The Kettering Police Department is reminding anybody who has been drinking alcoholic beverages to utilize a designated driver. It is important to have a plan established and to arrange a designated sober driver or call a taxi.

Kettering Police will have three to four additional officers on patrol Friday, Sept. 3 from 9 p.m. until 3 a.m. Saturday morning specifically looking for impaired drivers. The additional patrol will also be assigned Saturday night from 9 p.m. until the early morning hours on Sunday.

The department will be taking a zero tolerance approach toward impaired drivers.

The additional officers working during the patrol will be funded by grants from the Governor's Highway safety office, the Montgomery County Combined OVI Task Force  and local courts.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -- Economists are bracing for a weak showing in the August employment report, which is scheduled to be released today.

Friday with the private sector forecast to add a net total of only 41,000 jobs, the fewest since January.

That's not enough to keep up with population growth. The jobless rate is expected to increase to 9.6 percent from 9.5 percent, the first rise since April.

The anemic economy is causing companies to conserve cash and hold back on hiring. While most economists expect the nation to avoid another recession, they say growth will likely be so weak for the rest of this year that the jobless rate could move back above 10 percent by early next year. That would raise pressure on the Federal Reserve to do more to jump start the economy.

Economists wonder if the economy can keep growing after government stimulus programs end.

The hurricane's maximum sustained winds are at 105 mph early Friday. While the National Hurricane says weakening is forecast, Earl is expected to remain a large hurricane as it approaches southern New England.

A tropical storm warning has been issued for the coast of Nova Scotia in Canada.

Sustained winds of about 30 mph were whipping the North Carolina coast and the U.S. Coast Guard station at Hatteras reported a gust of 67 mph just before midnight.

Earl had weakened Thursday but even its edges were packing powerful winds as it heads up the Eastern Seaboard.

There are no estimates as to how much sewage leaked into the river from two 24-inch pipes that serve the University of Dayton area. Crews from Ruhlin Co. broke the pipes about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday and built a makeshift dam of gravel that contained the spill about four hours later.

The pipes continued to leak for more than 24 hours into a 20-foot pool inside the dam as three industrial-sized pumps sucked the sewage into a nearby sewer. The pipes were plugged early Thursday afternoon.

The city must provide an estimate to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency within five days.

Ruhlin crews mining gravel for Interstate 75 construction work hit the lines about 1,500 feet south of the Stewart Street Bridge because the lines had been improperly marked by city staff, Carpenter said. The mining was supposed to be a no-cost effort to help remove a bar of rocks that have built up in the river, while helping Ruhlin with materials for the I-75 construction.

Clean up efforts could last through the weekend.

The crash involved a car and a motorcycle and Sheriff's deputies have the intersection well blocked off which is causing some traffic delays in the area.

According to scanner traffic, there are reports that one of the motorists involved in the accident was killed.

More information will be posted on our Web site as it becomes available. 

While I-675 has yet to see a fatal crash this year, records reviewed show there are several trouble spots along the 26.5-mile highway.

There were three serious crashes, including one fatality, at mile post 9 near Indian Ripple Road between August 2008 and July 30, 2010, records show. Multiple injury accidents, including several fatalities, also occurred near mile post 3 and the interchanges with U.S. 35, Ohio 235 and Dayton-Yellow Springs Road for the period from January 2007 to July 30, 2010.

Average daily traffic on I-675 in Greene County ranges from 35,860 vehicles near Ohio 844 to 75,640 vehicles near U.S. 35, according to 2008 Ohio Department of Transportation figures, the most recent available.

The section near U.S. 35 has seen one fatal crash and two injury accidents since 2007.

The man was reportedly armed when he walked into Doc's Grocery and Beer.

Police did not say how much money the man got away with but that he ran out the back door of the building before cops arrived.

Springfield police are continuing their search and investigation.

Pryor completed 17 of 25 passes for 247 yards and TDs covering 6 and 11 yards to DeVier Posey and 65 yards to Dane Sanzenbacher before 105,040 at Ohio Stadium.

The Buckeyes, who haven't lost a home opener since 1978, next play on Sept. 11 against No. 13 Miami, which coasted past Florida A&M 45-0.

