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02-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Six vying for vacant spot on West Carrollton City Council
Jun. 2—Six people have applied to be appointed West Carrollton City Council's newest member, replacing a council member who stepped down in May. Those applying for the position include Abigayl Cochran, Chad McLaughlin, Richard Parker, Jessica Phillips, Nicholas Salyers and Sheila Ward. Amanda Zennie, who served on city council since January 2018, announced in April she would leave the role May 8 due to a relocation outside of the city limits. Zennie's term is set to run until Dec. 31. West Carrollton City Charter says that council members have 60 days to choose a new member by voting if a council seat becomes empty. The person they pick must meet the necessary qualifications and the decision is made by the majority of those still serving. Dayton Daily News obtained each individual's application for the vacant seat on council. Cochran is an administrative assistant to the Clerk of Commission at Montgomery County, handling constituent services, official documentation, scheduling oversight and philanthropic campaign coordination. She previously worked at Franklin County Auditor's Office as a business office/operations/records specialist (2022 to 2023) and outreach coordinator (2022) McLaughlin is a corporate auditor and manager with 20 years of experience at Community Choice Financial, overseeing internal audits, compliance and efficiency improvements. Parker, a West Carrollton resident since 1965, owns RM&S Enterprises LLC, a home remodeling and repair business founded in 1985. Phillips is the business office manager at McNamee Law Group (2024 to present). Previously, she was an accounting manager at Ritz Safety (2019 to 2024), overseeing financial reporting for $150 million across two companies and 19 locations, and handling sales tax filings for 28 states. She also worked in finance and human resources at Yeck Brothers Company (May to November 2024) and was a full-charge bookkeeper at Southtown Heating & Cooling, Inc. (2017 to 2019). Salyers is a maintenance electrician at GE Aerospace. He previously handled project management at Reliable Electric (2018 to 2024) and worked as an admissions and marketing director at Walnut Creek Nursing Center (2011 to 2018) and served in the U.S. Army Reserves as a combat engineer (2007 to 2015, 2021 to 2022). Ward worked for more than 30 years in the West Carrollton School District, most recently serving as a school bus driver (1994 to Jan. 1, 2025) and custodial worker (2011 to Jan. 1, 2025). She participated in union negotiations, serving as co-president of the union for five years. Ward also worked as a cheerleading coach (2002 to 2011) and volunteered on insurance, safety and levy committees. She previously worked at Metallurgical Services (1984 to 1993) in shipping and receiving.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Cyberattack brings down Kettering Health phone lines, MyChart patient portal access
May 20—A cyberattack is causing a system-wide technology outage at Kettering Health, forcing some medical procedures to be canceled, bringing down phone lines and the MyChart patient portal and diverting emergency crews to other facilities. "Earlier this morning, Kettering Health experienced a system-wide technology outage that is causing challenges to many of our patient care systems across the organization," Kettering Health said in an organizational statement. "We have procedures and plans in place for these types of situations and will continue to provide safe, high-quality care for patients currently in our facilities." Sources tell the Dayton Daily News the hospital system is dealing with a ransomware attack. Hackers appear to be threatening to destroy data and publicly publish sensitive data on the dark web if hospital officials don't reach out and negotiate within 72 hours, according to information shared with the Dayton Daily News by an anonymous source. The dark web is typically described as a hidden part of the internet that is not indexed by regular search engines and only accessible through special browsers. "We are currently experiencing a cybersecurity incident resulting from unauthorized access to our network," Kettering Health said. "We have taken steps to contain and mitigate this activity and are actively investigating and monitoring the situation. We will continue to provide updates as appropriate." Elective inpatient and outpatient procedures at Kettering Health facilities have been canceled for Tuesday. These procedures will be rescheduled for a later date and more information will be provided on this as updates are available, the hospital system said. "At this time, only elective procedures are being rescheduled. Our emergency rooms and clinics are open and continuing to see patients," Kettering Health said. Patients should expect a call from their care team. The Kettering Health call center is also currently experiencing an outage and may be inaccessible. "We understand that this is frustrating for our patients and concerning for those who have family members in our care. We have procedures and plans in place for these types of situations so we can continue to provide safe, high-quality care for patients currently in our facilities despite the