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Minivan ride ends with four overdosed Chris Mayhew cmayhew@communitypress.com
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Campbell County High School academic team members hoist a state championship quick recall team trophy and second place overall standings trophy for their best-ever finish for a Northern Kentucky school March 13 at Kentucky Governor's Cup finals in Louisville.
Campbell County HS wins in academics Chris Mayhew cmayhew@communitypress.com
Campbell County High School’s first-place victory in in the quiz matches of the Kentucky Governor’s Cup state finals made them Northern Kentucky’s winningest academic team ever. “We did it,” Campbell County coach and teacher Christopher Manker said. “Campbell County just won the Governor’s Cup quick recall state championship. They are the first team from Northern Kentucky ever to win a state championship.” Governor’s Cup was created in 1986 to “promote, recognize and reward outstanding academic achievement,” according to its website kaac.com. Social studies and math whiz Colton Graham of California, Kentucky, led Campbell County’s Quick Recall quiz match team to win first place in the Quick Recall tournament March 13 in Louisville. Students on quick recall teams face each other with hand-held buzzers to signal they are ready to answer a question in a style similar to longtime television show “Jeopardy!” “Quick recall is the only event at academic competition people can come and watch something happen,” co-coach and teacher Donn Manker said. Donn Manker is Christopher Manker’s father. Graham was Campbell County’s quick recall “field
Campbell County High School academic team captain senior Colton Graham holds his trophies for top 10 finishes in social studies and math at 2017 Kentucky Governor's Cup state finals March 13 in Louisville.
general,” Donn Manker said. “(He) guided us to the championship with his blazing speed and team guidance,” Manker said.
Second in overall team standings Campbell County placed second in the overall team standings behind Henderson County High School in Western Kentucky. Highlands High School in Fort Thomas placed 19th in overall standings. Boone County’s Conner High School and and Ryle High School were the only other two Northern Kentucky high school academic teams to finish in top overall standings with a tied overall ranking of 33rd. Overall standings factor in students’ written tests
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scores in math, science, social studies, language arts, arts and humanities, composition and from a future problem solving group exam. Individual performances on tests helped propel Campbell County beyond its previous best-ever fourthplace overall standings state finals finish in 2016. » Sophomore Joel Sebastian of Alexandria placed first in math in Kentucky after answering tie-breaking questions with a student from Corbin, Kentucky, who tied with the same score of 44 points out of 50. » Graham, a senior, scored fourth place in social studies and seventh place in math. » Mitchell Turner placed fourth in science. » Nick Padin placed fifth in composition. Other Northern Kentucky top 10 student scores: » Highlands High School’s Helen Ross placed third in science. » Ryle High School’s Glen Stanton placed 10th in arts and humanities. » Conner High School’s Kyle Addison placed 10th in composition. For Campbell County, deciding where to put the trophies in the school remains the only unanswered question, Donn Manker said. “We now have a huge trophy for the quick recall championship and a huge Governor’s Cup trophy for second place in overall points,” he said.
FORT THOMAS – Passersby on South Fort Thomas Avenue called police thinking four people in a stopped minivan with its rear wheel on the curb were dead the morning of Thursday, March 23. All four minivan occupants were passed out and overdosed on either the synthetic opioid drug fentanyl or heroin. The overdoses are part of a new wave of Cincinnati area fentanyl and heroin overdoses. At 10:02 a.m. police cared for four Alexandria residents overdosed in the minivan in the Midway business district. “We got there and started performing life-saving measures,” Fort Thomas Police Department Lt. Rich Whitford said. “They were all Narcaned – all four,” he said, referring to administration of the life-saving non-narcotic Narcan. “We found that three of them had been snorting fentanyl and one of them was overdosing on heroin.” Police interviewed the resuscitated minivan occupants at St. Elizabeth Fort Thomas. None were willing to talk or cooperate with police, Whitford said. The minivan occupants were not the only heroin or fentanylrelated patients at St. Elizabeth’s emergency room. “There were other overdoses at the hospital,” he said. Fort Thomas police charged Alexandria residents Troy Means, 48, and Frederick Means, 46, with public intoxication. Bryan Spencer, 24, was charged with public intoxication, giving an officer a false name and was wanted for an outstanding warrant. Carla Krull, 48, was charged with public intoxication and a warrant. Police are investigating why a car full of Alexandria residents was driving in the middle of Fort Thomas, Whitford said. At the same time as the minivan overdoses, Officer Derek
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Faught was arresting two people for heroin possession at I-471 south at the I-275 interchange. A woman and a man from Ohio were arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia related to suspected heroin drug use, Whitford said. “She was attempting to hide drug paraphernalia down her pants,” Whitford said. A “busy day” for police was on top of an 8:30 a.m. March 22 arrest and chase of a driver allegedly high on heroin, he said. Alarmed motorists called 911 reporting a driver in the wrong lane going 5 mph and stopping while headed north on Memorial Parkway from Fort Thomas to Newport. Newport police arrested Fort Thomas resident Thomas E. McGill on DUI charges, resisting arrest, heroin possession and driving on the left side of the road. “I mean he was almost hitting cars head on and people were going off the road trying to avoid an accident – the speed is 45 mph there,” Whitford said. Catching overdosed drivers has become a routine patrol for Fort Thomas. An April 2016 article profiled Fort Thomas’ Heroin Interdiction Team’s work at “heroin rush hour” each day. A bigger than usual batch of fentanyl is here, Whitford said. “It used to be heroin mixed with fentanyl,” he said. “Now they’re just using fentanyl.”
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Police and onlookers in Fort Thomas gather around a minivan where four Alexandria residents were found overdosed on opioid drugs at 10 a.m. March 23 in the 1000 block of South Fort Thomas Ave.
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