Some Reds fans who signed up for partial season tickets got an unwelcome surprise last week — they were the wrong tickets.

        Reds officials say customers should have the right tickets by the end of the week.

        “We're sorry about it; it was a mix-up,” said Pat McCaffrey, the Reds' director of season and group sales.

        Mr. McCaffrey wouldn't say how many partial season ticket-holders got the wrong tickets in the mail, but it was “not a large number of people.”

        Some fans opened packages delivered by UPS last week to find that the tickets had seat locations they had not ordered.

        Mr. McCaffrey said the Reds hire an out-of-state printing firm to print the tickets and send them to customers. He said the firm routed some of the packages to wrong addresses.

        UPS is picking up the tickets this week and sending them back to the printer.

        Journalists to speak to high school students

        MONTGOMERY — Scores of high school students will get a glimpse at the daily lives of journalists Wednesday during a panel discussion at Sycamore High School.

        The event, held by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and Sycamore schools, begins at 7 p.m. at the school, 7400 Cornell Road, Montgomery.

        The panel includes:

        • Rick Green, assistant managing editor of The Cincinnati Enquirer.

        • John Nolan, manager, Associated Press Cincinnati bureau.

        • Renee Sexton, news anchor/reporter, WLW radio.

        • Andrea Tortora, reporter, Cincinnati Business Courier, and president of the Cincinnati chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

        • Dick Maloney, editor, Community Press.

        • Emil Dansker, retired journalism professor, Central State and Bowling Green State universities.

        • Earnest Winston, suburban news reporter, The Cincinnati Enquirer.

        Students from more than 50 area high schools have been invited to the first-of-its-kind event. Panelists will briefly outline their own career paths, then take questions from the audience on any aspect of journalistic careers.

        SPJ members will provide information on college journalism programs, a sampling of local publications and information on professional organizations.

        Information: Bob Weston, Society of Professional Journalists events chairman, 791-7140, www.cincinnati-spj.org.

        Woman stabbed to death; man charged

        HAMILTON — A 35-year-old Hamilton woman bled to death from a stab wound to the chest, Butler Coroner Dr. Richard P. Burkhardt said Monday.

        A man whom police identified as the woman's on-again, off-again boyfriend has been charged with murdering Toni Upton in the city's first homicide of 2002.

        Ms. Upton had been dead less than a day when her body was found Sunday in a vehicle in the 300 block of South C Street, Dr. Burkhardt said.

        There were no “defensive wounds” on her hands, but Ms. Upton had been stabbed in the chest and abdomen, the coroner said.

        A single wound that penetrated a major artery caused her death, he said, adding, “That wound would cause her to go into shock in about five or six minutes — and when you're in shock, you can't help yourself.”

        Police arrested Michael Alan Rice, 45, of New Miami on Sunday night on a charge of murder. He appeared in Hamilton Municipal Court on Monday and a judge ordered that he be held without bond pending a preliminary hearing March 18

        Planned Parenthood makes change in name

        Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky has changed its name to Planned Parenthood Cincinnati Region.

        The new name was intended to more accurately reflect the agency's locations, which include offices in Mount Auburn, Westwood, Springdale, Hamilton, Middletown, Oxford and Withamsville.

        The agency sometimes serves patients from Northern Kentucky, but has not had offices there, said spokeswoman Karin Langner.

        Man's death under investigation

        The death of a 19-year-old Madisonville man found in his apartment Monday morning is being investigated by police as a homicide.

        Officers were called to the apartment in the 4400 block of Erie Avenue about 9:35 a.m. Monday. Police and firefighters found Nolan T. Moi on the floor of his apartment.

        Mr. Moi was pronounced dead at the scene by the Hamilton County Coroner's Office. No details of his injuries were released. Mr. Moi's death is the ninth homicide in Cincinnati this year.

        Anyone with information about the death is asked to call the Cincinnati Police Department's criminal investigations section at 352-3542 or Crime Stoppers at 352-3040. Callers can remain anonymous and may receive compensation for their information.

        Woman gets prison for role in slaying

        Dorie Terrell, 23, of English Woods will spend at least the next three decades behind bars.

        Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Robert Ruehlman sentenced Ms. Terrell to 30 years to life Monday for her role in the Sept. 3 robbery and slaying of Ibrahima Sory Diallo.

        Ms. Terrell was convicted last month of complicity to aggravated robbery and complicity to aggravated murder in connection with the case.

        Her trial gained public notice when one of the 12 jurors in her case failed to return to court to continue deliberations. That juror, Christine Fiorini, went scuba diving in Mexico and was ordered to serve a week in the Hamilton County Justice Center on a charge of indirect contempt of court.

        Officer cleared in killing after robbery

        A Cincinnati police officer who shot and killed a man after a grocery store robbery in November 2000 has been exonerated in his use of deadly force.

        Officer Frederick Gilmer killed Jeffrey Irons, 30, on Nov. 8, 2000. He shot him in the torso after a struggle in which police said Mr. Irons got another officer's gun and fired it, grazing a third officer on the head and hitting his hand.

        Investigators found that Officer Gilmer followed Cincinnati police procedures. Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen's opinion found no violations of criminal statutes.

        The case drew extra attention because it came the day after the Election Day death of Roger Owensby Jr., who was suffocated by officers in the parking lot of a Roselawn gas station.

        The investigation in that case has not yet been released.

        National guardsmen in Ohio called up

        COLUMBUS — National guardsmen from Cincinnati, Lebanon and Sandusky have been called to active duty to replace military police stationed at airports around the state, officials said Monday.

        Troops from the Ohio Army National Guard's 2-107th Divisional Cavalry Squadron will be assigned to assist security officers at airports in Cleveland, Akron-Canton, Columbus, Youngstown, Toledo and Dayton.

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