Suspect

        Teen-agers who hope someday to be police officers will try today to drum up clues to solve a brutal October stabbing.

        Members of the Cincinnati Police Division's Explorers Scout post will pass out fliers in Avondale in hopes of gleaning information that that will lead police to the man who stabbed a Children's Hospital Medical Center employee Oct. 3.

        The idea to use the teen-agers came in talks between the frustrated case investigator, Officer Kim Moreno, and Officer Greg Meadows, who works in Crime Stoppers and oversees the Explorers.

        “When you come to a dead end, you just have to think of something else,” Officer Moreno said. “We don't know who did this to her or why.”

        The victim, Helen Forrester, of Dent, still needs physical therapy, Officer Moreno said.

        She was stabbed repeatedly in the face, arm, back and chest in an attack police consider random.

        She was headed to work at a Children's facility on Vernon Place about 6 a.m. that day when the man jumped out at her.

        Officers and security personnel from Children's will go with the Explorers.

Police target illegal liquor sales

               MIAMI TOWNSHIP — The township's police department in Clermont County will be participating Friday in the “Cops in Shops” program, with police officers posing as customers and employees to look for people buying alcohol illegally.

        The annual program is a cooperative effort between the police department and local retail establishments, paid for with a $20,000 grant from the Ohio Department of Public Safety.

XU picks new head of business ethics

               Xavier University announced Monday that Paul Fiorelli, of Hyde Park, will direct its new Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility.

        Mr. Fiorelli, a lawyer with a masters of business administration, is an XU professor of legal studies and business law.

        He is now a fellow at the Ethic Resources Center in Washington, D.C. He also was a Supreme Court judicial fellow working with the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
       

6 recovery programs to share $405,000

               An effort to expand “nontraditional” addiction recovery programs got the largest of six grants announced Monday by the Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati.

        Six programs will share $405,000 from the 4-year-old foundation, including projects to promote creating a “mental health court” in Hamilton County and to provide substance abuse treatment for men leaving Ohio prisons.

        The largest grant — $182,000 to be awarded over three years — goes to Recovery Resource Center.

        The center plans to open a headquarters in Roselawn in January to serve as a referral and meeting center for several substance abuse programs that do not follow the 12-step model made famous by Alcoholics Anonymous.

        Meanwhile, the Hamilton County Community Mental Health Board will use a $65,000 grant to develop plans for a mental health court.

        Much like a drug court, a mental health court would allow mentally ill people who commit nonviolent crimes to get court-ordered treatment instead of jail.
       

Technical problem
delays lottery

               CLEVELAND— A technical problem with the Ohio Lottery's Buckeye 5 drawing Monday night delayed results and prompted officials to add a sixth number for that drawing only, officials said.

        Lottery Director Dennis Kennedy said that in addition to 9-31-32-33-34, the number 28 would also be honored for Monday's Buckeye 5 drawing only.

        Officials added the sixth number because a lottery ball with the number 28 on it might not have gotten into the 37-ball Buckeye 5 mix for the drawing, Mr. Kennedy said.

        “I've looked at all the video tapes of the drawing and can't ascertain for sure that all the balls were in there,” Mr. Kennedy said. “They had a problem loading the machine. They dropped some balls. They did a hand count before they reloaded the machine but after the drawing when they go through a procedure ... to verify the count, there was one missing,” he said. “There may have been a ball that was not in the mix.”

        Because the system is not geared up to handle two sets of winning numbers, anybody who has the number 28 will have to contact Lottery offices.

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