Friday, May 26, 2000
Tristate Digest
p7 GE spreads the wealth across the Tristate
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EVENDALE — Employees of General Electric Aircraft Engines crisscrossed Greater Cincinnati on Thursday bearing gifts — checks.
GE spokeswoman Paula Kollstedt said more than $300,000 was distributed to local nonprofit and charitable organizations, including one of four quarterly checks of $106,250 to United Way from the GE fund.
Along with employee contributions, the company contributes about $2 million annually to United Way of Cincinnati, Ms. Kollstedt said.
The remaining $197,550 distributed Thursday represents the company's match of employee and retiree gifts to other organizations, including schools and universities. GE matches employees' alumni contributions.
Gun report empties Middletown school
MIDDLETOWN — About 75 students were escorted out of Vail Middle School on Thursday afternoon after police received a call from someone who reported seeing a man with a gun entering the school's gym.
But police said they saw no one with a gun in the school and found two toy guns outside the school.
At 2:47 p.m., police went to Vail after receiving the call.
School had been dismissed at 2:15 p.m., but about 75 students remained inside for a talent show practice.
Several witnesses are being questioned, and the matter is under investigation, police said.
Semi driver killed in crash is identified
ST. BERNARD — The driver of a tractor-trailer truck, killed when his rig swerved off southbound Interstate 75 Wednesday evening, was identified Thursday as Robert Harlan Millage, 37, of Ypsilanti, Mich. He was alone in the truck.
St. Bernard Police Chief Steve Moeller said the 8:15 p.m. accident remains under investigation.
Witnesses told police traffic began slowing just before the accident site at the Vine Street overpass north of the Mitchell Avenue exit.
One witness told police a car may have pulled in front of the truck. The entire rig flipped onto its top as it went over the guardrail and down the embankment.
Man admits touching, videotaping daughter
LEBANON — A 47-year-old father of three admitted Thursday that he set up a camera in his young daughter's room and videotaped her nude over a period of 10 years.
Appearing in Warren County Common Pleas Court, the man pleaded guilty to two counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material and two counts of gross sexual imposition for touching the girl while she was asleep.
The Enquirer is not naming the man to protect the identity of the girl, who is now 21.
Warren County Prosecutor Tim Oliver said the man and his wife had separated, and she found the videotapes, which had been made since 1988.
In an agreement with prosecutors, the man is expected to serve six months on work release in the county and then remain on probation for five years.
The man remains jailed on a $50,000 bond until a sentencing hearing next month.
Stained glass window to sparkle in Clermont
BATAVIA — The unveiling and dedication of the Clermont County “Bicentennial Stained Glass Window” will take place at 11 a.m. today at the Clermont County Courthouse, 270 Main St.
The window will be dedicated to the residents of Clermont County as a gift from the Bicentennial Celebration Committee. Ohio Senate President Richard Finan is master of ceremonies.
Robbers lock janitor in Moose Lodge cooler
HAMILTON — Two masked men forced a cleaning person into a cooler at the Moose Lodge on Thursday and got away with an undetermined amount of money, police said.
The robbery occurred at 2:45 a.m. at the Moose Lodge at 925 Hamilton-Cleves Road.
Police said the men threatened to harm the worker, who was found five hours later locked in the walk-in cooler.
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