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SATURDAY Nov. 8, 2008 Recorder LocalState Updates all day online at zanesvilletimesrecorder.com Contact us Page Submit news ideas online to: iS zanesvilletimesrecorder.comtellus E-mail: trnewsnncogannett.com Briefs JftJ Columbus TV anchor Heather Pick dies never-ending dedication to battling this disease for herself and for others. The world has truly lost a very special woman." Pick was the morning co-anchor on Channel 10. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999, and she learned in 2004 that the disease had spread to her spine and pelvis. She continued to work and was outspoken on behalf of breast cancer awareness and education.

Her last appearance on WBNS was in early October, wearing a pink wig to promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Heather Pick is survived by her husband, Joe Cygan, and their two young children. Anyone who would like to make a donation in her memory is being asked by the family to consider The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Nationwide Children's Hospital or the Ste-fanie Spielman Fund. COLUMBUS (AP) A Columbus TV news anchor has died after a long and very public fight with breast cancer. On its Web site, WBNS-TV says Heather Pick died at home Fri day morning surrounded by her family.

She was 38. Station president and general manager Tom Gries-dorn says the world has truly lost a very special woman. "The sadness and loss Pick we feel for Joe, Julia, Jack and all of Heather's family and friends is immeasurable," said Gries-dorn. "But for Heather, we feel nothing but pride in how bravely she fought this fight and the i ii.ii i i AP Photo The Total In-Flight Simulator research aircraft stands on the tarmac outside of the Calspan Flight Research hangar in Niagara Falls, N. on Friday.

TIFS is being retired to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton. Oldest Air Force aiplane departs for Ohio museum Around Ohio School cleared over show tell grenade AKRON (AP) Officials say they evacuated an Akron elementary school when a kinder-gartner brought what looked like a hand grenade for show and tell. Principal Karen Gegick at Seiberling Elementary says children have to guess what classmates have brought, and the boy gave a clue Friday morning that his item was something that blows things up. The teacher looked in his book bag and wasn't sure if what she saw was a real grenade or a toy.

District spokeswoman Karen Ingraham says the school's nearly 500 students were sent outside for what they thought was a fire drill. She says a bomb squad arrived and discovered the object was a dummy grenade sold at a surplus store. Couple's bequests could total $70M CLEVELAND (AP) Be it going that way," said Lou Knotts, president of Calspan, a technology company originally founded as part of the research laboratory of the Curtiss-Wright Airplane Division in Buffalo. There were plenty of military and civilian aircraft under design in the 1960s, 70s and '80s to keep TIFS busy, but not many new aircraft are developed today, he said, and the company needs space in its Niagara Falls hangar for future projects. TIFS was last called into service this past spring to simulate the Nov.

12, 2001, flight of American Airlines 587 before it lost part of its tail and plummeted into a New York City neighborhood, killing 265 people. The findings, which Knotts could not discuss, are part of ongoing litigation. Before that, Boeing used TIFS in the development of its new 787 jetliner. "It's a sad day, really," Infanti, who was chief test pilot at Calspan from 1969 until 1983, said as TIFS was towed from its hangar for a final takeoff, "because I would say this is the most sophisticated in-flight simulator ever built." NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) -The oldest active airplane used by the U.S.

Air Force flew off into retirement Friday, but not before its first pilot gave some advice to its last. It was the same thing Nello In-fanti told every crew over the years that he flew Calspan Total In-Flight Simulator, beginning 40 years ago. "Be careful up there, don't get lost," the former chief test pilot, now 87, said. "And don't ding my eff-ing airplane." "Don't forget what I told you," Infanti reminded pilot Paul Deppe as he walked to "TIFS" to prepare for takeoff to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.

In its noteworthy career as an in-flight simulator, the modified C-131 has been flown by NASA astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Deke Slayton, along with Air Force and civilian pilots, during the development of the space shuttle, military bombers and commercial aircraft. The one-of-a-kind airplane has two cockpits, one piggybacked on the other, allowing test pilots to fly from the front cockpit during ZPD makes drug bust ZANESVILLE The Zanesville Police Department Narcotics Unit, with assistance of the special response team, executed a search warrant at approximately 8:24 p.m. Thursday, at 584 Dryden Road within the city of Zanesville. The search was the result of a two-month investigation of the residence. Arrested at the residence were Rodriquez L.

