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Kerrington Hall, 29, of Printer's Row, joins other abortion rights activists to protest on Michigan Avenue in the Loop in Chicago after the U.S. Senate voted against pushing the Women's Health Protection Act forward, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

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PHOTOS: Abortion rights protests across America

Voter turnout in Beavercreek was good, officials said at the University Baptist Church, on Tuesday, May 4, 2021.

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ELECTION RESULTS: Winners of local, state races and issues

$Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, with first lady Fran DeWine, carry in peanut butter, cleaning supplies, clothes and diapers for children to the Emerge Recovery and Trade Initiative to be transported to help Ukrainian refugees. On Friday, April 1, 2022, the governor met with charitable organizations near Xenia regarding help for Ukrainian refugees. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

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DeWine highlights help for Ukrainian refugees

Airmen with the 178th Wing of the Ohio Air National Guard and their families participated in a Call to Duty Ceremony Sunday at the Springfield National Guard Base. The airmen are deploying in support of the Air Force Central Command to provide tactical command and control capabilities. BILL LACKEY/STAFF

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Ohio senator backs Guard member seeking active-duty pay protection

A protester wearing a Canadian flag takes a photo of children playing in an inflatable bouncy castle on Wellington Street across from Parliament's West Block during a protest against COVID-19 measures in Ottawa, on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. Hundreds of truckers clogging the streets of Canada's capital city in a protest against COVID-19 restrictions are bracing for what could be a possible police crackdown. (Justin Tang /The Canadian Press via AP)

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PHOTOS: Canadian police start arresting truck protesters in Ottawa

Rioters scale a wall at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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PHOTOS: One year since violent insurrection at the US Capitol

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Audit: Ohio workers comp contractors paid for hours they didn’t work

Montgomery County Auditor Karl Keith holds a foam desktop toy with the phone number citizens can call to learn more about the homestead exemption program. CORNELIUS FROLIK / STAFF

Deadline nears to apply for property tax break for seniors

Law could close local abortion clinic; backers fight to protect access

The City of Dayton Commission Chambers was filled Monday morning to welcome the new Director and Chief of Police, Kamran Afzal. The swearing in ceremony was held a 10a.m. and Chief Afzal's family attended. JIM NOELKER/STAFF

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PHOTOS: Dayton Police Chief Kamran Afzal sworn in

$The Dayton Foodbank harvested the first organic heads of lettuce and greens, produced in the recently built Beverly K. Greenehouse, on Monday morning, Dec. 20, 2021 and will be distributing it to local families for the holidays. They will also be sending instructions home to each family that shows them how they can grow more lettuce at their homes, using the greens they received from the Foodbank. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

PHOTOS: Foodbank celebrates first harvest from greenhouse

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Dayton man’s murder conviction shows limits of Ohio self-defense laws

Springboro filmmaker Joe Knopp talks to around 100 people on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, at the Savannah Center in West Chester Twp. during the announcement of being Ohio gubernatorial candidate Jim Renacci's running mate. Renacci, looking on from the right, is challenging Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine in the May GOP primary. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

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6 things to know about Joe Knopp, candidate for Ohio lieutenant governor

Dayton City Manager Shelley Dickstein at a community meeting Wednesday morning at North Dayton Baptist Church. Dickstein discussed the city's proposed spending plan for $138 million in federal rescue funds. CORNELIUS FROLIK / STAFF

Dayton reveals spending plans for $138M in federal funds

Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer laid to rest during funeral services Wednesday.

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PHOTOS: Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer laid to rest

Ohio attorney general tries to block vaccine rules for health care workers

A panel moderated by U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, at the Ohio Defense and Aerospace Forum last month. Clockwise from left are Turner; Col Patrick Miller, 88th Air Base Wing commander, Wright Patterson AFB; George Lecakes, vice president and general manager, national security, Battelle; and Col Kimberly Fitzgerald, 178th Wing commander, Springfield Air National Guard Base

Turner: Congressional map should recognize work for Wright-Patt

U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton, (left) speaks Friday Nov. 12 with Dr. Derrick Foward, president of the Dayton Chapter of the NAACP. THOMAS GNAU/STAFF

Congressman presents inauguration flag to NAACP Dayton unit president

A joint service flyover is held during a centennial ceremony for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in Arlington National Cemetery, on Veterans Day, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021, in Arlington, Va. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

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PHOTOS: 2021 Veterans Day in America

Voting was slow and steady around noon at the Northwest Recreational Center on Princeton Dr. in Dayton. Jim Noelker/Staff

PHOTOS: Ohioans go to the polls: Election Day 2021

More than 150 people jammed into the Mason City Building's council chamber, overflow room and lobby on Monday to express their opinion about a proposed anti-abortion ordinance being reviewed by a Mason City Council committee that is similar to one adopted in May by Lebanon City Council. The ordinance has been discussed in committee but has not made it to the agenda for council consideration. ED RICHTER/STAFF

Mason city council passes ban on abortions in city limits

Sen. Sherrod Brown talks to a worker during his tour of TAC Industries’ Cargo Net Manufacturing Facility in Springfield on Friday. Hasan Karim/Staff

Sen. Brown visits Springfield nonprofit that focuses on job training for those with...

Beavercreek High School junior ROTC presented the colors at the beginning of the 911 Anniversary Memorial Saturday Sept.11, 2021. JIM NOELER/STAFF

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PHOTOS: 20th anniversary of 9/11 attacks: A look at local observances

Vehicles are under water during flooding in Philadelphia, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021 in the aftermath of downpours and high winds from the remnants of Hurricane Ida that hit the area. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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PHOTOS: Hurricane Ida’s remnants hit Northeast

$Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, is seeking the Democratic nomination in the Ohio gubernatorial race. Whaley said Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, she will visit all 88 Ohio counties by early May, pledging to give voters “a voice, to listen to them and to give them power, because Ohio deserves better.” MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Dayton mayor pledges to visit Ohio’s 88 counties in gubernatorial bid

Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus is taken into custody by U.S. Capitol Police officers in the Hart Senate Office Building, after a demonstration supporting the voting rights, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, July 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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PHOTOS: Ohio Rep. Joyce Beatty arrested during voting rights protest at Capitol

Ohio Medicaid providers’ data may have been exposed from data breach

State rejects protest to new Ohio Medicaid system

Ohio overhauling $20B Medicaid program, but budget could pump the brakes

$Kathy DelRio, widow of Det. Jorge DelRio, receives a hug from Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl Thursday, June 10, 2021 after a three-block section of Monument Avenue was permanently renamed Det. Jorge DelRio Way to honor her late husband. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

PHOTOS: Downtown Dayton street renamed for Dayton police Det. Jorge DelRio