Brittany Harry

2 weeks ago | fox19.com | Brittany Harry

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - A contractor has been chosen to build the replacement playground in Sawyer Point Park after an arson fire destroyed it. Midstates Recreation is the new designer and builder for the replacement playground, which is being built not far from where the original 1,000 Hands Playground once stood for years under the Daniel Carter Beard Bridge. “So we have to bring something back that is equally iconic. This is one of our busiest parks.

2 weeks ago | wkyt.com | Brittany Harry

DAYTON, Ohio (WXIX) - A 6-year-old Tri-State boy is in the ICU after accidentally falling into a swimming pool. “Xander had an accident with the pool. Dad pulled him out and did CPR for 10 minutes until the paramedics arrived. Dad got his heart beating, paramedics took over,” said Xander’s mother Leigh Anne Ocampo. It happened over the weekend while celebrating a family birthday in Madison Township. Xander’s parents say their son, who is autistic and nonverbal, has been in the hospital ever since.

2 weeks ago | fox19.com | Brittany Harry

DAYTON, Ohio (WXIX) - A 6-year-old Tri-State boy is in the ICU after accidentally falling into a swimming pool. “Xander had an accident with the pool. Dad pulled him out and did CPR for 10 minutes until the paramedics arrived. Dad got his heart beating, paramedics took over,” said Xander’s mother Leigh Anne Ocampo. It happened over the weekend while celebrating a family birthday in Madison Township. Xander’s parents say their son, who is autistic and nonverbal, has been in the hospital ever since.

2 weeks ago | fox19.com | Brittany Harry

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Knowing how to swim can be a life-saving skill, especially with training at a young age. Austin Hoard with Goldfish Swim School says the sooner you can enroll your child in swim lessons, the better. “Studies do show that the sooner you put your kid in swim lessons, it will prevent them from potential drownings up to 88 percent,” Hoard explained. An estimated 4,000 people die from drowning every year in the U.S., according to the American Red Cross.

3 weeks ago | fox19.com | Brittany Harry

NEW RICHMOND, Ohio (WXIX) - A rare sighting of a bobcat was discovered on a Ring camera in New Richmond Thursday. Kathryn Murray says her Ring camera caught a bobcat walking across the porch of her home on Parkers Run Road. “So, normally we have neighborhood cats,” Murray said.