Tuesday, March 02, 1999
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Cincinnati State plans technology exposition
Cincinnati State Technical and Community College will hold “Texpo '99,” a free exposition on engineering technologies education opportunities March 15-20.
Programs, which are at Cincinnati State, 3520 Central Parkway, Clifton, unless otherwise noted, include: “Taking Flight,” a tour of Cincinnati State's aviation maintenance technology program, March 15, at Cincinnati West Airport in Harrison; “Transitions,” a job fair, March 16; “Tech Prep Awareness Day,” lab demonstrations and student tours, March 17; “Technology Fair,” a showcase of the college's engineering technologies programs, March 18; and “Science Olympiad,” a competition for middle- and high-schoolers, March 20.
Details: 569-1743.
Vandals jam locks at Walnut Hills High
Vandals found the key to disrupting class last week when they jammed broken toothpicks into the locks of 90 classrooms at Walnut Hills High School.
Custodians discovered the stuck locks Thursday evening and notified administrators, spokeswoman Eileen Houston Stewart said. Maintenance workers labored until 3 a.m. Friday to fix the locks, returning in the morning to finish.
Students attended class during the first two periods Friday in the gymnasium and auditorium.
“Somebody really didn't want to go to class, but little did they know that class would be held anyway,” Ms. Stewart said.
Damages, for materials and labor, cost $1,670, she said. A district investigation is under way, she said.
Driver arrested after convention center hit
An early morning police chase ended in an arrest Monday after the driver crashed into the downtown's Albert B. Sabin Convention Center.
William Leinberger, 19, of West Chester faces nine charges, including traffic violations and warrants for telephone harassment and criminal damaging.
Cincinnati police say he failed to stop when they tried to pull him over at Central Parkway and Plum Street. He sped away, police said, taking a chunk out of the convention center at 300 E. Sixth St., when his Buick smashed into the building.
His two passengers were arrested on drug charges, police said. Mr. Leinberger was being held at the Hamilton County Justice Center pending an arraignment scheduled for today.
Convention activities were not affected.
High court refuses to hear slaying case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal by a death row inmate convicted of killing a musician in 1995.
However, Walter Raglin is still years away from execution because of other appeals, a state public defender said.
Mr. Raglin, 21, was sentenced to die for killing Michael Bany, 41, a Cincinnati musician he had just robbed of $60. Mr. Raglin is being held at the Mansfield Correctional Institution.
No execution date has been set. Mr. Raglin has appeals pending before the 1st Ohio District Court of Appeals and may pursue federal appeals if the state courts reject his arguments, said Jon Woodman, an assistant Ohio public defender.
Mr. Raglin was sentenced in November 1996.
Research center takes on Glenn name
CLEVELAND — NASA renamed the NASA Lewis Research Center on Monday to the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field.
“I cannot think of a better way to pay tribute to two of Ohio's famous names — one an aeronautic researcher and the other an astronaut legend and lawmaker,” NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin said Monday.
Last year, the U.S. Senate approved the name change in a bill proposed by Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, who wanted to recognize Mr. Glenn's contributions to science and space.
The center, one of 10 NASA centers, was built in 1941.
It originally was named for George W. Lewis, director of research from 1924 to 1947 for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The committee worked on jet propulsion and formed the basis for what later became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Mr. Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth, in 1962. He returned to space on a shuttle mission last October, becoming the oldest astronaut. The Democrat retired from the U.S. Senate after four terms.
Topless dancing ban not being enforced
COLUMBUS — Bars throughout Ohio have been able to present topless dancing because a legal challenge led the state to stop enforcing a ban.
“We have been taking the tops off and will continue taking the tops off,” Drayton Nay, owner of the Solid Gold nightclubs in Columbus, said Monday.
The state stopped enforcing its ban on topless dancing in liquor establishments statewide while U.S. District Judge Ann Aldrich considers the constitutionality of the policy, said Cassandra Hicks, the top lawyer for the Ohio Department of Public Safety.
A ruling last year by Judge Aldrich, of Cleveland, resulted in bars in 40 counties in her northern Ohio jurisdiction being exempted in June from the topless ban. Mr. Nay said his bars went topless in December.
Ms. Hicks said the department stopped enforcing the topless policy statewide to avoid confusion among bar owners and liquor control agents. No decision from Judge Aldrich is expected until after a Thursday hearing about a related case, Ms. Hicks said.
2 in whites-only plan go on trial
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Two men who prosecutors say wanted to set up a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest went to trial Monday on charges they used murder, robberies and gun trafficking to further their cause.
Chevie Kehoe, 26, of Colville, Wash., and Danny Lee, 26, of Yukon, Okla., are named in a five-count indictment alleging murder, racketeering and conspiracy. They face the death penalty if convicted.
Mr. Kehoe and his brother, Cheyne Kehoe, became known to Ohioans in February 1997 after a shootout with police near Wilmington. The gunplay was caught on videotape.
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