Hamilton County News

Todd Kendal Washington's family told a judge Wednesday that the convicted murderer has split personalities.

Robert Shuemak, 40, of Winton Place, cringes whenever he hears the word 'retarded.' The word, he says, has become an insult.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has denied clemency to a man sentenced to die next week for a fatal shooting during a multistate killing rampage in 1991.

SPRING GROVE VILLAGE - Cincinnati police are investigating two overnight shootings that led to one arrest and injured three victims, including one with serious injuries.

A bipartisan commission on Monday recommended Judge Tim Black as the next U.S. District Court judge in Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI - The coroner in Cincinnati says the city's first heat-related death of the summer occurred when an elderly woman turned on the heat when she meant to turn on her air conditioning.

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office and the Colerain Police Department are investigating an apparent homicide-suicide that occurred late Friday night at 3686 Twinview Dr.

Police say a man from Colerain Township is in custody, charged in a burglary in Blue Ash last month.

Seven people are facing charges after a prostitution sting in Hamilton. Hamilton police said they made the arrests of two alleged prostitutes, four alleged customers and a man wanted on warrants on Wednesday.

CINCINNATI - The coroner in Cincinnati says the city's first heat-related death of the summer occurred when an elderly woman turned on the heat when she meant to turn on her air conditioning.

A grand jury indicted a Springdale man Wednesday on murder charges in connection with an Interstate 75 shootout that left two men dead.

Hamilton County Coroner O'dell Owens says the death of a North College Hill woman last week was heat-related. Owens says Fanny Shockley, 84, mistakenly turned the heat on in her apartment instead of her air conditioning on June 23.

Hamilton County Coroner Dr. Odell Owens will talk about the first heat related death of the summer and give an update on the suspect double murder, suicide in Forest Park on Wednesday.

A prosecutor is asking the Ohio Parole Board to block the release of a man who killed two co-workers and wounded two others in a 1981 workplace shooting spree.

A 33-year-old man faces up to 50 years in prison after he was indicted by a Hamilton County grand jury on rape and other sex-related charges involving two young children.

A 39-year-old Reading man whose driver's license is suspended after a recent drunken-driving arrest was picked up on the same charge over the weekend - and this time, police say he had two children in the backseat.

FOREST PARK - A 49-year-old man is believed to have shot his elderly parents in their Waycross Road home before turning the gun on himself, police say.

Police said a man broke into a Cincinnati home and proceeded to stay there for a week, watching television and sleeping in the master bedroom while the family was on vacation.

Supporters of the local library held a rally today to oppose a plan by Ohio's Governor to cut funding of public libraries by as much as 50%. More than 100 people showed up at the Loveland Branch of the Cincinnati Hamilton County Public Library for the rally.

A 37-year-old man was arrested and charged over the weekend in connection with a baseball bat attack earlier this month.