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Baby sitter charged after child dies

Police say a baby sitter for a one-year-old boy found dead in a Cincinnati apartment has been arrested on charges of abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence.

Sgt. Gary Conner says Cincinnati police arrested 26-year-old Marquita Burch of Covington, Ky., on Saturday after she reported toddler William Cunningham missing Friday in Covington and then recanted her story. The child's body was found in a closet of the Cincinnati apartment. Police don't know how he died.

Burch is in jail in Cincinnati. Jail records list no attorney for her.

Police say Burch had been babysitting the toddler at an apartment complex in the northern Kentucky city.

Covington police received a call Friday that the child had wandered away from a playground and searched the area for five hours.

_{Mon, 28 May 2012 01:27:10 -0400}

Civil War-era village will reopen

A re-created Civil War-era village in central Ohio will reopen to the general public next weekend for the first time in nine years with the help of volunteers.

Ohio Village, which is next to the Ohio History Center museum in Columbus, has been open only on a limited basis for special events, private groups and school tours since budget cuts forced it to close to the general public after the 2002 season. The Ohio Historical Society, which operates the village about two hours north of Cincinnati, had eliminated paid staff and vendors in 2001 to try to cut costs and keep the site operating on a regular basis, said Mark Holbrook, the society's marketing manager.

While the budget situation has improved enough to reopen the site for the summer season, officials are depending on costumed volunteers rather than paid staff to help provide historical interpretation of village life, Holbrook said.

Officials have been working for years to reopen Ohio Village, Holbrook said.

"But just when we thought we could do something, we would have to put it on hold because of budget cuts," he added.

Self-guided cellphone tours have been added to allow visitors to roam the 19th century replica buildings at their own pace and learn what life was like in a small Ohio town in the 1860s. Visitors will be able to tour buildings, including a church, a hotel, a newspaper office and a school. They also will receive a treasure-hunt book called Ohio Village Quest with questions about daily life they can answer as they stroll through the village.

Holbrook says the society provides a lot of other services through its library archives and historical preservation efforts, but a key task is to introduce Ohioans to their history. The village offers a unique way of accomplishing that, he said.

"It's sort of like watching a historical movie," he said. "It's entertaining, but you also learn something."

Betty Menear, who has volunteered there for 36 years, is excited about the reopening.

"We have had so many requests to do that," said the 77-year-old Columbus resident who portrays a German immigrant housewife who bakes pies in a fireplace and whose son has left to fight in the Civil War. "I think it really makes history come alive."

Holbrook says different volunteers will interpret different aspects of life in the village each day so visitors can have new experiences on return trips.

Officials would like to have the village, which opened in 1974, available to the general public more than three months a year. But that will depend on funding and the public's support, Holbrook said.

The site, set to open June 2, will operate Wednesday through Sunday through Sept. 2. The village will have the same hours as the museum, with one admission price covering both.

_{Mon, 28 May 2012 01:10:12 -0400}

Boy's body pulled from Mad River

The body of a 13-year-old boy was recovered from the banks of the Mad River on Sunday after a lengthy search that authorities said commanded the attention of nearly all of the city's on-duty police personnel.

Around 4 p.m., police received a report from Five Rivers MetroParks rangers that heard a child yelling for help from the river. While in the area - northeast of the Keowee Street bridge - rangers said one child was able to get himself out of the river but said another was still in the water.

The child's body was later spotted and recovered near the Webster Street bridge. Dayton Police Lt. Wendy Stiver said the victim was a 13-year-old boy, but neither police or the Montgomery County Coroner's office have released the teenager's identification.

Stiver said the boy was a member of the city's large and "close-knit" Ahiska Turkish community. Many came out to the scene of Sunday's accident to mourn.

"He was an honest person, nice and respectful," said 17-year-old Ibrahim Mirzayev, who said the victim was a close friend. "It's really sad. He was the oldest son in the family."

Stiver said once Five Rivers MetroParks rangers notified police of the situation, "just about every on-duty Dayton police officer responded to the scene."

The rescue effort included upwards of 50 people, according to Stiver, ranging from Dayton police and fire personnel to the Box 21 search and rescue group, Five Rivers MetroParks rangers and Riverside police. A CareFlight helicopter responded in an attempt to locate the missing boy from the air.

As of Sunday night, Stiver said police believe the boys were simply looking to cool off on a hot holiday weekend.

"At this time, the river is not a friendly or safe place for recreational swimming," she said. "There are several dangers in the river, including the undercurrents and the low dams."

_{Sun, 27 May 2012 21:59:25 -0400}

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