The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) back issues from October 2007:
MIDPOINT PLEASED WITH TURNOUT 40,000 ATTEND THREE-DAY RUN.(News)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Byline: Rick Bird, Post staff reporter The sixth annual Midpoint Music Festival concluded its three-night run Saturday with strong attendance, out-of-town musicians praising the event and local musicians and promoters pleased large crowds returned to the Over-the-Rhine Main ...
TOBACCO IS BACK LEAFY CROP GAINS STATURE IN THE FARM BELT STATES.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Lauren Etter, Wall Street Journal CARMI, Ill. -- Tobacco has made a comeback in the American farm belt. Three years after the federal government stopped subsidizing it, the leafy crop is gaining popularity among U.S. farmers. Cheaper U.S. tobacco has become ...
TOBACCO IS BACK SOME LOCAL GROWERS SEE OPPORTUNITY IN QUOTA'S DEMISE.(News)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Byline: Bob Driehaus, Post contributor Toney Brewer had just enough help to plant 2 1/2 acres of burley on a patch of his 650-acre farm this year. The 72-year-old farmer, tilling land along Dixie Highway in Dry Ridge that his grandfather bought in 1918, gets a call ...
DEATH PENALTY STUDY COULDN'T GET TRACTION.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Associated Press COLUMBUS -- Death penalty opponents hoping a long-awaited study would bolster their efforts to end capital punishment saw the opportunity overshadowed by questions over the study's bias and much bigger news from the U.S. Supreme ...
10-YEAR-OLD ACCUSED IN FATAL FIRE.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Dan Sewell, Associated Press A western Ohio community still reeling from an apartment blaze that killed five people faces a stunning development -- a 10-year-old boy stands accused of deliberately setting the fire that claimed his mother and sister. People ...
TAXING RICH QUICK FIX IN '08 POLITICS.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Calvin Woodward, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Every campaign season has its quick fixes, its too-easy answers, the improbable promise of gain without pain. This time, tax cuts for the wealthy are the easy target. Democrats are feasting on them, to the bone ...
MAN ARRESTED IN STABBING.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... POLICE -- Authorities have arrested a Springfield Township man on charges he forced his way into his estranged wife's house and stabbed a 51-year-old man there. Police say Michael B. Mitchell, 34, of 884 Sarbrook Drive, fled from his spouse's home at 9145 Trinidad Drive in ...
HOMICIDE CHARGE FILED.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... POLICE -- A Norwood man was charged with reckless homicide after fatally shooting another man early Sunday on Carter Street in Norwood. Michael Carroll, ...
UC GETS $9M GRANT.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... COMMUNITY -- The University of Cincinnati has received a $9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study point-of-care technologies for patients with neurological emergencies such as a stroke, head injury or drug overdose. The five-year award is renewable for five years. ...
FUNDS SOUGHT FOR HAY.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... COMMUNITY -- The Ohio Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals lacks sufficient hay to feed animals on its Pickaway County sanctuary through the winter, the group's director said. The society has 14 bales of hay, far short of the 900 to 1,000 bales director Teresa Landon ...
HISTORIC HOMES MAY BE SOLD.(News)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Byline: Feoshia Henderson, Post contributor A cluster of historic brick homes encircle a portion of Tower Park in Fort Thomas, and although weathered, they offer a glimpse of the earlier grandeur of this former Army post. The brick homes, a mix of single-family and ...
BILL EXPANDS CHILD CARE LICENSING.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press COLUMBUS -- Cindee Volpe is all for stricter standards for home child-care. But the operator of Fae-Fae's Little Feet in Canton worries that an upcoming legislative debate over mandatory licensing of small, private providers ...
VICTIM OPPOSES RAPIST'S PAROLE.(News)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Byline: Joseph Szydlowski, Post staff reporter Kim Brann is terrified today. That's because, she said, her rapist Ralph Sholler's parole hearing is Thursday, and today she's traveling to Frankfort to testify at the victim's hearing. There, she'll tell board members ...
DEATH.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... HARRY J. "HAM" CHEEK, 87, of Aurora, Ind., died Sunday. He was a retired plant manager for Jefferson Smurffit Container Co., formerly Alton Box Factory. He was a WWII Army veteran. Services: 11 a.m ....
CROWDED 2008 DEMOCRATIC FIELD POSES ENDORSEMENT DILEMMA FOR TED KENNEDY.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Andrew Miga, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential contenders flocked to Sen. Edward "Ted"Kennedy's 75th birthday party earlier this year. Sen. Barack Obama showed up at Kennedy's home with a bottle of wine as a gift. Sen. Hillary Rodham ...
SOLDIERS, FAMILIES REUNITED.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Thousands of friends and family members welcomed a group of nearly 600 soldiers back to Kentucky on Sunday. The soldiers returned from duty in Iraq and entered the Lexington Center to see numerous homemade signs, American ...
