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Kroger provides details, asks you to check for recalled beef products

Kroger provides details, asks you to check for recalled beef products

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - The Kroger Co. stores in the Cincinnati and Dayton areas are asking customers to check their refrigerators and freezers for 5 lb. chub Kroger Ground Beef 73% Lean 27% Fat and Kroger Beef Patties with a "best before or freeze by" date of September 12, 2011. 

This ground beef is part of a recall announced by Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. 

Kroger customers can visit www.kroger.com/recall for the list of products subject to the recall sold in Kroger’s family of stores. The Tyson website lists all of the affected products and retailers. 

Kroger has removed affected items from store shelves and initiated its customer recall notification system. Customers who may have purchased the affected products will receive register receipt messages and/or automated phone calls.

Ohio Business Owners Fear Loss of Consumer Protection Reforms

Ohio Business Owners Fear Loss of Consumer Protection Reforms

FAIRFIELD, OH (FOX19) - Small business owners are gathering at the Grismer Tire Co.

"Cheap" gas now is $3.90-$4.00, if you can find it

"Cheap" gas now is $3.90-$4.00, if you can find it

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - The Cincinnati region is now experiencing some of the highest, if not the highest-ever prices for gasoline in history.

Speedway and many other stations raised prices in most places to $4.159 per gallon of regular almost everywhere north of the Ohio River.

Northern Kentucky has avoided the price hike, except for a couple of stations, but that still leaves the vast majority of prices there in the $3.90's.

Of 16 Northern Kentucky stations reported to Cincygasprices.com as of Thursday night, the prices ranged from #3.98 to $3.99, with the median at $3.969.  The Speedway station in Carrollton was at $3.829, while all other Speedway stations in Northern Kentucky were at least $3.929.

Among 8 Indiana stations reported by the two sources after 6 p.m.

Gas prices in your neighborhood: bad or worse??

Gas prices in your neighborhood: bad or worse??

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Gas prices over much of the Tri-State have reached $3.99 (plus 9/10 of a cent) for regular, approaching the highest level in history.

The lowest prices reported in the region Tuesday were found in Franklin, where most stations were at $3.72 (omitting the last digit) as reported by Cincygasprices.com and by Speedway.com.  Stations were charging that price along 2nd and 6th streets.

The highest?  Try $4.16 at some stations in Connersville, IN.

Gas prices both rising and (mostly) falling around Tri-State

Gas prices both rising and (mostly) falling around Tri-State

CINCINNATI (FOX19) – Gas prices at a few local stations are on the verge of topping 4 dollars a gallon, while at the same time prices at most stations are edging downwards.

The gas prices tracking website KentuckyGasPrices.com reported a price of $3.99 (plus the final .009) per gallon for regular gas at a Boone County station.

FOX19 found that price advertised at the UDF/Marathon at the corner of Mineola Pike and Airport Exchange Boulevard just off 275 north of the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport.

The same price was reported by CincyGasPrices.com as of midday Friday for a pair of stations in Trenton, while a pair of neighboring stations were at $3.71.

In spite of those eye-popping prices, most prices were falling.

Where to find gas that is only very expensive

Where to find gas that is only very expensive

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - There is a place in the region where gas can be found for as low as $3.54 or $3.55 a gallon.

Unfortunately for most people around the Tri-State, that place is Carrollton, about halfway to Louisville.

A check of online gas prices at speedway.com and CincyGasPrices.com shows almost all stations charging $3.79 for a gallon of regular (omitting the final '9'), or just a few cents a gallon less.

Historical accidents make Tri-State a nuclear-free zone

Historical accidents make Tri-State a nuclear-free zone

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - While Japan worries about the state of nuclear reactors in the zone that was struck by last week's earthquake, Cincinnati has two reasons not to worry about such a situation in the near future.

The obvious reason is the lack of recorded earthquake activity in this region.  Another is that there are no nuclear power plants anywhere near the Tri-State area.

If you drew a line from Fountain Square to the nearest commercial nuclear power plant, that line would end 188 miles away at the Davis-Besse power plant on the shores of Lake Erie east of Toledo.

40 years, ago, planners expected that three nuclear power reactors would be within 60 miles of downtown, but the two projects that were planned to contain those reactors both were cancelled well into contruction.

The better known of these was the William Zimmer plant in Moscow, on the Ohio River in Clermont County.  The plant was under construction for a dozen years, until construc