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Socks snatched from College Hill store

Socks snatched from College Hill store

 

Hundreds of dollars worth of socks were stolen from a College Hill business.

Man charged with repeat-dialing 9-1-1 to demand a ride, is given a ride to jail

Man charged with repeat-dialing 9-1-1 to demand a ride, is given a ride to jail

 

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Cincinnati Police have arrested a 33-year-old Westwood man, Chatase Jones, on charges that he called 9-1-1 over and over again demanding that police come and give him a ride somewhere.  They ended up giving him a couple rides to jail.  The second arrest came one day after he was indicted on his first set of calls. He is scheduled to be arraigned Saturday.

Pumpkin guts, casually tossed, get their revenge on your plumbing

Pumpkin guts, casually tossed, get their revenge on your plumbing

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Downtown-based Roto-Rooter, with regional offices in Northside, says it may seem easy for your kitchen sink disposal unit to take care of the insides of a newly carved pumpkin, but their plumbers will remove gobs of guts from clogged drains before the end of the Halloween season. They say local Roto-Rooter plumbers have become as common a Halloween visitor as trick-or-treaters due to sticky pumpkin pulp and seeds. 

Roto-Rooter, which is America's largest provider of plumbing repair and drain cleaning services, says pumpkin pulp should never be put down drains or into garbage disposals.

College of Mount St. Joseph professor helps shed new light on some of the earliest insects

College of Mount St. Joseph professor helps shed new light on some of the earliest insects

DELHI TOWNSHIP, OH (FOX19) - New research has documented that cicadas, those noisy insects that sing during the dog days of summer, have been screaming since the time of the dinosaurs. 

A fossil of the oldest definitive cicada to be discovered was described by George Poinar, Jr., Ph.D., professor of zoology at Oregon State University and Gene Kritsky, Ph.D., professor of biology, at the College of Mount St.

Suspect disables camera, but is caught on camera doing it

Suspect disables camera, but is caught on camera doing it

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Cincinnati Police are looking for a man who disabled a video camera during a break-in at a corner food store.

The crime happened at the Joana Mart located at 3409 W. 8th St. in West Price Hill on August 1, 2011 at 3:30 AM.

The theft was not caught on camera because the man disabled the camera first, but the man can be seen before he disables the camera.  He can also be seen putting his hand over his face before reaching for the camera.

Anyone who knows the man or has any informaiton on the break-in is asked to call Crimestoppers at 513-352-3040 or Detective Jimmy Adams at 513-263-8324.

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Spending Mega Millions prize may be no easy task

Spending Mega Millions prize may be no easy task

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - If you should happen to win the upcoming Mega Millions jackpot, and your goal is to use up all the money as fast as possible, you might want to move out of town.

If you are simply determined to dispose of the money, that's no problem.  You could donate it all to a leading university or hospital.  You could gamble it away around the world.  You could give it away a million at a time to people you met in bars.  If you asked a luxury shipbuilder to use it all on a yacht, they could oblige you.  You could buy the City of Cincinnati a streetcar system.

On the other hand, if you go shopping around the Tri-State at advertised prices, you might find that the money, which is an estimated $198.2 million if taken in cash, goes a long way.

We looked for a group of mostly Cincinnati-area items that a person could buy, and found it hard to use up the money.  For starters, we added up the price of the 50 most-expensive homes c