Police seek clues to missing woman

Cincinnati police are looking for a 35-year-old Butler, Ky., woman whose husband reported her missing since Wednesday.

On Saturday, her husband was arrested and charged with domestic violence after a co-worker and relative of the woman told police he had threatened to kill her, court records show.

Lori Paynter was last seen leaving her job at Volunteers of America on McMicken Avenue in Over-the-Rhine about 5 p.m. Wednesday, police said Sunday. Her husband has not been charged in her disappearance.

Police recovered Mrs. Paynter's car on Court Street, across from the Hamilton County Courthouse. She has been attending classes in the area to learn to become a court reporter.

Daniel Paynter, 48, was taken to the Hamilton County Justice Center about 1:30 p.m Saturday, then released about 6:42 p.m. on $2,500 bond, court records show. Mrs. Paynter is 5 feet tall, 110 pounds and has blonde hair and blue-green eyes. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 352-3040.

Implosion raffle deadline 4:30 today

Entries are due at 4:30 p.m. today for the Cinergy Field Implosion Raffle.

Cinergy, which opened in 1970, will be imploded on Dec. 29.

Winners of the raffle - open to residents of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana who are 18 years or older - will win the right to push the button that triggers the implosion (grand prize), recite the countdown (second prize), and get a view of the action from the VIP viewing area of Paul Brown Stadium (third and fourth prizes, eight tickets each.)

Entries cost $10 and can be submitted at www.uwgc.org/implosion, or dropped off at any of four United Way and Community Chest locations. Those locations are: 2400 Reading Road; 11 Shelby St., Florence; 2085-A Front-Wheel Drive, Batavia; and 1131 Manchester St., Middletown. Winners will be drawn on Wednesday

Cashier arrested on theft charge

SPRINGDALE - A cashier at the Tri-County Toys R Us on Princeton Pike was arrested Saturday after police say she allowed more than $300 worth of items to pass through the check-out line without payment.

Denetrius Baker, 24, of Over-the-Rhine was charged with theft. She was held Sunday at the Hamilton County Justice Center and will appear todaymonday in court.

Ms. Baker's arrest violates her probation on a 1999 theft conviction in Hamilton County, according to court records.

City joins fight against cement plant

The city of Cincinnati took the side of Sayler Park residents fighting a cement transfer plant in a court filing last week.

The city solicitor's office a "friend of the court" brief, on behalf of the Sayler Park Village Council, which is suing in an effort to stop the Lone Star Industries facility on the Ohio River.

The city contends that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not take into account objections from the Ohio and Kentucky historic preservation offices.

Clifton pharmacy held up for drugs

Police searched Sunday for a gunman who held up a pharmacy in Clifton about 3:45 p.m.

The man took about 4,000 pills from the Walgreens on the corner of Vine Street and West Mitchell Avenue, according to police reports. Police described the gunman as white, in his 40s, 6-foot-1 and 160 pounds, with a graying goatee and mustache, wearing sunglasses, a gray baseball cap and a camouflage jacket.

Brown Co. escapees being held in Newport

NEWPORT - Two Brown County jail escapees held on burglary charges were back behind bars late Saturday after stealing a vehicle, leading police on a high-speed chase and crashing their get-away car in Fort Thomas.

Shane Shouse, 21, and a 17-year-old male who is not being named because he is a juvenile, were held Sunday at the Campbell County Jail in Newport. The two are expected to be sent back to Brown County today.

An Ohio State Highway patrolman started chasing them on I-275 near the Beechmont Avenue exit. The escapees crashed the vehicle about 7:30 p.m. on I-471 in Fort Thomas.

Man, 20, accused of scalding sister

Cincinnati police searched Sunday for a 20-year-old University Heights man accused of grabbing a pot of boiling hot water off a stove and flinging it onto his 13-year-old sister as the two argued Saturday night.

A warrant police signed for Dominic Tobin charges him with felonious assault in connection with the 6:45 p.m. attack in a residence in the 2200 block of McMicken Avenue, police records show.

The youth suffered second- and third-degree burns to her face, chest and right arm, police said. She was treated at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center for blisters and released, according to a nursing supervisor.

Fire destroys home; Red Cross aids family

FRANKLIN - Fire destroyed a two-story, single-family home Sunday in this Warren County community, but the family was not in the home at the time, and no one was injured.

Firefighters responded to 7263 Shaker Road at 11:15 a.m. The mother and three children were at church, said Franklin firefighter Kim Peace. The father was in a shed out back and saw the house was on fire, she said.

Damage is estimated at $100,000, she said.