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Springfield is a city in and the county seat of Clark County, Ohio, United States. [5] The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Mad River , Buck Creek, and Beaver Creek, about 45 miles (72 km) west of Columbus and 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Dayton .
The Suzanne Hopper Act is a law intended to create a database usable by law enforcement to track violent offenders ruled as mentally ill by Ohio courts. [13] In June 2013, the bill was sponsored by Republican state senators Chris Widener of Springfield and Bill Beagle of Tipp City, and was signed into law by governor John Kasich. [14] [15]
Developed during Springfield's industrial growth of the 1850s to the 1920s, the South Fountain Avenue Historic District encompasses about 15 square blocks south of downtown Springfield, across the street from South High School. Among its prominent early residents were Oliver S. Kelly, [1] William N. Whiteley, and Francis Bookwalter. [2]
A man is in custody and charges have been filed after a fatal shooting in Springfield last weekend. Ventellis B. Cooper, 48, faces three counts of first-degree murder, one count of aggravated ...
Jul. 28—Police on Thursday afternoon shared additional details surrounding the shooting death of a 20-year-old man in Springfield earlier this month, including that the victim was friends with ...
Springfield Township police are considering the Thursday night shooting that left a 16-year-old boy in critical condition as an accident. Springfield Township police are considering the Thursday ...
Its county seat and largest city is Springfield. [3] The county was created on March 1, 1818, and was named for General George Rogers Clark, [4] a hero of the American Revolution. Clark County comprises the Springfield, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Dayton-Springfield-Sidney-OH Combined Statistical Area.
A rust belt town with growing pains. Springfield has been an industrial town since the late 1800s, but the city's median income dropped between 1999 and 2014 when manufacturing jobs declined in ...