Archive for May 8th, 2008
Rained out Royals-Cleveland game reset for Sept. 13
CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Indians have scheduled a doubleheader with Kansas City for Sept. 13 to accommodate a game that was postponed due to rain last week. The canceled May 2 game has been rescheduled for 1:05 p.m. as part of a day-night doubleheader with the Royals at Progressive Field. The teams will also [...]
Cavs vs. Celtics: LeBron confident heading into Game 2; confident he can’t play worse than in Game 1, that is
BOSTON — LeBron James went around James Posey, soared to the rim, put the ball up over Kendrick Perkins with his right hand while going slightly left … and missed a potential game-tying layup with just under 10 seconds remaining. Just like that, the Cavaliers lost Game 1 of their best-of-seven playoff series with the [...]
Cavs notes: LeBron’s struggles in Game 1 offset by the ugly offensive games turned in by Boston’s Pierce, Allen
BOSTON — Maybe Paul Pierce has a future as a numbers cruncher. The Boston small forward looked at the final box score Tuesday night from the Celtics’ ugly 76-72 win over the Cavaliers in Game 1 at TD Banknorth Garden and quickly did the math. Cleveland’s LeBron James was 2-of-18 from the field, while Pierce [...]
Tribe blanks Yanks: Lee impressive again, goes 7 strong innings in improving to 6-0, lowering ERA to 0.81
NEW YORK — Cliff Lee knows he probably won’t win all of his starts this season. That doesn’t mean he isn’t going to try. Lee threw seven sharp innings Wednesday night to beat Chien-Ming Wang in a matchup of unbeaten starters, leading the Cleveland Indians to a 3-0 victory over the New York Yankees. “I’ve [...]
High school baseball: Midview rides four home runs to win over Avon, first-place tie in West Shore Conference
AVON — Midview didn’t get to where it is this season strictly via muscle at the plate. Pitching and fundamentals have carried the Middies as much as their bats. Yet Midview came out swinging in the rain on Tuesday, pounding out 15 hits — three of which went over the outfield fences — on the [...]
High school softball: Keystone edges Wellington, clinches 23rd conference title
WELLINGTON — Over the years, softball fans have come to expect one-run thrillers when Keystone and Wellington meet in important conference games. Their expectations have been met twice this season, most recently on Wednesday afternoon. Spurred by Ashley Stromack’s fence-clearing solo home run in the third inning, Keystone defeated Wellington, 2-1, in a Patriot Athletic [...]
A fighting chance: Mixed martial arts event to feature debut of Elyria team
ELYRIA — Sure there will be wings and burgers on the menu Friday night, but that’s not exactly what area fight fans are going to be salivating over. Superior Cage Fighting will give Lorain County its first taste of high-profile mixed martial arts (MMA) in “Round 1 of the Quaker Fight Series” at the Quaker [...]
High school track and field notebook: No Kopasakis means no fun for Westlake girls
It’s been a tough stretch lately for the Westlake girls, who have been without the services of sophomore distance star Sophia Kopasakis for most of the season. “She strained a hamstring before our spring break,” Westlake assistant Travis Haselswerdt said. “She ran through it for about two weeks. We were finally forced to shut her [...]
Browns linebacker Willie McGinest tell’s Web site that 2008 will be his last season
This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, but 2008 will be the final season for 36-year-old linebacker Willie McGinest. In an interview with si.com, McGinest said he’ll play out the final year of the three-year, $12 million contract he signed with the Browns in 2006. “This will be it,” he told si.com. “This will [...]
Suspect in abduction being held without bail
Victim in fair condition after being shot in back; parks to step up patrols ELYRIA — The husband of the woman who was brutalized at the county Metro Parks’ Carlisle Reservation summed up his anger for the man accused of attacking his wife in five words. “I’d like to kill him.” As 25-year-old Matthew Plas [...]
Want a 23-cent pizza? Call Papa John – not Mama Dianna
LORAIN — Don’t call Dianna Koepke today looking for a 23-cent pizza. She already gets way too many calls from people in search of a pizza pie. “I get them all the time, including late at night,” Koepke said. The Lorain woman has the misfortune of having inherited the phone number that used to belong [...]
