Archive for April 15th, 2008
Cavs: Pavlovic to miss first round of playoffs
CLEVELAND — Cavaliers swingman Sasha Pavlovic will miss at least the first round of the playoffs with a sprained ankle. Pavlovic injured his left ankle in the third quarter of Monday night’s 91-90 win at Philadelphia. He’s expected to miss two to three weeks. It’s been a lost year for Pavlovic who started [...]
Pope Benedict XVI lands in U.S.
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. — Pope Benedict XVI arrived Tuesday in the United States to a presidential handshake and enthusiastic cheering, a warm welcome that followed the pontiff’s candid admission hours earlier that he is “deeply ashamed” of the clergy sex abuse scandal that has rocked the American church. On his first [...]
Man awaiting trial for killing family hangs self
LEBANON — A man awaiting trial on charges he killed his wife and their four young children hanged himself early Tuesday with a bed sheet in his jail cell, officials said. Michel Veillette, 34, had pleaded not guilty to 13 counts of aggravated murder and two counts of aggravated arson in the Jan. [...]
Another arrest in toddler marijuana case
NEWARK— A second person is charged with giving a toddler marijuana. According to federal court records, a videotape shows 18-year-old Melvin Blevins of Pataskala in central Ohio holding a marijuana pipe to the mouth of the child, who turns 2 this month. Authorities learned of the tape after a Columbus pawn shop [...]
Day after blowing save, Borowski on DL
CLEVELAND — Joe Borowski couldn’t escape a trip to the disabled list. The Cleveland Indians’ much-maligned closer was placed on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday, a day after blowing a save and giving up a two-run homer in the ninth inning to Boston’s Manny Ramirez in a 6-4 loss to the Red Sox. [...]
BULLETIN — Browns in 5 prime-time games
Browns fans should start preparing for some late nights in the 2008 season. The NFL released the complete schedule Tuesday afternoon, and the Browns have a team-record five prime-time games. The previous best was three in 1988 and 1989. The league considers the Browns a “hot” team after going a surprising 10-6 last season and [...]
Another Borowski bummer: Indians lose to Red Sox as Ramirez reaches Tribe closer for two-run homer in ninth
CLEVELAND — Everything was going just swimmingly for the Indians in their ALCS rematch with the Boston Red Sox on Monday night until Joe Borowski came in and drowned them. Leading by a run in the ninth inning, Cleveland’s hit-or-miss closer crumbled with the game on the line once again, opening the gate for a [...]
Scott Petrak: Again with the relaxing? Well, it really is pretty early for Tribe fans to start panicking
CLEVELAND — The last time I wrote from an Indians loss to the Red Sox at Progressive Field, I told the fans to relax because the Tribe would win one more ALCS game at Fenway Park and head to the World Series. As you know, I was as wrong as wrong can be. Boston won [...]
Tribe notes: Sunday’s chill has players chattering
CLEVELAND — How cold was it for the series finale with Oakland on Sunday? Almost too cold to play. “It was close,” said Indians manager Eric Wedge of the 38-degree temperature and 28-degree wind chill at game time. “We talked about the cold, but not actually canceling it because of it. I remember thinking halfway [...]
Splash Zone death suit settled
Metro Parks settles for $110,000; ‘We did nothing wrong’ ELYRIA — The insurance company for Lorain County Metro Parks has settled a lawsuit with the family of a Lorain woman who died after going down a waterslide at Splash Zone water park in Oberlin. The insurance company, Kempes Insurance Co. of Chicago, will pay $110,000 [...]
Teen accidentally shoots self in head
LORAIN — A 17-year-old Lorain boy was killed Saturday when he accidentally shot himself in the head with a gun. Corey Torres had been with a friend at a Lorain Drive home when began toying with the .38-caliber revolver, according to county Coroner Paul Matus. Matus said Torres dumped out the gun’s bullets and proceeded [...]
Crazy finish, big victory: Late foul, clutch free throws lift Cavaliers over 76ers, give them fourth seed in the East
PHILADELPHIA — The 76ers saw Devin Brown’s shot fall short, heard the buzzer and darted toward the locker room for an apparent victory celebration. Game over? Not so fast. Officials reviewed the final sequence for several minutes before deciding that Sixers center Samuel Dalembert fouled Brown with 0.2 seconds left and brought Philadelphia back to [...]
