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4153 Debbie Alberico school piodet. Ken mullis union twsp pd 4 55 situations like this we want to take serious immediately Union Township Police Detective ken mullis says Clermont County distpatch received several calls from parents late last night after they saw a picture of an Amelia Middle School sixth grader holding a gun threatening to do harm today at the school. Ken 6 56 we were able to jump on it right away detective mullis tells the now cincinnati both Union Township police and the Clermont County Sheriffs Office acted quickly and made the arrest. Mullis says the threat was found in a facebook message geared towards another student. The weapon in the picture he says turned out be an airsoft gun with the orange tip painted black making it look real. Debbie alberico school pio 52 54 were very pleased that the Clermont County Sheriffs Department was able to pick up on that along with the Union Township police and find out who the perpetrator was School Public Information Officer Debbie Alberico says students and parents notified authorities. Debbie 52 20 we constantly tell our and our students, if you see something or hear something unusual, tell somebody, an authority who can do something about it ken 7 43 we have to pat the kids on the back that were apart of this forum that realized the threat, notified the parents, and the parents taking it serious that sixth grader is being charged with a misdemeanor level of inducing panic. Hes at the Clermont County juvenile detention center. Coming up at 5 hear from some parents and their reaction on the how the school and police handled the situation. Live in amelia, t. J. Parker, 9 on your side. Meantime authorities have pulled evidence from the home of the 14 year old accused of firing a gun inside Madison High School last week. Week. A search warrant was executed at austin hancocks home monday. Among the items confiscated as evidence a smartphone, iphone, three pocket knives and a bb gun. Two two students where hurt during the shooting last monday. Hancock remains in the Butler County juvenile detention facility. Breaking news a pedestrian has just been hit by a train in Butler County. This is the first photo from the scene from 9 on your sides jason law. There is still a lot that we dont know. But we know the area near mlk and pershing is blocked off and we have learned that victim is 19 years old. He was conscious but under the train when First Responders arrived. He has been taken to the hospital. We have a crew at the scene and will update you as soon as we learn more about this breaking story. It could be weeks before we know the identity of a body found inside a burned out home this morning in indiana. There is some good news though. Two other People Living in that home made it out alive. The nows Kristen Swilley has the latest on the investigation and eyewitness accounts. Kristen swilley 07 Melissa Grote Kristen on cam from the beginning this fire was a tough one. So intense it had to be fought from the the focus of firefighters and neighbors alike is on the elderly woman who is missing. Sot 6 seconds, Melissa Grote shes very nice. That lady would do anything in the world to help a neighbor out. Vo Melissa Grote was saddened to learn her neighbors home burned. Shocked to see exactly what an Early Morning fire did to the house. Sitting right across the street from hers. Sot 7 seconds, Melissa Grotewe all have kids around here and we were all scared. The fire was on the telephone pole and we were scared the telephone pole would come down with the wires. Vo the fire sent two inside the Market Street home to the Dearborn County hospital. And left an elderly woman missing. Sot 7 seconds, Melissa Grotei was just thinking oh my god. I hope someone can carry her out because she cant walk so i was just praying she would be able to get out. Vo grote says she knew the fire would take hours and a lot of manpower to battle the moment she saw it. Sot Melissa Grote, 13 secondsit was unbelievable because i had woke, woken up by my dog at 3 in the morning and i looked out the window and hearing someone yell help and the whole back of it was totally the top of the roof. It was terrible. Vo reporting in aurora. Im Kristen Swilley. For the now cincinnati. Cincinnati. Two people inside the home were taken to Dearborn County hospital. One has been released. The other was sent on to u. C. Medical for more advanced care. Wednesday morning, theres a slight chance for showers, but that should clear for the afternoon, leaving us with partly cloudy skies and highs back in the low 70s. Thursday, soggy weather should return, especially to the western half reach near 70. Showers saturday, with highs back in a Warren County woman is the first to file a lawsuit in the wake of the listeria outbreak linked to salad from the dole plant near dayton. Dayton. The lawsuit was filed by a woman who claims her mother became sick after eating tainted salad mix purchased from a kroger store in january. That salad was bagged at the dole plant in springfield. The plant remains shut down because of that listeria outbreak. 