Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for May 28th, 2008
Beware: Frost predicted for area
Cover your flowers, close your windows and put an extra blanket on the bed tonight.
The National Weather Service has issued a frost advisory from 1 to 8 a.m. Thursday, saying clear skies and light winds will push temperatures down into the low 30s overnight.
Lorain
County is among the places were frost is expected to develop.
Forecasters are [...]
BREAKING NEWS — State schools super resigns
COLUMBUS — Ohio Superintendent Susan Tave Zelman announced her intention to resign Wednesday, three months after Gov. Ted Strickland proposed bringing the state Department of Education under his control.
Zelman has led the state’s primary and secondary education system for nine years. In February, Strickland surprised many in his State of the State address with his [...]
BREAKING NEWS — Strickland names new AG
COLUMBUS — Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland on Wednesday tapped the dean of the Ohio State University law school to serve temporarily as attorney general after a sexual harassment scandal forced out the previous attorney general.
Strickland says Nancy Hardin Rogers will lead the office for about six months but that she has no plans to run [...]
Ruth Buswell
Ruth Buswell (nee Bowers), 79, of LaGrange, died May 26, 2008, at her home. She was born September 27, 1928, in Elyria.
She graduated from Elyria High School in 1947 and also attended Lorain County Community College.
She was a cashier at [...]
Richard L. Gibbens
Richard L. Gibbens, 79, of Grafton and formerly of Elyria, died Sunday, May 25, 2008, at his home, following a long battle with cancer. He was born January 11, 1929, in Wooster and lived in the Elyria area most of his life.
Mr. Gibbens worked as a [...]
The Rev. Paul R. Kearney
The Rev. Paul R. Kearney, 84, of South Amherst, passed away Tuesday, May 27, 2008, at Amherst Manor Nursing Home following a brief illness. Arrangements will be announced by Busch Funeral Home in Elyria.
Murry Lucas Sr
Murry Lucas Sr., 79, of Lorain, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, May 23, 2008, at Community Health Partners in Lorain, following a brief illness. He was born on February 17, 1929, in Beulah, Miss., to the union of Ike and Millie Lucas.
Murry moved to Lorain [...]
H.S. Softball: Lorain County has become state superpower
For the second time in four seasons, three Lorain County schools are playing in regional softball tournaments. At this point, there are only 16 teams left in each of the state’s four divisions, and the county is represented in three of them. This means that starting at 5 p.m. today, each [...]
Mark S. Zajaros
Mark S. Zajaros, 43, of Olmsted Falls, formerly of North Ridgeville, passed away Monday, May 26, 2008, at the Oakridge Home in Westlake, following a long illness.
Mr. Zajaros was born in Detroit, raised in Bay Village, and resided most of his adult life in [...]
Park abduction details revealed
“Peaceful here, isn’t it?” a passing stranger asked Shawn Stevens as she walked along a path in the Carlisle Reservation.
She nodded, acknowledging his remark as she kept walking.
Moments later, her legs went out from under her.
She had been shot in the back.
The man who has been charged with firing that bullet is [...]