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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:53am EDT
Even in a society like an Adams County Amish community, where horsepower comes from oats and hooves, the runaway price of oil has had many unforeseen effects on survival.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:48am EDT
The Cincinnati Police Department tried and failed 19 times to fire officers and dispatchers in the past decade, including one who was fired twice. But many of them are back at work today.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:48am EDT
Saturday's John Henry Memorial Equine Adoption Fair at the Kentucky Horse Park raised $15,000 for the care of horses that have been victimized by last summer's drought and other challenges.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:47am EDT
Thursday's NBA Draft got us to wondering who would be each regional program's top five NBA players of All-Time. You can bet the Big O is on UC's list. We look at six area programs.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:46am EDT
Paul Bako entered Saturday's game hitless in his previous 14 at bats, including three strikeouts in his last two games. He found redemption at the expense of Cleveland pitcher Paul Byrd.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:41am EDT
The city holds its annual Independence Day Celebration 4-11 p.m. Friday at the Florence Government Center, 8100 Ewing Blvd.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:36am EDT
Since making his Major League debut May 27, Jay Bruce has started every game but one. Reds manager Dusty Baker said he'd like to give Bruce another rest soon, maybe even today.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:36am EDT
Today: Reds at Cleveland Indians, 1:05 p.m., Progressive Field, third game of a three-game series
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:35am EDT
Classifieds, commitments
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:35am EDT
Steelers cut RB Davenport
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:34am EDT
Some SEC coaches prefer college fun
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:32am EDT
Milford graduate John Van Benschoten was called up by Pittsburgh and might start against the Reds on Wednesday.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:29am EDT
Baseball notebook
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:28am EDT
Roundup of other games
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:27am EDT
A life battered, rebuilt
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:23am EDT
More than 3,200 Duke Energy customers were without power late Saturday in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky after a rash of afternoon thunderstorms.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:22am EDT
Doesn't Bronson Arroyo have a Mario Soto-like guru the Reds could fly in? Golfers do it all the time. This cat needs his psyche stroked. That last start was straight out of Halloween II.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:20am EDT
Residents living around the Newport Pavilion shopping center construction site expressed excitement as the first building, a Kroger Marketplace, prepares to go up.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:17am EDT
Twenty-four years ago, on June 27, 1984, Baker, then playing for the San Francisco Giants against the Reds, stole second, third and home in one inning.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:16am EDT
Floods, tornadoes earthquakes and other weather extremes have taken the lives of many people worldwide this year. With all the calamity elsewhere, are we due for a major natural disaster here?
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:14am EDT
The trophy awarded to the winner of the 99th Tony Blom Metropolitan Amateur Championship will land in familiar hands today.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 4:25am EDT
When the jurors finally decide thefate of three lawyers accused of looting the $200 million fen-phen settlement, no one from the public will be told who the jurors were.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 3:39am EDT
Crystal Chambers, 28, of Norwood, was charged with trafficking drugs, and drug possession when police executed a search of the Empire Tavern, where she worked as a barmaid.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 3:38am EDT
Hamilton County remains the region's main economic engine, but as more individuals have moved to the suburbs, so have businesses and employees.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 3:36am EDT
Funding is available to help low-income households with summer cooling costs. The Summer Crisis Program will be available from July 1 through Aug. 31.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 3:35am EDT
Two army deserters of Newport News, Va., were arrested late Friday and charged with murder in the shooting death of the Rev. Mark McCalla on June 19.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 3:32am EDT
Peter Braunstein became infamous following his 2007 conviction in New York where tabloids dubbed him "Pervy Pete." His big mouth may cost him 28 more years in prison.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 2:23am EDT
As Cincinnatians have come to realize in recent years, the public perception that police officers are operating under high standards of ethics and fairness is crucial to the community's well-being.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 2:06am EDT
Cincinnati has rehired 18 fired police officers and police dispatchers in the past 10 years. Most returned after arbitrators ruled their firings were unjustified.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:12pm EDT
Pixar's newest animated feature, "WALL-E," is just one of several must-see movies. Here's the scoop on which you'll love and which you'll loathe.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 12:19pm EDT
Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky will have mostly cloudy skies and a chance of showers this morning. But late this afternoon and tonight, the region may see isolated severe thunderstorms.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 12:12pm EDT
Delta Air Lines Inc. is adding fuel surcharges of as much as $50 for frequent-flier tickets to blunt this year's 42 percent surge in jet-fuel prices.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 12:11pm EDT
Share your "July 4th Summer Smiles" on Cincinnati.Com for a chance to win Kings Island tickets.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:55am EDT
