Saturday, July 18, 1998
The manager of the Burger King Restaurant, 6600 Colerain Ave., Colerain Township, was injured early Friday morning during a robbery. He was transported to Franciscan Hospital by the Colerain Township life squad. The manager, who was not identified, was treated and released.
Police said the robbery occurred at 4:56 a.m. as employees were leaving the restaurant.
Two suspects, one armed with a shiny automatic handgun, forced the employees back into the restaurant. The man armed with the handgun hit the manager in back of the head once inside the restaurant and demanded money from the safe.
Police said the men took an undetermined amount of money from the safe and fled on foot.
The robbery is under investigation by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Criminal Investigation Section.
Makings of bomb found in Miami Twp.
A Miami Township man was arrested Friday and charged with unlawful possession of dangerous ordnance after police found an ammunition box in his apartment, containing explosive items.
Arrested was Charles L. Hamilton, no age given, of the Three Oaks Apartment on Ohio 28.
All occupants were evacuated after Miami Township Fire department and the Cincinnati Bob Squad were summoned to the apartment.
The Cincinnati Bomb Squad discovered 2 1/2 sticks of dynamite and other material to make a complete bomb. The items were collected and secured by the bomb squad.
University Air Care makes 15,000th flight
The University Hospital Air Care service completed its 15,000th flight Sunday -- transporting enough patients in the past 13 years to sell out a concert at the recently renovated Crown.
The patient on the milestone flight was Cathy Clements, a 30-year-old Hamersville resident who went into premature labor at Brown County General Hospital and needed a rapid transfer to University Hospital. Air Care started flying Nov. 1, 1984, as a way to rush victims of car accidents, heart attacks, gunshots and other emergencies to University Hospital's high-tech trauma center.
It has grown to include two helicopters -- each capable of transporting two patients at a time -- nine flight nurses, six communications specialists, three mechanics and two administrators, plus a rotating staff of emergency physicians.
Since her flight, Mrs. Clements has been discharged from the hospital, but her child remains in intensive care.
Dairy council to gauge milk mustaches here
Tristate residents hoping to be the next "milk mustache" advertising star will get their chance this weekend when the National Dairy Council's "Better Bones Tour" rolls into town.
A Milk Mustache Mobile will be at several sites this weekend giving away T-shirts, information about the health benefits of calcium, and Polaroid portraits of people getting a milk mustache. Stops include: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the Kroger at Northgate Mall, 9690 Colerain Ave.; 4 to 6 p.m. today at the Reading IGA, 9200 Reading Road; and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Medical center gets started on expansion
The Winton Hills Medical and Health Center broke ground Friday on a $1.3 million expansion and renovation project.
The project will involve building a 7,600-square-foot addition as well as renovating the center's 6,900-square-foot building at 5275 Winneste Ave. Completion is expected by spring 2000.
The Winton Hills clinic opened 23 years ago. It is a member of the Cincinnati Health Network, a group of independent health clinics. The expansion project was funded by a $500,000 federal grant and a private donation campaign that has raised about $700,000 so far.
Give blood at mall, get pint of ice cream
Donors can get a free pint of ice cream by giving a pint of blood today at Northgate Mall.
The "give a pint, get a pint" blood drive an effort by Hoxworth Blood Center to increase summer donations. It runs 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in the Lazarus wing of the mall, across from Rack Room Shoes.
Donors must be at least 17 and weigh at least 100 pounds. For information: 451-0910.
Justice steps aside in Sam Sheppard case
CLEVELAND -- The Ohio Supreme Court decision on whether the lawsuit of Dr. Sam Sheppard's son can go to trial will be made with a stand-in. Justice Paul Pfeifer said Friday he has removed himself from the sensational Cleveland case that helped inspire The Fugitive. Mr. Sheppard's son, Sam Reese Sheppard, is claiming his father was wrongfully imprisoned in the 1954 slaying of his mother, Marilyn. If he convinces a court his father was innocent, he could collect damages from the state of up to $2 million.
Chief Justice Thomas Moyer will appoint an appellate judge to replace Justice Pfeifer, the court said.
Justice Pfeifer said he stepped down because a judge involved in the case, Ronald Suster, is running against him in the Nov. 3 election for the Supreme Court seat.
Torchbearer must repay disability money
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A Toledo man who carried the Olympic torch in that city in 1996 was ordered to repay $9,744 he received in permanent total disability payments, the Bureau of Workers Compensation said.
Dennis Harmon, 51, also was sentenced to five years' probation. Mr. Harmon began receiving the payments after hurting his back in 1981. Acting on a tip, investigators learned in 1996 that Mr. Harmon was operating a company called D&H construction and he was videotaped while working with concrete on a project, the bureau said.
The bureau said it also learned Mr. Harmon was one of dozens of people who in June 1996 carried the torch on its way to the Olympics in Atlanta.
Mr. Harmon pleaded guilty to a fifth-degree felony count of workers compensation fraud.
