MIAMI TOWNSHIP, HAMILTON COUNTY, OH (FOX19) – The Hamilton County Commissioners approved an agreement Wednesday for an insurance company to pay to complete roads, sidewalks and other public-area work left undone when a developer abandoned the Legendary Ridge subdivision in Miami Township after the real estate market collapse.

Lexon Insurance Company will pay the entire obligation of $191,126 in public necessary to complete the subdivision.

“Our residents expect and deserve to have basic public infrastructure completed where they have chosen to make their home and invest in our community,” said Hamilton County Commission President Greg Hartmann. “I’m proud we have made it a priority to follow a fair process to ensure the law to protect residents in the predicament of an unfinished subdivision is followed.”

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Cincinnati Bengal Frostee Rucker and his partners will open an Orange Leaf frozen yogurt franchise, part of a small but fast-growing new frozen yogurt chain, on April 5th on Walnut Street in The Banks.

The Banks’ franchise is controlled by Bengal’s defensive end Frostee Rucker and has as its partners several of Rucker’s teammates including Robert Geathers, Kevin Huber, Pat Sims and James M. Gould, Rucker’s agent and Managing General Partner of The Walnut Group, a Private Equity Firm. 

Other investors include Ken Griffey Junior’s baseball agent Brian Goldberg, and several local business associates of Mr. Gould’s including, Roger Lautzenhiser of Vorys, Dick Satterfield, Bill Swaim, Brad Tilford, several of the Walnut Group associates, and also Lucas Gould, James Gould’s 16 year old son, a partner in Lucas Management Group who introduced Orange Leaf to Rucker.

COLERAIN TOWNSHIP, OH (FOX19) - Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune proposed a Resolution of the Board of Hamilton County Commissioners Tuesday to be acted upon by the Board at its Wednesday January 25, 2012 meeting that would condition final approval of a proposed highway interchange project on US 27 upon on what Portune says is fair treatment of a Colerain Township family that will be displaced by the project. 

The highway project is designed to eliminate deadly motorist issues on US 27 near Ross, Ohio, but, as currently designed, would mostly surround, the John Langworthy property, which Langworthy and Portune says makes it unusable as a family home.