Archive for October 23rd, 2007
Teen accused of shooting parents made gun threat at school four years ago
The 16-year-old boy accused of murdering his mother and shooting his father had been in trouble at Wellington’s McCormick Middle School four years ago after threatening to bring a gun to school, though the boy passed the threat off as a joke relating to a church play he was in, according to a Wellington police [...]
346,000 homes in wildfires’ paths
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Walls of wind-whipped flames consumed hundreds of homes across tinder-dry Southern California today, raising the number of people forced to flee the flames into the hundreds of thousands. The blazes bedeviled firefighters as fires roared from mountain passes to the edges of the state’s celebrated coastline, spreading so quickly that even [...]
Teen, 15, stabbed to death
Police: Bullying was factor CLEVELAND — A 15-year-old girl who had been bullied was stabbed to death during an attack by another teenager, police said. Annetta Holliman Anthony Holliman Yulanda Holliman Demesha Sharp was attacked Friday night while walking to a bus stop with siblings and friends. A sport utility vehicle appeared and tried to [...]
Scott Petrak: Indians better than Red Sox? Boy, was I wrong
I’ve heard it takes a big man to admit he was wrong. Well, I am 6-foot-3, so here it goes: I was WRONG. How wrong? Let me count the ways. After the Indians lost Game 5 of the ALCS at Jacobs Field, they led the series 3-2 and I wrote a column telling fans to [...]
Chris Assenheimer: Plenty of reasons for Indians’ collapse
Are you still trying to figure out how the Indians committed the abominable act of squandering a 3-1 lead in the American League Championship Series, and attempting to come to grips with the fact that they won’t be playing in the World Series? Let me give you a hand. • They got absolutely nothing from [...]
Indians learn tough lesson in ALCS meltdown
CLEVELAND — Sometime in the future, once the biting sting of defeat eases, the Cleveland Indians will look back on a 2007 season that began in falling snow and ended with a stunning collapse. They’ll savor all the good moments. Not just yet. “Maybe in a week or so I’ll be able to reflect back [...]
LeBron on Cavaliers: ‘We’re worse’ than last season
INDEPENDENCE — LeBron James was brutally honest following a workout Monday afternoon at Cleveland Clinic Courts. An astute basketball observer, James knows the Cavaliers didn’t have enough talent to beat the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals last season. A four-game sweep simply drove that fact home. More troubling to the fifth-year pro at [...]
Girls say teacher poked them with pen
LORAIN — Lorain police are investigating three female students’ claims that one of their male teachers at The Arts Academy in Lorain poked them in the breast with his pen. The Friday incident centered on a 58-year-old teacher who had been hired one month ago, according to a Lorain police report. The three students, whose [...]
Pastor’s son charged
Teen accused of murdering mom, maiming dad Daniel Petric in a 2005 yearbook photo ELYRIA — Daniel Petric sat expressionless Monday as a county Juvenile Court magistrate read off the charges leveled against him — murder for the shooting death of his mother and attempted murder for allegedly shooting his father, a pastor at a [...]
Browns make up ground while not playing
BEREA — The Browns returned from the bye Monday to find themselves in better shape than when they left for the long weekend. Not only did the bumps and bruises from the first six weeks have time to heal, both teams ahead of the Browns in the AFC North lost Sunday. Baltimore fell 19-14 at [...]
Boys soccer: Lake Ridge edges Oberlin in 2OT
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — Sophomore Sami Ibrahim connected on a 40-yard boot in the middle of the field with 12:26 left in the second overtime to give top-seeded Lake Ridge Academy a 2-1 victory Monday over visiting Oberlin and put the Lions in the Division III district final Thursday at home. Ibrahim’s goal, assisted by Nathan [...]
Creative Elyria teachers hope community steps up
ELYRIA — Elyria school teachers are hoping the community steps up to support a program that will succeed only if funding is provided through grants and donations from community members. Mark Sutter, director of academic services at Elyria schools, said 59 Elyria teachers have applied to receive grants that could fund educational programs the teachers [...]
Police charge man in online sex sting
AVON — Avon police have charged a 40-year-old man who allegedly believed he was meeting up with a 15-year-old girl for sex. Charles T. Milhous Jr., 40, of Garfield Heights, was charged with importuning, attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and possession of criminal tools after police said he solicited sex online from someone [...]
