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Kings Island: Free admission for military this weekend
MASON — In honor of Memorial Day, all active and retired members of the military this weekend receive free admission to Kings Island, the 364-acre amusement and waterpark. Members of the military can get free admission Friday through Monday. A valid military ID must be presented at the Kings Island ...
Target, Lowe’s blame cool weather for soft earnings
Target’s 1Q profit drops 29 pct on weak salesNEW YORK (AP) — Target Corp., a major southwest Ohio retailer, reported a 29 percent drop in first-quarter profit as unusually cool spring weather and financial pressures chilled customers’ appetite for spending.The company, based in Minneapolis, also on Wednesday cut its annual ...
US auto factories cutting back on summer downtime
The Detroit automakers are largely forgoing the traditional two-week summer break at their factories and speeding up production to meet buyers’ growing demand for new cars and trucks. The added work could trickle down to the automakers’ parts plants and outside suppliers in southwest Ohio. Ford Motor Co., which has ...
West Chester Hospital has early plans to add tower
Cincinnati hospital network UC Health is eyeing future expansion at Butler County’s West Chester Hospital for construction of an estimated $135 million tower.UC Health has always planned since building West Chester Hospital to eventually construct a second building tower, system officials said. And now hospital officials say they are talking ...
Home sales rise again in April
Homes sales rose again in April across the area and the state, continuing a near solid string of monthly increases over the past year. In the Dayton metro area, sales for the month rose 14.5 percent to 1,085 homes compared to April 2012, according to the Ohio Association of Realtors. ...
Small deli serving up big, cheesy sandwiches
The tongue-in-cheek sign at the front counter explains why one must be patient after ordering a sandwich at 5th Street Wine and Deli in Dayton’s Oregon District. 1) It’s because we care, it’s not because we are lazy. 2) Every sandwich is made to order, thus they’re special. Kind of ...
Home Depot, Best Buy have different earnings success
Home Depot Inc. and Best Buy Co. — two major retailers with stores in the Dayton, Springfield and Hamilton areas — reported widely different quarterly earnings on Tuesday. Home Depot’s first-quarter net income rose 18 percent, thanks to the ongoing housing recovery, despite a chilly and wet spring. Its quarterly ...
Mercy Health names new CEO
Cincinnati area hospital group Mercy Health Tuesday named a new president and chief executive officer.Yousuf Ahmad was appointed to the post to replace James May effective June 15. Ahmad has been chief transformation officer for Mercy Health since 2011. He is also current interim president of Mercy Health Select, the ...
Local veterans get boost on job searches
Veterans may have an advantage in landing a job in this economy, if they only knew the benefits available to them.Capt. Mike Glaser of Oxford, a 30-year Navy veteran set to retire at the end of the month, attended a Veteran’s Job Fair Tuesday at Workforce One to help him ...
Credit union unveils new video tellers
Wright-Patt Credit Union Inc. unveiled new automated teller machine technology Tuesday at a new branch office in Springboro. The machines let users video conference from inside the lobby or the drive-through with remote tellers. The tellers actually sit in offices near the Dayton Mall, said Doug Fecher, credit union president ...
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