Archive for July 30th, 2007
C.C. still looking for help – Twins 4, Indians 1
Ace’s great outing wasted by poor hitting, fielding CLEVELAND — When former NFL head coach John McKay was once asked what he thought of his Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ execution after a loss, he replied that he was in favor of it. C.C. Sabathia probably feels the same way, where throwing his teammates under the bus [...]
Trot healing, hitting – Tribe Notes
CLEVELAND — It should come as no surprise that Trot Nixon is beginning to fight his way out of a season-long slump that has earmarked his debut season with the Indians. Battling and beating the odds is what the rugged eight-year veteran who underwent offseason back surgery just months before reporting to spring training, has [...]
Calm call
Edwards, team looking for quiet off the field BEREA — Romeo Crennel’s wish for Braylon Edwards in 2007 is as simple as a fly pattern. “Hopefully, and I don’t know, hopefully he doesn’t talk quite as much and concentrates on football more,” the Browns coach said Sunday following practice. That’s the plan. “I am an [...]
Escalator clauses could be issue in Quinn holdout
BEREA — Quarterback Brady Quinn has missed four practices and will likely miss two more today, but general manager Phil Savage said he hasn’t reached the point of frustration with the team’s last holdout. “Not really,” he said Sunday. “I’m glad we’ve got the other guys out there. If anything, it’s given Charlie (Frye) and [...]
Expedite a title
Vermilion team takes Class E championship ALLIANCE — Get ’em on … get ’em over … get ’em in. Veteran manager Mark Stavole and his Vermilion Zone Expedited team followed those steps en route to a 14-11 victory over the Crestwood Lookouts to capture the Class E (ages 15-18) Hot Stove state championship at Butler-Rodman [...]
Contador captures 2007 race – Tour De France
John Leicester The Associated Press PARIS — All the right elements were there: The smiling winner in his bright yellow jersey. The fans several rows deep under the majestic trees of the Champs-Elysees. But something seemed broken about the Tour de France on Sunday — perhaps forever. Overshadowing the joy of its newest and youngest [...]
Stewart rules the Brickyard
Jenna Fryer The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Tony Stewart once said he’d trade all his wins and trophies for just one victory at his beloved Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Now he’s got two, and they couldn’t be more different. The first gave him peace. The second was pure joy. Stewart scored his second victory in three [...]
Police agencies revise tattoo policies
In an effort to boost recruitment, safety forces like Elyria’s are allowing visible body art CLEVELAND — Ohio law enforcement agencies worried about recruitment are revising their policies on tattoos and police officers, reflecting overall popularity that’s seen the number of Americans with tattoos grow to almost one in four. Some residents associate tattoos with [...]
ACLU objects to plate scanners in police cruisers
SPRINGDALE — Police in this Cincinnati suburb have turned to a mechanical watchdog that scans license plates on passing cars to try to snare fugitives, a practice that has drawn the attention of those who say it’s an infringement on a driver’s right to privacy. The Mobile Plate Hunter 900 — two cameras mounted atop [...]
State inspectors found more truck violations in 2006
CLEVELAND — State inspectors found more than 230,000 violations after examining trucks and their drivers, a 10 percent increase over 2005, state safety officials said. The inspectors looked at more than 90,000 trucks to make sure drivers were properly licensed and the trucks met federal safety standards. They yanked 27 percent of the trucks off [...]
Elections officials find ways to replace aging poll workers
LANCASTER — The City Council is considering allowing city employees to take paid leave to work the polls during elections, a trend that’s increasingly popular as the current roster ages. A 2004 state law allows employees to go on paid leave to work elections, and encouraging public employees to serve will help replace the dwindling [...]
Growing Inspiration
A new approach – and a blue egg – revitalize Columbia Station farm A chicken’s blue eggs are providing a small community with a unique organic opportunity and revitalizing a local farm when it most needed it. The Breychak farm in Columbia Station has been in operation since the early 1960s, but its fences began [...]
Sheriffs check chicken coop
SHEFFIELD TWP. — An anonymous tip led Lorain County Sheriff’s deputies to a Sheffield Township chicken coop to investigate allegations that cockfighting was taking place there Sunday. Deputies went out to the property in a fenced-in area where Lowell Avenue dead ends about 4:30 p.m. and found more than 40 people gathered around the coop. [...]
A virtual morgue in cyberspace
Site archives the dead of MySpace Meghan Barr The Associated Press Somewhere deep in cyberspace, where the living greet the dead, there are ghosts. They live in a virtual graveyard without tombstones or flowers. They drift among the shadows of the people they used to be, and the pieces they left behind. Allison Bauer left [...]
Fall victim, 2, remains critical
ELYRIA — A 2-year-old girl who fractured her skull after she fell from a second-floor window Saturday still was fighting for her life at a Cleveland hospital Sunday night. Cora Mae Gentry was listed in critical condition at MetroHealth Medical Center late Sunday, where she was being treated for the head injury as well as [...]
Goldie Allen
Goldie Allen, 88, of Grafton, passed away Saturday, July 28, 2007, at her home, after a long illness. She was born Sunday, April 6, 1919 in Flat Gap KY, living in Grafton for 25 years. Mrs. Allen was a homemaker who enjoyed caring for her family home, gardening of flowers, and being a mother. She [...]
William J. Dooley
William J. Dooley, 78, of Mount Vernon, died July 29, 2007 at the Ohio Eastern Star Home. He was born July 28, 1929 in Mount Vernon to William F. and Elizabeth (Feeney) Dooley. He was a member of St. Vincent DePaul Catholic Church. He was a Charter member of Council 2970, Knights of Columbus Fourth [...]
Joan D. Havanish
Joan D. Havanish (nee Kus), 76, of North Ridgeville, died Saturday, July 28, at her residence following a short illness. Mrs. Havanish was born March 23, 1931 in Cleveland, and had also resided in Berea where she co-owned Grindstone Inn for fifteen years, retiring in 1973. She moved to North Ridgeville in 1977, and involved [...]
Mary Margaret Magyary
Mary Margaret "Margie" Magyary (nee Kelovsky), 78, of Avon, died Friday, July 27, 2007, at St. John Westshore Hospital after a long illness. She was born, Feb. 4,1929, in Twin Rocks, PA and had lived in Avon for over 45 years. She was a member of the ladies VFW Auxilliary Post 7035 and enjoyed sewing [...]
John Perry Roberts
John Perry Roberts, 92, of LaGrange, passed away Sunday morning at the Elms Retirement Village, in Wellington, after a long illness. He was born Thursday, November 12, 1914 in Cleveland, living in the LaGrange area since 1960. He was a member of Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Grafton for many years. He [...]
Helen Peabody Smith
Helen (nee Schultz) Peabody Smith, 90, of Wellington, died Saturday, July 28, 2007 at the Medina Village Retirement Center, after a five month illness. Mrs. Smith was born July 9, 1917, in Amherst, to the late John and Helen "Nell" (nee Burgess) Schultz. She lived in Elyria most of her life and later moved to [...]
Mary J. Wine
Mary J. "Gina" Wine, 66, of Sullivan, died Sunday, July 29, 2007 at her home after several months of illness. She was born June 10, 1941 in Shinnston, WV, daughter of the late Frank and Mary (Perri) DeMarco. She was raised in Shinnston, WV and had lived in Sullivan for the past 41 years. Mrs. [...]
Steven Witherspoon
Steven Witherspoon, 45, of Lorain, (formerly of Oberlin) died Friday at his sister’s home following a lengthy illness.