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Miami Valley lawns, farm fields and gardens are receiving more rain than they've had in the last month on Friday, Sept. 5, according to the National Weather Service.

An attorney for a local Democrat who is challenging the candidacy of Terrence Gerson, Democratic nominee for Clark County engineer, is taking the case to the Ohio Supreme Court.

Residents will get their first peek at the finished Springfield High School this weekend as the community celebrates the $63 million project's completion.

In a complaint filed with the Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday, Sept. 4, attorney Dan Harkins alleges that the county board of elections did not disclose that a voter registration confirmation card for Democratic candidate for Clark County engineer, Terrence Gerson, was returned as "Return To Sender, Attempted — Not Known, Unable to Forward."

The following were arrested on sexual offender non-compliance charges Thursday, Sept. 4, in roundup by SOFAST, a task force of U.S. Marshals, the Clark County Sheriff's Office and the Springfield Police Division:

The number of homicides in the city this year has already equaled the number of slayings recorded for all of 2007.

Police think a man arrested Wednesday, Sept. 3, in the Aug. 27 robbery of woman at the night deposit of a Troy bank is associated with a group whose members wore panty hose disguises in Dayton area robberies.

Miami Valley lawns, farm fields and gardens are receiving more rain than they've had in the last month on Friday, Sept. 5, according to the National Weather Service.

Sen. John McCain had a tough act to follow — his vice presidential pick, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, delivered crowd-pleaser the night before — but he hit a home run as far as Ohio delegates are concerned.

A roundup of unusual items from area police departments:

Rain today is helping parts of the Miami Valley that have been in near-drought conditions.

Ohio Task Force One is now heading east into the path of Tropical Storm Hanna.

Butler County Sheriff's Deputies are investigating a crash that claimed the life of a man early Friday morning.

Officials in the Darke County village of Pitsburg said the entire town and surrounding rural areas lost power early Friday morning.

On Sept. 4 the Hobart Brothers Company announced the expansion of its manufacturing operations into a new 65,000-square-foot facility located at the corner of Kings Chapel and Corporate Drive in Troy.

Continental Airlines Inc. will begin charging some economy class passengers $15 for their first checked bag beginning Oct. 7. (CAL)

Fifty-nine percent of companies intend to keep down rising health-care costs in 2009 by raising workers' deductibles, copays or out-of-pocket spending limits, according to a survey by the Mercer consulting firm. (MMC)

In a move underscoring the fallout from the decision by MillerCoors LLC to decrease costs by reducing distributorships, two Ohio beer distributors have filed a lawsuit contending their terminations were illegal.

The Dayton area is getting another slice of Dewey’s Pizza this spring.

Standard & Poor’s ratings service put Fifth Third Bancorp’s long-term credit rating on watch for a possible downgrade Wednesday as part of a pending review of U.S. regional banks. It maintained the company’s short-term credit rating of A-1, the agency’s highest. (FITB)

NORWOOD (AP) - A man's decision to sell the last house standing in the way of a $125 million business project marks the end of a landmark legal saga about property rights and private development. Discuss this Story with Others Click Here

BLACKLICK (AP) - A church in the Columbus area is turning heads with its public spin on the pop song "I Kissed a Girl."

TIPP CITY - "Ohio is a state of innovation; but we do not want to be known for the innovation of this proposal," Keith Lake, director of political and candidate education for the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, told area business and community leaders on Thursday. Discuss this Story with Others Click Here

COLUMBUS (AP) - Labor leaders dropped their campaign Thursday for a November ballot issue that would give most full-time workers seven paid sick days a year, conceding they shared the governor's concern over a negative and divisive fight. Discuss this Story with Others Click Here

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Writers employ a wide variety of techniques to help them stay on task, such as scheduling a set time each day for writing or writing about writer’s block. For first-time author Joan Horn, the pressure to work on her book came from a technique not typically found in a writer’s guide.

Local drivers should be able to stop dodging trucks and orange barrels soon, as the roadwork on Walnut and Elm Streets is expected to be completed by the end of this week, according to Village Assistant Planner Ed Amrhein.

In a panel discussion held Thursday night, Aug. 27, and organized by Village Environmental Commission to clarify Cemex’s plans to test burn tires as a partial fuel for the cement plant down the road, the clearest thing that emerged from the panel discussion was the distrust for Cemex among residents of Yellow Springs.

The year 2008 has been a momentous time of change for The Antioch Company and its leaders.

The second annual Government 101 Citizen Academy begins Sept. 16 at the Richmond Municipal Building, 50 N. Fifth St. Government 101 is an interactive program that focuses on educating citizens about the city’s governmental process.

Executives at Reid Hospital hope the new state-of-the-art campus becomes a destination for patients living outside Wayne County. The complex has grown into a regional medical center, providing treatments unavailable at smaller hospitals nearby.

Richmond police arrested a local man Thursday in a rape and abduction case that had stymied investigators for nearly three months.

Darrell Hoskins wouldn't let the Vietnam War sideline his high school education even if it squashed his chances at earning a diploma with the rest of Richmond High School's Class of 1968.

It is fair to say that no jazz artist, not even Louis Armstrong, was able to touch on America's funny bone and yet maintain musical integrity as did Thomas "Fats" Waller.

DOYLESTOWN: The teachers' union at Chippewa Local Schools voted unanimously this morning to authorize its bargaining team to issue a 10-day strike notice.

A judge granted a prosecution motion Thursday to dismiss charges against two Summit County sheriff's deputies who were indicted in the 2006 death of jail inmate Mark D. McCullaugh Jr.

It would be understandable if Tabitha Bowen sometimes feels like a fish out of water. Bowen, 21, spent a year in Panama City loading missiles into F-15s as a member of the U.S. Air Force.

An Akron police detective faces three months without pay and a new assignment for writing a book that his superiors see as critical of the department's investigation of the Jeff Zack murder.

Ohio will again be ''the center of the storm'' in this year's presidential election, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner predicted Thursday during an Akron Press Club luncheon.

Money police confiscated after halting a scam throughout Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky will end up benefiting local veterans

A 17-year-old girl will learn her punishment at 1:30 p.m. today for her role in the hours-long beating and torture of a mentally disabled teen.

Two masked gunmen burst into Eiser's Drive Thru just after it closed late Thursday and stole hundreds of dollars.

Bond was set at $1 million today for a 24-year-old Over-the-Rhine man who was charged Thursday with sexually abusing a young girl for a year.

Hamilton County Municipal Judge Brad Greenberg on Thursday spared a 71-year-old College Hill preacher jail time for pointing a gun at a driver who cut him off in traffic.

NELSONVILLE, Ohio - Embattled Hocking College President John Light announced yesterday that this school year will be his last at the helm of the two-year college.

A man was shot and killed early yesterday during a dispute outside his North Side town house, police said. O'Brian Anthony, 25, of 1680 Granite Way, was shot about 1 a.m. in a courtyard at the Hickory Grove complex northeast of Karl and Morse roads, police said.

NEWARK—A Licking County man who pleaded guilty last month in the methadone overdose of his 2-year-old son was sentenced to four years in prison yesterday.

Columbus would lose 57 police officers and 25 firefighters next year under budget proposals submitted to the Coleman administration by division commanders.

Ohio's attorney general can take 10 business days to review petition summary language needed to gather signatures and qualify a referendum for the November ballot, the Franklin County Court of Appeals ruled yesterday.