Editor is charged in kidnapping



WILMINGTON, Ohio (AP) -- The editor of the Wilmington News Journal was arrested early today and charged with kidnapping a woman, police said.
Jeff Hibbs was accused of forcing his way into the woman's car Wednesday afternoon and ordering her to drive to Sugar Grove Cemetery, Police Chief Michael Hatten said in a news release.
Police said they had been notified at 3:13 p.m. that Hibbs was in the cemetery with a gun.
The woman, who was not identified, later told police that he prevented her from getting out of the car several times, but eventually she got free, Hatten said.
Hibbs was arrested at Cowan Lake State Park by Clinton County deputy sheriffs and was being held at the county jail, police Sgt. Bob Martin said.
Messages seeking comment were left for executives at Brown Publishing Co., which owns the News Journal.
Wilmington is about 40 miles northeast of Cincinnati.