Donation allows dental clinic to grow

        An undersized city dental clinic is expected to move to a bigger office in Avondale thanks to a $350,000 donation from the Procter & Gamble Co.

        The dental clinic at the Cincinnati Health Department headquarters, 3101 Burnet Ave., is expected to move to the Firstar Boys and Girls Club at 3504 Washington Ave. The Boys and Girls Club, rather than the city, will receive the grant.

        The move will allow the clinic to expand from four chairs to six and allow a portion of the day to be dedicated exclusively to dental care for children.

        The Cincinnati Board of Health approved the proposed move Tuesday. Tentative plans call for construction beginning before year's end, with work to be complete within six to eight months.
       

Madisonville man dies in one-car wreck

        A Madisonville man was killed Wednesday afternoon when his vehicle left the road and struck a utility pole on Madison Road in East Walnut Hills.

        Steven M. Latham, 18, of Arnsby Place was pronounced dead at the scene in the 1800 block of Madison Road, police said. The crash occurred at 1:44 p.m. when Mr. Latham failed to control his westbound vehicle and struck a utility pole on the right side of the road, according to officials.

        Excessive speed was a factor in the crash, police said.

Tip leads to arrest of man accused of rape

       Michael Bowman, accused of raping a woman Friday after she got off a bus, was arrested Wednesday morning in the 900 block of Race Street in Over-the-Rhine.

        Cincinnati police said someone saw Mr. Bowman sleeping on a bench and called Crime Stoppers.

        Mr. Bowman, 37, of the 3400 block of Woodburn Avenue in Evanston, is in the Hamilton County jail, where he faces charges of rape, robbery and kidnapping. No bond has been set.

        According to police, Mr. Bowman raped a woman early Friday after she got off a bus on Blair Avenue in Evanston. She said her attacker took her behind Walnut Hills High School, raped her and forced her to take off her leather jacket and two rings.

        The woman later picked Mr. Bowman out of a photo lineup.
       

Postal chalk leads to post office scare

        MASON — The Mason post office was shut down for about 90 minutes Wednesday morning after workers suspected a white powdery substance on a package from South Carolina might be anthrax.

        Police said the substance turned out to be chalk that postal workers use to mark large packages. The post office, on U.S. 42, was reopened shortly after 9 a.m.

Rosary procession aims to bring peace

        Greater Cincinnati families are invited to bring their rosaries and flags and walk for peace downtown from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday in the Tristate Rosary Procession.

        The event begins at parking lot D on Mehring Way and continues to St. Peter in Chains Cathedral at Eighth and Plum streets for closing benediction.

        The rosary procession is, in part, a response to Pope John Paul II's appeal that all individuals and communities pray the rosary for peace “so that the world will be preserved from the dreadful scourge of terrorism.”

Former boarder gives college $750K

       Chatfield College has received $750,000 from a woman who was a childhood boarder when it was the School of the Brown County Ursulines.

        Dr. Mary Lois Jung's gift endows the salary of the first full-time science teacher at the school in St. Martin. The college's largest gift, it creates Chatfield's first endowed chair.

        The gift honors Dr. Jung's late father, George H. Jung Jr., whose medical appliance firm created the family fortune.

        In the 1950s, Dr. Jung joined the Medical Mission Sisters and earned her medical degree. She served in Papua New Guinea, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

        Now in her mid-70s, she is retired and living on the East Coast.

        Chatfield is a private Catholic school offering a 2-year associate degree in liberal arts to residents of Appalachia on its main campus and mainly African-Americans at its North Fairmount campus in Cincinnati.

E. coli traced to contact with livestock

       TOLEDO — An E. coli outbreak at the Wyandot County Fair has been linked to visitors who touched livestock and then ate without washing their hands, according to a preliminary report.

        The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the 41 people who became sick likely had contact with cows and calves. CDC officials ruled out a food vendor or water source at the fairgrounds as being a source of the outbreak.

        The health department will work with fair operators and make recommendations on how to prevent another outbreak at the fairgrounds in Upper Sandusky.

        Portable hand sanitizers were placed near the livestock barns and food stands at the fair this year because of E. coli outbreaks at two other county fairs in Ohio in little more than a year.
       

Ohio school program gets new leader

        COLUMBUS — Gov. Bob Taft on Wednesday appointed Kelly Davids as the new director of the state OhioReads program.

        Ms. Davids, 42, will serve as the executive administrator of the program, which gives schools grants for reading materials and places volunteer reading tutors in schools throughout Ohio.

        She replaces Scott Ebbrecht, who left in July to become a school principal in suburban Columbus.

        OhioReads, Mr. Taft's top priority as governor, has given more than $125 million to more than 2,000 elementary schools around the state.

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