Archive for December 13th, 2007
Indians in steroid report
CLEVELAND (AP) — Indians pitcher Paul Byrd was among those named Thursday in the Mitchell Report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. He was the only current player from the Indians named in the report. Former Indians catcher Tim Laker told Mitchell investigators he used steroids and acknowledged four transactions with Radomski involving [...]
Full text of the Mitchell Report
NEW YORK (AP) — Roger Clemens, Miguel Tejada and Andy Pettitte were named in the long-awaited Mitchell Report on Thursday, an All-Star roster linked to steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs that put a question mark — if not an asterisk — next to some of baseball’s biggest moments. READ THE FULL TEXT OF THE REPORT
Rock Hall announces class of 2008
Madonna is in. The Beastie Boys, however, will have to wait. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its class of 2008 today. It includes the pop diva Madonna, who scored with such hits as “Like a Virgin” and “Material Girl” in the 1980s. She is joined in this year’s class by Leonard Cohen, [...]
Woman killed in crash; two others injured
ELYRIA —A 22-year-old Elyria woman was killed Wednesday night shortly after pulling out of the driveway of her Brunswick Drive home. Toni Fourdyce was pronounced dead shortly after 11:30 p.m. when her eastbound vehicle collided head-on with a westbound vehicle on Brunswick Drive. Teaun Bush, 20, of Cleveland, was riding as a passenger in Fourdyce’s [...]
Updated 2:20 pm- Steroid report released
The Mitchell Commission will be releasing its report on steroid use in major league baseball today. The Chronicle will have excerpts of the report online as soon as it is released. The report is expected around 2 p.m. Check back as this major sports story develops and be sure to check out Friday’s Chronicle for more [...]
Browns know Sunday’s game vs. Bills is a big one
BEREA — Romeo Crennel let the cat out of the bag Wednesday. “I don’t know if you noticed or not, but there’s a big game this week — in Cleveland,” he said. The Browns coach had his tongue planted firmly in his cheek as he looked out on a larger-than-normal media contingent. Northeast Ohio has [...]
Browns notes: Jamal Lewis begining to hit his stride
BEREA — After going through a sluggish stretch in the middle of the season, Browns running back Jamal Lewis is peaking for the playoffs. The former Pro Bowler has reached the century mark in two of his last three games, leaving him just 79 rushing yards shy of 1,000 on the season. Lewis could reach [...]
Coughlin: Browns-Steelers rivarly reaching crazy heights
The wise guys are already forecasting that the Browns will play the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round of the playoffs, although others predict they’ll play the San Diego Chargers. It’s unanimous, however, that the Browns will make the playoffs as the last wild-card team. This Sunday they are favored by 51/2 points over the [...]
Cavaliers happy having Hughes come off the bench, so far
INDEPENDENCE – LeBron James is done coming off the bench. Larry Hughes might not be. Cavaliers coach Mike Brown won`t commit to saying Hughes will be his sixth man on a permanent basis – and Hughes isn`t totally sold on the idea, either – but the two-game results have been impressive. Hughes had 22 points [...]
Elyria girls rally for road win over Strongsville
STRONGSVILLE — Strongsville isn’t exactly a home away from home for Elyria coach Mike Walsh and his Lady Pioneers. Walsh and his squad got a win there four years ago and had dropped three straight — until Wednesday night. The Pioneers shook off a slow start and came away with a 48-44 Northeast Ohio Conference [...]
Mercury contaminates home
Midview scare leads to ‘off the charts’ readings in Carlisle Twp. BRUCE BISHOP / CHRONICLE An Eaton Township rescue truck sits outside the Midview High School after a reported mercury spill there on Wednesday. CARLISLE TWP. — Local and state emergency response officials walked into a Butternut Ridge Road home Wednesday scanning for levels of [...]
Midview’s turnovers, poor shooting costly in girls basketball loss to Rocky River
GRAFTON – It`s probably not the best idea to make a bunch of turnovers against a team like Rocky River. It`d be a better idea to make a bigger bunch of baskets. Rocky River`s girls are undefeated, and undefeated teams like it when the opponent makes a lot of turnovers and misses lots of shots. [...]
