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Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Yahoo
Dayton man accused of shooting 19-year-old in head indicted on murder charges
Jun. 27—A man accused of shooting a 19-year-old in the head in Dayton in May was indicted on murder charges. Danny Demetrius Gladden Jr., 20, is facing two counts each of murder and felonious assault and one count each of tampering with evidence and having weapons while under disability in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. Gladden Jr. is scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday. Around 9:30 a.m. on May 29, Dayton police found 19-year-old Darion Jones shot in an SUV on Lexington Avenue. Investigators learned Jones had been with Gladden Jr. and another man, according to Dayton Municipal Court records. A witness informed police a vehicle was dropped off around 9 p.m. the night before, an affidavit read. They called police in the morning after they reportedly saw two men at the SUV. "Through the investigation, it was learned that (Jones) was in the passenger seat and (a man) was driving the vehicle," an affidavit read. "Danny Gladden Jr. shot (Jones) in the back of the head." Gladden Jr. and the other man allegedly returned to the scene and attempted to clean it with bleach. The other man has not been charged as of Friday. Gladden Jr.'s father, Danny Gladden Sr., is facing charges for allegedly harboring him from justice. Gladden Sr. was indicted on two counts of obstructing justice and a misdemeanor count of aggravated menacing. His bond was set at $10,000.
Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Dayton schools could end high school transportation over contested provision in Ohio's budget
Jun. 27—Dayton Public Schools may opt to no longer provide any transportation options for district high school students if a locally backed provision in the state's recently passed budget becomes law. The provision in question singles out DPS and blocks its students from transferring bus lines at the Greater Dayton RTA's downtown bus hub. Dayton Public Schools Board of Education member Jocelyn Rhynard told this outlet that the law would likely render the district's current bussing solution for high school students unworkable. "We don't put them on yellow buses now, we don't have the fleet or the drivers. What we've been doing for the past couple years is buying the monthly bus passes for them," Rhynard said. "But if they cannot go through the RTA hub, then buying them the bus passes would be pointless. So, we would have to tell our students that they would be on their own because of the decisions made at the Statehouse." Other options are still on the table, Rhynard said. DPS could expand its yellow bus fleet (the district estimates needing about 70 additional buses and 70 additional drivers). A satellite RTA transfer hub for students is also a theoretical option. But, Rhynard said the law, which would go into effect for the coming school year, offers the district little time to come up with a solution. "We possibly will not be doing high school transportation for Dayton students or nonpublic students," Rhynard said. "We haven't had the meeting to discuss that, there's a lot we have to finalize and figure out, but at this point the Statehouse might have made the decision for us." The provision is backed by local Rep. Phil Plummer, R-Butler Twp., who has been supported in his attempts to distance high school students from the downtown hub by Dayton Mayor Jeffrey Mims, a Democrat, and the Dayton chapter of the NAACP. The issue became an even greater priority following the April killing of Alfred Hale III, an 18-year-old Dunbar High School student who was shot near the downtown RTA hub on his way to school. "They could do this. I don't want to hear their excuses," Plummer, a former Montgomery County sheriff, told this outlet. "Here's the main thing: We had a kid killed down there. It's a terrible environment. I would not want my 13-year-old daughter standing down there waiting to transfer buses in that climate. "You know, you have drug dealing going on down there, you've got gangs down there, you've got homeless, mental health people down there. It's not a place for a 13-year-old kid." Plummer admits that his provision doesn't offer the district much time to adjust. He wanted to provide a one-year runway, but that version of his amendment wasn't the one that made its way into the state budget. The provision, like all of the state budget, is still subject to review from Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, who wields line-item veto power and is expected to sign the budget early next week. School transportation is made more complicated by an Ohio law that saddles public districts with the responsibility of transporting both public and non-public students up through eighth grade, which has caused headaches particularly in districts like DPS — large, urban, open-enrollment districts with charter schools and private schools aplenty. Districts have more leeway for high school students, but they must offer the same transportation solutions to public and non-public high schoolers alike. "The biggest issue here, that it seems like nobody in the Statehouse is willing to acknowledge, is that we are able to transport all of our students, K-12, on yellow buses if we did not have to transport non-public students," Rhynard told this outlet. "If we did not have the mandate, we would be able to do the transportation in house for all of our Dayton Public students. But because we have to transport all of the nonpublic students, we can only transport through eighth grade." Rhynard said lawmakers were looking at the wrong solutions with this provision. "If our legislators in the Statehouse actually wanted to solve this transportation issue, they would get rid of the mandate that we transport non public students," she said. "There's no reason why we should be doing transportation for students who do not attend Dayton public schools." To this outlet, Plummer said that the transportation requirements hoisted upon public schools "need revisited." He said the current law made more sense before the rise of charter and private schools, noting that about half of the students DPS transport on their yellow buses are non-public students. "It is an antiquated system that needs changed. But, they need to ask themselves why 50% of our kids go to other schools," Plummer said. "Maybe start there." ------ For more stories like this, sign up for our Ohio Politics newsletter. It's free, curated, and delivered straight to your inbox every Thursday evening. Avery Kreemer can be reached at 614-981-1422, on X, via email, or you can drop him a comment/tip with the survey below.