NEW ARTICLE CASTS DOUBT ON CLASSIC 'BYSTANDER EFFECT' SYNDROME.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Larry McShane, Associated Press NEW YORK -- It's straight out of Psychology 101: "The Bystander Effect," a phenomenon illustrated by the infamous 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese as 38 callous neighbors ignored her screams for help. Except that while details of ...
U.N. ENVOY HOPES TO EASE CRACKDOWN.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar -- A U.N. envoy made a last-ditch effort to meet Myanmar's top two military leaders today to persuade them to ease a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters, after he briefly met with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. ...
COURT ACTS OVER CRACKDOWN.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan's Supreme Court today ordered three officials suspended over a crackdown that wounded dozens of journalists and lawyers during protests against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's re-election bid. Pakistan's top judge summoned officials to explain why police ...
REWARDS OFFERED.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- The U.S. military has launched a new "Most Wanted" campaign offering rewards of up to $200,000 for information leading to the capture of 12 Taliban and ...
DEAL ENDS SHUTDOWN.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... LANSING, Mich. -- The state Legislature agreed early today to a mix of income tax and sales tax increases in a deal with Gov. Jennifer Granholm that quickly ended a partial state government shutdown. For a little more than ...
WRITER ARRESTED.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BEIJING -- A Chinese dissident who wrote about local corruption has been arrested for allegedly subverting state power, his wife and a watchdog organization said ...
NEWSPAPER ATTACKED.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... KATMANDU, Nepal -- A trade union affiliated with former communist rebels attacked Nepal's largest newspaper office, destroying property and forcing a halt to publication, officials with the newspaper said today. The Kantipur ...
VOLCANO ERUPTS.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... SAN'A, Yemen -- A volcanic explosion rocked a tiny Yemeni island in the Red Sea, spewing lava and ash hundreds of feet into the air and forcing Yemeni authorities to evacuate a ...
REBELS ATTACK PEACEKEEPER BASE.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Alfred de Montesquiou, Associated Press HASKANITA, Sudan -- Out of ammunition, clinging to a corner of their camp as rebel forces tore the refuge apart with rocket-propelled grenades and mortar fire, African Union troops meant to safeguard Darfur became the latest ...
UKRAINE ELECTIONS WEAKEN LEADER.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Maria Danilova, Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine -- Although the parties tied to Ukraine's Orange Revolution look set to return to power following the latest national elections, the man who was the central figure of the 2004 mass protests appears to be increasingly losing ...
JENA IS NOT LIKE SELMA.(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Star Parker At this point, there seems little doubt about the ugliness that has simmered, and then boiled, in a little town in Louisiana called Jena. There is a lot that has already been said, and done, about the latent racism in the town that led to the ...
DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO.(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: George Will WASHINGTON -- Two days before Christmas in 1967, President Lyndon Johnson, visiting the Vatican, presented Pope Paul VI with a foot-high bust of Lyndon Johnson. Small choices can reveal the character of a person. Or of an institution. Consider the ...
PUTTING IT ON THE TABLE.(Editorial)(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2007 ... With the national election just over the horizon, the Bush administration is quickly approaching lame-duck status and has run out of time to resolve the Social Security crisis. But the Treasury Department has brought to the attention of Congress and the public a useful reminder ...
TRAFFIC AND THE HUMAN CONDITION.(Editorial)(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Maybe the way we think about traffic congestion is all wrong. Typical of the conventional thinking is the recent Associated Press story on the Texas Traffic Institute's annual report on congestion: "Drivers waste nearly an entire workweek each year sitting in traffic ...
MCCONNELL VOTES AGAINST TROOPS, KIDS.(Editorial)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2007 ... To the editor of The Post: While one must applaud Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) loyalty to a president whose numbers have dropped to only his family, friends and old drinking buddies, Mitch's voting record leaves one in a quandary as to how he plans to defend himself as ...
TINY CHAPEL.(Living)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Beauty often comes in small packages. Monte Casino Chapel at Thomas More College, Crestview Hills, Ky., measures only 6 by 9 feet -- about the size of a walk-in closet. It is listed on the Web site Roadsideamerica.com. According to the site, "The chapel was built in 1878 at a nearby ...
REFLECTIONS AFTER A CLOSE CALL.(Editorial)(Column)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Susan DeBow The thud was sudden and jarring. My husband and I started to look at another and he began to say, "Well, there -- " when we were hit again. And again. Then the car began to spin and move forward. I watched as Nick was thrown toward the dashboard, restrained ...
WMKV SALUTES DER BINGLE.(Living)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Nick Clooney The little radio station that could, WMKV, has another big day planned. Actually, it's two days. From noon on Saturday, Oct. 13th, to 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14th, it will be all Bing Crosby, all the time. The occasion is the 30th ...
