9 on your side starts with breaking news in brown county. Two kids are seriously hurt after falling through the ice at lake lorelei. Lorelei. 9 on your side reporter John Genovese joins us live on the phone with the brand new developments he just tonight the search is on for this man Thomas Stidhum. Police say he hit and killed a runner one month ago today. 9 on your sides roseann aragon has the latest on the search. Roe police say that man was never supposed to be on the road his license was suspended but they say that day in december the 24yearold jumped this curb hitting and killing chatfield that man is on the run and police need your help. vo police are looking for 24 yearold Thomas Stidhum a man they say hit 57yearold Cathy Chatfield and ran she was participating in the seve hills run and walkhere on dorechester police say before he ran away he took his license plate and a backpack now hes charged with aggravated vehicular homicide, vehicular homicide, tampering with evidence and leaving the scene sot lt. Bruce hoffbauercpd traffic unit cont vo records show in with aggravated vehicular assault. Police say stidhum has had a history of reckless driving, violence and drug use he was also wanted on unrelated charges of Domestic Violence and drug abuse roe police say because stidhum wasnt in custody at the time they cannot say whether or not drugs or alcohol were involvedtheyre asking for your help to locate him. Reporting live ra 9 oys. A small explosion at Crossroads Church sends five people to the hospital. Hospital. It happened in the boiler room at the west side location in Miami Township just before 4 today. Officials say a failure of the boiler sent shrapnel flying. While two repairmen and three Church Members were in the room. At this point we dont know what kind of work was being done to the boiler but were told the boiler had passed its last inspection. As for those injured all are expected to make full recoveries. Chief steve ober Miami Township fire department021839 a lot of superficial cuts, scrapes. The one gentleman who we believe was closest to the lacerations to his face but nothing again nothing life threatening. Theyre going to be sore a lot of bumps and bruises because a lot of debris probably hit them, itd be like getting punched a few times. Times. The state fire marshall is on the way to the church which is standard procedure for a church fire. Tonights powerball drawing is up to 500Million Dollars. And that jackpot has a lot of you scrambling to get tickets tonight. Tonight. 9 on your side reporter ashley zilka joins us live with more on your chances of getting rich. Ashley . You have a better chance of becoming a billionaire or getting attacked by a shark but a lot of people are using this philosophy tonight look at the sign how can you win, if you dont play . With the Powerball Jackpot surging to 500Million Dollars millions are hitting up gas stations and bodegas across the country. 04 02 when the jackpot is so high, know. Gill fowler fort thomas 10 01 i dont do it much. Maybe two or three times a year but boy it just what the heck, its fun. 07the jackpot is the sixth largest in the games history. When picking lotto numbers some players have a strategy. Others go with their gut. And some let the computer decide their fate. 04 10 i just go straight up for the quick pick. I tried numbers in the past and i found out the ones that i pick are usually the ones that are not chosen i figured i would try my luck tonight. 03 05 32, 41, 17, 68, 59 and 20. Rick hoffman fort thomas05 45 do you consider yourself a lucky guy . As lucky as anybody. Well i havent been struck by lightening yet. 56 gill fowler fort thomas09 44 you go out there, you give it your best shot, and then you go home or get around with you friends and have a few beers and cheer and turn on the tv. 55so what would you do with 500 Million Dollars . Martin johnson fort thomas12 59 pay off all my bills. I always said i would buy all my live there but i would buy all their homes. 0404 47 Winning Tickets here pleasewill someone hit the big one tonight . We will find out in hirth fortthomas07 51 will you be watching tonight at 11 oclock . Yeah. Alright its on channel 9. Ill be there 55 your odds of actually winning one in 292 million. But hey if you are feeling optimistic . There is still plenty of time to buy a ticket. Reporting live, ashley zilka, 9 on your side. New out of Butler County were learning more about the mother whos accused of standing by while her boyfriend beat her two year old to death last month. Month. Police say Rebekah Kinner allowed her boyfriend to use excessive physical discipline on her daughter kinsely and failed to report it. Bradley young is charged with murder. While kinner is charged with involuntary manslaughter. New documents out today also detail the injuries that ultimately killed little kinsley we have a full report online. Hall of famer. Heres his initial reaction tonight. Happy and shocked shockedthe former Cincinnati Red was inducted within the last hour in cooperstown, new york. Griffey was expected to be a shoe in and he was even making history earning the most votes ever cast. 437 of the 440 ballots turned in had his name on them. Tonight he gave credit to his dad, his coaches, his fellow players. And himself. For staying true to who he was. Griffey says i tried to do thinks when no one was watching. Not verbatim. Its expected junior will be inducted wearing a seattle uniform. Thats where he began his career before joining the reds roster from theres still a lot more to come. Come. Including a warning you need to hear if youre thinking about buying tickets to this weekends bengals game. Plus. Hear from one of the seven people left homeless after a fire in northern kentucky. What they are thankful for tonight. If youre still planning to buy tickets for the bengals steelers game, be very careful. Police have already charged a west chester man for trying to sell fakes on craigslist. Craigslist. The attorney for mario riep said in court he was only trying to sell legitimate tickets. But, police are telling a very different story, saying the wouldbe buyer got suspicious of the transaction and called the bengals. They actually had emailed the ticket to the potential buyer who sent it to us and we were able to tell him no the ticket in that location is not 83, its 105 and no, the ticket account number thats listed on the ticket is not a valid ticket account number. So, we were able to identify very quickly that the ticket was counterfeit. Counterfeit. The bengals and legitimate ticket brokers advise fans not to post pictures of tickets on social media, since the bar code can be copied and a fake ticket created. Tonight fire investigators sparked a blaze that destroyed a vacant home. And damaged two others. Others. The home on mackoy street caught fire around 11 o clock last night. The flames quickly spread to the homes on both sides. Inside one of those homes was the willoughby family who was able to escape. And today is left to pick up the pieces. Our stairwell was the first go up there and get her when we did we wouldnt have been able to get her. Her. In addition to that family, four other people are staying elsewhere tonight. Nobody was hurt. Coming up next at 7. 