LOCAL NEWS FOR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2001
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Terrifying gunman shot dead
A bus stop robber with a BB gun was shot and killed Wednesday morning in Walnut Hills after a chaotic running gun battle with five Cincinnati police officers.
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Butler developers go west
A $275 million commercial park will rise on former farmland strategically located along a new southeastern Butler County gateway.
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Coroner: Patty didn't fight
Patty Rebholz was strangled and repeatedly bludgeoned with a log-like post that drove her head into the ground, broke a rib and fractured her skull, former Hamilton County Coroner Frank Cleveland testified Wednesday in the trial of Michael Wehrung.
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Conversations on race
Small neighborhood groups are talking openly about race issues, in hopes of arriving at actions that will make a difference. Today, the conversation from Pleasant Ridge.
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Special Section
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Heimlich's legacy: 'Across-the-board cheapskate'
Relentless, uncompromising and single-minded.
Council renames Avondale street
It was the last Cincinnati City Council meeting.
Bengals box won in drawing
Gordon and Sharon Baker were three-time winners Wednesday at the Hamilton County commissioners meeting, but only the first one will count.
Clergyman accused of soliciting
DAYTON — An Episcopal priest who has served churches in Springboro and Amelia will appear in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court today on felony charges that he solicited sex from a male undercover detective.
Drug campaign hopes to make danger 'obvious'
Teens typically glaze over when hearing about the complexities of prescription-drug addiction and its potential to ravage their brains and lives.
Mediation proceeding questioned
A growing number of Cincinnati City Council members are questioning whether the process helping mediate a racial profiling lawsuit against the city ought to be used to implement Justice Department recommendations on the police use of force.
Procedure marks step in fight against diabetes
For years, Pamela Bowman's diabetes was so severe that even five insulin injections a day didn't prevent her from suddenly passing out without warning.
Schools take diversity lesson
AMBERLEY VILLAGE — Faculty and staff from eight Catholic and several public schools get a lesson on intergroup relations today during a Hands Across the Campus workshop at Temple Sholom, 3100 Longmeadow Lane.
Tristate A.M. Report
Cincinnati State Technical & Community College this week raised tuition 4 percent for its early fall term next year.
HOWARD: Some Good News
Keep Cincinnati Beautiful has won first place in the 2001 Keep America Beautiful national awards competition, the first time in 23 years it has received such an honor.
PULFER: War games
Can this be?
Book gives kids' views
WEST CHESTER TOWNSHIP — When Melissa Manwaring saw reports of Afghan students ridiculed and persecuted in the United States after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, she reacted by writing a poem and drawing a picture.
Brothers accused of scheme
HAMILTON — A trio of brothers who ran a Butler County-based construction company is charged with bilking customers and suppliers in six counties in an alleged scheme involving pole barns that were never built.
Jury listens to two confessions in death of inmate
LEBANON — As the body of convicted child molester Jason Wagner was being transported to the morgue on Nov. 14, 2000, an Ohio state trooper investigating the death offered kudos to inmate Timothy Hancock for the killing at Warren Correctional Institution.
Lebanon council to discuss severance packages
LEBANON — City Council will make a final try tonight at deciding whether and how to soften the landing for the city manager and another top official being pushed out.
Meters may not return
HAMILTON — City officials are backing off a proposal to return parking meters to High Street downtown.
Lab finds lots of fear, false alarms - but no anthrax
COLUMBUS — If nothing else, the anthrax scare has left Dr. Bill Becker with a unique collection of stuff.
Man testifies against former sheriff
LANCASTER, Ohio — A former major with the Fairfield County sheriff's office testified Wednesday that his boss threatened to “bury him” if he didn't help cover up illegal expenditures.
Two meningitis cases unrelated
HURON, Ohio — A meningitis infection in a 9-year-old Woodlands Elementary School student is not related to the infection that killed a first-grader at the school, officials said.
Art shows journey of cathedral
COVINGTON — Two Newport artists have created a show portraying the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption as it will never again exist.
Callahan: Ky. outlook bleak
NEWPORT — State Rep. Jim Callahan, D-Wilder, didn't sugar-coat his talk to the Newport Business Association on Wednesday.
Family ties at NewCath
NEWPORT - Most football teams talk about developing a brotherhood among the players.
Inaction could kill apartment plans
FLORENCE — Boone County Fiscal Court this week took no action on a developer's controversial proposal to build 540 apartments near the exclusive Triple Crown subdivision.
Ky. grads' ability as workers studied
LOUISVILLE — Kentucky and Indiana are among five states chosen for a national effort to develop standards aimed at assuring businesses and colleges that high school graduates are proficient in reading, writing and math.
Public gets peek at project
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS — Modern technology and pre-Civil War artifacts will mesh when the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center opens on Cincinnati's riverfront in mid-2004.
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Area leads state in college grads
About three of 10 Cincinnati residents have a four-year college degree or better, making Cincinnati the most educated city in Ohio.
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Complete Election 2001 coverage
Charlie Luken beat Courtis Fuller to win the city's first "strong mayor" election. Click here for complete, searchable results from Hamilton, Butler, Warren and Clermont counties and reports from the Enquirer and WCPO.
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