State hands over papers for death penalty hearing
ELYRIA — Defense attorneys hoping to have county Common Pleas Judge James Burge declare the state’s lethal injection process unconstitutional have a lot of reading to do. On Wednesday, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction turned over nearly 700 pages of information on how it carries out executions — information that Burge had ordered [...]
What’s next for death penalty?
NEW YORK — More than at any time over the past 30 years, the future of capital punishment is in limbo. The Supreme Court will hear arguments next term in a momentous lethal injection case. While it’s widely expected that executions will resume in some form following that case, the moment gives Americans a chance [...]
Burglars heading west for the loot
Burglars have had it pretty good in the western portion of Lorain County of late. Since Nov. 28, eight homes near Russia Road and state Route 113 have been broken into, and items including jewelry, guns, electronics and cash have been stolen. The burglaries are similar to two others along Gifford and Gore Orphanage roads [...]
Robbers hit Goodwill in Lorain
LORAIN — Two men were stealthy enough late Tuesday to creep into a local Goodwill store, rob it at gunpoint, hold up a woman at knifepoint and leave — all without letting most of the store’s employees know anything was afoot. The men escaped about 8:15 p.m. with a total of $1,220 from the Cooper [...]
Elyria Catholic finishes fourth in North Coast League hockey tournament
ELYRIA — A couple of the cast members were different, but the performance was the same. Elyria Catholic suffered through another disappointing third period, getting outscored 3-0 in what turned into a 5-2 loss to Lake Catholic in Wednesday’s third-place game of the North Coast League Tournament. EC took a 2-1 lead with 27 seconds [...]
Worried about Web cred, Jersey clerk mugs thief
ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. — When a thief started taking cash from his register over the weekend, Dunkin’ Donuts employee Dustin Hoffmann fought back by clobbering the man with a ceramic mug. But Hoffmann admits he was less worried about the stolen cash than how he might look on the video-sharing site YouTube. “What was going [...]
Local roundup: Dec. 13, 2007
Car fire destroys Chrysler in Elyria ELYRIA — There was nothing firefighters could do to save a Chrysler Sebring engulfed in flames just after 1 p.m. Tuesday, according to Elyria fire Lt. Robert Majoras. The car, an older model with temporary tags, melted on the side of 12th Street near West Avenue. Majoras said the [...]
Mitchell’s report on steroids in baseball to be released today
NEW YORK — The Mitchell Report exposes a “serious drug culture within baseball, from top to bottom,” fingers MVPs and All-Stars and calls for beefed-up testing by an outside agency to clean up the game, The AP learned Wednesday. The report by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell will include names of 60 to 80 [...]
Police blotter: Dec. 13, 2007
County sheriff Friday, Dec. 7 2 a.m. – 26400 block Osborne Road, Columbia Township, vandalism and criminal damaging. 9 a.m. – 8000 block Leavitt Road, Amherst Township, a stray bullet was found lodged in an industrial refrigerator at Northern Refrigeration. 10:30 a.m. – 12900 block Root Road, Columbia Township, power tools and radio stolen from [...]
State to sort out Antlers dispute
Lorain Building and Fire departments differ on fire escape, call in fire marshal LORAIN — The state fire marshal’s office has been called to settle a dispute between the city’s Fire and Building departments over whether a fire escape ladder should be replaced on the roof of the Antlers Apartments. Fire marshal’s investigators were to [...]
Sex offender could get life for rape of girl
ELYRIA — A convicted child molester from New York has been indicted on charges of raping a 10-year-old girl. Rios Lorain County Prosecutor Dennis Will said Rafael Rios, 45, originally was indicted in September for two counts of gross sexual imposition for allegedly fondling the girl, but the girl later told investigators that he had [...]
Murray Ridge teacher under investigation
ELYRIA — A teacher at Murray Ridge School was placed on administrative leave Nov. 19 after an incident involving a 17-year-old boy who fell and struck his head, said Amber Fisher, superintendent of the Lorain County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. The incident is under investigation by the Sheriff’s Office and Children Services, [...]
Local school districts break out new program to stop bullying
Local school districts are starting to sign up for a bullying prevention program to curb student harassment. The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program — a method developed by psychologist Dan Olweus after more than 35 years of international research — involves everyone who comes in contact with the students, from the teachers to the parents to [...]