18 people were hospitalized after eating the salad including someone from michigan who died. Dole isnt commenting on the lawsuit. Its being called super tuesday two with voters in four states making their picks for president today. Voting is underway in hawaii, idaho, michigan and mississippi for republicans. At stake. The democrats are voting today in michigan and mississippi. More than 1 hundred60 delegates are up for grabs for the dems. Donald trump is looking for a repeat on his dominate super tuesday performance. But a new National Poll out today shows the race is changing a bit. Trump now has support from 34 percent of voters. Followed by ted cruz at 25 percent. Thats less of a lead than he held two months ago in a similar poll. Support is one thing but like is another. Just about half of republicans say they actually like trump as the nominee. Thats much less than cruz at 65percent and rubio at 62percent. Mitt romney is also continuing his push today against trump. Sending out robocalls for the other candidates. Runs 11hello. This is mitt romney and im calling on behalf of marco rubio for president. I believe these are critical times that demand a serious, thoughtful, commander in chief. Chief. Romney goes on to say hes convinced trump would lose to Hillary Clinton. Ohio governor john kasich. The 2012 gop president ial nominee isnt endorsing either candidate. Just trying to get anyone but trump nominated. And speaking of Ohio Governor john kasich, he held his final rally in michigan this morning. Wcpo political and government reporter amanda seitz was there. Hey amanda. Hi julie. Im here outside of lansing brewing in lansing, mi where john kasich just wrapped up another rally. Its his final rally here in mi. Voters are headed to the polls today to pick their candidate in this primary race. He made a last minute plea to voters that if youve already been out and voted, go tell them about me. Hes hoping to have a really Strong Performance here tonight ahead of the ohio primary so he can have some really strong momentum going in to the oh primary next week. Week. You can follow amanda on twitter right now to read some direct quotes from kasichs campaign today. Like this any more time in michigan, id have to start paying taxes. And amanda tells us thats how serious kasich is about winning michigan tonight. Her full insider report was just published check it out now at wcpo. Com forget politics for a minute theres a different kind of contest going on here in cincinnati. And your vote is wanted in the 19th annual Freestore Foodbank canstruction competition. This morning 16 teams gathered in various locations downtown to build sculptures using only canned food items. The sculptures range from finding nemo characters to castles to books. Tens of thousands of cans will be on display for the next few weeks then all of the food will be donated to the Freestore Foodbank. Most of the competing teams are professional architects, Construction Companies and engineers. But some are made up of College Students too. Elliott ice says its reall fulfilling project. Great event. You and your families can check out the canstruction exhibits now through march 27th. You can then vote for your favorite designs online. If you want more information head to cincinnati canstruction dot org or check out the Freestore Foodbank on facebook. Its International Womens day and more women are going into business for themselves than ever before. So what help is out there if you want to join the ranks . And a young girl says she fought off an attempted kidnapping what she says helped her get away when the a 13 Year Old Girl in florida says she escaped an attempted kidnapping thanks to her bookbag a Security Camera shows the girl in the seconds afterward. That suv was driven by the man she says tried to grab her. She says he pulled up outside pampano high school and asked when she ignored him he parked that suv and then tried to carry her away. But her heavy bookbag kept him from getting a good grip and she fought her way free. 47 he grabbed me around my waist and locked his fingers around his. I was pulling like pulling his wrists like away from each other and thats when i guess he gave up and i kept running and he went back to his car. The girl says in the days following the attack she stayed inside. She was too afraid to go anywhere. Police are now looking for that suv and the man who the girl described to police. Also caught in the act a fatherdaughter trip nearly ended in a disaster when their plane fell two thousand feet to the ground. Thankfully for them, the emergency parachute attached to it helped guide it to a landing in long island over the weekend. The plane just lost power according to the duo. Both survived with barely a scratch. The faa and the ntsb are investigating. Check out this video of a fire in chicago today. This is. Up in flames the battle was upgraded to a four alarm fire within 90 minutes of the first reports. Heavy black smoke and orange flames could be seen coming from the roof of the buyers flea market as firefighters tried to get it under control. There were initially reports of people trapped inside the building as the roof started to collapse. But no injuries have been reported. At least one person was rescued from the building. Tanya and steve chat about weather wednesday morning, theres a slight chance for showers, but that should clear for the afternoon, leaving us with back in the low 70s. Thursday, soggy weather should return, especially to the western half of the tristate. Highs will reach near 70. Showers continue into friday and saturday, with highs back in for the first time, the federal government has given nearly 18billion dollars in contract work to Small Businesses owned by women. Its now estimated women own nearly tenmillion businesses in the us. The nows tania rogers talks with one entreprenuer about why now may