Wednesday, March 15, 2000
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p8 Mason schools hire business director
A suburban Columbus schools administrator was hired Tuesday as business director at Mason City School District.
At its Tuesday meeting, the Mason school board hired Michael Brannon from Hilliard schools, where he was director of business affairs. Hilliard is a fast-growing suburb near Columbus.
At Mason, Mr. Brannon will be responsible for administering the support services of the district, including buildings, transportation, food and furnishings. These duties have been divided between the district treasurer and operations director.
Collinsworth, Bench in charity golf tourney
Sports celebrities Cris Collinsworth and Johnny Bench will join several business leaders today to announce a charity golf tournament to benefit Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Leading sponsors of the tournament include the Cris Collinsworth Foundation, Fifth Third Bank and WXIX-TV (Channel 19). Additional details, including the tourney date, will be announced today.
Two masked men rob Lockland credit union
LOCKLAND — Police are investigating a robbery Tuesday morning at the Cincinnati Central Credit Union's Lockland Center, 1 Safe Lane.
Around 9:10 a.m., two men entered the credit union wearing masks, Detective Todd Ober said. No customers were in the building. The two tellers who were working saw the men coming and locked themselves in a bathroom. The men left with an undetermined amount of cash.
Franklin likely to OK car-truck plaza plan
FRANKLIN — The Ohio 123 and Interstate 75 interchange could be the site of a third car-and-truck plaza if the city's planning commission approves a site plan as expected.
Plans for the restaurant and car/truck fueling center likely will come before the planning commission at a special meeting within a month, said Don Woods, the city's chief building official. The commission this week tabled the site plan while awaiting information on drainage concerns.
The 7,200-square-foot facility would be built on an 11-acre parcel on Ohio 123 east of I-75, where the Royal Inn is now.
The plaza, which will feature a sit-down restaurant, a deli and fueling stations, could be ready by the end of the year.
“They pride themselves more on separating the family travelers from the professional drivers,” Mr. Woods said. “It provides amenities for the professional driver.”
Project officials could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
Lab technicians protest Air Force bid program
DAYTON, Ohio — About 20 lab technicians demonstrated Tuesday outside Wright-Patterson Air Force Base against a program that requires employees to bid for work against private contractors.
The civilian workers have tentatively lost their contract and fear they will lose their jobs.
Tom Robinson, president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 1138, said the Air Force has decided to “prematurely eliminate” the jobs of 120 lab technicians.
The technicians work at the Air Force Research Laboratory, setting up and operating equipment to test engines and other systems.
Demjanjuk seeks $5 million from U.S.
CLEVELAND — John Demjanjuk, again battling a Justice Department attempt to revoke his citizenship, said in a counterclaim that the government's case dating to the late 1970s is “torture.”
Lawyer Jane Blanksteen Tigar filed the counterclaim Friday in U.S. District Court for Mr. Demjanjuk, 79. It seeks at least $5 million in damages from the Justice Department.
The government argues Mr. Demjanjuk's citizenship, revoked in 1981 and restored in 1998, should be revoked again because he failed to disclose a past as a guard at Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
Mr. Demjanjuk first lost his citizenship when a federal judge in Cleveland ruled Mr. Demjanjuk was “Ivan the Terrible,” the guard who ran the gas chambers at the Treblinka death camp in Poland.
In Israel, he was sentenced to death until the Israeli Supreme Court in 1993 ruled that someone else was “Ivan the Terrible.”
Court upholds award in sexual-hostility case
A federal appeals court in Cincinnati has upheld an award of $125,000 to an employee of the Ohio Department of Youth Services who says she was subjected to a sexually hostile work environment.
The woman was a juvenile corrections officer for six months at the Indian River School in Massillon, a maximum security institution for young, male lawbreakers.
Latana Slayton contended a male corrections officer undermined her authority with inmates, joined them in sexually provocative dances in her presence and encouraged them to expose themselves to her.
She said she complained to her supervisor, but nothing was done. A few months later she was fired for allegedly slapping an inmate.
A U.S. District Court jury in Akron rejected Ms. Slayton's claim that she was fired because of her sex.
But it found the department maintained a hostile work environment and awarded Ms. Slayton $125,000.
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Queen City's moments to shine reflected in book
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Butler plan calls for unity in youth-crime prevention
Cheerleaders go national
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