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    Navistar is a major employer in Clark County and has a manufacturing facility in Springfield, which builds medium-duty trucks as well as cutaway vans for General Motors.
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    International Motors facility to be sold to defense, commercial vehicle manufacturer
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    A timeline of the Ashley Flynn murder case, husband’s indictment
    The Ohio Power Siting Board held a local public hearing March 26, 2026, regarding Sloopy Solar Energy, LLC’s proposal to construct a 180-megawatt solar-powered electric generation facility in Clark County. BROOKE SPURLOCK / CONTRIBUTED
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    Several dozen people give testimony about Sloopy Solar project in Clark County
    Caleb Flynn appears in Miami County Common Pleas Court Monday, March 30, 2026. Flynn is charged with aggravated murder in the death of his wife, 37-year-old Ashley Flynn who was shot to death in their Tipp City home in February. (Matthew Symons for Fox News Digital, via Pool)
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    Ashley Flynn murder case: Judge sets trial date
    Clark County Common Pleas Court
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    Clark County Common Pleas Court cases
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    Clark County Municipal Court cases
    Dr. Greg Noll at Noll Veterinary Hospital on Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Springfield. He's retiring after 44 years with the practice. JOSEPH COOKE / STAFF
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    Longtime Springfield veterinarian to retire, practice will remain open
    Frisch's Restaurant on Kyles Lane is relocating to Madison Pike after 13 other Frisch's locations change hands.

Photo by: Lot Tan
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    Dormant Frisch’s poised for redevelopment 18 months after evictions forced closures
    Amanda Hollingsworth hugs the owner of Strange Records in the Morrow Arts Center. Hollingsworth says the record shop has become a safe space for LGTBQ+ members of this small Warren County community.

Photo by: Keith BieryGolick
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    ‘A little scared’: After pride poster taken down, Little Miami mom tries to start a...
    A view of the progress on Springfield-Clark Career Technology Center's new facility on Friday, Feb. 27, 2026, in Springfield. JOSEPH COOKE/STAFF
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    Work started to build new $98.2M Springfield-Clark Career Tech Center
    Key traffic alerts and construction updates for week starting Mar. 29, 2026. PHOTO / OHGO.COM OHIO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
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    This week on the roads: Needmore Road ramp and U.S. 36 closures, U.S. 127 bridge closure...
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    April Long sets up her display of My Little Ponies at the Great Ohio Toy Show at the Greene County Fairgrounds on March 27, 2026. BUCK CREEK PHOTOGRAPHY/CONTRIBUTED
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    PHOTOS: Great Ohio Toy Show 2026 in Xenia
    Mike Wallace, center, shoots a free throw in a gym during a tour as part of "The Dome Experience" at the Dome on Wednesday, March 25, 2026, in Springfield. JOSEPH COOKE/STAFF
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    PHOTOS: Visitors take a tour of the Dome
    The groundbreaking ceremony for Ohio's first Buc-ee's  took place on Aug. 8, 2024 in Huber Heights at the intersection of Ohio 235 and Interstate 70. STAFF / FILE
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    PHOTOS: Looking back at Buc-ee's construction progress in Huber Heights
    Anne McNeil, 3, watches as her great-grandmother decides what bowl she buy at Second Harvest Food Bank's Empty Bowls fundraiser at Wittenberg University on Monday, March 23, 2026, in Springfield. JOSEPH COOKE/STAFF
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    PHOTOS: Scenes from Second Harvest Food Bank's Empty Bowls fundraiser
    Crews demolished the Executive Inn in Springfield Friday, March 20, 2026. Contributed photo by Buck Creek Photography
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    PHOTOS: Springfield's Executive Inn demolished
    Education
    Medical student Laura Bute celebrates learning her residency placement after she graduates from the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine during the school's Match Day event on Friday, March 20, 2026. COURTESY OF WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY
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    Big day: Wright State medical students get their residency placements
    State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio is the second largest public pension systems in the state. FILE
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    Retired Ohio educators get cost of living hike, retirement ages changed
    Rep. Tom Young, R-Washington Twp., addresses the media alongside Rep. Phil Plummer, R-Butler Twp., and Ohio Department of Children and Youth Director Kara Wente on Jan. 14, 2026. AVERY KREEMER/ STAFF
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    Is Ohio doing enough to protect against child care fraud?
    Central State University is located in Wilberforce, northwest of Xenia. BRYANT BILLING/STAFF
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    CSU rejects Xenia’s pre-annexation agreement for now
    Nicole Myrick, director of Mini University at Sinclair Community College, explains a toy to a child on Tuesday, March 10. Childcare providers in Ohio have always had small profit margins, but new regulations have increased both the amount of hours required to hit reimbursement and the amount of money reimbursed, challenging some childcare providers. BRYANT BILLING / STAFF
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    Ohio child care centers fear closure even with increased state funding
    Kettering parent Katey Gibbins-Burdette (left) and her husband, Brandon Burdette, spend thousands of dollars per month on childcare for the couple's two children, age three years and 11 months. Childcare is increasingly unaffordable for young families. Changes to how Ohio pays childcare centers and a looming fiscal cliff for Ohio childcare could make it even more out of reach. BRYANT BILLING / STAFF
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    ‘We are building our life around child care’: Ohio parents struggle with cost of care
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    Proposed Ohio bill would double recess time, expand recess to middle school
    Phillip H. Wagner, the superintendent of Johnstown-Monroe Local Schools, will be the next State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Photo Courtesy of the State Board of Education of Ohio.
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    Ohio education board names new state superintendent
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