be a good time to go into business for yourself. When you walk into shoppe 561, you know youll be there the creative and personalized items are done by artists. Janelle lang, a former gap inc executive left the corporate world to open this store more than two years ago. Janelle lang shoppe 561 owner Decision Making its great. Youre in charge of your own schedule, though its a lot more hours, than you would put in. But it gives you freedom and flexibility and i can really try new things. So if something doesnt work, and i can start a whole new direction if needed and do whatever i feel is best for my business. For janelle and other business owners, its a good time to own a small business. According to a survey of more than 25 hundred Small Businesses 61 percent are doing well. 80 percent have grown over the past few months. The businesses dont rely as much on exporting goods compared to larger companies. They also take advantage of new technology. Janelle lang shoppoe 561 owner weve just relaunched our online business, so we know that the online channel is huge for us. So we are focusing on that. Tania rogers reportingwhat started out as a vision for janelle is now plans to expand the business. Janelle lang shoppe 561its scary but we are definitely to the point if we dont expand, the business is not going to be profitable to what we desire. So we know that we need a bigger location. No matter how much the business grows, customers like the hometown feel when in the store. Karen fisher customer trt 32 ends on where are you headed those are just some of the amazing answers Libby Duebber and the rest of the team came up with. To see the full length version of this video head to wcpo dot com. A popular rock band, stops its tour tour the frontman who is losing his hearing. And why you should be concerned about before contemplating the many choices on steak n shakes 4 dollar menu, one must calm the mind in our zen garden. Focus. The garlic double steakburger meal. Reflect. The taco salad meal. Zen the original double n cheese steakburger meal. Oh the 4 menu. Developing right now, three major sponsors are now dropping tennis star Maria Sharapova after she admitted to failing a drug test. Its 70million dollar endorsement deal. Swiss watch brand tag heuer isnt renewing its deal with sharapova. And porsche is putting theirs on hold. Sharapova failed that drug test at the Australian Open in january but just admitted it. She says she has been taking meldonium for years to treat magnesium deficiency and irregular ekg. But says she didnt know antidoping leaders banned the drug at the beginning of the year. Sharapovas fellow tennis competitor Serena Williams also weighed in on the failed today. 00 Serena Williams, top ranked womens tennis player well, to be perfectly honest, i think in sport and in life there is always a double standard. Always. And i think thats something that no one is um. Everyone knows whether its a race thing or a sex thing there has always difference. Williams went on to say that maria is taking responsibility we all know theres a risk that too much loud music can take its toll on our hearing. Now, thats become a frightening reality for the lead singer of the legendary rock band, ac dc. Runs 03johson singing hard rock music music the band has just suspended its us concert tour. Doctors have told frontman Brian Johnson if he doesnt stop, he is on the verge of going completely deaf. Johnson is 68 years old. Hes been with ac dc since 1980. And concerts can be as loud as 120 decibels. Federal guidelines recommend people spend no more than 10 minutes a day exposed to that kind of noise. Noise. For reference. A jackhammer about 50 feet away from you is 95 decibels. And thats the level that can start to cause permanent damage. So what can you do to protect your hearing and still enjoy hard rock . Rock . Earplugs. Experts found that even the cheap foam store can save your hearing by blocking out dangerous frequencies. And possibly keeping you from going deaf. The big reveal today we now know the entire cast for season 22 of dancing with the stars stars cast members like jodie sweeten and ginger zee were announced last week. But now we know nfl pittsburgh Steeler Antonio brown, superbowl champ von miller and heisman winner doug flutie, ufc fighter paige vanzant,boyz to men member wanya morris, former donald trump wife marla maples, americas next top model winner nyle dimarco,actresses Mischa Barton and kim fields, and emmy winning journalist geraldo rivera. Remember the new season of dancing with the stars begins march 21st right here in 9 on your side at eight p. M. Its the photo that has been on facebook and twitter feeds everywhere the last few days. A father saves his son from a flying baseball bat during a duo is talking about the instinctual move that has made them a viral sensation 50 i saw the bat slip out of the players hands and headed toward us. I just did whatever i could to block or deflect. I really had no clue until i saw the photo sunday night. Night. Shaun cunningham says hes just glad his son was okay. He says the eight year old boy had borrowed his dads phone to send some game photos to his mom when it all unfolded. A Record Number of pedestrian are getting hit by cars and texting isnt the only reason we look at the numbers here in this is a letter from someone whos here. She has to take a brand name drug. Been taking it since the early 1980s. At that time it cost approximately 180 for 10 shots. And the company is called valeant pharmaceuti