Montgomery County News

Ohio's jobless rate may be 10.5 percent but for the first time in a decade there's a glimmer of hope in the state's unemployment news, research analyst George Zeller reported on Friday, Nov.

Formal charges were expected to be filed Tuesday against a Whitehall auxiliary officer accused of trying to drown his girlfriend in a ditch.

From the electric wheelchair parked inside her small kitchen, Denise Naylor tells stories about the man who was supposed to be there through her final days.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 8:03 AM WCLT News Staff A former volunteer Whitehall auxiliary police officer faced a western Ohio judge accused of trying to kill his ex-girlfriend. Joshua Gearhart pleaded not guilty to assault and abduction charges in Montgomery County.

Michael Wolfe's first run for elective office fell eight votes short of victory - less than one vote shy of the margin triggering an automatic recount - according to final results in the Nov.

Unemployment rates for Dayton and Montgomery County both increased in October after two months of declines, according to data released on Tuesday, Nov.

Tabitha Coleman feels guilty for even asking, but she needs help. Coleman, her boyfriend Tranel Philpot and son Isaiah, were next door in the same duplex at 2280 E. First St.

A woman was taken to the hospital with injuries from an apartment fire at the Riverside Apartments, 4049 Iddings Court.

Nearly four months after investigators say he left two children in a trash can overnight, Tommie Lee Johnson Jr.

An Ohio judge has stuck with a sentence he initially made relying on the wrong case notes, and now the prosecutor wants to appeal.

Dayton firefighters extinguish a fire at a duplex on East First Street that left a mother and two children dead and two other children injured Thursday night, Nov.

This year's service cuts and fare increases by the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority did not fully resolve budget troubles, and the bus system faces growing projected deficits.

Montgomery County's Board of Elections will reduce the number of voting precincts at its November 24th meeting.

Voting precincts will be consolidated in Montgomery County under a plan set for a vote by the county board of elections on Tuesday, Nov.

Police never arrested Denise Stinson and Mark Newberry on a charge of killing 2-year-old Malechi Wilson.

The case is closed and murder/suicide has been ruled in the death of two people in May, in Scioto County.

Job hunters will be able to use a laptop computer and cell phone for free at area Cricket Communications stores under a program to be unveiled today, Nov.

Health officials in a southwest Ohio county with a diabetes rate nearly double the national level want to raise awareness.

Ohio wants the federal government to allow an industrial insecticide to be used in homes to fight bedbugs, tiny bloodsucking insects that continue to be a problem here and in other states.

Police made a traffic stop at gunpoint on Ohio 725 just west of the Dayton Mall on Monday, Oct.