Playground victim's home damaged by fire

AVONDALE - Fire officials continue to investigate a fire that caused $30,000 in damage to a Reading Road apartment Monday night.

Firefighters responded to the apartment at 3639 Reading Road about 10:40 p.m. and found heavy fire in a first-floor apartment, fire officials said. The fire damage was confined to the apartment, but there was smoke damage to the entire building. There were no injuries.

The cause of the fire is listed as undetermined, fire officials said Tuesday.

The apartment is the residence of Carolyn Jones, grandmother and legal guardian of Treshawn Jones, the 8-year-old who suffered near-fatal injuries in playground fistfight with another boy this month in Avondale.

Jones was not at home at the time of the fire.

Treshawn has since been released from the hospital and is recovering.

Police don't suspect foul play in drowning

TATE TOWNSHIP - Police on Tuesday identified the body of a 20-year-old woman who drowned in an above-ground pool Monday. Staci Godby of Tate Township was pronounced dead at the scene. Police are investigating, but don't suspect foul play.

Nobody injured in fire at Covington Radisson

COVINGTON - An electrical fire forced the evacuation of nearly 200 people at the Radisson Cincinnati Riverview Hotel early Tuesday morning.

Assistant Fire Chief Mike Swain said an electrical short caused a small fire in a 17th-floor linen closet about 6:30 a.m. and power was turned off all day to investigate electric lines.

No injuries were reported, but water from emergency sprinklers caused minor damage to some hotel carpets and walls, Swain said.

Eighteenth-floor bank robbed in Dayton

DAYTON, Ohio - On Tuesday, a man robbed the Park National Bank on the 18th floor of a downtown office building, said police Lt. Matt Carper.

Carper said the man told bank employees he had a weapon. No customers were in the bank at the time.

Police said the man fled with an undisclosed amount of money.

Officers don't know if he took the elevator or the stairs.