FAIRFIELD — A 36-year-old Winchester, Ky., man faces charges in connection with a 13-hour standoff with police Monday during which he held his estranged wife hostage, police said.

        The man is charged with aggravated burglary, kidnapping and rape, all felonies. He also faces misdemeanor charges of violating a temporary protection order, endangering children, aggravated menacing and inducing panic.

        The man is not being named to protect his estranged wife's identity.

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        At 7:34 a.m. Monday, the man — brandishing a knife — broke into her apartment in the 5200 block of Camelot Drive and began holding her and their 3-year-old daughter hostage. The child was allowed to leave, but the man forced the woman to stay, police said. She was released at 1:18 p.m.

Teen charged with assaulting officer

        A juvenile running from Cincinnati police early Tuesday faces a felonious assault charge for allegedly pushing an officer into the path of a police cruiser.

        The 17-year-old was charged with felonious assault for the injury to Officer Jeff Ruberg, a probationary officer in the field three weeks.

        The officer was in pain after the cruiser rolled over his leg, police said, but the leg was not broken. He was treated at University Hospital.

        Officer Ruberg and his field-training officer, Scott Owen, stopped a vehicle believed to be connected to an aggravated auto robbery at Findlay and Linn streets in the West End about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday.

        The driver ran. Officer Ruberg chased him while Officer Owen drove the cruiser. Officer Ruberg caught the driver, got into a struggle with him and was pushed into the street, where the cruiser ran over his leg, police said.

        The 17-year-old, who is not being identified because of his age, also was charged with receiving stolen property and violating curfew.

Mt. Healthy schools to try for reduced levy

        MOUNT HEALTHY — Mount Healthy City Schools, still reeling from a recent loss at the polls, will try again in November to pass a school levy.

        The school board voted Monday to place a 6.95-mill levy on the Nov. 5 ballot. If the levy passes, it would raise $2,070,699 annually. The owner of an $84,500 home, the average-priced home in the school district, would pay an additional $180 a year in taxes.

        Mount Healthy had an 8.99-mill levy on the Aug. 6 ballot. Voters defeated that measure 68 percent to 32 percent.

        “We felt the voters felt very strongly that was too much money,” said Superintendent Dave Horine.

Police seek 2 missing Cincinnati teens

        Cincinnati police are looking for two missing Cincinnati teenagers whose cases investigators have deemed critical:

        Elizabeth Clark, 15, left her River Road home in Lower Price Hill on Thursday She told her mother, Victoria Fulmer, she was going fishing with friends. The friends never saw her, and she hasn't been home, Ms. Fulmer said. She was wearing tan shorts, a blue Nike T-shirt and blue and black Air Force gym shoes.

        Elizabeth suffers from manic depression and takes Zoloft, her mother said, but she does not have the medication with her.

        Lateana Flowers, 13, had an argument with her father about 11 p.m. on Aug. 5 and snuck out the window of their Boltwood Court apartment in English Woods. She was wearing blue house shoes, denim shorts and a black shirt. She has been seen around Winton Terrace and Findlater Gardens, but has not returned home.

        Police ask anyone with information about either of the girls to call District 3 at 352-3574 or the Personal Crimes Unit at 352-6474.

Dancer wants plea to trafficking thrown out

        LEBANON — A dancer who was arrested in a March raid on Bristol's Show Club & Revue wants a judge to throw out her guilty plea to a drug trafficking charge.

        Jana Ullman, who was to be sentenced Tuesday on the felony, now says that she was rushed into the plea agreement by her attorney John Quinn, who died of a heart attack last month.

        Ms. Ullman, 22, of Fairfield pleaded to a charge of drug trafficking for trying to sell the illegal stimulant ecstasy to undercover agents. In exchange, a cocaine trafficking charge was to be dismissed.

        She faces up to a year in prison if convicted. A hearing is set for Sept. 17 in Warren County Common Pleas Court on Ms. Ullman's motion to withdraw the plea.

Doctor named OSU cardiology chief

        COLUMBUS — Dr. William Abraham, a top cardiologist at the University of Cincinnati before leaving town two years ago, has been named chief of cardiology at Ohio State University Medical Center.

        Since 2000, Dr. Abraham had been chief of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Kentucky.

        At Ohio State, Dr. Abraham will be involved with OSU's new heart hospital, which breaks ground later this year, and with expanding OSU's cardiology program from 30 to 50 faculty members.
       

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