Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for June 24th, 2007
Fallen, Not Forgotten
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated to 98 Lorain County soldiers
A list of the veterans, in order of date they died
Raymond Ellsworth Rupcic Army Date of Birth: Jan. 26, 1942 Date of Casualty: April 6, 1965 Age: 23 Hometown: Lorain
Fleming Bukey Brainerd [...]
IRL, Champ Car standoff good for nothing but hurting racing
Somehow the world averted nuclear annihilation in the darkest days of the cold war. We came closest in 1962 when President Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev went eyeball to eyeball over the missiles in Cuba. “The other guy just blinked,” said Adlai Stevenson, our ambassador to the United Nations, when the Soviets did [...]
Predictable pole sitter : Grand Prix of Cleveland
Bourdais is once again Champ Cars’ man to beat
CLEVELAND — Sebastien Bourdais proved once again he was the most dominating driver on the Champ Car circuit. Today, he’ll have a group of rookies trying to prove that he’s beatable. Bourdais captured his second pole position — the 27th of his [...]
Elyria tourney draws a crowd
ELYRIA — You can imagine how heads turned and jaws dropped when a bunch of soccer players showed up for a game Saturday morning chanting something nobody understood. They did it again when they took the field to play a team from the Chicago area on the vast front lawn of Lorain [...]
Cutts Jr. faces murder charges
* Canton officer to be charged with murder in deaths of both Jessie Davis and her unborn babyn Body of a woman believed to be * Davis discovered by searchers in a Summit County Metro Park
From wire reports CANTON — Authorities arrested the boyfriend of a missing pregnant woman [...]
Honor ‘long overdue’: County Vietnam Memorial Dedicated
AMHERST — Just as brothers Sean and Brian Byrne settled into bed on St. Patrick’s Day 40 years ago, someone rapped on the door of their Sheffield Township home. “Mom screamed,” said Brian, who was 19 at the time. “She knew who it was.” He and Sean, then 14, rushed to [...]
Experts: Breach unlikely to lead to mass ID theft
Stephen Majors The Associated Press COLUMBUS — The staggering amount of personal information contained on a stolen state computer tape has worried Ohio residents and led Gov. Ted Strickland to call nearly daily briefings since the device was stolen a week ago. But the sheer amount of information — including [...]
Two years later, dog fully recovered
ELYRIA — His tail whipped the air furiously as he raced toward the spinning orange ball. Clamping it with his powerful jaws, the Rottweiler started back toward his owner, who was beckoning him to return for another round of fetch. But as if not wanting to give his owner the satisfaction, the meaty dog turned [...]