing specialist with a concentration on messaging and content ...
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Algae bloom found at East Fork State Park
WILLIAMSBURG — The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency issued a recreational public health advisory at East Fork lake June 13. A blue-green algae bloom in the state park, on 3294 Elk Lick Road in Batavia Township, caused toxin levels at the ...
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State sets deadline for city funding on MLK project
The Ohio Department of Transportation has given the city of Cincinnati a December deadline to come up with money to help pay for the new Uptown ...
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Mt. Airy Makes Progress In Fighting Crime Blight
A local neighborhood celebrates the reduction of blight and crime, and hopes to continue revitalization efforts. Today marks 90 days since Mount Airy started its Neighborhood Enhancement Program.Local 12's Tiffany Wilson shows us how the neighborhood has changed. Today, the community punctuated the three month mark with a bang. The house caught fire in December and up until this morning, it ...
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Ohio Supreme Court Upholds Former Officers Conviction
The Ohio State Supreme Court upholds the conviction of a former Cincinnati Police Officer, who tried to argue he couldn't be prosecuted. The court ruled today in a six to one decision that police officers are not exempt from prosecution under the state's witness intimidation law. The case comes from 2010 when a judge sentenced Julian Steele to five years in prison for wrongfully ...
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Woman Held In Deadly Stabbing
A 72-year-old woman charged in the stabbing death of a Hamilton woman made her first court appearance today.Delores Jackson is accused of murder. Police say she stabbed 56-year-old Diana Ross to death.Ross was found inside a home on Monument Street Friday night. During her arraignment this morning, she was appointed an attorney and ordered held on a 300 thousand dollar bond. Jackson's next ...
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Heavy Rain Brings Flash Flooding
Some heavy rain early this morning left a driver trapped in a minivan. The van and some other vehicles got stuck when water covered Ohio Four in Madison Township, near Trenton-Franklin Road in Madison Township. The fire chief tells the Middletown Journal the water reached about four to five feet. Firefighters were able to help drivers out of their vehicles ...
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42 Tons of Missing North Bend Fertilizer Found in Kentucky
SCIENCE HILL, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police say they have found 42 tons of fertilizer that had been reported missing from a company in Ohio.Media cited police in reporting that a private investigator hired by Consolidated Terminals and Logistics in North Bend, Ohio, to investigate thefts from the company tracked a vehicle to Science Hill, in south-central Kentucky.The security company ...
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Police Disabled Mom Child Held Captive For Two Years
ASHLAND, OH (WOIO) - Four people have arrested for holding a mother and her child captive in a home in a city near Cleveland for two years. According to the charges, the suspects used beatings, threats of death and threats of attacks from pit bulls and large snakes to hold a woman and her child against their will. During a Tuesday afternoon news conference, the U.S. Attorney called this ...
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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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