Lemmie wants '98 'slur' investigated

DOWNTOWN - Cincinnati City Manager Valerie Lemmie has ordered the police chief to investigate a police lieutenant accused of making a racial slur in 1998. Lt. Jeff Butler, then a sergeant, was questioned on videotape during an investigation of alleged overtime abuses. On the tape, he utters a barely audible comment "alleged to be a racial slur," the city manager said. In a memo to Police Chief Thomas H. Streicher Jr. Friday, Lemmie asked for an investigation of Butler and any other officer who witnessed the comment. The investigation was prompted by Councilman John Cranley, who gave the city manager a copy of the videotape Wednesday along with a memo calling it "shocking and outrageous."

Teen hits the links with Tiger Woods

HAMILTON - Badin High School freshman Patrick Higgins got to hang around the golf course with Tiger Woods and Davis Love III.

TRAFFIC WATCH

Crews will be working on Interstate 275 between the Hopper Hill overpass in Clermont County and Five Mile Road in Hamilton County beginning Monday night. Watch for north- and southbound lane closures 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. nightly through Friday.