Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for January 18th, 2008
Given to resign as Lorain Safety Service Director
Lorain Safety Service Director Dan Given is expected to step down in February as part of what Mayor Tony Krasienko called a “restructuring” of his staff.
Krasienko said today Given will not be part of that restructuring but is holding off discussing the reason why until he can inform members of Council at a special meeting [...]
Bobby Fischer dies; he was 64
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, has died. He was 64.
Fisher died of kidney failure Thursday in a Reykjavik hospital after a long illness, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson, said Friday.
Born in Chicago [...]
Victim admits taunting tiger
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the three victims of San Francisco Zoo tiger attack was intoxicated and admitted to yelling and waving at the animal while standing atop the railing of the big cat enclosure, police said in court documents filed Thursday.
Paul Dhaliwal, 19, told the father of Carlos Sousa Jr., 17, who was [...]
Elyria’s Spring Valley Country Club for sale
ELYRIA — Members of the financially struggling Spring Valley Country Club soon will be considering several offers to purchase the club.
At least two of the offers are from housing developers intending to turn the 165-acre property into housing units, according to Stephen Meckler, attorney for the country club.
Although it hasn’t been appraised [...]
Lorain teachers offered buyout
LORAIN — The Lorain school board approved a buyout package for its teachers that it hopes will save the district more than $500,000 over the next three years.
The offer would be a one-time payment of $40,000 as incentive to retire early for teachers with 20 or more years of service and at least 10 years [...]
Elyria appeals comp award
ELYRIA — The city is taking the family of an Elyria police officer killed in a 2004 motorcycle crash to court, contesting an Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation decision to pay benefits to his family.The appeal, filed this week in county Common Pleas Court, contends that Officer Bradley Scott’s widow and two children shouldn’t receive [...]
Students with toy gun, box cutter sent home early from trip
LORAIN — A sixth-grade honor student from Lowell Elementary has been suspended for taking a plastic souvenir gun on a week-long field trip to a Brecksville nature center, school officials said.
Lorain Schools Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson said officials are investigating whether the boy was threatening fellow students from the Lorain and Elyria Gifted and Talented Education [...]
Run to Mexico may have spared suspect death penalty
SAN ANTONIO — A methamphetamine dealer who gunned down a deputy during a traffic stop in Southern California. A man in Arizona who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents and brother and snatched his children. A man who suffocated his baby daughter and left her body in a toolbag on an expressway overpass near Chicago. [...]
A thousand mourners attend service for stabbing victim
MASON — About 1,000 people prayed Thursday night at a church service for a woman found stabbed to death in a burning home that killed her four children.
Police in Mason accuse Nadya Ferrari-Veillette’s husband of stabbing her and of setting the fire that killed his children.
Members of St. Susanna [...]
Roundup: Jan. 18
Elyria man indicted for alleged escape
ELYRIA — An Elyria man has been indicted for allegedly escaping from the Lorain/Medina Community Based Correctional Facility in September and engaging in a brief standoff with police at his home.
Drew Manns, 23, is facing a single count of escape for his decision to walk out of the [...]