Cascade Elementary gets carved up
Parents protest as they learn where their kids will be sent CHUCK HUMEL / CHRONICLE Three-year-old Tania Lewis won’t be able to follow her sister Tiana’s footsteps through Cascade Elementary, as explained by Superintendent Paul Rigda, at the lectern. Tania is hugging her mom, Sarita, and dad, Bobby, seated nearby. ELYRIA — A gamut of [...]
High school softball: Keystone has a blast after bloop double leads to win over Wellington
LAGRANGE — On a cold and breezy Monday afternoon, Wellington’s softball team was one out away from defeating Keystone for the third time in a row. To say that the Wildcats’ eventual victory was tailor made, is to tell it the way it happened. It was tailor-made. Or, as it happened on Monday, Taylor-made. Taylor [...]
Lorain cop suspended for 48 days
Emilio Morales gets suspension without pay for 4 infractions LORAIN — A Lorain police officer who dumped two guns into a city sewer was suspended Monday for 48 days without pay. Emilio Morales’ suspension was the result of multiple infractions over the course of six months, according to his suspension letter. The suspension for the [...]
After fierce winds Friday, residents say it must have been a twister
Was it or wasn’t it a tornado Friday night that buckled a power tower like a toy and tossed horse trailers into the air? CHUCK HUMEL / CHRONICLE This FirstEnergy tower buckled in the winds Friday night. It fell over completely after crews disconnected it from the power lines. An expert with the National Weather [...]
Teen killed crossing I-90
WESTLAKE — An Elyria teenager who was killed Saturday night after getting out of a car and crossing Interstate 90 had been traumatized at a party shortly before the accident, according to police. Ashley M. Palos Ashley M. Palos, 19, was struck by an eastbound car at 11:15 p.m. after getting out of a westbound [...]
Fire Department audit for Elyria wouldn’t be cheap, mayor says
ELYRIA — A comprehensive management study of the Elyria Fire Department could cost taxpayers between $50,000 and $100,000. That’s the amount Mayor Bill Grace estimates would be needed if a thorough audit of the department is done. However, because the audit was not an issue during this year’s budget talks, finding the money would mean [...]
Westlake fire chief recommends audit
Nearly every time a discussion about the Elyria Fire Department comes up, a comparison is made to the city of Westlake. That city’s Fire Department also fought for an audit, and it was completed in November 2005. “We wanted it done because we felt we needed an outside look at how we ran the department [...]
Woman`s lawsuit to regain Lorain Schools administrator job dismissed by judge
ELYRIA — A Lorain schools administrator who had sued the district claiming reverse racial discrimination lost her bid to keep her lawsuit alive on Monday. County Common Pleas Judge James Miraldi ruled that the district was within its rights to terminate Bernadette Strykowski, executive director of strategic planning and accountability, when it cut more than [...]
Lorain woman pleads guilty to charges of contributing to delinquency of a minor
ELYRIA — The wife of a Lorain man accused of photographing drunken teenage girls has pleaded guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor and furnishing alcohol to a minor. Brittney Dittmer was sentenced to six months in jail, but that was suspended on condition of one year good behavior, according to court documents [...]
High school baseball: Big inning key as Keystone hands Wellington first loss
PENFIELD — Wellington’s unbeaten season came to a screeching halt in the fourth inning of the Dukes’ first Patriot Athletic Conference game. Keystone took advantage of good hitting, not-so-good-fielding, a couple of breeze-influenced fly balls and too many pitches by Kull McClurg to score five times in the fourth on the way to an 8-1 [...]
Elyria Catholic’s Tweardy and Everhart to continue swim careers at Cleveland State
When Brittany Tweardy and Keith Everhart first saw Cleveland State’s Busbey Natatorium 11 years ago, it looked as big as the Grand Canyon. The Elyria Catholic senior swimmers first competed there for the Western Club Swim League Championships — Tweardy for Elyria Country Club and Everhart for Spring Valley Country Club. In high school, they [...]
Ohio State assistant football coach an inspiration as he fights cancer
COLUMBUS — All of those life lessons about coping with adversity and battling the odds have come full circle for Joe Daniels. In 37 years as a coach, including the last seven working with the Ohio State quarterbacks, Daniels has been there, pushing players to give a little bit more, to fight a little harder [...]
House considers energy bill rewrite
COLUMBUS — Republican leaders in the Legislature and Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland’s staff huddled late into the night Monday working toward a compromise that would reshape the way Ohioans are charged for electric service. The House wants to move more quickly to market-based electric power rates, rather than adopt the more regulated plan Strickland believes [...]