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Mile-Wide Tornado Rips Through Oklahoma City on Monday Afternoon

SHAWNEE, OKLA.(CBS/CNN) A "large and extremely dangerous" tornado touched down near Oklahoma City on Monday, the National Weather Service confirmed, bringing more dangerous weather that has already claimed the lives of two people since Sunday. The new twister is just one of several created by a storm system that swept through the nation's midsection Sunday and into Monday, with ...
Skillet Beating Murder Trial Now In Deliberations

The jury is now considering whether Steve Stephenson murdered an Aurora woman in her home. The jury started its deliberations this afternoon at lunch. Stephenson is accused of beating Leigh Jennings to death with a pepper mill and an iron skillet.The prosecution says he needed money and he knew Jennings had some.The defense says the prosecution twisted the evidence to fit the theory that ...
Man Sentenced For Death During Botched Fairfield Robbery

The gunman in a botched robbery that killed a Fairfield man last year learns his fate in a Butler County courtroom. A judge sentenced 26 year-old Joseph Goodin of Middletown to 21 years to life in prison, according to our partners at the Journal news. Goodin shot and killed Julian Slaven during a botched robbery in Slaven's Fairfield home last year. Goodin says the shooting was accidental ...
Todays MLB starting lineups May 20

Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Atlanta Braves: 1. ...
Bengals begin paper chase

The Bengals get to move the pieces on that $40 million chessboard folded out by Mike Brown and Marvin Lewis in the offseason for the first time Tuesday when they hold the first of nine voluntary practices at Paul Brown ...

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Warrior

Its a shame that Gavin OConnors Warrior isnt doing better at the box office, because it is easily one of the best sports dramas in recent years. A frequently powerful, consistently engaging, and unexpectedly honest depiction of the decades-spanning impact of alcoholism and familial abuse, ... ...

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Cincinnatis economic development director wont take Mich. job

Odis Jones Odis Jones wont become the latest Cincinnati official to leave for Michigan. Jones, who serves as the city's economic development director, was a finalist for the city managers job in Kalamazoo, Mich. But he told me he's withdrawn from that search process. I just essentially said 'thanks but no thanks,' Jones said in an interview. Jones cited a number of pending ...
So Cincinnati Kings Island

Kings Island is a great spot for summer fun and thrills. Local 12's Bob Herzog shows us what makes the park So Cincinnati. "Summers for us were always the Cincinnati Reds and Kings Island." Don Helbig is more than just the PR guy at Kings island. Kings Island is in his blood. Don's ridden the park's most classic coaster, the Racer, a record 11,999 times. Don was there ...
Three People Taken To Hospital After Suspicious Substance Found

Three people were taken to the hospital after an envelope containing a suspicious substance was opened at a government complex in Lebanon on Monday. Police were called to the office on South East Street around 11:30 a.m. The complex houses several offices including Warren County Health Department, Warren County Human Services, and Warren County Children's Services. Officials say a female ...
Middletown man gets 21 years in Fairfield slaying

Joseph Goodin, 26, of Middletown will spend 21 years to life in prison in the slaying of Julian Slaven of Fairfield. / Butler County Sheriff's ...
IN-DEPTH Suburbs see poverty rate rising

Gina Brown, director of the Mason Food Pantry, sees a big increase in the number of middle-class people who have slid into poverty and need help. / The Enquirer/Tony ...

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Solar-Powered Proteins Filter Antibiotics from Water

Cancer-causing chemicals and drugs like antibiotics pollute many of America's lakes, rivers and drinking water supplies. Activated carbon filters can remove about 40 percent of carcinogens and antibiotics from these waters. But a tiny solar-powered filter made of two bacterial proteins absorbs more than 50 percent more of the pollutants.

In addition, the filter - developed by a team at the University of Cincinnati - can release the captured antibiotics so they can be reused.

Antibiotics and chemicals enter waterways through sewage and run-off from yards and farms. They can breed resistant bacteria and kill helpful microorganisms, degrading the health of aquatic ecosystems.

The nano-filters, each smaller than the diameter of a human hair, employ a protein used by drug-resistant bacteria to excrete waste, but the researchers have turned it around so it sucks compounds in. Another protein, which responds to sunlight, provides the pumping power for the filter.

Environmental engineer David Wendell, one of the developers, calls the innovation an environmentally friendly and cost-effective way to extract and recover antibiotics from surface waters. He foresees the possibility that, one day, a collection of nano-filters could be anchored downstream from urban or farming areas to capture harmful compounds in water. ...