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A "Keep It Rural" sign in a yard on the corner of Johnsville Brookville Road and Air Hill Road just outside Brookville. BRYANT BILLING / STAFF

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‘Keep It Rural?’ Residents push back against new housing, cities seek balance5m ago

2-year-old struck by vehicle in Huber Heights

How to get a rare glimpse of Hawthorn Hill, the Wright family’s Oakwood mansion

Students learned about farming and water irrigation during the Huber Heights City Schools STEM camp prototype module. Participants first sketched a prototype farm and water system in inventor logs, then brought their ideas to life by creating a 3D farmhouse. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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Huber Heights voters to decide again May 6 on large school tax levy

$Former Kettering City Schools music teacher Matthew Ryan Koehler, now 38, of Centerville appears for his arraignment Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

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Former Kettering music teacher pleads guilty in child porn case

Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. JIM NOELKER/STAFF FILE

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Man found guilty of murder in shooting outside Dayton bar

A Dayton woman who was previously barred from serving as a Medicaid health care provider was sentenced to spend six to nine years in prison to stealing more than $1.5 million from Ohio Medicaid, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. FILE

Dayton woman gets prison sentence for $1.5 million theft from Medicaid

A future classroom at Chaminade Julienne High School that would be used for seventh and eighth grade students. CJ is adding middle school students to the school next school year. Contributed.

CJ announces addition of limited middle school classes at high school

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Final defendant pleads guilty in Harrison Twp. shooting, robbery

Dayton school leaders won’t sign Trump federal pledge against using DEI programs

Dayton Mayor Jeffrey Mims Jr. and state Rep. Phil Plummer want school districts to be prohibited from transferring students at downtown bus hubs in urban areas, like the RTA Hub in downtown Dayton. BRYANT BILLING / STAFF

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Dayton school, city leaders debate answers about busing students downtown

Northmont High School. Eileen McClory/ staff

Northmont schools seek new tax levy after voters said no twice in 2023

Centerville

The Foundry in Dayton is hosting an Easter brunch featuring prime rib, ham, an omelet station, pastries, desserts and much more on Sunday, April 20 (FACEBOOK PHOTO).

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Guide: Where to get Easter brunch, dinner, or carryout in the Dayton region

File - The 51st Centerville-Washington Township Americana Festival Parade happened in Centerville on July 4, 2024. TOM GILLIAM / CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

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Centerville DORA boundaries will be expanded during Americana Festival

The U.S. Postal Service's revamped Washington Twp. Sorting and Delivery Center at 7525 Paragon Road. Updates there are part of more than $40 billion in strategic investments nationwide. CONTRIBUTED

Dayton-area U.S. Postal facility, 1 of 3 in Ohio, to improve delivery, reliability

Beavercreek man faces 12 drug theft felonies; worked at Washington Twp. pharmacy

Clayton

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‘Keep It Rural?’ Residents push back against new housing, cities seek balance5m ago

Northmont schools seek new tax levy after voters said no twice in 2023

A water tower at the Miami water treatment plant on Chuck Wagner Lane in northeast Dayton. CORNELIUS FROLIK / STAFF

Dayton responds to Montgomery County’s $14M water lawsuit; many cities affected

Esther Price Candies launches ‘Golden Egg Hunt’

Dayton

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Man found guilty of murder in shooting outside Dayton bar

Dayton woman gets prison sentence for $1.5 million theft from Medicaid

CJ announces addition of limited middle school classes at high school

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Final defendant pleads guilty in Harrison Twp. shooting, robbery

Englewood

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‘Keep It Rural?’ Residents push back against new housing, cities seek balance5m ago

Northmont schools seek new tax levy after voters said no twice in 2023

Dolly's on Troy Town Drive, just off of West Main Street in Troy, is preparing to open. It is the second location opening in the Dayton area at a site of a former Frisch's Big Boy. BRYANT BILLING / STAFF

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Dolly’s Burgers & Shakes opens second location today in Dayton region

Dolly’s Burgers & Shakes CEO says people will find new things on menu. The goal of...

Huber Heights

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‘Keep It Rural?’ Residents push back against new housing, cities seek balance5m ago

2-year-old struck by vehicle in Huber Heights

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Huber Heights voters to decide again May 6 on large school tax levy

‘Something in the air in Dayton:’ WNBA Draft shines light on 3 local stars

Kettering

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Former Kettering music teacher pleads guilty in child porn case

Bushido Ramen Shop will be located at 2607 Wilmington Pike in Kettering (FACEBOOK PHOTO).

