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.

MASON, OH (FOX19) - Kings Island is hiring 15 lifeguards to work a the Boomerang Bay water park this summer.

Kings Island provides an award-winning training program at no cost to lifeguard candidates.

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - A third gasoline price hike in the last two weeks has many Tri-State filling stations charging $3.49(9) per gallon of regular gas,  but only a day after the hike,  prices in a few parts of town are significantly lower than that.

A check of cincygasprices.com and its affiliate sites, along with speedway.com shows what seemed to be a gas price war has returned to Oxford after a disappearance for some weeks.  All stations reporting between Wednesday and Thursday evening were between 2.25 and 2.29, with reports for two stations on Thursday afternoon or evening, including Speedway, at $2.25.

The Speedway and UDF/Mobil stations on Cincinnati Dayton Road in West chester were at 3.299, while multiple stations on Cincinnati-Columbus Road were at 3.34.