Friday, July 16, 1999
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p8 Northside man arrested in shooting
A 23-year-old Northside man was arrested Thursday and charged in connection with the Saturdayshooting of a man on a Northside street.
Police charged Leblond C. Oliver, of 4200 block of Georgia Avenue, with complicity to attempted aggravated murder and tampering with evidence in the shooting of 46-year-old Kenneth Gaston. Mr. Gaston, no address available, remains in serious condition in University Hospital.
Police said the victim was shot about 11:50 p.m. in the 1700 block of Hanfield Street.
Mr. Oliver and three other suspects beat the victim, knocking him to the ground, police said. One of the other suspects then shot Mr. Gaston once in the head.
When Mr. Oliver was later arrested on an unrelated charge, he had a gun in his possession that police think was used to shoot Mr. Gaston, police said.
Man dies when tractor flips, catches on fire
BATH, Ind. — A 27-year-old Bath man was killed Thursday when a tractor flipped over on him and caught fire, police said.
Franklin County Police said John Christopher Haas of the 3000 block of Bath Road was pronounced dead at the scene following the early-morning accident. Mr. Haas was loading a tractor onto a truck near his residence when the ramp gave way and the tractor flipped over on top of him.
Gasoline leaking from the tractor ignited and burst into flames, police said.
Study: Spinal cord can heal faster than thought
An animal study reveals that damaged spinal cords have more ability to regenerate than previously thought, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
The researchers cut parts of the spinal cord in rats, then transplanted adult nerve cells into the damaged spinal cord beyond the injury site. The nerve fibers grew as fast as 1 millimeter a day, only to stop when reaching scar tissue at the injury site.
The findings imply that the key to restoring lost function after spinal cord injury is to eliminate the “molecular obstacles” caused by scar tissue, said co-authors Stephen Davies and Jerry Silver. Details from their study were published in the July 15 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
Former coach sentenced for part in nude photos
A former soccer coach was sentenced to one year in prison Wednesday for interfering with a police investigation by destroying photos of a nude 16-year-old girl.
Laszlo Bozso, a former assistant coach for the Xavier University women's team, was convicted last month of four counts of tampering with evidence.
Prosecutors say he cut up the photos and flushed them down a toilet when he learned police were investigating a friend, William Meister.
Mr. Meister, a convicted con man and Cincinnati's most famous ticket scalper, is accused of luring the girl into a sexual relationship after meeting her on the Internet in a chat room. He is scheduled for trial in August. Prosecutors say he took up to 60 photos of the girl in various states of nudity so he could later market them on a Web site. They say Mr. Meister, 37, even used a photo of the girl as a screen saver on his computer.
After sentencing Mr. Bozso, Common Pleas Judge Ann Marie Tracey said she would consider releasing Mr. Bozso before he serves the entire year of his sentence.
Mom's case continued in endangering charges
The case of a Newtown woman accused of washing her 15-year-old daughter with a wire brush in a bathtub with bleach was continued Thursday to July 29.
Rhonda Faye Ludlow, 33, of the 4100 block of Roundbottom Road is charged with endangering children. The alleged incident occurred in May at a house in the 3700 block of Carlton Avenue.
Fairfax police responded to a report of a child being beaten and found the girl crying, with multiple scratches on her shoulders and back. Mrs. Ludlow told officers she had used a wire brush to scrub her daughter's body and had put bleach in the bathwater.
The teen was treated at Children's Hospital Medical Center. Ms. Ludlow is free on bond.
Paint balls, BB shots menace residents
HAMILTON — Police are investigating two shootings with more unusual ammunition: paint balls and BBs.
Jim D. Fuhrman, 52, of Hamilton was driving along the 1600 block of Neilan Boulevard around 8:20 p.m. Tuesday when his 1995 Mazda Miata was hit by several paint balls, a police report says.
According to the report, Mr. Fuhrman was driving past a wooded area when he heard several objects hit his vehicle. He then noticed his windshield had been struck by a paint ball, and when he arrived home discovered that his windshield had actually been struck twice and the passenger's-side door had been struck once.
“The paint ball which struck the passenger side door missed going into the interior by several inches,” the report said.
In an unrelated incident, Joan S. Minges, 75, of Harrison suffered a puncture wound to the top of her head Tuesday afternoon as she played a round of golf at Potter's Park, 417 New London Road. An X-ray at Mercy Hospital Hamilton revealed a BB was lodged just under her scalp.
Ms. Minges told police that she had seen two boys near the fourth hole on the golf course, where she was apparently shot, but could not describe them.
Ms. Minges was treated and released.
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Heimlich: Schools, mailer no conflict
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Butler airport may get new name
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pianists to play here for gold
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Three sentenced in possession of stolen weapons traffic case
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