USA Today
18 hours ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Class of 2026 wide receiver Nalin Scott flips commitment from Arizona State to Nebraska
BREAKING: Class of 2026 WR Nalin Scott has Flipped his Commitment from Arizona State to Nebraska, he tells me for @on3recruitsThe 6'2 205 WR from Marietta, GA had been Committed to the Sun Devils since April'AGTG!! Blessed to call this Home #GBR' A class of 2026 wide receiver has flipped his commitment from Arizona State to Nebraska. Nalin Scott is a four-star recruit for McEachern High School in Powder Springs, GA. The wide receiver had a productive season in 2024 for McEachern High, recording 23 receptions for 302 yards. He also had nine carries for 27 yards and two touchdowns. Class of 2026 quarterback recruit Dayton Raiola was heavily involved in recruiting Scott to Nebraska. The receiver told Bryan Munson from Husker Online that QB played a significant factor in his decision to flip his commitment. 'Oh yeah, Dayton played a major role. I would also say my family ended up getting close with Dayton and Dylan Raiola too. Me and Dayton have a good relationship since the first time I visited Nebraska." Nebraska's class of 2026 now holds nine commitments. Rivals/On3 ranks the class No. 52 nationwide and No. 18 in the Big Ten Conference. Contact/Follow us @CornhuskersWire on X (formerly Twitter), and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Nebraska news, notes, and opinions.
The Guardian
a day ago
- Business
- The Guardian
How refugees have helped save these midwestern cities: ‘That's really something we celebrate'
At a time in life when many are winding down, Gunash Akhmedova, aged 65, fulfilled a lifelong dream of opening her first business. A member of the Ahiska, or Meskhetian, Turk community who came to the US as a refugee from western Russia in 2005, Akhmedova opened Gunash's Mediterranean Cusine two years ago on the site of a converted freight house alongside other international food vendors in a formerly industrial corner of Dayton, Ohio. Akhmedova is one of several thousand Ahiska Turks to have moved to Dayton over the past 15 years. In that time, the new community has bought and rebuilt dozens of homes in blighted parts of the city, turning them into thriving neighborhoods replete with Turkish restaurants, community centers and a wrestling club. While in Utah, where Akhmedova was first resettled by the US government, she found her opportunities were limited to dish washing and cooking at retirement homes and hospitals. Here in Ohio, her longstanding goals have been realized. 'We Turkish people are all cooks, from a young age,' she says. 'I saw that here, there is a lot of opportunities to do something that you like.' While cities such as New York, Miami and Los Angeles have long enjoyed the diversity of life and economic growth fueled by refugees and immigrants, recent years have seen smaller, more homogeneous towns in so-called 'flyover states' transformed into vibrant, growing communities thanks to immigrants. Ohio's foreign-born population has grown by 30% over the last decade, helping to offset a decades-long population decline that was fueled by the offshoring of manufacturing and the Great Recession of 2008. Neighboring Kentucky resettled more refugees per capita than any other state in 2023, where between 2021 and 2023 their numbers grew from 670 to 2,520. In places such as Springfield, Ohio; Logansport, Indiana; and beyond, refugees and immigrants have stepped in to fill critical entry-level jobs such as packaging and manufacturing, the demand for which locals find themselves unwilling or unable to meet. In Owensboro, a town of 60,000 people in western Kentucky, hundreds of Afghan refugees and humanitarian parolees have brought a diversity to the area not previously seen. There, three refugees ran a restaurant serving central Asian food for several years out of a diner whose owners allowed them to use their facilities. In 2023, the restaurant, called Pamir Afghan Cuisine and since closed, was voted the best international restaurant in town. In Lexington, nearly 2,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ukraine and elsewhere have brought diverse vibrancy to a city formerly mostly known for horses and whiskey. Refugees are people unable or unwilling to return to their country of nationality due to the threat of persecution or war. According to the UNHCR, the UN's refugee agency, there are roughly 36.8 million refugees around the world, and despite the US being the world's second-richest country based on purchasing power parity, the number of refugees being admitted has been falling since the beginning of the program, in 1980. Similar experiences are playing out in Indianapolis, a city that saw years of population and economic decline in the 1970s and 1980s. Today, it finds itself home to the largest Burmese community in the US, a haven for more than 30,000 immigrants from the south-east Asian country who have fled the Myanmar military regime's decades-long crackdown on democracy activists and minority religions. 