Ohio River

AURORA, Ind. -- After spending a few hours at the Grand Victoria Casino & Resort in Rising Sun, we knew we were still gambling when we decided to have dinner at Applewood Food & Spirits in nearby Aurora. People in Rising Sun and Lawrenceburg had recommended this restaurant along the Ohio River, but we were getting a table 15 minutes before closing. Last-call seatings, even when you phone ahead, can be an invitation to hurried -- if not resentful -- service and cooking. Our young server did not immediately assuage our concerns.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Motorists traveling between Indiana and Kentucky yesterday became mired for miles in unfamiliar travel patterns and few alternatives as the emergency closure of a bridge crossing the Ohio River left only two spans remaining, detouring tens of thousands. It is a reality that drivers need to adjust to, as the Sherman Minton Bridge will likely be closed for a while, said Indiana State Police Sergeant Jerry Goodin. "What we saw today is going to be the norm, until we get that Sherman Minton Bridge opened up," Goodin said yesterday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Motorists traveling between Indiana and Kentucky yesterday became mired for miles in unfamiliar travel patterns and few alternatives as the emergency closure of a bridge crossing the Ohio River left only two spans remaining, detouring tens of thousands. It is a reality that drivers need to adjust to, as the Sherman Minton Bridge will likely be closed for a while, said Indiana State Police Sergeant Jerry Goodin. "What we saw today is going to be the norm, until we get that Sherman Minton Bridge opened up," Goodin said yesterday.

Organizers say an estimated 2,200 people took to the Ohio River in Cincinnati to help the event known as Paddlefest remain the country’s largest on-water paddling event. More than a thousand canoes and kayaks traveled the 8.2 miles from Coney Island Park to the city’s Public Landing on a sunny morning Saturday. It was the largest group of participants in the 10-year history of the event, which has grown from a one-day activity to three days of festivities. Organizers say the participants this weekend included U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, who is from Cincinnati and has participated in...

Authorities have called off the search for a 2-year-old boy who went missing at an Ohio river in which his 3-year-old half-brother drowned. The boys’ family is from Zanesville and had been camping near a dam at Muskingum River State Park, about 50 miles east of Columbus. Muskingum County officials say the family awoke Saturday morning and realized 2-year-old Anthony Joseph Tullius and 3-year-old Ayden Leroy Cecil were gone. Searchers found the older boy’s body hours later about a mile south of the spillway at the dam. Sheriff’s Capt.

Organizers say an estimated 2,200 people took to the Ohio River in Cincinnati to help the event known as Paddlefest remain the country’s largest on-water paddling event. More than a thousand canoes and kayaks traveled the 8.2 miles from Coney Island Park to the city’s Public Landing on a sunny morning Saturday. It was the largest group of participants in the 10-year history of the event, which has grown from a one-day activity to three days of festivities. Organizers say the participants this weekend included U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, who is from Cincinnati and has participated in...

PULASKI COUNTY, Ill. -- Arrowheads that turn up in the mud after a heavy rain are common here, but now archeologists are digging up broken bits of fine china, parts of military uniforms, and even charred firewood, relics of one of the biggest Army camps in the earliest days of the republic that went unnoticed for two centuries. Known as Cantonment Wilkinson -- named after General James Wilkinson, the man who ran it -- the camp housed as many as 1,500 soldiers in 1801-1802, about a third of the standing US Army at the time, historians say. Alexander Hamilton...

RISING SUN, Ind. - An teen accused of strangling his 10-year-old brother to satisfy a craving to kill pleaded not guilty to murder yesterday, as his parents and relatives attended a viewing of his brother’s body a few blocks away. Andrew Conley, 17, of Rising Sun showed no emotion during his initial court appearance in Ohio Circuit Court in Rising Sun, his hometown along the Ohio River about 90 miles southeast of Indianapolis. With about 25 friends - but no immediate family members - looking on, Conley spoke only to tell Judge James Humphrey his name, address, and...

HENDERSON, Ky. -- Eight passengers on a riverboat cruise of the Ohio River remained hospitalized in western Kentucky yesterday, after developing flu-like symptoms while aboard the boat. The Mississippi Queen passengers were part of a group taken to Methodist Hospital Friday evening. More than 30 had reported that they were ill, including 22 who suffered from nausea and vomiting, hospital officials said. A hospital spokeswoman, Shelia Patterson, said 17 passengers were treated.

BELPRE, Ohio -- Ted Johnson had worked 35 years for a chemical plant owned by the DuPont Co. and had believed what officials in the company, based in Delaware, had said about the safety of the operation. Now, he's not so sure. Johnson and his wife, Barbara, are among more than 43,000 people in the mid-Ohio Valley who have signed up for tests to find out whether a chemical used to make Teflon might harm their health. The Johnsons do not have health issues, and Ted Johnson never worked on Teflon.

