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The first edition of the Gazette was a weekly newspaper begun in Xenia in 1868. [1] It converted to daily publication as the Xenia Daily Gazette in November 1881. [1]In 1975, the staff of the Xenia Daily Gazette won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting, in recognition of their coverage of the F5 tornado that decimated Xenia during the 1974 Super Outbreak, killing 34 residents and heavily ...
XENIA, Ohio (AP) — EDITOR'S NOTE — On April 3, 1974, a fierce tornado barreled through Xenia, Ohio, without warning, killing 32 people, injuring hundreds and leveling half the city of 25,000.
The tornado would continue to damage structures as it moved toward Xenia while retaining an estimated forward speed of 65 miles per hour (105 km/h). [2] As the tornado struck a fairground northwest of Xenia, it reached its maximum width of 400 yards (370 m) while heavily damaging rows of homes at F3 intensity. [1]
The Akron Press joined in 1925 with Akron Times to be The Akron Times-Press.; The Barberton Herald (1923-2022) [2]; Celina Democrat (1895–1921) [3]; The Cedarville Herald (from July 1890 to December 1954) [4]
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Stiles later confirmed that the suspect first identified The staffer was identified by Axios as Morelle’s communications director, 38-year-old Michael Hopkins, had been fired.
The 1974 Xenia tornado was a violent F5 tornado that destroyed a large portion of Xenia and Wilberforce, Ohio, United States on the afternoon of April 3, 1974. It was the deadliest individual tornado of the 1974 Super Outbreak, the 24-hour period between April 3 and April 4, 1974, during which 148 tornadoes touched down in 13 different U.S. states.
Most of the company's holdings comprise the Ohio core of Brown Publishing Company, a family-owned publisher based in Cincinnati that declared bankruptcy in April 2010. In September of that year, Brown's 14 Ohio dailies and about 50 weekly publications were transferred to Ohio Community Media, a new entity owned by Brown's creditors, in a transaction valued at $21.75 million.