Monday, February 01, 1999
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Man killed, two hurt in Butler Co. crashes
Butler County deputies Sunday renewed their probe of crashes that killed a man and injured two others in Morgan Township.
Names of the man killed and the two injured were not released. Deputies said three vehicles were involved in the two crashes about 1:30 a.m. Saturday.
Two cars crashed head-on on Cincinnati-Brookville Road at Buell Road. The impact spun one car off the side of Cincinnati-Brookville and left the second car disabled on the roadway.
A short time later, a pickup crested a hill on Cincinnati-Brookville and crashed into the disabled car on the roadway, deputies said.
The person killed was in the disabled vehicle and died there, deputies said.
Deputies did not know whether the man was killed in the first or second collision, said Lt. Ed Martin.
It was the second time in a month for a man to die in a double crash.
Timothy Trader, 21, of Eaton, Ohio, was killed New Year's Day in Crosby Township after he and another man left their car to help motorists involved in a separate wreck.
Mark K. Putnick, 43, of Ross Township drove his van into the back of a Blazer that was involved in the first crash. The impact caused the Blazer to spin into Mr. Trader and his companion.
Mr. Putnick has been charged with aggravated vehicular homicide and aggravated vehicular assault.
Murder suspect arrested in Dayton
Police in Dayton, Ohio have arrested and charged with murder a relative of James L. Sudberry, a 37-year-old Hamilton man found stabbed to death in a garage last week.
Two Hamilton police detectives drove to Dayton early today to bring James D. Sudberry, 25, of Eaton, Ohio, to Hamilton to face the charge of murder. James D. Sudberry likely will be arraigned in Hamilton Municipal Court today.
James L. Sudberry, the deceased, was an amateur boxer who had recently returned to his native Hamilton before he was found dead in a garage behind a residence on Maple Avenue.
Seminary president returns for speech
The Rev. Dr. Edward L. Wheeler, president of Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, will speak Tuesday at the annual meeting of the Metropolitan Area Religious Coalition of Cincinnati. The Rev. Dr. Wheeler, former pastor of Zion Baptist Church in Avondale, will speak on the responsibility of the religious community for the wider community. He will speak at Zion Baptist, 630 Glenwood Ave. The talk is free to the public.
Lockland man charged after stabbing incident
A Lockland man was charged with felonious assault after a stabbing outside a party early Sunday, Lockland police said.
Wallace Hopkins, 55, of the 600 block of West Forrer Avenue was involved in a 3 a.m. altercation that apparently began at his residence.
He and the victim went outside and moments later, Mr. Hopkins chased the victim and stabbed him in the buttocks, police said.
Mr. Hopkins was arrested at 3:20 a.m.
The victim, whose name was not released, was taken to University Hospital. His condition was unavailable Sunday.
Mount Auburn woman charged after stabbing
A Mount Auburn woman was charged with felonious assault after a stabbing incident at her residence early Sunday, District 4 police said.
Lori Bethel, 28, of the 100 block of Glencoe Place was charged at 3:15 a.m. in another unit where she lives. The incident occurred at 1:50 a.m. The name and condition of the victim were not available.
Problems don't follow expansion of benefits
COLUMBUS — Providing health insurance to live-in partners of city workers has not led to fraud or budget problems as some Columbus opponents suggest, say people in two cities that offer the benefits.
“After nine years of doing this, I'm here to tell you it's one of the best things we did,” Sally Fox, Seattle's benefits and safety director, told the Columbus Dispatch.
“Our health-care costs increased in proportion to the people we were covering, but their costs were the same as everyone else's.”
Seattle's costs increased 2 percent to 3 percent in the first few years the city offered the benefit, Ms. Fox said. The city has since stopped calculating.
The city has not had any confirmed cases of fraud, she said.
Counties blast state's child-support system
COLUMBUS — Some children are not getting child-support money because of problems with a new statewide enforcement system that loses checks or sends them to the wrong people, county administrators say.
They recommend postponing an October deadline for hooking up 48 counties that are not yet on the $100 million Support Enforcement Tracking System, which is designed to improve collections.
There is a “very strong, nearly unanimous consensus” that the mandatory conversion should be stopped, said Morris Murray, president of a group of county enforcement directors.
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