Prayer service is today at City Hall

        Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy and Councilman Paul Booth are sponsoring a community “See You At The Pole” prayer service at noon today outside Cincinnati City Hall, 801 Plum St.

        Mr. Booth, an academy board member, recommended that because of recent events in the city, the school extend the national prayer event to the public. That was even before the terrorist attacks Sept. 11.

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        “Now it's even more appropriate that we pray for our students and our schools,” Mr. Booth said. “We will also pray for healing and reconciliation in our city and for peace and resolution to conflict for our nation.”

        A choir from the school's Otto Armleder campus in Over-the-Rhine will sing. Local religious leaders will offer prayers.

        In case of rain, the event will be held in council chambers.

        Other students across the Tristate will sponsor their own prayer services at the flagpoles outside their schools this morning.

        The national prayer event began with Texas students in 1990 and has spread nationwide.
       

Madisonville killing yields third arrest

        A third man — Michael T. Peterson, 19, of Dayton, Ohio — has been arrested in the shooting death of Timothy Powell, 18, of Madisonville.

        He is at the Hamilton County Justice Center, facing aggravated murder and aggravated robbery charges. Douglas Pittman, 18, also of Dayton, and Anthony L. Stephens, 18, of Trotwood, Ohio, face similar charges. in the death.

        Police said Mr. Powell was shot at 3:05 a.m. Monday in the 5700 block of Roe Street in Madisonville. He was taken to University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

        Those wanting to leave an anonymous tip can call the Cincinnati Police Division's homicide unit, 352-3542, or Crime Stoppers, 352-3040.
       

Woman sues city, citing police searches

        A Cincinnati woman claimed in a lawsuit Tuesday that police officers ransacked her apartment twice looking for a murder suspect who did not live there.

        Mary Watkins, of Forest Avenue in Avondale, sued the city for $500,000 in U.S. District Court.

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        She claims the officers barged into her apartment March 9, even though she repeatedly told them she was not related to the suspect — Joe Watkins — and did not know him.

        The lawsuit claims police officers, with guns drawn, over- turned furniture and went through her belongings while she and her two children watched.

        Three days later, the lawsuit claims, different officers came to her home and repeated the search. Apparently, they were unaware the first group already had searched the apartment.

        Ms. Watkins' lawsuit claims the searches violated her constitutional rights and caused emotional distress, humiliation and degradation.
       

Man listed as serious after being shot

        A 26-year-old man was in serious condition Tuesday afternoon at University Hospital after being shot outside a building in the 1900 block of Elm Street at 3 a.m.

        No arrests have been made in the shooting of Linville Holloway. Cincinnati police were searching for a white Cadillac that sped from the Over-the-Rhine shooting scene.

        Mr. Holloway, whose last known address was in South Fairmount, suffered wounds to the back and right chest, said Capt. Greg Snider, commander of District 1.

        Officers recovered one gun from the scene, he said.
       

Man held in robbery of West Chester inn

        A Cleveland man was arrested Tuesday in connection with the Aug. 12 armed robbery at the Knight's Inn on Cincinnati-Dayton Road in West Chester Township.

        Richard R. Johnson, 36, is in the Cuyahoga County Jail in Cleveland. In the West Chester case, he is charged with aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony. He also faces robbery charges in Cleveland and Cincinnati.

        An arrest warrant has also been issued for a second suspect in connection with the West Chester robbery.
       

Social Security meeting Friday is off

        A public hearing that had been scheduled for Friday on the future of Social Security has been canceled.

        The hearing was scheduled in Cincinnati by the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security.
       

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