'Indiana is at the crossroads of America, where a lot of logistics and manufacturing companies are located. Those jobs are readily available for refugees,' says Elaisa Vahnie, who heads the Burmese American Community Institute in Indianapolis, an organization helping refugees and immigrants from the country adapt to life in Indiana. 'There's also around 150 small businesses – insurance and real estate companies, restaurants, housing developers – run by Burmese people in central Indiana.' Since 2011, the Burmese American Community Institute has helped more than 17,000 people adjust to life in the midwest, and has even driven up college attendance rates among young Burmese Americans. About 40% of the community in Indiana was initially resettled elsewhere in the US but moved to the midwestern state due to family connections and job opportunities. Data from the US Census Bureau shows that 70% of Indiana's population growth in 2024 was due to international immigration, driving the largest population growth the state has seen in nearly two decades. However, like in 2017, these communities find themselves facing a host of new immigration restrictions and controls introduced by the Trump administration. This month, the White House barred entry to the US by citizens of Myanmar, Afghanistan and 10 other countries, in order to, it claims, 'protect the nation from foreign terrorist and other national security and public safety threats'. 'We have heard that church pastors, family members, friends and those who have been planning to visit find themselves in a very sudden situation. The community here has been impacted already,' says Vahnie. A refugee who fled Myanmar due to persecution for his pro-democracy advocacy, Vahnie has recently been to Washington DC to canvass state department officials and congressional staffers to end the travel ban. 'If this ban continues, the impact will not just be on Burmese Americans. The United States is a leader of global freedom, human rights and democracy. It's in our best interest to invest in the people of Burma. We need to carefully think through this, and I hope the administration will consider lifting the ban as quickly as possible,' he says. Last year, more than 100,000 people entered the US as refugees. On 27 January, the newly inaugurated Trump administration suspended the country's entire refugee program due to what the White House called the US's inability 'to absorb large numbers of migrants, and in particular, refugees, into its communities'. But many community leaders don't see it that way. 'I respectfully disagree with the idea that we are not able to take legal migrants,' says Vahnie. 'After 20 to 25 years of welcoming Burmese people here, they bring a high educational performance, economic contribution and diversity to enrich Indiana. That's really something we celebrate.' Born in Uzbekistan, Akhmedova saw first-hand the ethnic violence that affected her community during the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989. She and her family fled to the Krasnodar region of western Russia, where her community again faced attacks and discrimination. She moved from Utah to Dayton in 2017 to be nearer to family. 'I was always dreaming about [opening a restaurant] to show my culture, my food, my attitude,' she says. 'Ninety-nine per cent of people tell me they've never eaten this kind of food.'
Yahoo
a day ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Former Dayton Flyer guard selected in 2nd Round of NBA Draft
A former University of Dayton men's basketball player has been selected in the NBA Draft for the third straight season. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Koby Brea was the 41st pick overall in the second round of the 2025 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors. Advertisement He was traded to the Phoenix Suns. TRENDING STORIES: Koby Brea played four seasons (2020-24) at Dayton. He was named the Atlantic 10 Sixth Man of the Year in 2022 and 2024. Brea averaged over 11 points per game while hitting almost 50% of his three-pointers in 2024. Koby Brea transferred to Kentucky for his final collegiate season in 2025. 'Feel like I'm dreaming right now!!!' he wrote on social media. 'Just thanking God and reflecting on everything it took to get here, beyond blessed and grateful. Can't wait to get to Phoenix.' He is the third former UD Flyer drafted in three seasons. Toumani Camara was drafted in 2023 by Phoenix before being traded to Portland. Advertisement DaRon Holmes II was drafted by Denver in 2024. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
