Archive for August 18th, 2007
Byrd, defense the difference as Tribe downs Devil Rays
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Paul Byrd gave up plenty of hits — just none when they mattered. Byrd yielded eight hits but continually got out of jams, and the Cleveland Indians scored two runs early before holding on to beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2-1 Friday night. Byrd (11-5) gave up one run in [...]
Doug Clarke: Tribe’s Wedge fiddles while opportunity knocks
Eight. Count ’em: Eight. Eight ways to score from third base with less than two out. Eight. Eight ways. (Prediction: Someone from SABRE, an organization for baseball nerds, will inform me that there are nine ways to score from third base with less than two out. I am not in SABRE, so I will stick [...]
Browns’ QB watch still primary focus
CLEVELAND — This is no ordinary preseason game. It can’t be when the starting quarterback job is on the line. “It’s possible that a starter could come out of this game,” Browns coach Romeo Crennel said Thursday. “If it plays out the way we want it, then we’ll announce a starter. If it’s still close, [...]
Co-defendants link Vick to dog executions
RICHMOND, Va. — It’s up to Michael Vick now. His last two co-defendants pleaded guilty Friday and implicated Vick in bankrolling gambling on dogfights. One of them said the Atlanta Falcons quarterback helped drown or hang dogs that didn’t do well. With his NFL career in jeopardy and a superseding indictment adding more charges in [...]
Horse racing: Slots simply a bandage for a wounded sport?
The arguments for or against allowing video lottery terminals, or VLTs, or high-tech slot machines, at racetracks in Ohio has usually boiled down to this: Those opposed — “gambling is a sin.” (But I hear no calls to outlaw horse racing, the state lottery or bingo). Those in favor — “it’s my money and you [...]
Prep roundup: Overy, Middies win golf tourney
LODI — Jay Overy shot 74 to lead Midview to the team championship at the Cloverleaf Invitational at Westfield Country Club on Thursday. The Middies totaled 316 strokes, 11 better than runner-up Strongsville. Bryan Yeo shot 81 to lead Keystone’s fourth-place finish (364 strokes). TEAM SCORES: Midview 316, Strongsville 327, Cloverleaf 333, Keystone 364. TOP [...]
Area motorsports: Sandusky hosts Buckeye Sprints
The Second Annual “Buckeye Bandit” Super Sprint Classic wraps up tonight at Sandusky Speedway with a 40-lap, $1,000-to-win feature. On Friday the Spectator Stocks ran a complete show and the Buckeye Super Sprints (BSS) ran a 20-lap Non-Winners Shootout. The Pure Stock and Spectator Stocks will be support divisions tonight. Last year’s inaugural Buckeye Bandit BSS [...]
Briefs: Area bowling alleys have league openings
Area lanes have openings for 2007 The 2007 bowling season begins next week for some area leagues, and many still have openings to fill. Other leagues have organizational meetings scheduled. At Grafton Bowling Center the following leagues need bowlers: • Sunday Pot Luck Couples, bowl every other week at 2:10 p.m. • Sunday Nite Mixed, [...]
Judge sues over van purchased on eBay
ELYRIA — County Common Pleas Judge Raymond Ewers and his wife are suing a Florida car dealership that sold them a van through eBay in a dispute that arose after the couple learned the van didn’t have the genuine leather upholstery they were promised. The lawsuit, filed Friday in county Common Pleas Court, accuses General [...]
Waters off Miller Park claim Ridgeville man
AVON LAKE — Kyle Karkoff was the kind of son who, even at the age of 23, still would leave notes telling his family where he was and when he was coming home. On Thursday, Karkoff left his father, Darold Ondrick, his last note — saying he was going to the Miller Road Park to [...]
See a fungus bigger than a person’s head!
GRAFTON — Ron Van Amburgh can cook a puffball mushroom a lot of ways, but his favorite is sauteed with steak. It turns out, he could have one heck of a barbecue on his hands. On Thursday, Van Amburgh’s close friend and neighbor, Henry Husk, discovered a 10-pound puffball mushroom growing in a shady patch [...]
Advisory board backs I-90 interchange
CLEVELAND — An interchange on Interstate-90 at Lear Nagle Road in Avon has inched another step closer to being built. The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency’s Transportation Advisory Committee Friday voted 19-11 in favor of the interchange. The 38-member NOACA board, made up of public officials from Lorain, Cuyahoga, Lake, Medina and Geauga counties, is [...]
Political briefs: Aug. 18
Walther announces run for Probate judge LORAIN — Assistant Lorain City Law Director Jim Walther announced Friday that he is running for outgoing Probate Court Judge Frank Horvath’s job next November. Walther Walther is the first candidate to announce his candidacy for the job, but several others, including county Common Pleas Judge Mark Betleski, have [...]
GOP candidate faces fines
Elyria mayoral hopeful faces more than $50K in penalties for not filing reports ELYRIA — John Howard Jr., the Republican candidate running for Elyria mayor, has racked up fines from the Ohio Elections Commission totaling $53,725 and climbing. Howard didn’t file campaign finance reports he was required to submit to the county Board of Elections [...]
Court briefs: Aug. 18
Man indicted in fatal McDonald’s shooting ELYRIA — Terry Little was a day shy of his 20th birthday when police say he walked into the McDonald’s on Oberlin Avenue in Lorain and shot Lewis Turner to death. Little Turner Now a county grand jury has indicted Little for the July 30 shooting that police say [...]
Sails hoisted for bicentennial hurrah
STEVE MANHEIM / CHRONICLE The US Brig Niagara enters the Lorain harbor at the mouth of the Black River. LORAIN — Four white sails glide across Lorain’s blue sky. White foam erupts around the stern as waves break all around the wood frame. The U.S. Brig Niagara, a tall ship from Erie, Pa., sailed into [...]
Teen’s charity starts in the backyard
AMHERST — A 16-year-old Amherst resident is single-handedly working to bring back a tradition that saw peak popularity in the 1960s — the backyard carnival. Talyah Bernardone of Amherst has been putting together backyard carnivals since she was only 12 and donates all proceeds to the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Cleveland. The money goes to [...]
Off the Beat, Aug. 18, 2007
Photo-op? No, just bug killers When Elyria resident Kathy Dembek scrambled Wednesday to get Elyria officials to respond to her Woodland Avenue neighborhood to help quell a roach infestation, she found herself at wit’s end. Calls to various city offices were fruitless for nearly an hour, until James Love, a city building inspector, learned about [...]
Fed loans available for flood repairs
ELYRIA — Severe storms that ripped through the county Aug. 7 caused enough damage to qualify residents and business owners for low-interest federal loans to help repair damage caused by the storm. Homeowners and renters, whose property was damaged by the storms, are eligible for loans through the Small Business Administration of up to $200,000. [...]
Inmate accused of threat to judge
ELYRIA — A Lorain County Jail inmate could be charged with intimidation and aggravated menacing after sending a threatening letter to county Common Pleas Judge Christopher Rothgery earlier this week, sheriff’s deputies said. Rothgery Joseph Griffith, 25, a Grafton Correctional Institution inmate who was being held at the county jail awaiting a court appearance for [...]