Archive for December 1st, 2007
Boys basketball: Big lead leads to big win as Firelands downs Elyria Catholic
HENRIETTA TWP. – Elyria Catholic made it interesting in the fourth quarter Friday night, but Firelands` huge first-half lead proved too difficult to overcome as the Falcons downed the Panthers 74-63 in a non-conference boys basketball game. Firelands led the Panthers 42-18 with 1:35 remaining in the second quarter before EC`s spirited second-half rally closed [...]
Boys basketball: Elyria runs itself ragged in loss to Twinsburg
ELYRIA – Elyria High`s opener Friday resembled something more suited for one of the many playgrounds around town than it did an organized, officiated high school game. Neither team played particularly well in a loosely officiated, physical game that the Pioneers lost in racehorse fashion to Twinsburg, 63-52. The Tigers are now 2-0, having beaten [...]
Browns’ secondary expecting tough test against Cardinals
BEREA – Blitzing safety Sean Jones hits Ravens quarterback Kyle Boller, safety Brodney Pool intercepts the wounded duck and returns it 100 yards for a touchdown. Pool breaks on a pass at the 5-yard line, lowers his shoulder, drills the receiver and separates the ball. No first down and the Texans settle for a field [...]
Browns notes: Fullback Vickers excels without fanfare
BEREA – Lawrence Vickers is the forgotten man when it comes to the running game. Everyone cheers the guy gaining the yards – Jamal Lewis – and most people acknowledge the offensive line when a running back has success. But the fullback goes unnoticed. Vickers is the man in front of Lewis and led the [...]
Boys basketball: Vermilion’s fast start slows down Wellington
VERMILION – If Kurt Habermehl has some magic in his pregame pep talks, he might find a lucrative market among his fellow coaches. For sure Tom Eibel would be among them. Both Vermilion`s Habermehl and Wellington`s Eibel felt that a quick start would be a key to Friday night`s non-conference basketball game. It was. Vermilion [...]
Raptors survive without Bosh, but Cavaliers lost without LeBron
TORONTO – With LeBron James and Chris Bosh out nursing injuries, Andrea Bargnani and Carlos Delfino did their best to fill the stars` void. Bargnani and Delfino set career highs with 26 and 24 points each, and the Toronto Raptors won their third straight with a 91-82 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. James, the league`s [...]
Prep volleyball: Cross stepping down as Keystone coach
LAGRANGE – The local high school volleyball scene will be without one of its coaching icons next season. Dave Cross, who has guided Keystone`s fortunes for 22 years, announced his retirement as Wildcats coach Friday. Cross, 47 and about five years away from full retirement, will continue to be a science teacher and athletic director [...]
Doug Clarke: Buck proves priceless to Deerslayer
Friend of mine brought back an 8-point buck the other day. Had it strapped down over the trunk of his car for viewing. The neighbors watched his car pull into his drive and saluted. The driver gave a wave back that he hoped made him look like MacArthur returning after the Japanese surrender aboard the Missouri. [...]
Ousted exec arrested after standoff
NORTH RIDGEVILLE – Armed with a Glock 9 mm handgun and wearing a bulletproof vest, Christopher Cole arrived early at Puritas Metal Products on Friday morning. Cole The ousted company president barricaded himself inside the Race Road factory and refused to come out when workers started showing up about 6 a.m., North Ridgeville police said. [...]
Gusts damage airport hangars
NEW RUSSIA TWP. – High winds Thursday in Lorain and Elyria caused damage at Lorain County Regional Airport. Several partially built airplane hangars were reduced to wooden skeletons overnight, but officials say the damage is minor. Skip Skolnik of Johnwin LCC, which is constructing 12 hangars priced at $108,000 each, said 45 mph gusts knocked [...]
Courts require more workers
Foreclosure deluge requires staff to process cases ELYRIA – The foreclosure crisis has become such a burden on the county`s legal system that the county`s judges plan to hire two magistrates whose sole responsibility will be handling foreclosure cases. Court Administrator Tim Lubbe said the new magistrates – who could cost $84,000 each, including benefits [...]
Legendary motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel dies at 69
CLEARWATER, Fla. – Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho`s Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69. Knievel`s death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He had been in failing health for years, suffering [...]
Fire burns family out of their Grafton home
GRAFTON – When Teri Riemer went to her daughter`s school Friday to drop off a forgotten lunch, she didn`t want to believe what Midview North Elementary Principal Audrey Fountain told her. JASON MILLER / CHRONICLE Grafton firefighters try to extinguish a fire at the Riemer home on Chamberlain Road in Grafton. “(Fountain) told me that [...]
