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A water main on John Gray Road broke and sprayed water Sun., June 26, 2022. JEN BALDUF/STAFF

Water main break closes Fairfield road

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Dayton Art Institute celebrates Pride Month by providing free admission to the museum on Sunday, June 26, deemed Community Pride Day.

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TODAY: Dayton Art Institute offers free admission Sunday

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$Members of the Ohio National Guard work with Dayton Children's staff at the Dayton Children's Springboro COVID-19 testing site Thursday Jan. 13, 2022. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

As at-home testing increases, do we know how many people have COVID-19?

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Protesters rally at the Ohio Statehouse in support of abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade on Friday, June 24, 2022 in Columbus, Ohio. The Supreme Court on Friday stripped away women’s constitutional protections for abortion, a fundamental and deeply personal change for Americans' lives after nearly a half-century under Roe v. Wade. (Barbara J. Perenic /The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

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Ohioans divided on decision to overturn Roe v. Wade

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$Wilma Blackmon votes Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at the Montgomery County Board of Elections. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

August election: Officials plan for primaries that add costs, need for workers

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Madison Schools Superintendent Jeff Staggs. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

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Madison Schools superintendent reflects on first year, says district is a throw-back in a...

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Man, 74, dies after being struck by vehicle in Lebanon

People in downtown Cincinnati protest the overturning of Roe v. Wade on Fri., June 24, 2022. Jake Ryle/WCPO

Roe v. Wade overturned: Hundreds protest in Cincinnati

Salvagnini America held a ribbon-cutting and hosted a demo day of their new expansion Thursday, June 23, 2022, in Hamilton. Salvagnini produces a variety of machines for punching, bending, laser cutting, material handling, sorting, and more for the manufacturing industry. Pictured is Salvagnini America CEO Doug Johnson speaking before the ribbon-cutting ceremony. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

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Salvagnini debuts its expanded Hamilton manufacturing campus

Jahleel Boyd and his grandmother, Sharon McGee enjoy some shade at RiverScape in downtown Dayton. McGee said they walked the river walk looking at the ducks and geese until they needed a break from the heat. JIM NOELKER/STAFF

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Temps push back into 90s today, prompt air quality alert

Most area school leaders welcomed a recent letter from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine offering more school security help beyond the new state law option that lets local schools decide whether to arm school staffers to help prevent deadly attacks in schools. Photo shows a Hamilton Schools SWAT team drill from recent years in the district's high school building. (Photo by Nick Graham/Journal-News)

School leaders react to governor’s letter promising more help keeping schools safe

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Trial for man accused in 2020 police shootout continued a fourth time

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Hamilton attorney indefinitely suspended after multiple incidents of public indecency

Ryan Michael Day. PHOTO BY BUTLER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE

911 receives calls for hours about reckless driver arrested on High Main Bridge

Monica Pennington appeared in Butler County Common Pleas Court Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021 for arraignment on indicted charges in the shooting death of her sister, Pamela Pennington, in Middletown. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

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Sanity, battered women’s syndrome hearing continued for Middletown woman charged in...

Troopers chase stolen car on I-75 into Montgomery County

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Jolene Bruce drives a pedal car around a simulated street course with help from volunteer McKenzie Niehaus, 15, at Safety Town Monday, June 13, 2022 at Office Bob Gentry Park in Hamilton. This is the 50th year of Safety Town in Hamilton. Four and five year old children are instructed in pedestrian, vehicle, bus, gun and fire safety. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

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Hamilton’s Safety Town: 50 years of showing kids how to stay safe

Middletown police officer Holly Owens retrieved an injured Cooper's hawk Thursday, June 23, 2022, that was found by residents near Carolina and Plymouth streets.

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Middletown police rescue injured hawk

Mike Fox poses for a photo under a sign marking the Michael A. Fox Highway, Wednesday, June 9, 2004, in Hamilton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Glenn Hartong)

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Former Butler Co. politician, public figure Michael Fox dies at 73

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Ohio impact: ‘Heartbeat Bill’ is now law, attorney general says

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OVI checkpoint tonight in Hamilton

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine talks with reporters outside of his polling place after voting in Cedarville, Ohio, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)

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DeWine urges Ohioans to find common ground as abortion debate returns

Mike Fox served nearly 23 years in the Ohio Statehouse, a decade as a Butler County commissioner and two years as Butler County Children Services’ executive director. GREG LYNCH/FILE

Locals react to former Butler County politician Mike Fox’s death

An air quality alert is in effect for Saturday

Dave Chappelle performs during a theater dedication ceremony honoring the comedian and actor, and to raise funds to support Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, Monday, June 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

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Dave Chappelle buys land intended for home development in Yellow Springs

Mike Fox, pictured here in April 2011 in a former Oxford home, has survived a surgical procedure that removed a cancerous kidney. FILE PHOTO

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Steel fencing and barricades surround the Supreme Court ahead on of the decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the federally protected right to abortion, in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

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Roe overturned: Ohio leaders react to Supreme Court ruling on abortion

Steel fencing and barricades surround the Supreme Court in anticipation of a decision that could possibly overturn Roe v. Wade, federally protected right to abortion, in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

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Butler County reacts to Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade

A woman holds a sign saying "stop abortion now," at a protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on May 5, 2022, left, and another woman holds a sign during a news conference for reproductive rights in response to the leaked draft of the Supreme Court's opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade, in West Hollywood, Calif., on March 3, 2022. (AP Photo)

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Supreme Court overturns abortion, returns decision to states

A celebration outside the Supreme Court, Friday, June 24, 2022, in Washington. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years — a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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Roe V. Wade overturned: Who this will impact in Ohio

FILE: Balloon enthusiasts gather for The Ohio Challenge hot air balloon festival Friday, July 19, 2019 at Smith Park in Middletown. Fireworks ended the night after the balloon glow and pyrotechnics jump by Team Fastrax. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

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Fireworks for the Fourth of July are more costly this year

Brittany Bojorquez, of Dayton, wearing black body paint, is among a group of about 200 abortion rights supporters who gathered Friday evening, June 24, 2022, on the lawn of the Walter H. Rice Federal Building on Second Street in downtown Dayton after Roe v. Wade was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. JIM NOELKER/STAFF

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Local activists react to U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade

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