Monday, June 29, 1998
There will be a public hearing on the upcoming property tax levy for the Hamilton County Community Mental Health Board on Wednesday, beginning at 6 p.m. This is the only public hearing to be held before the Tax Levy Review Committee makes a recommendation to county commissioners for the November ballot.
The mental health board, which provides services for those who cannot pay, is seeking a 41 percent increase in the amount it spends each year, to $28.2 million.
At 5 p.m., before the public hearing, an auditor will give a report on how well the board has been using the money to date. The public is invited.
The hearing will be at the County Administration Building, 138 E. Court St., downtown Cincinnati.
Man killed in fall from moving vehicle
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP -- A 19-year-old Carlisle man died Sunday morning when he fell out of a moving vehicle, state police said.
Nicholas Cavanaugh was a back-seat passenger in a van traveling north on Meadowlark Drive near Flamingo Drive in Warren County's Franklin Township at 4:50 a.m. when he apparently opened the sliding door and fell out, striking a driveway apron, Trooper Tim Hall said Sunday.
The driver, Joshua Goodwin, 21, of West Carrollton, and a second passenger were uninjured.
Indiana looking for 2 jail escapees
VERSAILLES, Ind. -- Two Ripley County Jail inmates remained at large Sunday after they escaped Saturday by scaling a razor wire-topped fence in a jail recreation area.
Bryan K. Wheeler and Jody Duane Selby escaped about 12:40 p.m., the Ripley County Sheriff's Department said.
Evidence recovered at the site of a car theft Sunday about four miles away -- including a wrist band with the name of one of the escapees -- lead authorities to think the escapees have left the Ripley County area.
The missing car is a blue four-door Chevrolet Lumina, with Indiana license plate 69 B 2659 . Mr. Wheeler is white, 22, 5-foot-11, 175 pounds, large build, with brown hair and green eyes and tattoos on his upper right arm. Mr. Selby is white, 27, 5-foot-9, 140 pounds, with a medium build, black hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Ripley County Sheriff's Department at 812-689-5555.
Small Indiana town plagued by arsons
LEIPSIC, Ind. -- A series of unexplained suspicious fires has plagued this southern Indiana hamlet of 150 residents, leaving them frightened and distrustful.
"We've got a serial arsonist out there," said Chief Deputy Richard Dixon of the Orange County sheriff's department.
Fifteen suspicious fires have been ignited in the past 10 months in Leipsic, a town with about 30 homes about 35 miles southeast of Bloomington.
No one has been injured.
The first of Leipsic's 15 suspected arsons occurred Sept. 6, 1997, when the vacant home of Phillip Foutch was heavily damaged. Mr. Foutch had been convicted hours earlier of conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting death of an Orleans man.
A second fire Oct. 31 destroyed what was left of the house.
Mr. Foutch, 59, died Jan. 16 of a heart attack suffered while serving his sentence at the Wabash Valley Correctional Center in Carlisle.
The fires have continued on a periodic basis since the Foutch fires. The most recent fire, on June 14, burned a hay barn.
Study sees snoring as a fatal danger
For people with failing hearts, severe snoring can be fatal.
A recent study by Dr. Shahrokh Javaheri, a University of Cincinnati medical professor and director of the sleep disorders lab at the VA Medical Center, adds to the research linking heart failure with sleep apnea, a type of snoring that causes people to stop breathing for as much as 10 seconds at a time.
Dr. Javaheri contends many lives can be saved by testing more heart failure patients for sleep apnea, then treating the condition. Dr. Javaheri's study was published in this month's edition of the medical journal Circulation.
