Stories by Doug Page
‘Bomb’ at Beavercreek HS was prank, police say
Detectives are investigating criminal charges against unnamed students in a prank bomb that forced the evacuation Monday of 2,600 students from Beavercreek High School. Capt. Jeff Fiorita said Tuesday the 1-gallon milk jug left in a second floor hallway “was the result of a prank from one student to another, ...
Beavercreek High School evacuated after suspicious jug found
A 1-gallon plastic milk jug filled with an unidentified liquid triggered the Monday afternoon evacuation of the 2,600 students at Beavercreek High School. The school resource officer called in the suspicious jug to his colleagues at the Beavercreek Police Department around 1:15 p.m., according to Capt. Jeff Fiorita. Beavercreek Twp. ...
Local marathon runners remain angry over bombings
Reaction from local Boston Marathon runners to Friday’s developments:“I hated the thought that they might have left the country, and we’d be forever finding them. There wouldn’t be any closure until we got them. The families are the ones I really feel bad for.”— Richard Barton, Greenville“It’s sickening to me ...
Xenia considers renovations to school for city hall use
Six of the seven Xenia City Council members want more information before making any decision on a contract with architects to explore the renovation of the Simon Kenton school into a city administrative center. While several said the architects’ study might give them the information they needed, council member Dale ...
Greene County considers county-wide dispatch center in township fire station
Township trustees have agreed to let Greene County investigate the feasibility of establishing a county-wide dispatch center in the basement of one of the township’s fire station. The resolution agreeing to the study does not commit the township to be part of a proposed dispatch center, nor will the township ...
DeWine trying to organize Internet Cafe crackdown
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is rallying local law enforcement to shut down Ohio’s Internet cafe “sweepstakes” parlors, with or without the help of the Ohio legislature. DeWine held a briefing Wednesday, attended by hundreds of cops and prosecutors from across the state, to teach them how to investigate, charge ...
Two killed in crash near Moraine-West Carrollton city limits
Two people were killed and two others injured Monday night when a speeding car northbound on Ohio 741 crossed the center line and smashed head-on into a southbound car at the Moraine-West Carrollton city limits.A southbound Miami Twp. police officer spotted the speeding car south of the crash scene shortly ...
Gas tax not keeping up with road needs
Federal and state motor fuel tax receipts — the billions that pay for road construction, repaving, maintenance and operations of highway and street departments — are not growing as fast as the cost of those projects. And that may mean more potholes and deteriorating roadways during the coming years. A ...
2 killed in high-speed collision on Ohio 741
Two people were killed and two others injured Monday night when a speeding car northbound on Ohio 741 crossed the center line and smashed head-on into a southbound car at the Moraine-West Carrollton city limits. A southbound Miami Twp. police officer spotted the speeding car south of the crash scene ...
Xenia council considers uses for former Simon Kenton school
Renovation of a former elementary school for city use hit a bump Thursday when two city council members suggestedthe former Simon Kenton school should be demolished and a new building constructed. Council members Dale Louderback and John Caupp expressed doubts that a $3.2 million estimate for the renovation of the ...
Judge appoints former mayor to trustee board
A Greene County judge has appointed a former Beavercreek mayor as the swing vote on the three-person Beavercreek Board of Trustees.Candy Prystaloski fills the seat of former trustee Bob Glasser, who resigned Jan. 1 following his election as a county commissioner.Trustees Carol Graff and Dan Paxson had 30 days to ...
Charter school merges campuses
Dayton Leadership Academies announced Thursday it would merge its Liberty campus with its Dayton View campus next school year to concentrate its efforts into one building. Money used to run the Liberty campus, 4401 Dayton-Liberty Rd., would be used “to provide expanded strategies for student achievement,” Theodore Wallace, the schools’ ...
Beavercreek places income tax request on May ballot
City Council took the final step to place a 1.5 percent earned income tax on the May 7 ballot by unanimously passing a resolution to put the matter before voters. “We have cut the budget and departments over the past two years,” Mayor Vicki Giambrone said Tuesday. “This is how ...
Beavercreek Township trustees unable to agree on new trustee
Beavercreek Township Trustees Carol Graff and Dan Paxson were unable to agree Monday on a replacement among 16 candidates to join them on the three-person township Board of Trustees.“We are not able to agree on one candidate,” Paxson said, reading from a statement after a 21-minute executive session.Graff and Paxson ...
Trustees meet today to discuss potential candidate for open spot
The township’s two trustees will meet behind closed doors today to attempt to fill a vacancy of the three-person Board of Trustees. Whomever is chosen likely will have the deciding votes on issues from public services to spending that affects the 47,000 people in the township that includes the city ...
11 candidates so far for Beavercreek Township trustee
As of Friday morning, 11 people are seeking to fill a vacancy on the Beavercreek Twp. Board of Trustees. The two remaining trustees, Carol Graff and Dan Paxson, set Monday as deadline for applicants to e-mail their particulars to the township fiscal officer. Details are posted on the township’s web ...
Gun sales soar as debate rages
Gun sales have soared in Southwest Ohio in the wake of December’s mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school and related calls for tougher gun control laws, resulting in rising prices and rationing for many types of firearms, ammunition magazines and ammunition, experts and officials said. Local guns sales started ...
Expenses top revenues in proposed Bellbrook city budget
The City Council is expected tonight to approve a $6.7 million budget for 2013 with revenues projected to be around $330,000 less than expenditures. Mark Schlagheck, city manager, said the city’s $4.6 million “rainy day” fund would cover the deficit. “In future years, this (rainy day fund) balance is expected ...
Coroner: Officer died of blunt force trauma, drowning
The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office has ruled the preliminary cause of death of a Trotwood police officer who was killed in a crash Wednesday morning.Officer David Yaney, 59, died just before dawn Wednesday when his pickup truck drove off an Englewood road, hit a guardrail and went airborne, plunging 35 ...
Township searches for sixth police chief since 2006
The township is looking for a new police chief again.On Monday, James Deaton resigned after two-plus years as chief. Barry Tiffany, township administrator, said Deaton resigned for personal reasons.Deaton is the fifth chief to leave the job since 2006.The trustees, following a 30-minute executive session, voted unanimously to name former ...
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