Archive for August 28th, 2007
Robert D. Fenton
Robert D. Fenton, 78, of Lorain, formerly of Cleveland and Corry, Pa., passed away Tuesday, August 28, 2007, at his home following a lengthy illness. Mr. Fenton was born November 6, 1928, in Corry, moving to Cleveland as a child. He returned to Corry,and attended Corry High School. He graduated from Admiral King High School [...]
Ruth M. Groboske
Ruth M. Groboske (nee Dougherty), 83, of Elyria died Tuesday, August 28, 2007, at EMH Regional Medical Center in Elyria following a long illness. She was born May 20, 1924, in Cleveland and lived in Grafton for most of her life before moving to Elyria 10 years ago. Mrs. Groboske worked in the purchasing department [...]
Helen A. Supers
Helen A. Supers (nee Disien), 83, of Elyria, died on Monday, August 27, 2007, at her home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Reichlin Roberts Funeral Home, Elyria.
Clyde K. Ryan
Clyde K. Ryan, 86, of Elyria, died Monday, August 27, 2007, at EMH Regional Medical Center after a sudden illness. He was born July 27, 1921 in Danville, Pa., and had lived most of his life in Elyria. He was a U.S. Army veteran, who served in England during WW II. He graduated from Elyria [...]
Joseph C. Boyson
Joseph C. Boyson, 69, of Elyria died Sunday, August 26, 2007, at his home following a sudden illness. He was born January 5, 1938 in Elyria and was a lifelong Elyria resident. Mr. Boyson was owner-operator of the American Shoe Repair located in downtown Elyria for many years. It was well-known that you could enter [...]
Carole Joyce Tucker
Carole Joyce Tucker (nee Jackson), 73, and a resident of Berlin Heights, passed away Monday, August 27, 2007, at Fischer Titus Medical Center in Norwalk, following a short illness. She was born August 19, 1934, in Amherst, but lived most of her life in Vermilion and Florence Township. Carole was a member of Florence Congregational [...]
State issues smoking fines
COLUMBUS — Twenty-nine fines have been levied against Ohio taverns, veterans halls and even a cab company suspected of violating the state’s new public smoking ban. It is the first wave of $100 fines to be issued since voters approved the ban in November. No local venues fined … yet State officials say that locally, [...]
Lorain official wants to be mayor
LORAIN — The city’s deputy safety service director announced Tuesday that he is actively campaigning to become interim mayor. Joe Arendt plans to garner support from as many Republican Party Precinct Committee people as he can before they gather Thursday to select someone to serve the remaining four months of former Mayor Craig Foltin’s term. [...]
Wedding crasher steals cash
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) — Anthony and Jennifer Smith left for their Florida honeymoon earlier this month thinking they’d have plenty of cash gifts to tally up after their trip. But when the newlyweds returned, some bad news was waiting: Most of their wedding money was stolen by an envelope-snatching thief who crashed their reception [...]
Elyria holds firm on firefighter cuts
Mayor Grace says he won’t seek tax hike to restore staffing ELYRIA — Mayor Bill Grace said Tuesday that he won’t recommend seeking a tax hike to boost staffing at the fire department. Despite receiving a barrage of phone calls from residents concerned about safety after dropping the department’s minimum staffing level to 14 from [...]
Ailing Democratic senator cracks jokes during first appearance
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Sen. Tim Johnson, speaking slowly and slurring some words more than eight months after experiencing a life-threatening brain hemorrhage, announced Tuesday to state residents: “I am back.” In his first public appearance since falling ill, the 60-year-old Democrat spoke for about 15 minutes to a cheering crowd at the Sioux [...]
Camera gets stuck inside collapsed Utah mine
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A robotic camera lowered into a mountain became stuck 10 feet from its target, forcing crews to come up with another route to attempt getting video of an area where six miners might be trapped, an official said Tuesday. The camera was pulled back from the hole, district manager [...]
Ross claims political witch hunt
ELYRIA — Former county Commissioner Michael Ross is the victim of a political witch hunt, his attorney said in court documents filed Tuesday demanding that prosecutors return property they seized in a 2005 search of his Georgia home. Ross’ attorney, Michael Nelson Sr., also said prosecutors shouldn’t be allowed to use the evidence they gathered [...]
