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Cincinnati City Council voted Wednesday in favor of renaming North and South Crescent avenues in Avondale after national civil rights leader and Cincinnati's native son, the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth.
The newly named street is where Mr. Shuttlesworth's home and his Greater New Light Baptist Church are located.
Two Cincinnati Public Schools principals say enrollment during the district's first week of classes has been dramatically different from their projections.
At Pleasant Hill School in College Hill, Principal Henri Frazier expected about 580 students and got about 700.
She attributed the surge in students to confusion about redistricting, necessitated after the school converted from an elementary to a kindergarten-to-eighth-grade model.
Winton Place Academy Principal Christina Russo said she expected about 600 students and got fewer than 500.
Some families wait to enroll their children until after Labor Day, so Winton Place administrators expect enrollment to recover next week, Ms. Russo said.
Pleasant Hill administrators and teachers plan to double-check records this week and possibly reroute mistakenly enrolled students to the schools they should be in, Ms. Frazier said.
Sex-for-cigarettes indictments issued
A Price Hill man was indicted Wednesday on charges of raping two girls after allegedly luring them into his home with cigarettes and alcohol.
Michael Oehler, 48, faces six counts of rape and three counts of gross sexual imposition.
Police say he sexually abused the girls -- ages 10 and 12 -- in exchange for cigarettes and alcohol. According to the grand jury indictment, the abuse occurred Aug. 17.
Police say they found out about the incidents after the girls told a friend, who then told an adult. The girls told what happened, police say, after one girl's mother caught her smoking.
Teen tells police she was raped
Cincinnati police are investigating a 17-year-old Lockland girl's report that she was held against her will for more than 14 hours and raped by the father of her 6-week-old baby.
The girl told police two men drove her to a spot along Montana Avenue in Westwood, and that one raped her and the other tried to. She said they held her against her will from Sunday night to Monday morning.
Family seeks help in search for man
The family of a missing 65-year-old man -- who lost touch with his family about eight years ago -- is asking for help in finding him. CP:Melvin Way
Police say Melvin Way, who had been living in Hamilton County,may suffer from memory loss and may not know his own identity.
The Adult Parole Authority began looking for him as a suspected parole violator. He has a long list of alcohol-related charges as well as convictions including aggravated burglary and breaking and entering.
But police say their biggest concern is finding Mr. Way and making sure he's in good health.
He is a 5-foot-7, 145-pound African-American with gray hair and brown eyes. He has scars on his forehead, right eye and right arm.
Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 352-3040.
Medical center seeks test subjects
The University of Cincinnati Medical Center is seeking women who have completed menopause to test a new approach to treating depression. The clinical trial involves taking an anti-depressant medication and estrogen replacement therapy plus going through a psychiatric evaluation. For information, call 558-0508.
Police relations hearing scheduled
Cincinnati City Council is opening public discussion on ways to improve police-community relations.
The first hearing on recommendations made seven months ago in a police mediation report is scheduled for 7 p.m. Sept. 15 in City Hall chambers, 801 Plum St.
Council received recommendations in February from a group that formed to examine community concerns after police shot and killed a brick-wielding mental patient, Lorenzo Collins, in 1997. A Justice Department mediator was called in by city council to guide a panel of city administrators and six community groups -- including the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Baptist Ministers Conference -- to make recommendations.
The panel suggested forming a civilian review board to oversee investigations of police misconduct, hiring a civilian training director at the police academy and giving preference on promotional exams to officers who live in the city.
Since then, Ted Schoch, a retired assistant police chief, has been hired as the civilian training director.
Councilman Tyrone Yates, chairman of the Law and Public Safety Committee, said the hearing is meant to revisit the panel's recommendations. It will be the first of several on the report.
