Cincinnati Oh Suits

A cross erected by the Ku Klux Klan in a Cincinnati square was toppled in the fourth attack during the past week, police said. Ron Lee, vice president of the U.S. Knights of the Klan, said his group plans to sue the city for failing to protect the cross. A man who knocked down the 10-foot wooden cross was cited for disorderly conduct, Sgt. Pete Fisher said. The cross remained on the ground until four men erected a new one that is reinforced with steel, Lee said.

Handgun manufacturers facing a legal assault by U.S. cities won a major victory Thursday when an Ohio judge tossed out Cincinnati's case in the first big test of the legal merits of claims brought by 29 municipalities.

On Friday, Oct. 5, an Ohio criminal court jury ended a summerlong bad dream for the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and its director, Dennis Barrie. But in the weeks since Barrie and the museum were found not guilty on obscenity and child pornography charges that grew out of a show of photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe, Barrie has found the art center may have sustained long-term damage to its finances and reputation.

A cross erected by the Ku Klux Klan in a Cincinnati square was toppled in the fourth attack during the past week, police said. Ron Lee, vice president of the U.S. Knights of the Klan, said his group plans to sue the city for failing to protect the cross. A man who knocked down the 10-foot wooden cross was cited for disorderly conduct, Sgt. Pete Fisher said. The cross remained on the ground until four men erected a new one that is reinforced with steel, Lee said.

Handgun manufacturers facing a legal assault by U.S. cities won a major victory Thursday when an Ohio judge tossed out Cincinnati's case in the first big test of the legal merits of claims brought by 29 municipalities.

On Friday, Oct. 5, an Ohio criminal court jury ended a summerlong bad dream for the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and its director, Dennis Barrie. But in the weeks since Barrie and the museum were found not guilty on obscenity and child pornography charges that grew out of a show of photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe, Barrie has found the art center may have sustained long-term damage to its finances and reputation.