Monday, November 15, 1999
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Crash leaves 2 dead, 3 others injured
HAMERSVILLE — A Brown County woman and her father-in-law were killed Saturday in a three-vehicle crash on Ohio 125, the Ohio State Highway Patrol in Brown County said.
Tammy R. Scaggs, 24, of Georgetown and her father-in-law, Ronald Scaggs, 49, also of Georgetown, died. Both were wearing seat belts, state police said.
Tammy Scaggs was driving west on Ohio 125 at 12:05 p.m. when their car struck a vehicle driven by Henry C. Perkins, 78, of Bethel. Mr. Perkins was trying to cross westbound traffic to the entrance of the Friendly Meadows Golf Course. He suffered minor injuries, police said.
Both vehicles then struck a mail-delivery vehicle driven by Kenneth West, 50, of Hamersville. Mr. West was not injured.
Two passengers in the Scaggs vehicle, Mr. Scaggs' wife, Vivian, and a friend, Rebeca Mayhall, 25, were taken to hospitals for treatment.
Charges are pending while the investigation continues, the highway patrol said.
Car strikes, kills man on shoulder of I-71
TURTLECREEK TWP. — A 47-year-old man from Uzbekistan, the former Soviet republic in central Asia, was killed Saturday night when he was struck by a car on the berm of Interstate 71 near Ohio 123, the Ohio State Highway Patrol in Lebanon said Sunday.
Naimjon Hakimov and another man were traveling north at 9:22 p.m. when their car struck a deer. They got out of their vehicle, leaving it in the left lane, troopers said.
They were standing on the inside berm when another motorist swerved to avoid hitting their car and struck both men, police said. Mr. Hakimov's companion, Peter Hanus, 36, of Columbus, was listed in fair condition at Good Samaritan Hospital.
Authorities had no other information on Mr. Hakimov, who died at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton. The driver of the car, Marvin R. Mueller, 76, of Liberty Center, Ohio, and his wife, Margaret, were not injured. Both were wearing seat belts.
2 arrested in attack, robbery downtown
An 18-year-old West End man was charged with robbery of a man who told police he was attacked and robbed of his wallet Sunday morning on a downtown street, Cincinnati District 1 police said.
Joseph Brewer of the 900 block of Dayton Street was arrested at 2:51 a.m. Sunday on East Sixth Street, six minutes after the attack in the 800 block of Walnut Street.
The victim said he was attacked from behind by a group, choked and forced to the ground, where he was hit and ordered to hand over his wallet, police said.
A 15-year-old also was charged. His name was not available. Robbery is a second-degree felony.
One-car accident kills Miamisburg man
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP — A Miamisburg man was killed early Sunday in what police are calling a one-vehicle, alcohol-related crash.
Kim McNeal, 44, was driving alone westbound on Lower Springboro Road at 12:15 a.m. when his vehicle spun and struck a sign and two trees, the Ohio State Highway Patrol in Lebanon said.
Mr. McNeal was not wearing a seat belt, troopers said.
Police seeking man in rape attempt of girl
LOCKLAND — Police were searching Sunday for a man who attempted to rape a teen-ager in a wooded area behind an apartment complex.
The 15-year-old girl told police she was sitting in the wooded area near a creek behind the 500 block of West Williams Street about 1:55 p.m. when she was approached. The man tried to sexually assault her before fleeing, the teen told police.
She was not injured, police said.
Police described the man as black, 6-foot to 6-foot-2, and 200 to 225 pounds. He was wearing a black sweat shirt and red, silky wind pants.
100-year-old pilot may be nation's oldest
SOMERSET, Ohio — Ralph Charles, who turned 100 this week, has a way to keep his age from catching up with him: He gets behind the controls of his airplane.
“When I saw my first airplane, I thought it was like a magic carpet,” Mr. Charles said. “I still think of planes that way.”
Mr. Charles has been around airplanes long enough to have known Charles Lindbergh, piloted for Eleanor Roosevelt and occasionally seen Orville Wright at work.
About 300 people showed up Sunday to celebrate his centennial a day early at his Somerset home, about 39 miles east of Columbus. Fellow aviation buffs arrived in 13 planes and two helicopters, which flew in to a landing strip on the 23-acre site.
Mr. Charles had stopped flying in the 1940s at his late wife's request. But he bought a plane two years ago and received a student pilot's license from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) last year. Now he goes on joyrides and attends aviation events every week.
He's probably the nation's oldest student pilot, and perhaps its oldest licensed pilot of any kind. FAA spokesman Roland Herwig said that, as far as he can determine, the agency's oldest fully licensed pilots are both 96.
48 students are hurt when 2 buses collide
MANSFIELD, Ohio — Two school buses traveling home from a high school football tournament game collided Saturday night, injuring 48 students.
The students were treated and released from two hospitals.
The buses were traveling home with four others to the Columbus suburb of Pickerington.
The lead bus slowed to turn onto Interstate 71 from U.S. 30 and was hit from behind by the second bus, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said.
Investigators will inspect the buses today to determine whether there were mechanical problems.
Morgan County ready to honor judge's will
McCONNELSVILLE, Ohio — In an Appalachian community where unemployment and poverty are high, no one would have guessed that Carlos Riecker was a millionaire.
But the secret of the childless widower became public after his death April 2, 1990. The former judge had left most of his estate — $1.7 million — to Morgan County with one condition: Buy or build something for the good of the community in his name.
Commissioners have decided to renovate the 141-year-old county courthouse and turn the largest abandoned building on the main street into a community center.
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