Authorities have called off the search for a 2-year-old boy who went missing at an Ohio river in which his 3-year-old half-brother drowned. The boys’ family is from Zanesville and had been camping near a dam at Muskingum River State Park, about 50 miles east of Columbus. Muskingum County officials say the family awoke Saturday morning and realized 2-year-old Anthony Joseph Tullius and 3-year-old Ayden Leroy Cecil were gone. Searchers found the older boy’s body hours later about a mile south of the spillway at the dam. Sheriff’s Capt.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A federal appeals court cleared the way yesterday for the Army Corps of Engineers to blow a hole through a levee along the Mississippi River in Missouri to try to prevent flooding in a small Illinois town. The Eighth US Circuit Court of Appeals decided not to overturn a judge’s decision that allows the Corps of Engineers to use explosives to breach the Birds Point levee downstream from Cairo, a town at the southern tip of Illinois near the Missouri border.

COVINGTON, Ky. — A seafood restaurant on a barge broke from its moorings on the flood-swollen Ohio River, then drifted downriver during the dinner rush before emergency crews rescued 83 patrons using a precarious gangplank of ladders and ropes, authorities said yesterday. Covington Fire Captain Chris Kiely said diners at Jeff Ruby’s Waterfront restaurant used cellphones to call for help Friday night as the restaurant floated about 100 feet downstream. Everyone on board, including former Cincinnati Bengals star Cris Collinsworth, was...

It wasn’t the bowl Pittsburgh wanted to be in, but the Panthers made a case that they’ve returned to prominence. Dion Lewis rushed for 159 yards and a touchdown to pass Tony Dorsett as Pittsburgh’s top freshman rusher, and Dan Hutchins kicked a 33-yard field goal with 52 seconds left to give the 17th-ranked Panthers a 19-17 win over North Carolina last night in the Meineke Bowl. Winning 10 games for the first time since Dan Marino was the quarterback in 1981, Pitt (10-3)

RISING SUN, Ind. - An teen accused of strangling his 10-year-old brother to satisfy a craving to kill pleaded not guilty to murder yesterday, as his parents and relatives attended a viewing of his brother’s body a few blocks away. Andrew Conley, 17, of Rising Sun showed no emotion during his initial court appearance in Ohio Circuit Court in Rising Sun, his hometown along the Ohio River about 90 miles southeast of Indianapolis. With about 25 friends - but no immediate family members - looking on, Conley spoke only to tell Judge James Humphrey his name, address, and...

IPSWICH -- There are many things that would come as no surprise to those who know the salt marsh rhythms of the Ipswich River . When spring rain splatters cold and thick on swollen high-tide creeks, matted muskrats hustle from bank burrows, and plovers -- or are they sanderlings ? -- flit in the brown grass. At low tide, rain or shine, blue herons and white egrets gather for a muddy-footed feast. Tears of water drip, drip, drip from black-chunked earth into whatever narrow river channel is left.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A federal appeals court cleared the way yesterday for the Army Corps of Engineers to blow a hole through a levee along the Mississippi River in Missouri to try to prevent flooding in a small Illinois town. The Eighth US Circuit Court of Appeals decided not to overturn a judge’s decision that allows the Corps of Engineers to use explosives to breach the Birds Point levee downstream from Cairo, a town at the southern tip of Illinois near the Missouri border.

CINCINNATI -- At least once a year, I am gripped by a culinary craving that compels me to take a trip to the city of my birth. The cause of my salivating is not some five-star restaurant or even a bowl of the city's legendary chili. It's a Zipburger that I must have, because Zip's Cafe grills up a taste treat like no other. This little diner with a bar in the back blends prime beef and choice ground in its burgers, which are hand-formed with edges that look like a coastal map. Ordered with grilled onions, they awaken the primal meat-eating tastebuds that lurk in...

Lanky pitcher Bronson Arroyo, who earned a World Series ring with the Red Sox in 2004, knew things would be different when he was traded to the Cincinnati Reds last year. He recalls being greeted at spring training by a single reporter as opposed to the press hordes that normally follow the Boston team. Teammate Ken Griffey Jr. sauntered by and said, "It's not like the Red Sox, huh?" Arroyo is still puzzled as to why he was traded, but he had the last laugh by leading the National League in innings pitched.

HENDERSON, Ky. -- Eight passengers on a riverboat cruise of the Ohio River remained hospitalized in western Kentucky yesterday, after developing flu-like symptoms while aboard the boat. The Mississippi Queen passengers were part of a group taken to Methodist Hospital Friday evening. More than 30 had reported that they were ill, including 22 who suffered from nausea and vomiting, hospital officials said. A hospital spokeswoman, Shelia Patterson, said 17 passengers were treated.