News Stories for September 2012
Stories for Sunday, September 30
New organization to assist film makers
A new organization hopes efforts to lure film makers to the city will generate revenue for TvHamilton. “We have a rural and a big city look, sans traffic,” said Mindy Muller, owner of the Center for Community Revitalization. Muller said 100 percent of the net profits of Film Hamilton will ...
Local dentist: Key is making patients feel comfortable
The close relationship Dr. Curtis Reppart had with his own dentist is what inspired him to enter the field.Reppart grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio, about 50 miles north of Columbus. His father owned the building where Dr. Jack Renicker operated his dentistry practice.Reppart said Renicker had a huge impact on ...
Police blotter: Puppies reported stolen
Hamilton policeSept. 19A tennis bag, containing tennis two tennis racquets along with several pieces of jewelry valued at nearly $3,750, was stolen from a van while it was parked overnight Sept. 13 in the 900 block of Campbell Avenue.Sept. 24A person reported his cell phone had been stolen after setting ...
Local company’s mobile forensics help investigations
A local company is recovering critical data from cellphones and computers that can be critical to police investigations and court cases.Jim Swauger and Jim Hawke were on the ground floor of computer forensics in 1997 when they were among the four original members of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s ...
Child deaths spark look at state’s child welfare system
Nearly half of all Ohio families whose children are placed in foster care are reunited in less than a year — a rate higher than in most states and well above the national average, a Dayton Daily News investigation has found. After the tragic deaths of Makayla Norman of Dayton ...
Ohio headlines
TOLEDOAirport searches for flights after deal failsAirport operators in Toledo say a deal to secure flights to southwest Florida has fallen through.The airport had had been negotiating with Aviation Advantage Inc. to operate two roundtrip seasonal flights each week between Toledo Express Airport and Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort ...
Stories for Saturday, September 29
In Ohio, Ryan vows to protect sportsmen’s rights
By MITCH STACYAssociated PressRepublican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told a national sportsmen’s group Saturday that he and Mitt Romney would work to prevent any more restrictions on hunting and gun ownership.Speaking to around 1,000 members of the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance at a banquet Saturday night, Ryan again used President ...
Sam Sheppard files given to university in Ohio
A half-century worth of files from Dr. Sam Sheppard’s celebrated murder case are about to be made public.Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason decided to donate the case files and exhibits to Cleveland State University’s law school, which plans on making the collection open to researchers and the general public once ...
SwimOutlet.com grows distribution center in first year
SwimOutlet.com opened its distribution center here on Port Union Road close to the border with Fairfield about this time last year. The online order fulfillment center was welcomed for its plans to create 75 jobs and fill vacant building space.Since its first order was shipped in September 2011, the company ...
Police blotter: Cars, houses spray painted
Hamilton policeSept. 23A building, two houses and a car on the West Side of Hamilton were reported being spray painted overnight. The front doors of two residences in the 500 block of N.W. Washington Boulevard were spray painted overnight; a car that was parked overnight in the 0 to 100 ...
Effects of cyber-bullying, sexting discussed during Character Day
About 700 Hamilton Freshman School students participated in Character Day on Friday, with team-building games and group discussions to help students break down barriers and build character.Chris Thompson, an algebra teacher and Character Representative for the building, said the district has been holding Character Days for about seven years. The ...
Enthusiasm wanes among crucial young voters
Young voters gave Barack Obama a big boost in the 2008 presidential election, when a highly energized group of twenty-somethings accounted for 18 percent of all ballots cast.No one expects Republican nominee Mitt Romney to win the youth vote this November, but analysts say $4 dollar a gallon gas, crushing ...
Stories for Friday, September 28
Two hotels, conference center planned at Union Centre
Two new hotels and a conference center are in the works for West Chester Twp.’s Union Centre commercial district.A full-service 6-story, 128-room Holiday Inn hotel and a conference center that will seat about 1,000 people is planned for a 5.2-acre site at Muhlhauser and Allen roads, according to Mark Davis, ...
Road reopened after crash near Edgewood High School
The road has reopened following a single-vehicle crash this morning in the roundabout at Busenbark Road near the entrance to Edgewood High School, according to Butler County Sheriff’s dispatchers.A utility pole was knocked down in the crash that occurred about 9:10 a.m. shutting the road for about 45 minutes. A ...
Middletown man dies in car accident
A Middletown man was killed after he crashed into a tree early Friday morning. A passerby pulled the 30-year-old man out of the 2000 gold Mitsubishi after a small fire broke out in the front of the car. The crash occurred at around 2:45 a.m. in the 3000 block of ...
Police blotter: $1,000 in quarters stolen
Hamilton policeSept. 22A wallet with personal identification, credit cards and other items were stolen between 8:30 and 9 a.m. in the 100 block of Franklin Street.An air conditioning unit valued at $1,000 was stolen overnight from a residence in the 900 block of Brough Avenue.Someone on Sept. 18 stole $1,500 ...
Nearly $900,000 returned to general fund
Nearly $900,000 has been returned to the county’s general fund through voluntary cuts by several departments.Butler County Commissioners approved a resolution Thursday “unappriopriating” $895,596 to help close a projected $2 million gap in the budget heading into 2013.Last month, a strong message was sent by the commission that deficit spending ...
Council OKs certain city retirees for seasonal or temporary jobs
Retired employees of the city of Hamilton will be able to work in seasonal or temporary positions, provided they have professional certifications or licenses.In April 2011, City Council adopted a resolution that prohibited any retired city employee from working in a seasonal or temporary position. However, a few weeks ago, ...
Stories for Thursday, September 27
BAE’s latest job cuts shrink workforce to 134
The 160 job cuts announced Thursday at BAE Systems are the latest for a plant that has laid off hundreds of workers as its contracts have expired and defense spending cuts have grown.In 2007, approximately 1,500 people — 900 employees and 600 contractors — worked at the West Chester Twp. ...
Most new flu sufferers from Ohio
More than two-thirds of the people who contracted a new flu virus spread by swine at county fairs around the nation were from Ohio, federal health data show. A report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that 11 of 16 people hospitalized for H3N2v this ...
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