Saturday, April 24, 1999
TRISTATE DIGEST
Impersonation of officer reported
Cincinnati police are investigating a report that a man impersonated a police officer Thursday in Burnet Woods Park.
Three people reported that a man assaulted them after they refused to give him money. The man then said he was a police officer investigating his sister's murder and that one of them was a suspect, the report said.
Police are investigating it as a case of assault and impersonation.
Officer shot at in Northside
A Cincinnati police officer reported being shot at Thursday as she drove a marked police car on the 4500 block of Colerain Avenue in Northside.
Officer Amy Moore was not hit. Neither was her car. She reported someone fired from a wooded area about 2:30 p.m.
Police have not yet been able to identify what caliber weapon was used or find where the shot hit.
Streets will close for WalkAmerica
The March of Dimes WalkAmerica is 9 a.m.-11 a.m. Sunday.
Streets will be closed and reopened as the walk proceeds:
Pete Rose Way between Eggleston Avenue and Broadway; Broadway between Pete Rose Way and Sixth Street; Sixth Street between Broadway and Vine Street; Vine Street between Sixth Street and Ninth Street; Ninth Street between Vine Street and Race Street; Race Street between Ninth Street and Seventh Street; Seventh Street between Race Street and Elm Street; Elm Street between Seventh Street and Third Street; Third Street between Elm Street and the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge.
The walk proceeds into Kentucky and returns on the Taylor-Southgate Bridge to Pete Rose Way and Yeatman's Cove.
The annual WalkAmerica event is a 10-mile walk for people who have raised donations for the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation.
For information, call the March of Dimes at 772-3553.
Park & Ride site reopens after storm
The Metro's Park & Ride location at Harper's Station behind Don Pablo's restaurant at Montgomery and Kemper roads is back in operation after tornado clean-up efforts.
Customers riding Metro's Route 3 and Route 4 Montgomery service can use the Park & Ride.
Man injured in single-car crash
A Lockland man was injured in a single-car crash in Colerain Township that closed the Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway for about two hours Friday night.
Robert Wagner, 52, had to be cut from his car by rescue workers after apparently losing control of the vehicle. He was flown by helicopter to University Hospital, where he was being evaluated in the emergency room late Friday.
The accident occurred west of Pippin Road.
Hamilton County sheriff's deputies said the accident was under investigation.
State says family won't get benefits
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The sons of a state employee shot to death by her supervisor last year do not qualify for death benefits because the shooting resulted from the end of the couple's relationship and was not work-related, the state has ruled.
Rhonda Rowe, the sister of victim Shasta Dotson, is seeking the benefits from the state's workers' compensation insurance fund on behalf of Joseph Wright, 15, and his brother, Douglas, 17.
Ms. Dotson, 40, was chief of office services for the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services. On March 18, 1998, William Evans, 51, the bureau's director of business management, shot Ms. Dotson then killed himself, investigators said.
Ms. Dotson's family said that Mr. Evans was upset over the couple's breakup.
The Bureau of Workers' Compensation denied Ms. Rowe's claim for the benefits and the decision was upheld by the Ohio Industrial Commission. The denial of Ms. Rowe's appeal turned the case over to Franklin County Common Pleas Court, where a hearing has been scheduled for March 2000.
Interventions don't help only the alcoholic
Tristate schools act upon threats
Teens: It could happen here
What do you think
Counselors' plea: Open hearts to kids
Light rail could bore through Mt. Auburn
Millennium lot cleared, awaits tower
Crime victims find a friend
Prosecutors' victim/witness assistance programs
Cyberspace threats tracked down
Grandson's band serenades woman on 97th birthday
Justin's birth parents sue their attorney
Y2K highlights our dependence
Campbell Co. official, under probe, resigns
Drunken-driving suspect on bond
Teens arrested in pellet shootings
Ballet's 'Butterfly' turns heartbreak into beauty
GET TO IT
Jazzy soloist shines as CSO alters image
Cemetery ties Lebanon to pioneer times
Chief wants road spikes to slow fleeing suspects
Church will honor retired Rev. Booth this Sunday
Court looks at police probe
Court orders retrial in sisters' murder case
Fernald to have new DOE manager
Foundation honors tree program
Grandparents find help raising kids
Man hurt in crash fleeing police
Mason water, sewer fees rise
Police find 26 guns in car; 5 arrested
Rielage is Ohio's fire marshal
Scouts collecting food, clothes Sunday
TRISTATE DIGEST
