Tuesday, September 07, 1999
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Fight on bus turns into a street brawl
A brawl that started on a Metro bus and spilled onto a Lower Price Hill street prompted Cincinnati police to arrest three people Sunday night.
Nicolas Rodriguez, 21, of the 2100 block of Hatmaker Avenue, West End, was charged with assault on a police officer and resisting arrest after he punched a female officer who was arresting Rose Mary Ingram, police said. Officer Angela Smith was not seriously injured.
Ms. Ingram, 27, of the same address, was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after she refused to leave the scene and made racist remarks to several black people, police said.
Bobby Ingram, 49, of the 700 block of State Avenue, Lower Price Hill, was charged with disorderly conduct after he also refused to leave the scene, police said.
The 8:51 p.m. incident occurred in the 2100 block of West Eighth Street.
Police reports indicate about 40 people were involved in the fight.
Body of man found floating in Licking
NEWPORT — Newport police are investigating the death of a Cincinnati man whose body was found Monday afternoon floating near the banks of the Licking River.
The body of Thomas Michael Suddarth, 48, was discovered about 1:30 p.m. by a boater passing by Gen. James Taylor Park near the mouth of the Licking River, said Newport Police Officer Glenn
Curry.
Officer Curry said the body had not decomposed and had not been in the water for long. A cause of death has not been determined.
No street address was available for Mr. Suddarth. Officer Curry said he had not been reported missing.
Woman falls short in Ohio River swim
Though sore, sunburned, blistered and 50 miles short of her original goal, Valerie Deerwester is happy she did it.
The 39-year-old Milford woman completed her swim down the Ohio River on Saturday — a day early, because of increased water traffic from Riverfest.
Reached Monday, the Bethesda Hospital paramedic said she and her husband, David, hadn't factored in the impact of the weekend celebrations on her route from Portsmouth to the Interstate 471.
She wanted to raise enough money to send the 40 children of St. Aloysius Orphanage in Bond Hill to Disney World.
Neither she nor her husband knew how much money has been raised, and officials at St. Aloysius could not be reached for comment Monday.
“I'm already thinking of my next adventure,” added Mrs. Deerwester. “I want to do something to raise breast cancer awareness.”
Contributions to the “Miles for Kid Kind” account are still being accepted at Key Bank, 301 Main St., Milford.
Body of missing man found in Salt Fork Lake
CAMBRIDGE, Ohio — Divers on Monday recovered the body of a man who apparently drowned in Salt Fork Lake three days earlier.
The body of John R. Rush, 26, of Cambridge, was found about 25 feet from shore, said Bill Patterson, assistant manager at Salt Fork State Park.
Divers from the Guernsey County underwater rescue team found the body about 1:15 p.m. Monday, Mr. Patterson said. Several divers, park officials and state Division of Watercraft workers searched Friday night, Saturday and Sunday.
At least three people saw Mr. Rush disappear under the water while swimming about 7 p.m. Friday.
Visibility in the lake was close to zero at times, delaying the search.
OSU cancer program gets $6.5M gift
COLUMBUS — The Robert F. Wolfe and Edgar T. Wolfe Founda tion has given $6.5 million to the Ohio State University's Human Cancer Genetics Program.
The gift was announced at an annual fund-raising campaign Saturday for the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, the Columbus Dispatch reported Sunday.
The gift includes $5 million for construction of the John W. Wolfe Cancer Genetics Laboratories and $1.5 million for the existing John W. Wolfe Chair in Cancer Research.
“(The gift) provides expanded resources and allows us to continue in our cancer-genetics research activities,” said Dr. David Schuller, director of the James Cancer Hospital.
The hospital board is trying to raise $50 million for the Human Cancer Genetics Program. Saturday's donation, in memory of John W. Wolfe, brings the total to $38.5 million, hospital board member and chairman of the fund-raising campaign Richard Solove said.
Man's car stolen; wife's ashes inside
COLUMBUS — Thieves got away with more than a red Buick Century when they stole John Anundson's car.
A wooden box in the trunk of the car contained the ashes of Anundson's wife, Joyce.
The couple had been married 45 years when Joyce Anundson died March 7 in Florida, where the two were living.
After her death, the couple's two children, who live in Columbus, persuaded Mr. Anundson to move back to Ohio.
Mr. Anundson intended to bury his wife's ashes in West Virginia next to her mother, and the family had scheduled a small ceremony.
But his car was stolen Aug. 11, with the ashes in the trunk.
Utah company will run Ohio prison
CLEVELAND — A Utah company has been selected to operate a second privately run state prison being built in northeast Ohio.
Management & Training Corp. of Ogden, Utah, was chosen by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to receive the $2.6 million contract, officials said.
The selection must still be approved by the state Controlling Board.
The company will run the Lake Erie Correctional Institution, which is under construction in Conneaut and is expected to completed early next year.
The prison, which will house 1,380 medium-security inmates, is one of two state-owned, privately operated prisons under construction.
A minimum-security prison in Grafton is scheduled to be opened in February.
Neither prison is connected to a private prison in Youngstown owned and operated by Corrections Corp. of America. That prison, which houses inmates from Washington, D.C., has been the site of inmate stabbings, two deaths and an escape.
Coleman tops poll for Columbus mayor
COLUMBUS — Democrat Michael Coleman leads Republican Dorothy Teater by nine-percentage points in the Columbus mayor's race, according to a poll released Sunday by the Columbus Dispatch.
The mail poll of a random sample of Columbus registered voters was conducted Aug. 27 through Thursday.
Given a choice of voting for Mr. Coleman or Ms. Teater, 45 percent of 2,145 respondents said they support Mr. Coleman, while 36 percent favored Ms. Teater.
Nineteen percent said they had not made up their minds which candidate they will voite for in the Nov. 2 election.
Mr. Coleman's advantage resulted from an eight-percentage point lead among independents and a larger percentage of support from Democrats than Ms. Teater had from Republicans, the newspaper said.
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Ohio lawmaker asks to review amusement-ride safety laws
Sweating for credit - online
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Two black groups back councilman
Uniforms allow instant recognition
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Families shop Thriftway; Butler schools get a cut
Health, housing head list of Baptists' concerns
Sister cities celebrate 10 years
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