Archive for November 1st, 2007
Browns notes: Team signs ex-Steeler Colclough
BEREA — The Browns’ front office was surprised when cornerback Ricardo Colclough was released by the Steelers three days ago. So was the fourth-year pro, who had spent his entire NFL career in Pittsburgh and didn’t see the move coming. “It sort of happened early. I thought I’d be able to finish out the season,” [...]
Cavaliers don’t pick up Shannon Brown’s option
INDEPENDENCE — The Cavaliers say Shannon Brown is still in their plans, but their actions say something else. The team did not pick up the relatively cheap option year on the second-year guard’s contract, meaning Brown will be an unrestricted free agent at the end of this season. “We like Shannon,” general manager Danny Ferry [...]
Boeckman’s success has been happy surprise for Ohio State
COLUMBUS — No one thought Ohio State or its quarterback would be all that good this season. One of the biggest reasons nobody expected the Buckeyes to be contenders is because they were losing a Heisman Trophy winner at quarterback and replacing him with a guy who had more birthdays (23) than he had minutes [...]
Fright night at The Q: Cavs hear plenty of boos during Halloween horror show
CLEVELAND — There was a lot of booing inside Quicken Loans Arena on Wednesday night, but not because it was Halloween. The Cavaliers — or at least someone dressed up as them — began defense of their Eastern Conference championship in dismal fashion, losing their season opener 92-74 to the Dallas Mavericks in front of [...]
Cavaliers’ performance spoils celebratory mood
The Cavaliers put together a banner season in 2006-2007, which entitled them to a banner night on Wednesday. Just 41/2 months after reaching the NBA Finals for the first time, Cleveland raised its Eastern Conference championship banner to the rafters at Quicken Loans Arena. It was a moment many Cavaliers fans thought would never come, [...]
Cavaliers notes: Pavlovic is back, but Gibson is still starter for now
CLEVELAND — One down, one to go. Swingman Sasha Pavlovic, who agreed to contract terms on Tuesday, arrived at Quicken Loans Arena on Wednesday for the Cavaliers’ season opener against the Dallas Mavericks. That leaves power forward Anderson Varejao as the team’s lone remaining holdout. “It’s good we got something done with one guy,” Cavaliers [...]
Frye trade turned the tide for Anderson, Browns offense
BEREA — The question to Derek Anderson begged for a soul-searching answer with references to Kant, Nietzsche and Aristotle. “Could it have been him traded after Week 1 instead of Charlie Frye?” a reporter asked. What the answer lacked in insight, it made up for in brevity. “Could. Didn’t,” Anderson said Wednesday. As simplistic as [...]
Browns notes: Washington put on injured reserve
BEREA — Nose tackle Ted Washington was placed on injured reserve Wednesday, ending his season and possibly his career. Former Steelers cornerback Ricardo Colclough was claimed off waivers to take the roster spot. Washington, 39, signed a two-year deal with the Browns in 2006 and started all 16 games. He lost his starting job to [...]
Court OKs death penalty hearings
County Common Pleas Judge James Burge can proceed with hearings on the constitutionality of the lethal injection process used to execute condemned inmates in Ohio, the state’s highest court ruled Wednesday. In a 5-2 decision, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that Burge could proceed with his review, despite objections from prosecutors and Ohio Attorney General [...]
Regional volleyball: Amherst finds reason to shout, rallies to make finals
NORWALK — It might depend on what your definition of “yell” is. “No, she didn’t yell at us,” said Amherst senior Courtney Jarvis, talking about the behavior of her coach, Laurie Cogan, in the late going of Game 4 of the Comets’ Division I regional volleyball semifinal Wednesday at Norwalk High School. If Cogan didn’t [...]
Couple’s heat was off, but luck was with them
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — It was cold in Theresa Wygal’s Avon Belden Road house until three magic numbers changed everything Tuesday. When Wygal and her husband, Clint, saw her lucky lottery come up on TV, they knew the first thing they would do with the $100,000 they’d won would be to turn their heat on. JASON [...]
Man gets 15 years for beating grandmother
ELYRIA — An Elyria man who beat his elderly grandmother during a robbery last year was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison. Shawn Bowens, 26, told county Common Pleas Judge Christopher Rothgery that he was truly sorry for the grief he had caused his family and the pain he had inflicted upon his grandmother, [...]
