The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) back issues from November 2007:
LETHAL INJECTION HEARINGS GIVEN OK.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Associated Press COLUMBUS -- A judge can hold hearings on whether Ohio's lethal injection procedures are constitutional, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a case that could determine the fate of the state's process for executing condemned ...
BRITAIN TO HAND OVER IRAQ SECURITY.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Los Angeles Times BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saying that Iraqi forces are now capable of dealing with the violence that persists in the south, Britain's defense secretary said Wednesday that his government intends to hand over security for the area by mid-December. ...
ADMISSIONS OF IRAQI REFUGEES FALL SHORT.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Matthew Lee, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The United States admitted only 450 Iraqi refugees in October, fewer than half the number it needs per month to meet a goal of 12,000 by the end of this budget year, according to State Department statistics obtained by The ...
OHIO 5TH IN U.S. FORECLOSURES.(Business)
Nov 01, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES -- A total of 446,726 homes nationwide were targeted by some sort of foreclosure activity from July to September, up 100.1 percent from 223,233 properties in the year-ago period, according to Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac Inc. The current figure was 33.9 percent higher than ...
BROMWELL'S RE-OPENING.(Business)
Nov 01, 2007 ... CINCINNATI -- Bromwell's, the downtown institution said to be the oldest business in Cincinnati, will hold a "grand re-opening" Saturday to begin its 188th year in business. Bromwell's, which specializes in fireplaces, fireplace ...
HOLLYWOOD STRIKE.(Business)
Nov 01, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES -- Talks between Hollywood producers and the Writers Guild of America have reached a cliffhanger. A strike could happen as early as Friday, with writers meeting tonight to discuss whether to walk out or continue to work without a contract. Their contract ...
NCR DOWN 63%.(Business)
Nov 01, 2007 ... DAYTON, Ohio NCR Corp. said Wednesday its third -- quarter earnings fell 63 percent, reflecting the spinoff of its Teradata unit, to $33 million (18 cents a share) compared with $89 million (49 cents) for the same period in 2006. Excluding expenses for the Oct. 1 Teradata Corp. spinoff on ...
BUYING BURT'S BEES.(Business)
Nov 01, 2007 ... MORRISVILLE, N.C. -- Clorox Co. said Wednesday it would purchase lip balm maker Burt's Bees for $925 million. Burt's Bees, based in Morrisville, N.C., makes beauty products that contain at least 95 percent natural ingredients. The all-cash deal, expected to close by the end of the year, ...
OSHA HITS CINTAS WITH $196K FINE.(Business)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Byline: Greg Paeth, Post staff reporter The Department of Labor's Occupational Health and Safety Administration has levied a heavy fine against Cintas after an inspection of the company's plant in Mobile, Ala. Mason-based Cintas, the country's largest supplier of ...
FED'S RATE CUT LIKELY LAST FOR WHILE.(Business)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Compiled from Post news services WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut its benchmark interest rate for the second time in as many months but signaled that the reduction would be its last for a while. The central bank's Board of Governors cut the ...
OMNICARE SHARES DIVE ON FORECAST.(Business)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: From staff and wire reports Investors hammered Covington-based Omnicare Wednesday after the company reported a disappointing third-quarter profit and lowered its full-year forecast as it expects changes in Medicare reimbursement to hurt its fourth-quarter results. ...
HOW HIGH WILL IT GO? GOOGLE STOCK SOARS ABOVE $700.(Business)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Liedtke, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc.'s stock price barreled through $700 for the first time Wednesday, propelled by a belief that the Internet search leader will become even more profitable as it plants its products and services in new markets. ...
BOMB SCARE SHUTS DOWN INTERSTATE DEVICE FOUND BY TRUCK DRIVER.(News)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Byline: Joe Wessels, Post contributor A suspicious looking device that forced the closure of Interstate 75 in both directions for more than two hours Wednesday in Lockland turned out to be a bomb -- sort of. Officials confirmed that a package found by a local truck ...
ONE MAN KILLED, ANOTHER INJURED.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... POLICE -- One man was killed and another wounded in a shooting Wednesday outside an Over-the-Rhine bar, police said. An officer on patrol saw a crowd of people run from the site on Main Street near 12th Street about 11:50 p.m. and ...
TEEN CHARGED IN SHOOTING.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... POLICE -- A 16-year-old Cincinnati boy charged Wednesday with shooting of a Covington police officer who was chasing him about 3 a.m. last Friday. According to Covington police, residents in the city's East Side neighborhood helped ...
CRASH KILLS MAN, 43.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... POLICE -- A Northern Kentucky man was killed Wednesday when his truck crashed on Richwood Road in Walton, Ky., and caught fire, the Boone County sheriff's department said. Billy ...