J.W. VENABLE, ARTIST AND MINISTER.(Living)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Michael R. Averdick John Wesley Venable (1822-1908) was an Episcopal minister and artist who served as Grand Chaplain of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the United States for 39 years. Born in Washington, D.C., Venable was ...
'LORD OF THE RINGS SYMPHONY' ATTRACTS YOUNGER AUDIENCE.(Living)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Byline: Mary Ellyn Hutton, Post music writer It may be a long way back to recapture audiences lost to classical music through the disappearance of music education from the schools, changing lifestyles and perceptions of elitism, but the way back may be through places like ...
'CAVEMEN' ABOUT LAUGHS, NOT MESSAGE.(Living)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Lynn Elber, Associated Press "Cavemen" had to undergo a pre-debut evolution. A new first episode with a new setting -- San Diego instead of Atlanta -- will air when the sitcom begins 8 p.m. Tuesday. ABC announced in July that the pilot didn't ...
PUBLIC MEETINGS ON ARTS.(Living)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Post staff report "Community Conversations: Planning for the Future of the Arts" will provide an opportunity for Kentuckians to have a say about the arts in the commonwealth. Nine public meetings have been scheduled throughout the state beginning this week ....
STAY COOL, BENGALS TOLD TEAM NEEDS TO KEEP COMPOSURE VS. PATRIOTS.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Byline: Kevin Goheen, Post staff reporter The Bengals fell behind 7-0 in Seattle last week after just four plays. They answered the Seahawks' quick touchdown with their own score, a 35-yard pass from Carson Palmer to T.J. Houshmandzadeh to cap off a 14-play drive. They were able ...
LIBRARY PROGRAMS ON GERMAN HERITAGE.(Living)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Did you know that October is German-American Heritage Month? This annual celebration of German ancestry and culture is observed in October for several reasons. On Oct. 6, 1683, the first permanent German settlement was founded in Germantown, Pa. Germany's unification on Oct. 3, ...
BIG WIN FOR U.S., AND FOR WEIR CANADIAN STAR DEFEATS WOODS.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Doug Ferguson, Associated Press MONTREAL -- The Presidents Cup didn't end in another tie, but it sure felt that way Sunday. The Americans celebrated another victory, taking more than enough singles matches at Royal Montreal to make a winner out of captain Jack ...
PITCHING STILL MISSING LINK 41-39 RECORD FOR MACKANIN.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Byline: C. Trent Rosecrans, Post staff reporter When Reds center fielder Buck Coats squeezed the final out of the 2007 Reds season, fireworks went off at Great American Ball Park as they do after every victory by the home team. Following Sunday's season-ending 8-4 ...
SEASON EXTENDED ONE MORE NIGHT.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ben Walker, Associated Press Jimmy Rollins backed up his boast and buoyed by a historic collapse, the Philadelphia Phillies can relax. Jake Peavy and the San Diego Padres can hardly afford to rest -- they've got a date at Coors Field. A wild finish Sunday ...
2 GM FACTORIES IN DANGER OF CLOSING.(Business)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Associated Press DETROIT -- Though the tentative contract between General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers would allow GM to shut down several facilities -- including a plant each in Indiana and Michigan -- it would bring more work to central Kentucky and ...
ACTION EXPECTED DURING OFF-SEASON.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Lonnie Wheeler We're here at the season's final game, Cub Appreciation Day, for the perilous task of judging theReds and saying where they stand. To do so definitively, there are simply too few abiding truths beyond the obvious, which would consist, of course ...
MICROSOFT ADDS WEB TO OFFICE MIX.(Business)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Associated Press SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. is creating a Web component for its desktop-based Office programs that lets computer users store, share and comment on documents. Starting today, users can sign up to be part of an early "beta" test of the free ...
CHAMBER TO HOST ANNUAL B2B EVENT.(Business)
Oct 01, 2007 ... The Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Commerce hold its Seventh Annual Business-to-Business (B2B) event Oct. 11. The event, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel, 35 W. Fifth St., downtown, is designed to provide opportunities for ...
A SALON MAKEOVER UNIVERSITY FLUFFS UP BEAUTY BUSINESS.(Business)(Small business)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES -- At Topps Salon Day Spa, owner Suzanne Van Houten is going for a look that is "very seamless." Clients are greeted by name and offered something to drink before their hair, skin or nails get a tune-up. A list of ...
STRIVE FOR MEANING IN GIFTS FOR HOLIDAY.(Business)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Joyce Rosenberg The boutique owners around the country who are Kristen Amato's customers will be getting fluffy, monogrammed terry bathrobes for the holidays. There will be no mugs with her company's name on them. "I hate that. I will never do that," Amato ...
