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On Feb. 25, Ohio Rep. Jena Powell introduced a piece of legislature to the Ohio House which would make athletes in school participate in sports based on their assigned sex at birth.

Gasoline and grocery prices are spiking this monthy. Why, and how much higher they may go.

Jurors got a look at the fight that broke out before Madie Hart's death during the first day of her accused killer's trial.

“I see your badge, but I’m telling you, your speech is slurred, you reek of alcohol,” the arresting officer tells Cincinnati police Capt. Amanda Caton at one point. “You’ve put me in a bad spot.”

Election 2020: How much postage do I need to mail a ballot?

Dr. Steve Feagins, with Hamilton County Public Health and Mercy Health, said there's no reason to get tested before a vaccine appointment.

Breaking down UC's 52-3 win over Temple

The antiviral COVID pill distribution will mirror vaccine rollouts a year ago, given to the highest risk groups first.

Mudslide forces residents out of their homes

AS THE NFL SEASON APPROACHES -- FANS ARE EAGER TO SEE THIS YEAR'S BENGALS TEAM ON THE FIELD... AFTER AN OFF-SEASON HIGHLIGHTED BY DRAFTING NEW FRANCHISE QUARTERBACK, JOE BURROW.

Local GOP leaders respond to Biden town hall visit

Panic buttons becoming more common for hotel housekeepers, a workforce particularly vulnerable to sexual assault. Chris Welch reports from Seattle, a city where voters overwhelmingly approved adding panic buttons for hotel staff.

Ask anyone who knows Cincinnati Police assistant chief Paul Neudigate and they’ll tell you that losing him to another city is a big loss. He’s leaving the Queen City to become the chief of police in Virginia Beach.

Warning about eating romaine lettuce

Northern Kentucky University professors and students used its newest technology to help solve the mystery of Umi, an Egyptian child mummy at the Cincinnati Museum Center.

Kroger said it is immediately removing the Indiana Oath Keepers, a militia group with ties to the Jan. 6 violence at the U.S. Capitol, from its Community Rewards program.

Last week, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced that 2 million rapid COVID-19 test kits are being distributed across the state. Now, they’re in Cincinnati and Hamilton County.

Olivia Sulek has always been an "overcomer," coach Nic Simpson said. The 14-year-old Mason girl, who can deadlift 275 pounds and recently claimed a top prize at the global CrossFit Games, has a work ethic and focus that would be impressive at any age. "When you give her a directive, she tries her absolute hardest," Simpson said. That hard work earned her a gold medal proclaiming her one of the fittest teens on Earth at the CrossFit Games in early August. She beat 1,600 girls in her age category from all over the world to snag it. "I am the 2018 Fittest 14-15-year-old on Earth," she said, then laughed. "So weird to say that."

The city has seen a 50% uptick in shootings from this time last year, and that has some city leaders looking for any possible resource to increase law enforcement's ability to respond and prevent violent crime -- including Cincinnati's streetcar.

Family members of a Northern Kentucky woman say she’s being detained improperly by immigration officials and they’re worried she might be deported. To make matters worse, officials won’t say where they're keeping Riccy Enriquez Perdomo, her family says. "What they're doing is illegal. She's under a protected status and you can't just go and pick up people just because," said Enriquez’s brother-in-law, Robert Cole. Agents with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detained Enriquez, 22, when she went to Louisville last week to bail out another person who was detained, according to her brother-in-law, Robert Cole. While she was at the Louisville detention center, officials checked Perdomo's immigration status, Cole said. Cole said Perdomo believed she was protected in the United States under the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program (DACA).

Hamilton County prosecutor Joe Deters complimented the officer's "bravery," but the officer himself said he was banned from the bank where it happened. The bank claims this is a misunderstanding.

Overturned semi closes southbound Interstate 71 at Lytle Tunnel

HamCo. deputy remains in critical condition after crash with Metro bus

Township trustees attempted to soothe the fears of people who opposed the marker's removal and worried it would be destroyed.

Eleven school districts and a dozen agencies will participate in a first-of-its-kind school safety exercise in Butler County Tuesday morning. Nearly 200 students and adults will be on hand to help police, paramedics and other first responders practice how they would respond to an active shooter situation. The exercise will take place from 8 a.m. until noon at the Ross High School and Ross Middle School campus.