Farmer's Market open for business

BURLINGTON - The Boone County Farmer's Market opens today in Burlington. The market will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. seven days a week. Everything sold at the market is grown or made in Boone County. The market is on Ky. 18 near the intersection with Ky. 237 in a parking lot at the Boone County Cooperative Extension Service, which is at 6028 Camp Ernst Road.

$50,000 offered to find suspects

The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for help in capturing two accused bank robbers who were mistakenly let out of jail. James Black and Leonard Drister left the Hamilton County Justice Center about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Word that they'd been indicted on federal bank-robbery charges did not reach the jail. The FBI is offering $25,000 for each man. Black, 33, and Drister, 31 were accused in the April 12 holdup of a PNC Bank branch in Springfield Township. A radio broadcast to area police officers Friday said the men might be in a 1988 black Toyota hatchback with Ohio license plates. Anyone with information should call the FBI at 421-4310 or Crime Stoppers at 352-3040.

Riders hit road to support Maupin

Local motorcycle riders are planning a ride through Clermont County in support of Pfc. Keith "Matt" Maupin, a 20-year-old Glen Este High School graduate taken hostage April 9 by Iraqi insurgents. The ride is May 1 and will drive past Maupin's Willowville house. Riders are asked to wear a yellow shirt. Registration, which costs $10, will start at 11 a.m. at the Union Township Veterans Memorial Park. The ride will begin at 1 p.m. with a rain date of May 2.

Film honors slain Cincinnati officers

A documentary about two slain Cincinnati police officers will be shown tonight to help raise money for a survivors group. Dan Pope and Ronald Jeter were shot to death in a Clifton Heights apartment in 1997 by a man they were trying to arrest. Their story, third in a series by a former Detroit police officer-turned-filmmaker, will be shown at Dave & Buster's in Springdale. The ceremony starts at 7:20 p.m., followed by a buffet dinner and the film showing. Tickets are $25 a couple or $15 a person. Proceeds will go to the Ohio Concerns of Police Survivors. Reservationscan be made by calling (812) 637-5037 or by e-mail to pope256@earthlink.net. Walk-ins are welcome.

TRAFFIC WATCH

The ramp from eastbound Ohio 125 to eastbound Ohio 32 in Clermont County is closed until 5 a.m. Monday.