Staff/Wire reports

WYOMING - Two Wyoming firefighters remained hospitalized Monday with multiple fractures after they fell 20 to 30 feet from a roof during a training exercise Saturday.

William Bryant Davis and Jon Glassman are both in fair condition at University Hospital.

"I have visited both of them extensively," Wyoming Fire-EMS Chief Robert Rielage said. "There are some additional surgeries that are going to be needed probably throughout the next couple of days."

The two firefighters were simulating ventilation during a typical house fire at the Colerain Township Fire Department training facility when the roof ladder they were on became loose and slid off the training building, Rielage said. The firefighters, wearing about 50 pounds of equipment, fell from the roof onto asphalt.

Bond set for 3 charged in fatal shooting

HAMILTON - A judge set bond Monday for three of the five people charged in the fatal shooting of a Liberty Township man.

Butler County Area II Court Judge J.B. Connaughton set bond at $2,000 for Demetrius Brazile, 22, and Roy J. Clark, 48. The Lockland men are charged with tampering with evidence and failure to report a crime in the shooting death last week of Chad Re, 25.

The bond allowed the men to pay $200 to get out of jail pending their next court hearing. Brazile posted the bond. Clark remained jailed Monday evening.

Toni L. Kessinger, 51, charged with drug abuse and failure to report a crime in the case, also posted bond Friday and was out of jail. The amount of her bail was unavailable Monday.

Craig Anderson, 36, of Liberty Township, accused by authorities of shooting and killing Re in the basement of a West Chester home, remains jailed in the Hamilton County Justice Center on charges of aggravated murder and kidnapping in the case. His bond has not been set.

Thomas E. Cottle, 48, of Reading, remained in the Butler County Jail Monday evening after his bond was set at $150,000. He is charged with complicity to aggravated murder and kidnapping.

About 2,300 lose power as storm passes

NORTH FAIRMOUNT - A tree knocked onto power lines by high winds from a passing storm left 1,500 Cinergy customers without power for several hours Monday evening.

The tree fell on Carll Street between Beckman and Linden Streets about 6:10 p.m., a police dispatcher said. The tree knocked down power lines, prompting a closing of the street to all traffic.

A Cinergy spokesman said the affected customers in the vicinity of Spring Grove Avenue in North Fairmount and Camp Washington had power restored within hours.

The spokesman said about 800 other customers in scattered areas of Clermont County, eastern Hamilton County and Northern Kentucky also had their power knocked out for varying amounts of time.

9-year-old in hospital after truck hits bike

MILFORD - A 9-year-old girl was hospitalized Monday after she was struck by a pickup truck while riding a bicycle on Buckwheat Road near Ohio 131.

Witnesses said the girl, who was not wearing a helmet, rode across Buckwheat Road into the path of a Chevy S-10 pickup truck about 4:20 p.m., the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. The girl, whose name had not been released late Monday, was taken by Air Care helicopter to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

The girl's condition was not immediately available, but her injuries did not appear to be life-threatening, the highway patrol said.

The driver of the pickup, Donald Baker, of Owensville, was not injured. The crash remains under investigation and charges are not expected, the highway patrol said.

74-year-old convicted of cocaine possession

LEBANON - A 74-year-old Waynesville man was convicted of cocaine possession and faces at least three years in prison and up to a $20,000 fine.

William Heriot was convicted Friday in Warren County Common Pleas Court of buying 26.36 grams of crack cocaine from an undercover police officer Oct. 20.

Authorities began investigating Heriot after they received information that properties owned by Heriot were being used for drug dealing and prostitution, Warren County Prosecutor Rachel Hutzel said. Warren County Common Pleas Judge James Flannery will sentence Heriot at a later date. Judge delays execution of William Zuern

U.S. District Judge Walter Rice in Dayton, Ohio, temporarily delayed the execution of William Zuern, who was convicted in the 1984 killing of a Hamilton County jailer.

The move came just days after the Ohio Supreme Court scheduled Zuern to die by lethal injection June 8. Zuern, 45, who remains on death row at Mansfield Correctional Institution, stabbed 26-year-old Philip Pence with a sharpened bucket handle at the now-closed Camp Washington jail.

Zuern argued in federal court that his lawyer was ineffective because he didn't present mitigating factors during Zuern's sentencing.. Rice delayed the execution until he can hear arguments in the case.