Lorain man suspect in hunters’ stabbing
BERLIN HEIGHTS – A Lorain man is accused of stabbing two hunters 13 times in the chest, back and head Friday morning in an Erie County field. Cash Tyrone Cash, 22, was charged with attempted murder, aggravated robbery and two counts of felonious assault. He was being held at the Erie County Jail without bond. [...]
Elyria man faces rape charges
ELYRIA – Police say a man raped a woman at knifepoint early Monday and wouldn`t let her leave his East Avenue apartment until officers barged in. Tarrant David Tarrant, 24, of Elyria, was charged with rape, kidnapping and felonious assault and was taken to the county jail on $55,000 bond. Officers were called at 2:51 [...]
Local & state roundup: Dec. 1, 2007
Tests verify remains are those of Ohio girl HOUSTON – AÂ 2-year-old girl, called “Baby Grace” by the police officials investigating her brutal death, has been officially identified as a missing Ohio girl. On Friday, DNA tests confirmed the little girl`s identity as that of Riley Ann Sawyers, who disappeared in June after her mother [...]
Police blotter: Dec. 1, 2007
Elyria police Thursday, Nov. 29 3:54 p.m. – Third Street, a 17-year-old was jumped and beat up by four other youth. Friday, Nov. 30 12:08 a.m. – 100 block Franklin Ave., Christmas decorations were vandalized and a baby Jesus was stolen from a Nativity scene.
High court rejects Gravelles’ appeal
Parents convicted of caging adopted kids were trying to regain custody The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the custody appeal of two parents convicted of abusing some of their 11 adopted, special-needs children and making them sleep in cages. The court ruled this week that it won`t hear an appeal by Michael and Sharen [...]
Cause of Third Street fire suspicious, official says
ELYRIA – Investigators say the fire Thursday that consumed a Third Street storage barn is suspicious. STEVE MANHEIM / CHRONICLE Remnants of a fire of an abandoned building at the old Riverview Mobile Home Park is put out by Elyria firefighters Thursday. Elyria fire Marshal Bob Dempsey said the nature of the fire is raising [...]
Off the beat: Dec. 1, 2007
No need to flip the page: It`s an upside-down Christmas tree BRUCE BISHOP / CHRONICLE The upside-down Christmas tree on display at Petitti`s Garden Center in Avon Lake. There are real trees, artificial trees, aluminum trees and even feather trees. Now there are also upside-down Christmas trees. It`s the newest thing for people who think [...]
Hospital workers to vote on union
LORAIN – Union and hospital officials have agreed to allow nonunion employees at the Community Health Partners system to decide whether they want to join the Service Employees International Union. Community Health Partners spokeswoman Megan Manahan said Friday that hospital officials and the union agreed that a secret ballot election would be the most productive [...]
World AIDS Day hits home
Maritza Gomez of Lorain hopes today`s commemoration of World AIDS Day raises consciousness. She doesn`t want anyone to go through what she has since being diagnosed as HIV-positive. “You can`t let it beat you – you`ve got to beat it,” she said. “It`s like any other disease.” Gomez, 42, said she thinks she contracted AIDS [...]
Streets closed for sewer project
LORAIN – Portions of West Erie and Oberlin avenues will remain closed until Dec. 10 as Lorain road crews began major work on the city`s west side sanitary sewer project. The $16 million project will add new sanitary relief sewer lines along portions of Oberlin Avenue, West Erie Avenue and First, West 13th, West 15th, [...]
Driver, $7M go missing
Armored-car employee wanted for questioning SALEM – A truck belonging to an armored-car company employee wanted for questioning in the disappearance of $7 million in cash and checks has been found, but police are still looking for the employee and his girlfriend and mother, police said. A resident recognized the truck from news reports about [...]
Sheffield police blotter: Dec. 1, 2007
Sheffield police Monday, Nov. 19 2:39 p.m. – 5300 block Reserve Way, Phillip Kemnitz, 51, 5300 block Reserve Way, charged with domestic violence. 2:39 p.m. – 5300 block Reserve Way, Joyce Kemnitz, 61, 5300 block Reserve Way, charged with domestic violence. 6:31 p.m. – Detroit and Abbe roads, Wendy Tabor, 31, Lorain, charged with driving [...]