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CINCINNATI — The man who ran his car into a Hamilton County sheriff's deputy working a traffic detail near the University of Cincinnati, killing him, was the father of a man shot and killed by a Cincinnati police officer one day prior, Chief Teresa Theetge said during a press conference Friday evening.Cincinnati police said 38-year-old Rodney Hinton Jr. was arrested for aggravated murder following the deputy's death. Hinton is the father of 18-year-old Ryan Hinton, who an officer shot and killed Thursday morning during a pursuit involving a stolen vehicle.Rodney Hinton Jr. appeared in court Saturday morning, with dozens of...

Cory Bowman was feeling inspired in January as he headed home after watching his half brother, JD Vance, be inaugurated as vice president. The 36-year-old Bowman, who shares a father with Vance, was already active in the community, starting an evangelical church in Cincinnati's West End and later opening a coffee shop. But he hadn't thought politics was his calling. Now, suddenly, he did. He decided to launch a campaign for mayor. "There was nobody that pushed me into it, nobody that told me that this is a pathway I should go," he said in an interview one recent morning....

LOCKLAND, Ohio — One person has died and another person has been taken into custody after a multi-county police chase ended in a shooting involving police on Interstate 75 in Lockland Wednesday morning. The incident shutdown all northbound lanes near the end of the Lockland split for hours, but the roadway reopened just before 7:40 a.m. It started at 2:45 a.m. West Chester police say a license plate reader flagged the suspect vehicle as stolen. When officers attempted to pull the vehicle over, it fled, leading to a pursuit. Lockland police say they were called to assist in locating multiple...

Four Chilean men have been arrested in connection with a string of burglaries that includes the home of Cincinnati Bengals star quarterback Joe Burrow. The four suspects were arrested following "an ongoing investigation involving burglaries of multimillion-dollar homes in multiple states," according to WLWT-TV, citing court documents. Sergio Cabello, Bastian Morales, Jordan Sanchez and Alexander Chavez were arrested in Clark County after being pulled over by Ohio State Highway Patrol on Jan. 10, according to the documents.

Two days ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration, chants of "No Trump! No KKK! No Fascist USA!" echoed off the Victorian facade of Cincinnati's Music Hall. It came from a crowd of about 100 people gathered outside in Cincinnati's Washington Park on a gray and rainy Saturday morning.

According to OptaSTATS, there have been two instances in NFL history where a quarterback had 30 passing completions, 300 passing yards, four touchdown passes, multiple 40-yard touchdown passes and no more than one interception, and still lost the game. Those two instances were both Burrow vs. the Ravens this year.

Things are a-changin’ in Vegas! And dramatically at that! The Las Vegas Raiders announced late Sunday night they have fired their offensive coordinator Luke Getsy after the team got off to a terrible 2-7 start. It was Getsy’s first campaign with the team. Oh, but that’s not all. Las Vegas decided to can their quarterbacks coach Rich Scangarello and offensive line coach James Cregg as well. Scangarello and Cregg were also in their first year with the Raiders. After suffering a dismal 41-24 defeat against the Cincinnati Bengals, the black and silver have now lost five straight games, something the...

Donald Trump’s campaign is getting some dough-lightful news out of Ohio. A beloved Cincinnati bakery, whose “cookie poll” has accurately predicted every election outcome but one since 1984, has the former president and Republican nominee leading Democrat Kamala Harris in its unscientific survey. Trump notched about 54% support (2,953 cookies) to Harris’ 39% (2,134 cookies), with an “independent” smiley-face cookie scoring 7% (397 cookies), per the latest tally shared with The Post by Busken Bakery. The cookie poll will remain open until Election Day on Nov. 5, so the tallies reflect the result of “early voting” by those with a...

Three and a half years after the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals prohibited a public university from retaliating against a professor for refusing to use a student's preferred pronouns, the Cincinnati-based court went even further by stripping qualified immunity in a similar case.University of Louisville officials can be held personally liable for allegedly retaliating against a psychiatry professor through a "hostile, humiliating work environment" designed to chill his speech and not renewing his contract after he questioned so-called gender-affirming care at a Heritage Foundation event in 2017, a three-judge panel unanimously ruled.President Biden nominee Judge Andre Mathis, who dissented...

