Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for March 20th, 2008
More snow is on the way today …
ELYRIA — If you were basking in the sun Thursday and thinking about planting grass or cleaning the flower beds this weekend, well … think again.
The National Weather Service is calling for yet another blast of winter to hit Lorain County beginning today with predictions that as much as 5 inches of snow will [...]
Students’ robot creations do battle at CSU
CLEVELAND — With five minutes before his team’s first practice round, Tyler Tucker started to get nervous. “This is it,” the Admiral King senior said. “Here we go.’’
After 120 hours of welding, soldering and wiring, it all came down to this.
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Greg Bratulic, left, and Tyler Tucker watch as the Admiral King Rambots’ [...]
Court worker added to handle foreclosures
ELYRIA — Foreclosures are about to get easier in Lorain County, at least for the legal system.
The county’s judges have hired a magistrate to handle the bulk of the foreclosure lawsuits that have inundated the courts with paperwork recently — a record 2,243 foreclosures were filed in the county last year.
Michelle Pena, a former civil [...]
Suspect sought in store assault
LORAIN — The woman said she did what any mother would if they ran across a small child, alone and crying, in the middle of a store.She tried to comfort him.
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This image from security video shows a suspect in an assault at A.J. Wright in Lorain earlier this month.
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Norma Maxine Georgi
Norma Maxine Georgi (nee Nevil), 81, of Avon and formerly of Fort Wayne, Indiana, passed away Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at the Avon Oaks Nursing Home in Avon. She was born March 7, 1927 in Geneva, Indiana and moved to Avon two and half years ago from Ft. Wayne.
During World War II, she worked in [...]
A little defense does the job for Cavaliers, who get big win over Pistons
CLEVELAND — Those weren’t the Denver Nuggets the Detroit Pistons were facing Wednesday night at Quicken Loans Arena. The Cavaliers laid down a little bit of defense — no, make that a lot of defense — en route to an 89-73 victory over their Central Division rivals, who had torched the Nuggets for 136 [...]
Brian Dulik: King James’ ascension to top of Cavaliers scoring list is destiny
Cavaliers forward LeBron James is a student of the game, a legitimate pop culture icon and a 23-year-old with an incredible knack for doing the right thing. This week, however, all of those positive attributes must take a back seat to his greatest skill: putting the ball in the basket. James scored a [...]
Judith Ann Ebbitt-Glover
Judith Ann Ebbitt-Glover, 66. of North Olmsted, passed away Wednesday, March 19, 2008 in her home after a one year illness. She was born Saturday, April 5, 1941 in Steubenville, moving to Lorain in 1978 until 1995, then moving to North Olmsted.
She was a member of Westlake United Methodist Church, where she taught Sunday School [...]
Big Ben Wallace shows his old team he can still get it done on the defensive end
CLEVELAND — Ben Wallace showed the team he won an NBA championship with why they were so good on defense during the six seasons he was there. The power forward led Cleveland’s dominating defensive effort Wednesday night as the Cavaliers ran away with a surprising 89-73 victory over the Detroit Pistons. Wallace, a [...]
Oh, yes, Terrelle Pryor picks OSU: Top quarterback recruit says he’s ready to learn, wait his turn
COLUMBUS — Terrelle Pryor got the name of his new school wrong — he called it the University of Ohio State — but that was about the only thing that didn’t go right on Wednesday for him or the Buckeyes. Dubbed the nation’s top quarterback recruit, Pryor belatedly announced [...]