Stories for August 2009
Stories for Monday, August 31
New Helmet Required In Minors In 2010
Baseball's top prospects will have even more protection at the plate next season.Rawlings and Minor League Baseball announced Monday that the St. Louis-based company's new S100 batting helmet will be required in the minors next season. Six of the sturdy helmets also are being sent to each major league team ...
Dragons Win, Cut Wildcard Gap To One
There will be a race, after all.On Sunday, for the second straight night, the Dayton Dragons featured a powerful offensive attack as they defeated the Lansing Lugnuts 8-2 at Fifth Third Field and gained ground on the South Bend Silver Hawks in the wildcard race.The Dragons, who trailed South Bend ...
Bengals Sign Top Pick RT Andre Smith
The Bengals have finally signed top draft pick Andre Smith after a long contract impasse that became a subject of derision among teammates.The Bengals had originally planned to have Smith start at right tackle, but he has missed all of training camp and three preseason games. They confirmed his signing ...
Dodgers Beat Reds 3-2 In 12 Innings
Matt Kemp homered for Los Angeles' first run on Sunday, then hit a sacrifice fly in the 12th inning that gave the Dodgers to a 3-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds, a team they've beaten like no other in the past four years.The NL West leaders took two of three ...
Car Fire Spreads To Dayton Home
A Dayton man barely escaped his burning home Monday morning after waking up to see an orange glow through his windows.Dayton firefighters said they received the first emergency calls about a car fire in the 900 block of Westwood Avenue at 4 a.m.Dispatchers then called again to tell firefighters that ...
Police Investigate Assault On Mentally Disabled Teen
Dayton Police are questioning a suspect in connection with the sexual assault of a mentally disabled teenager.Officers said the 18-year-old wandered away from a relative Sunday afternoon at Mt. Enon Church on West Third Street.Witnesses reported seeing the teen picked up by a white work van in the area of ...
Dragons One Game Back In Wildcard Race
There will be a race, after all.On Sunday, for the second straight night, the Dayton Dragons featured a powerful offensive attack as they defeated the Lansing Lugnuts 8-2 at Fifth Third Field and gained ground on the South Bend Silver Hawks in the wildcard race.The Dragons, who trailed South Bend ...
Stories for Sunday, August 30
Man Shot at Birthday Cookout
Police said a man is in critical condition at a local hospital after he was shot in the stomach and leg.Authorities said just before seven o'clock Sunday night a blue Pontiac Aztek with five black males inside pulled up outside 410 Cherrywood Avenue.Neighbors told NewsCenter 7 a man was celebrating ...
Child Injured When Struck By Vehicle
A 5-year-old boy was taken to the hospital Sunday afternoon when he got hit by a truck.The incident happened on the 2000 block of Woodside Avenue where police said the boy was struck by a pickup truck when he was running across the street toward someone he knew.Police said the ...
Biltmore Towers Bedbug Free, Residents Return
Residents of the Biltmore Towers returned to their homes Sunday morning after spending a week away while workers fumigated the apartment building for bedbugs.Nearly 200 residents either stayed with friends, family members or in local hotels while workers spent the week spraying each room from top to bottom for bedbugs.Resident ...
Woman Killed In Auglaize County Crash
Ohio State Patrol Wapakoneta Post is investigating a fatal crash in Auglaize County that happened just after noon Sunday.Troopers said 51-year-old Anna Mitchell of St. Marys lost control of her van on Arnold Road, near St. Marys River Road, five miles north of St. Marys in Auglaize County.The van veered ...
Clark County Deputies Involved In Overnight Chase
Clark County sheriff’s deputies arrested a man after he led them on a high-speed chase Saturday night.According to a release, a deputy was patrolling West County Line Road when a car driven by Jonathan McAdams sped past at 114 mph.As the deputy chased, McAdams hit another car, turned on several ...
Motorcyclist Taken By Careflight After Crash
Ohio State troopers are investigating a motorcycle crash that happened sometime Saturday night in Darke County.Troopers said Darrell Michael, 58, of New Madison, crashed his motorcycle in a field on Preble County – Butler Township Road sometime overnight, but they aren’t sure when or how it happened.A driver on the ...
Dragons Power Past Lugnuts, 10-6
The Dayton Dragons snapped out of their team slump with 18 hits on Saturday night as they broke a six-game losing streak and defeated the Lansing Lugnuts 10-6 at Fifth Third Field.With the win, the Dragons pulled to within two games of the South Bend Silver Hawks in the wildcard ...
Stories for Saturday, August 29
Police: Teen Assaulted Girl Before Highway Death
Police records show that a 17-year-old boy, killed on I-75 Saturday morning, is the suspect in the assault of a teenage girl just minutes before his death.The record accuses Brandon Moore of beating a 16-year-old girl with a concrete table top.Moore was a junior at Northridge High School and member ...
1 Injured In Fountain Avenue Shooting
A shootout in a Dayton neighborhood Friday night left an elderly man with a gunshot wound.Police said two men in a Chevy pickup truck pulled up to a house on Fountain Avenue around 8 p.m. and pointed a gun at a man sitting on the porch and started firing.The man ...
Man Is Shot In Ankle While Running From Attackers
A man was shot in the ankle Friday night when he tried to escape two men who were trying to shoot him execution style in the backyard of a home on Neil Avenue.Dayton police said at roughly 11:45 p.m. two black men entered through a back window of the Neil ...
Harrison Crews Control Fire At High Rise Apartment
Dozens of firefighters rushed to North Main Street in Harrison Township Saturday afternoon, where an 11-story senior citizen complex was on fire.The fire happened at Brookview Place at around 4 p.m. Fire officials said residents in a first floor apartment were making dinner when a fire broke out.Smoke filled the ...
Baby Punched In Face In Dayton Home
A 5-month-old baby boy is in serious condition at Children’s Hospital after police said he was punched in the face.The incident happened just before 10 p.m. Friday night in an apartment on James H. McGee Blvd. in Dayton.Police said the baby was inside the apartment with several other children when ...
Trotwood Police Need Help Finding Burglary Suspect
Trotwood police are looking for Ricky Large, 21, of Dayton.Police said he is wanted for aggravated burglary from an incident on Wednesday when he broke into his pregnant girlfriend’s home and nearly choked her to death.Police said the girlfriend’s mother came into the room and stopped him, and no one ...
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