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DAYTON — Nine property appraisers working for Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer contributed to his campaign coffers last year, providing him with $7,535 of the $27,985 he raised, according to annual campaign finance reports filed with the Montgomery County Board of Elections.

One of the contributors was Plummer’s sister, Kimberly Solomon, who gave him $1,100. Last month in the wake of controversy over her hiring, Plummer removed her from the no-bid job that paid her $141,763 last year.

The only appraisers who did not contribute were two whose jobs Plummer phased out last year, Stephen Rigler and James L. Ullmer, both of Brookville.

ENGLEWOOD — A 29-year-old man was taken to Miami Valley Hospital today, Feb. 2, after he was knocked at least 10 feet into the air by a van making a left turn onto Wenger Road, police said.

The man, an out-of-state resident, was not identified by name, but did complain of extreme pain to his legs and shoulder, Englewood Sgt. Mike Lang said.

His condition was not immediately known.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The military’s top uniformed officer declared Tuesday that gays should be allowed to serve openly in uniform, arguing that it is “the right thing to do.”

Adm. Mike Mullen’s statement was the strongest yet from the Pentagon on this volatile issue, although he stressed that he was “speaking for myself and myself only.” He told the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday he is deeply troubled by a policy that forces people to “lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.”

MIDDLETOWN — Students at Amanda Elementary School will be getting a lesson on school bus and pedestrian safety Tuesday, Feb. 2, after a 7-year-old was struck by a car.

Middletown police said Shawn Austin McQuinn, a second-grader at Amanda Elementary School, was hit at around 4 p.m. Monday by a black Pontiac Grand Prix after darting between two vehicles going east and into the path of the car headed west on Oxford State Road. He was flown by medical helicopter to Children’s Medical Center of Dayton.

The 7-year-old and two other boys were about 250 feet from the school and the school crossing guard when the accident occurred near 1408 Oxford State Road police said.

KETTERING — An early morning fire today, Sunday, Jan. 31, displaced a dozen residents of an apartment building at 5544 Bigger Road in Kettering.

Officials with the Kettering Fire Department said the 911 call came in at 5:55 a.m. and that fire damaged four units of the Heritage Knoll apartments.

The driver of a semi-trailer that slammed into a shuttle bus earlier this month, killing four people, told state troopers the truck sped up on its own just before the crash on Interstate 70.

In a report released by the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Zygmunt W. Wieckowski, 54, of Chicago, told troopers that he took his foot off the accelerator before the fatal crash on Jan. 7 but he could still hear the engine speeding up.

Wieckowski told troopers he was the only one who drove the truck and it had never had mechanical problems previously.

But in an interview contained in the report, Wieckowski told troopers the truck began to move side-to-side on the snow and ice-covered roads.

DAYTON, Ohio — A man who crashed his car into a pole after fleeing from police is dead.

Dayton Police officers tried to stop a Cadillac around 4 a.m. Saturday on Lakeview Avenue, and the driver refused to stop.

A short time later, officers found a crash scene at Lakeview and Groveland avenues involving the car they attempted to pull over.

The victim has not been identified.

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ENON — The head custodian at an Enon elementary school was arrested this week after he admitted to police that he had inappropriate sexual contact with three students at the school.

Martin Nichols, 40, of Dayton, was arrested on charges of gross sexual imposition, and was taken to the Clark County Jail. According to Enon Police, he was arraigned Friday, Jan. 29, at Clark County Municipal Court, where he pleaded not guilty to three counts of gross sexual imposition. He is being held on $25,000 bail.