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New ramen shop coming to Kettering is owned by family behind Blossom Juicy Bar

Former Kettering Schools employee to serve 8 weekends in jail in sex case

‘Something in the air in Dayton:’ WNBA Draft shines light on 3 local stars

Miamisburg

Jerry Ferris, the Ohio Commander of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, presents Korean War veteran Leroy Campbell, 93, with a Purple Heart coin during a ceremony Tuesday, April 15, 2025, at Victory Ridge hospice on Dayton VA Medical Center campus. BRYANT BILLING / STAFF

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93-year-old area Korean War veteran finally receives Purple Heart

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Guide: Where to get Easter brunch, dinner, or carryout in the Dayton region

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Miami Twp. sues own fiscal officer Matthews over $9.7M gold coins case

Miamisburg City School District’s Board of Education is tentatively expected to interview candidates for the district’s next superintendent this month and hire someone for the role before month’s end. STAFF FILE PHOTO

Miamisburg school district aims to hire new superintendent this month

Moraine

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PHOTOS: Local protest was part of nationwide ‘Tesla Takedown’ movement

Local ‘Tesla Takedown’ protest pushes against Musk, DOGE government cuts

Montgomery County Common Pleas Courtroom. JIM NOELKER/STAFF FILE

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Man sentenced to 2 years in Moraine bank robbery

Man arrested after guns, stolen vehicles found in Moraine

Oakwood

How to get a rare glimpse of Hawthorn Hill, the Wright family’s Oakwood mansion

Students at Smith Elementary School go down the stairs to exit the 95-year-old building. Jim Noelker/Staff

Elementary school updates are focus of Oakwood’s $40M bond levy on May ballot

MrFancyMan’s sourdough baked goods are used at 2 local coffee shops in Dayton region

Forza Fitness owner Dominic Anastasio, center, is flanked by trainers Jonathan Catedral and Rachel Golem. The new gym is at 3012 Far Hills Ave. in Kettering near East Dorothy Lane. CONTRIBUTED

Oakwood grad opens new gym in Kettering

Trotwood

$Trotwood's Consumer Square property on Salem Avenue has seen little progress in the 15 months since a developer announced plans to renovate it. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Vacant Trotwood shopping center set for redevelopment sits idle a year later

Man found guilty in police chase, US 35 shooting in Dayton

Timeline and map for chase, crash, officer-involved shooting from Trotwood to US 35

Toddler found after stolen vehicle prompts Amber Alert in Trotwood

Vandalia

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‘Keep It Rural?’ Residents push back against new housing, cities seek balance5m ago

$The newly constructed roundabout at Union Airpark Blvd. and Dog Leg Road near the Dayton International Airport is designed to improve truck traffic flow through the commercial development in the area. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Why big trucks are a big problem in Vandalia

A GE Aerospace welder on the job. GE photo

GE to invest nearly $26M in Dayton this year

Clayton city council gave a developer rezoning approval in a plan to build more than 500 homes on vacant land south of Sweet Potato Ridge Road, just across the street from a suburban development in the neighboring city of Union. MARSHALL GORBY / STAFF

Clayton council OKs huge 529-home development in third vote; tension continues

West Carrollton

$Chief Doug Woodard is retiring Sunday, March 9, after 40 years in law enforcement, 37 of them with West Carrollton. Woodard has been the city's police chief since 2013. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

‘How can I help?’ Police chief retires after 37 years in West Carrollton

West Carrollton Police Chief Doug Woodard

West Carrollton police chief retiring after nearly 40-year career

Crews work to demolish an office building at 1129 Miamisburg-Centerville Road in West Carrollton Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. The 3-story facility just off Interstate 75 was damaged in a November 2023 fire. MARSHALL GORBY/STAFF

Prominent office building at I-75 and Ohio 725 demolished; hit by fire in 2023

West Carrollton is seeking the financial means to remediate a 27-acre site that was formerly home to a wastewater treatment facility. It aims to prepare the land for recreation opportunities. STAFF FILE PHOTO

West Carrollton hopes to clean up waste site, create adventure park, camping