A 29-year-old Price Hill woman was arrested Sunday after police say they found her 5- and 4-year-old sons running around unsupervised in a supermarket parking lot.

        Cincinnati police said they found the boys in the parking lot of the Price Hill IGA about 9 a.m. Sunday.

        Police said they located the boys' mother, Dawn Ramsey, an hour later, asleep in the family home nearby in the 3400 block of Warsaw Avenue. She was unaware the boys were gone, police said.

        Ms. Ramsey was charged with child endangerment, drug abuse and possession of drug paraphernalia.

West End man hurt
in two-car accident

               A West End man was seriously injured in a two-vehicle collision Saturday on Westwood Northern Boulevard in Westwood.

        Howard J. Bates, 45, was in critical condition late Sunday in University Hospital, police said. Police said Mr. Bates was driving east in the 1800 block of Westwood Northern when he lost control of his vehicle and struck a westbound vehicle driven by Shelley Berman, 35, of Harkness Street, North Fairmount.

        Ms. Berman was treated at Good Samaritan Hospital for minor injuries.
       

Bus worker accused
of stealing thousands

               COLUMBUS — A transit system employee has been fired and is accused of stealing more than $50,000 in cash from fare boxes he was supposed to be maintaining.

        Central Ohio Transit Authority officials said the man had been employed by the agency for nine years. He's not being identified because no charges have been filed against him.

        A police investigation of the thefts is nearly finished and will be sent to a Franklin County grand jury, county Prosecutor Ron O'Brien said.

        The man has agreed to forfeit his employee pension. Transit Authority spokesman Stu Nicholson said the amount of the pension was far less than $50,000.

        Revenue shortfalls and the man's confession indicate the total amount stolen to be between $50,000 and $100,000, Mr. Nicholson said.

Girl killed, 2 hurt
when train hits car

               DRY RIDGE, Ky. — A 5-year-old girl was killed and two others were injured when the car they were riding in was struck by a train in Harrison County, Kentucky State Police said.

        Stacey T. Northcutt of Cynthiana was pronounced dead at the scene Saturday night by an official with the Harrison County Coroner's office, state police said.

        Also injured in the crash about 8:50 p.m. was Charles W. Owens Jr., 56, and Sherry L. Crawford, 51, both of Cynthiana, state police said. Ms. Crawford was listed in fair condition at the University of Kentucky Hospital on Sunday. Mr. Owens was taken to Harrison Memorial Hospital with back and pelvic injuries, state police said.

        It is unclear what relationship the three were to each other, state police said.

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