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PONTO THE OFFICE DOG SAYS:Exercise is often done against one’s wishes and main-tained only because the alternative is worse.

KAREN STEINkaren.stein@lee.net

GEORGETOWN, Ohio | After co-ordinating calendars between the court and defense counsel, the Robert Crane trial will begin Oct. 1, Brown County prosecutors said Wednesday.

The Brown County Court of Com-mon Pleas needs to have a week available in the court’s calendar for

the trial, plus it must mesh with the defense attorney’s schedule, Brown County Prosecutor Jessica Little said.

“But this will not necessary hurt the state’s case. It gives us time to have additional witnesses and polish the case ... we will be making lemon-ade out of lemons,” she said.

Crane’s trial was temporary halted April 25 until a laboratory analyst who conducted a drug test could be

contacted and scheduled to testify. The analyst, who tested and certified the heroin toxicity level was part of the autopsy process in the investiga-tion into the death of Robert Crane’s wife, Christine Crane, according to court reports.

Crane trial will continue Oct. 1HALTED APRIL 25 TO AWAIT TESTIMONY OF LABORATORY ANALYST

MARLA TONCRAYmarla.toncray@lee.net

A man sought by law enforce-ment in Gwinnett County, Ga., related to a triple homicide was arrested in Maysville, Tuesday night.

James H. Lanier, 33, was booked into the Mason County Detention Center at 11:04 p.m., after Maysville Police Officers T.C. Rice, Brittany Price and Matt Jones arrested Lanier in the 800 block of East Sixth Street. He gave an address of 29 Mead-ow Drive.

Rice said officials with the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Of-fice contacted the detective divi-sion of MPD, with information that Lanier could be in the area. Officials believe he was here because of a girlfriend. Lanier is from Georgia.

Rice said Lanier is considered a co-conspirator in the murder of three men in February 2012, in Lawrenceville, Ga.

According to an article pub-lished May 11 by the Gwinnett Daily Post, Lanier was indicted last week in Gwinnett County as the third man responsible for a soured drug deal that left three men dead in late February. He faces 22 counts related to the homicides, more than his alleged co-conspirators, according to the indictment.

According to the article, Er-nest Huff of Lawrenceville, and Theron Green of Auburn, Ga., were also indicted on counts of murder, felony, aggravated as-sault and weapons and drug charges. Both a rifle and hand-gun were used in the crime and both cocaine and marijuana were involved in the proposed deal, the indictment states.

Each of the three slain men was riddled with multiple gun-shot wounds. They were identi-fied as Farris Allen Weston, 44, of Lawrenceville, Brian Lamont White, 36, and James Edward Isiac, 64, both of Richmond, Va.

The day following the killings, police in Charlotte, N.C., arrest-ed two men during a traffic stop believed to have been involved with the drug transaction and headed home to Virginia. They were charged with conspiracy to traffic cocaine.

Police have said the victims, and the men apprehended in North Carolina, were “on the same team.”

Rice said the next step in the case is for Lanier to be arraigned on extradition charges in Mason County District Court.

Triplemurder suspect arrested

MARLA TONCRAYmarla.toncray@lee.net

Two men got away with an undisclosed amount of money Wednesday after robbing the Security Bank and Trust on U.S. 68.

The robbery happened at 11:32 a.m., according to Maysville Po-lice Lt. Justin Horch.

The men walked into the bank and demanded money, but did not show a weapon to bank employees, Horch said.

The suspects are two black males, estimated to be 30-35 years old. One is described as 6 feet, 1 inch in height, weighing between 220-230 pounds, with a beard. He was wearing black sunglasses, a tan Carhart coat and toboggan. The second suspect is described as 5 feet, 10 inches in height, weighing between 165-180 pounds and wearing a ball cap with the word “Chicago” on it, and a Nike fleece pullover. Both were wearing latex gloves.

Officials said they left in a silver Cadillac, model year between 1993 and 1995; a witness said the car turned west toward Cincin-nati on Kentucky 9, AA Highway.

Horch said a dark silver Cadillac was stopped on Kentucky 9 shortly after the robbery, but the driver was released after being questioned.

Officials have reviewed video tape from the bank cameras and

the FBI has been notified.Anyone with information about the suspects is asked to call the

Maysville Police Department at 606-564-9411.Detective Jared Muse is in charge of the investigation.

Police searching for two suspects in bank robbery

PROVIDEDTwo suspects in a bank robbery were captured by a surveillance camera Wednesday during the robbery.

TERRY PRATHER, THE LEDGER INDEPENDENTMason County Sheriff’s Deputy Terry Fryman watches the entrance to the Security Bank and Trust Co. Wednesday shortly after it was robbed.

PETER SVENSSONAP Technology Writer

NEW YORK | Insiders and early Facebook in-vestors are taking advantage of increasing inves-tor demand and selling more of their stock in the company’s initial public offering, the company said Wednesday.

Facebook said in a regulatory filing that 84 mil-lion shares, worth up to $3.2 billion, are being added to what’s shaping up to be the decade’s hot-test IPO.

Facebook’s stock is expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market on Friday under the ticker symbol “FB”.

The entire increase comes from insiders and early investors, so the company won’t benefit from the additional sales.

The biggest increases come from investment firms DST Global and Tiger Global. Goldman Sachs is doubling the number of shares it is selling. Facebook board members Peter Thiel and James Breyer are also selling more shares.

Founder Mark Zuckerberg isn’t increasing the number of shares he’s selling.

The news comes a day after Facebook raised the expected price of the stock to a range of $34 to $38 per share, up from its previous range of $28 to $35.

Facebook investors to cash out more sharesEARLY FACEBOOK INVESTORS BOOST STOCK OFFERING BY 25 PERCENT; SALE COULD NOW FETCH $18B-PLUS

GEORGIA MAN THOUGHT TO BE IN TOWN BECAUSE OF GIRLFRIEND

TERRY PRATHERCOMPARISON SHOPPING | Gas prices in Ohio seemed nearly twenty cents cheap-er on the gallon while gas prices in Kentucky took a big jump earlier this week.

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