Archive for October 21st, 2007
Tribe has one shot left
BOSTON — Are the Indians headed for the latest Cleveland collapse?It sure looks that way after the Red Sox took the wood to them in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series at Fenway Park on Saturday night. AP Boston Red Sox right fielder J.D. Drew (center) is congratulated by Julian Tavarez (51) after [...]
Pastor’s wife killed; pastor shot in face
BRIGHTON TWP. — A preacher and his wife were cut down by gunfire Saturday night at a Peck Wadsworth Road home west of state Route 511, leaving one dead and one fighting to stay alive. Sue Petric, 43, died before police arrived at the scene. She was shot once in the arm and once in [...]
Part-time Wakeman officer awaits fate
WAKEMAN — A part-time Wakeman police officer may have to turn in his badge next month when he is sentenced for having sex in a park bathroom. Dan Deusenberry, 35, of Strongsville, pleaded no contest to two counts of public indecency in Berea Municipal Court. A third count was dismissed, according to court records. Deusenberry [...]
Internet contact usually first step toward teacher abuse
Local case followed typical pattern in teacher-student sex case
Men arrested for attempted break-in at cafe
ELYRIA — Two men who police say botched a restaurant break-in shortly after midnight Saturday quickly found themselves behind bars. According to an Elyria police report, Mark Zuckerman and Bruce Brown, both 42, of Elyria, planned to burglarize the Lowell Street Café but were instead rounded up by police patrolling nearby. After a tipster reported [...]
Blotter: Oct. 21
Elyria police Thursday, Oct. 18 7 p.m. – 700 block Middle Ave., lost cell phone. Friday, Oct. 19 6 a.m. – 100 block Harvard Ave., a computer bag was stolen from a truck, and a prescription bottle belonging to a suspect was found. 7:30 a.m. – Eastgate School, a window was broken in the teachers’ [...]
Nice digs: Downtown Elyria living in style
As it turns out, there’s no game plan and no hard-and-fast solution to creating exquisite style. “I never shop to look for something,” said Elyria attorney Marilu Laubenthal. “I just shop to shop, and if something strikes my fancy and I can afford to buy it, I buy it.” STEVE MANHEIM/CHRONICLE Marilu Laubenthal in the [...]
From E.C. to D.C., Voinovich’s Three D’s a big hit
ELYRIA — Say this, three times fast: Dora, Doug, Dana. If they all show up at once, you’re either sitting in on a staff meeting at Ohio Sen. George Voinovich’s office, or you’re at an Elyria Catholic High School alumni gathering. Either way, you’re in for some interesting political chitchat. Dziak Dora, Doug and Dana [...]
Districts continue charging for all-day kindergarten
UNIONTOWN — Parents in some school districts have complained that despite an opinion by Ohio’s attorney general that school districts can’t charge parents for all-day kindergarten, the tuition bills keep coming. The school districts say that until the opinion, which is not legally binding, is clarified by lawmakers or the state department of education, they’ll [...]
Internet photo of shooter corpse was taken by policeman
CLEVELAND — A photo posted on the Internet showing the bloodied, lifeless body of a teenage gunman was taken by a police officer at the high school where the boy shot four people and then killed himself, a city official said. Patrolman Walter Emerick, who responded to the Oct. 10 shooting at SuccessTech Academy, admitted [...]
Judge rules dowries can’t be enforced
COLUMBUS — A man does not have to pay his former wife $25,000, promised as part of a dowry before their traditional Muslim marriage because a judge ruled the payment is part of a religious agreement, not a legal contract. The decision by Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Dana Priesse on Oct. 10 is the [...]
Beat up in Beantown: Fausto flops as Boston blows away Indians
BOSTON — Uh-oh. That was undoubtedly the sentiment of Indians players and Clevelanders back home as J.D Drew’s drive off Fausto Carmona in the first inning Saturday sailed over the center-field wall at Fenway Park for a grand slam. It was the fourth of many runs for Boston, which made it quick but far from [...]
Tribe notes: Wedge trots out veteran for Game 6
BOSTON — Eric Wedge played the Trot Nixon card again Saturday night. The Indians manager has gone to the veteran Nixon on a number of occasions this postseason, most often with favorable results, hoping for the same in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series when he started him in right field over Franklin [...]
