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Snow crews are operating on continuous shifts to treat, clear and maintain roadways affected by the ongoing snow event. Crews continue to actively pretreat in anticipation of any refreeze or minor accumulation expected overnight. All primary and residential routes were pretreated. City crews are responsible for clearing and maintaining more than 3,112 lane miles of roadway within city limits. Breaking now were going to take a deep breath, see what the final results are so we want to see exactly ...

That first 911 call. And who is also gastons girlfriend. Speaks with our own Michael Baldwin. That story coming up. But first the mother of gaston spoke exclusively to fox19 earlier tonight. This should never have happened. And i fault the Cincinnati Police for it. They should have tried to do something for him when they saw that he was injured. From the accident . From the accident. A tearful and emotional response from a mother who just lost her son. But in a newsconference earlier in the afte...

Antiviolence nows Frankie Jupiter joins us with the officers harrowing story. It was and it all started at this intersection. A traffic stop ended to an unexpected turn. One that could have been deadly. Gun recovery, he tried to shoot to fired at lamars avenue in lincoln heights. That was the 911 dispatch call back in september when then lockland Matthew Kurtz routine traffic stop on a vehicle that had no plates. The vehicle, got vehicle operator took off. The driver of the vehicle was 40 yearol...

Tricia macke. We begin with breaking details another workplace this time in hesston, kansas. At this hour we know that up to seven people are dead and as many as result. Counted among the it happened excel Industries Plant where the suspect was an well bring you information comes newsroom. Right now. This little cat is fighting for her life. Rescue workers say she was swung by her tail. And thrown outside. Tonight. She cant use half her body. Now the fbi will be involved in cases like this and o...

Steve cam eye on road conditions. And that allimportant were keeping an eye on road conditions. And that allimportant morning commute. Our ben katko is outside tonight. In florence. Ben. Whats it look like right now . Right now. Things are pretty good here along i75 in this is definitely a situation where extra minutes to get where you need to go tomorrow morning. You heard steve expecting by way of snow showers for the next few hours and days. Its shaping up that this snow though will cut visib...

Switching gears now to weather. Its a frigid night. And we might have a dicey sunday and monday ahead of us right jeff . Jeff flurries and snow leading edge of colder air moving into the tristate. Expect to wake up on saturday with temps in the low doubledigits, and wind chills making it feel as cold as 11. Saturday afternoon will offer little in the way of warmth with highs only in the mid teens. Again, wind chills will make it feel like 0 or colder. Sunday looks like another cold day with high...

Phone with the coroner who says its a complicated investigation. And the Sheriffs Office should have a statement in the next couple of hours as we get more information. Well have it for you on air. On the fox19 now news app. And fox19now. Com. Tricia hplaz the university of cincinnati is without two leaders of the Schools Police force tonight. Now exchief Jason Goodrich has resigned. Along with major tim thornton. Walk to bam r it all comes amidst a top to bottom review of the department, coming...

Police have arrested a man they believe is tied to the death of a middletown woman. New information. Detec tives interviewed 37year old Curtis Burdette jr as a person of interest in the death of Brittany Russell. After his arrest we also secured a search warrant for the residence that he was arrested in and we did a search at that residence on grant burdette is currently being held on an unrelated drug charge. Fox19 nows Michael Baldwin caught up with burdette. Heres what he had to say. 29year o...

Who has been at the scene all night. And his here to tell us the details. So michael around 4 oclock. Police say they got a call that the man was waving a gun. What happened next . By night fall the Police Lights were still turning. A suspect shot by police after showing a hand gun pulled from his waist. A woman at work at a near by restaurant took this photograph. The mans body is covered in a white tarp in the middle of the street on harrison in westwood. And you can see the gun next to the bo...

Recovering. Including a young child fighting for their life tonight at cincinnati childrens hospital. Good evening. Im its all because of an accident in fort Police Believe was fueled by drugs our ben katko is live tonight. Hes at childrens information about that crash today on i275. In touch with police they say that 7 month old who was thrown from the car during the accident. Is here at childrens tonight. Initially. Cops said that child was critical. They are working to get us an update on tha...