Archive for September 5th, 2007
Flora Mae Williams
Flora Mae Williams, 86, of Lorain, passed away on Monday, September 3, 2007, in the Autumn Aegis Nursing Home following a long illness. She was born in Clanton, Ala., coming to Lorain many years ago from Cleveland where she lived for 20 years. She was employed in the housekeeping departments for many years in different [...]
Indians 7, Twins 5: Hafner homers twice in 11-inning win
MINNEAPOLIS — Travis Hafner hit two home runs and the go-ahead sacrifice fly in the 11th inning, leading the Cleveland Indians past the Minnesota Twins 7-5 on Tuesday night. Franklin Gutierrez led off the inning with a walk from Julio DePaula (0-1). After a sacrifice bunt by Casey Blake and an intentional walk to Grady [...]
Browns: Cribbs is more than just a return man
BEREA — Joshua Cribbs didn’t displace Tim Carter as the No. 3 receiver, but he’s still expected to be a key contributor on offense. Cribbs had a strong preseason in his third year with the team. He turned a short pass from Brady Quinn into a 20-yard touchdown vs. the Broncos with a quick [...]
Dan Coughlin: Browns fans just ain’t what they used to be
My children missed the glory of the Browns. They were born too late. They never will connect to the Browns the way I did in the 1950s and ’60s. Their generation is deprived and ours was spoiled. Today anybody can be a Browns fan. There’s nothing special. Everybody seems to be a member. There are [...]
Tressel was rooting for the Wolverines
COLUMBUS — Fans cheered, players laughed, horns honked. It was quite a little celebration. No, that wasn’t the reaction around Ohio Stadium to Ohio State’s 38-6 win over Youngstown State on Saturday, but rather Michigan’s stunning 34-32 home loss to Appalachian State that ended later. The final minutes of the game were shown [...]
College football poll: Michigan falls out of Top 25
NEW YORK — Thud! The final fallout from a disastrous opening weekend for Michigan came Tuesday, when the Wolverines dropped all the way out of The Associated Press Top 25, an unprecedented fall from No. 5 to unranked. The Wolverines also dropped out of the USA Today coaches poll Top 25. Since the AP [...]
High school volleyball: Keystone comes from behind vs. Wellington
WELLINGTON – The heat, the noise, the hostile crowd – it all conspired against Keystone. And it looked like it was all going to get to the Wildcats after Wellington dominated Game 1 in a key Patriot Athletic Conference match Tuesday. The Dukes clobbered Keystone, the conference favorite, in the opening game, 25-12. Wellington [...]
Boys soccer: Pioneers fall to Solon
ELYRIA – Elyria’s winless boys soccer team took the field Tuesday afternoon against Solon, which according to some polls is one of the seven best high-school teams in Ohio. But for the longest time, memories of the U.S. Olympic hockey team vs. the Soviet Union came to mind. And Villanova-Georgetown in the 1985 [...]
Tuesday’s high school sports roundup
Volleyball Midview 25-25-25, Rocky River 19-19-22 EATON TWP. – Midview’s Jacki Street had 12 kills, two solo blocks and eight block assists as the Middies defeated Rocky River 25-19, 25-19, 25-22 in West Shore Conference action on Tuesday. Stephanie Bayus had 15 service points (four aces), while Maureen Kessler had 12 kills for the Middies (3-1, [...]
Three men missing on Lake Erie
VERMILION — The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching a more than 2,000-square-mile swath of Lake Erie for three Wooster boaters who were last heard from Sunday night. But time is not on the side of the boaters or the Coast Guard, which has used its own helicopters and boats and a Canadian Coast Guard [...]
‘Faint cry’ leads to rescue on Erie
TOLEDO — Rowing through darkness, Chuck Herndon steered his boat toward where he had seen the plane’s taillights plunge into Lake Erie just off the Kelleys Island shore. Finally, he heard a faint cry. “I’m coming, I’m coming,” Herndon yelled. He rowed furiously, following the voice. But Herndon still couldn’t see anything until a pair [...]
Mayor: Avon Lake Ford plant in running for expansion
AVON LAKE — The Ohio Assembly Plant in Avon Lake is competing with two other regional Ford plants for an expansion that could bring another 1,800 jobs to the area. During an interview Tuesday at The Chronicle-Telegram, Avon Lake Mayor Rob Berner said the city is in the running, as is the Ford plant in [...]