Carpentier earns first Cup pole
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:24am EDT
Two U.S. Army deserters - one of them originally from Colerain Township - were arrested late Friday and charged with first-degree murder in the June 19 shooting of the Rev. Mark McCalla.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:24am EDT
The town sprung up, seemingly overnight, in 1942 beneath the cloak of government classification on a 60,000-acre tract of land that would itself grow, seemingly overnight, into Tennessee's fifth largest city: Oak Ridge.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:24am EDT
A private afternoon meeting in a downtown hotel with some of Ohio's Christian conservative leaders may pay off for John McCain's presidential campaign.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:21am EDT
Whitney Myers wants to be loyal to her sponsor, but if the Oxford native had to wear a Nike swimsuit at next week's U.S. Olympic Trials, she's sure she would never make the team.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 4:58am EDT
Wimbledon notebook
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 4:58am EDT
Sports digest
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 4:57am EDT
Lawyers: Donaghy's help was overstated
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 4:56am EDT
Former University of Kentucky men's basketball player Joe Crawford was selected by the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers in the second round of Thursday night's NBA Draft. He was the 58th player taken overall.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 4:56am EDT
Sprinter Felix finds herself in fast company
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 4:56am EDT
Rowers Volpenhein, Todd picked
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 4:52am EDT
There are many reasons why Jim Volpenhein has won the Tony Blom Metropolitan Amateur Championship seven times. His performance in clutch situations probably tops the list.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 4:51am EDT
The season is officially halfway over. It's safe to say that, at Friday's midpoint-marking game No. 81 at Progressive Field, the Reds weren't where Dusty Baker wanted them to be.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 4:46am EDT
O.J. Mayo's career with Minnesota lasted about four hours. "We felt it was a chance to take a player who we had ranked as the third best player in the draft," Grizzlies GM Chris Wallace said.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 4:35am EDT
Pitcher C.C. Sabathia took care of the Reds' offense. He had a monstrous night, striking out 11 and holding the Reds scoreless through eight innings. He allowed four hits and walked two.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 3:59am EDT
Indians manager Eric Wedge doesn't believe his club will be in last place for long.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 3:55am EDT
The courtroom doors were locked and Butler County deputies hovered over Terrence Candidate - a man with a history of trying to escape - as he was sent to prison for 45 years.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 3:21am EDT
Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory on Friday suspended Cincinnati's sister city relationship with Zimbabwe's capital, Harare - a protest against the intimidation and violence there that preceded Friday's election.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 3:19am EDT
State Sen. Eric Kearney (D-Cincinnati) is introducing a bill that would grant people with disabilities protection under Ohio's hate crime law.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 3:18am EDT
A fourth suspect in a June 18 homicide is behind bars on a $1 million bond.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 3:18am EDT
A hunting knife, a pair of latex gloves and binoculars found in convicted sex offender Michael Hamblin's red truck have authorities questioning whether he may have intended to harm the girls he allegedly tried to lure into the woods.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 3:16am EDT
The charge of criminal damaging against former Cincinnati Bengal Chris Henry was dismissed Friday. Henry now is charged only with misdemeanor assault.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 3:14am EDT
Paddlefest brings together canoe and kayak enthusiasts from all over the country for a weekend of paddling the river, water safety and conservation education and live music.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 2:00am EDT
The devil may wear Prada - but the pope does not. According to the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, the bright red loafers that Pope Benedict XVI wears are not designed by the Milanese fashion house, as has long been rumored.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:59am EDT
What was once akin to "swamp land" as undevelopable, many hillsides have been cut down, reshaped and all but destroyed in order to accommodate development. The resulting impact upon community aesthetics, watersheds and the hillsides themselves is significant.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:58am EDT
Now that we know Duke Energy was clear-cutting trees and shrubs that grew into the right-of-way of its power lines under a policy of corporate arrogance rather than federal mandate, the company needs to do more than offer verbal assurances that it won't happen again.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:57am EDT
The cicadas only have about one more week to drive people buggy in Cincinnati's eastern suburbs. Swarm XIV is due to go to ground in the first week of July, and then it will be 17 years before they reappear.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 12:35am EDT
A larger kitchen with room for more than one cook, guests and plenty of elbow room for kids was at the top of Marcy Lewis' remodeling wish list for her Mariemont home.
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Posted: June 27th, 2008, 10:39pm EDT
Inspired by the colors and crackles of July Fourth firecrackers, these miniature cakes are studded with flecks of color and go down with a bang thanks to a sprinkling of totally retro Pop Rocks candy.
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Posted: June 27th, 2008, 10:34pm EDT
Shoppers who used to be able to afford luxury goods are turning to third-party retailers that promise big discounts. But these amazing savings aren't always the real deal.
