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. His agent, [...]
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 on Feb. 6, the [...]
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 within 2 [...]
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 VCHI bought 81 percent of Value City in January, it told [...]
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 Smitek [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Twp., mailbox lit [...]
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 Maine. The turnpike [...]
Obama takes on the racial divide
PHILADELPHIA — A black-skinned man raised by a white family, Barack Obama has had a view of both sides of the racial divide unlike any other presidential candidate in history. He wrapped his experiences into a half-hour speech Tuesday in which he attempted to give voice to black and white resentment — and stem damage [...]
Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90 in Sri Lanka, aide says
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who wrote “2001: A Space Odyssey” and won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday, an aide said. He was 90. Clarke, who had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome for years, died at 1:30 a.m. in [...]
Foster Buswell
Foster Buswell, 85, of LaGrange, passed away Monday, March 17, 2008, in his home. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Blackburn-Duke Funeral Home, Grafton.
Lorain plant expands, buys new equipment, to add up to 40 jobs
LORAIN — On Monday, Mayor Anthony Krasienko and other city officials got a glimpse of the future at Camaco’s 40,000-square-foot expansion. The expansion, which will add 35 to 40 jobs to the company, will be devoted to producing seats for the company’s newest customer, Ford Motor Co., according to plant manager Bruce Price. Camaco brought [...]
Chase ends in muddy backyard
ELYRIA — Elyria police chased down a man Monday night after he reportedly ripped a cash register out of an Elyria gas station. Police responded around 9:45 p.m. to the Marathon gas station on the corners of Furnace Street and West River Road after a man grabbed the station’s cash register and tried to get [...]
Lawsuit alleges harassment at VFW post
ELYRIA — A waitress at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1079 in Elyria filed a lawsuit Monday accusing the post commander of sexual harassment. The suit, filed by Attorney F. Benjamin Riek on behalf of Leslee Zadorozny of Avon, alleges that after John Victor became the post’s leader, he began sexually harassing Zadorozny and other [...]
Murder suspect testifies in own defense
ELYRIA — Pamela Carrasquillo testified Monday that she did not shoot her estranged husband four times on Jan. 4, 2007. But, she said, she did grab an Avon police officer who came to her door to tell her about the shooting. Carrasquillo testified that she thought he was going to tell her bad news about [...]
Grafton settles suit with former police chief
GRAFTON — The village has reached a settlement with its former police chief and a former assistant law director who sued after they said they were fired for pursuing a politically inconvenient investigation into a Councilman’s vote to hire the insurance agency his wife worked for. But the details are shrouded in secrecy thanks to [...]
Lorain gives go-ahead to limestone crushing plant
LORAIN — The proposal for a limestone crushing plant in Lorain got final approval Monday night from city officials. City Council unanimously approved the development agreement between the city and Carmeuse Lime and Stone to build a limestone grinding mill and processing facility within the recently rezoned heavy-industrial district at Riverbend Commerce Park. Prior to [...]
Woman searches for missing parents
Kathy Bernard is looking for her parents. Willard Frye, 76, and his wife, Patty, 72, of Crown City, about 100 miles south of Columbus, were last seen Thursday driving a dark blue Ford Focus with Ohio license plate DEZ-5765 on state Route 37 toward Wayne County, W.Va. Willard Frye is in the third stage [...]
Kids learn early the joy of reading
Patrons young and old browsed through thousands of books in the spacious, brightly lit surroundings of Vermilion’s Ritter Public Library on a recent weekday morning. But the real bookworms were in a room at the back of the library’s main floor, where parents sat in a broad semicircle as their children sat with them, milled [...]
Amherst/Vermilion police blotter: Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Amherst police Tuesday, March 4 6:37 p.m. – Man leaves Giant Eagle at 2201 Kresge Drive without paying for merchandise valued at approximately $61. Suspect returns later and is held until police arrive. Carl J. Jarosz, 47, of Northfield charged with petty theft. 9:20 p.m. – Female shoplifter at Drug Mart, 300 N. Leavitt Road, [...]
Robert A. Cole
Robert A. Cole, 91, of Nova, died Sunday, March 16, 2008, at Samaritan Regional Health System, Ashland, after an apparent heat attack. He was born June 23, 1916, in Ashland, son of the late Von E. and Edna (Hileman) Cole. He grew up in Sullivan, lived in Wyandot, Mich., for six years and in Nova [...]
Patt A. Lentzas
Patt A. Lentzas, 56, passed away Friday, March 14, 2008, at her home in Cleveland, after her battle with cancer. She was born in Cleveland and grew up in Avon. Patt is survived by her husband, Angelo; daughter, Tammy Eubank (Rodney) of Cleveland; two sisters, Kathleen Chylik (Steve) and Maura Hadjiosmanof (George), both of Litchfield; [...]
Michael Sexton
Michael Sexton, 43, of Amherst Township, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, March 15, 2008. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Wyers Funeral Chapel