COLLISION HURTS 3 TEENS.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... POLICE -- Three Hamilton teenagers were injured in a car-truck collision Wednesday at the intersection of Wasserman Road and Millville Avenue in Hamilton. William Reed, 17, was treated at Fort ...
DVDS FOR TROOPS DUE.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... COMMUNITY -- Today is the last day to donate new, packaged DVDs to send to troops overseas during the upcoming holidays. Donations can be dropped at all Coldwell ...
DEFICIT DUE TO INFLATION.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... CORRECTIONS -- Hamilton County leaders say the county is facing a $35 million deficit largely because revenues have ...
LUNKEN VISIT NOT FIRST.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... CORRECTIONS -- In 1992, President George H.W. Bush arrived at Lunken Airport in a small Air Force One plane. A story Tuesday ...
FIGHT OVER ASSETS SEARCH.(News)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Byline: Paul A. Long, Post staff reporter As Lexington attorney Angela Ford begins the process of trying to find $42 million that a judge said three Central Kentucky lawyers owe her clients, the trio are trying to stop her. Attorneys for the three argued Wednesday in ...
ACCUSED KILLER'S BOND TO REMAIN AT $1 MILLION.(News)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Byline: Paul A. Long, Post staff reporter A Campbell County judge has refused to lower the bond of Cheryl McCafferty, the Northern Kentucky woman accused of killing her husband this summer. In a ruling released Wednesday, Circuit Judge Julie Reinhardt Ward said the ...
CANCER SOCIETY HONORS SERVICE.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Post staff report The American Cancer Society of Southwest Ohio has named its volunteers of the year and assured one of its longtime board members and supporters will be around for life. The Society gave George H. Musekamp III of Amberley Village a lifetime ...
ATTORNEY NABBED IN SEX STING.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: John McCarthy, Associated Press COLUMBUS -- An attorney arrested in an Internet child-sex sting in the basement of the Ohio Statehouse thought he was going to meet a 15-year-old girl he had met online, authorities said. Barry Mentser, 48, a former children's ...
ST. E. HOME HEALTH GETTING NEW OWNER.(News)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Byline: Peggy Kreimer, Post staff reporter St. Elizabeth Medical Center's Home Health Care program will be operated by a new owner in December. The hospital has formed a partnership with American Nursing Care, the largest home care provider in Greater Cincinnati, to create a new ...
COLUMNIST WILLIAMS TO BE KEYNOTE SPEAKER.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Post staff report Newsman and columnist Juan Williams will be the keynote speaker at the Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency's annual luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Friday at the Westin Hotel downtown. Williams is a columnist and editorial writer for ...
DEATHS.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... MARY ROBINSON, 98, of Deer Park died Oct. 17. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Baltimore Pike Cemetery, Westwood. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills, is handling the arrangements. ...
MIAMI U. POLICE REMOVE DISPLAY OF NOOSES IN TREE.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Lisa Cornwell, Associated Press Student complaints prompted police at Miami University to take down a student art display consisting of seven nooses and a tire swing hung from a tree. University officials said the artists apparently did not intend to be ...
FDA CHIEF WILL FACE GRILLING ON FOREIGN DRUG INSPECTIONS.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration isn't paying enough attention to inspecting the growing amount of drugs produced by foreign manufacturers, say lawmakers who want the agency to update its approach. The head of the FDA is being ...
DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION TO MUKASEY GROWING.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- Opposition among Democrats to Michael B. Mukasey's nomination as attorney general grew Wednesday, heightening the intrigue surrounding a confirmation that once seemed assured. In sometimes passionate debate on the Senate floor, ...
3 CONVICTED IN BOMBINGS.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... MADRID, Spain -- Spain's National Court convicted the three main suspects in the Madrid commuter train bombings of mass murder Wednesday and sentenced them to tens of thousands of years in prison for Europe's worst terror attack by Islamic militants. But the verdict was a mixed bag for ...
MAYOR DUE IN COURT.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. -- Three weeks after resigning amid a federal investigation, the former mayor of Atlantic City was due in court today to enter an agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office, his lawyer said. The lawyer, Ed Jacobs, refused to say if Robert Levy's agreement would be a ...
CIVILIAN DEATHS.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... KABUL, Afghanistan -- A nighttime raid in eastern Afghanistan by U.S. and Afghan troops sparked a gunbattle that killed three people, including two children, and the military said it is investigating the deaths. Civilian casualties have ...
THOUSANDS FLEE.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... NAIROBI, Kenya -- Nearly 90,000 people have fled Somalia's capital in recent days, a massive upsurge of displacements following the heaviest fighting to shake the war-battered city in months, the ...
VERDICT AGAINST CHURCH.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... BALTIMORE -- Members of a fundamentalist Kansas church ordered to pay nearly $11 million in damages to a grieving father smiled as they walked out of the courtroom, vowing that the verdict would not deter them from protesting at military funerals. "Absolutely, don't you understand this was ...