Baldwin-Wallace loses a legend: Bob Packard dies
BEREA — Bob Packard, who won more games than any football coach in the history of Baldwin-Wallace College, died Saturday of a heart attack. He was 64. Packard, a 1965 B-W graduate, won even more games than the legendary Lee Tressel, for whom he both played and coached, but he was never about the records, [...]
Test of voter privacy has officials seeking a legislative cure
COLUMBUS — A privacy consultant who set out to test the security of Ohio’s publicly available voting data says he has been able to determine how some people voted on a yes-no issue. The findings James Moyer reported on the Internet concerned election officials and prompted them to work with the state Legislature to fix [...]
Prep volleyball notes: Middies, Cards have moved up
Things didn’t change a whole lot in the 2007 volleyball season. Most everyone either got a bit better, fell off just a tad or pretty much stayed the course. There were, however, two teams in the area that made dramatic improvements this fall. Midview was one game below .500 in 2006. The Middies ended this [...]
No warning signs before shootings
BRIGHTON TWP. — Red flags that could have indicated a teenage boy was on the verge of violence just weren’t present in 16-year-old Wellington High School student Daniel Petric, according to those who knew him. The preacher’s son allegedly shot and killed his mother and shot his father in the face Saturday evening. Daniel Petric [...]
Lorain Council still working on pit bull law
LORAIN — Lorain City Council’s Police and Fire Committee still wants to iron out some issues with a proposed pit bull ordinance before sending a recommendation to Council. Mike Mattei, the city’s animal control officer, told the committee that pit bulls are becoming more of a problem every day and pulled out numbers to support [...]
New Holiday Inn approved by Sheffield Council
SHEFFIELD — Village Council on Monday approved plans to bring a 106-room Holiday Inn to the state Route 254 exit off Interstate 90. In a 4-2 vote, Council agreed to allow the hotel to be built on a three-acre plot of land near Giant Eagle. Construction will begin in spring 2008 with the hotel opening [...]
Lorain Schools may go for levy
LORAIN — Lorain Schools Treasurer Ryan Ghizzoni said Monday night that the district may be forced to ask voters to approve a levy to become financially solvent. Ghizzoni’s statement, that the district needed additional funding “including but not limited to” a levy, came during a school board meeting that included a presentation from representatives of [...]
Living in inferno’s shadow
Chronicle reporter has personal angle on Southern California’s deadly wildfires Monday afternoon, I called my sister in Rancho Bernardo after hearing on CNN that homes in her San Diego suburb were being torched by wildfires. CNN had reported that “fires were consuming homes in the communities of Escondido, Rancho Bernardo, Forest Ranch and Lake Hodges.” [...]
Amherst-Vermilion police blotter: Oct. 23, 2007
Amherst police Thursday, Sept. 27 12:54 a.m. — Motel 6, Andrew A. Girard, 29, 900 block W. 13th St., Lorain, charged with possession of marijuana. Sunday, Oct. 7 12:54 p.m. — DePaola Park, Daniel D. Shattuck, 18, 4900 block Westford Court, Westlake, charged with abuse of harmful intoxicants after police found him unconscious. Friday, Oct. [...]
Police blotter: Oct. 23, 2007
Elyria police Sunday, Oct. 21 9:53 a.m. – Tokyo Steakhouse, two 600-pound concrete lion statues outside the steakhouse pulled off their bases overnight. 2:48 p.m. – West Avenue, Kenneth A. Kettlewell, 33, 300 block Sixth St., charged with possession of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia. 8:12 p.m. – Sherman Street, a man and women told [...]
Sorting through quarry history
AMHERST — When the Cleveland Quarries board of directors assigned the company’s historical records to the Amherst Historical Society in October 2005, it opened the doors to the community’s past in a way not seen before. Overseen by historian Howard Akin, the project of sorting through the records quickly grew massive as the society collected [...]
Audrey Quinn Jones
Audrey Quinn Jones, 72, died Friday, October 19, 2007, at home. Mrs. Jones was born January 15, 1935 in Lakewood, to the late John David Quinn and Julia Mary Cooper. She was of Irish decent and was from a family of devout Catholics; her aunt, Cornelia, was a nun in East Cleveland. She was a [...]