Stories for July 2011
Stories for Sunday, July 31
Bomb Squad Detonates Grenades
Dayton's bomb squad takes a road trip to take care of a piece of history.Champaign County Sheriff's Deputies said a family cleaning out a home at 7800 Catawba-Mechanicsburg Road found some grenades that belonged to the elderly homeowner.The people called sheriff's deputies, who requested help from the Dayton Bomb Squad.The ...
Missing Brookville Teen Found
A teenager who was reported missing to Brookville Police has been found.14-year-old Kayleigh Morris had been last seen by her family Wednesday afternoon. She was located in Huber Heights.
Neighbor Alerts Couple To Fire In Their House
A good neighbor alerted two people that flames were shooting from the back of their house as they sat in their home Sunday afternoon.The couple was watching television in their unit of a duplex on East Fifth Street at about 3 p.m. when one of their neighbors knocked on the ...
Fire Victims Will Be Able To Stay In Apartment
21 families will not need to find alternative shelter after a fire damaged their homes Sunday morning.Firefighters from the Dayton and Trotwood fire departments rushed to the 21-unit building in the 2600 block of North Gettysburg Avenue at about 11:30 a.m. after the building was reported to be on fire.The ...
A+ lunches
White bread bologna sandwich. Cookie. Apple. White bread peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Cookie. Banana. Sometimes a bag of chips. That, in a nutshell, was the dietary equivalent of the school lunches my mother put together as she rushed four kids to the bus stop every day. Usually, the sandwich ...
WPAFB Officer Arrested For Soliciting, Public Indecency
A Lieutenant Colonel at Wright Patterson Air Force Base was arrested in Dayton Friday night for soliciting a prostitute and public indecency.A Dayton police officer spotted Lt. Colonel Ted L. Bloink, 38, pull onto a side street off East Third Street and talk with a woman on the street, according ...
Stories for Saturday, July 30
Father Accused Of Kidnapping Son Facing Charges
A man accused of kidnapping his young son is facing more than a dozen felony charges.DeWayne Wills Jr., 2, was found safe on Thursday night after a 22-hour search.Wills and the boy’s mother had been arguing over visitation when she claims he took the boy and filed shots at a ...
2 Drivers Injured In Head-On Crash
Two drivers went take to a local after a head-on crash in Huber Heights.Officers said a driver in the purple car was crossing Route 4 from Lower Valley Pike when she tried to pull out in front of the second vehicle Friday night.The driver tried to swerve to avoid a ...
4 Injured In Crash On I-75
A two-vehicle crash on Interstate 75 in Vandalia sent four people to a hospital Saturday morning.Crews were called to the northbound lanes of the highway just south of U.S. Route 40 after 10 a.m. and found a car and an SUV had collided.The SUV went off the road, hit a ...
'Pop' Heard Before Fatal Plane Crash
A "flyable lookalike" of a Wright Brothers biplane that was taken up for testing crashed in Clark County, killing the two men aboard.Mick Lecocq, manager of Springfield Beckley Municipal Airport, said the men took the plane up around 10 a.m. Saturday.Lecocq said the men were doing some flight testing of ...
Stories for Friday, July 29
Semi Crashes On I-75 During Evening Storm
A semi-truck jackknifed on Interstate 75 in Dayton while Friday's severe storms rolled through the area.The rig was headed southbound when it struck a guard rail near the Stanley Avenue exit, police said. The driver was trapped when the cab of the truck flipped, but he was removed from the ...
Damage Clean-up Begins After Friday Storm
Thousands of power outages have already been repaired after Friday's storm, but several hundred customers are still without electricity to their homes and businesses.More than 15,000 Dayton Power and Light customers in Montgomery and Clark Counties lost power Friday night after power lines and trees were knocked down by a ...
National Minority Donor Awareness Day Aug. 1
National Minority Donor Awareness Day, celebrated annually on August 1, is a nationwide observance to educate minorities of the desperate need for donation and transplantation within the multicultural community and how to register their decision to Donate Life. Approximately 55 percent of those on the U.S. transplant waiting list are ...
Suspect Formally Charged in Baseball Attack
A man accused of beating another man with a baseball bat and striking a woman and her newborn baby has been formally charged.Nick Slusser, 32, was indicted of three counts of felonious assault, and two misdemeanor assault counts.Slusser is accused of beating 60-year-old Robert Pearson with a bat on the ...
Urbana Company Looking To Hire With Expansion
A company in Champaign County is using some government incentives to add good jobs.The Rittal Corp. in Urbana plans to add more than 100 jobs at its factory. It's possible because a Springfield company is buying their old plant.Two growing businesses that should mean growth for unemployed people.The news that ...
Skate Park In Troy Bears New Name
A new skate park in Troy now has a new name.The park is officially called the Joe Reardon Skate Park and is located on North Ridge Avenue in Troy.The late Joe Reardon generously gave to the Troy community for this and future generations. Reardon was a long-time member of the ...
Business Owners Excited About River Project
Business owners are backing plans to renovate the downtown Dayton riverfront after an announcement was made this week that the James M. Cox Foundation donated a $1 million challenge grant to the project.Brian Linnean who owns The Wine Gallery and Cafe said he is excited to hear that the riverfront ...
2 Men Arrested In Shelby Co. Drug Raid
Authorities in Shelby County said they executed a narcotics search warrant in the 5400 block of Frazier-Guy Road in Perry Township on Friday morning.Deputies said they arrested Gene Schloss, 47, and Ricky Warner, 52, both of Sidney. Investigators said both men face one count each of possession of drugs.Schloss and ...
Child Dies From Injuries From Falling Down Stairs
Authorities said a 4-year-old boy who fell down stairs in Middletown has died.Family members told police that Jamerius Lyle fell down a staircase and hit his head at an apartment building on Aaron Drive on Thursday.The boy died Friday morning at Children's Medical Center in Dayton.Detectives said they are investigating ...
Man Shot Shows Up At Gas Station
Police in Dayton said they are investigating after a man drove to a local gas station with gunshot wounds.Officers said a man was shot in another location and then drove to the Clark gas station on North Gettysburg Avenue for help.Officers shut down the gas station and surrounded the man's ...
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