Hampton, 39, for two counts of drug trafficking (crack cocaine) and Misty A. Potts for possession of drug paraphernalia. Hampton is currently incarcerated at the Zanesville City Jail. Located inside the residence was crack cocaine and U.S. Currency.

Crooksville High Basketball Breakfast CROOKSVILLE -Peerless Lodge 591, will host Crooksville High School Basketball Breakfast from 7 to 10 a.m. today, Nov. 8, at the Masonic Lodge, located at 172 W. Main St. Proceeds will benefit the girls and boys' high school basketball teams.

Harrison Township Fire Department dinner PHILO Harrison Township Volunteer Fire Department will hold a baked steak dinner from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, at the department on Front Street. Cost is $7. Coopermill Road bridge closure ZANESVILLE Coopermill Road at George Road will be closed for a bridge structure replacement for 45 days, beginning Tuesday.

A detour route is posted, which includes Meadow Farm Church Road, Old Coopermill Road and Pinkerton Road. For more information call the Muskingum County Engineer's Office. Veterans Day holiday schedule ZANESVILLE Regular mail delivery service will not be available on Tuesday, Nov. 11, Veterans Day holiday. Retail window services Postal Store, 1035 Zane St.

and the Post Office Branch at the Colony Square Mall will be closed as well as the Postal Contract Station located at South Village Floral in South Zanesville. Stamps are available at Box Mail, CVS, Pick Save, Sam's Club, Staples, Sunrise IGA, The Drop Zone, Walgreen's and Wal-Mart. Normal mail delivery and retail services will resume on Wednesday. Ohio State gives Gee pay increase COLUMBUS (AP) The president of Ohio State University will receive a $27,000 pay increase and a bonus of $310,000 for his performance in the first year of his second term. The board of trustees approved a plan Friday to raise president Gordon Gee's base salary by 3.5 percent, from $775,000 to more than $802,000.

They also approved a 40 percent performance bonus and a retirement supplement paid for by private donations. Gee led Ohio State from 1990 to 1997 and returned last year when president Karen Holbrook resigned after five years. In her final year, Holbrook had a base salary of $380,000 and a bonus of up to 25 percent. Lottery Pick 3 (D) 138 Pick 4 (D) 7885 Pick 3 (N) 6 0 2 Pick 4 (N) 3136 Rolling Cash 5 110708 10,28,32,35,36 Classic Lotto 110508 7,15,17,19,22,49 Mega Millions 110708 14,24,32,43,4421 Kicker 110708 270 003 For results, see www.ohlolottery.com GET NEWS ALERTS ON YOUR PHONE: Text TRCT to 44636 (4INFO). Tiffany Co.

Town opens new store at Easton Center in Columbus GM Lordstown plants to lose about 1,000 jobs simulations while safety pilots manned the top cockpit and plane's regular controls, ready to take over if something went wrong. Program engineers stationed inside the airplane used computers to change conditions and collect data. "We would be able to make this airplane handle like a totally different airplane," said John Ba-bala, a program engineer on board for the final flight. The evaluation cockpit could be reconfigured to model whatever aircraft was being simulated. "We duplicate the motions, the controls, displays," said Norm Weingarten, TIFS program manager.

"We're really coming all the way down to touchdown." TIFS is the only airborne simulator able to reproduce pitch, roll, lift, thrust and lateral movements, as well as sideforce a trait the smaller and more fuel-efficient Learjets used for inflight simulations today cannot match. "It's still very useful, but we have been getting a research program about once every two years and it's just tough to keep ihe sad part is we have no control over the situation." Jim Graham, president of UAW Local 1112 from GM, new hires won't, he said. "Hopefully, this is temporary. We don't know," Graham said. "We just have to deal with it.

We've had other times of adversity. Hopefully the economy can turn around." At the GM fabricating plant in Lordstown, 162 of 1,100 jobs are going, said Dave Green, UAW Local 1714 president. "It all depends on market conditions," Green said. "We're hoping people start buying American cars and we can all go back to work. For some people just hired in August, that's very painful." Strickland's statement Friday said Jones-Kelley was placed on paid administrative leave because of the possibility a state computer or state e-mail account was used to assist in political fundraising.

