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 [...]
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 good day,” [...]
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 blend of muscle and flash. He [...]
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. Metzenbaum came to [...]
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 [...]
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 the center [...]
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 game. With no [...]
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 reached the championship game for [...]
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 Lakes Park, [...]
Tribe notes: Adam Miller’s spring plan doesn’t work out
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — This was the goal for prized pitching prospect Adam Miller this spring: “I wanted to come in here and get back throwing well and put last season behind me, with all the injuries,” said Miller, whose impressive spring training performance last year was decimated by a freak finger injury that cost [...]
Dale M. Zivic
Dale M. Zivic, 55, of Lorain, died Saturday, March 8, 2008, at Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center following a sudden illness. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the Gluvna-Shimo-Hromada Funeral Chapel.
Study: 1 in 4 U.S. teen girls has STD
CHICAGO — At least one in four teenage American girls has a sexually transmitted disease, suggests a first-of-its-kind federal study that startled some adolescent-health experts. Some doctors said the numbers might be a reflection of both abstinence-only sex education and teens’ own sense of invulnerabilty. Because some sexually transmitted infections can cause infertility and cancer, [...]
Ralph Sherrill
Ralph Sherill, 72, of Crossville, Tennessee, passed away Monday, March 10, 2008 at Country Place Health Care Center in Crossville, Tennessee. He was born June 29, 1935, in Crossville, Tennessee. He was the son of Vernon Sherrill and Bertha (nee Mathes) Sherrill. In his early years, he was a contractor for Sherrill Brothers Construction in [...]
Mother of 2 killed in head-on collision
That all life hangs by a thread was a thought brought home with stunning reality Tuesday morning to John Furr. “I was just out shoveling snow with them two days ago,” Furr said, trying to make sense of it all. “We’d get together and talk.” A childhood pal of Vermilion neighbor Lance Parker, Furr learned [...]
Lorain Schools had $2.4M deficit
LORAIN – The state auditor`s office says the Lorain Schools ran up a $2.4 million deficit last year at the same time the district`s utility and legal bills weren`t being paid. There were no findings for recovery showing inappropriate or illegal purchases. However, “there were many errors in the bookkeeping they need to address,” said [...]
Dorothy Dean Milan
Dorothy Dean Milan (nee Neel), 78, of North Ridgeville, died Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at North Ridge Health Center, following a short illness. A Memorial Service will be announced at a later date by David Bogner Family Funeral Home, North Ridgeville.
Robert L. Steward
Robert L. Steward, 78, of Brunswick, passed away Monday evening, March 10, 2008 in Center Ridge Nursing Home, North Ridgeville, after a long illness. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the Blackburn-Duke Funeral Home, Grafton.
Police blotter: March 12, 2008
ELYRIA POLICE Monday, March 10 9:30 a.m. – 300 block 10th St., copper plumbing stolen. 11:59 a.m. – 300 block 15th St., man contacted police after receiving several phone calls from a man claiming to represent Publisher`s Clearing House. The caller said the home owner had won $25,000 and a Mercedes and wanted the homeowner [...]
Delores J. Johnson
Delores J. “Dee” Johnson, 70, of Elyria went home to be with Lord Saturday, March 8, 2008, in the EMH Regional Medical Center, following a short illness. A life long resident of Elyria, she attended Elyria High School. She was employed in the housekeeping department at EMH Regional and retired after 15 years of service. [...]
Police: Gunshot residue was on woman’s hands
ELYRIA – Gunshot residue was found on the hands of Pamela Carrasquillo and one of her sons the same night her husband was shot inside his Avon home, according to trial testimony presented Tuesday. Martin Lewis, a forensic scientist for the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, testified that the tests indicated the two [...]
Joseph Herman
Joseph Herman, 73, of Amherst, passed away unexpectedly Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at Community Health Partners in Lorain. Joseph proudly served his country in the U.S. Air Force. He was stationed in Germany from February 1952 until February 1956. He enjoyed bowling, and created and sold "Flip Grips". Survivors include daughter, Debra (Troy) Stocker of [...]
Man gets life; wife also arrested
ELYRIA – Laura McPherson stormed angrily out of the courtroom Tuesday after her husband was sentenced to life in prison for raping a girl from the time the girl was 8 until she was 12. But a few moments later, she was led back into the courtroom – arrested on a secret indictment accusing her [...]
Mattie Mae Barlow
Mattie Mae Barlow (nee McAfee), 87, of Lorain, passed away Sunday, March 9, 2008 at Lake Pointe Health Center in Lorain following a lengthy illness. Mrs. Barlow was born August 3, 1920 in Laurens County, Georgia and had lived in Lorain County since 1959. She had worked at the former Lorain Towel and Supply Company [...]
Russell O. Leimbach
Russell O. Leimbach, 69, of Oberlin, died Sunday, March 9, 2008 at EMH Regional Medical Center following a brief illness. He was born in Elyria on November 16, 1938. He was a carpenter by trade and had owned and operated Russell House Stair Co., and founded Russ’ Classic Cars. As a youth he was an [...]