disruption we're experiencing," Kettering Health said in an earlier statement. Others impacted Kettering emergency departments are diverting ambulances to other facilities, according to a Facebook post by the Greater Miami Valley EMS Council. "Per Kettering Health: Kettering Health is experiencing a system-wide network issues at this time. Our incident command is operational and is assessing our capabilities. All EDs are on diversion and we update with any changes at the top of each hour," the post says. Premier Health is alerting its employees it has called a "code yellow" because of the ransomware attack at Kettering Health and is warning of a potentially significant increase in patient volumes in coming hours and days because of patients being diverted, according to information shared with the Dayton Daily News. At the same time, Premier warns its employees, the ability of the two hospital networks to communicate on things such as imaging and medial records is disabled. Premier Health declined to comment. The Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association is aware of the recent technology incident affecting one of the regional health systems, it said. "While the incident is deeply concerning, it is also a powerful reminder of the critical importance of collaboration, preparedness and resilience in health care," the association said in a statement. Area hospitals train continuously for events like this, GDAHA said, integrating technology security into their emergency preparedness planning and protocols just as they do for natural disasters or mass casualty incidents. "Through coordinated drills, downtime documentation and procedures and real-time communication channels, our health care providers are equipped to maintain continuity of care-even in the face of digital disruptions," the association said. Health care organizations at risk Kettering Health has not commented on what kind of cyber attack the hospital system is experiencing. The American Hospital Association in March said a ChatGPT vulnerability is being used by cyberthreat actors to attack security flaws in artificial intelligence systems, citing a March 12 report by Veriti, a cybersecurity firm. "This could allow an attacker to steal sensitive data or impact the availability of the AI tool," said Scott Gee, deputy national advisor for cybersecurity and risk at the American Hospital Association. The National Institute of Standards and Technology lists the vulnerability as medium risk, but Veriti said it has been used by cyberthreat actors in more than 10,000 attack attempts worldwide with financial institutions, health care and government organizations the top targets for the attacks. Health care organizations are particularly vulnerable and targeted by cyberattacks because they possess information of high monetary and intelligence value to cyber thieves and nation-state actors, the American Hospital Association says. Stolen health records may sell up to 10 times or more than stolen credit card numbers on the dark web, according to the association.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Health
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Trotwood goes public with opposition to state mental health facility at Hara site
May 16—The city of Trotwood made public on its Facebook page Friday a letter opposing any notion of locating a proposed state mental health facility in Trotwood or on the former Hara Arena site. Trotwood City Manager Quincy Pope told the Dayton Daily News he understands from the property's current owner that state leaders are considering the property as the site of a new behavioral health hospital. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine told the newspaper last June that he expects the state to build the hospital in the Dayton area in the coming years. No proposed location for the site has been publicly announced. "I posted it because I want people to know I'm transparent," Pope said in an interview Friday. He said he has distributed the letter "everywhere," to state representatives and public stakeholders, among others. Pope said he is concerned about what he fears are plans to build on the land that once was home to long-demolished Hara Arena. He said Mike Heitz — a Lexington Ky.-based developer who bought the arena and its property in 2018 — told him that state representatives have visited the site in the past two weeks. Asked if he has contacted the governor's office, Pope said: "We've had no response from them." He said representatives of DeWine have not returned calls and emails from Trotwood leaders on the subject. "There's just no communication at all," Pope said, adding: "I just want to know why this is so secretive." A message seeking comment was left with Heitz on Friday. The letter from Pope is dated Feb. 12 this year, but was posted on the city's Facebook page Friday. It was written to property owner and developer Heitz, who owns the 124-acre property that once was home to the arena. "As concerned stakeholders, I must make you aware that the city of Trotwood is vehemently opposed to this type of use of this property," Pope wrote to Heitz. "Furthermore, we have been in touch with Mr. Jeff Hoagland and Dave Burrows at the Dayton Development Coalition and discussed Trotwood's position and vested interest in the area surrounding the Hara