Girls soccer: Avon starts poorly, ends poorly in regional semifinal
BRUNSWICK — Avon’s girls sleep-walked through the first half of their big match on Saturday, fell behind by a goal, but came back to win their first district soccer title. So no one got all nervous and upset when the Lady Eagles snoozed through the first 40 minutes Wednesday night. They trailed Chagrin Falls by [...]
Council clerk revises attendance logs
ELYRIA — The Elyria Clerk of Council says his office erred in recording Councilwoman Bonnie Ivancic as being absent at two committee meetings this past year. Figures provided by the Clerk’s office were used in a story about Council attendance in Tuesday’s Chronicle. The error means that Ivancic, D-4th Ward, missed just two of her [...]
Amherst schools warn of staph
A posting on the Amherst Schools’ Web site Wednesday reported that staph infections that have been plaguing the nation may have spread to Marion L. Steele High School in Amherst. “Today we have been advised that a student at Steele High School MAY have been diagnosed with a MRSA infection,” the district reported on its [...]
Cross country notes: Amherst girls stay close, earn state berth
The Amherst girls scored 162 points to slip past Brunswick (170) and Stow (188) for the fourth and final Division I state spot last Saturday at the regional meet in Tiffin. It’s the Comets’ third state berth since 2002 and seventh since 1990. “It’s a wonderful experience,” Amherst girls coach Terry Kemp said. “Qualifying to [...]
Chimp that had learned to use sign language dies
SPOKANE, Wash. — Washoe, a female chimpanzee said to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept. AP FILE This picture, provided by Central Washington University, shows Washoe, a female chimpanzee believed to be the first non-human to acquire human language. Washoe, [...]
Two suffer minor injuries in I-90 crash
SHEFFIELD — A 96-year-old woman was hospitalized about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday with minor injuries after her husband tried to turn across two lanes on Interstate 90, police reported. Steve Pado, 84, of Elyria, missed his exit at state Route 254 and tried to cross from the highway’s right shoulder to an emergency turn-around, said Sheffield [...]
Roundup: Nov. 1
Officer uses Taser to ward off dog LORAIN — Police used a Taser gun on a mixed-breed pit bull about 4:36 p.m. Tuesday after the dog attacked an officer, according to a Lorain police report. Officer Craig Payne said he received a report that the dog was running loose on Camden Avenue. When he arrived [...]
Lake Avenue store retains liquor license
ELYRIA — An Elyria convenience store that came under fire this summer for attracting late night crowds and drug activity has retained its liquor license because it agreed to reduce its hours of operation, Elyria city and police officials said. Dairy Mart on Lake Avenue was able to avoid a liquor license hearing with the [...]
Buckeye fans attacked at Penn State
COLUMBUS — Penn State is expressing regret after someone posted a video online showing two apparent Ohio State fans pelted by beer cans from a large group wearing Penn State colors. In the video on YouTube.com, the cans are thrown at a pair wearing Ohio State numbered jerseys to shouts of “Get outta here!” as [...]
Police investigate possible link in Oberlin robberies
OBERLIN — Police are investigating two armed robberies by men wearing hooded sweatshirts a day apart, but in the second incident the assailant got away empty-handed. A 49-year-old Carlisle Township woman told police she was returning to her car shortly after 8 p.m. Monday at the Oberlin IGA when a man with a white scarf [...]
Thelma M. Halstead
Thelma M. Halstead (nee Watts), 80, of Elyria, died at her residence Tuesday, October 30, 2007, from a sudden illness. She was born April 21, 1927 in Prenter, W.Va., and graduated from Sherman High School in 1945. She had been a secretary at Sherman High School in 1945 and 1946. She then worked as a [...]
Ridgeville mayor is biggest campaign spender
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — In an election year that has both the Elyria and Lorain mayoral seats up for grabs, it’s North Ridgeville Mayor David Gillock who has outspent everyone in the county, including his challenger, an attorney making his first run for elected office. So far this campaign year, Gillock has spent $36,203, according to [...]
Ads have double impact for Gibbs father and son
ELYRIA — It’s good to be a Gibbs this election season, if only because you get more bang for your campaign buck. Better still, it’s perfectly legal, according to county election officials. Here’s how it works: Elyria Councilman Garry Gibbs, R-3rd Ward, is up for re-election. His son, Kevin Gibbs, 19, is a political newcomer [...]