RICHWOOD — A woman was taken to St. Luke Hospital in Florence after a tire smashed into a car's windshield on southbound Interstate 75 at 6:17 p.m. Wednesday.

        The tire came unstrapped from a trailer that was being pulled by a van, said Boone County sheriff's Lt. Bob Heidman.

        “It was a freak accident,” Lt. Heidman said.

        The woman's injuries did not appear to be life-threatening, Lt. Heidman said.

False fire alarm evacuates airport

        HEBRON - A false fire alarm prompted an evacuation of part of an airline terminal at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport on Wednesday morning, an airport spokesman said.

        Firefighters determined that there was no fire and shut off the alarm, spokesman Ted Bushelman said. A glitch in a computer system triggered the alarm, he said.

        Part of Concourse C, which is used by the Comair regional airline, was briefly evacuated. No injuries were reported.

        Mr. Bushelman said the evacuation was over so quickly that no flights were delayed. He did not have an estimate of how long it lasted or how many people were evacuated.

        “They went out and stood on the sidewalk, then came back in,” he said.

Razor-wire fence protects reservoir

        FORT THOMAS — Authorities have installed razor-sharp wire around two reservoirs that supply water to more than 300,000 residents after two people were caught trying to enter the restricted area.

        The Northern Kentucky Water District installed a chain-link fence around its reservoirs after Sept. 11. Officials were concerned about terrorists contaminating the water supply.

        The move met opposition from local residents who enjoyed jogging and walking in the park-like setting around the two reservoirs.

        A man scaled a wall and climbed a chain link fence at the plant's entrance earlier this summer, said Fort Thomas Police Lt. Mark Dill. A plant worker saw the intruder and called police.

        But when police arrived, they didn't find the intruder.

        Instead, they found a second person attempting to enter the area through an unlocked gate, Lt. Dill said. The person was given a verbal warning and asked to leave.

        “It is a shame you can't go down there to walk,” said Lt. Dill, who lives near the reservoirs. “But I understand they have a responsibility for protecting the water supply.”

Weather archive coming to Jenkins

        JENKINS - The nation's historical weather and climate records will be keyed into computers in eastern Kentucky.

        Image Entry, a data entry company, will help preserve the information for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company, which built a processing center in Jenkins, will hire about 60 people to do the work.

        NOAA spokeswoman Patricia Viets said officials had worried that the records would deteriorate beyond use before the agency moved to upgrade the climate database.

        Ms. Viets said the records being computerized contain a variety of information, including seasonal weather recording by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

Weyerhaeuser announces layoffs

        HAWESVILLE — Weyerhaeuser will shutter its medium containerboard machine in

        here within the next 60 days, eliminating 142 jobs.

        Fine paper and pulp operations in Hawesville won't be affected, but the decision to close the machine will mean the loss of 200,000 tons in capacity, Weyerhaeuser said.

— Compiled from staff and wire reports

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