He said Cabinet Secretary Jan Allen has been asked to serve as acting director of the agency. A home telephone listing for Jones-Kelley could not be found in the Columbus area. Ohio Republican Party Deputy Chairman Kevin DeWine said in a statement released Friday night that the governor's administration has apparently turned the state government into a "political party machine." "The Strickland administration has already demonstrated a profound and reckless disregard for personal privacy, and now they're apparently abusing government resources to raise political contributions," DeWine said. quests that could total $70 million from a dentist and his wife will benefit medical research and education in Cleveland. The Donald J.

and Ruth Weber Goodman Philanthropic Fund of the Cleveland Foundation will support research and education at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Ireland Cancer Center. When the estates of the suburban Pepper Pike couple are settled, the total bequest will rise to about $70 million. Ohio fugitive burglar sentenced to 12 years BATAVIA (AP) A survival-ist who authorities say eluded southwest Ohio police on horseback for weeks this summer has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for burglary and other charges. Twenty-five-year-old Chris Crosby apologized in Clermont County Common Pleas Court for the troublesome chase but maintained that he fled only to try to prove his innocence. Jones called the records review an outrage.

State Rep. Bill Batchelder, a former judge, urged Strickland to put her on leave until Charles' investigation is complete. "No Oliioan should be subject to a 'witch hunt' on the whim of a public official," he said in a statement. Strickland appointed Jones-Kelley, who was running the Montgomery County Department of Jobs and Family Services, to lead the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services in December 2006. Jones-Kelley, an attorney, served more than a decade as executive director of the Montgomery County Children Service Department.

When the department merged with the county's Jobs and Family Services department earlier in 2006, she was named director of the new merged agency. LORDSTOWN (AP) Recent joy at the revitalized General Motors Corp. plants in northeast Ohio turned somber Friday with word that about 1,000 workers will be laid off. At the GM Lordstown assembly plant that makes the Cobalt and Pontiac G5 fuel-efficient cars, about 850 jobs among 3,400 will be affected by GM cutbacks, said Jim Graham, president of United Auto Workers Local 1112. The plant will still operate with three shifts, but the staffing reductions will be completed by Jan.

20, he said. GM is planning to make the Chevrolet Cruze small car at Lordstown in 2010, and GM held a celebration inside the plant recently to make that announcement. "The sad part is we have no control over the situation." Graham said. While some laid off workers will get supplemental pay AP Photo Customers gather around the display cases as Tiffany Co. opens a new store Friday at Easton Town Center in Columbus.

Director goes on leave amid probe of Ohio plumber By JUUECARR SMYTH AP Statehouse Correspondent COLUMBUS Ohio's governor placed on leave Friday an agency director who was questioned over why state computers were used to find personal information on a man who became known as "Joe the Plumber" during the presidential campaign. Gov. Ted Strickland's spokesman, Keith Dailey, said the governor's decision to place Helen Jones-Kelly on leave was not connected to the record checks of Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, the Toledo-area man known as Joe the Plumber. Wurzelbacher became a centerpiece in the final weeks of the presidential campaign, and Jones-Kelley has acknowledged that records on him held by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services that she directs were received public assistance or owed unemployment compensation taxes.

The records were never made public or released to the media. The state employee who ran the computer background check on Joe the Plumber to see whether he had any outstanding child support payments said she thought the check was being performed at Wurzelbacher's request. Jones-Kelley said she approved the check just after the Oct. 15 debate between Republican presidential nominee John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama now president-elect. As Wurzelbacher's profile was elevated in McCain's campaign, criticism over the Ohio search rose to a fever pitch.

Republican lawmakers including Harris questioned Jones-Kelley's actions in publicly released letters. State Rep. Shannon The governor's statement provided no details on the political fundraising in question. He said he has asked State Inspector Tom Charles to include the political fundraising matter in his current investigation into the Wurzelbacher records search. In the matter of Wurzelbacher, Charles is investigating whether Jones-Kelley improperly authorized the search of the Holland man's records.

Jones-Kelley had said they were part of routine checks her agency conducts when someone suddenly emerges in the limelight. She told state Senate President Bill Harris in a letter that records were checked because Wurzelbacher had indicated he might buy a business and it was determined he that owed back taxes, She wrote that the department wanted to make sure appropriate actions were taken if he owed child support,.