Keith Biery Golick

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VEVAY, Ind. — Russ Bragg bends over and picks up a log. He walks down to the Ohio River banks and tosses it into a pile. The pile is growing. When he gets back up to his fence, he sees a headlight from a car. Then, he shows me a lottery ticket from a Cincinnati gas station almost an hour away. Bragg says it's all part of the trash and debris left over from flooding in early April. Flooding that damaged homes and communities all over the Tri-State.

1 month ago | wcpo.com | Keith Biery Golick

AURORA, Ind. — Kayla Slayback is cleaning the bathroom, pushing muddy water into the hallway. She lives upstairs. And last weekend, Slayback left her home as the Ohio River flooded downtown. That’s how she described feeling when she came back on Thursday — even though she had to borrow boots from her boss to get upstairs. “At least I have my home back,” Slayback said. Born and raised in Aurora, she works as a bartender at the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

1 month ago | wcpo.com | Keith Biery Golick

CINCINNATI — Jack Stenger holds up his binoculars. He doesn’t go many places without them. Then, before he can finish a sentence, he interrupts himself and points up in the air. He claps when he sees a vulture, then puts the binoculars back up to his eyes. “Oh, there’s a different one for you,” Stenger said. “A double-crested cormorant.”That’s a water bird with a hooked bill, in case you don't have the same encyclopedic knowledge of birds.

1 month ago | wcpo.com | Keith Biery Golick

LOVELAND, Ohio — There’s a clearing in the trees back behind the VFW post in Loveland. In a small fire pit, there's a log and remnants from a tent. Chris Gonzalez meets a lot of veterans, but the former detention officer in Guantanamo Bay won’t soon forget the one who used to live out here. “He had no job, no home, no nothing,” Gonzalez said. Michael Harrahil, an aircraft mechanic, had fallen on hard times. He’d gotten divorced, lost his job and spent a year living on the streets.

1 month ago | wcpo.com | Keith Biery Golick

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio — The wheelchair Miara Miles once used is tucked away in her garage. It takes her a second to figure out how to open it, because she hasn’t used it for a while. But it still brings back memories. "I remember being very scared," Miles said. "I was very confused, because I just didn’t really understand what was happening."As a child, Miles was diagnosed with a brain tumor that caused epilepsy. In 2020, she had a violent seizure and lost her ability to walk.