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MALLORY WON'T CHALLENGE CHABOT
State Sen. Mark Mallory, D-Cincinnati, ended speculation that he would take on U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot in the 1st Congressional District next year.
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Local Headlines for Thursday, Sept. 16, 1999
Laura Pulfer column
What can we do about big, fat emergency?
I have my fingers crossed again. I hate to get my hopes up, though. I've been disappointed too many times.
Sen. Finan critical of consultants
COLUMBUS — Ohio has no business studying new ways to fund public schools while the state's lawyers defend the current system in court, Senate President Richard Finan said Wednesday.
Teens meet at dawn to pray
With a school flagpole as their steeple and a grassy area their church, students focused on heaven at dawn Wednesday.
Council grants OK to get loud, weird
Never let anyone tell you Cincinnati City Council doesn't know how to party. By unanimous vote, council suspended the city's noise ordinance so Weird Al Yankovich and Rick Hubbard, “the King of Kazoos,” can lead the “world's largest chicken dance and kazoo band” at 6 p.m. Saturday as part of Oktoberfest-Zinzinnati.
Mason tightens car-stereo law
MASON — Motorists who crank up the volume on their car stereos during the day might have to cough up over $100 in fines.
Jim Knippenberg column
Heavy hitters stake out new Jeff Ruby's
One thing about Jeff Ruby: He doesn't throw parties. He throws PARTIES.
John Kiesewetter column
'Action' funny but might offend
If you were offended by Fox's Get Real, when the 16-year-old slept with his girlfriend at home, I can't wait for your reaction to Action, which premieres today with two episodes (9 and 9:30 p.m., Channels 19, 45).
Day of dancing dreams
Months before little girls in green velvet dresses and little boys in starched white shirts scrunch into Music Hall seats to watch the traditional Nutcracker, another tradition occurs.
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Karen Samples column
Book fights evolution with dull mush
It's too bad Refuting Evolution is such a convoluted book. After a couple of hours, my head was swimming like ambulocetus in a 50-million-year-old ocean.
Patrick Crowley column
Campbell coroner shows he's for real
During last year's Campbell County coroner's race, Fort Thomas Republican Mark Schweitzer, a chiropractor, took some heat about his experience.
Bauer loses campaign head to Forbes
WASHINGTON — The chairman of Gary Bauer's presidential campaign defected Wednesday to Steve Forbes' team, giving the millionaire publisher a public relations victory in the battle to emerge as the leading conservative in the 2000 race.
Candidate told to drop 'CPA'
ALEXANDRIA — State officials are questioning the credentials and campaign tactics of Kevin Gordon, a Republican candidate for Campbell County property value administrator.
Chabot urges limit on DNA storage
WASHINGTON — Big Brother is at it again, this time wanting to store as many samples of DNA as it can get its hands on, Rep. Steve Chabot fears.
City extends daytime curfew for school kids
School-aged kids who get suspended or expelled from school better keep off the streets of Cincinnati.
Corryville's loss turns into gain
What looked like bad luck for Corryville four years ago, when the University of Cincinnati bought the site of its recreation center and playfields, has turned into good luck.
Crucial new signal to take months
TRENTON — Adding a stoplight at Wayne-Madison Road and Ohio 73 is in the works, but officials warn it likely will be next summer before the $600,000 job is finished.
Delhi to set aside funds for emergency radios
DELHI TOWNSHIP — The board of trustees here will set aside $33,000 each quarter for the next three years to pay for sophisticated radios to tie into a new county radio system for emergency communications.
Democrats' dinner features ex-Gov. Gilligan
HAMILTON — Former Ohio Gov. John J. Gilligan will be the featured speaker Friday at the annual Butler County Democratic Party Truman-Kennedy Dinner.
District split tests Monroe
Tuesday, the state board agreed to put the issue on the March primary ballot to be decided by the residents who live within the boundaries of the proposed district. It is the first time the state board ever voted to allow a deconsolidation issue to be put to a vote of the people.
Eight kids taken from bug-infested house
Dozens of roaches crawled across the red carpet in the living room of a Price Hill home Wednesday afternoon, moving around like jumping beans.
Female Marine pilot tells girls: Dream big
FORT THOMAS — The woman in a military jump suit stood before the classroom. It hadn't been so long ago that she was like the students to whom she was about to speak — girls in Catholic school uniforms, wondering what they might become when they grow up.
Land conservancy forms in county
A group of Hamilton County residents, weary of fighting officials over plans for their land, have decided to take it into their own hands.
Landslide-closed road may open today
PARK HILLS — Four months after a landslide closed it, a section of Montague Road near the Devou Park entrance should reopen today,city officials said.
New details surface on uranium in Ohio
Documents gathered by the organization Uranium Enrichment Project include a 1993 Department of Energy (DOE) report describing plutonium contamination at an unused building in the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant complex.
Residents air gripes about Boone plan
BURLINGTON — The highly controversial proposal to explore an urban service boundary for Boone County got another public airing Wednesday night.
Sewer workers find 20-pound reptile
Metropolitan Sewer District workers made a surprising discovery while inspecting equipment along the Mill Creek: a 3-foot caiman, which resembles an alligator.
Steelers fan dogged in pro-Browns school
NORWALK, Ohio — School officials have apologized to a boy who was forced to sit in a corner for wearing a Pittsburgh Steelers black-and-gold jersey on his school's Cleveland Browns spirit day.
TRISTATE DIGEST
His church has set up a 24-hour prayer vigil until he is found, and Cincinnati police are renewing a request for information about his whereabouts.
Village to check on its seniors
WOODLAWN — Elderly folks who'd like someone to check on them can soon get a daily phone call from the village asking, “Are you OK?”
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FALL ARTS PREVIEW
Check our big, big list of fall concerts, art exhibits, movies, and more.
Riverfest photo gallery
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Manatees star in new Zoo exhibit
Douglas and Stoneman have no way of knowing it, but there's a lot riding on their broadly sloped shoulders. The two manatees are the unlikely stars of the new $4 million Manatee Springs exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.
• The exhibit: Manatees, crocs and more
Tristate's Goin' Fishin'
Oceanic Adventure's Newport Aquarium is open. Check out our guide to the Tristate's newest entertainment attraction.
Tornado of '99
Complete coverage of the April 9 tornado that claimed four lives and left hundreds homeless.
Focal Point
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Click through 60 images from the past year.
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