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SPORTS B 1
Xavier never trails in 68-53 win over Miami
THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2006
Must reads inside
today’s Enquirer
Narduzzi gives
Dec. 6 deadline
for hiring by UC
If he’s not named head
coach by Dec. 6, Pat Narduzzi (above), interim
head football coach at the
University of Cincinnati,
will join all but one of the
other UC assistants going
to Michigan State.
SPORTS B1
Drive-through
Nativity returns
The live drive-through Nativity at Church of the Saviour United Methodist in
Montgomery will feature
10 scenes from the Christmas story.
LIFE D1
Mild hurricane
season ends today
IN SPORTS, B1
BENGALS ON NFL’S SHOWCASE
The Bengals are back in
the NFL spotlight, playing
the Baltimore Ravens tonight
in a game that will be broadcast nationally on the NFL
Network. Channel 5 will
show the game locally, because the NFL Network is
not yet available to Time
Warner Cable subscribers.
If the league can reach a
deal with Time Warner to carry the NFL Network, area
viewers would have access to
24-hour league programming,
including games, news and
footage from the NFL Films
archives.
The holdup? The usual –
money.
MORE COVERAGE ONLINE AND INSIDE
ONLINE
IN SPORTS
Get a preview of tonight’s
Bengals-Ravens showdown
with position-by-position
evaluations and a look
at key match-ups.
B6-7
Go to Cincinnati.Com to read
Mark Curnutte’s comments
and analysis during and after
the game.
Keyword: Bengals
The Smiley sisters are in harmony with super fans of the
Bengals. Watch the video on
Cincinnati.Com.
Keyword: biggestfan
ON TV
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Bomb on Interstate 71
a mystery to authorities
No hurricanes struck the
U.S. during the Atlantic
hurricane season, which
ends today. Four hurricanes, including Katrina
and Rita, hit in 2005.
NATION A6
Pilots defend
Comair contract
The Air Line Pilots Association opened its defense
against rejection of its labor contract with Comair,
part of the company’s effort to leave bankruptcy.
BUSINESS A13
Photos by Leigh Taylor/The Enquirer
Cincinnati firefighters put on protective suits after a bomb was found at the Williams Avenue overpass in Norwood. The bomb was detonated around noon, and police said they had no leads about how it got there.
Highway shut down for 4-plus hours
By Eileen Kelley
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An edition of
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Five sections, 166th year, No. 235
Abby .............. D2 Movies ........... D5
Business . A13-15 Obituaries ...... C4
Comics .......... D4 Region ........... C3
Editorials ........ C6 Sports ............ B1
Lotteries ......... C8 TV .................. D2
Classified .................................... E1-10
First Run Classified ........................ A10
Interstate 71 was shut down in
both directions between Dana
and Ridge avenues for more
than four hours.
NORWOOD – Authorities don’t
know how a bomb ended up in heavy
underbrush alongside Interstate 71,
and concerns over the device shut
down the busy highway Wednesday
morning.
The road remained closed from
about 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Thousands of drivers were stuck
in a heavy-metal stew of cars, pickups and tractor-trailers.
A maintenance crew cutting
brush near the Williams Avenue
overpass off I-71 stumbled across the
homemade bomb at 9:30 a.m.
Wednesday.
Within a half-hour, both directions of the interstate were closed.
More police, fire officials and a terrorist task force moved in to search
around the site.
The bomb was detonated around
noon.
The interstate and main side
roads leading to and from the highway remained closed for another 2½
hours as Ohio Department of Transportation workers scoured other areas in search of more devices.
Norwood police said they had no
leads in the case and were asked not
to divulge information about what
the device looked like.
Williams Ave.
Corner
Stone
EXIT 6
Rookwood
Commons
71
Center
of Cinti.
S.C.
Robertson
Ave.
Markbreit Ave.
Edwards Rd.
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COMPLETE FORECAST: C8
Crate &
Barrel
heads to
Kenwood
Housewares store
to be open in 2008
Enquirer staff writer
An Amber Alert in Middletown ended Wednesday
afternoon when police
arrested a man who had
allegedly slashed his girlfriend’s legs and fled with
his two sons.
LOCAL C1
High 61°
Low 38°
Thunderstorms.
The Bengals and Reds have
been advised by the prosecutor’s office to prohibit smoking
in Paul Brown Stadium and
Great American Ball Park as a
result of the Ohio smoking ban
that passed this month.
LOCAL C1
By Cliff Peale
Middletown Amber
Alert ends safely
WEATHER
NO SMOKING
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Crate & Barrel has made it official: The housewares store is coming to Kenwood Towne Place, just
east of Kenwood Towne Centre.
The first Crate & Barrel in the region should open by October 2008
as part of a $180 million development that also will include a Kroger
supermarket, a bookstore, two restaurants and an outdoor fashion
store, developer Bear Creek Capital
said Wednesday.
Nordstrom Inc. announced last
week it would build a store in Kenwood, to open in late 2009.
While Crate & Barrel has been
on the minds of Greater Cincinnati
shoppers for years and rumors have
circulated for much of this year
about the Kenwood location, Bear
Creek managing member Matt
Daniels said the company signed
the lease Monday.
The 34,000-square-foot store will
be part of nearly 300,000 square feet
of retail space in the development.
There will also be 250,000 square
feet of office space.
Bear Creek will start demolition
of the Safeco building in January.
See KENWOOD, Page A10
Report ready for Bush
Iraq Study Group
to urge pullback
The bipartisan Iraq Study Group
reached a consensus on Wednesday on a final report that will call
for a gradual pullback of the 15
American combat brigades now in
Iraq but stop short of setting a firm
timetable, sources said.
The report recommended that
President Bush make it clear that
he intends to start the withdrawal
relatively soon.
NATION A5
1,500 local Ford workers opt to leave company
By Mike Boyer
Enquirer staff writer
More than 1,500 Cincinnati
and Northern Kentucky
workers are among the 38,000
Ford Motor Co. workers who
have indicated they’ll take
buyouts and early retirements, according to area Ford
employees.
Ford has about 3,300 hourly workers at its Batavia and
Sharonville
transmission
plants.
Monty Farmer, 51, of Batavia, would have 33 years with
Ford next April. He opted to
take a buyout that will give
him about $59,000 after taxes
for his daughter’s college education.
“I had kind of mixed emotions,’’ he said.
Steve Williams, 41, of Batavia is in the middle of an eightyear toolmaker’s apprenticeship program. He opted to
pass on the buyouts.
“I want to complete the apprenticeship and see what
happens at Ford. As a journeyman toolmaker I should be
able to get a job anywhere,’’
he said.
A Sharonville worker, Gary
Neibling, 39, of Liberty Township, said he was eligible for a
couple of the buyout plans,
but “I’m going to stay put.
“I weighed all the options
but I make too good money to
jump ship right now,’’ he said.
Area Ford workers said
more than 700 workers from
the Batavia plant, which Ford
plans to close in 2008, had
signed up for one of the buyouts. Another 800 to 900 are
reported to have taken buyouts from the Sharonville
plant.
Workers with enough seniority at Batavia could transfer to Sharonville.
Williams said he’s heard
Ford may reduce the production workforce at Sharonville
to about 800 by 2010.
“If you were hired after
1996, you’ve got to be concerned for your job,’’ said Williams, who has worked at the
Batavia plant for 61⁄2 years.
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