The Cincinnati Enquirer

SPRINGFIELD TWP. - A 42-year-old woman was arrested early Sunday morning after an argument ended when she slashed a man with a sword, according to police reports.

Kimberly A. Lair was arguing with Charles Hamblin around 1:40 a.m. at her Springfield Township home when she hit him in the side of his head with a large sword, police said. Hamblin was taken to University Hospital for treatment of a gash in his head. Lair was charged with felonious assault.

Victim shot during struggle with robber

OVER-THE-RHINE - A man was shot in the buttocks Saturday night as he fought over a gun with a man who was robbing him, police said.

At 9:50 p.m., the robber approached the man at 220 Green St.They struggled, and the robber ran off with $50, police report.

Subway held up by man with box cutter

SPRINGDALE - A man wielding a box cutter robbed a Subway restaurant Sunday morning and escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash.

The robbery occurred at 10:47 a.m. at the Subway at 284 Northland Blvd. The man ran toward an apartment complex and managed to evade police, including a canine unit. He is described as a black male around age 30, with a short gray beard and wearing a Reds hat and a black overcoat. He is about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 180 pounds.

Two questioned in pizza-delivery heist

WINTON HILLS - A LaRosa's pizza delivery driver was robbed at gunpoint Saturday afternoon on Holland Avenue and police Sunday were questioning two men in the robbery.

The driver said he was robbed of $150 around 4 p.m. when he was making a delivery.

Student died after painkiller overdose

KENT, Ohio - An accidental overdose of prescription painkillers caused the death of a Kent State student whose body was discovered in her dorm room, the Portage County coroner has ruled.

Coroner Roger G. Marcial said high amounts of the pain killer hydrocodone were detected in the body of 29-year-old Julie Hogan, whose body was found Dec. 2.

Hogan was seriously burned in a 1999 house fire and was taking four medications, Marcial said.

He said this can happen when a person has chronic pain.

"They just forget that they've taken one already, and then they take another one. Then they get dopey and take more and more, unfortunately," Marcial said.