Archive for July 2nd, 2007
Tribe razes the Rays: Indians 10, Devil rays 2
Fausto bounces back, leads way as Indians sweep CLEVELAND — Fausto Carmona returned to normal Monday and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays remained the same. That was more than enough for the Indians to secure a 10-2 victory and a four-game sweep of hapless Tampa Bay, which dropped its eighth straight and 11th in 13 [...]
Call this a pain delay
Rain saves Serena, who survives injury Howard Fendrich The Associated Press WIMBLEDON, England — Hobbled and hurting and essentially playing on one leg, Serena Williams managed to gut out a three-set victory at Wimbledon on Monday against an opponent who helped by fading right along with the daylight. Williams crumpled to the grass in the [...]
Course record falls at qualifier
AVON — Monday was a fine day for golf — mild temperatures, a sunny sky, a gentle breeze — and the scores reflected it. The course record at Avon Oaks Country Club was broken by one golfer and tied by two others Monday at the qualifying tournament for the Nationwide Legend Financial Group Classic that [...]
Sure, it’s still early,but Tigers series big: Tribe Notes
CLEVELAND — Technically, it’s a first-half series, but when the Indians and Tigers square off tonight in the first game of a three-game set at Comerica Park the outcome could carry some weight in the second half. It’s the top two teams in the Central Division hoping to send a message to one another on [...]
Family a real Force
John Force and his daughters starring on track and tube They’re fast. Dad’s furious. The tagline for the A&E channel’s reality television series “Driving Force” says it all. The show follows the lives of legendary NHRA driver John Force, his wife Laurie and their three drag-racing daughters, Ashley, Brittany and Courtney. John and Ashley were [...]
No sign, no warning: Toppled stop sign leads to gruesome crash
Local pool company owner killed instantly GRAFTON TWP. — Authorities believe a missing stop sign is to blame for a local businessman being killed when he drove through an intersection and into the path of a tractor-trailer Monday afternoon. Charles Yonkings, 70, of Haven Drive, Elyria, died upon impact with the tractor-trailer of massive internal [...]
Council gets peek at Elyria 2015 plan
ELYRIA — A park near Midway Mall. Extending the city’s river walk into downtown. Stretching the downtown commercial area toward EMH Regional Medical Center. The ideas all were part of a preview presented Monday to the City Council of the massive planning project known as Elyria 2015, which is designed to provide a roadmap for [...]
Lorain official accused of threat
LORAIN — An attorney says the city’s development director threatened and tried to bribe a Lorain Port Authority official so he’d give into city wishes. Attorney J. Anthony Rich has threatened legal action against Community Development Department Director Sandy Prudoff and the city if Prudoff does not step down from his position. The allegations stem [...]
Sheriff keeps electronic eye on workers after time card thefts
ELYRIA — Missing timecards have prompted Lorain County Sheriff Phil Stammitti to install a surveillance camera to keep an eye on the time clock where deputies and other employees punch in and out. “Somebody’s playing games,” Stammitti said. After several deputies reported missing time cards, a camera was moved from the records room Friday to [...]
Fourth of July: Holiday festivities, Closings
Holiday festivities * Bay Village: The annual Bay Days festival will coincide with Independence Day activities. The festival will be open noon to 10:30 p.m. daily through Wednesday. A concert by the Fabulous Four Lads will be at 7:30 p.m. today at the Gazebo.Fourth of July activities include a bike, trike and wagon parade at [...]
Local corn growers have started harvesting their crop, and it is looking sweet
Local sweet corn growers are gearing up to put this year’s harvest on the market. Pat Fenik of Elyria Township will have his corn on sale Wednesday, selling white, yellow and bicolored corn from a roadside stand near his home on Lake Avenue, where his family has been selling sweet corn since the 1940s. Fenik [...]
Youth offenders program on hold, awaits approval from prosecutor
AVON LAKE — Avon Lake officials won’t go ahead with a juvenile diversion program until the county prosecutor gives the OK. On Monday, the City Council’s Safety Committee decided to withhold a recommendation on whether to establish a program in conjunction with Avon to handle low-level juvenile offenses because the plan hasn’t yet received the [...]
