Saturday, October 02, 1999
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Man accused in stabbing incident
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP — A Franklin Township man was arrested Thursday after police said he stabbed 48-year-old Leonard McDaniels several times with a knife.
Warren County sheriff's deputies charged John David Griffin, 35, of Franklin Township, with felonious assault. According to a sheriff's report, deputies responded to 7409 Mentz Road about 3:43 p.m. on the report of a stabbing.
Upon arrival, deputies found Mr. McDaniels with knife cuts to both arms and the abdomen.
Mr. McDaniels was taken to Middletown Regional Hospital, where he was treated and released.
No further information was available. The investigation continued Friday.
Portman blows horn for Tall Stacks legacy
WASHINGTON — Cincinnati's 1999 Tall Stacks celebration has been nominated for inclusion in a Library of Congress commemoration of local cultural legacies, Rep. Rob Portman's office announced Friday.
Mr. Portman, R-Terrace Park, said he has called on the library to include the event in its national “Local Legacies” project, designed to document the nation's varied cultural heritage.
Tall Stacks, a celebration of the steamboat era along the Ohio River, is Oct. 13-17.
“The Tall Stacks 1999 celebration is the perfect example of Cincinnati's rich history and tradition,” Mr. Portman said in a statement. “This event is an ideal subject to be preserved for future generations as part of the Local Legacies project.”
Rain ends fire alert for county park district
The Hamilton County Park District lifted its forest fire alert Friday, clearing the way for unfettered cookouts and campfires.
Underbrush and foliage, dry and flammable after months of drought, received a good soaking during Wednesday rainfall. There is no longer an imminent threat of a brush fire, said Capt. Gary Hoffman of the park rangers.
The park district had issued the alert, its first in 11 years, on Sept. 27. Signs were posted warning park visitors to take extra precautions when building and using fires.
Firefighter arrested in domestic violence case
Cincinnati firefighter Michael Zimmerman was arrested late Thursday on a domestic violence charge after his wife said he hit her.
Linda Zimmerman, 38, was given a temporary restraining order after she alleged that on Sunday, her husband hit her and threw her to the floor, according to an affidavit. The couple lives in Mount Healthy.
Mrs. Zimmerman received bruises and cuts on both arms, but refused to be treated. She told police she scratched her husband on his neck. Mr. Zimmerman is 42.
Mr. Zimmerman's arraignment in Hamilton County Municipal Court was continued to Oct. 15 at 9 a.m.
Drug sweep of housing nabs 18 suspects
A drug sweep through Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority complexes in the West End Friday nabbed 18 suspects.
In cooperation with the housing authority, city police concentrated on the Lincoln Court and Laurel Homes apartments. Officers confiscated 57.69 grams of marijuana and 7.03 grams of crack cocaine, police said.
During the drug sweep, 18 people were either arrested or cited by officers. Those arrested faces charges ranging from trafficking in drugs to minor alcohol violations, police said.
City closer to full funding for ramp
The city of Cincinnati is $858,000 closer to having the money it needs to pay for a $5.2 million ramp on Fort Washington Way. But the city still needs another $859,000 for construction to start on the ramp next month.
The Transportation Review Advisory Council (TRAC) members voted 5-3 Friday to award the emergency funding.
The city and Hamilton County are paying for two-thirds of the new ramp's cost. The ramp will connect traffic on the new Second Street with Broadway, providing access to Newport and Cincinnati's southeast quadrant, which contains Western-Southern Life Insurance Co. and the Firstar Center.
Now, Levee Way connects commuters from Northern Kentucky and Interstate 75 with the eastern part of downtown Cincinnati. But the temporary road that's part of Fort Washington Way construction needs to come down so the Reds ballpark can be built. When original Fort Washington Way plans were made, the Reds ballpark site wasn't chosen and existing roads could have been used for the access. A straighter and narrower Fort Washington Way is scheduled to open in August 2000.
Encephalitis strain kills Ohio boy, 13
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A 13-year-old boy with La Cross encephalitis died Friday, the seventh person to die of the virus in Ohio since the state began keeping track in 1963, according to a state health official.
Randy Kincaid Jr., of Thurston, died at 12:10 a.m. Friday at Children's Hospital. He came to the hospital Sept. 17 from Fairfield Medical Center in Lancaster, southeast of Columbus.
State Health Department spokesman Randy Hertzer said there have been 862 documented cases of La Cross encephalitis since 1963, including nine this year. The average victims' age was 8.
The treehole mosquito transmits the virus, which causes inflammation of the brain. Symptoms include headache, nausea, stiff neck and seizures, and usually occur within five to 15 days of infection.
The illness is seldom fatal, but there is no treatment.
County picks spot for new Toledo ballpark
TOLEDO, Ohio — The county has secured land near the downtown convention center for what may be the site of a new ballpark for the Toledo Mud Hens.
The site for the minor league baseball stadium has not been selected, but local officials have hinted the ballpark will be built near the SeaGate Centre and the area known as the Warehouse District.
Lucas County Commissioners on Thursday agreed to spend $106,500 to buy the property rights to an area covering a city block. It will cost the county $4.5 million to buy the properties.
Political infighting and disagreements about where the ballpark would be built threatened to derail the project until the Lucas County commissioners hired the developer of Cleveland's Jacobs Field and Gund Arena to take charge of the Mud Hens' proposed stadium.
Physicians' group opens new specialty offices UC Physicians, a large medical group affiliated with the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, has announced new locations for two specialty services.
The University Rehabilitation Center for Occupational Health will add an office at 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 3400. This is in addition to its services at Drake Center.
The group's Pulmonary Function and Respirator Fitting Lab also will move to 222 Piedmont Ave., to Suite 3600.
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Ivo Pogorelich phones it in - from Mars
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Church celebrates 75th anniversary
Fired Ky. police boss sues to get his job back
No retrial for man who fled with girl
Officer indicted on burglary charges
River center is classroom in outdoors
Separated for years, siblings united at last
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Transport officials plead cases
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