Montgomery County News

Columbus plans to consolidate its police and fire 911 call centers and replace uniformed dispatchers with civilians, a move that drew a threat of a political "bloodbath" from the firefighters' union president.

Two garbage bags of suspected marijuana and large rolls of cash were seized after a resident reported suspicious activity on Beth Road early Friday morning, police said.

An advisory committee has pushed through seven recommendations for economic development in the Dayton region.

A 30-year-old Riverside man is to be in court Thursday morning for his initial appearance on 40 separate counts accusing him of either pandering obscenity involving a minor or pandering sexually-oriented material involving a minor.

Another gas station will be coming on line this summer in north Dayton. Giant Oil just bought the vacant Shell gas station at 110 Shoup Mill Road for $265,000, according to Montgomery County records.

Montgomery County deputies in Washington Twp. responded at 5:38 p.m. to the credit union, 6147 Far Hills Ave.

Heat Nightclub will not be permitted to open for the next two weeks, according to a ruling made this afternoon in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court.

The attorney for former funeral director Scherrie McLin has requested that her fraud case be transferred out of Montgomery County courts.

A fast food joint in Harrison Township is getting a complete restart. The Hardee's at 2500 Needmore Road came under new ownership in December and was demolished to make room for a brand new building.

A local disc golf supplies store is relocating down the street into a newly renovated building.

The Dayton Daily News is covering the Jamie Shaffer murder trial. Shaffer, 23, could face the death penalty if found guilty by a panel of three Montgomery County Common Pleas Court judges in the killing of 20-year-old Lisa Spinks.

A West Carrollton KinderCare worker who laid across a child on a cot at naptime and the administrator who took no action after learning about it have been fired, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

The first day of trial against a Gallia County man accused in a 2012 murder began on Monday afternoon in the Gallia County Common Pleas Courtroom.

A New Carlisle mother was arrested Thursday evening after her 4-year-old son was found riding his bike by himself on Ohio 235 in Bethel Township.

Two clerks at businesses in Montgomery County were given citations Thursday for selling alcohol to underage customers, the Montgomery County The RANGE Task Force conducted an underage alcohol sting operation at 18 businesses with liquor permits in Washington and Miami townships.

A Harrison Twp. mother was sentenced to probation and the father pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of endangering children after their 13-year-old daughter with cerebral palsy was found to weigh 57 pounds.

A man who tried to rob a Miami Twp. man with a knife last December was sentenced to 14 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and aggravated robbery.

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Nan Whaley and A.J. Wagner have survived the runoff vote for mayor of Dayton, according to unofficial results from the Montgomery County Board of Elections.

A 16-year-old boy was shot in the head Tuesday night at a vigil for a man who had been shot to death in the same block of Germantown Pike less than 24 hours earlier.

Angela Goodwine, 53, of Dayton pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to stealing $70,000 in taxpayer money that was supposed to help battered women.