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Local entrepreneur sounds alarm on local leaders over viral street attack: ‘Democrat monopoly’

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September 9, 2025

Local entrepreneur sounds alarm on local leaders over viral street attack: ‘Democrat monopoly’

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CINCINNATI, OHIO – Southwest Ohio residents are expressing outrage at local leadership after a viral street fight in their backyard that captured the nation’s attention. One resident, a local political activist, told Fox News Digital a “Democrat monopoly” is partially to blame.

The Saturday night violence in downtown Cincinnati on July 26, which left a woman knocked unconscious on the street at the hands of a male assailant, was the result of a city that wasn’t “prepared” due to political ideology, Price Hill native Adam Koehler told Fox News Digital. He added that the response to the fight was “not leadership.”

“Leadership comes out and says, ‘Hey, we’ve got a problem. Here’s my solution to fix it,’” Koehler said. “But instead, they want to be cowardly and hide the fact that crime is actually happening.”

Cincinnati’s mayor and other local officials have faced heated criticism in recent days over the perception they are not taking crime seriously. One elected Democrat, Councilwoman Victoria Parks, posted on social media saying that the victims of the fight “begged for that beatdown.”

CINCINNATI MAN WHO LOST EYE IN UNSOLVED RANDOM BEATING SAYS CRIME ‘OUT OF CONTROL’ AFTER BRUTAL VIRAL ASSAULT

Fox News Digital spoke to Cincinnati resident Adam Koehler about crime in the city. (Fox News Digital)

“This is a Democrat monopoly they’ve got here,” Koehler, an entrepreneur and former candidate for Hamilton County commissioner, told Fox News Digital. “So, I mean they can just pretty much do whatever they want. And a lot of that kind of rhetoric is excused, right? It’s, you know, past injustices and you know now I feel like I can say whatever I want and it’s excused. And luckily there are some city council members that denounced the words that Victoria Parks said, which is great, but you’ve got other people that just want to stoke the flames.”

Holly, the woman brutally knocked out and bruised in the attack, told Fox News this week she is yet to receive a phone call from the mayor or top officials “just apologizing for what happened and for letting these thugs and criminals run the streets when they should have been in jail to begin with.”

Koehler told Fox News Digital that Democrats running the city “have an agenda” and “want to look a certain way” and “ignore the problem.”

“It’s a lot of these ideologies that come out of the universities, right?” Koehler said. “Every generation thinks they figured something out about crime and they’re soft-hearted people, they wanted to do things, but, you know, policies like what Giuliani did in New York, those kind of things work.”

CINCINNATI POLICE CHIEF SAYS OUT OF 100 PEOPLE WATCHING AND RECORDING VIOLENT ATTACK, ONLY 1 CALLED 911

(L-R) Jermaine Matthews, Dominique Kittle, DeKyra Vernon, Montianez Merriweather and Patrick Rosemond are facing various charges for their alleged roles in the viral beatdown in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 26, 2025. (Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office; Fulton County Sheriff’s Office; Jay Black)

Koehler, who was speaking to Fox News Digital outside a GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy town hall event on Cincinnati’s west side, said figures like Ramaswamy, Sen. Bernie Moreno, and Ohio native VP JD Vance are reasons to be optimistic about addressing the crime spike downtown.

“Those guys got power,” Koehler said. “I mean you start throwing the DOJ down here and start investigating some of the things that are happening, why wasn’t there more police there?”

Koehler added, “I mean there’s a lot of grifting that goes on whenever you have a one-party monopoly in any city. Obviously, you’re gonna have corruption. And it’s just, it’s festered here, and it’s culminated in what you see.”

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Sen. Bernie Moreno speaks at a press conference alongside Holly, a victim in the viral July 26 brawl in Cincinnati, at the Fraternal Order of Police headquarters in Ohio on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)

Moreno said this week he is introducing “Holly’s Act,” a move aimed at ending what he calls the justice system’s revolving door for repeat offenders.

“Let’s be honest, because a lot of times you guys are qualifying this as a brawl,” Moreno told reporters. “This was attempted murder of an innocent woman. And that person had a rap sheet a mile long. Nobody who has that rap sheet should be walking the streets of any Ohio city free.”

Fox News Digital’s Julia Bonavita and Peter D’Abrosca contributed to this report.

