Archive for July 16th, 2007
Easy win to swallow – Indians 5, Royals 3
CLEVELAND — For a team with playoff aspirations, losing a handful of games to the last-place Kansas City Royals can be stomached. Drop two series in one season to them and it’s time to fetch the syrup of ipecac. Avoiding that dubious distinction Sunday, the Indians outlasted the bothersome Royals 5-3 with another strong outing [...]
Fausto lights out when lights out-Tribe Notes
CLEVELAND — The difference between Fausto Carmona’s performances in night and day games this season has been, well, like night and day. With the sun up, which it was Sunday when Carmona got his 11th win of the season in a 5-3 victory over the Royals, the right-hander has been unbeatable, posting an 8-0 record [...]
West headed to state
ELYRIA — When shortstop Jason Neuschaefer settled under Seth Harshberger’s seventh-inning pop-up and secured the final out, it set off a celebration on the Elyria West side. After three years of playing second fiddle to Elyria East in the Little League senior division, West came away with a 10-6 victory over East in the District [...]
Stewart snaps skid
Chris Jenkins The Associated Press JOLIET, Ill. — Tony Stewart is a winner again. And one day after a brief but intense lecture from Joe Gibbs, Stewart says his rift with teammate Denny Hamlin has been patched. Stewart won the NASCAR Nextel Cup race at Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday, breaking a 20-race winless streak that [...]
Pak captures fifth Farr title
Rusty Miller The Associated Press SYLVANIA — In the frenzy after Morgan Pressel’s hole-in-one on the sixth hole of the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic, almost no one noticed that playing partner Se Ri Pak still had a birdie putt left. Pak didn’t give in to the cheers, and she didn’t give in to Pressel. [...]
Video policy drawing criticism – NFL
Rachel Cohen The Associated Press The satiric video posted on the Houston Chronicle’s Web site tries to answer the question of how long — or short — is 45 seconds. One reporter hovers nearby wielding a stopwatch as another poses a question to Texans quarterback Matt Schaub. Before Schaub can answer, the timer calls out, [...]
Kucinich fundraising falls far short of pack leaders
COLUMBUS — Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich raised about $757,000 from April through June and had $213,200 cash on hand at the end of last month, according to financial reports filed Sunday with the Federal Election Commission. Fundraising for the Ohio congressman’s campaign has topped $1.1 million for the year, but Kucinich has also spent [...]
Late twins give $5M boost to Twinsburg fest
CLEVELAND — A donation that the Twins Days festival is getting from the estate of two frugal bachelor farmers is enough to make some people do a double-take: as much as $5 million. John and William Reiff, once recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s most identical twins, left most of their estate to [...]
Capital hard-pressed to recruit black cops
COLUMBUS — The city is struggling to recruit minority police officer cadets at a time when its percentage of black officers is at the lowest level since the mid-1980s, when the city was under a court order to improve minority hiring. About 13 percent of the department’s 1,842 sworn police officers are black. In 1988, [...]
Clinton, Obama remain close in fundraising
Jim Kuhnhenn The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton ended the first half of the year with more than $30 million each for the presidential primaries, a formidable financial performance for the two leading Democratic White House contenders. Obama reported having about $34 million in primary cash on hand; Clinton reported [...]
White House rejects proposal by GOP senators to review war
Calvin Woodward The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The White House is holding firm on its Iraq strategy in the face of yet another effort to curb the mission, proposed this time by moderate Republicans the Bush administration can not afford to lose. President Bush’s national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, said Sunday the administration’s “very orderly [...]
Crash survivor’s condition better
Investigation of fatal train crash continues as man remains in hospital HUNTINGTON TWP. — The condition is improving for the sole survivor of a car-train crash Saturday that killed 18-year-old Amanda White of New London. Todd Denes, 25, of Baker Road in Wellington, improved from critical to serious condition Sunday, according to a nursing supervisor [...]
N. Korea reactor shutdown verified
Kwang-Tae Kim The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — United Nations inspectors have verified that North Korea has shut down its sole functioning nuclear reactor, the chief of the watchdog agency said today, confirming the isolated country had taken its first step in nearly five years to halt production of atomic weapons. South Korea sent [...]
Louis Black
Louis Black, 96, of Lorain, passed away on Friday, July 13, 2007 in the New Life Hospice of St. Joseph in Lorain following a brief illness. Mr. Black was born in Onod, Hungary on March 29, 1911, moving to Lorain as a small child. He served in the US Army Air Force during WW II. [...]
Viola Mae Gilmore
Viola Mae Gilmore (nee Ruddy), 97, of Avon Lake, passed away Saturday, July 14, 2007, at North Ridge Health Center, N. Ridgeville. She was born in Pittsburgh, PA and had been a resident of Avon Lake since 2000, moving from Avon where she lived since 1972. She previously lived in N. Ridgeville for over 50 [...]
John P. Skolnicki
John P. Skolnicki, 83, of Lorain, died on Saturday, July 14, 2007, at Community Health Partners HSC – West, Lorain. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced tomorrow. The Dovin Funeral Home, 2701 Elyria Avenue, Lorain, is handling arrangements.
Lorna I. Sweet
Lorna I. Sweet, (nee-Smith), 93, of North Ridgeville, died Saturday at the North Ridge Health Center in North Ridgeville following a long illness. She was born January 12, 1914, in Olmsted Falls, and was a lifelong resident of North Ridgeville. Mrs. Sweet was a graduate of the M.B. Johnson School of Nursing in Elyria and [...]
Amanda M. White
Amanda M. White, 18, of New London, died as results from injuries sustained in an automobile-train accident. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the Bauer-Laubenthal Funeral Home, Chestnut Ridge Road at State Route 57, Elyria.
Lady Bird laid to rest
Mourners say goodbye to former first lady at family ranch Kelley Shannon The Associated Press STONEWALL, Texas — Lady Bird Johnson arrived at her final resting place beneath a canopy of oak trees Sunday, beside the late President Lyndon Baines Johnson at the family’s ranch in the Texas Hill Country. Relatives and close friends of [...]
Iraqi officials encourage U.S. help
Robert H. Reid The Associated Press BAGHDAD — Iraq’s prime minister was misunderstood when he said the Americans could leave “any time they want” an aide said Sunday, as politicians moved to end a pair of boycotts that are holding up work on crucial political reforms sought by Washington. In Baghdad, a car bomb hit [...]
Cincy ‘Segways’ cops to scooters
Terry Kinney The Associated Press CINCINNATI — Police officers stand tall and glide easily around a west side neighborhood on new standup scooters that are their newest form of transportation as part of the city’s effort to increase community policing. Officers on Segway Personal Transporters can be highly visible if they want to be, but [...]
Suspect nabbed by tracking stolen cell
HAMILTON — A robbery suspect police had been pursuing for three months was caught after prosecutors said he inadvertently stole a cell phone equipped with GPS technology. Police used the technology to pinpoint the residence of John Wesley Womack, 34, of Middletown, who was indicted July 11 on 10 counts of robbery. He is scheduled [...]
Plane repair firms rally vs. state tax
DAYTON — Small aircraft owners and operators say they fly their planes to nearby states for repairs to avoid an Ohio sales tax on parts and labor. Company owners vow to continue lobbying the Ohio Legislature to repeal the tax, which they say forces them to cut jobs. They were unsuccessful in pushing for the [...]