News Stories for December 2011
Stories for Monday, December 19
Woman found severely beaten inside her house
Deputies in Montgomery County said a neighbor found a woman severely beaten when he noticed her front door open. The woman was beaten so badly that she was taken to Miami Valley Hospital. Mary Floyd, 64, lives in the 1200 block of Rossiter Drive in Jefferson Township. Her house was ...
Stories for Sunday, December 18
Charity on Facebook helping those in need
An online charitable exchange enables people to obtain items and services they need and donate their own items and services to others in Ohio. The "Pay it Forward" Facebook page started two months ago by 32-year-old Nicole Davis-Glass already includes more than 900 participants. Facebook users from the Van Wert ...
A dusting of snow to the north on Saturday
A dusting a snow Saturday morning put many of us into the spirit of giving. The snow created no problems.
Stories for Friday, December 16
Issue 2 opponents spent $29M on campaign
The union-backed group that successfully fought to defeat Ohio's contentious collective bargaining law spent more than $29 million in the fall ballot campaign. Campaign finance reports filed Friday show We Are Ohio raised about $30 million in its effort and received another $12 million in in-kind contributions. Final results of ...
Shelby Co. lawmen sign agreement to reassemble drug task force
Sidney Police Chief Kevin Gessler and Shelby County Sheriff John Lenhart affixed their signatures to a 12 page document that reassembles what is now being renamed as the Sidney-Shelby Co. Narcotics Task Force. Police agencies in Shelby County will once again work together effective immediately when it comes to drug ...
NFIB brings its Sensible Regulations Campaign to Darke Co.
Members of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) brought its nation-wide campaign to Darke County Thursday calling for sensible regulations from the federal government. Small business owners struggle with what they call "government overregulations." Two local small business owners from Greenville and Darke County expressed their disapproval of the ...
Montgomery Co. foreclosure filings fall
New numbers show that the number of foreclosures in Montgomery County actually went down last year. In fact, new foreclosure filing in 2010 were at their lowest rate since 2005 at about 4,000 homes. Most are seeing this as a good sign for the economy but the county ...
Stories for Thursday, December 15
Holiday shopping brings awareness of germs
The holiday season often means spending a lot of time around people, but this year, there are several viruses around that you can easily pick up in a crowd. You can't avoid germs completely. News Center 7 went to several malls in the area and swabbed several items that we ...
Stories for Wednesday, December 14
St. Marys eye doctor gets 15 months in sex case
A St. Marys eye doctor appeared in Auglaize County Common Pleas Court Wednesday afternoon and was sentenced on a charge of gross sexual imposition. Douglas Wine, 52, of near St. Marys, was sentenced to 15 months in prison and a $5,000 fine. The maximum that Wine could have received was ...
Stories for Tuesday, December 13
Judge hears hours of testimony in hearing in upcoming murder trial
A judge hears hours of testimony in a hearing on pre-trial motions in the up coming aggravated murder trial of Vance Short in Shelby County Common Pleas Court in Sidney. Testifing were detectives and investigators who worked on the case over the 13 1/2 years. The 46 year old Short ...
Stories for Saturday, December 10
Meth lab busted in Indiana
An investigation of chemical pruchase records lead Indana State Police to a trailer where a man was manufacturing meth. At about 11 p.m. Friday, troopers went to 1102 West Monroe Street in Alexandria after discovering a man who lives at that address purchased more than allowed monthly amount of a ...
Stories for Thursday, December 8
Lost 1940 Greenville HS class ring returned
A Greenville woman is now wearing her mother's 1940 Greenville High School class ring. Apparently her mother lost the ring. It was found by a now-former Greenville resident Marceena Hamilton, now living in Versailles, KY. Hamilton returned the ring Wednesday evening in Greenville to Nancy Long Francis the daughter of ...
Double murder investigation intensifies
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said that his office and the Bureau of Criminal Investigation are helping the Mercer County Sheriff's Department in its investigation of the double murder of Robert Grube and his daughter Colleen. They were found bound and shot to death a week ago in thier Burrville ...
Stories for Monday, December 5
Holiday apps that help
Once Thanksgiving hits, the holiday to-do list never seems to end. Cooking shopping, decorating. It’s enough to stress anyone out. But help is at your fingertips with a few apps that will help keep you in the holiday spirit. For Pam Rice, it isn’t the holiday season without her family’s ...
Car hits pole; school bus get tangled in wires
Deputies in Clark County said they are investigating a crash that happened late Monday afternoon. The crash happened in the 8400 block of New Carlisle Pike on Monday afternoon. According to Sheriff Gene Kelly, a car struck a pole and brought down some lines. He said a school bus approached ...
Stories for Sunday, December 4
Mercer Co. Sheriff issues media guidelines in Grube murder(s) updates
Mercer County Sheriff Jeff Grey sent a notice to area area media stating, "There is no need to call our offfice for updates (Grube double murder) as the answer will be: We are still working on the case and no information is being released." In that single page update Grey ...
Boy Scouts dodge ball tournament a success
The annual dodge ball tournament to benefit the Boy Scouts at the Nutter Center was a great success.
Stories for Saturday, December 3
Ohio House speaker wants state GOP chair to resign
Ohio's House speaker is joining Gov. John Kasich in calling for the resignation of the state's Republican Party chairman. A Friday-night memo obtained by The Columbus Dispatch shows Speaker William Batchelder telling House GOP caucus members that chairman Kevin DeWine from Fairborn undermined Republican incumbents in 2010 by persuading donors ...
Piqua fire guts a two-family dwelling
A mid afternoon fire in Piqua Saturday heavily damaged a two-family two-story dwelling at 715 Walker Street off Park Ave. in Piqua. The blaze possibly started in the basement of the house and traveled inside the walls up into the attic. No one was home. Piqua called for mutual aid ...
Suspected drunk driver leads deputy on chase
A man who deputies said was drivng drunk lead one deputy on a chase in New Carlisle early Saturday morning. At about 2:40 a.m. Saturday, a deputy patroling the southern part of New Carlisle saw a car headed west on Musselman Road new North Dayton Lakeview speeding and run a ...
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