LOCAL NEWS FOR SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 2002
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Cost of smokes goes up in Ohio
COLUMBUS — Ohio smokers will pay even more than they expected for cigarettes once a new tobacco tax takes effect Monday. In addition to a 31-cent per pack tax increase, consumers will also be hit with at least another 7 cents in tacked-on minimum mark-ups that will go to tobacco wholesalers and retailers.
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Airport to get 320 screeners
HEBRON — The federal government will need about 320 workers to handle both passenger and bag screening at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. A job fair will be held in Florence Monday.
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Terror alerts necessary, Tristate officials say
Tristate emergency management officials say the alerts issued by the federal government - including the latest for July 4 - are just one of the tools they use to prepare for a possible terrorist attack.
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BRONSON: Graham's words as soft as the gentle rain
The rain fell gently like God's mercy on the crowd in Paul Brown Stadium on Thursday night. It was the opening night of Billy Graham's last Mission in Cincinnati. And the old preacher's power did not fail.
CROWLEY: Porn on candidate's resume
Republican gubernatorial candidate Sonny Landham played alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Eddie Murphy in some '80s action movies. But early in his career, Sonny was making some films that gave him, um, more exposure. As in porno, X-rated, adult films.
CINCINNATI - HAMILTON COUNTY
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List of candidates to oversee reforms narrows
Lawyers for the city, the police union, the U.S. Justice Department and the Black United Front will interview seven candidates who want the job of overseeing sweeping reforms of the Cincinnati Police Department.
Paddlers hit the Ohio
By midmorning, the sloping Public Landing was blanketed with a bright, multicolored mosaic of canoes and kayaks, pulled from the Ohio River by quite possibly the largest flotilla of paddlers on this section of the Ohio in 200 years.
Forest Park considers community center tax
FOREST PARK — Is there interest in a $13 million community center that would have pools, gyms, a day-care center and crafts room? Definitely. Survey results say so.
Local Digest
A 19-month-old Covington boy may have died Wednesday from bacterial meningitis at Children's Hospital Medical Center, said Amy Caruso, a hospital spokeswoman.
Miami Twp. festival expands to two days
MIAMI TOWNSHIP — It has grown so large that township officials have made Midsummer at the Meadows to a two-day event.
Good News: Volunteer has visits to spare
Each day, Charles McKinney's schedule includes visiting a nursing home or a veterans hospital.
Congrats
Sophomore Rebecca Jackson was named to the winter quarter dean's list of the College of Business Administration at the University of Cincinnati.
Conservation sites to be identified
OXFORD — A $3,000 grant from Miller Brewing Co. Foundation will help the Three Valley Conservation Trust identify potential sites for conservation in Southwest Ohio.
UD gets new leader Monday
DAYTON — The Marianist who has kept watch over the University of Dayton for nearly 23 years, Brother Ray Fitz, will hand over the reins Monday to the first lay president in the private, Catholic school's 152-year history.
Assignment on hold for Columbus priest who molested
COLUMBUS — A new administrative job for a priest removed from a Columbus parish because of past sexual abuse will remain open until the Columbus Roman Catholic Diocese implements new rules adopted by U.S. bishops.
OSHA investigating death at Six Flags
AURORA, Ohio — Federal job-safety investigators are looking into the heat stroke death of an employee at Six Flags Worlds of Adventure in northeast Ohio.
Garden railway a model event
FORT MITCHELL — More than 1,400 people from all over the country have come together in Northern Kentucky this week to compare “garden” trains and learn how they can make them better.
Lawsuit against priest dismissed
LEXINGTON — A man's lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by a priest at Cathedral of Christ the King has been dismissed in Fayette County Circuit Court.
Trails replace deadly Cumberland Gap road
MIDDLESBORO, Ky. — Older maps still show a crooked line that denoted a paved road over the Cumberland Gap.
UK president reflects on scandals - and hope
LEXINGTON — Lee Todd has a tough time believing it's been a year since he took the reins as the University of Kentucky's 11th president.
Kentucky Digest
LEXINGTON — New technology at the University of Kentucky Medical Center is allowing doctors to offer safer, more powerful radiation treatment for cancer patients.
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Priests and Sexual Misconduct
Four priests in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and two priests who formerly served in the Diocese of Covington have been suspended and/or accused of sexual misconduct in a scandal that has swept across the country. Click here for an archive of Enquirer reports.
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Erpenbeck Investigation
A. William Erpenbeck spent years building a company that appears to be crumbling. One of the Tristate's biggest home builders, the Erpenbeck Co., is under federal investigation for a suspected bank fraud that is affecting lenders, subcontractors and home owners. Click here for links to all Enquirer reports.
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