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Red Lion restaurant razed
A former Warren County restaurant was razed Tuesday as part of an $8.2 million road relocation eliminating the Red Lion-Five Points intersection. Contractors demolished the former Mom’s Restaurant, taken by the Ohio Department of Transportation for $225,000, to make room for a cul-de-sac, capping a section of Ohio 123 moved ...
Lawsuits over rentals
Already facing foreclosure, the owners of eight homes in a Springboro planned community have been sued by the community’s homeowners association (HOA) for renting their property to non-relatives. It’s a common problem nationally — home owners unable to sell their properties because the value has dropped so much, they would ...
Police release photos of homicide victim, 81, missing car
Police released photos of an 81-year-old West Carrollton woman and her car Tuesday, eight days after she was found stabbed to death in her home. West Carrollton police asked for help in solving the homicide of Edith R. King, described as the city’s first victim of a violent death in ...
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 ...
Former Springboro booster treasurer stole $439,000
The former treasurer of the Springboro Athletic Boosters Association admitted Thursday to stealing almost $440,000 from the group he helped found 20 years before. But Thomas Harves, 61, of Springboro, was unaware of how much he had embezzled from the group, which he continued to hold in high esteem, his ...
Springboro booster investigation hearing scheduled for Thursday
Authorities are expected to reveal the results of a year-long investigation of the Springboro Athletic Booster Association on Thursday in Warren County Common Pleas Court. Forensic accountants from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation have been reviewing the financial records of the booster club since last spring, when ...
Lebanon Y swim coach fired after sex charge
An assistant Lebanon Countryside YMCA swim coach has been fired after being accused of a sex charge involving a swim-team member on Saturday while attending a swim meet in North Carolina.Patrick J. Jeanneret, 30, Cincinnati, is accused of “taking liberties with a child” at 3:30 a.m., Saturday, at a Marriott ...
Levy campaign season opening in area communities
Voters in some Warren County communities will consider more than $5.5 million in property tax levies for police and fire protection, ambulance service and road repairs in the May 7 election. Campaigns have begun in Waynesville, Springboro, Franklin Twp. and Carlisle. Officials say the taxes are needed to continue existing ...
Man died after shooting with FBI near Dayton Mall
A 20-year-old Dayton man, the father of a 3-year-old girl, died Thursday after a shooting involving FBI agents conducting a drug investigation at a beverage store near the Dayton Mall. Jermaine C. Coleman Jr., 20, of Dayton died at Kettering Medical Center at 3:30 p.m., according to the Montgomery Warren ...
Four Springboro kids hospitalized in ATV accident
Four Springboro children remained in a Tennessee hospital Tuesday, three days after an ATV accident near Norris Lake, Tenn. Sammie Reardon and Anna Bellotti, both 13; and Sebastian Michaud and Heidi Johannes, both 11; were listed in stable condition Tuesday at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, according ...
Warren County woman on Wheel of Fortune
After years as a viewer, Sue Pledger, her family and friends gathered Monday to watch her appearance on the Wheel of Fortune TV show. Pledger, a sorority chapter adviser at the University of Dayton, was holding a viewing party at Bella Vino in Springboro for friends, family and “anyone who ...
Warren County woman on Wheel of Fortune
Sue Pledger, a sorority chapter advisor at the University of Dayton, is scheduled to appear tonight on the Wheel of Fortune TV game show, according to the show officials. Pledger, of Clearcreek Twp., is having a viewing party at Bella Vino in Springboro with 60 friends and family, according to ...
Farm planned for autistic adults
A West Carrollton woman is heading a $3 million-$4 million fundraising effort aimed at opening Ohio’s third agricultural community for adults with autism.Nancy Bernotaitis heads Good Works Farm, a new non-profit that is planning to establish a working farm for autistic adults in southwest Ohio.“We’re going to be fundraising for ...
Springboro school board posts contract proposals
The Springboro school board has published contract proposals submitted by the board and the union representing district’s teachers and certified staff during their first negotiating session. Already, the teachers union has a pending unfair labor relations complaint with the State Employee Relations Board (SERB) related to earlier board publicity efforts ...
Second spanking claim against Waynesville leader
For the second time, a Waynesville supermarket owner has been accused of spanking someone in his office at the store.In a civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in Warren County Common Pleas Court, Ronald Kronenberger is accused of spanking a “mentally disabled” man three times at the Hometown Marketplace store in Waynesville ...
Both drivers in fatal crash lacked legal licenses
Both drivers in a March 16 fatal crash in Clearcreek Twp. lacked driving privileges. John C. Mulcahy, the driver who survived the crash, had been under suspension for more than four years at the time of the crash, according to records. Since November 2008, Mulcahy, 53, of Dayton, has been ...
Turnover continues in Miami Twp.
Miami Twp. Finance Director Joe Fowler retired and the Montgomery County prosecutor assigned to advise the trustees moved to a new job on Tuesday, the latest in a series of changes in the township government.The changes left six experienced administrators to carry out changes directed by the township’s trustees. Left ...
Online safety tips to avoid fraud
Online safety tips: Never trust a link sent to you by someone you don’t know. By clicking the link you may be taken to a site that may look like your bank or credit card company, but isn’t. One thing a criminal can’t fake is the actual Web site address ...
Internet criminals targeting seniors
Alice Hees, 82, of Illinois, was one of thousands of victims of a Troy-based crime ring, that is accused of using fake web sites and web-based fax machines to cheat senior citizens from 41 states and the District of Columbia out of $2.8 million. Hees, a former nurse and college ...
Troubles persist in Miami Twp. with layoffs
The Miami Twp. government has lost more employees following a series of terminations, resignations, leaves and now layoffs. Assistant Administrator Greg Rogers went on leave on March 12, the same day that trustees Mike Nolan and Deborah Preston voted to lay off two road workers and a payroll clerk. “The ...
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