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State Rep. Karen Brownlee is calling for an indefinite statewide pause on automatic license plate readers after a Sharonville police lieutenant was indicted for allegedly misusing the same Flock camera technology that Liberty Township installed earlier this year.
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Lakota West teachers describe mold, bee infestations and cockroaches in the freshman campus building, adding firsthand accounts to the case for a $223 million bond issue on the Nov. 3 ballot that would close the building and end the district's split-campus model.
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West Chester Township police are investigating after two siblings, ages 3 and 4, were found at the bottom of a pool on Cedar Creek Drive on Monday evening and airlifted to Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
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Eight Lakota parents are volunteering as crossing aides near Endeavor Elementary after the district pulled staff from off-campus crosswalks at three schools two days before classes began, citing liability and jurisdiction concerns.
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A 47-year-old Dayton kayaker drowned in the Great Miami River near Hamilton's low dam, and Butler County officials are warning residents about dangerously swift currents and floating debris that have made the river treacherous for boaters.
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Hamilton County Public Health is warning residents to avoid the Great Miami River and Whitewater River after a flood-damaged Indiana treatment plant began releasing raw sewage, affecting waterways that flow downstream toward recreation sites near West Chester and Liberty Township.
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Duke Energy says nearly all customers still without power from this week's derecho will be restored by end of day Thursday, Aug. 13, with 38,861 still in the dark regionwide including Butler County residents.
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A multi-vehicle rollover crash with entrapment near Union Centre Boulevard and Beckett Road in West Chester Township closed several roads Wednesday evening, Aug. 5, with injuries reported but details on severity not yet released by police.
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The VOA Country Music Festival at Voice of America MetroPark in West Chester Township faces potential storms Thursday through Saturday, with organizers warning that evacuation of the open grass field is possible if lightning threatens the tens of thousands of expected attendees.
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Christine Rhoads-Larsen, 44, of Milford Township, was killed July 28 in a three-vehicle crash at U.S. 127 and Hamilton Eaton Road when a Toyota Camry failed to yield; two others were treated at UC West Chester Hospital and the Butler County S.T.A.R.T. team is investigating.
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Liberty Fairfield Road in Liberty Township will close completely from 6 p.m. Friday, August 7, through 6 a.m. Monday, August 17, for a $1.3 million bridge replacement project near S.R. 4.
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Ohio's Cyclospora outbreak has nearly doubled to more than 2,500 reported cases in one week, prompting the CDC to send investigators to the state; Taco Bell locations in West Chester and Liberty Township remain in the federal warning zone.
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The National Weather Service confirmed an EF-1 tornado struck Pierce Township in Clermont County during the same Tuesday, July 21 storm system that knocked out power across Butler County and triggered an air quality advisory covering West Chester and Liberty Township.
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Butler County Sheriff's deputies, including Deputy Brittney Koch, removed a snake from a resident's bedroom and relocated it to the woods, the office announced July 20.
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