Colombian dons iron mask in protest
BOGOTA, Colombia — Forget going on a hunger strike. In Colombia, an unemployed man has sewn shut his mouth and locked himself behind an iron mask to demand the government attend to his family’s desperate economic plight. AP Luis Aldana wears an iron mask in his house in Bogota, Saturday. The 52-year-old iron artisan sealed [...]
Rosa Belle Farrow
Rosa Belle (nee Whaley) Farrow, 96, departed this life to be present with the Lord on October 17, 2007. Mother Rosa Belle Farrow received the baptism in Jesus name and the Holy Ghost on January 8, 1931 at the Original Glorious Church Of God In Christ in Huntington, WV, where she served faithfully until she [...]
Robert H. Blayney
Robert H. Blayney, 86, of San Diego, CA, died October 12, 2007. He was born on April 18, 1921 in Elyria where he attended Elyria High School. Robert retired from the US Coast Guard where he served in WWII. He was an executive with Eaxon-Mobil Corporation. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, [...]
Michael Irvin Kring
Michael Irvin Kring, 62, lost his battle with cancer on Thursday, October 4, 2007 at his home in Montgomery, TX. Michael was born in South Bend, IN and spent much of his childhood in Ohio. A veteran of Vietnam, Michael enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1962 and served with the U.S. Submarine Service until [...]
Dan Coughlin: If we could all just be like Manny
Manny Ramirez is the luckiest guy in the world. Why can’t all of us be like him? Not because he’s probably the best pure hitter in the game who is not on steroids. Steroids require a regular schedule. Don’t put Manny on schedule. I want to be like him because he has no worries, further [...]
Margaret P. Neal
Margaret P. “Peggy” Neal, (nee Painter), 87, of Lorain, died Friday October 12, 2007 at the Good Samaritan Nursing Home, in Avon, following a brief illness. Mrs. Neal was born in Paintertown, PA on April 3, 1920. She moved to Lorain County in the early 1950’s and was a long-time resident of Elyria. She was [...]
Alex F. Farkas
Alex F. Farkas, 89, of Grafton, passed away Friday, October 19, 2007 in Elyria Memorial Hospital after a sudden illness. He was born January 24, 1918 in Elyria and had lived in the Grafton-LaGrange areas all his life. He was a charter member of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Grafton. Mr. Farkas served in the [...]
Ohio State turnovers turn blowout into close call
COLUMBUS — Ohio State has won 27 of its last 28 games. It is one of only two teams left in the BCS top 10 that remain undefeated. Still, the top-ranked Buckeyes have been greeted with skepticism in this most fickle of college football seasons. And Saturday was hardly the showcase performance to convince a [...]
Ohio State notes: All’s Wells that ends well
Pete Alpern and Tim Gebhardt The Chronicle-Telegram COLUMBUS — Chris Wells lowered his shoulder and continued to drive, without feeling the faintest hint of fatigue. Late in the fourth quarter, no one would have blamed Wells if he was lacking some of his usual spark. The sophomore back had easily eclipsed his high for carries [...]
Prep cross country: Elyria Catholic’s Coolidge wins title; Bay boys, girls sweep
SHEFFIELD — Marty Coolidge kept cool, even when he was in pain and something was gaining on him. Coolidge, a sophomore from Elyria Catholic, jumped out to a commanding lead in Saturday’s Division II boys district cross country meet at Lorain County Community College. He watched that lead shrivel as a result of a cramp [...]
Girls sectional soccer: Freshman lifts Avon past Elyria Catholic
AVON — A year ago at this time, Sammy Bender was in the eighth grade playing for coach David Leigh in Avon’s youth soccer program. The Avon High freshman played against Leigh on Saturday, to the ultimate chagrin of both Leigh and his Elyria Catholic team. Bender, one of four freshmen starting for the top-seeded [...]
Boys sectional soccer: Westlake holds off Elyria
WESTLAKE — First-year Elyria coach Greg Leininger saw the Pioneers stay with Westlake on Saturday night except for a few minutes midway through the second half. But in those few minutes, the second-seeded Demons grabbed control of the game. Westlake (10-4-3) scored two goals in a 19-second span en route to a 2-0 victory in [...]