Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Hamilton County Public Health Director Dr. Stephen Feagins urges residents to get flu shots before Halloween, citing a two-week lag for the vaccine to take effect and last season's record surge that pushed local hospitals to capacity.
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An unattended candle caused a Thursday night house fire at 6638 Kirkland Drive that displaced two adults and two children and caused $100,000 in damage; working smoke detectors enabled the family to evacuate safely, and Cincinnati firefighters rescued five dogs from the home.
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Hamilton County's cyclospora cases rose to 23 as Ohio's total doubled to 2,650 in one week, prompting the CDC to send disease investigators for a three-week deployment; the FDA continues to link the outbreak to recalled Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce.
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More than 1,500 sewer backup reports have been filed with MSD after the July 17 and July 21 storms, up from 900 a few days earlier, as officials call the event a potential 1,000-year occurrence and the city confirms a floodgate malfunction at Duck Creek.
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Metro bus driver Kyle Taylor faces arraignment Saturday on vehicular manslaughter charges in the July 16 death of city worker Jonathan Young on the Norwood Lateral. The Cooper Elliott law firm, which secured a $10 million settlement in the 2024 Hyde Park crosswalk death of Beverly Kinney, now represents Young's family and says SORTA broke its safety reform promises.
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The Hyde Park Neighborhood Council launched a flood survey on Wednesday, July 23, asking businesses and residents to document losses from the July 17 and July 21 storms so the council can advocate for city infrastructure fixes.
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Hamilton County has confirmed more than a dozen cyclosporiasis cases and reports a statistically significant increase in ER visits for gastrointestinal illness, part of a statewide outbreak that has sickened more than 1,200 Ohioans.
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Dovetale Bakery and neighboring Hyde Park Square businesses were flooded twice in four days during storms on July 17 and July 21, prompting merchants to pool cleanup resources and raising questions about the stormwater system and a Duck Creek floodgate that failed to close during the first storm.
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Nicholas T. Dryden of Cincinnati was sentenced Tuesday, July 21, to 108 months in federal prison for conspiring to create and distribute videos depicting the torture of monkeys, a sentence nearly double the longest prior case under the federal animal crush video statute.
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Cincinnati City Manager Sheryl Long announced Monday, July 20, that the city is prioritizing debris removal in Hyde Park, Oakley, Madisonville, and California after Friday's flash flooding, with a roll-off container already stationed at 4420 Camberwell Road and more than 900 sewer backup reports under investigation.
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Oakley residents along Camberwell Road are racing to clear flood-damaged belongings before more severe weather hits Tuesday, July 21, with local hauler Josh McCarthy offering junk removal at cost and the city deploying debris containers to the neighborhood.
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Cincinnati Fire Department Capt. Derek Hunt said his crew nearly lost a woman into fast-moving floodwater while pulling two people from a swamped SUV on Madison Road near the Oakley-Madisonville line on Friday, July 17, urging residents never to drive through flooded streets.
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Cincinnati police charged William Luken III, 80, with vehicular homicide and vehicular manslaughter on July 9 in connection with a May 1 crash on Erie Avenue that killed 26-year-old Vespa rider Noah Patsfall.
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