Archive for January 31st, 2008
Nasty storm coming
ELYRIA – Pull that snow shovel and salt out of the garage and get ready for a doozy. A nasty storm is heading this way, and the National Weather Service says snow and sleet will pummel the county starting just after midnight. A winter storm warning issued at 2:51 p.m. says to expect 2 to [...]
All Ford workers back on job
AVON LAKE – Sorry, night shift, but it looks like your "vacation" is been cut short. Workers were being asked to report to the Avon Lake Ford plant at 4:30 p.m. as normal, after a turn table – a large machine that lifts the Econoline vans into the air – broke down Wednesday, giving 1,900 [...]
UPDATE — Man pleads not guilty in stabbing
A Lorain man accused of stabbing a friend to death Tuesday in what police have called a drug-related argument pleaded not guilty today at his arraignment. Lorain Municipal Court Judge Mark Mihok set a bond of $1 million for 22-year-old Rafael Feliciano, who is charged with murder in the death of Fletcher Windham Jr., 25. [...]
Driving win: LeBron James hits game-winning layup to top off another big 4th quarter as Cavaliers rally past Blazers
PORTLAND, Ore. — It is not good to make LeBron James angry. Frustrated by a couple of blocked shots, James took over against the Portland Trail Blazers and made a reverse layup with less than a second left to give the Cleveland Cavaliers an 84-83 victory Wednesday night. James scored 17 points in the fourth [...]
Always time to dream: Elyria grad putting law school on hold to give new football league, NFL hopes a shot
Luke Tillman was done with football. He still had the passion for the game, which was his lifelong love. But reality weighed heavily. Not everyone can be LaDainian Tomlinson, he said. There are careers to be had. Real life beckons. Tillman, an Elyria graduate who later went on to play for three years at Kent [...]
Browns’ Mel Tucker elated to have dream job, confident he can get defense straightened out
BEREA — Mel Tucker’s most vivid memory of following the Browns as a kid was a Chiefs game at the old Stadium. He didn’t recall the season, but knew he was young and remembered what he saw. “My dad held me up so I could see,” Tucker said. “Greg Pruitt ran up and down the [...]
Girls basketball: Midview struggles from the start in loss to Fairview
EATON TWP. — Fairview delivered a roundhouse early that might not have knocked out Midview, but certainly left the Middies staggering. Fairview kept its slim hopes for a West Shore Conference title alive with a 54-37 victory over the Middies on Wednesday. The Warriors scored 11 points in the first 1:30 and were in front [...]
Patriots’ big men have a big job: Protect Tom Brady
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — They’re big, brawny and bearded — and they’re the guys whose duty is to keep Tom Brady safe from bloodthirsty opponents looking to pound him into the turf. “Our job is to make sure he doesn’t get dirty,” right guard Stephen Neal said with a grin Wednesday. The New England Patriots’ offensive [...]
Talk about a split: North Ridgeville, Vermilion divide up league bowling titles
LORAIN — North Ridgeville’s girls defeated Vermilion 1,887-1,750 in a roll-off for the regular-season championship of the North Shore Bowling Conference at Rebman Rec on Wednesday. The Vermilion boys won their roll-off with the Rangers by a 2,418-2,315 score. Heather Hill rolled a high game of 192 and a match-high series of 369 for the [...]
Girls basketball roundup: Clearview downs Buckeye for share of Patriot Athletic Conference Stripes Division title
SHEFFIELD TWP. — Ariel Calhoun and Alex Wright scored 16 points apiece to lead Clearview (11-8, 9-4) to a 57-44 win over Buckeye and to a share of the Patriot Athletic Conference Stripes Division championship with Oberlin. Calhoun also passed 1,000 points for her career. BUCKEYE (44): Hall 5-2-13, Hare 4-0-8, M. [...]
Prep swimming and diving notes: Westlake has chance to make SWC history
Westlake chases history at the 27th annual Southwestern Conference swimming and diving championships at the Westlake Recreation Center. The Westlake boys try to break a deadlock with North Olmsted for the most team titles. Both schools come into the meet with five. The two-time defending SWC champion Demons also won titles in 1984, ’96 and [...]
Lorain has second slaying in week
LORAIN — On Tuesday evening, hundreds of residents gathered to put out a call to end the violence after a grocery store owner was gunned down last week during a robbery. Before the night was over, police were handling the city’s second slaying of the year. Windham Feliciano Police say Fletcher Windham Jr., 25, of [...]
