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- Some pushing for changes to Ohio's public smoking ban
Florentine Brzozowski smoked for 40 years before quitting and now she takes daily breathing treatments for a lung condition. The last thing she wants is Ohio's lawmakers weakening the state's 18-month-old ban on indoor public smoking. - Smoking ban enforcement uneven to nonexistent
At dozens of bars and private clubs in the Miami Valley the state's public smoking ban has literally gone up in smoke. - United Way of Troy exceeds goal
Gift bags Santa handed to United Way of Troy campaign chairs contained quite a surprise. - Six area high schools among America's best
Six Dayton-area high schools have been honored by U.S. News and World Report as being among America's best high schools. The magazine's Best High Schools 2009 list was released Friday, Dec. 5. - Inch of snow, slick conditions expected throughout the day
The Dayton area will see snow showers today, Dec. 6, with a total accumulation of more than one inch, said John Franks, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wilmington. - Report of a fight sends police to UD Arena
A reported disturbance at the University of Dayton Arena, which included talk of a fight, caused police to dispatch several patrol cars there Friday night, Dec. 5. - Trotwood levy OK'd after ballot rejected
The Montgomery County Board of Elections rejected Friday, Dec. 5, a disputed ballot, resulting in the approval of Trotwood's 1-mill street levy renewal. - Ohio tops all states in campaign visits
With unemployment rising, housing values plunging and the state budget tanking, there's not much to brag about in Ohio these days. - Being discreet earns female no points, only arrest for OVI
A roundup of unusual - Misery's company: 533,000 jobs cut
Skittish employers slashed 533,000 jobs in November, the most in 34 years, catapulting the unemployment rate to 6.7 percent, dramatic proof the country is careening deeper into recession. - Expert: Jobless numbers 'shocking'
Ginger Armstrong sought assistance from a food pantry for the first time Thursday, Dec. 4. - Dayton gave actor a key to the city in 2002
When Los Angeles police found De'Angelo Wilson's body in the back room of a Wilshire Boulevard business, he was classified a transient, "but was well known to the people in the area," said L.A. County coroner's spokesman Craig Harvey. - Local actor found dead in Los Angeles
De'Angelo Wilson, 29, a Dayton native and actor who went to southern California for a taste of fame and fortune, hanged himself in the back room of a Los Angeles business on Nov. 26, according to his mother, Debra Wilson. - Woman, 18, in serious condition after being hit by truck while crossing street
An 18-year-old woman struck by a pickup truck Friday, Dec. 5, while walking near Miami Valley Hospital remained in serious condition, a nursing supervisor said. - Students pay tribute to fallen teacher
Their teacher and music director is gone, silenced in a head-on collision Monday. - Gulf of Aden hot spot for piracy
Shaun Hughes' run-in last month with pirates in the Gulf of Aden was his first such encounter in the five years he has sailed his container ship through the treacherous shipping route in the Arabian Sea. - Ship captain talks about life in "Pirate Alley"
Shaun Hughes, a container ship captain with ties to Dayton, encountered pirates in the dangerous waters between Yemen and Somalia. He calls the current situation "complete anarchy." - Flames gut Dayton home, leave family homeless
Tissa Young tearfully told her children everything was "going to be OK" as she stood in the cold Friday, Dec. 5, and watched Dayton firefighters put out the flames that left the family temporarily homeless. - Police catch man suspected of robbing neighboring bookstore
Police arrested the suspected robber of the Grace Book Store Friday, Dec. 5, who lives less than a block from the shop he robbed. - Ex-superintendent's teaching license at stake
The teaching licenses of two local educators will be on the line at Tuesday's state school board meeting, the Ohio Department of Education reported Friday, Dec. 5.