story out of Cincinnati. At the bottom it has a place to contact police with any leads for them.
Apparently a violinist in Cincinnati was badly injured on Christmas Eve, and police are puzzling over what happened. His name is Arthur Weinberg of Newport, KY, and he belonged to the Musicians Union in Cincinnati. Here is theSad that such a thing would happen, and especially on Christmas Eve.
Here is another story on the incident:
http://www.wcpo.com/news/2006/local/01/04/suspect_violinist.html
Glad they caught the likely perp. Newport has aways had a reputation as a rough place, a bit to Cincinnati what Oakland is to San Fran. Cincinnati itself is pretty boring and everything they're run out goes to Newport.
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December 30, 2005 at 06:20 AM · I think this was mentioned on KXPR, he was moved to satisfactory condition or something like that, I'm not sure though, unfortunately. They also said something about how he was hurt, unless another musician was hurt over the holidays. Could somebody confirm this for me? It's not on the internet...