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An Ohio family will be paid a $900,000 settlement in the wrongful death case of a man who was shot by deputies 13 times. The Dayton Daily News reports Montgomery County authorized the payment to Dontae Martin’s family Tuesday. Martin crashed his car in July 2015. Two deputies who approached the car say they fired […]
A messed up fast-food order led to an argument in a McDonald’s and a customer with a busted face. Now, a witness is sharing what she said happened in that restaurant Sunday afternoon. Colerain Township police expect to get a copy of the video showing the fight on Wednesday. A witness we talked with said […]
Leslie Edwards, a member of the history-making, segregation-defying Tuskegee Airmen, died Monday afternoon at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center. He was 95 years old. Edwards arrived in the Air Force as a World War II draftee, missing his wife and mourning his plan to start a family. He told WCPO in February, he and other black […]
A 16-year-old male is fighting for his life after he was shot in Avondale early Tuesday, Cincinnati police said. Officers responded to the 3400 block of Hallwood Place for a report of a shooting and found the victim suffering from a life-threatening injury, police said. The victim was taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center. […]
A Cincinnati Public Schools student is accused of exposing himself to younger students in a school restroom. The Kilgour Elementary School principal sent out a letter to families on Thursday regarding the incident. The letter states that an older student exposed himself to younger students in a school bathroom on Tuesday. The students involved, the […]
An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper will serve no jail time for his role in a crash that killed a 36-year-old Clermont County man earlier this year, a Clermont County judge said Friday. Trooper Jeremy Ault received two years of community control and 80 hours of community service speaking to young drivers. He also was […]
A low-level drug possession should not carry a lifelong stain and be a barrier to employment or loans, a clear Cincinnati Council majority approved a new law to try to remedy that situation. By an 8-1 vote with Republican Amy Murray as the lone dissenter, the council adopted the ordinance which will take effect in […]
The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office said a jail inmate pried out his own eye when he was in his jail cell on Monday afternoon. A jail incident report stated corrections officers noticed blood on the floor while conducting suicide watch rounds. Upon entering the cell, officers found inmate Aqeel Watson, 42, bleeding from the head […]
Police in Springdale said a 26-year-old man wanted to be killed by officers when he was wielding a knife inside a Target store earlier this month. WLWT obtained exclusive video from inside the store as police officers worked through difficult and emotional moments to talk Landen Whitehead down to safety. The video showed police arriving […]
Cincinnati City Council is considering expunging criminal cases involving people who were convicted of possessing small amounts of marijuana. The issue and a related ordinance were on the agenda at Council’s Law & Public Safety meeting Monday. It unanimously passed in a vote and now will go onto full council. It calls for those convicted of nonviolent […]
If you missed “Facebook Live Friday,” no worries, you watch it right here! Today’s guest: Kevin Aldrige and Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Issac call in. Today’s main topics: Ohio School report card, the Skylar Richardson case and the Democratic debates.
The Ohio Department of Education released its annual Ohio School Report Cards Thursday. Assigning overall letter grades to each district and to each public, community, dropout, and recovery, and career technical school in the state. It’s the second year in which districts and schools received overall letter grades. They are calculated using results in six […]
