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SERVING THE OHIO VALLEY SINCE 1852 www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2010 Vol. 159 • No. 16 • 50 cents daily/$1.25 Sunday Local News Highlights Video Now Available at www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com Woman Sentenced To 4 Years In Prison out the room, at was being given one glass of water Looney Charged With Abuse Of Father, 60 2431 Scioto per day. Trail. “She pled guilty to the first count BY FRANK LEWIS Portsmouth Police said she kept One of the in the indictment which was failure PDT STAFF WRITER her father, 60-year-old Larry photos reportedly to provide for a functionally Looney, in a room in deplorable shows Larry impaired person, and the second conditions. FRANK LEWIS Ashley Looney, 23, of 2431 Looney squatted count which we reduced from Sponsored by Scioto Trail in Portsmouth has Portsmouth Police responded to just inside the abduction to attempted abduction,” been sentenced to four years in a complaint on Oct. 8, 2009, from Looney locked door of Assistant Scioto County Prosecu- prison. witnesses who had contacted Adult his room with a tor Joe Hale said. F I N A N C I A L S E R V I C E S Looney was to have gone on trial Protective Services with photo- plate of food. Ashley Looney has a date set to Tuesday for failure to provide for graphs of Larry Looney, showing The police officer filing the report for sentencing, but has been Member FINRA/SIPC a functionally impaired person, a the living conditions he was being report described the scene as “what given a stay. 354-9900 felony of the fourth degree; abduc- confined to. In those photos, Larry one would see at a prisoner of war Hale was asked if she will serve www.raymondjames.com/ tion, a felony of the third degree; Looney is reportedly nude, locked camp.” capitalwealthpartners and felonious assault, a felony of in a room, with only a mattress on According to a report by the second degree, after the floor, and fecal matter through- Portsmouth Police, Larry Looney See LOONEY, A3 Closing Down Downhill Derby Right To DOW JONES Remain Silent? 10,024.02 -113 Suspect Better Speak Up ■ STOCKS, A3 BY JESSE J. HOLLAND ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER SPORTS WASHINGTON — Want to invoke your right to remain silent? Big-Time Honor You’ll have to speak up. In a narrowly split decision, the Hagen-Smith and 1999 Supreme Court’s conservative SSU team inducted into majority expanded its limits on the Ohio HOF famous Miranda rights for crimi- ■ SPORTS, B1 nal suspects on Tuesday — over the dissent of new Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who said the ruling turned Americans’ rights of protec- tion from police abuse “upside down.” Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion, said a suspect who goes ahead and talks to police after being informed he ■ doesn’t have to has waived his file Daily Times right to remain silent. Elena Participants were able to make practice runs before last year’s Soap Box Derby, racing down Kendall Kagan, who has been nominated Princeton Bound Avenue. This year’s event takes place Sunday, sponsored by Civic Forum. South Webster student by President Barack Obama to join headed to prestigious the court, sided with the police as university Sunday Is Soapbox Derby Race U.S. solicitor general when the ■ case came before the court. She EDUCATION, A4 would replace Justice John Paul BY FRANK LEWIS ner Josh Berry finished in the back in the community.” Stevens, one of the dissenters. PDT STAFF WRITER top 15 in the world at the race Civic Forum member Gene A right to remain silent and a in Akron. Arms said last year that it had right to a lawyer are at the top of Weather This Sunday will see the “The morning of the race, been about 25 years since the the warnings that police recite to second consecutive annual any kid that has not been race had been held. suspects during arrests and interro- running of the Civic Forum’s involved in the race before Book said some bleachers gations. But Tuesday’s majority Today T-storm High 89 Soap Box Derby on Kendall will have the opportunity to go will probably be set up, but said that suspects must break their Tonight T-storm Low 69 Avenue in Portsmouth. down the hill to check out people are also urged to bring silence and tell police they are “Racing will start at noon,” their cars and their nerves,” their lawn chairs. High Low Outlook going to remain quiet to stop an Civic Forum member Todd Book said. “It should be a great after- interrogation, just as they must tell THU 81 61 T-storm Book said. “We’ll be setting Book said last year’s