PROTEST BY TEACHER.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... MADISON, Wis. -- A middle school teacher is protesting the federal No Child Left Behind law by refusing to administer a standardized test to his eighth-grade students. David Wasserman, a middle ...
SLAYING OVER WATER.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... SYDNEY, Australia -- A 66-year-old man was bashed to death while watering his lawn following an argument with a neighbor over the city's water restrictions, police and media said today. Todd Munter, 36, was charged with murdering Ken Proctor, who lived on a ...
NOEL HEADS TOWARD BAHAMAS.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Jose Monegro, Associated Press PIEDRA BLANCA, Dominican Republic -- Tropical Storm Noel buffeted south Florida today with high surf and winds as it swirled slowly toward the Bahamas after triggering mudslides and floods in the Caribbean that killed at least 81 people. ...
NASA FOCUSES ON WING DAMAGE.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Associated Press HOUSTON -- NASA worked furiously today to plan a spacewalk to fix the ripped solar wing at the international space station, hoping to solve the problem before the shuttle Discovery undocks. The agency wanted spacewalking astronauts to tackle ...
'DO NOT TRACK' LIST SOUGHT FOR INTERNET.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Catherine Rampell , Washington Post WASHINGTON -- Privacy, consumer and technology groups Wednesday proposed the creation of a "Do Not Track" list similar to the "Do Not Call" phone list so people can prevent companies from tracking which Web sites they visit. ...
NEW POLICY AT MARSHALL LETS PAGANS MISS CLASS.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When George Fain visits a grave to mark a pagan holiday, she won't have to worry about the work she's missing in her classes at Marshall University. That's because her absence today on the Samhain holiday has been ...
WANTED: 40 POLL WORKERS.(News)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Byline: Joe Wessels, Post contributor Not doing anything on Election Day? The Hamilton County Board of Elections needs you. With just five days to go until polls open, the board still needs nearly 40 election workers. Getting poll workers has never been an ...
CASTRO FIXATION IS UNWISE.(Editorial)(Column)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Paolo Spadoni In an emotional speech last week before government officials, prominent Cuban exiles and families of jailed Cuban dissidents, President Bush unveiled new U.S. initiatives aimed at hastening a democratic transition in Cuba. He also ruled out any detente with ...
PARENTAL TETHER IS LEASH, TOO.(Editorial)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ellen Goodman BOSTON -- Pretty soon, we're going have to amend the favorite mom and dad moniker of the moment. Those much vaunted helicopter parents are turning into black-helicopter parents. The image of parents hovering over their kids is morphing into the darker image ...
SURVIVING THE TURMOIL.(Editorial)(Editorial)
Nov 01, 2007 ... There was a rare moment at the White House on Wednesday. Good economic numbers came out and the Bush administration didn't try to take credit for them. Indeed, the president's chief economic adviser, Edward Lazear, and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez were pleased, as they should be, ...
THE VIRTUE OF GENEROSITY.(Editorial)(Editorial)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Greater Cincinnati, stripped of its virtues, is a medium-sized city located squarely in the Rust Belt. Its population growth has been relatively flat for years and its economy, while doing more than treading water, hasn't exactly been booming lately. None of these core ...
MY DORM IS NICER THAN YOUR DORM.(Editorial)(Column)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Jonathan Zimmerman NEW YORK -- In recent weeks, thousands of Americans have been traveling to their children's college or university for "parents' weekend." They'll wander leaf-strewn lawns and quadrangles with their sons and daughters, asking earnest questions about ...
COLUMNIST'S ATTACK ON BUSH WAS OFF TARGET.(Editorial)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2007 ... To the editor of The Post: Clarence Page's recent column, "A veto that will backfire," works from the premise that George Bush is in bed with the insurance companies, and that is why he vetoed SCHIP. Page's reasoning is very sketchy. First of all, none of this has ...
KENTUCKY'S ECONOMY IS BROKEN.(Editorial)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2007 ... To the editor of The Post: Working families in Kentucky are fed up. Throughout four years of Gov. Ernie Fletcher's tenure, it has grown harder and harder to get by, with the costs of everyday things -- gas, food, electricity -- and not-so-everyday things -- hospital visits, ...
FAMILY INSPIRES PLAYWRIGHT.(Living)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Byline: Jerry Stein, Post arts writer The 2007 Duncanson Artist-in-Residence at the Taft Museum of Art turned to his family's history as inspiration for his new play, "The Safe House." "It's mostly based on my maternal grandmother's family," said Cincinnati-born ...
ACTIVISTS WORK FOR CANDIDATES.(Living)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Jack Hicks There's a tale in the lore of Kentucky politics concerning an elderly lady who is asked about her preferences in the coming election. "Those old politicians," she snorts. "I don't vote for them. It only encourages them." Sadly, there seems to be a ...
