Archive for May 15th, 2008
The work is under way on Route 57
For those trying to make their way around Elyria, here’s some advice: Steer clear of state Route 57. The work to rehab the deteriorated thoroughfare has gotten under way, and it’s created some pretty good traffic backups. At one point today, traffic heading toward Midway Mall in the stretch between Gulf and Abbe roads was [...]
Trip to Cedar Point ends after student eats pot brownie
DETROIT — A high school trip to the Cedar Point amusement park in Ohio was cut short for 200 students when one of them became ill after eating a brownie laced with marijuana, a district official said Thursday. The annual trip for West Bloomfield High physics students was cut short Wednesday when the student complained [...]
Cuyahoga County official charged with obscenity
CLEVELAND — An elected Cuyahoga County official has been charged with obscenity for viewing lewd pictures on his computer and he may resign. County Recorder Patrick O’Malley, a Democrat, was charged in a one-count criminal information filed in federal court in Cleveland. An information often means a plea deal has been reached. A federal judge [...]
Half-hearted loss: Cavaliers waste strong start, stumble in second half against Celtics
BOSTON — This time there was no Game 5 magic for LeBron James and the Cavaliers. James finished with a respectable 35 points, but had only two over the first 14 minutes of the second half as the Boston Celtics rallied from a big first-half deficit and won 96-89 Wednesday night at TD Banknorth Garden. [...]
Cavs notes: Celtics’ Pierce, Allen struggling shooting the ball right along with James
BOSTON — While the shooting woes of Cavaliers small forward LeBron James have gotten a lot of attention, Boston’s Paul Pierce and Ray Allen haven’t fared much better. Pierce, who averaged a team-high 19.6 points in the regular season, entered Wednesday’s Game 5 averaging just 12.5 points on .346 shooting (18-of-52) in the series, including [...]
Ilgauskas sets team record for most playoff games played
BOSTON — When Zydrunas Ilgauskas was undergoing foot surgery after foot surgery from 1998 through 2000, it was hard to picture the Cavaliers center breaking any records that had to do with longevity. Ilgauskas, however, became Cleveland’s all-time leader in playoff appearances Wednesday night when he stepped onto the floor for Game 5 against the [...]
Sabathia shuts out A’s, extends Tribe starting pitchers’ scoreless-innings streak to 43 1/3
CLEVELAND — The Indians still can’t hit, but they can pitch. Boy, can they pitch. Cleveland’s arsenal of dominant arms continued to carry the team Wednesday night at Progressive Field, with ace C.C. Sabathia the latest starting pitcher to lift the Indians to victory in a 2-0 shutout of the A’s. The win moved the [...]
Tribe notes: Wedge not thrilled about interleague play
CLEVELAND — The Indians will play their first interleague series of the season in Cincinnati this weekend. Don’t count manager Eric Wedge among those who will celebrate. Like the majority of American League managers, Wedge isn’t fond of head-to-head matchups against the NL. “You lose a hitter when you go there and they gain one [...]
Energy almost as high as expectations as Browns begin offseason workouts
BEREA — The first game is four months away, but the 2008 Browns debuted Wednesday. In the second practice of organized team activities — the first open to the media — Derek Anderson took the snaps as the starting quarterback, receiver Donte Stallworth lined up opposite Braylon Edwards with the first team and Shaun Rogers [...]
Division III sectional softball: Rain, Redbirds ruin Elyria Catholic’s tourney opener
ELYRIA — Elyria Catholic probably wishes its Division III sectional softball game against Loudonville was postponed Wednesday just like several games in the area were. Unfortunately for the Panthers, the game was played in spite of several light rain showers throughout the game and one heavier one in the bottom of the seventh inning. The [...]
Westlake’s St. Marie readies for world triathlon meet
Westlake freshman Jack St. Marie is a solid performer in track, cross country and swimming. He’ll be seeded among many good distance runners at the Southwestern Conference track and field championships at North Olmsted on Friday. His best time for the 1,600 meters is 4:41, and for the 3,200 it’s 9:59. But his passion is [...]
Firefighters: We`ll only fight fires
Mayor Grace: Department’s plan won’t happen ELYRIA — Running out the fire station door for every medical emergency call will stop if proposed Fire Department plan to shift responsibilities back to just fighting fires is implemented. PROPOSED FIRE DEPARTMENT CHANGES (from Assistant Chief Bob Dempsey, acting fire chief) 1. Stop responding first to medical emergencies. [...]
Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann resigns
COLUMBUS — Facing possible impeachment, Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann resigned Wednesday amid the scandal of a sexual harassment investigation in his office and his extramarital affair. Dann, a Democrat elected on an anti-corruption platform in 2006, has led the state on a 10-day odyssey, at first refusing to resign despite demands by Democratic Gov. [...]
What Dann’s resignation means
COLUMBUS — The resignation of Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann means fellow Democrats will be exposed to the same ethics charges that helped them win in 2006 and now will tinge the ballot in a presidential election year. Democrats in 2006 painted rivals as “George Bush-Bob Taft Republicans.” This time, being a “Marc Dann Democrat” [...]
Amherst grad on ‘The Bachelorette’
Oberlin native Jesse Csincsak did his part to make us fall in love with snowboarding on MTV’s “Made” series. Starting Monday night, he’ll give it his all to make DeAnna Pappas fall in love with him on ABC’s “The Bachelorette.” Raised in Amherst and a pro snowboarder who plies his trade in Breckenridge, Colo., Csincsak [...]
‘Home Alone’ for real: Parents leave tot in airport
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — An immigrant family left a 23-month-old boy in the Vancouver airport and learned he was missing only when contacted during the next leg of the trip. Jun Parreno, the boy’s father, told The Vancouver Sun the mix-up occurred Monday as he, his wife and two grandparents of the child, J.M., were [...]
Prosecutor: Avon Lake man took kickbacks
Joseph Smith accused of taking $785,000 from Cleveland diocese CLEVELAND — The former top-ranking layman in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland was portrayed by a prosecutor on Wednesday as a manipulator who got $785,000 in kickbacks, but his lawyer said any payments were legal and part of a pattern of secret church finances. Joseph [...]
County prosecutor won’t appeal commutation
ELYRIA — Raymond Smith can breathe a sigh of relief — County Prosecutor Dennis Will said he’s not going to appeal a judge’s decision commuting Smith’s death sentence to life in prison. Will said while he disagrees with Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Christopher Rothgery’s decision to declare Smith mentally retarded, he doesn’t believe he [...]
State Senate OKs payday loan cap
COLUMBUS — The Ohio Senate has passed legislation that would create one of the nation’s strictest laws governing payday lending. The bill limits borrowers to four short-term loans a year and caps annual interest rates at 28 percent. Payday lenders generally charge about $15 for every $100 borrowed on a two-week loan, which would be [...]
Roundup: May 15, 2008
Party crashers kick down door in Lorain LORAIN — Partygoers received quite a scare Friday when gunshots preceded two unknown men kicking down a home’s door. Police responded about 10:45 p.m. to the 1700 block of Long Ave. and met with the 33-year-old homeowner who said she had been having a children’s party when she [...]
Judge keeps Flamingo closed
ELYRIA — Don’t expect to grab a beer at the Flamingo Nite Club in Lorain anytime soon. A county judge has declared the East 28th Street bar a nuisance and ordered that it remain boarded up for the next year. But even if county Common Pleas Judge Raymond Ewers hadn’t said the Flamingo should stay [...]
No apology needed: Burge sticks with short sentence for man convicted of attacking wife
ELYRIA — County Common Pleas Judge James Burge freed Thomas Holmes once from prison. On Wednesday, he opted not to send him back, even though Holmes refused to apologize for the actions that sent him to prison in the first place. Burge had asked Holmes to apologize for hitting his wife in the head with [...]
Former Wakeman cop again accused of threatening wife
LORAIN — A former volunteer Wakeman cop who quit the force after he was accused of attacking his estranged wife’s friend while shouting racial slurs has been arrested again, this time for allegedly threatening to put his wife and her friend “six feet under.” Dawn Hodge told Lorain police that William Hodge made the threat [...]
Choose one client, prosecutors tell attorney
ELYRIA — Prosecutors want defense attorney Dan Wightman to pick a client — either a man accused of killing an 8-month-old baby or a man accused of raping and murdering a woman in a church bathroom. To keep both of them is a conflict, prosecutors say. The two accused killers, both now clients of Wightman, [...]
Globally thinking about her future
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — When North Ridgeville resident Jill Holava set her mind to study abroad after graduating from North Ridgeville High School in 2006, she hoped she’d see the world in a different way. Now, two years and three trips across the ocean later, Holava knows there is more to the world than just North [...]