Andrew Mark Miller is a reporter at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.

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West Virginia Lottery results: See winning numbers for Powerball, Lotto America on March 2, 2026

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March 3, 2026

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The results are in for the West Virginia Lottery’s draw games on Monday, March 2, 2026.

Here’s a look at winning numbers for each game on March 2.

Winning Powerball numbers from March 2 drawing

02-17-18-38-62, Powerball: 20, Power Play: 2

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Winning Lotto America numbers from March 2 drawing

03-08-17-24-34, Star Ball: 06, ASB: 02

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Winning Daily 3 numbers from March 2 drawing

7-4-8

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Winning Daily 4 numbers from March 2 drawing

1-1-9-6

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Winning Cash 25 numbers from March 2 drawing

02-03-05-07-19-22

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When are the West Virginia Lottery drawings held?

Powerball: 11 p.m. ET on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
Mega Millions: 10:59 p.m. ET Tuesday and Friday.
Lotto America: 10:15 p.m. ET on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
Daily 3, 4: 6:59 p.m. ET Monday through Saturday.
Cash 25: 6:59 p.m. ET Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.

This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by a USA Today editor. You can send feedback using this form.

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Daisy’s Memorial Dog Strick Library| The Post

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March 2, 2026

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Daisy’s Memorial Dog Strick Library| The Post

A tribute to a family dog is now helping other animals. Daisy’s Memorial Dog Stick Library encourages dogs to take and leave sticks on their walks near White Rock Lake. Kimberly Haley-Coleman stopped by The Post to talk about the tribute.

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Luke Kornet calls on Atlanta Hawks to cancel ‘Magic City Monday’ promo

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March 2, 2026

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Luke Kornet calls on Atlanta Hawks to cancel ‘Magic City Monday’ promo

An NBA player from an opposing team has called on the Atlanta Hawks to cancel their upcoming game promotion that revolves around celebrating a well-known local gentleman’s club.

San Antonio Spurs center Luke Kornet asked the Hawks to reconsider their “Magic City Monday” plans for a March 16 game against the Orlando Magic in a letter posted to Medium on Monday, March 2. Atlanta’s ownership group and front office recently touted the one-night collaboration as an ode to an “iconic cultural institution,” citing Magic City’s role and impact in Atlanta’s Black communities and hip-hop culture in the announcement.

But Kornet wrote that “the Hawks failed to acknowledge that this place is, as the business itself boasts, ‘Atlanta’s premier strip club.’ “

“The NBA should desire to protect and esteem women, many of whom work diligently every day to make this the best basketball league in the world,” Kornet continued. “We should promote an atmosphere that is protective and respectful of the daughters, wives, sisters, mothers, and partners that we know and love.

“Allowing this night to go forward without protest would reflect poorly on us as an NBA community, specifically in being complicit in the potential objectification and mistreatment of women in our society.”

Magic City Kitchen is also slated to serve two versions of its “world famous” lemon pepper wings – Louwill Lemon Pepper BBQ – at the March 16 game. The flavor is named after three-time NBA Sixth Man of the Year-winner, Lou Williams. Rapper T.I. is scheduled to perform at halftime and limited edition Magic City merchandise will be available to purchase at the game.

Magic City celebrated 40 years with a five-part STARZ docuseries, ‘Magic City: An American Fantasy,’ that was produced by Hawks principal owner Jami Gertz and Atlanta native Jermaine Dupri. Magic City founder Michael “Mr. Magic” Barney and T.I. are scheduled to record a live podcast from inside Atlanta’s State Farm Arena before the game.

Kornet, 30, hopes the Hawks and NBA officials listen to him instead.

“I’d like to encourage the league, its owners, employees and fans to hold the Atlanta Hawks to a higher standard of what they find worthy of promoting,” Kornet wrote. “I and others throughout the league were surprised by and object to the Hawks’ decision. We desire to provide an environment where fans of all ages can safely come and enjoy the game of basketball and where we can celebrate the history and culture of communities in good conscience. The celebration of a strip club is not conduct aligned with that vision.”

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Kornet is averaging a career-best 7.1 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.9 assists in his first season with the Spurs. This is the sixth team he’s played for in his nine NBA seasons, with his previous four years spent on the Boston Celtics.

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