On a recent sunny afternoon in downtown Cincinnati, a large mobile shredding truck was parked in the middle of Perry Street, a tiny one-way street the runs behind the main firehouse near Fourth a  

After Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory's State of the City address Feb. 4, one audience member made a bold statement. "I think he threw that pitch that way on purpose," he said. The pitch, whic  

In my nearly four years living along Washington Park in Over-the-Rhine, I've never been a crime victim -- to the surprise and chagrin of many. Sure, my car was the victim of a hit-and-run side-swip  

For those of us who grew up in western Hamilton County, legends persisted that piqued our curiosity on many boring weekend nights. Buffalo Ridge, a winding road in Miami Township, once had a crem  

There are amazing disparities among the city of Cincinnati's neighborhoods. That's not a big secret. From Mount Washington's suburban-like feel to Lower Price Hill's abject poverty, sprinkled with  

Think the "Princess Diana tiara" that will adorn the planned Great American Insurance Building at Queen City Square looks tacky? Try a big K-E-N-D-L-E lighting up the nighttime sky. From where els  

Every Saturday -- with no let-up foreseen through the winter ahead -- a bunch of well intentioned do-gooders line up in front of my house to give away food. And it drives me crazy. I live in Over-  

A heated feud that traces back to the day Simone's opened could end up closing the popular Walnut Hills eatery. After being open only a year, restaurant owner Roland "Atif" Randolph has been s  

About 500 people crowded into the Temple at Adath Israel Congregation to hear former U.S. Sen. George McGovern and two Holocaust survivors discuss how Americans could have stopped the killing of J