Another shoe has dropped in the investigation of suspected abuse at Hillcrest Academy.Hamilton County and Juvenile Court announced Wednesday afternoon they will end their contractual ties to Rite of Passage, which runs the treatment program for at-risk youth at Hillcrest.The decision comes in the wake of allegations that surfaced within the past few days involving a worker there.An investigation is underway into whether a female staff member sexually assaulted at least one student.There was an emergency Juvenile Court meeting about it over the weekend.According to a joint statement this afternoon from Hamilton County Juvenile Court and Hamilton County Job and Family Services, "On Saturday, HCJC held an emergency shelter hearing to remove all 12 of the children the Court placed at Hillcrest. HCJFS is also in the process of relocating its residents. In addition, the County Administrator and the Administrative Judge have given notice that it intends to terminate its contract with Rite of Passage."The statement mentioned there were 50 current residents at Hillcrest.A dozen were placed there by Juvenile Court, six by Jobs and Family Services. The rest of the residents were sent to Hillcrest by other entities from out of state.Neither Hamilton County leaders nor anyone from Juvenile Court would say anything further about the separation, referring all questions to the Hamilton County Prosecutor.As for the criminal investigation, the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office said there is nothing new to release at this time.Several messages left for Hillcrest and Rite of Passage administrators went unreturned.

A customer at The Omaha Bakery in Nebraska ordered two turnovers, and in return put forth a huge tip. "Everybody was freaking out in here, they were like 'you guys won't believe what just happened!'" employee Preston Rath said.Rath thought he was doing a typical transaction at the bakery."He ordered two turnovers which came to $5 and as I'm ringing them up he kind of snickers a little bit as he turns the screen back to me," Rath said.When the customer, Nicholas, turned the screen around, Rath noticed his $2,000 tip. "And I was like that's wrong, you put too much of a tip in there. And he goes 'if you don't hit OK, I'm going to reach around and hit OK,'" Rath said."You hear about these things in big cities and you see it on the internet, but you never think it's going to happen at your business," owner Michelle Kaiser said.Kaiser said the money will be dispersed between hourly employees only, no managers."He knew that it had been a rough time with COVID, he knew that people were struggling in general. He noticed our staff was working really, really hard," Kaiser said.Rath hopes the kindness that Nicholas showed doesn't stop with him. "You don't have to give random strangers $2,000 but even just saying 'have a good day' can help somebody go from a zero to a 10," he said.Watch the full story in the video above.

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New video shows what it looked like inside Dave & Buster's in Springdale as a large fight exploded.Families were startled, and employees warned police that a gun and a Taser were involved.Police said a man was found shot nearby.WLWT talked with a man who happened to be in the restaurant and arcade celebrating a birthday as it all unfolded and used his phone to record some of it.A number of employees called 911 for help begging police to hurry."I just can't believe that I witnessed that, that that stuff actually happens," Chandler Davis said.Davis said he captured video of the fight on Monday night inside Dave & Buster's.He was there for his girlfriend's sister's 21st birthday celebration, but this was no way to mark that milestone."I see a bunch of men throwing fists at each other, so I decided to record it and I didn't want to get too close because there was a girl there with a stun gun and she was going around hitting a bunch of guys in the neck with it," Davis said.The video he captured showed the intensity of it all.Five employees called 911 asking police to hurry as the fighting only got worse."It's like 10, 15 people and they're fighting. They've got Tasers and everything," an employee said during a 911 call.In the calls, employees tell 911 dispatchers someone has a gun.Davis saw their reaction in real time as the fight continued inside and eventually moved outside."We were sitting there and one of the workers came running back inside and he didn't say he had a gun but he was like, 'Everybody stay in here' and like, 'Stay down,'" he said.Springdale police found a 37-year-old man shot nearby.He is expected to be OK.Police said no one was arrested, but they are making progress.Meanwhile, Davis isn't sure he will be back."Just don't do it in public, if anything. Just don't do it at all at that. Just, especially not in public around kids, because I was right by a family and they had a little kid and they were really, really freaked out," he said.Springdale police said they have set up a meeting to talk with Dave & Buster's about security and preventing this from happening again.They were at this arcade earlier this year for fights and shots were fired near a neighboring business, though no one was hit.Dave & Buster's has not responded to our request for comment.Anyone with information about this fight should call Springdale Police at 513-346-5760 or Crime Stoppers at 513-352-3040.

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