Tanning may lose its glow with bill
Tammy Goeller saw the green at the end of the ultraviolet rainbow, but a potential ban on teenage tanning could rein in some of her profits. Goeller opened Catchin’ Some Rays with her husband, Ben Goeller, behind the couple’s Lake Avenue home in Elyria eight years ago after seeing another local business take off during [...]
Prosecutor: Classmate helped hide woman’s body
Joe Milicia The Associated Press CANTON — Prosecutors on Monday accused a woman of helping dispose of the body of a pregnant woman, who authorities say was slain by her police officer boyfriend. Previously, investigators have said Myisha Ferrell lied to authorities investigating the deaths of Jessie Davis and her unborn daughter, but they had [...]
Lorain Schools: 101 more jobs cut
LORAIN — The school board on Monday eliminated 101 non-teaching jobs — the latest in a series of cuts designed to bring the district’s budget back into the black. The vote — initially scheduled for a special meeting Friday — was delayed until Monday when officials realized the board’s agenda had not been made public [...]
Techies pull apart Apple iPhone; shares of parts-makers rise
JORDAN ROBERTSON AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — While most iPhone owners couldn’t wait to try out their pricey new gadgets, a few raced to break them apart. The dismantled — and in some cases, permanently busted — iPhones revealed one of Apple Inc.’s closely guarded secrets: The names of [...]
Good Samaritans electrocuted at crash site
Gina Smith McClatchy Newspapers COLUMBIA, S.C. — This isn’t what’s supposed to happen to good Samaritans. People like Travis Jefferson and Lashanda Dupree — who stopped their cars on the side of a road to help others in distress — are supposed to be rewarded. Not injured themselves. Certainly [...]
Woman finds $20,000 in bank deposit tube in Arizona, returns it to teller
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. (AP) — A woman who works as a makeup artist and deli clerk found $20,000 at a bank’s drive-up depository, then calmly walked into the bank and turned over the cash. Linda Hatch said her mind raced in the seconds after she found the two $10,000 bundles in a [...]
Idaho man survives getting partially sucked out of plane
Susan Gilmore The Seattle Times SEATTLE — An Idaho man says he’s lucky to be alive after he was sucked partially out of a medical-evacuation airplane 20,000 feet in the air. Chris Fogg, who lives near Boise, Idaho, is a critical-care nurse with an air ambulance company. He said he was flying [...]
War keeps Red Cross phones busy with family
Tony Perry Los Angeles Times SAN DIEGO — The woman on the phone sounded young and very scared. The doctor, she said, had just scheduled her for a biopsy. A year ago, she found the lump on her left breast, and the doctor had declared it benign. But so much was different then. A year [...]
Ohio lottery reports increase in sales, funds to schools
CLEVELAND (AP) — The popularity of instant-win tickets and tie-ins with NASCAR, the Cincinnati Reds and the Cleveland Indians helped boost Ohio lottery sales to $2.3 billion for the one-year period that ended Saturday, officials said Monday. About $2.2 billion in sales were reported in the previous fiscal year that ended in June [...]
Rev. Richard J. Bober
Rev. Richard J. Bober, Pastor of St. Felicitas Church in Euclid, 75, died July 1, 2007 at Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights. Born August 17, 1910, in Cleveland. Fr. Bober was a 1949 graduate of Lorain St. Mary High School. He entered St. Charles Seminary in Baltimore from his home parish, St. Stanislaus in Lorain. [...]
London Brown
London Brown, of Lorain, passed away July 2, 2007. Announcements will follow by Rhoden Memorial Home, Akron.
Cartha Marguerite Crow
Cartha Marguerite Crow (nee Hysell), 92, of Elyria, passed away peacefully Monday, July 2, 2007, at Life Care of Elyria. Arrangements will be announced by David Bogner Family Funeral Home, 36625 Center Ridge Road, North Ridgeville.
James A. Johnson
James A. "J.J." Johnson, 62, of Harvest, Alabama died peacefully at his home on Thursday, June 28, 2007. He was born in Akron. He had resided in Harvest for the past 19 years having moved from Elyria. He previously lived in Newfoundland, Canada and Florida. He served as a Sgt. 1st Class in the U.S. [...]