BY The Cincinnati Enquirer
Two men were attacked and hit with baseball bats and sticks early Saturday at 3760 Warsaw Ave. in Price Hill.
Terry Widener, 24, and Steve Smith, 32, said they were assaulted at 1 a.m. by a group of about six men, according to Cincinnati police.
Mr. Widener was admitted to University Hospital, where he was listed in fair condition Saturday afternoon, according to a nursing supervisor. Mr. Smith was treated and released.
Police said they do not know what motivated the attack. They would not say whether the attack took place inside or outside.
Hunger-strike activist to speak at Xavier
Jennifer Harbury, an activist lawyer who used hunger strikes to learn the fate of her Guatemalan rebel husband, will speak at 8 p.m. Monday at Xavier University's university theater.
The talk is free and open to the public.
Ms. Harbury met Efrain Barnaca Velasquez - Commander Everardo - when she went to Guatemala to work with civil war refugees. A Mayan and rebel leader, he disappeared in 1992. Eventually, she learned he was dead.
Group holds benefit for injured ex-student
Thomas More College's African-American Student Association will sponsor Collinsworth College Night on Thursday at the Waterfront, 14 Pete Rose Pier in Covington, to raise money for the Adam Collinsworth Trust Fund.
Mr. Collinsworth is a former employee of the Waterfront who was involved in a diving accident that left him paralyzed. He was a football player at Thomas More College and an academic achiever. Cover charges from students will go to the trust fund.
Information: the Waterfront, 581-1414.
Remembrance lights to help working poor
FAIRFIELD - The Auxiliary of Mercy Hospital Hamilton - Fairfield will illuminate the hospital grounds with the "Gift of Light" program during the holiday season.
Participants can honor or remember someone special this holiday season by illuminating an entire tree for $100 or an individual light on the large display for $5. Proceeds go to help the working poor in the community.
A lighting ceremony will be held 7 p.m. Dec. 1 at Mercy Hospital Hamilton and 7 p.m. Dec. 2 at Mercy Hospital Fairfield.
Request for rememberance lights and trees will be taken through December.
To purchase a light or tree: send your name, the name of the honoree, the name and address of the person to receive the rememberance card, and $100 for a tree or $5 for a light to Ellen Flegal, Mercy Hospital Auxiliary, P.O. Box 418, Hamilton 45012, or call 867-6588 for a Gift of Light form.
Bar association seeks legislator's sanction
DAYTON, Ohio - The Ohio Bar Association is urging possible sanctions against state Rep. Marilyn Reid, R-Beavercreek, for submitting misleading documents about the ownership of a sports bar.
John Mueller, a Cincinnati attorney representing the bar association, recommended Friday that the Ohio Supreme Court suspend Ms. Reid's license to practice law for up to six months if she commits another ethics violation.
Ms. Reid's attorney, Neil Freund, told a three-attorney panel that the bar association had proved none of its case and that the complaint should be dismissed.
A two-day disciplinary hearing examined how Ms. Reid prepared documents for the Ohio Division of Liquor Control in seeking a liquor license for Wallaby's Sports and Grill, in which she was an investor. Ms. Reid testified for three hours Friday, explaining paperwork she prepared. She said all documents she filed were truthful when submitted.
Chrysler to keep Jeep plant in Toledo
TOLEDO, Ohio - Officials of the DaimlerChrysler auto company and the city have signed a development agreement setting terms of a $268 million tax incentive package.
In exchange for the incentives, Chrysler has promised to maintain a 4,900-person work force in Toledo and to invest $1.2 billion in modernizing its two Jeep plants in the city.
"We have secured the future of DaimlerChrysler for a significant number of decades in our community," Mayor Carty Finkbeiner said at Friday's signing.
City officials haven't determined how they will pay for their contributions. New cost projections exceed the city's original estimates by $35 million.
The automaker also agreed to preserve 29 acres of wetlands along the Ottawa River near the plant.
Archbishop Tutu praises world's youth
COLUMBUS - South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu said he's encouraged by what he's seen in the world's young people.
Despite temptations such as drugs, materialism and pornography on the Internet, "isn't it incredible that so many young people come out such splendid, splendid human beings?" he said Friday night.
Archbishop Tutu received the National Youth Advocate Program's 1998 Advocate of the Year Award for his work toward social justice and his leadership to end apartheid in South Africa.
The program provides foster homes for 2,000 children and acts as an advocate for child welfare issues.
Archbishop Tutu heads the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which recently issued a report condemning that nation's former system of whites-only rule and the tortures and killings allowed by the African National Congress.
"It's now up to South Africans, really, whether they are going to grasp the opportunity that the commission has given," Archbishop Tutu said. "And that is to say - all of us have to say - this is our past, this is how we have been and not use it to take potshots."
