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Kings athletic department honors athletes for academic achievements

Kings athletic department honors athletes for academic achievements

KINGS MILLS, OH (FOX19) - For the past 18 years the Kings Athletic Booster Club and the Kings Athletic Department have honored student athletes who have maintained excellent academic standards while dedicating their time and energy to Kings athletics.

On May 22, the Annual Senior Scholar-Athlete Luncheon was held at the Golf Center at Kings Island. Thirty-three students were recognized at the luncheon with their parents and their most influential person joining them.

To qualify for this award, an athlete must have earned a cumulative grade point average of 3.6 or better for their entire academic career at KHS while earning a minimum of five Varsity letters in multiple sports, or four Varsity letters in one sport.

Every scholar-athlete honored is continuing their education at the collegiate level, many of them will also play sports.

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After 65 years, local veteran receives Little Miami diploma

After 65 years, local veteran receives Little Miami diploma

MAINEVILLE, OH (FOX19) - (Sent by Melinda Briggs)

When Don Whitacre left high school, Harry S Truman was president, World War II had ended, and conflicts in Korea and Southeast Asia were heating up.

As a teen, Whitacre and many of his friends witnessed the news of WWII and were seized by a patriotic fervor -- they wanted to "join up" and do their part in the war effort. Whitacre felt so deeply about this that he left school before his senior year and entered the United States Army. In doing so, he sacrificed the opportunity to graduate with his class of 1948 and missed out on getting a high school diploma.

After 65 years, that is no longer the case.

Little Miami Superintendent Greg Power and Board President Stephanie Baxter Black presented Robert Donald Whitacre with an honorary diploma at the recent Alumni Association Dinner, bringing full circle an amazing story of one man's service to his country.

Ohio Supreme Court will not hear Widmer appeal

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Mason Intermediate students chosen as fire safety winners

Mason Intermediate students chosen as fire safety winners

MASON, OH (FOX19) - Hundreds of elementary students’ fire safety posters were submitted to the Ohio State Fire Marshal’s Office last fall, but only 12 were chosen to be on display at the Ohio State Fair. Two of those works belong to Mason Intermediate fourth graders: Gracie Bagadiong and Luna Brenner.

On May 13, Bagadiong and Brenner received a special visit from Jennifer Snyder, Fire Safety Educator for the Ohio Fire Marshal, who presented the girls with an award certificate, smoke detector, and two complimentary tickets to the state fair.

These are the sixth Mason Intermediate student to win the state contest in the ten years that Moschell’s students have participated.

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Wanted man caught after Warren Co. chase

Mario Gibbs from Warren County jail

MORROW, OH (FOX19)- A suspect in a wild police chase in Reading earlier this month is arrested after a chase in Warren County.

The Warren County chase started near Little Miami High School around 11:30 Tuesday night when police tried to make a traffic stop.

Officers say the driver refused to stop and lead police on a chase until eventually crashing at the intersection of Fields Ertel and Montgomery Road.

According to an AP article, the passenger is Mario "Rio" Gibbs, 22.

Officers have been looking for Gibbs since May 13 when Gibbs was allegedly beating and choking a woman in the front seat of a moving car in Reading.

The officer pulled the car over and Gibbs got out and ran from the scene.

Police say someone picked Gibbs up. They attempted to stop that car but officers say Gibbs pushed the driver out of the car and continued to drive.

Escaped inmate captured in Warren County

Stephen Ramey (Source: Ohio Department of Corrections)

LEBANON, OH (FOX19)- Police have captured an inmate who escaped from the Lebanon Correctional Institution on Tuesday afternoon.

Stephen Ramey walked away from the facility just before noon. He was captured just after 7:30 p.m. on Shaker Road after police say a female companion called authorities and turned him in.

Police shut down SR 63 in Lebanon after someone reported seeing Ramey in the area of SR 63 and Markey.

Ramey was assigned to work in the garage as an auto mechanic.

Officials say Ramey has been in jail serving a sentence for burglary March 7, 2013.

Ramey is from Montgomery County, Ohio.

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30 riders get stuck on Kings Island coaster

30 riders get stuck on Kings Island coaster

MASON, OH (FOX19)- Thirty parkgoers were stuck on The Beast for Tuesday afternoon.

Kings Island says the ride was climbing the second hill when a safety mechanism kicked on and didn't release the car. 

Officials say the riders were stuck for about 10 minutes and then they were escorted off the ride.

No one was hurt and the ride is back up and running.