SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP — One man was killed and another was injured early Monday after a passenger car rear-ended a stopped Rumpke truck in the 9900 block of Hamilton Avenue.

        Springfield Township police said a man driving a 1995 Saturn was northbound on Hamilton Avenue when he struck a Rumpke recycling truck shortly before 5 a.m. The truck was stopped on Hamilton Avenue near the Burlington Road intersection.

        The man, pronounced dead at the scene, was identified as Charles Allen Williams, 31, of Roselawn.

        Rumpke spokeswoman Chrysta Bolinger said the Rumpke driver, Robert Weaver, 38, of St. Bernard, had just finished dumping recyclables into the bed of the truck when his truck was struck. The force propelled the truck forward, hitting Mr. Weaver.

        Springfield Township's emergency medical squad took Mr. Weaver to Good Samaritan Hospital with cuts and bruises; he was treated and released.
       

Middletown sues in land dispute

               LEBANON — Middletown and a property owner are suing to get land for a larger Bishop Fenwick High School annexed into the city.

        The appeal of Warren County commissioners' Oct. 9 annexation denial was filed Fridayin Common Pleas Court.

        Fenwick alumnus Bill Akers and his company, Fifth Duet, own 97 acres in Franklin Township, adjacent to Middletown. Two-thirds of the site has been offered to the Archdiocese of Cincinnati for the school, but plans for the rest of the land have not been divulged.

        The commissioners rejected the one-owner annexation after more than 100 township residents turned out at two public hearings to voice concerns about Middletown moving farther into their neighborhood.
       

Murder trial rescheduled

               HAMILTON — A Butler County murder retrial, which had been set to begin Monday, has been rescheduled.

        Randy Young, 38, is accused in the 1999 slaying of Tammy Esther McClellan, 36, whose body was found in Hamilton's Crawford Woods Park. The county coroner's office ruled she died from the combined effects of cocaine use and a physical attack.

        Mr. Young's August trial ended with a hung jury. The retrial had to be reset because a detective in the case developed a medical problem requiring surgery, authorities said.

        The new date is Jan. 14 before Judge Keith Spaeth.
       

Police seek robbers of Northside man

               Police are searching for three people who robbed a Northside man Friday, then left him in the trunk of a car after joyriding.

        Investigators say a man called 911 after he heard calls for help coming from the trunk of a black Nissan Maxima early Saturday in the 4800 block of Hamilton Avenue.

        Leonard Hadnot, 36, told police he was leaving a bank in the 7600 block of Reading Road on Friday when an unknown man walked up to him and asked for change for a $10 bill.

        The man robbed him, then forced Mr. Hadnot to get in the back of the car and later put him in the trunk. Eventually the man and two others parked the car on Hamilton Avenue.

        Police say Mr. Hadnot was nauseated from inhaling gas fumes but refused medical treatment.
       

Man with 18 DUIs faces 19th charge

               LEBANON — A Dayton man with 18 drunken driving convictions dating to 1979 has been indicted by a Warren County grand jury on his 19th DUI charge.

        Curtis Sears, 43, was indicted on the felony DUI charge after Warren County sheriff's deputies pulled him over on Stubbs-Mill Road in Lebanon Sept. 20.

        “He could get five years in prison this time,” Warren County Prosecutor Tim Oliver said.

        The indictments were handed up Friday and released Monday.

        Other indictments include:

        • Randy King, 23, of Georgetown, Ohio, on aggravated vehicular homicide and aggravated vehicular assault, both felonies, in connection with a Sept. 7 four-car crash on Interstate 75 in Monroe that killed one man, James Forrest, 55, of Huber Heights, and injured another.
       

Lectures to discuss Dead Sea Scrolls

               A new look at the Dead Sea Scrolls will be offered at the University of Cincinnati's free, public Lichter Lecture Series in 112 Lindner Hall on Martin Luther King Drive.

        Today, Bruce Zuckerman, associate professor of religion at the University of Southern California, will give a slide lecture on “Photographing the Dead Sea Scrolls: New Technologies Reveal Ancient Jewish Texts.” He uses computer imaging.

        Nov. 6, Albert J. Baumgarten, professor of Jewish history at Israel's Bar Ilan University, will address “The Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Jewish Sectarianism: A Social Scientific Perspective.” He studies modern sects and cults to understand the community that wrote the scrolls.

        Finally, on Nov. 13, Lawrence H. Schiffman, professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University, will speak on “The Inner Life of the Dead Sea Scrolls Community: What Do the Scrolls Reveal?”

        All start at 7:30 p.m.
       

Killer asks court to reconsider appeal

               WASHINGTON — A man sentenced to die in Ohio for a 1984 Midwest killing spree wants the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its decision not to hear his appeal.

        Alton Coleman, 45, of Waukegan, Ill., faces death sentences in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois for murders committed in a seven-week series of killings.

        He received two death sentences in Ohio but one was thrown out when the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that Mr. Coleman's attorneys didn't adequately represent him in a 1985 trial. The court, however, upheld Mr. Coleman's aggravated murder conviction for killing Tonnie Storey, 15, of Cincinnati.

        That ruling followed a decision by the same court that upheld Mr. Coleman's death sentence for the beating death of Marlene Walters, 44, of Norwood.

        Mr. Coleman's attorneys appealed the Walters ruling to the high court.

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