Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for March 18th, 2008
NFL: LB Haggans could be good fit for Browns
The Browns addressed a lot of needs over the last month, but linebacker wasn’t one of them. That could change soon. Free agent Clark Haggans, who spent the first seven years of his career with the Steelers, was due to arrive in Cleveland on Tuesday night for a visit today with the Browns. [...]
Pryor to make long-awaited decision today
PITTSBURGH — Terrelle Pryor is ready to make a choice. The highly touted high school quarterback will announce where he will attend college at a news conference today. Pryor, from Jeannette High School near Pittsburgh, was ready to sign a letter of intent with Ohio State at a similar news conference [...]
H.S. Track: Midview’s Ebersole 3rd at state indoor meet
It wasn’t his best day, but Drew Ebersole made the most of it. The Midview senior placed third in the shot put at the Division I state indoor meet March 15 at the University of Akron’s Athletic Field House. Ebersole threw 55 feet, 71/2 inches on his sixth and final try. He finished [...]
Value City to stay open
ELYRIA — Elyria’s Value City department store temporarily has been spared from the chopping block.
“The Elyria store will remain open for the time being,” said Kristen Mack, spokeswoman for VCHI Acquisition Co., the company that bought the Value City franchise in January.
When [...]
Eminent domain fight in Avon
AVON — The same plea was repeated time and again by members of the crowd of about 100 gathered Tuesday night at Heritage North Elementary: Don’t take Mary Jane Wolfe’s land by force.
Wolfe, 57, owns about 25 acres of land at 2758 Center Road — a property that Avon school board President Dale [...]
At issue (again): Expansion of East Broad Street
Back in the 1990s, when it appeared likely that the stretch of East Broad Street from the East River Street to state Route 57 would be widened, residents made it clear that they in no way wanted to see the project go through.
Their vocal opposition worked — the road remains two lanes in that area, [...]
Video shows why cop shot at would-be Samaritan
AMHERST — Would-be Good Samaritan Donald Gregg waved off the orders of an Amherst police officer before grabbing a gun from a man who was holding it on a woman.
Then he ran toward the officer with the gun, and the officer fired at him.
The officer, Devin Small, fired at him because he was in fear [...]
Cigarette thieves caught on camera
EATON TWP. — Two men and a 16-year-old boy were caught on camera Friday breaking into a drugstore and stealing cigarettes and pain killers, sheriff’s deputies say.
Investigators tracked Benjamin L. Tripphahn, 24, Benjamin R. Krugman, 22, and the teen back to an Eaton Township home after they discovered a cement block thrown through the window [...]
Blotter: March 19, 2008
SHERIFF
Monday, March 10
1:03 p.m. – Midview Middle School, Capel Road, Eaton Twp., a 13-year-old boy was suspended after he was overheard saying he would stab a teacher.
Thursday, March 13
1:47 p.m. – Convenient, East Ave., Carlisle Twp., stolen lottery tickets.
10 p.m. – 16600 block West River Road, Columbia [...]
Turnpike driving made E-Z
The Ohio Turnpike will install the E-ZPass electronic toll payment system by late summer 2009, allowing motorists to drive to the East Coast without stopping to pay tolls.
The turnpike commission voted Monday to approve a $28.7 million contract that will include the E-ZPass system compatible in 12 states from Illinois to [...]