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Posted: June 27th, 2008, 9:47pm EDT
The towns and villages of the Outer Banks make this area of the North Carolina coast an outdoor lover's paradise.
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Posted: June 27th, 2008, 9:27pm EDT
For those who remember playing with rabbit ears, the digital TV age will be a trip Back to the Future.
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Posted: June 27th, 2008, 8:38pm EDT
Freeways, skyscrapers and state government as far as the eye can see. Would anyone head to Columbus for the gardens?
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Posted: June 19th, 2008, 6:20pm EDT
Police are investigating a robbery this morning at First Financial Bank, 901 Main St., according to emergency communication reports.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 3:45pm EDT
Father and son truck drivers from Denver were arrested this week after drug investigators here found them with more than 44 pounds of marijuana in their truck.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 3:42pm EDT
Rick Wallenda, grandson of the late high-wire walker Karl Wallenda, will visit Kings Island on July 4 to try to break his grandfather's world distance record.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 3:26pm EDT
Man charged in charity scam
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 3:20pm EDT
The crowd at Tim Russert's funeral Wednesday would have made a great panel on his Sunday morning news show.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 3:17pm EDT
Guest host Michelle Obama talked about the presidential campaign and helped the regular hosts of ABC's "The View" interview actor Matthew Broderick.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 3:15pm EDT
El Coyote shuts doors
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 3:10pm EDT
Ft. Mitchell fire said 'suspicious'
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 2:58pm EDT
100 things to do before you die
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 2:51pm EDT
Chad Johnson underwent successful arthroscopic surgery this morning on his right ankle, the Bengals announced this afternoon.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 2:37pm EDT
Michael Dowlar looked through his father's credit card bill and saw something that alarmed him: Forty-four unauthorized transactions totaling $1,042.57.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 2:30pm EDT
A Colerain Township man is accused of breaking into a church and stealing its cash register earlier this year.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 2:21pm EDT
Drew Lavender is accused of being drunk at an intersection in the 2700 of Vine Street in Corryville in the early morning hours of April 6 and refusing several orders from police to get out of the street after police told him to several times.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 2:16pm EDT
The Covington-based chemical company said today it signed an agreement today with Germany's Sud-Chemie AG to form a joint venture to supply foundries with metal casting products.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 2:11pm EDT
Stan Chesley wrapped up his testimony in the fen-phen trial today as defense lawyers continued to try to discredit his testimony.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 1:57pm EDT
Rebecca Thomas said in court today she didn't want to press charges against Antonio Smith.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 1:30pm EDT
Bridgetown-based company faces a potential $100 million fine after pleading guilty in an ongoing federal probe into price-fixing.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 1:26pm EDT
The Westin Hotel on Fifth Street was evacuated this morning after a vehicle caught on fire in the parking garage, according to Cincinnati emergency communication reports.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 12:53pm EDT
A 23-year-old Colerain Township man has been identified as the suspect in the slaying earlier this month of a hip hop clothing store owner during a robbery.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 12:45pm EDT
Tiger Woods to miss rest of season
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 12:40pm EDT
A 35-year-old woman was arrested and charged late Tuesday with holding down a 12-year-old girl so her daughter could attack her, Cincinnati police said.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 12:34pm EDT
BAE Systems said today its armoring operations here received a $13 million U.S. government contract to supply 100 armored commercial vehicles including armored Chevrolet Suburbans and armored Sprinter vans.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 12:34pm EDT
Wal-Mart to build less
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 12:22pm EDT
Corn market eyes flooding
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 12:21pm EDT
AFI announces top genre films
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 12:20pm EDT
A new poll shows Democrat Barack Obama over Republican John McCain, 48 to 42.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 12:19pm EDT
The floods in the Iowa corn belt could raise demand and prices for local crops.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 12:17pm EDT
Fed ups help to needy banks
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 12:14pm EDT
Classic rock at Riverbend
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 12:10pm EDT
AFI's top-10 genre film lists
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 11:32am EDT
The woman who could become the next Cincinnati schools superintendent is touring the city at this hour, part of an all-day job interview.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 11:32am EDT
UK cuts staff, gives bonus
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 11:28am EDT
Salute to Class of 2008
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 11:09am EDT
Rick Wallenda, grandson of the late high-wire walker Karl Wallenda, will visit Kings Island on July 4 to try to break his grandfather's world distance record.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 10:57am EDT
Cincinnati police signed charges against two men wanted in connection with a credit union robbery Monday.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 10:19am EDT
Fifth Third Bancorp disclosed in an SEC filing today that it planned to raise $2 billion and will slash its dividend by 66 percent to deal with rising credit losses. Its shares fell 15.6 percent this morning on the news.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 9:42am EDT