Audit or not, fire station to be closed, Mayor Grace says
ELYRIA — City Council may have called for a fire department audit, but Mayor Bill Grace is moving ahead with his plans to restructure the department right now. Grace divulged his plan during a taping of “The Mayor’s Roundtable” this week when he said he was “extremely confident” the city could operate with just three [...]
State Route 57 repaving starts Monday
ELYRIA — City officials have said for weeks that a $20 million reconstruction project is to start soon on the pothole-ravaged Route 57. Well, it looks as if it’s finally going to happen. The Shelly Co. of Twinsburg said it will start Monday by lining the thoroughfare with orange barrels, the universal sign of road [...]
State seeks execution date for Cooey
AKRON — A prosecutor asked the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday to set an execution date for a man who raped and murdered two University of Akron students in 1986. Richard Cooey’s execution has been repeatedly delayed by legal challenges and last month he lost what might have been his final appeal. Bob McCreery, whose [...]
Man pleads guilty to murder
ELYRIA — Terrance Kimbro had claimed self-defense in the drug-related shooting death of David Williams, but his case wasn’t strong enough to win at trial, his attorney said Wednesday. So Kimbro took a plea deal, pleading guilty to murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence and weapons charges in exchange for a chance at parole after [...]
North Ridgeville students doing their part for Darfur
Six months ago, “Cure Darfur Week” never existed. Now, several student organizations are uniting to raise awareness and funds to stop the genocide in Darfur. Two North Ridgeville High School students are among those who want to make a difference. Senior Meredith Collier and junior Michelle Bing have organized a week of fundraisers and classroom [...]
Roundup: May 8, 2008
Mother gets 30 years for setting fatal fire DAYTON — A mother was sentenced Wednesday to at least 30 years in prison for setting the fire that killed her two young children. “I would take it back if I could,” Heather Silverman, 25, of suburban West Carrollton, said before she was sentenced. Montgomery County Common [...]
Avon YMCA expected to be countywide draw
AVON — Officials of the YMCA of Greater Cleveland say the new $14.2 million French Creek YMCA may be built in Avon, but it is designed to attract residents from all of Lorain County. Plans also call for increased and expanded programming at a new $450,000 facility in Lorain, and additional YMCA programs and services [...]
Skeletons found in W.Va. may be Grafton couple’s
Authorities in West Virginia are investigating whether the skeletal remains of two people could be a former Grafton couple, Willard and Patty Frye, who both had Alzheimer’s disease and went missing nearly two months ago. Willard Frye, 76, and his 72-year-old wife were last seen March 13 in the area of East Lynn, W.Va. Their [...]
Residents along Dyke Avenue to get fix, but it won`t be cheap
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — Residents on Dyke Avenue have complained about sewage in ditches for a long time. Finally, there’s a fix under way, but it’s going to be costly. After the Lorain County General Health District inspected the septic systems of the 23 homes along Dyke Avenue, it discovered 18 weren’t working properly, mainly because [...]
Ridgeville sets out to sink the big stink
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — Residents around the city’s older neighborhoods can smell a storm coming, but what they smell isn’t the rain — it’s the all too familiar scent of their sewer system backing up into their basements. That could change this summer as the city embarks on a project to improve the sanitary sewer system [...]
Calling for input on Elyria 2015
City hires pollsters to get your input on master plan ELYRIA — When your phone rings, it might be your chance to have a say in the direction of the city’s future. The city has hired the polling team of Triad Research Group in Westlake and Burges & Burges of Cleveland — the same team [...]
City aims for a quick response
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — Residents of North Ridgeville who call 911 may now experience a faster response time by fire and ambulance crews. Before December 2007, North Ridgeville residents who called the emergency line may have waited up a minute before rescue units left either fire station to head to the scene of an accident, fire [...]
Richard Paul Snider
Richard Paul Snider, 57, of LaGrange, passed away unexpectedly, Friday, May 2, 2008 in Trumbull County of an apparent heart attack. He was born September 13, 1950 in Lorain. He lived in the Lorain County area all his life. He served in the National Guard in the 112th Engineer Battalion in Lorain for several years. [...]
Hennade R. Jones
Hennade R. Jones, 85, of Elyria, died Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at Wesleyan Village where she has been a resident the past several years. She was born January 31, 1923 in St. Martinsville, Louisiana. She had also lived in Los Angeles, Cleveland, Lexington, Kentucky and Nashville, Tennessee. She was a nursing assistant and had also [...]