Wednesday, January 12, 2000
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2 money institutions robbed in Fairfield FAIRFIELD - A bank and a check-cashing store were held up less than 20 minutes apart Tuesday, but police say the robberies were probably not related.
The Firstar at 563 Patterson Blvd. was robbed at 2:48 p.m. by a white man in his mid-20s with a silver handgun, said Fairfield Lt. Ken Colburn. The man was thin and wore a dark coat, jeans and a ball cap, and covered his face with a paper plate.
At 3:07 p.m., the Check Smart on Dixie Highway — about 5 or 6 miles away — was held up by a man with a silver handgun. He was described as black, 6-foot-3 and wearing blue sweat pants and sweat shirt. He escaped into woods behind the business.
No information was available Tuesday on the amounts taken in either robbery.
N. College Hill man arrested in rape case
A 48-year-old North College Hill man was being held in the Hamilton County Justice center Tuesday on $50,000 bond following his arrest in the abduction and sexual assault of a woman.
The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office on Monday arrested Henry B. O'Hara of the 7000 block of Hamilton Avenue and charged him with rape. A man abducted a woman from the parking lot of a furniture store in the 9800 block of Colerain Avenue in Colerain Township at 12:50 p.m. Dec. 27, the sheriff's office said.
The man drove the woman to Ronald Reagan Highway at Colerain Avenue, where he sexually assaulted her, the sheriff's office said. The victim was returned to the parking lot where she was abducted before the man fled.
26 recruits begin police training class
The 26 members of Cincinnati Police Division's 89th police recruit class started training Monday.
The 20 men and six women will be the first to attend a 23-week program at the Cincinnati Police Academy. The academy increased the program by one week to incorporate more scenario training and state training requirements.
For those who make it through the physical and mental training, class graduation is scheduled June 16.
79-year-old woman dies from fire injuries
A 79-year-old Price Hill woman, in critical condition since Nov. 28 after she escaped from a house fire that killed her husband, died Tuesday.
Josephine Johnson of the 1000 block of Seton Avenue died in University Hospital, a nursing supervisor said. Mrs. Johnson suffered burns and broken legs after she jumped from a second-floor window of her home.
Her husband, 80-year-old James Johnson, died in the two-alarm blaze that fire officials said was caused by a 50-foot extention cord stretched from the basement to the second floor under a hallway rug.
UC cultural center to pay King tribute
Jahi Edwards, the student body president at the University of Cincinnati, will be keynote speaker 7 p.m. today at the African-American Cultural and Research Center's celebration of Martin Luther King Day.
“A Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.: A Testament of Hope” will also include student skits on the civil rights movement, poetry readings, a performance by the cultural center choir and an excerpt from the civil rights movement video series Eyes on the Prize. UC Vice President Mitchel Livingstone will give introductory remarks.
The cultural center is inside the Sanders Complex on Jefferson Avenue.
Mayor wants study of bystander's beating
CLEVELAND — The mayor asked the federal government Tuesday to investigate the case of a bystander who was beaten by police during a drug raid that was captured on videotape.
Mayor Michael R. White said he was upset with a judge's decision to dismiss charges against police detectives Kelvin Barrow and John Anderson. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Kenneth Callahan agreed Monday with defense attorneys that prosecutors failed to prove the detectives had done anything other than what their jobs required.
Mr. White asked U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno to conduct an independent investigation into the June beating.
Columbus FOP likes civil rights ruling
COLUMBUS — The Justice Department's decision to permit some police union involvement in a federal civil rights lawsuit is a partial victory for the Fraternal Order of Police, its local president said Tuesday.
The FOP, which represents 1,700 police officers in the city, wanted to join the suit as a defendant.
The city and the Justice Department rejected that request, but permitted FOP participation in matters related to the union's contract with the city.
The suit, filed Oct. 21, accuses the city's police division of brutality and other civil rights violations.
High winds topple tree that kills man in Troy
TROY, Ohio — A man was struck and killed by a tree that fell over in high winds.
John Webb, 57, was walking into his house south of Troy when the tree toppled Monday, the Miami County sheriff's office said Tuesday. Troy is about 20 miles north of Dayton.
The National Weather Service had reported wind gusts of up to 51 mph at Dayton International Airport.
FWW bridge needs a redo
It's politics as usual in county race
Golfers, skiers enjoy wacky weather
Race agency defends work
St. Vincent DePaul stops special shopping
Toxic emissions down 8%
Last magnet scramble Feb. 5
Maccabi Games to attract 2,500 to Tristate in August
Penguin eggs surprise aquarium
Rumpke rewards county for cracking crime
Screening TV for kids
One family's rules for kids' 'screen time'
Two firms accused of holding checks
Woman may be second homicide
Auditor doesn't trust prosecutor to be her counsel
Fatal blaze caused by coffee maker or circuit
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Hot Summer Nights forms 'Chorus Line'
Loveland grad bases TV series set on her old school
Annexation plan dissected
Blaze routs 10 families
City OKs loans for renovations
City could sell downtown lot
Forest Park looks to reel 'em in
Kenton surplus may help boost bailiffs
Mall planners push zone change
Mid-Miami vote likely a welcome for Lebanon
OSHA studying fallen wall
Time up for children's board to quit or be fired
Tornado relief streamlined
Training chases many EMTs
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