WEATHER COMPLETE FORECAST: A2 High 48° Low 36° Some sun NKY.COM Breaking News WHAT DO YOU KNOW? Test your knowledge of movies, sports, food and more with our interactive quizzes at NKY.com. Search: quizzes Updates on your cell phone Text KYNEWS to 44636 (4INFO) for breaking-news headlines, as they happen. (Carrier charges may apply) THE KENTUCKY ENQUIRER SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2011 Pressure intensifies in college hoops With roughly two weeks left until Selection Sunday, college basketball teams are ramping up their play in hopes of surviving the NCAA Tournament cut. Sports, D1 Agents stop destructive beetle at CVG Customs agents at Cincinnati/ Northern Kentucky International Airport found a khapra beetle in a passenger’s luggage earlier this month. The beetle can damage or destroy tons of grain if it establishes itself and reproduces. NKY Life, C1 75 CENTS Statue will honor Johnny Bench Artwork of former Reds superstar to be unveiled at ballpark this year By John Erardi [email protected] The man widely regarded as baseball’s greatest catcher ever will begin receiving visitors at Great American Ball Park later this season. A bronze statue of Johnny Bench, currently in miniature clay model form, will be unveiled in front of the Reds Hall of Fame and Museum on Sept. 17. The statue of Bench, one of the stars of the Big Red Machine, will feature him in a throwing motion toward an imaginary second base. Throwing out would-be base stealers is the skill for which he was most renowned, although it was only one of his many skills. “He was a great hitter,” said sculptor Tom Tsuchiya, “but he is known as baseball’s greatest catchSee BENCH, Page A13 Provided Sculptor Tom Tsuchiya works with a clay model of the Johnny Bench sculpture to be erected at Great American Ball Park. ‘The water was so swift it just took the buggy and tipped it over’ Four Amish children die Beshear talks jobs in DC Joins governors at White House By Elizabeth Bewley Gannett Washington Bureau Associated Press/Stephen Lance Dennee Seven children and two adults were riding in this buggy when it overturned in the dark in a rain-swollen creek. Four of the children were swept away and their bodies were recovered by searchers. Rain turned small creek into a furious flood By Bruce Schreiner and Kristin M. Hall Associated Press MAYFIELD, Ky. – A horsedrawn buggy carrying an Amish family toppled in a rain-swollen creek in rural Kentucky, killing four children who were swept away in the swift-moving water, authorities said Friday. The group was traveling in a downpour in the dark about 8:30 p.m. Thursday CST when the buggy flipped just a mile from their house. The creek is normally a trickle, but often floods during heavy rains. Those killed were a 5-month-old; a 5-year-old; a 7-year-old and an 11year-old girl. Three of the children were siblings and one was a cousin. Two adults and three other children escaped. The horse that was pulling the buggy also survived. The father of the 11-year-old girl killed said the family had traveled a few miles to his house to use an Amish community phone. Afterward, the families shared supper before Emanuel Wagler, 29, and his family started for home. “That’s the main reason they came out,” Samuel Wagler said. “To call my dad.” Associated Press/Stephen Lance Dennee The body of an 11-year-old girl, the last of the four to be recovered, is placed in a boat in Roscoe Creek Friday. The two brothers call their father in Missouri every couple of months. Samuel Wagler’s daughter, Elizabeth, planned to spend the night with her cousins and joined them for the ride home to his brother’s farm, he said. Graves County Sheriff Dewayne Redmon, who had headed up the search effort, told reporters he had not interviewed family members. “We’re trying to give the family some time by themselves right now to grieve,” Redmon said. “There’s no doubt that this was just a terrible accident.” The National Weather Service issued a flash-flood warning for the county, said meteorologist Rachel Trevino. The warning had gone out about an hour before the buggy overturned, after storms had already dropped heavy rain, she said. Trevino said it was possible the family, which likely eschewed electricity, had not heard about it. The uncle of the 11-year-old girl Copyright, 2011, The Kentucky Enquirer Portions of today’s Enquirer were printed on recycled paper fire to stop the first significant anti-government marches in days in the Libyan capital. 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SPORTS m Schools across the region see record numbers of twins. m Lawyer Stan Chesley battles a disbarment recommendation. FOR 60 MO. ON MOST NEW NISSANS - PLUS - Where do the NFL contract talks stand? ALSO ... LIMITED TIME OFFER ENDS MONDAY 2/28! FALHABER See BESHEAR, Page A8 COMING IN SUNDAY’S ENQUIRER Libyan protest marchers hit by hail of gunfire Protesters demanding Moammar Gadhafi’s ouster came under a hail of bullets Friday when pro-regime militiamen opened went to help search after the buggy flipped, and the creek was flowing with waist-high water. “She was just an all-around good girl,” a shaken Levi Yoder, 30, said of his niece. Three bodies were discovered shortly after midnight, with search teams using floodlights and fourwheelers to comb the area. The 11year-old girl’s body was discovered about 9:45 a.m. Friday. The tattered, covered black buggy sat beside the creek in a cornfield. Its wheels were mud-caked and slightly buried in the thick brown soup. Part of the buggy’s side had peeled away. A red blanket hung out the cabin door. The family had been traveling in the farming community of Dublin, heavily populated with Amish, in far western Kentucky. The creek flows through farmland along a narrow, paved road. “Whenever they crossed it, the water was so swift it just took the buggy and tipped it over,” Redmon said. The Amish community in and around Dublin is conservative and private, said Teresa Cantrell, mayor WASHINGTON – Gov. Steve Beshear and 13 other Democratic governors met with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and other administration officials Friday at the White House to talk about jobs and the economy. As rain Beshear spattered his suit on the White House lawn, Beshear told reporters the meeting was “very productive.” “The governors got together because we’re concerned about job creation in our states,” he said. “That is the No. 1 priority of every Kentuckian, is to have a job.” Part of that job-creation effort, Beshear said, should involve increasing small businesses’ access to loans. “A lot of our businesses are ready to expand and grow and to create more jobs but they can’t get a loan” despite having good credit histories, he said. “They need to be able to expand and grow by making investments.” Securing long-term federal funding for highways and transit systems is also crucial, he said. “We talked about getting a transportation reauthorization act passed, because building roads, building bridges, doing the kinds of things to invest in our infrastructure not only is going to help us in the future but it’s going to put people to work,” Beshear said. 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