Nick Swartsell

2 weeks ago | wvxu.org | Nick Swartsell

Hamilton County Coroner Lakshmi Sammarco Monday released autopsy results for Ryan Hinton, the 18-year-old a Cincinnati Police officer shot and killed May 1. Sammarco said Hinton had three bullet wounds. One was a flesh wound in his left forearm. Another entered his left side near his armpit, hit his left ventricle and a rib before exiting his body near his sternum. She believes this was the lethal wound. Sammarco said those wounds could have been caused by one or two rounds.

2 weeks ago | wosu.org | Nick Swartsell

Hamilton County Coroner Lakshmi Sammarco Monday released preliminary autopsy results for Ryan Hinton, the 18-year-old a Cincinnati Police officer shot and killed May 1. Sammarco said Hinton had three bullet wounds. One was a flesh wound in his left forearm. Another entered his left side near his armpit, hit his left ventricle and a rib before exiting his body near his sternum. She believes this was the lethal wound. Sammarco said those wounds could have been caused by one or two rounds.

2 weeks ago | wvxu.org | Nick Swartsell

As a complex legal battle plays out over the ownership of dozens of residential properties across Cincinnati once overseen by real estate investment group Vision & Beyond, tenants at one of them could face an order from the city to vacate their apartments. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Christian Jenkins heard from city attorneys and a Cincinnati building inspector May 14 that a sewage issue at the 116-unit Kirby Apartments is dire.

2 weeks ago | wvxu.org | Nick Swartsell

Some federal employees at Cincinnati's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health facilities are back on the job after being laid off by the Trump administration earlier this month. NIOSH is responsible for research and recommendations aimed at preventing workplace illness and injury. The Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees NIOSH, sent notices to almost 900 of the institute's employees earlier this month.

3 weeks ago | wvxu.org | Nick Swartsell

As congressional Republicans wrangle over a budget bill seeking to cut $1.6 trillion dollars in federal spending, Kentucky's U.S. Sen. Rand Paul told local elected leaders he supports the Trump administration's overall goal of a smaller federal government. But he doesn't always agree with Trump's means of achieving that.