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Eric covers business for the Hamilton Journal-News and Middletown Journal. Since being hired by Cox Media Group Ohio in 2005, he has covered local government, business, education, politics and crime in Butler and Warren counties. Eric earned a bachelor's of science in journalism from Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. He lives in Cincinnati with his wife and their three children, ages 11, 7 and 6.
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Car show a big benefit for Shrine hospitals
Hundreds of vintage cars of all makes and models cruised into Smith Park on Sunday for an event that has aided a good cause for decades. With proceeds benefiting the Shriners Hospitals for Children, the annual Shriners Mother’s Day Car Show typically raises $8,000 to $9,000 for the Shriners and ...
Man injured in plane crash
A 43-year-old man piloting a single-engine plane crashed shortly after take-off at the Butler County Regional Airport on Saturday evening, according to the Ohio State Highway PatrolSteven E. Ankerstar was the sole occupant of an amateur-built aircraft that lifted off westbound on the airport’s southern runway just before 6 p.m. ...
Hamilton company looking to hire 100
A Butler County manufacturing company will be looking to fill about 100 production and production support jobs during an on-site job fair June 1. The new positions at ThyssenKrupp Bilstein of America Inc., 8685 Berk Blvd. in Hamilton, were created as a result of new business and continued growth, according ...
Mobile dental care a first in Butler County
A Hamilton-based nonprofit is taking its effort to promote good oral health on the road. Primary Health Solutions’ new dental care vehicle will provide on-site dental care to children in Butler County schools and serve other under-served populations, such as the severely mentally ill and substance abuse patients, according to ...
No indictment in Hamilton store shooting
A Butler County grand jury did not indict a Hamilton store owner who shot and killed an alleged armed robber more than a week ago. Smail Gueddari was cleared of any wrongdoing Tuesday in the April 13 fatal shooting of 26-year-old Jeremy Scott Irvin at his Main Street shop, Mazagan ...
Boston tragedy weighs heavy on minds of marathon organizers, participants
The Boston bombings were still weighing heavily on the minds of local marathon organizers, participants and law enforcement officials, who also had to deal with multiple suspicious package reports throughout the region Tuesday.Organizers of the 15th Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon sat down with Cincinnati police and fire officials Tuesday to ...
P & G worker injured by electric shock
A man working at a Procter & Gamble facility was taken to the hospital this morning following what initially was reported to be an electrocution.Dispatchers, who made the call just at 7:57 a.m. to respond to P&G’s Beckett Ridge Technical Center, 8256 Union Centre Blvd., reported someone could be heard ...
Store owner: “I didn’t kill him; he killed himself”
Smail Gueddari was working in the back room of his store, Mazagan Urban Ware, around 8:30 p.m. Saturday when, suddenly, he heard his wife, who had been manning the cash register, screaming from the front of the shop. Gueddari rushed from the back room to find a robber, with the ...
Butler County residents running in Boston Marathon describe hectic scene
Several Butler County residents who competed Monday in the Boston Marathon described a hectic scene following explosions near the finish line.Carrie Apling, 37, of Liberty Twp. said she was 200 feet from the explosions as they occurred.“It was pretty scary as soon as the first explosion went off,” Apling said. ...
Hamilton store owner talks about robbery, shooting
A store owner shot and killed a man attempting to rob his Main Street business Saturday. Hamilton police officers responded to Mazagan Urban Ware, 201 Main St., at 8:34 p.m. on a report of a robbery attempt that ended when the owner shot the suspect, according to a news release ...
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