Closed Lorain school an eyesore, neighbors complain
LORAIN — Lorain City Schools isn’t being a very good neighbor, according to residents living near the former Fairhome Alternative School. The school, on Illinois Avenue, was shut down last month to save money, but residents say the weeds and grass have grown so high that it’s difficult to walk down the sidewalk without being [...]
Vanity, thy name is fake diploma in South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — She was an up-and-coming South Korean curator nicknamed the “art world’s Cinderella” with a doctorate from Yale on her resume. That was before Shin Jeong-ah’s academic credentials were revealed as false, sending her into hiding and sparking a wave of revelations of faked diplomas that are shaking up South [...]
Would-be phone pole thief flees police
LORAIN — A brazen thief did not get away with whatever he was hoping to find atop a telephone pole on Broadway The looter was caught in the act around 11:40 a.m. Monday by an Ohio Edison employee who told police he saw a man on a telephone pole behind the old Gel-Pak in the [...]
Family wins lawsuit vs. convicted killer
ELYRIA — The family of a woman shot to death by the man she was dating has won a $1 million lawsuit against the man convicted of killing her. Kimberly Dove’s family sued Edmund Elwell before he was convicted, but he never mounted a defense to the lawsuit, according to court records. Elwell, 49, is [...]
Former airport chief pleads guilty to theft
ELYRIA — The former director of the Lorain County Regional Airport pleaded guilty last week to a misdemeanor theft charge for using airport money to purchase items for his personal use. Daniel Abfall, 43, had been charged with two felony counts of theft in office, which could have sent him to prison for three years [...]
No metal bats for high schoolers, N.Y. judge rules
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Tuesday upheld New York’s ban on metal bats in high school baseball games, saying it was not his place to overturn a law that was approved by a local government with the public’s safety in mind. U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl said there is no clear evidence [...]
Elyria man recovering at home after being shot
LORAIN — An Elyria man is recovering at home after being shot in the side Sunday while sitting in a car in Lorain. Rodolfo Arroyo, 23, was released from Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center and is expected to make a full recovery. Arroyo told police he was parked alongside the road at Pearl Avenue and East [...]
Robber wants $4, waits while victim changes $10 bill
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A knife-wielding robber needed only $4, so he refused to take a $10 bill from his victim and waited while the man made change at a pizza parlor, police said Tuesday. He then took the $4 and ran off, only to be captured a few blocks away, police said. The suspect, [...]
Officer posts nasty remarks on YouTube
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The city police department reassigned a patrol officer to a desk job Tuesday after she posted on YouTube a series of homemade videos disparaging blacks, Jews, Cubans and illegal immigrants. Officer Susan Purtee, 60, and her sister, Barbara Gordon-Bell, 52, made and distributed videos blaming those groups for problems in U.S. [...]
Grade B flicks a hit on public access channel
OBERLIN — For those of you who were weaned on Super Host’s monster movies on Saturday afternoons, you may want to check out Channel 9 via Oberlin’s Cable Co-Op Inc. Tim Paxton, 45, Oberlin, grew up watching all those Saturday movies and also remembers the B-grade horror movies in black and white that aired at [...]
Oberlin/Wellington police blotter: Aug. 29, 2007
Wellington police Monday, Aug. 20 6:26 p.m. — Depot and Prospect streets, vandalism to car and theft of $50. Thursday, Aug. 23 9:26 a.m. — 200 block of Kelly St., report of stolen generator. Friday, Aug. 24 6:54 p.m. — 500 block of Main St., Kyle M. Hallauer, 18, of Elyria, charged with operating a [...]
Well-schooled neighbors save drowning toddler
Firefighter, 2 others revive boy who almost drowned in pond NORTH ROYALTON — A firefighter, a respiratory technician and a man who found a missing 2-year-old boy not breathing and floating face down in a neighborhood pond combined to revive the toddler, authorities said. The boy wandered away from his aunt’s house on Saturday. Neighbor [...]