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Archive for March 12th, 2008
North Ridgeville police blotter: March 13, 2008
North Ridgeville
Friday, Feb. 29
3:18 p.m. – 32900 block Center Ridge Road, Dairy Queen, video camera recorded man taking several items from the facility. Marc Morley, 39, of North Royalton, charged with theft.
Tuesday, March 4
4:15 a.m. – 5800 block Lee Avenue, Douglas Pavelschak, 29, of North Ridgeville, charged with violation of temporary protection order and telecommunications [...]
PGA Tour: John Daly kicked out of Arnold Palmer Invitational
ORLANDO, Fla. — John Daly woke up Wednesday morning to read that swing coach Butch Harmon fired him. Then he got a phone call when he was at the entrance to Bay Hill letting him know he had been kicked out of the Arnold Palmer Invitational for missing the pro-am. “Hasn’t been a [...]
Toledo Libbey’s Buford named Ohio’s Mr. Basketball
COLUMBUS — Ask Toledo Libbey coach Leroy Bates what makes William Buford so special and his answer couldn’t be simpler. “He makes the players around him better,” Bates said. That’s an obvious reason why Buford is the 2008 Associated Press Mr. Basketball award winner. The 6-foot-5 Buford is a [...]
Former Ohio Sen. Metzenbaum dies at 90
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat who was a feisty self-made millionaire, art collector and one-man roadblock against corporate tax breaks, has died. He was 90. His former chief of staff, Joel Johnson, says Metzenbaum died Wednesday night at his home near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. [...]
BREAKING NEWS — Spitzer resigns N.Y. governorship
NEW YORK — Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned in disgrace Wednesday after getting caught in a call-girl scandal that shattered his corruption-fighting, straight-arrow image, saying: “I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people’s work.”
Spitzer will be replaced by Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who becomes New York’s first black governor, effective Monday. Spitzer’s minute-long statement made [...]
BREAKING NEWS — Official: N.Y. Gov. Spitzer to resign
ALBANY, N.Y. — A top state official says New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has decided to resign amid a prostitution scandal.
The official tells The Associated Press the resignation would be effective Monday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement had not yet been made.
Allegations surfaced this week that Spitzer was [...]
Elyria’s Honesty King named Miss Basketball
AMHERST — It was only an all-star game and for only a night, but Honesty King looked strangely out of place wearing a gold basketball shirt. She spent her four-year career playing for Elyria High, and the Pioneers’ colors are bright red and white. On the other hand, she looked entirely natural in [...]
Girls basketball: All-Star Game goes overtime for first time
AMHERST — Gene Leonard’s high school basketball coaching career is finally over, six minutes later than he expected. For the first time in the 28-year history of the Lorain County Girls All-Star Game, there was overtime Tuesday night at Amherst Steele High School. Actually, there were two overtime periods in the second [...]
College basketball: Cleveland State misses chance at NCAA Tournament
INDIANAPOLIS — Just getting into the NCAA Tournament isn’t a big deal for Butler anymore. It would’ve been for Cleveland State. Cleveland State, which split a pair of close games with Butler in the regular season, came in as the Horizon League’s No. 2 seed behind the top-seeded Bulldogs and [...]
Indians: Lee posts strong outing in quest to be 5th starter
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — Cliff Lee finally pleaded for the fifth. Lee, who is vying for the No. 5 spot in the Indians’ rotation with fellow left-handers Aaron Laffey and Jeremy Sowers, was the first of the trio to produce a positive exhibition performance. He worked three scoreless innings Tuesday at Chain of [...]