Monday, February 22, 1999
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p8 West Clermont open with substitute drivers
Classes will resume today for the 9,500 students in West Clermont Local School District, with substitute bus drivers temporarily replacing those who went on strike Friday.
“We're hoping that it all goes smoothly,” Superintendent Dennis Devine said.
The district canceled school Friday when the 87 drivers went on strike. The drivers, represented by Teamsters Local 100, are deadlocked in a contract dispute with their employer, Laidlaw Transit, primarily about wages and proposed changes in health-care benefits.
The drivers will picket today at the district's 12 schools, union steward and spokeswoman Linda Bloom said. Union leaders hope to resume talks this week, she added.
West Clermont schools serve all of Union Township and parts of Pierce and Batavia townships in Clermont County.
Laidlaw General Manager Dale Moser has said the company was bringing in “fully trained” substitute drivers from other states in its Midwest region — Wisconsin, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri — to provide service.
Deputies wound driver after chase
Hamilton County Sheriff's deputies shot a Poughkeepsie, N.Y., man early Saturday after he led them on a car chase on Interstate 74 and allegedly tried to drive his pickup into them.
Steven D. Young, 27, was treat ed at University Hospital for a gunshot wound on his hand. He was charged with felony fleeing and eluding and two counts of felonious assault on a police officer.
The chase started at 3:40 a.m. when a deputy tried to pull over Mr. Young on Jessup Road at Cheviot Road in Green Township for a traffic violation, according to the sheriff's office. The deputy chased Mr. Young onto I-74's westbound lanes, where other deputies joined the pursuit.
Deputies deflated the 1985 Ford pickup's tires with stop sticks, but Mr. Young continued, with flat tires, onto the New Haven Road exit ramp and hit a Harrison police cruiser.
When deputies left their cruisers to arrest him, Mr. Young allegedly drove his truck toward the deputies and a Harrison officer.
Two deputies fired their revolvers at the driver, hitting him once in the hand, according to the sheriff's office. Those officers, whose names were not released, have been placed on administrative leave.
No officers were injured.
Passenger critical after crash on I-75
UNION TOWNSHIP — A 26-year-old woman was in critical condition Sunday at University Hospital's trauma center after a collision on southbound Interstate 75, north of the Union Centre Boulevard exit in Butler County.
Jennifer Riley, address unavailable, was a passenger in a car driven by April D. Brinson, 26, of Franklin, who struck an unattended car parked on the berm about 3 a.m. Sunday. Their car spun around and came to rest in the center lane, a dispatcher from the Hamilton Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said.
Ms. Brinson was taken to Mercy Hospital Fairfield and then transported to University Hospital.
Escapee from Ohio found in W.Va.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A man who walked away from a work release program last month while he was waiting to be retried for murder was arrested in West Virginia.
Jessie Ray Harris, 24, was arrested about 3 a.m. Saturday on a downtown Charleston street, Charleston police Sgt. Tim Tucker said. Mr. Harris had been missing since Jan. 4, when he left the Franklin County work release program.
Mr. Harris was to appear in Kanawha County Circuit Court for an extradition hearing today.
Mr. Harris was convicted in the December 1996 death of Gary Joe Greer, who had been hit in the head with a baseball bat during a bar fight. On Dec. 22, the 10th District Court of Appeals overturned the conviction, ruling the trial judge did not tell the jury about an individual's right to use violence to protect a friend.
Mr. Harris was placed in the halfway house after his conviction was overturned. He left after failing a random drug test.
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