race noon of racing. I don’t think police that they want a lawyer. FRI 81 59 T-storm up the course all morning, get- was well-received, leading to the weather is going to be This decision means that police SAT 81 61 P. Sunny ting the hay bales in place … more interest this year. unbearably hot,” Book said. can keep shooting questions at a SUN 81 59 T-storm We have at least 19 cars in the “Last year my little girl was “Last year, it was really hot. suspect who refuses to talk as long competition, racing in the involved, raising money for But this year it looks like it’s as they want in hopes that the per- Stock Division, and the win- the Cancer Society,” Book going to be a decent day. I’m son will crack and give them some ner from the local will go to said. “And she still has people looking forward to it.” information, said Richard Fried- Akron in July to represent this talk with her about how much man, a University of Michigan law area at the national champi- money she raised. So people FRANK LEWIS can be reached professor. onship race.” are paying attention, and I at (740) 353-3101, ext. 232 or Last year’s Portsmouth win- think they are glad to see it [email protected] See SILENT, A3 City Building Roof Repairs Under Way Obituaries • Hortense Burris BY FRANK LEWIS PDT STAFF WRITER • Richmond Howard • Clifford Huston The Portsmouth Municipal court • Avanelle Massie rooms soon may be without falling • Frances Mershon ceiling debris when it rains. It • Martha Montavon looks like interior painting will • Robert Moore actually have a purpose now. • Carolyn Norman There’s a new roof being installed • Emma Townsend at the Portsmouth City Building. “It’s going to take two weeks,” See Page A2 Portsmouth Mayor Jane Murray said from her office as Stevens Index Construction workers got the proj- Advice ......B5 Local....A2-10 ect under way, which also will include repairs of the parapet Calendar ..A2 Lotteries....B2 walls. Wayne Allen ■ Daily Times Class ....B6-10 Puzzles ....B4 At the last Portsmouth City Crews from Stevens Construction began the work of replacing the roof of the Portsmouth Municipal building Tuesday. Comics......B4 Sports ....B1-3 Council meeting, after a brisk dis- Kegley and Steven Mowery recent- courtroom/council chamber; plas- Mowery’s Court, the company that Education A4 TV ............B5 cussion that included City Service ly insisted on the repairs because ter falling on courtroom partici- came in and repaired and painted it Director Bill Beaumont, of water damage caused by heavy pants, ceiling tiles collapsing onto prior to the judge taking office in Portsmouth City Council passed an rains. furnishings and equipment and the January, would not warrant the ordinance providing $65,000 to In a letter to Council, Kegley destruction of personal and court work they did,” Murray said. replace the roof on the city build- said, “During my tenure, I have property.” ing. experienced solid sheets of water “The chamber where the Coun- Municipal Court Judges Russell in my chambers doorway to the cil meeting is, which is Judge See ROOF, A3 SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2010 • 1-3 P.M. A2 Wednesday, June 2, 2010 Portsmouth Daily Times LOCAL Obituaries Service Schedule Richmond Emma Rose Collier • Elaine Marie Fancher 10 to 11 a.m. at First Bap- day and from 11 a.m. to — Graveside service 1 tist Church prior to the noon Thursday at the Howard, 82 Townsend, 65 p.m. Wednesday at Glen service. Arrangements are funeral home. Richmond Howard, 82, Emma Rose Collier Haven Memorial Park in under the direction of • Robert E. Moore — 1 of Centerville, Ohio, for- Townsend, 65, of Hod- New Carlisle. The family Tracy Brammer Funeral p.m. Thursday at Dicker- merly of Beaver, died Tues- genville, Ky., passed away will receive friends from 2 Home in Ironton. son Funeral Home in day, June 1, 2010, at his res- Saturday, May 29, 2010, at to 4 p.m. on Tuesday at the • Dakota Rose Hall — Vanceburg, Ky. Interment idence. Hardin Memorial Hospital Brant Funeral Home in Noon Wednesday at in Lewis County Memory He was born Sept. 10, in Elizabethtown, Ky. She Portsmouth. Phillips Funeral Home in Gardens. Callers 5 to 9 1927, in Saly- was born Sept. 2, 1944, in • Leonard Tackett Sr. Ironton. Burial in Pine p.m. Wednesday and 8 a.m. ersville, Ky., a Letcher County, Ky. She — 11 a.m. Wednesday at Grove Cemetery. Callers to 1 p.m. Thursday at the son of the late was the daughter of the late Plymouth Heights Church from 11 a.m. Wednesday funeral home. Dudley and Wilburn Collier Sr. and of the Nazarene in Franklin until the time of service at • Luther Palmer — 1 Gladys (Lemaster) Howard.