Former Crowell-Collier building owner dies

Harry C. Denune, a local businessman who owned the massive Crowell-Collier Building for more than 40 years, died on Tuesday in Gainesville, Fla., at the age of 90.A service is planned at 2 p.m. today at the First Advent Christian Church in Lake City, Fla.Denune purchased the Crowell-Collier building in ...

• Updated: 4:33 p.m. Thursday, April 18, 2013
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Springfield legend Winters dies at 87

Jonathan Winters, the Springfield-raised comic genius who once told his wife he’d come back to Ohio and sell farm equipment if his comedy career in New York didn’t pan out, has died. Winters, 87, died Thursday evening of natural causes at his home in Montecito, Calif., long-time family friend Joe ...

• Updated: 6:45 p.m. Friday, April 12, 2013
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Garden to honor longtime parks employee

A memorial garden is under construction at the corner of Fountain Avenue and Cliff Park Drive to honor a former National Trail Parks and Recreation District employee who died last year.The Diane Leach Memorial Garden is expected to be completed before Memorial Day.Leach, a North High School graduate, worked at ...

• 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, 2013
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Enon councilman dies

The unexpected death of a sitting village councilman, former Greenon Local Schools teacher and a long-time Enon resident has left a void in the community.Llewellyn “Lew” D. Arnold died March 22 at a cardiovascular center in California following complications from surgery for chronic pulmonary emboli, his wife Sue Arnold said. ...

• 9:00 p.m. Thursday, March 28, 2013

Local business leader dies

Vince Demana, a Springfield businessman who took his father’s local scrap yard and turned it into a steel company with multiple locations in Ohio, has died. He was 72.Demana remained as CEO of Benjamin Steel Co. until 2005. In 1998 he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and he died Monday ...

• 8:45 p.m. Thursday, March 14, 2013

Fairfield duel wrestling meet

• 10:44 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013

High School Sports results for Jan. 19

BOYS BASKETBALL Saturday’s Results Catholic Central 59, Cedarville 53 Springfield 55, Meadowdale 45 Urbana 66, Ben Logan 43 Versailles 52, Tippecanoe 40   FLYIN’ TO THE HOOP SCHEDULE All games at Kettering Trent Arena Friday Game 1: Findlay Prep (Nev.) 71, Thurgood Marshall 47 Game 2: La Lumiere (Ind.) 46, ...

• 12:51 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013

Memorial service honors fallen soldier

A memorial service was held Wednesday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord for a New Carlisle soldier who was killed Dec. 10 in Afghanistan.Staff Sgt. Wesley R. Williams, 25, a member of the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, was killed by an improvised explosive device.His parents, Lars and Linda Williams, are lifelong ...

• 6:00 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013

Ianni remembered as fun-loving

While looking Thursday for a picture of Rachel Ianni covered in mud, gleefully holding a parchment tube worm she’d dug up on a beach in North Carolina, Jim Welch came across a second photo of the Springfield native who died New Year’s Day in South America — of Ianni asking ...

• 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013

Christmas Past in the Miami Valley

• 2:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 24, 2012