Dunbar High School teacher James Lacking is accused of shoving a student for the second time in three months.

The district issued the suspension with a letter addressing an alleged incident on May 22 between Lacking and a 15-year-old student. 

The teen said Lacking threw him against a white board, shoved him, and tried to provoke him into striking the teacher.  Witnesses said Lacking yelled and shoved the boy.

Lacking, who has been employed with the school since 1997, was reprimanded in March for an incident in which he shoved a student for being disrespectful.

School officials will hold a hearing Monday, June 4, where Lacking said his fate in the Dayton Public School district will likely be decided.

(Information from the Dayton Daily News was used in this report.)

Police and medics were first called to Shroyer and Patterson roads at 3:43 p.m. today, July 2.  The driver of a Mustang was taken to Miami Valley Hospital after crews removed her -- a passenger was also hospitalized.

The driver of the dump truck was not injured.

The conditions of the injured parties is unknown and police are still investigating the cause of the crash.

Fannie Shockley, 84, apparently misread her thermostat last Tuesday, June 23, and turned on the furnace while temperatures were as high as 87 degrees Fahrenheit outside.

The coroner said the incident was the first heat-related death in the city this year.

(Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.)

The rally is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Golden Gate Park in Brookville located at 750 Arlington Road.

Speakers for the event include Rep. Jarrod Martin, R-Beavercreek and University of Dayton History Professor Larry Schweikart.  The event will end with a fireworks display.

The city estimated a cost of $3,500 to $4,000 to pay for extra police patrols -- the organizers of the event signed an agreement to cover the costs.

The recommendation was to provide Dayton police a 1 percent wage increase and no mandatory unpaid leave -- officials with the Fraternal Order of Police said they were willing to accept those terms. 

Dayton, which announced last month it was facing a mid-year deficit of $4 million, has asked all city employees to forego their 3 percent raises and take four days of unpaid leave to help make up the difference.  The police and firefighter unions have both rejected those terms so far.

City Manager Rashad Young said the issue will be put to another third-party arbitrator and he will go along with whatever is decided.  Young also said the same method will likely be used for the fire union.

Kyle McClendon, 23, will serve 27 and a half years to life in prison in the Feb. 8 incident at the Marathon gas station on Riverside Drive. 

McClendon's attorneys admitted in the trial that he shot Driscoll, but argued that Driscoll was the aggressor in the slaying.  Judge Dennis Langer dismissed that defense, saying McClendon was clearly the aggressor.

Surveillance footage of the killing appears to show Driscoll and McClendon getting ready to fight, but the two instead shake hands and hug.  Driscoll then started walking towards McClendon's car, and the McClendon shot him.

Two friends of Driscoll testified that the disagreement had started when McClendon bumped into one of them, and Driscoll said something to him.

At the time of the shooting, McClendon had just been granted probation in lieu of a conviction for carrying a loaded concealed weapon only about a month before the shooting.  His sentence included 18 months for possessing a weapon under probation.

It happened Monday, June 29, at the Kroger grocery store at 2728 East Main Street. 

Deputies say a man approached the elderly woman and asked for help finding his vehicle.  He helped her with her groceries before grabbing her purse and fleeing, according to the police report.

The man is described as a thin male in his early 20s, around 6'3" with brown hair.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call 328-2560.

Sheriff Mike Simpson said the county is looking at an 8 percent cut over the next few weeks, which he said would prevent him from keeping residents safe.

If forced to make more cuts, Simpson said he will likely have to cut patrols and a dispatcher position.

The ODH has now confirmed that a 46-year-old Hamilton man died Monday, June 29.  Like most of the confirmed fatalities from the virus, the man did have underlying health issues that may have contributed to his death.

Greene County also confirmed its first case of the virus today, July 2, in a 12-year-old girl.  Sarah Pappa with the Greene County Combined Health District said she has been at home and is recovering -- it's not believed there are any other potential cases in the county.

According to the World Health Organization, as of July 1 there have been 332 deaths from the H1N1 virus worldwide, 127 of which have been in the United States.

Steps to prevent the spread of H1N1 are the same as for the seasonal flu: cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze, wash your hands, and stay home if you are sick.

It happened just before midnight Wednesday, July 1, at the CSX Transportation yard off of State Route 741 near West Dorothy Lane.  Workers were moving train cars around to prepare them for transportation when several derailed, puncturing a chemical tanker.

Luckily, the damage was limited to the outer shell of the car -- the inner tank containing the hazardous material was not damaged.  The car was carrying acetone cyanohydrin, a highly dangerous compound used in the production of acrylic.

A school official called the Clark County Sheriff's Office Tuesday morning, June 30, to report the school's mail had been stolen, along with the mail box and the pole it was attached to, according to the police report. 

The theft apparently happened sometime after 7 p.m. Monday night.  An employee reported that when she went to check the mail around 6:30 a.m. all she found was a hole in the ground where the post had been.

Assistant City Manager Jane Howington has resigned, effective July 30, after accepting a position as city manager of Kalispell, Mont.  Howington has held the position since June 2007 -- she previously served as city manager of Oxford.

City Manager Rashad Young said he will be reevaluating the position before deciding if a replacement is needed.

Jerry Welch, 64, and Charmion Burton, 35, were arrested after more than a dozen animals were found clinging to life in their filthy Terry Street home.  The conditions were discovered after Montgomery County Children Services sent someone to check on the couple's young son.

Police said the house was filled with garbage and animal feces.  The two were arrested at Eastwood Metropark on Harshman Road -- officers said their minivan was similarly piled with garbage and filth.

Four dogs and 12 cats, one of which was dead, were removed from the house.  One of the dogs was in such bad shape it had to be euthanized, said officials with Montgomery County's Animal Resource Center.

Welch and Burton were previously convicted with felony animal cruelty after police found a dog belonging to the couple partially frozen to the ground in December 2005.  The pair was barred from owning pets for four years after that case.

Both are now in the Montgomery County Jail.

Officials at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base broke ground Wednesday on the $36 million project that will add offices, laboratories, and a testing range to the Air Force Research Laboratory. It will be ready in 2011.

The project will make room for about 100 research jobs from Rome, N.Y., and Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts.

The project is part of $332 million in ongoing construction that will allow Wright-Patterson to absorb almost 1,200 jobs in sensors research, aerospace medicine, and other programs. The consolidation was approved during the 2005 base realignment and closure review.

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