Butler County Tops Ohio in Fatal Train Crashes
Butler County leads Ohio with 19 fatal train crashes from 2005 to June 15, per Federal Railroad Administration data analyzed by the Hamilton Middletown Journal News. Cuyahoga Franklin Hamilton and Erie counties follow, along with 20 deaths from pedestrians or drivers hit by trains in the decade.
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Ohio
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Butler County
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Middletown
Vacation Bible School
Ing
Oxford
Julie Kaercher
Ohio Rail Development Commission
Suspicious Fire Destroys Vacant Lorain Home
Arson is suspected in a blaze that destroyed a vacant 14 story wood frame house at 1399 Lakeview Ave Lorain. The fire started around 3 32 a m and was brought under control about two hours later at 6 21 a m No injuries were reported The owner is Cynthia Tyree of Cleveland The house had an assessed value of 49240 and had been vacant about 10 years Neighbor remarks about prior break ins and thefts were noted local officials were urged to demolish the structure.
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Lakeview Ave
Jeff Fenn
Fenn
Lakeview Avenue
Grace Street
West Erie Avenue
Lorain County
Debra Lacey
Lacey
Hetty Morris
Morris
Box turtle believed to be over a century old found on Ohio farm
A box turtle dated 1911 is found in a New Bedford Ohio corn field by John Yoder. Abe Yoder notes initials V F and H T likely from former local residents. The family plans to return the turtle to its original spot, hoping it remains undisturbed.
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New Bedford
Ohio
Abe Yoder
Times-Reporter
New Philadelphia
John Yoder
Yoder
Victor Fender
Holmes County
Henry Troyer
Fender
OSU maps campus animals with BioPresence project
Ohio State University researchers from art, biology, engineering and ecology launched BioPresence to map animal sightings on campus. Led by Ken Rinaldo and Amy Youngs, the year-old initiative uses police cameras, motion sensors, and a song meter at Olentangy River Wetland Park to collect wildlife data and share recordings via the project website. Deer, ducks and geese are among the creatures documented on campus.
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Ohio State University
OSU
Ken Rinaldo
Ohio State
Amy Youngs
Rinaldo
Ani
Olentangy River
West Cooridge Street
BioPresence
Youngs
Multiple incidents unfold across Ohio and Cincinnati
A roundup reports a fatal shooting in Cleveland near Euclid Avenue with two others wounded, a pipe bomb detonation on Martin Luther King Jr Drive, and an Akron homicide investigation. It also notes Cincinnati film production on Fourth Street for Marauders, Ohio University and Columbus State expanding degrees, a Batavia job fair, a DuPont test-case ruling, and a White House poverty-focused rural program targeting children and parental work education in Utah.
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East Fourth Street
Utah
White House
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