7. A bus full of people wait for hours after their driver gets off the bus. The reason why he left them in the cold for hours. And the surprising option they had if they wanted to stay warm. Plus. Will bengals fans have to battle the rain during saturdays playoff game. Steve at longhorn steak like this doesn which is why we don t just add, anything else. Longhorn steaks that sizzle for 12. 99. The new smoky bacon sirloin. The new spicy grilled jalapeno sirloin. And the parmesan crusted sirloin. All with hand chopped salad unlimited bread for 12. 99. Tonight only at longhorn steakhouse. You cant fake steak. And for lunch try our new steak and bacon cheddar melt. Youre watching 9 on your side at 7 a semi hauling wood crashed off madison pike in fort wright this morning. The truck went off the side of kentucky 17 near kyles lane around 11 am. The right hand lane was closed for hours while crews pulled the truck out. And cleaned up the lumber. The good news here the driver was not hurt. Wilmington police are on track to surpass the number of heroin overdoses they had in the first three months of last year in the first few days of this year. Side there have been 12 overdoses 2 of those deadly since the first of the year. Police believe the drug people are using is a lethal mixture of heroin and fentanyl. We talked with one woman who is a former heroin user. She actually knows one of the people who overdosed, this week. She says the problem continues to get worse. Deena camp former heroin user the dope dealers out here, they dont care, what theyre selling you all they care about is getting your money and bragging about how good their dope is, ok, well, its killing people, police are talking to overdose survivors trying to figure out where the drugs are coming from. Theyre hoping by doing this and finding the dealers it will help curb this epidemic in their community. A first grader left at school. Now one mother is upset with how she thinks the school handled it. It. The mom admits she was mistaken about where to pick up her sixyear old daughter. But she says School Officials at Horizon Science Academy shouldve called her. The academys principal says the girl had told them shed video shows the girl waited in the lobby about an hour and had staff checking on her before she walked out by the gate and was picked up by her uncle less than two minutes later. Our priorities are our students safety and this student was safely on School Property the entire time yesterday. Yesterday. They shouldnt leave a student. They should attempt to call the parents or guardian if a child is waiting. Waiting. The school did apologize to the mother at a meeting this morning. They say theyve told staff to make again. Cincinnati bell is out in northern kentucky. There is a large internet and tv outage from covington to fort wright. Its reportedly been out since 3 oclock this afternoon. The outage is also impacting landline phones as well. Theres no word on when service will be resumed. Cincinnati based macys is making some big moves in an rough financial year. Macys will close 36 Stores Across the country 2 of which are in ohio, but none here in cincy. Its also adding hundreds of jobs in mason where a new call center will replace one that closed in st. Louis. In all macys is hoping these changes will cut costs by about 400million. Greyhound is responding after one of its drivers left a bus full of people stranded at a kansas hotel. While the driver got some shut eye. Eye. Passengers say they thought the bus driver was making a quick stop last night when they pulled up to the hotel. The bus was on its way to denver. But the driver checked himself into a hotel and went to bed. Greyhound says was completing his federally regulated rest hours. Passengers say they were not told about this break. And were left on the cold bus with young children. For hours. Cold. Greyhound said the driver finished his sleep and drove the bus on to the next stop in denver. According to the company, passengers had the option to keep warm in a nearby Fast Food Restaurant while they waited for their trip to continue. Take a look as Rushing Waters take over the backyard of a california home. The homeowner was able to take this video before realizing that there was no place for all this water so go. So he grabbed a sledgehammer and busted out part of a concrete wall to create an escape route for coming up next at 7. Well show you the ultimate photobomb that put a smile on a little girl. Girl. Plus. The record you helped break over the holidays. How much money we spent on apps as 9 on your side at 7 even royalty has a first day at school. School. Britains Prince George looked happy for his big day Kensington Palace released these two pictures of Prince William and kates oldest child. Prince george was phothe seemed to like the mural. Pointing and smiling at it in one photo. Apple says during the weeks of christmas and new years, customers spent over 1 billion dollars on apps and inapp purchases within the app store. Apple said on wednesday that new years day 2016 was the most popular day in app store history with customers spending more than 1 and finally tonight. Take a look at this picture going viral tonight. A little girl was trying to take a picture in front of a horse. But the horse wanted to make sure he was the center of attention. And photobombed the little girl that is 9 on your side at 7 for this xxx. Updates on all the days top stories right now on wcpo dot com. Our next newscast is tonight at 11. The list is next. Have a