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DAYTON, Ohio - Philip Hardin-Moore was indicted on 3 charges Wednesday for alleged abuse of his 2 month old son.

Hardin-Moore, 25 of Vandalia, is accused of injuring his son Jayden after he became angry of the child crying.

Jayden is now recovering at Children's Medical Center in Dayton from fractured ribs and legs.

Philip Hardin-Moore is scheduled to appear in court next week.


Women charged in daycare drug case

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Marc Keinath
@ March 11, 2010 7:03 AM
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CINCINNATI, Ohio -- Two former Ohio day care workers have been charged with giving children an over-the-counter dietary supplement to make them sleep.

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters announced misdemeanor charges Wednesday against Pamela Hartley and Donna Scott in allegations that surfaced in December involving Springfield Township Covenant Apostolic Church Day Care in suburban Cincinnati.

A statement released from Deters' office says the women are accused of giving children the supplement melatonin to make them sleepy at nap time.

Hartley and Scott are charged with three counts of misrepresentation by a childcare provider and three counts of child endangering.

Parents told investigators their children often seemed groggy after coming from the day care.

 

Copyright 2010 The Associated Press


Ex-teacher faces child endangerment charges

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Marc Keinath
@ March 11, 2010 7:00 AM
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BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio - A former teacher on probation for prostitution is now accused of attempting to pimp her children online.

Police believe Amber Sommer, also known as Amber Carter, planned to offer her kids for sex. Authorities were initially notified of the situation by Sommer's boyfriend.

Sommer claims she is in a slave/master relationship with a Dayton man and that she is not in control of her actions.

Prosecutors say it may take weeks to find the forensic evidence on the computers confiscated from her home.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State University says a background check on a janitor who shot two supervisors didn't reveal a criminal record, even though he had spent five years in prison.

The university released a background check Wednesday compiled last fall on Nathaniel Brown, He fatally shot a supervisor Tuesday morning at a maintenance shop, injured another and killed himself.

Prison records say Brown had a criminal history that included about five years in prison on a charge of receiving stolen property. He was released in 1984.

Ohio State said it hired an outside vendor to conduct the background check. The report by OPENonline LLC said it found no criminal records on Brown.

A message seeking comment was left at OPENonline's office in Columbus.

 

Copyright 2010 The Associated Press


DAYTON, Ohio -- An Ohio university will present its human rights award to a department of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The University of Dayton said Wednesday that it will present the Oscar Romero Human Rights Award to the conference's Migration and Refugee Services department on March 29.

The university says the department has coordinated the resettlement of more than 800,000 refugees nationwide for 35 years.

University officials say it also has advocated laws to stiffen penalties for human traffickers, provide protection and relief to victims and increase congressional appropriations for refugee protection and assistance.

The award honors Archbishop Oscar Romero, a staunch advocate for El Salvador's poor and disenfranchised. He was assassinated 30 years ago while officiating a Mass.

 

Copyright 2010 The Associated Press


HAMILTON, Ohio - Khrendon Gray, 19, said under oath yesterday that he thought a friend had been stabbed during a fight the night Amber Robinson was killed.

 Gray said he was surrounded by a "swarm" of people and that "I started swinging for my life - there were too many of them." It was during this fight that the Lakota West High school student was killed.

According Gray it was the second fight of the night. Robinson and another girl had gotten in a fight earlier that was broken up by police.

Butler County Judge Keith Spaeth had Gray's mother removed from the courtroom for yelling out that her son is bipolar and needs medication.

Testimony from the a coroner's office forensic pathologist said Robinson was stabbed twice and that the wounds were inflicted by someone coming from behind--not from rapid flailing as the defendant claims.

The jury is set to begin deliberations today, March 11.

 

The Dayton Daily News contributed to this story.


Dayton apartment ad creates controversy

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Marc Keinath
@ March 11, 2010 5:39 AM
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DAYTON, Ohio -- An apartment developer says it expects to be cleared in a federal discrimination lawsuit filed over an Ohio apartment listing for a "bachelor pad."

The suit filed in federal court in Dayton says The Connor Group ran a Craigslist online ad last year touting a bachelor pad for single men looking to "hook up." That drew the attention of the Miami Valley Fair Housing center, which wants at least $25,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, an order that Connor Group employees get fair housing law training, and monitoring of the company for three years.

Staffers at the nonprofit center said the ad apparently discriminated on the basis of sex and family status.

A partner with the apartment owner, Patrick Rini, said it supports and follows fair housing laws.

The Dayton-based Connor Group also has properties in Cincinnati, Columbus, Atlanta and Dallas.

 

WHIOTV.com contributed to this story.


High speed chase on I-75 ends with 2 dead

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Marc Keinath
@ March 11, 2010 5:30 AM
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LEBANON, Ohio - Police initially responded to a Georgetown Drive apartment where they found a woman who had been stabbed repeatedly.

She was transported to Atrium Medical Center in Middletown and died from her injuries.

A Warren County Sheriff's Office deputy tried to pull over the suspect's vehicle on Route 123 but the driver led police on a high speed chase up Interstate 75.

Police finally got the car off the road using Stop Sticks. The drive had several stab wounds and later died.

"It looks like he went for her, and as a result, he killed himself," Robert Hawley of the Lebanon Police Department said.

This is the first murder-suicide in Lebanon's history.

 

WHIOTV.com contributed to this story.


Settlement reached in caged kids case

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Marc Keinath
@ March 11, 2010 5:01 AM
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NORWALK, Ohio -- Eleven adopted and foster children who were forced by a northern Ohio couple to sleep in cages have reached a $1.2 million settlement with the county where they once lived.

Lawyers for the children announced the settlement Wednesday.

They say Huron County officials should have discovered what was happening sooner and removed the children more quickly.

The children suffered from problems such as fetal alcohol syndrome and ranged in age from 1 to 14 when authorities removed them from their home in 2005.

Their adoptive parents, Michael and Sharen Gravelle, are serving two-year prison terms for abusing some of them.

Attorney Jack Landskroner says that the county missed several red flags that could have alerted them to the problems at the home. The county has denied blame.

 

Copyright 2010 The Associated Press


Fatal shooting in Springfield

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Marc Keinath
@ March 11, 2010 4:48 AM
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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - Emergency crews arrived at a home on East Liberty street around 6:30 p.m. last night to find a man with a gunshot wound. He died at the scene.

Police are investigating his death and have questioned several witnesses and have one suspect in custody.

The Springfield Police Department has yet to release the name of the victim though he was identified by several sources at the scene as Timmy Radford.

Witnesses say the victim lived in the house and rented out rooms to other people.

There are currently no other suspects in the case according to investigators.

 

WHIOTV.com contributed to this story.


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