Cathie Rowand | The Journal Gazette
About 500 times a year a water main will break somewhere in the city.Normally, such breaks are just a nuisance. A few residents lose water service for a few hours while crews dig a big hole in the street to repair the break.
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Brittaney Ewing has never gotten to wear her crown. She hasn’t even been back to school since just before she was elected homecoming queen at Hamilton High School.
Frank Gray | The Journal Gazette
The fate of Willia Lee’s home remains in limbo.We wrote about Lee earlier this month. A condition known as a pseudo tumor left her mostly blind and on disability.

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