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  • Common Household Products Turned Into Explosives

    The Boston Marathon bombing refocused our country on the issue of terrorism within our borders. It came as a shock to many Americans that something as common as a pressure cooker could be turned into a deadly bomb. In a story you'll see only on Local 12 News, Rich Jaffe found the frightening reality is bomb-making materials and instructions are as close as your corner market and the ...

  • Mysterious Powder Investigated at VA Hospital

    Emergency crews say a powdery substance found at the Veterans Administration Hospital on Vine Street appears to be non-toxic. Officials say that around 9:40 a.m. Tuesday, an employee in a first floor office reached into a tissue box to get a tissue-and found a white substance on the tissue. The employee began to cough and was taken to the emergency room for treatment.Four other employees in the ...

  • Door to Door Robbers Tape Up Madisonville Woman

    Two robbers with a gun use duct tape to restrain a Madisonville woman in her home. She tried to stall them until her boyfriend got home. Local 12's Paula Toti spoke with the victim, and neighbors to learn how the crooks chose her house. The victim didn't want to talk on camera but gave me a lot of details. The men knocked at a neighbor's home on Simpson Avenue around 2:30 Sunday ...

  • Matthew 25 Departs For Oklahoma Today To Help Tornado Victims

    The victims of the the deadly tornado in Oklahoma will soon receive help from right here in the Tri-State. Matthew 25 Ministries is preparing to hit the road around lunchtime on Tuesday. A team of five people will travel west in a truck with supplies. Volunteers were busy on Monday night collecting and boxing donations. They will bringing things the victims need to get through next couple weeks- ...

  • Week-Long Crime Spree Ends With Jail Time

    CINCINNATI - A Hamilton man was in jail Monday night, after what investigators describe as a week-long crime spree.Deputies said Steven Flanary stole a woman's purse and her car May 11. A few days later, investigators said he wrote stolen checks.Authorities said Flanary stole another car on Friday and a credit card from another ...


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Movie Review

American History X

American History X

"American History X" is about people who hate. To a certain extent, it is about why they hate, but most of all, it is about the damage their hatred does to the world around them. At one point in the film, Derek Vinyard, a violent and brilliant young neo-Nazi skinhead played with glaring intensity by Edward Norton, is spending his second year in jail for having killed two blacks trying to steal his ... ...

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  • Oklahoma Tornado Death Toll Revised To 24 People

    MOORE, Okla. (AP) - Medical examiner's office revises death toll from Oklahoma tornado to at least 24 from 51 people. Officials say they believe some victims were double counted when authorities took a death toll count on Monday night, hours after the massive tornado swept through the city. Spokeswoman Amy Elliot said Tuesday morning that she believes some victims were counted twice in the ...

  • Emotional Reunion of Mother Child After Tornado

    In Oklahoma, parents were faced with the unthinkable when they got word the tornado hit two elementary schools on Monday. They rushed to the schools in search of their children. Trenda Purcell was reunited with her son Kamden, who was at Briarwood Elementary school when the tornado struck.Kamden was not hurt and their emotional reunion was caught by a videographer who happened to be interviewing ...

  • Grant allows Mount to offer co-op positions

    The College of Mount St. Joseph will continue to offer five cooperative education positions each semester during the upcoming school year with Hamilton County Job and Family Services funded by a grant of $84,000 from The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank ...

  • Ex-Bearcat pulls chair on ex-Musketeer

    A Knicks-Pacers playoff game featured a player on one team (the ...

  • C. Trent Not too worried about Chapman

    Aroldis Chapman occasionally gets out of whack and has bouts of wildness and trouble. That said, ...

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