Around the Miami Valley

The Antioch Board of Trustees announced Tuesday that college will extend full tuition scholarships to the first four classes of students. This includes current Antioch students, and all students admitted to the college for the next three years.

Full episode of WYSO Weekend for January 15, 2012 containing the following stories:

-Child Sex Trafficking: A Statewide Problem, by Sarah Buckingham and Community Voices producer Liz Cambron

-The latest installment of the SOCHE Talks: Making a Difference in Cynical Times: The Possibilities of Social Entrepreneurship

The city of Springfield is partnering with a national peacekeeping group that specializes in training community members on how to work with police to keep their streets safe.

Springfield is using a program called the Peacekeepers  Global Initiative to make unstable neighborhoods safer by deterring crime and violence.

Peacekeepers was founded by Columbus native Dennis Muhammad and stems from the Islamic faith. The idea is to bring in men from the community to make the streets safe for women, children and seniors.