Rick McCrabb
Newspaper Columnist at Journal-News
Newspaper columnist for @JournalNews I cover Middletown and Monroe and food and dining throughout Butler County. I have been at Journal since 1987.
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2 weeks ago |
daytondailynews.com | Rick McCrabb
At the head of the controversy is Emerson Colindres, 19, a soccer player who graduated last month from Western Hills High School in Cincinnati. Colindres and his family came to the United States from Honduras in 2014 seeking asylum, according to reports. Their case and appeal were denied and a removal order was issued two years ago. But the family, friends said, never were told to leave the country and they regularly checked in with ICE.
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3 weeks ago |
journal-news.com | Rick McCrabb
Then her boyfriend, Elmon Prier, who was working for Chrysler in Detroit, Mich., interviewed the next yearfor a position in the same school district. District officials were impressed by Wilhelmina and didn’t want to lose her. So the cards were stacked in Elmon’s favor.
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3 weeks ago |
journal-news.com | Rick McCrabb
“We’re almost there,” Harrison, 34, said during a recent interview. On Saturday night, Harrison, 18-1, faces champion Julianna Pena, 12-5, for the women’s bantamweight title in UFC 316 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.The bout serves as Harrison’s first opportunity to win UFC gold and Pena’s first title defense in her second reign as champion. She regained the bantamweight title with a close decision victory over Raquel Pennington at UCF 307 in October 2024.
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3 weeks ago |
journal-news.com | Rick McCrabb
Those uncomfortable conversations are long gone now because Vera is as well known in Middletown as the pastries and cakes she sells. When customers step into Central Pastry, they’re overcome with the sweet smell of sugar and the contagious smile of the owner. At Central Pastry, you order a pastry with a hole in it and you leave with a heart full of happiness. One of Vera’s three daughters, Elizabeth Slamka, who works at Central Pastry, called her mother the “hardest working human” she has met.
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1 month ago |
journal-news.com | Rick McCrabb
Thousands of local residents, many of them waving American flags, lined the two-mile parade route from Smith Park to Woodside Cemetery. It took about one hour for all the units to pull out of Smith Park, said Mark White, parade chairman. The scene was the symbolic snapshot of what Middletown and surrounding communities represent. The diverse crowd featured many families with children in strollers or sitting in lawn chairs or on blankets.
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