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Cards win game, lose star
Michael Bush
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THE KENTUCKY ENQUIRER
AN EDITION OF THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2006
Up Front
THIRTY YEARS OF RIVERFEST
Must reads inside
today’s Enquirer
IT’S A BOOM TOWN
By Cliff Peale
Enquirer staff writer
“The scoreboard said I lost
today, but what the scoreboard doesn’t say is what
it is I have found,” Andre
Agassi said at the U.S.
Open after the final match
of his pro career.
SPORTS C1
Olympic volleyball
duo wins local cup
Pro beach volleyball players and gold medalists
Misty May-Treanor and
Kerri Walsh were champions at the Cincinnati Open
on Sunday.
SPORTS C4
The Enquirer/Michael E. Keating
Fireworks burst behind the downtown skyline in this time-exposure photo taken from the Museum Center at Union Terminal.
When the riverfront sky is filled with fire,
the oohs and the aahs are uncountable
St. Vincent de Paul Community Pharmacy is asking
Northern Kentuckians to
help their neighbors.
NORTHERN KENTUCKY B1
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N.Ky. candidates
work the crowds
Labor Day weekend marks
the unofficial kickoff of political campaigning, and
candidates are hitting the
local roads.
NORTHERN KENTUCKY B2
WEATHER
High 76°
Low 58°
Clouds
and sun
COMPLETE FORECAST: B8
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INDEX
Five sections, 166th year, No. 148
Abby ...............D2 Movies ............D5
Business .......A14 Obituaries .......B4
Comics ...........D6 Region ............B3
Editorial ..........B6 Sports .............C1
Lotteries ..........B8 TV ...................D2
Classified .....................................E1-14
Copyright, 2006, The Cincinnati Enquirer
Portions of
today’s Enquirer
were printed on
recycled paper
Raises
lagging
higher
prices
Workers cut back
as inflation
eats up gains
Agassi ends
pro tennis career
after Open loss
Pharmacy seeks
a helping hand
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The Enquirer/Leigh Patton
Fireworks light up the ground, the water and especially
the sky, for the 30th annual Riverfest celebration
Sunday night. This picture was taken from the roof of
the Newport Aquarium, using a time exposure.
he bursts were spectacular, the colors
gorgeous, the music in perfect synch.
And, oh, those shapes: smiley faces,
Superman’s shield, even the letters
W, E, B and N.
In its 30th year, the Toyota WEBN Fireworks, created by Rozzi’s Famous Fireworks, only get better and better.
The crowd estimate seems to be 500,000 every year, but really, who’s counting?
Riverfest is an all-day event, with entertainment for swelling crowds. A stealth fighter
flyover wowed the crowd in the afternoon.
But it’s the big bright blast when darkness
settles that is the climax of the day and, for
many, of the summer.
Reds slide home
in need of life
By John Fay
Enquirer staff writer
Louis Cardinals for the NL
Central lead. Now, the Reds
come home six games behind.
Sunday’s loss dropped the
Reds to 68-69, their first time
under .500 since they lost
Opening Day.
“We’re looking forward to
coming home and turning it
around and playing better,”
manager Jerry Narron said.
The Reds open a three-game
home series against the Giants
today with a 5:10 p.m. game.
Then come three games each
with Pittsburgh and San Diego.
“We’re making it tough on
ourselves,” first baseman Scott
Hatteberg said. “We can’t just
maintain. We’ve got to get hot.”
SAN DIEGO – Eric Milton,
Sunday’s
losing
pitcher,
summed it up in seven words:
“Bad day, bad series, bad
road trip,” Milton said.
The Reds lost to the San Diego Padres 2-1 Sunday to close
the 10-game, 11-day West Coast
road swing with a 2-8 record.
After winning the series
opener against the Padres Friday, the Reds lost the last two
to fall 2½ games behind the Padres in the Wild Card race.
How bad was the road trip?
The Reds opened with a victory over the San Francisco Giants on Aug. 24 to move them
into a virtual tie with the St. E-mail [email protected]
INVEST IN A NEW NISSAN
TODAY AT
FALHABER NISSAN
Playoff chase
The Reds began their West
Coast road trip on Aug. 24
with a 1½-game lead in
the Wild Card. Now three
teams are ahead of them.
Wild Card Standings
Team
W-L
GB
San Diego 70-66 -Philadelphia 69-67 1
Florida
68-68 2
Reds
68-69 2½
San Fran. 68-69 2½
Inside, Online
m In Sports: With 25
games left, they’re all
crucial. C1
m NKY.com: For updates
from today’s game.
Keyword: Reds
INSIDE
m The excitement
starts early and
lasts late for adults
and kids along the
riverfront. B1
GALLERIES
For more photos
of the fireworks and
other happenings
from Riverfest
go to
NKY.Com.
Keyword: photos
Kids’ foster care
centralized here
By Jim Hannah
Enquirer staff writer
FRANKFORT – The
death of Marcus Fiesel has
focused the spotlight on
Ohio’s county-run foster
care system.
It is a model much different from Kentucky’s centralized foster care program. In
the Bluegrass State, the Division of Protection and Permanency in Frankfort oversees the 6,911 children in
foster care.
The foster care program
has always been a centralized system in Kentucky,
said Kathy Adams, assistant director of the division.
There have been calls to
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reform the Ohio system
since Marcus’ Union Township foster parents, David
and Liz Carroll, were
charged last week in the 3year-old’s death.
David Carroll Jr. had been
arrested for domestic violence in the months before
Marcus’ death, but the agency was never made aware of
it.
See CHILDREN, Page A7
Pay isn’t keeping up with
cost of living for Jeff Hock of
Monroe.
Hock made about $50,000
last year at Zlimit.com, a Dayton online company that provides employee incentive programs for companies. Hock
said rising costs for gas and
other expenses make it hard
to maintain his standard of living.
“We’ve cut back on unnecessary trips,” Hock says. “One
thing we do have is Netflix, so
we’re watching more movies
at home. We didn’t live above
our
means,
but there’s not
a whole lot of
room in our
budget.”
As workers
all
across
Greater Cincinnati
and Hock
Northern
Kentucky celebrate Labor
Day
today, m Business:
they are fac- Local workers
ing
similar cope in varychoices. For ing ways. A14
many, what- m Life:
ever raises Prominent
they are get- local people
ting are out- describe their
paced by ris- first jobs. D1
ing prices.
Mercer Human Resource
Consulting projects the average raise nationally for 2007 at
3.7 percent. In this area, general earners will get an average 3.9 percent raise, while
professionals will get 4.1
percent and management will
get 4.3 percent, according to
the market-watcher Economic Research Institute.
That compares to a national inflation rate that has been
rising for a year and reached
an annual rate of 4.5 percent in
July.
Inside
See WAGES, Page A7
Terror suspect
Al-Qaida’s
No. 2 in Iraq
is captured
The second-ranking
leader of al-Qaida in Iraq
has been caught, Iraqi authorities said. Among
Hamed Jumaa Farid
al-Saeedi’s
operations,
they said:
m The
bombing of
a Shiite
shrine,
Al-Saeedi
touching off
bloody sectarian warfare.
m Creating death
squads.
m Supervising bombings and assassinations.
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Louisville wallops Kentucky, 59-28,
but Michael Bush breaks leg, is out for season