NEW MEDIA NOW DRIVES TV LINEUP FOR FALL SERIES AND SPECIALS.(Living)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Byline: Rick Bird, Post staff reporter We have seen the future of TV and it is ...."Gossip Girl." No, it's not that the CW teen soap is some groundbreaking drama, although it is a fun guilty pleasure about spoiled, snotty kids at a prep school who need to have their ...
IN THE COMPANY OF PRESIDENTS FOR HALF CENTURY.(Living)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Hillel Italie, Associated Press NEW YORK -- Barry H. Landau, presidential collector and connoisseur, remembers the time he was dancing with Betty Ford at the White House and Fred Astaire cut in. Oh? "I recall I was doing a Lindy with Mrs. Ford, and ...
FINDING 'AMERICA'S BEST CHOIR'.(News)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Byline: Rick Bird, Post staff reporter Cincinnati will have a choir competing in a holiday-themed "American Idol"-style reality show to find "America's best choir." It will air Dec. 17-20 on NBC. The Cincinnati Film Commission has put out an open casting call for area vocalists ...
NEED USER GUIDE TO INTERNET? READ A BOOK.(Living)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Monica Hesse, Washington Post WASHINGTON -- Que Publishing held an online party in Second Life recently to fete the release of "Second Life: A Guide to Your Virtual World" -- 416 pages on navigating that user-generated community in which residents buy virtual property, ...
READERS FIND FAULTS WITH COLUMNIST.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Byline: Kevin Eigelbach Of all the errors I'm prone to as a journalist, getting names wrong is one that I hate the most. It's also one that I too often make. In my column of last week, I incorrectly called Matt Howe, the pastor of the Living Stones Fellowship, Mike ...
REDS SAY YES TO DUNN TEAM PICKS UP $13M OPTION.(Sports)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Byline: C. Trent Rosecrans, Post staff reporter Adam Dunn will be a Red in 2008 as the team picked up his $13 million option Wednesday. Reds general manager Wayne Krivsky said there had been no discussion of an extension for the Reds left fielder, whose contract ends after the ...
WATSON, RUDI BOTH TO PLAY VS. BILLS.(Sports)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Byline: Kevin Goheen, Post staff reporter Rudi Johnson has been quiet the past five weeks. If he wasn't going to be able to play, he wasn't going to talk. Johnson talked Wednesday. The Bengals running back and his hamstring were given the green light to ...
NORSE SURPRISE BEARCATS 'CATS UNPREPARED FOR NKU OFFENSE.(Sports)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Byline: Marc Hardin, Post contributor Put two basketball teams on an asphalt court where one team is much bigger than the other and what would you expect to happen? You might expect the bigger team to exploit its tremendous size advantage and clean up against the smaller guys. ...
GILLISPIE ERA OPENS WITH WIN UK FILLS BASKET WITH 3-POINTERS.(Sports)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Byline: Victoria Sun, Post staff reporter LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Like the rest of the Big Blue Nation, Pikeville College head coach Kelly Wells wasn't sure what to expect when his team played the University of Kentucky. For the past 10 seasons the Wildcats had forged an ...
UC LEARNS HUMBLING LESSON.(Sports)
Nov 01, 2007 ... For all practical purposes, this is Mick Cronin's first team at the University of Cincinnati. It's the first one he's had any reasonable opportunity to recruit for, which makes last year's 2-14 Big East record more shameful, really, for the beaten two than the barren Bearcats, even if both ...
COLBERT'S DEADLINE.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... A crossroads comes today in the presidential almost-candicacy of satirist Stephen Colbert, when the entertainer must register in order to be included on January primary ballots in South Carolina. Neither the "Colbert Report" host, 43, nor Comedy Central executives are commenting. South ...
IMAGES OF HALLOWEEN.(News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... CAPTION(S): Photo (8) NEW YORK: "Live with Regis and Kelly" co-hosts Regis Philbin, right, and Kelly Ripa join were joined by "Dr. Phil" McGraw during their Halloween Spectacular. Ripa was done up as Judge Judy, while Philbin took on his fellow TV host pal, David ...
DERBY WINNER STREET SENSE'S STUD FEES $75K.(Sports)
Nov 01, 2007 ... LEXINGTON, KY. -- The stud fees are in from Darley America: Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense will stand for $75,000, Hard Spun for $50,000. Street Sense closed out his career with a disappointing fourth-place finish in the $5 million Breeders' Cup at Monmouth ...
MOZELIAK HIRED AS CARDINALS' GM.(Sports)
Nov 01, 2007 ... ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Cardinals hired John Mozeliak as their new general manager Wednesday, promoting him to replace the fired Walt Jocketty. Mozeliak, 38, was the Cardinals' ...