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Artists with developmental disabilities and staff from InsideOut Studio in Hamilton, recently collaborated with teenagers from the Boys & Girls Club of Hamilton at the Grand Boulevard location to create a vibrant installation mural for their Teen Center.

Teens, artists with disabilities collaborate on new mural at Hamilton center

David Jablonski, left; Marcus Hartman, center and Jeremy Kelley, right will have a live discussion about the UD Flyers basketball team. The event will stream on YouTube from Warped Wing Springboro on Jan. 14, 2025.

Join our sports staff for Flyer Connection Live on Tuesday at Warped Wing

$New Warren County Sheriff Barry Riley oversees 218 full-time employees, including corrections officers, clerical specialists, school resource officers, detectives, evidence custodians, those who work in fiscal and supply, and deputy sheriffs. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

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Meet the new Warren County sheriff: Barry Riley has ‘duty and responsibility’ to serve

BOOK NOOK: New books to look out for in 2025

FILE - In this Thursday June 17, 2021 file photo shows Jake Crisco, general manager of the Green Leaf Medical Cannibis facility, holds a mature bud of marijuana at the company's plant in Richmond, Va. Adult recreational use of marijuana will become legal in Virginia this week, but the commercial production and sale of marijuana is still almost three years away. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

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Troy council bans adult-use cannabis businesses; resident plans to challenge

Gem City Gamble: Dayton’s police corruption, gangsters and the downfall of Pete Rose

$Snowy weather Friday morning, Jan. 19, 2024 had people starting their snowblowers to clear driveways and sidewalks in Fairborn. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Freezing cold with chance of snow today

A woman walks in the snow along Main Street in Englewood Thursday afternoon

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Multiple area counties have lifted level 1 snow emergencies

You could hear the sounds of snowblowers running all over the area Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, in Fairborn, like this man clearing sidewalks on Wayne Drive. MARSHALL GORBY/STAFF

Local fire departments say keeping fire hydrants clear of snow is a big need

Instead of going back to school Monday, Jan. 6, 2025 a group of kids were having fun sledding at Bomberger Park in Dayton. BILL LACKEY/STAFF

Where to go sledding in Dayton region

ODOT closes I-75 S contraflow lane north of downtown Dayton again

The snow flakes were falling again Friday, Jan. 10, 2025 in Springfield and forecast to add another couple inches onto the snow already on the ground. BILL LACKEY/STAFF

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PHOTOS: Snow returns to southwest Ohio for second time in a week

Rep. Bernie Willis, R-Springfield, watches alongside Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted as Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs House Bill 77, a Willis bill to regulate drone usage in Ohio. Jan. 8, 2024.

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Ohio now has laws on drone usage after DeWine signs bill: Here’s what you can’t do

$Man shovels out his car along Steele Avenue in Dayton, Wednesday, January 8, 2025. No streets are cleared, but sidewalks are hit and miss in most neighborhoods, causing a hazard for students to get to school and pedestrians to walk. MARSHALL GORBY \STAFF$

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Trotwood asks residents to move vehicles off city streets as snow starts again

Kettering Schools is one of the only local districts impacted by a national school data breach. NICK BLIZZARD/STAFF

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Kettering impacted by data leak by PowerSchool, other districts say they’re not impacted

1 arrested, 10 kilograms of cocaine seized in Montgomery County

The owners of Bella Sorella Pizza are planning a late summer/early fall opening for their new restaurant, located just east of Esther Price in Clayton (FACEBOOK PHOTO).

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Bella Sorella Pizza to open restaurant in Clayton: ‘There’s not a lot of places to eat on...

$The Macy’s store at Fairfield Commons in Beavercreek will be closing its doors. MARSHALL GORBY \STAFF$

Macy’s store among 66 closing nationwide

Yellow Springs school board members Amy Bailey (left) and Amy Magnus (right). Image from school board meeting Youtube stream.

Yellow Springs school board censures member

$The day space at the Gettysburg Gateway Shelter for Men on South Gettysburg Avenue in southwest Dayton. About 276 men were staying at the shelter on a recent weeknight. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Low temps highlight faults of crowded, chaotic men’s shelter: Some call for new approach...