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Reports indicate Ohio student pair died in bathtub
ATHENS (AP) — The mother of one of the two 22-year-olds found dead last weekend near Ohio University told a 911 dispatcher she thought they had drowned themselves in a bathtub.
In the 911 call made Saturday morning, Cynthia Welden said she pulled her son and his girlfriend out of the tub at an apartment in Athens.
A police report says Hocking College student Christopher Theil and Ohio University student Kelly Armbruster died sometime between 1 a.m. and 6:18 a.m., when authorities were called.
Athens Police Capt. Tom Pyle said there were no obvious signs of foul play. He says police are awaiting autopsy results to determine the cause of death and says the full findings could take up to eight weeks.
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| MONDAY MAY 5, 2008 |
Project works to educate Amish, Mennonites on breast cancer
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A statewide project to encourage Amish and Mennonite women to undergo regular breast exams is working to overcome cultural and transportation issues to reduce the high number of deaths from breast cancer in the two populations.
Researcher Melissa Thomas founded Project Hoffnung after discovering that health screenings for Amish and Mennonite women in rural Ohio weren't widely accessible, and that too many didn't take advantage of mobile medical screening units.
Contrary to widely held beliefs, Thomas also found that Amish women were interested in learning more about breast cancer.
"We were told from health care professionals, ‘They don't believe in technology. They don't believe in medical care. Why waste your time?"' Thomas said.
But the project, whose name comes from the German word for hope, has provided services, including mammograms, to more than 1,500 women over the last decade and has also worked to educate Amish and Mennonite women on the importance of regular breast self-exams, she said.
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Trio of sisters enlist in Ohio National Guard
COLUMBUS (AP) - A University of Cincinnati medical student overcame an initial case of the nerves to join her two sisters in enlisting in the Ohio Army National Guard, making the trio a rarity, a Guard spokeswoman said.
Tavissa Granger, 24, recently took the oath after her older sister, Domanie, gave her a pep talk.
"We finally got her to come in," Domanie said. "We've kind of been after her for a bit."
The three women have all joined since July. Domanie, 27, is training to be an officer and hopes to serve on Apache helicopters, while Maewellyn, 20, is an international affairs student.
"Nobody's more surprised than I am," said their father, David, who served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War.
The trio from Newtown in suburban Cincinnati may be the first set of three sisters ever to enlist in the Ohio National Guard, Maj. Nicole Gabriel said. A total of 1,344 of the Guard's 9,677 enlisted members are women, she said.
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Ohio teen who hid under sheets from intruders says she's doing OK
LITHOPOLIS (AP) - A teenager home alone who hid in bed from two intruders and alerted her mother by text message said Thursday she pulled bed sheets over her head because she believed it was the safest thing to do.
Lauren Durnbaugh, 13, said she figured the thieves would look in closets and under her bed for items to steal, so she curled up under the covers and kept still, even when one of the intruders sat at the edge of the bed and unhooked cords from her laptop computer.
"I could feel him sitting next to me. He was inches away," Durnbaugh said. The intruders apparently were unaware of her presence, authorities said.
While Durnbaugh hid Tuesday morning, her mother rushed home while phoning 911, a call that led to the arrest of two suspects, authorities said.
"My daughter's home from school and she says there's people in the house," her mother, Margo Roby, said in the 911 call released Thursday. "She thinks we're being robbed. She said there's people in the house, she can hear their voices."
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Former nuke plant worker gets probation for hiding damage
TOLEDO (AP) - A judge sentenced a former nuclear plant worker on Thursday to three years' probation for concealing from the government the worst corrosion ever found at a U.S. reactor.
David Geisen, the Davis-Besse plant's former engineering design manager, had faced up to five years in prison after being convicted of misleading regulators into believing the plant along Lake Erie was safe.
U.S. District Judge David Katz opted for probation and a $7,500 fine. The judge noted that Geisen already had been stripped of his license to work in the nuclear industry.
"It is both an economic and a career blow," Katz said.
Prosecutors said Geisen and two other workers lied in the fall of 2001 so the plant could delay a shutdown for a safety inspection. Months later, inspectors found an acid leak that nearly ate through the reactor's 6-inch-thick steel cap. It's not clear how close the plant was to an accident.
Federal prosecutors said Geisen told regulators that an area of the plant the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission was concerned about had been inspected and that there was no reason to worry. But the inspections weren't fully completed and Geisen knew it, prosecutors said.
Following the discovery of the leak, the NRC beefed up inspections and training and began requiring detailed records of its discussions with plant operators.
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