Compiled from staff and wire reports

Lincoln Heights man arrested in drug raid

LINCOLN HEIGHTS - A 60-year-old Lincoln Heights man has been arrested following a month-long investigation by authorities with the Drug Abuse Reduction Task Force.

Wesley L. Smith has been charged with drug possession, and having weapon under disability.

About 8:30 p.m. Friday, Lincoln Heights police and agents from the narcotics unit served a warrant at a residence in the 900 block of Byrd Street.

Officials seized a "large quantity" of pharmaceuticals including OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin, Didrex, and codeine, and several thousand dollars cash.

Smith has prior felony convictions including drug trafficking, officials said.

Suspect sought in campus sex assault

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS - University of Cincinnati police are searching for a suspect in an on-campus sexual assault that occurred two weeks ago.

The suspect, described as a white male with a muscular build, allegedly raped a student on her way to class in a parking garage at Langsam Library just before 8 a.m. on Oct. 8.

The victim, who reported the rape Oct. 18, said she did not know her assailant.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 556-2677.

Mother, 3 children hurt in van accident

ST. CLAIR TWP. - Investigators with the Butler County sheriff's department Saturday were still trying to determine what caused a crash along Eaton Road that sent a mother and her children to hospitals.

The accident occurred at about 10 p.m. Friday.

The driver, whose identity has not been released, was northbound near Four Mile Creek Road, when her minivan went off the roadway and flipped.

The driver was ejected and the van caught fire. A passerby, along with one of the driver's children, helped to get the others still inside the van to safety.

At least two of the children, and their mother, were in serious condition.

Doctors fret about rise in multiple births

DAYTON, Ohio - Fertility doctors say the rise in the number of triplets, quadruplets and quintuplets born to couples who had trouble getting pregnant is cause for concern.

"There's been a tendency for people to glamorize these high-multiple births," said Dr. Mark Bidwell, a reproductive specialist who directs Kettering Medical Center's fertility program. "But in my area of medicine, we consider this our No. 1 problem."

In the past six weeks, two women delivered quintuplets at Miami Valley Hospital.

"I think this is just a case of lightning striking, which it's always going to do somewhere, sometime," said Dr. Gary Horowitz, the reproductive endocrinologist specialist who directs Miami Valley's fertility program.

Union will contest layoffs at Ohio plant

WARREN, Ohio - Union officials said they would contest the layoffs of more than 200 workers at the Delphi Packard Electric Systems plant.

The 214 hourly workers were told on Friday that they were laid off indefinitely. The layoffs take effect on Monday.