Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for January 17th, 2008
Retiree isn’t just an average Joe
Sitting at the pottery wheel, he throws clay into the center of the base, slowly but firmly working it, his foot controlling the wheel speed.
After several minutes, a pot begins to take form and Joe Filipiak smiles when his art work is complete.
CARL SULLENBERGER/CHRONICLE
Joe Filipiak poses in his Chamberlain Road studio in [...]
Grafton/LaGrange blotter: Jan. 18
LaGrange police
Wednesday, Jan. 9 10 p.m. – South Center St., 17-year-old male charged with underage possession of tobacco products and speeding.
Thursday, Jan .10 12:20 p.m. – South Center St., David Metz, 55, of Wellington, charged with driving under suspension.
Sunday, Jan. 13 12:10 p.m. [...]
Man pleads guilty to girlfriend’s murder
ELYRIA — With God on his lips and a gun in his hand, county Common Pleas Judge James Burge sent Justin Johnson to prison for 18 years to life for the murder of his girlfriend.
Burge preached forgiveness after Johnson pleaded guilty to murder and other charges Wednesday in connection with the September 2006 shooting death [...]
Judge rips cop as his lover gets jail
ELYRIA — County Common Pleas Judge James Burge blasted embattled Lorain police Officer Stanley Marrero from the bench Wednesday, saying Marrero put his own sexual desires before everything else.Marrero’s face flushed a bit as he sat in the back of Burge’s courtroom, where one of his former lovers, Angela Mehallick, pleaded guilty [...]
Seventh-grader faces charges for bringing toy gun to school
LORAIN — A seventh-grade student found with a plastic gun at school Wednesday afternoon will be charged with inducing panic, police said.
Lorain Schools Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson said the boy will also face suspension or expulsion.
A couple of Longfellow Middle School students overheard the boy talking excitedly about the toy, which he was keeping in his [...]
Nice backup plan: Elyria Catholic gets big game from No. 2 goalie in win over Strongsville
ELYRIA — Dave Phiel wanted Andrew Field to get more action. Action is just what Elyria Catholic’s sophomore goaltender got in his second start of the season — 50 shots worth of action, to be exact. Field, in turn, gave the coach just what he wanted, and possibly a [...]
Tim Dahlberg: In West Virginia, you might as well call Rich Rodriguez Betray-Rod
Rich Rodriguez might have gotten an inkling that this was not going to end well when, less than 24 hours after leaving for Michigan, the folks in tiny Grant Town had removed the highway signs advertising the West Virginia hamlet as the football coach’s hometown. If that wasn’t enough, some unhappy fans gave [...]
NFL playoffs: Ryan Grant, Green Bay’s new running threat, gets shot at team that traded him away
Another player might spend the week building it up in his mind as the ultimate way to say “I told you so,” a chance to stick it to the team that traded him on the big stage. But it doesn’t seem to be that way for Green Bay Packers running back Ryan Grant [...]
Girls basketball: Elyria Catholic’s zone defense shuts down Columbia
COLUMBIA TWP. — On paper, it looked as though two young and evenly matched teams — Elyria Catholic and Columbia — would duke it out Wednesday night in a spirited non-conference basketball game. The comparisons on paper showed identical 6-7 records and not a senior in either starting lineup. Combined, the starters included two [...]
Cavaliers on a roll vs. Spurs … if you don’t count that pesky sweep in the NBA Finals
CLEVELAND — It’s public relations propaganda at its finest. In its official game notes for tonight’s game in San Antonio (8 o’clock, TNT), the Cleveland PR staff points out the Cavaliers have three straight regular-season victories over the Spurs, proudly proclaiming no other team in the league currently owns such a run against Tim [...]