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    Anthony Brown, 35, of Hamilton, charged with several counts, including aggravated murder and murder, was allowed to represent himself in his trial to start on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, with jury selection. Pictured is Brown walking into a Butler County courtroom on Sept. 11, 2025, for his hearing on a pro se motion to fire his public defender, Kirk McVay, and represent himself. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF
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    Hamilton man pleads guilty to murder charge in Walmart shooting4m ago
    Officer Training School trainees run during an official Air Force Physical Training test, Aug. 8, 2019, at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The Air Force PT test is comprised of four components: aerobic, body composition, push-ups and sit-ups. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Charles Welty
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    The Department of Veterans Affairs would keep sending veterans their monthly pensions and disability payments on time if the government shuts down on Sept. 30. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)
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    Extra Strength Tylenol is shown in Carmel, Ind., Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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    Local health care providers back use of acetaminophen during pregnancy
    Aaron "Ace" Cooper, a senior wide receiver on the Middletown High School football team, leads the Greater Miami Conference in receiving yards. He also has five TDs. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF
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    Scott Rasmus, executive director of Mental Health and Addiction Recovery Services Board speaks during the announcement for the opening of the OneOhio Grant Portal Monday, April 2, 2024, by the OneOhio Recovery Foundation, a private, non-profit organization tasked with distributing 55 percent of the funds Ohio will receive from the pharmaceutical industry as a consequence of its role in the national opioid epidemic. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF
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    VOICES: During difficult times, find relief with a solutions-focused approach
    The Booker T. Washington Community Center on Front Street in Hamilton was awarded a $500,000 grant from bi3 for a Maternal Wellness Center that focuses on the body, mind, soul and spirit. MICHAEL D. PITMAN/FILE
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    Mural on Warren County barn honors slain activist Charlie Kirk
    FILE - An Ohio House committee began vetting a bill this week that would require all courts in the state to consider a person’s immigration status during sentencing. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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    Principal Charity Goode greets students on the first day at Rosa Parks Elementary School Monday, Aug. 18, 2025 in Middletown. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF
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    Districts doing better at getting kids to school, but absenteeism still stubbornly high...
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    39 people were indicted in Butler and Warren counties
    The U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District Ohio has charged nine defendants in pandemic fraud cases alleging $4 million in stolen stimulus payments. LOT TAN/WCPO
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    Man pleads guilty to scamming dozens out of $2M in dating app fraud
    The Hamilton Police Department and Butler County Coroner's Office are investigating if a set of bones found during a routine sewer inspection are human. The bones were found on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, in an area of the sewer of Market and North Third streets in downtown Hamilton. MICHAEL D. PITMAN/STAFF
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    Human skull was found last month in Hamilton storm sewer
    FILE - A federal agent wears a badge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement while standing outside an immigration courtroom at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York, Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
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    Logan Fitzwater plans to open his breakfast and brunch restaurant, Early Berd's on North Third Street in Hamilton's German Village, later this year in 2025. The native Hamiltonian is the stepson of Berd's Grill and Bar in Fairfield. Pictured is Fitzwater in the restaurant space on Sept. 22, 2025. MICHAEL D. PITMAN/STAFF
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    Early Berd’s in Hamilton expected to open by end of 2025
    Mayor Elizabeth Slamka speaks during Middletown's State of the City event Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025 at Middletown Event Center. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF
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    State of Middletown is resilient, mayor says
    Ohio’s Lt. Governor recently took his first visit to Butler Tech’s main campus and praised the Butler County career school system as one of the best in the state. Jim Tressel’s tour of Butler Tech’s main D. Russel Lee campus in Fairfield Twp. saw him question local high school students in a variety of career education programs as he toured classrooms and learning labs. (Provided)
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    Ohio Lt. Gov. Jim Tressel tours Butler Tech, praises it as a top career school system
    Jay Marlow has been selected to fill an unexpired term on Monroe city council. The term ends on Dec. 31, 2025. FILE PHOTO
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    On Tuesday night, Monroe City Council voted against approving an ordinance rezoning 62 acres on North Main Street near Todhunter Road from Rural Residential to General Residential. Drees Company hoped to build homes on the property. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF
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    Tensions rise during Monroe housing development vote
    The Hamilton and Springfield Planned Parenthood health centers will close after President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill cuts Medicaid dollars clinics that provide abortion services. Planned Parenthood officials called the Medicaid dollars “vital” reimbursement funding and the federal government is “targeting providers that serve the most vulnerable.”  Pictured is the Hamilton Planned Parenthood center on Thursday, July 17, 2025. MICHAEL D. PITMAN/STAFF
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    Bike mechanic Greta Waller adjusts displays at K&G Bike Center, 116 W. Franklin St., Centerville. Shop management is hopeful foot traffic translates to strong holiday sales. MICHAEL KURTZ / STAFF
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    Fewer than 100 days until Christmas: Local retailers cautiously optimistic about sales
    Whitney Kling, a 2001 Oakwood High School graduate and former owner of Top Knot Kitchen, has combined her love for cooking and writing by publishing a weekly “But First, Food” column that appears in the Dayton Daily News (CONTRIBUTED)
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    Packages of frozen Kroger shrimp, along with others, were recalled as an FDA investigation into cesium-137 found on shrimp shipments from an Indonesia company continues. PROVIDED / FDA
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    The Butler County Commission held a special meeting on Tuesday morning where many of the more than 100 supporters of the Butler County EMA voiced their concerns about the county taking over the agency. The commission have explored the necessary steps to needed to be taken in order to take control of the Butler County EMA, and a decision must be made by Sept. 30, 2025, if the county takes over the agency by Jan. 1, 2026. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF
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    Kettering Health is experiencing an internet outage causing several applications to be unavailable including MyChart, the health system has posted on its Facebook page. BRYANT BILLING / STAFF
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    Kettering Health internet problems resolved
    The fire impacted the children’s department, and restoration services are on site doing clean up work, a Facebook post from Lane Libraries said. FILE
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    Oxford Lane Library closed today following electrical fire
    A Middletown Kroger employee was terminated after allegedly writing ‘racists fav drink’ on a Starbucks drink. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean, File)
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    Middletown Kroger employee fired after writing ‘racists fav drink’ on Starbucks order
    Fairfield City Council has approved a concept plan that would put 108 condominiums and commercial buildings on a 24-acre site at the northwest corner of John Gray Road and Pleasant Avenue. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF
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    Fairfield council approves controversial condo complex
    House Minority Leader Dani Isaacsohn, D-Cincinnati, makes the case for his party's proposed congressional map in front of the Ohio Joint Committee on Congressional Redistricting. September 22, 2025.
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    The search for one of two inmates who escaped the Brown County jail in Ohio ended late Sept. 22 when he was apprehended by the FBI in Louisville, according to a statement posted to the Mason County Sheriff's Office Facebook page. WCPO
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    Second escaped Brown County inmate arrested by FBI in Louisville
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