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Raising backyard chickens is a growing trend embraced by some seeking a more sustainable lifestyle, but causing controve...
08/07/2025

Raising backyard chickens is a growing trend embraced by some seeking a more sustainable lifestyle, but causing controversy and debate in urban and suburban areas across southwest Ohio.

Backyard chickens offer a variety of benefits, from fresh eggs or meat to natural pest control and fertilizer for gardens. But the practice is not without opponents concerned about the affect on property values in addition to potential odor or predator problems.

"I tried to keep reporting and reporting, and they won’t help us," one caller told police about Children Services.
08/05/2025

"I tried to keep reporting and reporting, and they won’t help us," one caller told police about Children Services.

Staff from Ruskin Elementary school told 911 dispatchers they called Children Services multiple times while requesting wellness checks for Hershall Creachbaum Jr. and his sister weeks before his presumed death.

Local public media outlets say the end to CPB itself won’t impact their ability to stay on the air, but the shutdown of ...
08/05/2025

Local public media outlets say the end to CPB itself won’t impact their ability to stay on the air, but the shutdown of the nonprofit raises questions about future funding opportunities and music licensing.

After its defunding by Congress, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — a nonprofit that has funneled federal funding to Dayton-area NPR and PBS stations for decades — will shut down in the coming months.

During the decades that a former school bus driver allegedly victimized students, he worked for at least 7 area schools,...
08/04/2025

During the decades that a former school bus driver allegedly victimized students, he worked for at least 7 area schools, including one where he quit after being accused of sexually inappropriate conduct with a student, our investigation found.

During the decades that former school bus driver Matthew Hunt allegedly victimized students, he worked for at least seven area school districts, including one where he resigned after being accused of sexually inappropriate conduct with a student, a Dayton Daily News investigation found.

Our reporters spent months gathering and analyzing datasets from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce and talk...
08/04/2025

Our reporters spent months gathering and analyzing datasets from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce and talking to experts to create the best comparison available to parents of private and public schools

Changes by Ohio lawmakers to school voucher eligibility in recent years has led to a massive expansion in the program that allows families to use taxpayer dollars to send their kids to private school.

“We had legislation passed that was supposed to help fill in the gaps that would prevent this from happening and evident...
08/01/2025

“We had legislation passed that was supposed to help fill in the gaps that would prevent this from happening and evidently it didn’t fill the gaps,” Wright said. “We know that those that are supposed to protect this child, those that are supposed to keep this child out of harms way didn’t do their job, and as a result he’s dead.”

The recently reported death of 7-year-old Hershall Creachbaum Jr. follows changes to state law enacted three years ago aimed at improving the protection of Ohio’s children.

More than a decade after a Beavercreek police officer shot and killed a customer inside Walmart, a wrongful death lawsui...
08/01/2025

More than a decade after a Beavercreek police officer shot and killed a customer inside Walmart, a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the family of John Crawford III was voluntarily dismissed.

Wrongful death lawsuit filed by Crawford family in Beavercreek Walmart shooting voluntarily dismissed in U.S. District Court in Dayton.

Kendrick had a long history of violence, threats and drunk abusive behavior against family members, ex-partners and othe...
08/01/2025

Kendrick had a long history of violence, threats and drunk abusive behavior against family members, ex-partners and other people in his life, according to police and court records obtained by the Dayton Daily News.

Dayton police said 7-year-old Hershall Creachbaum Jr. and his sister seemed OK and their East Dayton home looked in order and had food, water and power when they did a welfare check in early April, according to the police department and dispatch logs.

While it wasn’t perfect, what our reporting produced is the closest thing available to parents to a report card comparin...
07/31/2025

While it wasn’t perfect, what our reporting produced is the closest thing available to parents to a report card comparing the performance of public and private schools that is currently available.

Last summer, the Dayton Daily News reported that Ohio spent nearly $1 billion to send kids to private schools in the previous school year, largely subsidizing families already sending their children to private schools.

Search the data to compare proficiency test scores in English Language Arts and math from area private schools to those ...
07/31/2025

Search the data to compare proficiency test scores in English Language Arts and math from area private schools to those in the districts those schools are located in.

A Dayton Daily News analysis of state test scores found that some public school districts where lots of parents use taxpayer-funded vouchers to send their kids to private schools actually perform better than the private schools in the district.

The Dayton Daily News compared proficiency test score data — English and math scores from grades 3-8 — from the Ohio Dep...
07/31/2025

The Dayton Daily News compared proficiency test score data — English and math scores from grades 3-8 — from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce for 58 private schools and 24 local school districts across the region. Here's what we found.

While private schools in low-performing districts like Dayton, Springfield and Middletown tend to outperform the local school district, Ohio taxpayers are subsidizing private schools in the suburbs that don’t perform as well as the nearby public schools.

Amid the ongoing debate over national immigration policy, the Dayton Daily News is launching a project to explore how th...
07/30/2025

Amid the ongoing debate over national immigration policy, the Dayton Daily News is launching a project to explore how the Dayton region was and is shaped by immigrants.

Amid the ongoing debate over national immigration policy, the Dayton Daily News is launching a project to explore how the Dayton region was and is shaped by immigrants.

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Ohio is the center of the political universe. The world knows that we pick presidents. Our team at the Dayton Daily News, WHIO-TV Channel 7, Springfield News-Sun, The Journal News and AM 1290 and News 95.7 WHIO is dedicated to bringing you the latest from the White House, Statehouse and City Hall.