Bob Dylan will make his second visit to Cincinnati in less than a year when he plays National City Pavilion at Riverbend Aug. 22.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 9:01am EDT
Injuries were reported in a five-vehicle crash this morning on eastbound Interstate 74 near the Morgan Road overpass, according to Hamilton County emergency communication reports.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 6:19am EDT
Authorities are searching this morning for a female driver who hit a Hamilton County Sheriff's deputy late Tuesday while he was directing traffic in the 6900 block of Beechmont Avenue.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 6:14am EDT
Cyd Charisse, the leggy beauty who danced with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in classic MGM musicals, died Tuesday in Los Angeles.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 5:50am EDT
John McCain will come here June 26 for an event that will raise money for his campaign and the Ohio Republican Party's get-out-the-vote fund.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 5:50am EDT
Lawyer Stan Chesley testified that people sickened by the drug fen-phen deserved more than they got from a $200 million settlement he negotiated.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 5:47am EDT
Cincinnati may never get red-light cameras. Mayor Mark Mallory said Tuesday that he would veto any ordinance permitting them.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 5:43am EDT
Florence Freedom's Tim Grogan, a CovCath grad who was cut from the Mets, came home to rediscover his love of baseball.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 5:38am EDT
Joan Rivers' salty tongue got her booted from a British show in the middle of its live broadcast.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 4:43am EDT
Cincinnati City Council Tuesday launched a plan to create a new multi-county agency that would shift control of transit services from Hamilton County to the city.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 4:41am EDT
The principal of Woodward Career Technical High School may lose his job for allegedly making unprofessional and inappropriate statements to teachers, including a comment that some considered to be a racial term that they found offensive.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 4:37am EDT
Two people have been arrested for last month's playground shooting at Duvall Elementary School in Mount Healthy.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 4:36am EDT
A Hamilton County judge on Tuesday knocked 10 years off the sentence of a man convicted in 1998 for robbing two people at gunpoint.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 4:35am EDT
A judge has denied a request by a Clifton child psychiatrist to keep his license while he appeals its revocation by the State Medical Board of Ohio.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 4:20am EDT
Reds great Johnny Bench's new book looks at how diligence, dedication and perseverance are common traits of most professionals.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 4:15am EDT
The June 17 article "Rail proponents optimistic about act considered by Congress" is a great indication that Congress is finally moving in the right direction. Instead of continuing policies that feed our addiction to oil, there is now legislation moving us away from that.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 4:13am EDT
Some schools are considering a four-day week. By lengthening the day slightly, they can have enough instructional time and save tons of money on everything from fuel to administrative support. Is this an opportunity within a problem?
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 4:10am EDT
With gasoline prices as high as they are, Ohio consumers have a right to be sure they are pumping what they pay for.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 3:29am EDT
You can't blame Corey Patterson for Tuesday's 3-1 loss to the Dodgers, because he isn't the only Red struggling at the plate.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 3:29am EDT
"My dad won three world championships. With a little luck, we can win one. I'd like to be part of that," Ken Griffey Jr. said Tuesday night. Was it a subtle plea to stay with the Reds?
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 3:29am EDT
"My dad won three world championships. With a little luck, we can win one. I'd like to be part of that," Ken Griffey Jr. said Tuesday. Was it a subtle plea to stay with the Reds?
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 3:08am EDT
Matt Reinhart, Bishop Brossart's football coach, knows "taking a job this late in the year is nuts." But he's confident he can win.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 3:05am EDT
Cooper High School has hired Holmes assistant coach Tim Sullivan to start its boys' basketball program.
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Posted: June 18th, 2008, 2:46am EDT
Chad Johnson will undergo surgery for a tender ankle but is expected to be ready for the start of training camp on July 27.
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Posted: June 17th, 2008, 8:58pm EDT
Illness kept Ken Griffey Jr. out of the lineup tonight as the Reds honored his 600th home run. But he was on the field with his family while the team showed highlights of his career on the Great American Ball Park video board.
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Posted: June 17th, 2008, 8:21pm EDT
Cincinnati City Council Tuesday launched a plan to create a new multi-county agency that would shift control of transit services from Hamilton County to the city.
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Posted: June 17th, 2008, 7:38pm EDT
Limited last week at mandatory Bengals minicamp because of a tender ankle, wide receiver Chad Johnson will undergo arthroscopic surgery but is expected to be ready for the start of training camp. It opens with reporting day July 27 and the first two practices July 28.
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Posted: June 17th, 2008, 7:19pm EDT
Lebanon schools are the latest in Greater Cincinnati's northern suburbs to join the trend of adding artificial turf to its sports stadium.
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Posted: June 17th, 2008, 7:14pm EDT
No Junior on Junior Night
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