It was a bleak debut for new Marshall coach Doc Holliday. The Thundering Herd fumbled the opening kickoff and were down 14-0 before running their first play in Ohio State territory.

Thursday's fire came less than five months after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 people and spurred the worst offshore oil spill in the nation's history.

This time no one was killed and the Coast Guard said no crude was leaking.

Michael Bromwich, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, says his agency will work with the Coast Guard to investigate the fire.

The oil platform is owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy Inc.

Dayton firefighters say that the crash left the car so mangled; it took them 45 minutes to cut the man from his vehicle.

The crash happened just after midnight last night and witnesses and police say that it looked like the man was simply going way too fast and ran right into some big time trouble.

One witness said that the man flew by him and passed over both northbound lanes before hitting the curb, sending his car flying into a tree in someone's front yard.

Paramedics told our partners at WHIO-TV that the man was partially hanging out of the driver's side window when they arrived.  And while medics could access the man, his lower body was trapped under the dashboard of the smashed vehicle.  Firefighters need to cut off the driver's door and the roof off of the car and push the dashboard back with power tools to free the man.

45 minutes later, workers carefully pulled the man out of his car and transported him to the hospital.

Police shut down North Main for several hours as accident investigators conducted their work and so far they say the only contributing factor in the accident was the man driving entirely too fast.

However, they are looking into a number of other factors that could have played a role in causing the accident.

Pointing to Kasich's previous relationship with Lehman Brothers, Strickland portrayed his opponent as a man who was not only out of touch with middle class America but as one who conducts himself in an elitist way.

Strickland's speech gained momentum as he accused Kasich of hiding his tax records, which Strickland said shows Kasich earned approximately $1,000 an hour as a fellow at Ohio State University. He then criticized Kasich's proposed plan to privatize the Department of Development, which Strickland said would allow for runaway salaries that would be shielded from public scrutiny.

Behind Kasich in the polls, Strickland said he wasn't worried and that he believed he had more money than his opponent and would be launching a "very robust media campaign after the Labor Day holiday."

The National Weather Service reports winds on the barrier islands were gusting to around 40 mph Thursday night as Earl's eye moved closer.   

On Hatteras Island, winds started to drive the rain sideways by about 9:30 p.m. and roadside signs were shaking.   

Forecasters say the worst winds should come after midnight as Earl passes about 50 miles to the east of the Outer Banks. Gusts of up to hurricane force are possible.   

The weather service says storm surge could be up to 5 feet and waves could be up to 18 feet. The storm's closest approach will come at about high tide.

City Manager Jon Crusey says the Tipp Top Canning lagoon receives process water and tomato peels from the processing plant on First Street.  As it biodegrades, it creates an odor.

Crusey says the winds were coming from the east Thursday morning and the odor carried over the city.  Crusey says the company installed aerators to speed up the process.

He says the lagoon has been around about 40 years and occasionally there is an issue with odor. 

Resident Victoria Webber wondered what was causing the odor. She said it smelled like "someone tipped over an outhouse."

Our partners at the Dayton Daily News report that two elderly Oakwood women were conned out of over $13,000 in recent weeks.

Callers claiming to be grandsons or nephews told the women they were in jail in other countries and desperately needed bail money. 

Ohio's attorney general has sent out two alerts in the past 18 days warning people not to wire money, especially overseas, after an unexpected call. 

Police say the July 31 case was especially cruel. The woman's husband had died days earlier. Police believe the scammer got the grandson's name out of an on-line obituary.

Both women sent the money through Western Union. The company says agents are trained to spot fraud, but some criminals stay ahead of the game. 

Ohio Attorney General Spokesman Ted Hart says once the money leaves the country, there is little chance to recover it.

Our partners at the Dayton Daily News say that police have been searching Windham's house and a nearby cabin. They have also confiscated his truck. 

He is held in the Montgomery County Jail.

Police say the alleged victims, now 18, came forward with information. They also gave the names of at least three more possible victims. 

Some of the alleged sex acts, which are believed to have occurred over a five year period,  may have happened at the Plainview Open Bible Church on Johnsville Brookville Road.