Attendee of anti-violence rally jumped while going home
LORAIN — Jose Ramos said he was jumped on his way home from an anti-violence rally Tuesday.Ramos, 24, of Lorain said he attended a prayer vigil honoring Jose Gonzalez, the 47-year-old neighborhood grocer gunned down Friday during a robbery. Just 15 minutes after he was part of the crowd that shouted pledges to stop violent [...]
Winds lash county, cause outages
Sorry, kids. School is open … for now. Vermilion and Firelands school districts were closed Wednesday due to freezing temperatures and high winds, while Learwood Middle School and Eastview Elementary in Avon Lake were closed because of power outages. CINDY LEISE/CHRONICLE This Lorain County Community College billboard on Oberlin Road likely was a victim of [...]
Docs’ advice to sports fans: Don’t cheer your hearts out
NEW YORK — For rabid fans of the New York Giants and New England Patriots, this Sunday’s Super Bowl won’t be just a game. It may be a health hazard. Heart attacks and other cardiac emergencies doubled in Munich, Germany, when that nation’s soccer team played in World Cup matches, a new study reports. While [...]
Beth Stocker bequeaths $5M to LCCC
ELYRIA — Nearly three years after her death, Lorain County Community College has yet another thing for which to thank Beth Stocker. Stocker Stocker, who died in 2005 at the age of 97, helped get the college built, continually supported it as it developed and now has given the college a $5 million bequest — [...]
Romney goes on offensive against McCain
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — Republican Mitt Romney accused John McCain of using dirty tricks by suggesting the former Massachusetts governor wanted a deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, in a spirited debate Wednesday night that underscored the intensity of their presidential rivalry. Coming 24 hours after McCain defeated him in Florida, Romney vented his [...]
Blotter: Jan. 31
Lorain police Monday, Jan. 28 12:30 p.m. – Admiral King High School, Ashland Avenue, a 15-year-old boy was cited for possession of marijuana. 1 p.m. – 2600 block W. Erie Ave., breaking and entering. 2:30 p.m. – 3000 block Broadway, van window shot out with a BB gun. 4:10 p.m. – 100 block W. Erie [...]
Men indicted for sales of fake items
ELYRIA — Two men accused of selling knock-off merchandise with fake trademarks at stores in Elyria and Lorain have been indicted on felony charges of trademark counterfeiting. Mahmoud Ahmad, 26, of North Olmsted, was indicted on two counts of trademark counterfeiting. One count is a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in jail [...]
Teens caught throwing objects at police car
CARLISLE TWP. — Three teenagers chose the wrong car to throw objects at Jan. 19 after they hit a Lorain County sheriff’s deputy’s cruiser. The sheriff’s deputy was driving on Grafton Road shortly after 3 a.m. when his car was struck by two objects apparently thrown from the southeast side of a bridge. He avoided [...]
Columbia Twp. man sentenced in shooting
ELYRIA — A Columbia Station man who shot up an Eaton Township bar was sentenced to nearly four years in prison Wednesday. Kevin Kisilewicz, 27, and his brother, Keith Kisilewicz, were asked to leave the Route 82 Grill and Saloon last March. The brothers had been drinking and passing out business cards, creating a disturbance. [...]
Clevelanders to see if they`re smarter than Vermilion fifth-graders
They say artists suffer for their craft, but a classroom of Vermilion students will suffer for the sake of knowledge by getting up before dawn today to appear on Cleveland TV to play a local version of “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” Some 23 fifth-graders from Karlene Hollars’ class at the Vermilion Intermediate [...]
N.O. woman wants to be a supermodel
In the elegant but uber-competitive world of fashion modeling, Jacki Hydock’s chances are very good of emerging triumphant on the Bravo Network’s “Who Wants to be a Supermodel?” weekly reality series. That’s according to a woman who should know. “Jacki is one of those young ladies who is beautiful inside and out,” said Joan Scholz, [...]
Build 1 school? 2 schools? 3?
WELLINGTON — A rebuilding plan for the Wellington Schools that could see a single building constructed to house all the students has got people talking. Former teacher Marti Stuedle said Wednesday she’s not sure what to think of the proposal, which has been billed as the most cost effective of the four introduced earlier this [...]
Lorain board approves 2 new schools
LORAIN — The Lorain school board on Wednesday approved plans to build two new elementary schools — one where Hawthorne Middle School used to be and the second at the site of the closed Lincoln Elementary. The new schools are part of a district-wide master plan that also includes plans to build a new Whittier [...]