Archive for January 5th, 2008
Mike Bass tops in Ohio
LORAIN — For 30 years, Mike Bass Ford has stood squarely behind Ford Motor Co., selling a lot of the company’s products but not enough to be the top Ford dealership in the state. Until now. After a year in which 2,010 new Ford cars and trucks left the local dealership, Mike Bass Ford recently [...]
Multiple concerns: LSU offense has a variety of ways to hurt Ohio State
NEW ORLEANS — Ohio State’s defense has been here before. The Buckeyes entered last year’s BCS Championship Game flying high with a heralded unit that had met every regular-season challenge. What it got them amounted to next to nothing, when Florida exposed them on a grand scale during a humiliating 41-14 defeat in Glendale, Ariz. [...]
Ohio State notes: Chris Wells still not well, but time off has helped
NEW ORLEANS — Chris “Beanie” Wells was a first-team All-Big Ten selection, rushing for 1,463 yards and 14 touchdowns during the regular season. Imagine the year the sophomore from Akron could have produced had he been healthy. Wells played much of the year with a sprained ankle and all of it with a broken bone [...]
Buckeyes, let`s show those Tigers who`s the real king of the jungle
NEW ORLEANS – Buckeye Nation, hurry up and get to the Big Easy. Your players and coaches need you. Ohio State fans – and there aren’t many of them – are finding themselves in enemy territory and they are drowning in a sea of LSU purple and yellow. If every stool and seat in the [...]
Courts lacked X-ray vision
ELYRIA — When the county Justice Center opened for business in 2004, two brand-new X-ray machines, flanked by metal detectors, guarded the entrance. But those X-ray machines are broken – forcing deputies to search the briefcases and purses of court visitors by hand. “Over the past year, they’ve been up and down,” said Sheriff’s Capt. [...]
Lack of X-ray didn`t prevent eagle-eyed pot bust
ELYRIA — A word to the wise: If you’re going to court, you might want to leave your marijuana at home. County sheriff’s deputies said a 17-year-old Lorain girl didn’t follow that advice when she and a friend walked into the county Justice Center on Friday morning. Deputy Stephen Fuller said he was searching the [...]
Doug Clarke: These are a few of my least favorite things
We’re only five days into the new year and already I have a list of things that irk me. Forty of ’em, in fact: 1. Bowl games that are played after New Year’s Day. 2. That cell phone commercial where the dad says, “Because you’re my No. 1.” 3. Conan O’Brien. He still isn’t funny. [...]
Cavaliers beat Kings as subs stand out on otherwise subpar night
CLEVELAND — Devin Brown had more dunks than LeBron James. Anderson Varejao had more points than Drew Gooden. Daniel Gibson had as many points as Larry Hughes and Sasha Pavlovic combined. Friday night belonged to the Cleveland bench, which helped the Cavaliers come from behind to beat the injury-riddled Sacramento Kings 97-93 at sold-out Quicken [...]
Ballots will cost county thousands of dollars
It’s going to be costly to bring local elections in line with a recent edict handed down from the state capitol, county Elections Board Director Jose Candelario said Friday. Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is demanding that paper ballots be available for those voters who want to use them in counties where electronic, touch-screen [...]
Teen hit, killed
NEW RUSSIA TWP. — A 15-year-old boy walking on the side of state Route 511 on Friday night was killed when he was struck from behind by a van, according to the Ohio Highway Patrol. The accident happened at 7:45 p.m., and Curtis Garn died from head injuries less than an hour later at Allen [...]
Blotter: Jan. 5, 2008
Elyria police Thursday, Jan. 3 10:05 a.m. – 100 block Irondale St., man assaulted by estranged wife’s boyfriend. Friday, Jan. 4 3:43 a.m. – 500 block Clark St., 88 doses of prescription medicine stolen from apartment. Lorain police Thursday, Jan. 3 9:06 a.m. – 4600 block N. Martin Drive, boat and trailer stolen from property. [...]
Negotations continue today for Columbia Schools bus drivers
COLUMBIA TWP. — By Sunday night, there shouldn’t be any confusion about whether bus drivers and other non-teaching staff are going on strike Monday. Automated phone messages will be sent out to parents of 1,250 students in the Columbia Local School District, Superintendent John Kuhn said. Both sides agreed there is some hope of a [...]
