Alex Null

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CINCINNATI — Four Cincinnati police officers are suing the City of Cincinnati and the police chief of the Cincinnati Police Department (CPD), claiming they were discriminated against for being white males. The federal lawsuit was filed on Monday and claims the four officers were denied opportunities for preferred assignments and weren't promoted because of their race and gender. The officers filing the lawsuit are Robert Wilson, Patrick Caton, Gerald Hodges and Andrew Mitchell.

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CINCINNATI — Should crowdfunding pages for Rodney Hinton Jr., the man accused of intentionally hitting and killing a Hamilton County deputy, be allowed online? It's a question that many people are asking after Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost called for those crowdfunding pages to be taken down. He primarily called on the website GiveSendGo to take down pages for Hinton. In a press conference Tuesday, Yost said he feels the site should follow GoFundMe, which ended similar efforts on its platform.

2 weeks ago | wcpo.com | Alex Null

HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Ohio — For the first time, Harrison Township trustees have agreed to pay the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office (HCSO) for patrol services. The new contract will also bring a bigger police presence to the west side of the county. The agreement comes after years of negotiations. The WCPO 9 I-Team reported in 2022 that the sheriff asked Crosby, Harrison and Whitewater townships for at least $1 million for regular patrols.

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MADISONVILLE, Ohio — At Laurel Cemetery in Madisonville, many headstones are covered by overgrown grass reaching as tall as three to four feet. The cemetery is where many soldiers, including World War II veterans, are buried. That includes Michael Schrichten's uncle. "That's an empty grave right there of my uncle," Schrichten said. "They never found his body."His grandparents are also buried there. Schrichten said when he first saw how bad the conditions of the cemetery were, it made him emotional.

2 weeks ago | wcpo.com | Alex Null

LOVELAND, Ohio — For the past month and a half, David Hamilton's life has been flipped upside down. That's because his home in Loveland was destroyed when a tree fell on it during an April storm. "It was chaotic ... it looked like it had snowed in here, rain was pouring in, a tree (was) in here," Hamilton said. WCPO 9 spoke to him the day after the storm. He said he was sitting in his home, watching television, when his ceiling suddenly collapsed on him. Luckily, he and his wife weren't hurt.