Monday, July 31, 2000
Local Digest
Parking affected by Cinergy work
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The eastern portion of the Cinergy Field parking garage will close permanently beginning Tuesday for the demolition of Cinergy Field Plaza.
The remaining two-thirds of the garage and plaza will only be available for monthly parking.
In addition, Lot 6, located just east of Cinergy Field near the Firstar Center, the eastern third of Cinergy Field garage and the eastern portion of the Cinergy Field Plaza will be closed beginning Tuesday.
During the demolition, about 5,000 parking spaces will be available on the riverfront, 2,000 of which are in the Cinergy Field Garage and plaza.
Parking is available in the new East Garage, just east of Cinergy Field next to Firstar Center, or in Lot D, west of Cinergy Field.
Man recovering from gunshot to head
A 24-year-old man was in serious condition Sunday night at University Hospital after being shot in the head during a dispute with his girlfriend, police said.
Stephen Kidd Jr. was at his mother's home in Colerain Township around 2 a.m. Sunday when he got into an argument with his girlfriend, said Mr. Kidd's father, Stephen Sr. of Groesbeck.
He said he didn't know the girlfriend's name; they had dated for less than a year.
Details about what happened also are sketchy, but the woman was stabbed in the back, the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office said, and Stephen Jr. was shot once.
The woman was listed in stable condition Sunday at University Hospital. Mr. Kidd was upgraded from critical to serious condition.
“He's responding,” the elder Mr. Kidd said.
No charges have been filed, police said.
Player's weight donated in soup
Cincinnati Bengals lineman Rod Jones will be “weighed-in” on a scale during training camp today at the Main Conference Area in Georgetown, Ky. as part of a soup company promotion that will donate food to the poor.
Campbell's Soup will donate 10 times Mr. Jones' weight in soup to a Cincinnati-area food bank after the 12:30 p.m. weigh-in, company officials said Sunday.
The company is taking part in a nationwide Tackling Hunger 2000 Program, which benefits community food banks nationwide.
UC fund-raiser surpasses goal
The Campaign for the University of Cincinnati has broken a five-year fund-raising goal, with a total of $328.9 million at its June 30 closing deadline — $28.9 million over this year's goal.
The campaign, launched in 1995, raises money for scholarships, facilities, academic programs and endowments to sup port the faculty.
In 1998, the campaign raised $160.8 million.
Big Darby Creek cleanup near finish
COLUMBUS — Environmental officials say a stretch of the Big Darby Creek where 24,000 fish were killed could be back to normal by Monday.
Fermented grain and molasses were spilled into the creek, stripping it of oxygen and suffocating fish and other aquatic life.
Oxygen levels are now rising in the creek between Milford Center and Unionville Center, about 12 miles north of Columbus, said Tracy Freeman, spokeswoman for the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
The reddish-brown sludge first showed up in the creek on July 20 after it had made its way there from Darby Creek Agricultural Enterprises through a storm sewer.
State officials traced the sludge to a store of fermented livestock feed at the plant.
Pumps were used last week to aerate the water. Some of those have been turned off, said Wes Drake, on-site coordinator of the Ohio EPA's emergency-response team.
But other pumps will continue to run until oxygen levels reach acceptable levels.
The sludge is not toxic to humans.
The owner of the company that caused the spill has worked with the EPA to help with the cleanup and has contributed more than $70,000 toward the effort, Mr. Drake said.
Woman gives birth under stolen name
CLEVELAND — A woman who gave birth last week fled a Cleveland hospital, leaving her newborn and the wrong identity behind.
The woman checked into MetroHealth Medical Center on July 24 as Pasha Cromwell, gave birth to a baby girl and ran away after going outside to smoke a cigarette.
But Pasha Cromwell was sleeping at her home in Collinwood, a neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland.
She smokes, but the 26-year-old nursing assistant and mother of four hasn't been pregnant in four years.
“I got this phone call on Wednesday asking me, "Where were you on Monday morning? You weren't delivering a baby?”' Ms. Cromwell told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “I just keep thinking, "How could you be so low, delivering her and then abandoning her, all using someone else's name?”'
The woman who fled the hospital used an old driver's license taken three years ago when Ms. Cromwell's purse was stolen, officials said.
The baby is in foster care, and officials are searching for the mother.
Ms. Cromwell said she went to MetroHealth, where she learned the name the woman gave the baby — Tyler Monique Cromwell. Monique is Ms. Cromwell's middle name.
On Friday, Ms. Cromwell received an unsolicited brochure in the mail about becoming a foster parent. She said her sister is considering becoming Tyler's foster mother.
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