Pickup rollover: Driver, passengers taken to hospital
ELYRIA — A 27-year-old woman was taken to the hospital after overturning a truck on the state Route 57 off-ramp Tuesday afternoon while hauling asphalt. Wynyanna Winchester, of Cleveland, was heading west on Interstate 90 near the ramp to state Route 57 when she lost control of a 1986 Ford F-600 straight truck and went [...]
Wheels fall off Elyria fire truck
ELYRIA — Thrifty spenders may say they use equipment until the wheels fall off to demonstrate their willingness to work within budget constraints. But the Elyria Fire Department proved that sometimes, it is actually done They immediately switched mind-sets and formed a dike around the spill to prevent it from going into the sewers The [...]
Police officer remains in jail
OBERLIN — A Lorain police officer, who was charged over the weekend for violating a civil protection order filed by his estranged wife, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Oberlin Municipal Court. Corey Earl, 45, appeared via video arraignment from the county jail, where he has been held since he was arrested Saturday. Earl is being [...]
Woman fights off bicycle, fake leg
ELYRIA — An 18-year-old woman who tried to stop a suspected thief Monday morning was assaulted by the man with his prosthetic leg. Gina McKee of Elyria said her left hand was cut when Lemuel Voorhies threw his bicycle at her, but she was able to fend off the prosthetic leg attack. Police arrived as [...]
Power outage affects thousands
Even though it was pretty darn hot Tuesday, Ohio Edison officials say faulty wiring — not an overload of air conditioners — was to blame for an outage that left 29,000 homes and buildings without power The outage affected parts of Elyria, Lorain, North Ridgeville, Oberlin, Columbia Station and North Olmsted, according to Ohio Edison [...]
EPA: Limestone mill dust-up unfounded
LORAIN — The city Zoning Board of Appeals will meet today to discuss whether to allow a Cleveland-based mining company to build a limestone mill along Henderson Drive. Oglebay Norton will bring 12 to 14 jobs to the city with the new plant and would move into a vacant area east of the Black River, [...]
Craig reconsiders resigning over sex scandal
BOISE, Idaho — Sen. Larry Craig is reconsidering his decision to resign after his arrest in a Minnesota airport sex sting and may still fight for his Senate seat, his spokesman said Tuesday evening. “It’s not such a foregone conclusion anymore, that the only thing he could do was resign,” Sidney Smith, Craig’s spokesman in [...]
Powerful Felix and Henriette slam into Mexico
CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico — Felix walloped Central America’s remote Miskito coastline and Henriette slammed into resorts on the tip of Baja California as a record-setting hurricane season got even wilder Tuesday with twin storms making landfall on the same day. While weakening rapidly, Felix’s rains posed a danger to inland villages lying in flood-prone [...]
Hiker from LaGrange home after 30-foot fall
LAGRANGE — Betty Whyel is back home after surviving the fall of her life. Whyel, 29, fell 30 feet down a mountain ridge in Colorado on Aug. 15 while hiking Mount Royal with two friends. She was hospitalized for more than a week at Summit Medical Center and arrived home by plane late last month. [...]
Mattel recalling more toys
The Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Mattel Inc., announced late Tuesday that it is recalling about 700,000 Chinese-made toys that have excessive amounts of lead paint. The recall covers 675,000 units of various Barbie accessory toys that were manufactured between Sept. 30, 2006, and Aug. 20, 2007. The action also involves 8,900 different [...]
Teen takes police on two-city chase
SHEFFIELD — A teenage boy driving his grandfather’s car without permission took police on a pursuit through two cities, and was later found hiding out at his girlfriend’s home, police said. Sheffield police Capt. Larry Bliss said the teen caught the attention of officers about 12:30 a.m. Monday when he made a last-minute decision to [...]
Fire department fights two blazes
ELYRIA — The city Fire Department rounded out a busy morning Tuesday by fighting a second house fire hours after flames gutted a home on Olive Street. This time, the 10 a.m. fire at a home on the 100 block of Garvin Street was quickly knocked down by firefighters, Assistant Fire Chief Ron Brlas said. [...]
Bar owner sues former mayor for libel
ELYRIA — The owner of a downtown Lorain bar has filed a lawsuit against former Mayor Craig Foltin for libel. Tim Draves, owner of Tim’s Place on Broadway, a gay bar, says that statements made in a letter Foltin submitted to Council at a Dec. 11 meeting were untrue. Foltin alleged that the city treasurer [...]