Saturday, July 03, 1999
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p8 Fuel spill closes southbound I-75
Cincinnati police closed a portion of Interstate 75 late Friday to clean up a fuel spill.
Rescue workers were called to the southbound lanes of the interstate near Western Avenue about 11:15 p.m. Friday after about 400 gallons of fuel spilled from a tractor-trailer. Police closed the southbound lanes as crews tried to clear up the mess.
The highway was expected to be closed for at least two hours into the early morning, police said.
Judge dismisses case to stop demolition
U.S. District Judge Sandra Beckwith dismissed a motion Friday by the West End Community Council to halt the demolition and rebuilding of the Lincoln Court public housing complex in the West End.
The council and a Lincoln Court resident, George Lee, filed suit in June against the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) and federal housing officials to stop demolition.
The local housing authority (CMHA) won a $31.1 million Hope VI grant from the federal department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to demolish and rebuild Lincoln Court as a mixed-income community.
Demolition started April 5. Buildings will be demolished and rebuilt in stages, and CMHA has an agreement with residents that they will be allowed to return.
Plaintiffs feared that CMHA's math was incorrect and that all residents would not be allowed to return.
Teen given 6 months in psychiatric hospital
James House, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in a Roselawn stabbing attack last year, will spend at least the next six months in a Dayton, Ohio, psychiatric hospital.
Mr. House, 17, will be evaluated in January. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Thomas Crush will decide how long Mr. House should remain under court supervision in a secure mental facility. The supervision could last for up to 10 years — the maximum prison sentence Mr. House could have received had he been convicted of attempted murder.
Mr. House was charged with attempted murder in December after he was accused of stabbing three women in separate attacks near his home in Roselawn. Two of the charges were later dropped after the victims could not identify Mr. House as their attacker.
Over-the-Rhine sweep yields drugs, weapons
A drug sweep Thursday night in Over-the-Rhine led to 105 arrests or citations in response to complaints about crime in the neighborhood.
About 30 officers covered the area, making arrests for such things as marijuana possession and carrying concealed weapons.
Officers seized 154 grams of marijuana, 13.9 grams of crack cocaine and $4,076 cash.
Police also arrested seven people facing sealed indictments on drug trafficking charges: Cincinnatians Robert Corbin, 20; Arthur Cousins, 30; Dwayne Cunningham, 22; Marlan Howard, 22; Joseph Kennedy, 28; Gillespie McPherson, 18; and Treymane Watson, 28.
Police: Woman cooking drugs before nephews
Cincinnati police vice squad and SWAT officers serving a search warrant Thursday night ended up arresting an Over-the-Rhine woman they say was cooking crack cocaine in front of her two nephews.
Katasha Reid, 21, faces charges including two felony counts of child endangering. Her nephews are 12 and 13 years old.
Ms. Reid is being held at the Hamilton County Justice Center awaiting a grand jury hearing.
6 percent tuition rise hits OSU students
PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio — Ohio State University trustees voted Friday to raise tuition on the Columbus campus by 6 percent, the maximum allowed by the state Legislature.
An undergraduate student from Ohio will pay $4,110 in tuition for the 1999-2000 school year, the university said. The total cost for a resident undergraduate to attend Ohio State and live in university housing for the year will increase $527 to $10,856 from $10,329.
The vote did not increase tuition on Ohio State's regional campuses.
Trustees met at F.T. Stone Laboratory on Gibraltar Island in Lake Erie, where students conduct research in aquatic ecology
Court indicts mother in endangerment case
LANCASTER, Ohio — A woman accused of starving her disabled daughter so severely that the 4-year-old weighed just 15 pounds has been indicted, authorities said.
Renee Bunthoff, 26, of Lancaster, was indicted on Thursday on charges of child endangering and failing to care for a functionally impaired person, the Fairfield County Prosecutor's Office said.
If convicted of both charges, she faces up to six and a half years in prison and a fine of $15,000.
Ms. Bunthoff either didn't feed her daughter Britney for several weeks or fed her just enough to allow her to survive, police said.
Ms. Bunthoff said she followed her doctor's orders.
Britney has cerebral palsy and cannot speak or walk. The girl had lost one-third of her body weight between the time of her last checkup Dec. 8 and June 20, when she was taken to Fairfield Medical Center in Lancaster, about 30 miles southeast of Columbus.
Britney was released from the hospital last weekend to Fairfield County Children Services.
Holiday closings
• Postal Service: No delivery, Monday. There will be Express Mail delivery, and collection from blue boxes; collection times are listed on the boxes.
• Schools: Closed on Monday.
• Library: The main library and all branches of the public library will be closed Sunday and Monday.
• Banks: Fifth Third Bank branches and banking centers in Kroger stores, regular hours on Sunday, closed on Monday; banking center at the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport will be open Sunday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Monday, from 2 to 7 p.m. at Concourse B, Terminal 3; Provident Bank branches and banking centers in Thriftway Stores, open regular hours on Sunday, closed Monday; Telebank 24-hour banking service will be open. Firstar Bank branches are closed, Monday; all in-store banking centers open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Trash collection: Trash collection is moved back one day for the entire week except for customers of Rumpke and BFI, which are on normal collection schedules.
• Metro: Holiday schedule and fares for Sunday and Monday.
• Parking meters: Coins required.
• Courts: Closed Monday.
• Government offices: Federal, state, county and city offices are closed Monday.
25th reunion: Time to take stock
Bell gets ringing welcome
Jailed mother barred from nursing
Aquarium loses animals
Police targeting litterers
Sweltering forecast triggers smog alert
Judge says: Don't tread on me
Big spender arrested with others' credit cards
Radioactive train load worries Indianans
The Fourth grows as a highway holiday
Boone County festival aims for more robust Taste
Cleves' fireworks moved to Monday
GET TO IT
Airstream owners trade tales of the open road
27 acres stay in Deerfield Twp.
Airport seeks options, partners to fund projects
Basketball scandal hits ex-official
Building boom changes city face
Clock fund raising on time
Commercial building booms in Middletown
Grants to slow sewage overflow
Hazard putting on a show, but president is headliner
Husband arraigned in killing
Lebanon profits from Internet, cable venture
Man arrested in shooting of teen
Man sues city, 2 officers in Feb. shooting
Mary Brogan, teacher, wife and cancer activist, left mark
Middle-schoolers 'Earn and Learn' at summer program
State to maintain insurance checks
Teacher gets settlement but no apology
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Warren Co. police linked through computer network
Wilder tries to fund fire update