Boys basketball: Avon Lake still perfect? N.O. way, say Eagles
AVON LAKE — Excuse the North Olmsted Eagles if they’re a little stage shy. Stepping into the spotlight has not been part of their nature. Over the years, there’s always been someone else to hog the attention. Almost exclusively that’s been the role of Olmsted Falls. But the Bulldogs are down — for now — [...]
Lorain County contests take shape
SHEFFIELD TWP. — There are a lot of Democrats who want to fill the two county commissioner seats up for grabs this year. Six Democrats filed to run for the two seats — trying to win the right to have their name appear on the ballot opposite the two Republicans who filed for the seats [...]
Boys basketball: Talent the difference as Elyria downs Medina
ELYRIA — Pardon Bob Walsh for wondering just how far athletic ability alone will take his Elyria High basketball team. On Friday it was enough to beat a youthful Medina club 70-58 in Northeast Ohio League play at the Pioneer gym. “We managed to win on our athletic ability,” Walsh said. “We beat a team [...]
Girl Scouts take treats door-to-door again
ELYRIA — Girl Scouts across Northeast Ohio, including Lorain County’s top-selling Girl Scouts — Troop 649 — started going door-to-door Friday taking orders for this year’s batch of Girl Scout cookies. For the past two years Troop 649, of Elyria, has sold the most cookies of any troop in the county, last year selling 304 [...]
Police search for man shot in N. Ridgeville
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — North Ridgeville police are investigating a late-December bar shooting, but still need to find the man who was apparently shot. Officers responded around 2:40 a.m. Dec. 23 to the parking lot of the Roca Bar and Grill for a shots fired complaint, only to find a 9mm shell casing and blood, but [...]
Off the beat: Jan. 5, 2008
Strickland tests his luck with OSU Hopefully, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland is better at gambling than U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown. Strickland made a “friendly wager” with Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco over the outcome of Monday’s Ohio State University vs. Louisiana State University BCS National Championship Game. Should the LSU Tigers beat the Buckeyes, Strickland has [...]
Boys basketball: Keystone bests Lutheran West by a point
ROCKY RIVER — You’ve heard it dozens of times and somehow, it seems, it’s always right on the money. High school basketball games, they say, are won with defense, rebounding and timely foul shooting. It happened again Friday night and created one of the area’s biggest surprises of the season. In a physical and fan-friendly [...]
Lorain teen knocked unconscious at party
LORAIN —An 18-year-old Amherst woman was knocked unconscious by a man, while trying to defend her older sister from another man’s unwanted sexual advances at a New Year’s party in Lorain. Jessica Krajeski, 18, and her sister, Elizabeth Krajeski, 20, both of Amherst, told police that both were at house party around 1:30 a.m. on [...]
Wellington nursing home ranks high
WELLINGTON – Wellington Manor Nursing Home ranks among the top facilities in the state for resident satisfaction, according to a survey by the Ohio Department of Aging. The nursing home, located at 116 Prospect St., ranked No. 17 out of 955 facilities in the state. The nursing home got a 95.5 resident satisfaction score; only [...]
For the moment, Lorain County residents can breathe easy. While there’s been an early rise in the number of flu cases across the state — nearby Cuyahoga County has been particularly hard hit — there haven’t been any major outbreaks locally. But local health officials say that doesn’t mean there’s cause for celebration just yet. [...]
Staph spread unknown
WELLINGTON — It’s too early to tell how many — if any — additional high school wrestlers from Wellington are infected with a dangerous strain of the staph bacteria, county Health Director Ken Pearce said. A Wellington sophomore was diagnosed over Christmas break with MRSA — methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — which kills about 112,000 people [...]
Boys basketball: Elyria Catholic turns off turnovers to turn in win
ELYRIA — The field goal shooting in the fourth quarter was good, but not great. The accuracy at the free throw line — perfect in the third period — was subpar in the closing minutes. But if Elyria Catholic did anything in the final quarter Friday night to pull out a 49-46 win over Trinity, [...]
Sculpting an answer to anger
LORAIN — Bud Emerson is well on his way to turning more than a dozen tree stumps that were hacked in half by Ohio Edison over the summer into beautiful sculptures honoring Lorain’s portside. A professional tree sculptor and Wellington native, Emerson started in late August, first turning a once-towering maple tree into a [...]