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Decision To Shoot Baby Monkey In Clermont County Angers Animal Lovers

Most people are familiar with Capuchin monkeys. They're the little one's frequently seen in images with organ grinders. Over the weekend a baby Capuchin was on the loose in the Clermont County. It took place in the community of Neville. After attempts to capture it failed, authorities made a decision to shoot and kill it. Local 12's Rich Jaffe says that decision struck a very ...
Local Schools Consider Weather Safety in Wake of Oklahoma Tornado

The tragedy in Oklahoma raises questions about tornado safety everywhere, especially in schools. Local schools try to prepare for the worst. Local 12 news reporter Jeff Hirsh spent the day in Evanston with a look at some of those ...
Cockfighting Suspects Appear in Court in Bracken County

Several people charged in connection with a Northern Kentucky cockfighting ring made court appearances today. All are facing animal cruelty charges following a raid on a cockfighting ring last month. Local 12 News Reporter Larry Davis was in court as six of the defendants went before a judge some professing their innocence.The nine defendants had previously entered not guilty pleas in the case, ...
Oklahoma Tornado Strength Was EF-5

Updated at noon on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 MOORE, Okla. (AP) - Gov. Mary Fallin says an Oklahoma suburb that was devastated by a deadly tornado will be rebuilt. At least 24 people, including nine children, were killed in the massive tornado that flattened homes and a school in Moore, Okla., on Monday afternoon. Fallin told a Tuesday news conference that she doesn't know how many people are ...
Union Man Arrested At Airport After Loaded Gun Found in Bag

A Union, Kentucky man is arrested after TSA agents at the Cincinnati airport found a loaded gun in his carry-on bag. Officials say the man was arrested on Monday morning during the screening process. TSA contacted the Airport Police who confiscated the .380 caliber handgun, loaded with six rounds, and arrested the man on a state weapons charge. The man, a resident of Union, KY, was originally ...

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War of the Worlds (2005)

In a seemingly benign, yet ultimately ominous line of dialogue early in Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds, the ex-wife of Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise), a New York dock worker and generally deadbeat dad, says to him after dropping off their two kids for the weekend, "Take c ... ...

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Jury Recommends Life Sentence In Skillet Beating Murder Trial

An Indiana jury is recommending a sentence of life in prison without parole for a man found guilty of murdering an Aurora woman in her home. A judge will formally sentence Steve Stevenson tomorrow-the judge is free to take the jury's recommendation or impose another sentenced.The jury came to a guilty verdict after about eight hours of deliberation on Monday. Stephenson beat Leigh Jennings ...
Tea Party Protests IRS In Cincinnati

Hundreds of Tea Party activists rallied in downtown Cincinnati today. It was one of dozens of demonstrations planned around the country to protest Internal Revenue Service scrutiny of conservative groups. Tea Party supporters, several hundred of them, gathered at noon on Fountain Square today. Those we talked with expressed outrage at the way the IRS treated conservative groups last year as they ...
Mercy Health names new CEO

He will replace James E. May, who has been serving a dual role as ...
Special collection of tornado victims

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati will take up a special collection the weekend of May 25-26, to provide relief for the victims of the OKlahoma tornado ...
Mike Golics son transferring to UC

Former Notre Dame tight end Jake Golic will transfer to the UC football team for his fifth college season, ...

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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. ...