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THE KENTUCKY ENQUIRER
AN EDITION OF THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2006
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Crosstown fans caught in TV shootout
Superbike
rider,
Jessica
Zalusky
IN SPORTS • PAGES B4-5
Up Front
Must reads inside
today’s Enquirer
Rumors of Reds’
revival overblown
The Reds, after showing
signs of life, relapsed with
a 7-2 loss to Florida.
SPORTS B1
Lachey back home
The Taft was rowdy for
Nick Lachey’s first hometown concert in five years.
FOCUS ON PEOPLE A2
Springer hoofin’
Jerry Springer lives to
dance another day on
“Dancing with the Stars.”
FOCUS ON PEOPLE A2
Moving the music
Two related musical equipment companies are moving into Boone County.
BUSINESS A16
By Bill Koch
Enquirer staff writer
UC-Xavier game set for ESPNU, but few viewers have access
A ticket to the Skyline Chili
Crosstown Shootout, always a
prized possession in Cincinnati, may be even more valuable this year.
The annual college basketball showdown between the
University of Cincinnati and
Xavier University, scheduled
for Dec. 13 at UC’s Fifth Third
Arena, has been televised on
either ESPN or ESPN2 since
the 1998-99 season.
But this year the game will
be available only on ESPNU, a
cable channel devoted to college sports which most Greater Cincinnati households
can’t access.
Time Warner, the largest
cable system in Southwest
Ohio, does not carry the channel, which was launched in
March 2005.
In Northern Kentucky, customers of Insight Communications can get ESPNU as part
of its digital service.
And in Lebanon, Ohio, Lebanon Communications also
offers ESPNU as part of its
digital service.
Everyone else will need
access to a satellite hookup –
and a higher-tier programming package – to see the
See ESPNU, Page A10
Sex offender
in trouble
over registry
More than
4,000
vehicles
languish on
Jack’s Used
Auto Parts’ lot
in the
East End.
Authorities say
some of the
cars were
stolen by
tow-truck
drivers and
sold to the
salvage yard
for either
$80 or $155.
By Jim Hannah
Enquirer staff writer
following
year, jurors
unanimously
decided that
prosecutors
had not proven their case.
After the
Funk
acquittal,
Funk, a Norwood native,
said he planned to live with
his sister in Delhi Township.
By July 2005, he had given a Union Township address to Ohio officials who
maintain the state’s sex-offenders registry, according
to court records.
When Clermont County
sheriff’s deputies went to the
address in November 2005,
he wasn’t there.
“We didn’t know where
he was,” Clermont County
Assistant Prosecutor Kevin
Miles said. “He dropped off
the radar screen.”
Early this year, Funk was
found living in east Tennessee, near Bristol. Tennessee
officials charged Funk with
failing to register as a sex offender in their state.
Funk told investigators
he didn’t think he needed to
register in Tennessee because his permanent residence wasn’t in the state,
said Jim Goodwin, assistant
county attorney for Sullivan
County, Tenn..
Funk was sentenced to
216 days in prison.
After Funk served his
time in Tennessee, Ohio extradited him to Clermont
County. He faces a maximum of five years in prison if
found guilty.
A hearing is set for Oct. 5.
COVINGTON – It’s
been 12 years since Michael
Funk was acquitted of killing
Jenny Iles, and now the 40year-old again finds himself
an accused man.
He is being held at the
Clermont County jail on a
charge of failing to provide a
current address for Ohio’s
sex-offender registry. A conviction for a sex crime in
Hamilton County earned
him a spot there in 1989.
Funk had been sentenced
to four to 10 years in prison
after pleading guilty to gross
sexual imposition on a 19month-old Norwood girl.
His cellmates at the Hamilton County Justice Center
told authorities that Funk
said he had killed Jenny.
Funk was released after
serving 12 months of his
Ohio sentence and a Kentucky grand jury quickly indicted him on a murder
charge in Jenny’s death.
The 7-year-old disappeared April 21, 1989, from
her Banklick Street home in
Covington. A man scavenging for scrap metal found her
decomposed body 10 days
later in an old building.
Funk’s first trial, in 1990,
ended in a conviction for
manslaughter, but the conviction was successfully appealed. The Kentucky Supreme Court determined
that photographs of Jenny’s
corpse prejudiced the jury.
The second trial, in 1993,
ended in a mistrial, with all
but one juror arguing Funk
was not guilty.
During a third trial, the E-mail [email protected]
Missing your car?
You’re not alone
T.O.: Just accident
A bad pill mix, Terrell Owens says, not suicide try.
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WEATHER
game.
John Long, general manager at WXIX-TV (Channel 19),
which owns the local television rights to UC’s basketball
games, said Wednesday that
ESPN has shifted the game to
ESPNU in an attempt to force
Time Warner Cable to include
ESPNU in its basic cable
package.
“It’s all about ESPN and
power plays and trying to get
as many UC games on ESPNU so it will force the cable
systems to put ESPNU on
their cable system,” Long
said. “That’s what this is all
about.”
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Adult gunman kills
hostage, then self
at Colorado school
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COLORADO
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Police say tow trucks steal, sell them for salvage
By Sharon Coolidge
Enquirer staff writer
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If your Honda Civic was stolen,
EAST END – The tow- join the crowd. List, A9
truck drivers scoured Cincinnati streets and parking truck drivers, authorities
lots, police say, often stop- say. And the plan worked at
ping, hooking up a car and Jack’s Used Auto Parts, they
hauling it away.
said Wednesday, because of
According to an investiga- the junkyard owner’s sloppy
tion by two police districts record keeping.
and four other agencies,
Jack’s has been forced to
they were taking vehicles close for violating its salvage
they didn’t have a right to license, not because of stotake, selling them and pock- len cars, while the investigaeting the money. And at least tion into the car thefts consome of them ended up at an tinues, police and Hamilton
East End junk yard.
County prosecutors said.
That’s the elaborate
A court-approved search
scheme cooked up by tow- of the Kellogg Avenue sal-
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Top theft targets
vage yard in April revealed
nine cars out of 200 checked
were stolen, said District 3
Detective John Brehm, who
investigated with District 2
Detective Sharon Baglien
and four other agencies.
The tow-truck drivers
hunted along roads and in
parking lots for cars – usually older ones or those in poor
shape. They’d take them to
Jack’s, where they’d sell
them for either $80 or $155,
Baglien said.
Jack’s owner, Bryant Feistel, didn’t ask for titles as required by law, Baglien said.
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Bryant Feistel, owner of Jack’s Used Auto Parts, attempts to phone his attorney after his salvage license was
revoked Wednesday by George Brooks, supervisor of the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles’ Southwest District.
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BAILEY, Colo. – A gunman took six girls hostage at
the high school in this
mountain town Wednesday,
using them as human
shields for hours before he
shot and fatally wounded a
girl and then killed himself
as a SWAT team moved in,
authorities said.
The confrontation unfolded just a short drive away
from Columbine, the site of
one of the nation’s deadliest
school shootings. The gunman, believed to be between
30 and 50 years old, was cornered with the girls in a second-floor classroom, and he
released four of them, one
by one.
Park County Sheriff Fred
Wegener said authorities
decided to enter the school
to save the two remaining
hostages after the man cut
off negotiations and set a
deadline. He said authorities
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used explosives as they entered the classroom, only to
have the suspect fire at officers, shoot one of the girls
and then himself.
The man was not immediately identified, and the
sheriff was at a loss to explain a motive.
“I don’t know why he
wanted to do this,” Wegener
said, his voice breaking.
The last hostage was unharmed and talking with authorities.