Arena site." Hoagland is president and chief executive of the coalition. Burrows is a executive vice president of engagement for the coalition. Messages seeking reaction were sent to a spokeswoman for the coalition, as well as spokespeople for DeWine's office. "The former Hara Arena property offers a unique opportunity for redevelopment," the coalition said Friday in response to questions from the Dayton Daily News. "We encourage the city of Trotwood, Harrison Twp., and the developer to work together to identify the best use for the site through their ongoing strategic planning efforts." In recent weeks, Trotwood and Harrison Twp. have partnered with the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission to complete a market study weighing redevelopment options for several sites along the Turner Road corridor, a 775-acre area that includes portions of Trotwood and the township. The arena was situated on nearly 190 of those acres. Sixty of those acres fall in Harrison Twp., and the remaining 129 in Trotwood, market study documents showed. Hara Arena sat empty for years before it was damaged by the Memorial Day tornadoes in 2019. The arena once offered 5,500 seats and the property included four exhibition halls, a conference center, pub and golf course. Dayton had an inpatient psychiatric hospital called Twin Valley that closed nearly 17 years ago. It was known for years as the Dayton State Hospital. "The closure of Twin Valley Behavioral Health in 2008 had devastating effects on the patients and families served by that facility," Sarah Hackenbracht, president and CEO of the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association, told this newspaper last year.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Yahoo
'The evilest thing': Florida executes serial killer Glen Rogers; victims in 5 states
Florida has executed a man known as the "Casanova Killer" for his good looks and ability to charm women just before murdering them. Glen Edward Rogers, 62, was executed Thursday by lethal injection for the murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, one of four single mothers in their 30s with reddish hair who fell victim to the Casanova Killer. Rogers was also known as the "Cross Country Killer" because the victims all lived in different states: California, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida. "He's an animal," one of his victim's sisters said in court before Rogers was sentenced to death, according to an archived report from the Associated Press. "He's about the evilest thing I think I've ever imagined." Soon after his arrest, Rogers claimed to have killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles in June 1994, and about 70 people overall. There was no evidence to back that up. Rogers − a native of Hamilton, Ohio − was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m., becoming the 16th inmate executed in the U.S. this year and the fifth in Florida. Another three men are set to be executed in the U.S. next week, in Texas, Indiana and Tennessee. Here's what to know about Rogers' execution, including who his victims were. Authorities connected five victims to the Casanova Killer. Four of them were mothers with reddish hair in their 30s. Three of the murders happened within a six-day period. Mark Peters, a 72-year-old retired electrician in Hamilton, Ohio, with whom Rogers lived with briefly, was found dead in a shack owned by Rogers' family in January 1994 in Beattyville, Kentucky. (Rogers is a native of Hamilton, Ohio just outside Cincinnati.) Sandra Gallagher, a 33-year-old mother of three, of Santa Monica, California, killed on Sept. 28, 1995 in Van Nuys. Her body was found in her burning vehicle. She had met Rogers in a bar the night of her murder. Linda Price, a 34-year-old mother of two, found stabbed to death in the bathtub of her home in Jackson, Mississippi, on Nov. 3, 1995. Price briefly lived with Rogers, telling her mother: "He is my dream man," according to an archived story in the Dayton Daily News. Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old mother of two, found stabbed to death in a Tampa, Florida hotel bathtub on Nov. 7, 1995. Like Gallagher, she had met Rogers at a bar on the night of her murder. Andy Lou Jiles Sutton, a 37-year-old mother of four: three sons and a daughter who were 19, 17, 8, and 6 when she was found stabbed to death in her bed on Nov. 9, 1995 in of Bossier City, Louisiana. Sutton and Rogers met before her murder and are believed to have slept together. Growing up, Rogers' childhood was deprived of love, moral guidance or family values, and he frequently witnessed his alcoholic father beat his mother, according to court records. Rogers started using controlled substances at a young age and began committing burglaries, eventually becoming a chronic alcohol abuser, court records said. As an adult, he held a slew of jobs, from a school bus driver in his native Hamilton, Ohio, to a carnival worker in Mississippi. Since his arrest at the age of 33, he spent most of the past three decades on death row. He was 62 at the time of his execution. Randy Roberson, who was 17 when his mother Andy Lou Jiles Sutton was murdered, planned to attend Thursday's execution with his wife. Roberson remembered Sutton as a fun mom always ready to play a game and who greeted her kids off the school