Urbancrest News

LEBANON - Salutes, bear hugs and a few tears were displayed Saturday as roughly 130 soldiers said goodbye to their families and the community before deploying to Iraq.

Evelyn Carovillano looks into the face of her father, Ohio Army National Guardsman Andrea Carovillano, as the toddler touches the yellow rose he was given after the Call to Duty Ceremony at Urbancrest Baptist Church in Lebanon Saturday morning, May 2, 2009.

Approximately 250 Soldiers from the Ohio Army National Guard's Troop B and Troop C, 2nd Squadron, 107th Cavalry Regiment will mobilize for active duty this month in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

AmeriCorps VISTA worker Greg Lanham, 23, of Quincy, Mass., works with children in the after-school program in Urbancrest as Hamdi Munya, 10, rests his head for a moment.

Urbancrest has agreed to pay South-Western schools $237,209 to make up for property taxes the district lost when the village set them aside to pay for infrastructure improvements, according to a state audit ...

Everyone knows one man's trash is another's treasure, but how to get the trash to the man who can use it can present a difficulty.

CPD SWAT was called to a house on the city's West Side Monday morning. NBC 4's Tom Brockman was reporting from the scene with the FAST FACTS.

The Franklin County Board of Elections has settled a four-way tie for a position on Obetz's new charter commission by drawing a name out of a plastic pretzel container.