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Police Find Body Of Fourth Student Killed in Field Trip Landslide

Story filed earlier on Thursday, May 23, 2013.ST. PAUL, MINN. (CBS News) A fourth-grade field trip to a Mississippi River park popular with fossil hunters turned deadly Wednesday when gravel saturated by persistent rain gave way, killing one child and injuring two others. A fourth child was missing. The landslide at Lilydale Regional Park swept over a group of children from Peter Hobart ...
I-71 South in Wilmington Reopens Five Hours After Crash

A semi-truck flips and shuts down part of I-71 for several hours on Thursday morning. The highway has since reopened. The accident closed down the southbound lanes of I-71 near Wilmington just south of U.S. 68 around 4:30 this morning. A semi trailer flipped on its side. the crash backed up traffic for more than five hours. It's not clear what caused the crash or what the truck was hauling. ...
Three People Found Shot On Over-the-Rhine Street Corner

Cincinnati Police are on the scene after three people were found shot on an Over-the-Rhine street corner on Thursday afternoon.Detectives were called to Elm and Liberty around 12:30 p.m.Two women and a man are at the hospital being treated for gunshot wounds. Officers have not released the names or conditions of those victims but they do say the injuries are not life-threatening.There were ...
Mom Arrested For Stripping During School Assembly

(CBS/AP) ALBANY, N.Y. - Police say Aydrea Meaders, a mother who allegedly got on stage and started to strip during a school assembly, is facing child endangerment and lewdness charges. Albany police say the 24-year-old Meaders was arrested at North Albany Academy. They say school staff told them the assembly was halted and the cafeteria cleared after Meaders began dancing onstage and took off ...
Cincinnati Airport Looks to Increase Service

Over the last several years, the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport has lost hundreds of flights as Delta scaled back operations. Managers at the airport say they're aggressively working to attract more airlines to CVG. "We're going through a very methodical plan about which airlines we approach business case for specific routes et cetera. So we've been ...

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The Da Vinci Code is Exhibit A in how things that work on the page dont always translate on-screen. Dan Browns book, which has sold some 40 million copies and shows little sign of slowing down, reads like a novelized screenplay, and most people burn through it n ... ...

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Body of Fort Thomas Native Arrives in Cincinnati

The remains of a Fort Thomas man killed in a bombing in Afghanistan are now home. The body of Michael Bradford was flown into the Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport on Wednesday night. A former soldier, Bradford was working in Kabul for a company that trains Afghan troops and police. His mother, father, brothers and wife were at the airport to receive the remains. His wife is ...
Six Missing Cincinnati Teens Listed on Ohio Website

Marti Bell is one of six missing youths from Cincinnati featured on a missing person's website from the Ohio Attorney General. (Picasa, ...
Victim Recalls Police Chase In Warren County

A car crash in Warren County ends with the arrest of a man suspected of trying to run down a police officer last week. Police say Mario Gibbs was a passenger in a car that led officers on a chase that ended in Deerfield Township. Angela Ingram spoke to a victim whose car was hit during the chase. Abby Osika was released from the hospital early this morning. She only has bumps and bruises. Abby ...
Local 12 in Oklahoma Homeowners Allowed To Collect Belongings

Local 12's Joe Webb, a native of Oklahoma, is in Moore, Oklahoma reporting on the aftermath of a devastating tornado which destroyed the town.He says victims were allowed back into their homes on Wednesday to salvage what they could. It's a grim task. Click on the video link to see Joe's ...
Donation will bring carousel to Smale Riverfront Park

Portions of Smale Park are open, and as sections are completed, they also open to the public. A Cincinnati-themed carousel will be a centerpiece of the new Smale Riverfront Park after the Haile/U.S. Bank Foundation donated $5 million to make it happen. Visitors will be able to ride the carousel 12 months a year because it will be located within a glass building. Mansfield-based Carousel Works ...

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Biomarkers for inflammatory bowel disease uncovered

University of Cincinnati researchers have identified a number of biomarkers for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which could help with earlier diagnosis and intervention in those who have not yet shown symptoms.

This finding was made possible by using the Department of Defense Serum Repository (DoDSR).

The DoDSR is a biological repository operated by the U.S. Department of Defense and contains over 50 million human serum specimens, collected primarily from applicants to and members of the U.S. uniformed services.

This discovery, the first of its kind and led by UC's Bruce Yacyshyn, MD, is being presented via podium presentation by staff from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at Digestive Disease Week 2013, being held May 18-21 in Orlando, Fla.

"With collaborators from Walter Reed, we were able to identify all of the active duty service men and women who developed IBD and then used the repository to go back and look at various biomarkers to see what each person had in common," said Yacyshyn, a professor of medicine at the UC College of Medicine and UC Health gastroenterologist.

IBD is a group of inflammatory conditions of the colon and small intestine. The main types of IBD are Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis; inflammatory bowel diseases are considered autoimmune diseases in which the body's own immune system attacks elements of the digestive system. ...