bus with fresh grilled cheese sandwiches. Today, she would have been a grandmother to 11 and a great-grandmother to two. Amy Roberson told USA TODAY that her husband was looking for closure he never got, partially because Rogers was never tried in Louisiana. "He just wants to see him take his last breath," she said the day before the execution. "He wants to try to fill this void that he's had all these years and just know that he's no longer alive and being fed three meals a day and getting to live a life." Mary Dicke, the 84-year-old mother of victim Tina Marie Cribbs, beat brain cancer and lung cancer, fighting to survive so she could witness the day Rogers would be executed. "God is on my side. I hope he will remain on my side until I do see this done," Dicke told WTVT-TV in Tampa in 2016, saying she made a vow to live to see Rogers die. Jerri Vallicella, whose sister Sandra Gallagher was murdered by Rogers, said she has long been ready for the execution. "It's been 30 years of nightmares, and I'm ready for this to be over." More: A handsome stranger with piercing blue eyes asked them for rides. Then he killed them. Rogers' attorneys have been arguing that a medical condition that affects his liver could interact with one of the lethal injection drugs in such a way that it would cause him "substantial risk of needless pain and suffering." The Florida Supreme Court rejected that argument, as did the U.S. Supreme Court, clearing the way for the execution. His attorneys declined to comment for this story. Amanda Lee Myers is a senior crime reporter with USA TODAY. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Serial killer Glen Rogers executed in Florida; victims from 5 states
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Ohio House speaker asked Rep. Creech to resign, removed him from committees after sexual misconduct probe
May 14—Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman asked state Rep. Rodney Creech, R-West Alexandria, to resign before removing him from his committee posts following a state criminal investigation into alleged sexual misconduct with a minor teenage female in 2023. "I did ask him to consider resigning," Huffman, a Lima Republican, told the Dayton Daily News Wednesday. Huffman said he met with Creech recently. "(I) told him that this, on its face, was very serious and I did not think that he could fill out his duties effectively as a legislator with this in the public sphere," Huffman said. Huffman said his decision to remove Creech from all his committee posts — including as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, a position for which Huffman hand-picked Creech at the start of the year — was colored by the same conclusions. "Under the circumstances, I think it will be very, very difficult for him to (fill out his duties)," Huffman said. Huffman said he plans no further sanctions against Creech as of now. Records from the investigation, first reported by the Dayton Daily News, show state investigators believed Creech's alleged conduct could have risen to sexual imposition — a misdemeanor that Ohio law forbids being brought against someone without corroborating evidence. No formal charges were brought against the third-term state rep and former Preble County commissioner, who denied the allegations. But the county prosecutor who reviewed the case called Creech's behavior "concerning and suspicious." Creech released a statement about Huffman removing him from committees. "I understand the Speaker's interest in protecting the institution from the false allegations being leveled at me. I want to state clearly that I am 100 percent innocent of any wrongdoing as was concluded in the investigation," Creech said. "My focus will continue to be on serving my constituents and passing conservative legislation for the benefit of all Ohioans." Creech represents Preble County and portions of Butler and Montgomery counties. On Wednesday, Huffman said he was notified about the state investigation into Creech, which concluded in October 2024, in the last week of April, after the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation indicated to his office that it'd be releasing the state's investigative records to the media. He said his office received the state's investigative records on May 1, and Huffman himself was briefed on the documents on May 4. Huffman's directive to remove Creech from his committees came on May 9. On May 12, Creech announced his 2026 candidacy to replace term-limited Sen. Steve Huffman, R-Tipp City. Ohio House Minority Leader Allison Russo, D-Upper Arlington, told reporters Wednesday that her caucus had not yet discussed efforts to pressure further sanctions against Creech. "Certainly, the allegations, if true, are very serious and concerning. At this point, he is a member of the majority Republican caucus, so it's up to the speaker I think in how to navigate this," Russo said. "But, I think the larger issue here is we, as elected officials, are expected to uphold higher standards. And, again, the allegations are deeply concerning." ------ For more stories like this, sign up for our Ohio Politics newsletter. It's free, curated, and delivered straight to your inbox every Thursday evening. Avery Kreemer can be reached at 614-981-1422, on X, via email, or you can drop him a comment/tip with the survey below.