OTHER DEATHS.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... * Harry Dent, a former top adviser to President Richard Nixon who helped him win the South, died Friday in Columbia, S.C. He was 77. After serving in the Korean War, he became a newspaper correspondent, then joined the staff of Sen. Strom Thurmond and served as chairman of the state's ...
CHAMPION EATER DOWNS 21 POUNDS OF GRITS FOR TITLE.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... He'll never want breakfast again. Pat Bertoletti, a mohawk-sporting chef from Chicago, gulped down 21 pounds of buttery, goopy grits in 10 minutes Saturday to win $4,000 in the first World Grits Eating Championship at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City. The grits were presented in ...
LOIS MAXWELL BOND'S FIRST MONEYPENNY.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Lois Maxwell, who starred as Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond movies, has died, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Sunday. She was 80. The Canadian-born actress starred alongside Sean Connery in the first James Bond movie, "Dr. No," in 1962 as the secretary to M, the head ...
ROCK HALL NOMINEES.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ready for Madonna and the Beastie Boys? The Material Girl of pop and the clown princes of New York hip-hop are the biggest names on the final ballot for hall membership, along with Hoosier hero John Mellencamp, who is a more straightforward ...
VOWS IN BOTTLE FLOAT ACROSS TIME.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Melody Kloska and Matt Behrs have been together for five years, but, with several failed marriages between them, they had doubts about remarrying. After tying the knot Aug. 18 on a Lake Michigan beach, they released a bottle containing their wedding vows. A few weeks later, the ...
GERMANY WINS ANOTHER WOMEN'S WORLD CUP.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... SHANGHAI, CHINA -- The unstoppable scorer from Brazil and the unbeatable goalkeeper from Germany stared at each other from 12 yards away -- the outcome of the Women's World Cup perhaps resting on this penalty kick. The confrontation was won by goalie Nadine Angerer. And the ...
HJORTH CLAIMS FIRST WIN SINCE 1999.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... PRATTVILLE, ALA. -- Maria Hjorth made a long birdie putt on the 17th hole and held on for her first LPGA Tour win since 1999 Sunday at the Navistar LPGA Classic, denying Lorena Ochoa's bid for a fourth consecutive victory. Hjorth shot a final-day 5-under-par 67 for a 14-under ...
CAMPBELL WINS VIKING CLASSIC.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... MADISON, MISS. -- Chad Campbell earned a one-stroke victory over Johnson Wagner in the Viking Classic on Sunday, making two birdies on his last three holes to win. Campbell was among six golfers who held or were tied for the lead ...
U.S. WOMEN'S HOOPS IN OLYMPICS.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... VALDIVIA, CHILE -- The U.S. women's basketball team took a rarely used route to get back to the Olympics. Tina Thompson scored 18 points to help the U.S. qualify for the 2008 Beijing Games with a 101-71 victory over Cuba on Sunday in the gold medal game at the FIBA Americas ...
CURLIN RACES PAST LAWYER RON.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... NEW YORK -- Curlin caught Lawyer Ron in the final strides after a riveting stretch duel and won the $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup on Sunday, giving the Preakness winner an automatic berth in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic next month. A day after Kentucky Derby winner ...
PIRATE'S BID SETS TURWAY RECORD.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... FLORENCE, KY. -- Pirate's Bid, a 5-year-old gelding trained by Dennis Moore, set a new Turfway Park track record for 1 1/2 miles Sunday, finishing the starter ...
VENUS WILLIAMS WINS KOREAN OPEN.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA -- Top-seeded Venus Williams beat Maria Kirilenko 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 in the championship of the Korean Open on Sunday. Williams hadn't lost a set in the tournament heading into the final, but she had to work to improve to 3-0 in her ...
GEBRSELASSIE SETS MARATHON RECORD.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BERLIN -- Haile Gebrselassie took advantage of a perfect course and ideal conditions to set a world record at the Berlin Marathon. Gebrselassie raced through Berlin's flat and fast course to set his 25th world record in 2 hours, 4 minutes, 26 seconds. That lowered ...
'CATS MOVE UP TO 20TH AFTER EASY WIN.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Byline: Josh Katzowitz, Post staff reporter University of Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly wouldn't say it in the days leading up to Saturday's game at San Diego State, but he and his coaching staff were a little worried about how the Bearcats would respond to a different ...
HARD SPUN ATONES FOR DERBY LOSS TO STREET SENSE.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Byline: Marc Hardin, Post contributor Hard Spun is heading to the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic after beating his nemesis Street Sense for the first time in three tries while winning Saturday's Kentucky Cup Classic at Turfway Park by a length and a quarter over the Kentucky ...
BIFFLE WINS DISPUTED FINISH AT KANSAS.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Jenna Fryer, Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Darkness finally ended the disaster at Kansas Speedway, where the Chase for the championship field imploded and the finish of Sunday's event was in question long after winner Greg Biffle crossed the finish line. ...