Hamilton County News Archives

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Little Tyke Hike Winton Woods 11:00 a.m. Three to six year olds are welcomed to this action filled "camo" hide-and-seek game inside Winton Centre.

Two OVI checkpoints are scheduled in Hamilton County this evening. The first checkpoint will be on Blue Ash Road at the Ronald Reagan Highway overpass, from 7:30PM until 2:30AM. The second checkpoint will be on Plainfield Road at the Ronald Reagan Highway over pass, from 11:30PM until 2:30AM. Officers from Blue Ash, Ohio State Highway Patrol, ...

Hamilton County voters are being asked to approve a tax levy November 3 that would fund mental health services for the next five years.

DOWNTOWN - A sex offender was charged Wednesday with raping a 16-year-old girl earlier this month in an abandoned building in Over-the-Rhine. Howard Johnson, 19, of Over-the-Rhine, is accused of threatening the girl with serious physical harm unless she submitted to sex on Oct.

The Butler County Sheriffs are alerting residents in the Woodsdale area that they may hear a series of loud explosions tonight.

MADISONVILLE - A 17-year-old boy was indicted Thursday in the fatal shooting of a 49-year-old motorist last year.

LINCOLN HEIGHTS - A 23-year-old man accused of murdering another man last month was taken into custody late Wednesday.

An Ohio woman has been accused of trying to sell nearly $7,500 worth of tickets that had been stolen from a Cincinnati-area haunted house.

WEST CHESTER TWP. - The body of Patricia Battle was found early today in a pond off Hutzelman Way and Ohio 747 near an apartment complex where she was reported missing four days ago.

NORTH COLLEGE HILL - A motorist was charged Wednesday with fleeing the scene of an accident during a police chase that seriously injured her passenger.

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Department is looking for the driver of a vehicle that struck a man and kept going early Saturday.

Jacob Inabnit An inmate from the Hamilton County who escaped Thursday night is back behind bars.

PRICE HILL - A Hamilton County jail inmate who escaped Thursday night was apprehended about five hours later at a house in the 2100 block of Staebler Street, according to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.

Officers say a Hamilton County Justice Center inmate has escaped by jumping on a truck leaving a loading dock near the kitchen tonight.

A 28-year-old Golf Manor man who spent 10 years in a mental health facility for attacking a woman in Roselawn in 1998 was arrested late Wednesday and charged with fatally stabbing a 93-year-old woman outside her apartment building.

Two Ohio teenagers forced to sleep in cages have sued their adoptive parents and caseworkers who arranged the adoptions.

James House III, 28, suspect in Ida Martin's murder. The man arrested for fatally stabbing a 93-year-old Roselawn woman on Tuesday, apparently has been in mental facilities for a decade for stabbing other women in Roselawn in the late 1990s.

A Montgomery man who was working a $10-an-hour job in the pro-casino committee's Cincinnati campaign office has been indicted by a Hamilton County grand jury on five felony counts of filing false absentee ballot applications.

The unemployment rate dropped in September across much of the Tri-State, but experts warn the numbers don't tell the whole story.

A former morgue worker already in prison for having sex with a body awaiting autopsy has pleaded guilty in two more cases of sexually assaulting corpses.

HAMILTON COUNTY, Ohio - A man who worked at the county morgue for 16 years and is serving time for having sex with a corpse admitted today to having sex with two more bodies during his employment.

A former morgue worker pleaded guilty to charges that he sexually abused two corpses.

EMS workers in Hamilton County got the H1N1 nasal vaccine today. About 4,000 doses of the spray vaccine are now in Ohio.

Harry Brockmeier Jr A northern Kentucky man and his son appeared for arraignment Saturday morning in Hamilton County Municipal Court.

The student who set fires at the College of Mount St. Joseph in March has repaid all the police and fire departments that investigated the blazes.

The Hamilton County Health Department starts giving out the H1N1 vaccine Friday.

FieldWorks, the Washington, D.C.-based political firm hired by the pro-Issue 3 forces, has resigned in the midst of a Hamilton County grand jury investigation into absentee ballot fraud.

Colerain Township Police and the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department have arrested nine people in an undercover drug investigation.

One local election board is urging people to vote early - to avoid H1N1. Clermont County elections director Judy Miller wants more people to vote by mail rather than in person to cut down on the spread of illness, particularly the H1N1 flu.

Franklin County officials are investigating possible fraud involving absentee ballots for the Nov.

CAMP WASHINGTON - A 31-year-old Green Township man was arrested and charged Tuesday with robbing a metal business at gunpoint last month.

A prosecutor says an investigation of questionable absentee ballot applications has led to a raid on the Cincinnati office of a pro-casino group.

A teenager has allegedly confessed to holding up the same bank twice in two weeks, and then buying a car with the stolen loot.

HAMILTON CO., Ohio -- The first doses of the H1N1 vaccine have been administered to Hamilton County emergency personnel.

The Hamilton County Board of Elections is investigating what appears to be fraudulent applications for early voting ballots.

The Hamilton County Auditor says public officials should give up their access to free tickets at the Cincinnati football stadium and baseball park.

One person has died in a house fire early Saturday morning. A short time after 4:00am, Hamilton County sheriffs along with members from the Crosby, Harrison, and Miami Township fire departments responded to a house fire at the 6500 block of River Road.

Two men who engaged in a January robbery spree admitted their guilt Tuesday. Ahmed Tibtani, 19, of West Price Hill, pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated robbery and agreed to serve a 10-year prison sentence.

Saint Torrance isn't a lawyer but he's kept the Hamilton County courts busy with the dozens of lawsuits he's filed.

HAMILTON CO., Ohio -- The Hamilton County Solid Waste Management District is holding a computer and television dropoff program for county residents on Saturday.

A 23-year-old Florida man is behind bars in Hamilton County, accused of coming to the Tri-State to have sex with a teen girl he met on the internet.

County elections officials in Cincinnati have asked the prosecutor to investigate some 40 absentee ballot applications that appear to be fraudulent.

Police have made an arrest in a 2005 homicide case. At the time, Newport police informed Cincinnati detectives that a man had died at St.

When Aleksandr Alferov vanished nine years ago, so did $27,000 from his bank account.

GREEN TWP. - The owner of a dry cleaning business was arrested and charged over the weekend with raping a woman at his home in the 3700 block of Crestknoll Lane.

The stinging pain of her boyfriend's open hand slapping her jaw shot through Angela Lewis' teeth and tongue.

CINCINNATI - State funding cuts are pushing a record number of Ohio's public libraries to seek local tax levies as they struggle to keep branches open and avoid cutting services that patrons are using more than ever.

Additional charges have been filed against a teenage girl accused of fatally hitting and killing a 13-year-old boy.

SYMMES TWP., Ohio -- Authorities are searching for a man who held up a Symmes Township bank while wearing a Halloween mask Friday morning.

Elmer Ordonez A man with seven drunk-driving arrests in the past six years is back on the roads, because police say they can't hold him in jail due to overcrowding.

A Hamilton County man is behind bars, accused of taking money from a local police department.

The Hamilton County Coroner has ruled the death of a Westwood woman as a homicide.

Terry Baccus and Anthony Rainey knew in February when they went to buy a gun that they were going to rob the Walnut Hills man selling it to them.