Compiled from staff and wire reports

EMT transport policy change is delayed

Changes in Cincinnati's Fire Department policy of taking anyone to the hospital who calls them will be delayed three months.

In June, City Council's Law and Public Safety Committee told fire officials to come up with a plan by Oct. 1 that would allow emergency medical technicians to decide against taking someone to the hospital if the injuries were minor. Councilman Pat DeWine made the motion after firefighters complained they make too many unnecessary runs for problems like toothaches.

That deadline is being pushed back until Jan. 1. Assistant Fire Chief Robert Kuhn said he and the department's medical director have been working on developing protocols for medical calls they answer.

Decision today on appealing gag order

Cincinnati City Council will decide today whether to appeal a federal court's gag order on a University of Cincinnati report on alleged racial profiling by Cincinnati police.

The Law & Public Safety Committee voted unanimously Tuesday to file an objection to last week's order by U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael R. Merz, who prohibited the release of the two-year investigation of traffic stop data until after the Nov. 4 election.

Also Tuesday, Merz asked The Cincinnati Enquirer to file a "friend of the court" brief on whether the order should be reversed. The newspaper has argued that the order was an unconstitutional infringement on freedom of the press.

Charges unlikely in bridal shop flap

MONROE - Charges probably won't be filed against the former owner of a bridal store whose customers claim they haven't received their wedding and/or bridesmaid dresses, Police Chief Ernest Howard said Tuesday.

It's a civil matter that should be privately settled between the former owner of The Bridal Shoppe at Traders World and the current one, who has renamed the store Charmain's Bridal, the chief said.

The former shop owner has established a hot line for unhappy customers: (937) 372-8030.

Woman who died in Clarksville blaze ID'd

CLARKSVILLE - Authorities on Tuesday identified a woman found dead in a weekend house fire.

Cheryl Greer, 46, was found dead in her home at 2500 Gum Grove Road on Sunday, the morning after a blaze engulfed the home.

The Montgomery County Coroner's Office positively identified her body Tuesday. The cause and manner of her death had not been determined. The Clarksville Fire Department, Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office and Warren County Sheriff's Office are still investigating the fire's cause.

Woman arrested in prison marijuana case

TURTLECREEK TWP. - A woman was arrested for allegedly attempting to bring marijuana into a state prison here Tuesday.

Latosha N. Gladden, 24, of Dayton, Ohio, is charged with possessing marijuana and illegally conveying it onto the Lebanon Correctional Institution.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol said troopers and prison investigators had learned Gladden was planning to bring drugs there; when they stopped her, investigators said, they found five packages containing about 124 grams of marijuana.

School design models on display Thursday

Architects will unveil models and design plans of 13 Cincinnati public schools and discuss their work in a free special exhibition Thursday.

Plans for additions, renovations or new facilities for the following schools will be on display:

Cheviot Elementary; East End School; George W. Hays Elementary; Midway Elementary; Millvale Elementary; Jennie D. Porter Elementary; Pleasant Hill Elementary; Price Hill Elementary; Rockdale Elementary; Roll Hill Elementary; School for Creative and Performing Arts; Winton Hills Academy; and Woodward High School.

Presented by the Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati, the Schoolworks Exhibition runs 5-7 p.m. at the University of Cincinnati's Aronoff Center for Design and Art.

The event is free, but reservations are required.

Contact Sue Ann Painter at 421-4469, or e-mail PainterAFC@aol.com.

Complaint prompts review of wage law

A complaint by a Central Parkway car wash with a contract to wash city cars prompted Cincinnati City Council to re-think its eight-month-old "living wage" ordinance Tuesday.

The owners of Parkway Auto Wash say the law, which requires city contractors to pay $10.20 an hour for employees without benefits, would require the company to lay off a third of its minimum-wage workers.

City Council members on both sides of the law agree that the car wash should be exempted. But Republican Pat DeWine wants the city to go further and exempt all city contracts under $100,000.

Democrat John Cranley, who wrote the ordinance, said he would prefer a more narrow exception for car washing.

Both proposals will come up for a vote at City Council today.