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    Key traffic alerts and construction updates for week starting Mar. 15, 2026. PHOTO / OHGO.COM OHIO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
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    This week on the roads: I-75 traffic shift, U.S. 36 Closure, State Route 350 bridge...43m ago
    The Dayton Battle of the Bands Finale happened at The Brightside Music & Event Venue in downtown Dayton on Saturday, March 7, 2026, featuring Catsteel, Paid Leave, Obscured, Tronee Threat, Yuppie, and Good Soup. Paid Leave won the finale followed by second place Good Soup and third place Yuppie. TOM GILLIAM / CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
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    Davidson (Left) with her husband, Scott Davidson, who was elected to the Huber Heights Chamber in 2024. CONTRIBUTED
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    Once homeless at 18, area woman now builds hope and community for hundreds of families
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    These tiny frogs are ‘like modern stereo speakers’
    A large tree was uprooted in Moorefield Twp. in Clark County as a result of heavy winds on Friday, March 13, 2026. JOSEPH COOKE / STAFF
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    Joseph Setty is sworn in as a Dayton Police Department sergeant on Feb. 25, 2016. He was terminated in 2024 and pleaded guilty to multiple criminal charges following a sex investigation.

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    Court denies appeal of arbitration order reinstating former Dayton police sergeant
    Photos from a semi-trailer crash on State Route 4 at Prairie Road in Moorefield Twp. that killed three people on Friday. 

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    PHOTOS: Fatal crash in Clark County
    In this Jan. 28, 2026 photo, U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Aaron Slupski, a crew chief with the 121st Maintenance Group, prepares to marshal a KC-135 Stratotanker at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, Columbus, Ohio. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Friday that three of six crew members of an American KC-135 refueling plane were killed when it crashed in Iraq were from his state and had deployed with the Ohio Air National Guard's 121st Air Refueling Wing. (Ralph Branson, U.S. Air National Guard photo via AP)
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    Three Ohio airmen killed in refueling crash
    Photos from the 49th annual Troy Strawberry Festival, which was held June 6-8, 2025. BRYANT BILLING / STAFF
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    A giant list of spring festivals and events in the Dayton region
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    Trenton woman, Cincinnati teen dead in 2-vehicle Warren County crash
    A 445th Airlift Wing C-17 Globemaster cargo plane dubbed the "Spirit of the city of Fairborn." THOMAS GNAU/STAFF
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    Wright-Patt wing to recognize the city of Fairborn
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    Flyers advance, UD gets contract and more local headlines
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    Preble County clerk of courts leaves post early following theft allegation
    Jason Etter, a former Miami Twp. police lieutenant lost his job after he was charged with misdemeanors for allegedly threatening neighbors with a gun while intoxicated when they were setting off fireworks July 6, 2024, in Perry Twp. CONTRIBUTED
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    Former police lieutenant accused of making death threat
    A federal court judge sentenced a former Dayton AMVETS post commander to prison on March 13, 2026. Danny Dale Gordon reportedly embezzled more than $600,000. THOMAS GNAU / STAFF
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    Former Dayton AMVETS commander accused of stealing more than $600K sentenced to prison
    Gloria Courtney, who was blinded in an October 2023 attack while working as a security guard at the Premier Health building downtown, says she forgives her assailant, James Fickling, during his sentencing Friday, March 13, in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. At right is Courtney's daughter, Oletha Courtney and at left is Jennifer Buschur of the prosecutor's office JEN BALDUF/ STAFF
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    Judge: Attack of security guard ‘something out of a horror movie’
    The Montgomery County Common Pleas Court seal in downtown Dayton court room. Chaunice Benson is facing charges in common pleas court after she reportedly hit five people with a vehicle.  JIM NOELKER/STAFF FILE
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    Woman accused of trying to hit 5 people with vehicle in Dayton indicted
    Phillip H. Wagner, the superintendent of Johnstown-Monroe Local Schools, will be the next State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Photo Courtesy of the State Board of Education of Ohio.
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    Ohio education board names new state superintendent
    Brian Golem places parts in a cage for TAC Industries in this 2021 photo. FILE
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    Springfield net producer lands $22M Air Force contract
    In this 2021 photo, Lt. Gen. Shaun Morris, then-Air Force Life Cycle Management Center commander, and Nathan Parker, Rapid Sustainment Office deputy program executive officer, with the help of a robotic arm, cut the ribbon on Hangar01, an RSO workspace in Dayton. (Air Force photo by Casey Tromp).
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    UD researchers land huge $850M Air Force contract
    The Montgomery County Common Pleas Court seal. Armone Kinney and Shaquan Barker were indicted with complicity to commit aggravated robbery in common pleas court Thursday. JIM NOELKER / STAFF FILE
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    Pair indicted for carjacking Uber driver in Harrison Twp.
    (Left to right) Robert Englund as "Freddy Krueger" and Ken Kirzinger as "Jason" in New Line Cinema's "Freddy Vs. Jason."  (Photo Credit: James Dittiger (c) 2003 New Line Productions )
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    St. Patrick's Day, Monday, March 17, 2025 at the Dublin Pub in Dayton. FILE
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    Facing losses of nearly $16B, Honda to cancel new U.S.-built EV models
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    Watch: Kings Island gives sneak peek of new Phantom Theater ride
    Ed Maloof, left, with AxOhioTax, gets signature from Donna Trueman Bryant as she goes to pay taxes Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026 at Butler County Government Services Center building on High Street in Hamilton. AxOhioTax was collecting signatures in order to put property tax repeal on the November ballot. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF
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    Letters to the editor: Don’t leave Africa; property taxes are good
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    DCS expands Beavercreek footprint with acquisition of ARCTOS near Wright-Patt
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