The mystery of why a $300,000 Bentley crashed into the US-Canada border crossing at 100mph and exploded, killing a couple inside, may never be solved as police close the case. **SNIP** Betsy Ertel, a spokesperson for the Cincinnati Insurance Companies, which insured the Bentley, declined to discuss details of any claim 'out of respect for the privacy of our policyholders'. Police said the Villanis were killed instantly in the crash and pronounced dead at the scene. Whether any of their relatives will file a lawsuit is unknown. The 2022 Flying Spur can go from zero to 60mph in four seconds...

Shots rang out near the University of Cincinnati (UC) around 2:45 a.m. Monday and Cincinnati police Capt. Mark Burns told the Associated Press that “two subjects” were detained in the aftermath. WLWT reported the shooting was in Corryville, a neighborhood in Cincinnati which is located east of the UC campus. Three people were killed in the incident, and two people wounded. Local12 noted that all three of the deceased individuals were men. One of the subjects detained by police was among two individuals who were shot and wounded in the incident. Just before 3 a.m,, the UC’s public safety department...

The Washington Post is celebrating a man from the African country of Mauritania who is helping more poor Muslim migrants crowd into Cincinnati apartments and houses, straining the town’s resources and apparently breaking occupancy laws. Even this man, who is working to facilitate the flood of illegals into the U.S., says that the federal government is just letting too many people come to the U.S. all at once. The Washington Post is celebrating a man from the African country of Mauritania who is helping more poor Muslim migrants crowd into Cincinnati apartments and houses, straining the town’s resources and apparently...

May 28 has become somewhat of a sorrowful day for Cincinnatians as it was the day the Cincinnati Zoo’s beloved gorilla, Harambe, was shot and killed eight years ago. It was a catastrophic 10 minutes that caught the world’s attention. On May 28, 2016, a young boy climbed through a barrier at the zoo’s Gorilla World and fell about 15 feet into a moat around 4 p.m., zoo officials wrote. As soon as the zoo was made aware of the situation, the first thing they did was call the gorillas of the exhibit, Cincinnati Zoo Director Thane Maynard previously said....

Sen. JD Vance’s (R-Ohio) surprise appearance at a Manhattan courthouse to support former President Trump, and his qualified answer about supporting the results of the 2024 election, show he’s challenging Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) as the Senate front-runner to be Trump’s running mate in the fall. GOP senators and strategists say it’s hard to predict whom Trump will choose, but they say Scott and Vance are viewed as the two most likely choices within the Senate GOP conference. Vance and Scott are stepping up their efforts to grab Trump’s attention by staying close to his orbit and showing off their...

Gov. Kristi Noem is facing legal action after her latest endorsement caused an online furor that now risks taking a bite out of her standing in South Dakota at a time when she’s rumored to be among the front-runners on Donald Trump’s vice presidential shortlist.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Three more teenagers are now under arrest for the two January attacks in downtown Cincinnati. Both attacks were caught on surveillance video. It brings the total to seven minors and one adult accused in one or both of the ambush-style attacks. They occurred January 23 and 24 when a swarm of teens assaulted what appeared to be unsuspecting pedestrians. The seven minors were represented in juvenile court Wednesday morning. Chief Juvenile Judge Kari Bloom denied defense attorney requests for release pending further court proceedings. The Cincinnati FOP expressed outrage last month after the first teenager and an...

A Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden employee was hospitalized Thursday after she was bitten by a highly venomous rattlesnake. The eastern diamondback rattlesnake snapped at the employee around 4 p.m. in a “behind the scenes area” not open to guests, the zoo’s communications director Michelle Curley told the Cincinnati Enquirer. The unnamed staffer — who works in the reptile house — was taken to the hospital in stable condition. She had only received a partial bite and did not require antivenom, Curley said, adding her prognosis is good.

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Cincinnati Reds legend Johnny Bench apologized Sunday for an antisemitic comment he had made a day earlier during a team event. Bench was in attendance Saturday at a news conference to honor former Reds general manager Gabe Paul, who was Jewish, and former pitchers Danny Graves and Bronson Arroyo. The trio was being inducted into the Reds Hall of Fame. Paul, who died in 1998, was represented at the event by his daughter, Jennie Paul. Near the end of the news conference, Pete Rose recalled his first contract negotiation with Gabe Paul, saying: "When I got out of high school...

The University of Cincinnati has now withdrawn its formal reprimand of a professor who failed a student for using the term 'biological woman'. The reprimand was issued less than one month ago on June 14 by Melanie Nipper, but has since been removed from her personnel file. The formal caution was removed after Professor Nipper filed an appeal with the University which later decided that her reprimand had been 'issued in error.'