Archive for June 9th, 2008
Alert: Tree topples onto Prospect Street; power out
This toppling tree wreaked havoc with power in the Eastern Heights area today when it pulled down power lines and forced East Park pool to close.
NBA Finals: Boston hangs on, takes 2-0 series lead
BOSTON — Banner No. 17 is halfway to the rafters. The Celtics are two wins from another NBA championship. And maybe a little lucky to be there. Paul Pierce, darting around the parquet floor with ease, scored 28 points, Boston’s defense mobbed Kobe Bryant long enough and unknown Leon Powe scored 21 points as the [...]
Indians: Sowers struggles in another loss to Detroit
DETROIT (AP) — Jim Leyland knows that the Detroit Tigers can’t fix their season overnight. He just wants to keep seeing progress. “We have to go forward slowly, and hopefully we’re starting to do that,” he said after Sunday’s 5-2 win over the Cleveland Indians. The Tigers have won two straight, but are still 10 [...]
Elyria Little League: Ryan-St. Marie wins majors city championship
ELYRIA — Give 12-year-old Brodie Stewart a four-run lead, and most often you can expect a big win. Such was the case for Stewart and his Ryan-St. Marie Insurance teammates as they trounced Bay Mechanical 14-0 Sunday in the Little League Majors (11- and 12-year-olds) city championship at Vic Janowicz Park in an all-Little League [...]
NASCAR: Kahne continues hot streak at Pocono
LONG POND, Pa. — Kasey Kahne never thought his start to the season was all that bad, despite how it looked on paper. In hindsight, there was something missing and it took last month’s win in the All-Star race to see it. Now Kahne is on a roll, riding a wave of momentum from that [...]
Boxing: Champ Pavlik says he’s ready for all challengers
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Kelly Pavlik, the homegrown son of working class America, took the mantle of middleweight king without ducking a soul. Seven years after getting started and fresh off a dominant performance in his first title defense, stopping Gary Lockett on Saturday night in the third round at Boardwalk Hall, the slender kid [...]
French Open: Nadal dominates Federer for 4th straight title
PARIS — Early in the second set of the French Open final, not quite halfway into what would wind up as Roger Federer’s worst loss in 173 career Grand Slam matches, he watched intently as Rafael Nadal pushed a forehand wide to end a lengthy exchange. Federer saw the ball land out, punched the air [...]
Golf roundup: Rookie Tseng wins LPGA major
Yani Tseng of Taiwan became the first rookie in 10 years to win a major, beating Maria Hjorth on the fourth hole of a playoff with a 5-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to win the McDonald’s LPGA Championship in Havre de Grace Md. Tseng, a 19-year-old with a decorated amateur career, closed with [...]
Horse racing: Still no answers for Big Brown’s Triple Crown failure
NEW YORK — The morning after the Belmont Stakes, Big Brown stopped to pose for photographers as if he had won the Triple Crown. Everyone except the horse knew otherwise. Trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. was a no-show, leaving questions and few answers about what happened to Big Brown in Saturday’s 1½-mile Belmont. The Kentucky Derby [...]
The launch of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Exhibit at the Inland Seas Maritime Museum recalls hoopla when doomed boat and others first took to the water VERMILION — Fifty years ago, droves of people flocked to the shores of River Rouge, Mich., to witness the beginning of what would become the greatest tragedy on the Great Lakes. On June 7, 1958, the [...]
U.S. average gas price is more than $4 per gallon
NEW YORK — The average price of regular gas crept up to $4 a gallon for the first time over the weekend, passing the once-unthinkable milestone just in time for the peak summer travel season. Prices at the pump are expected to keep climbing, especially after last week’s furious surge in oil prices, which neared [...]
Bicyclist found in ditch undergoes brain surgery
A 48-year-old man found critically injured and lying in a ditch Saturday morning has undergone brain surgery at a Cleveland hospital, and a family member disagrees with the police’s conclusion that he had simply fallen from his bike. David Dalzell, of Amherst, was found by police at 4:47 a.m. near the intersection of Kolbe and [...]
After a weekend to rest, McCain and Obama start their campaigning
WASHINGTON — While many people will work on their tans this summer, or on summer reading lists or on not working too hard, two exceptions — John McCain and Barack Obama — and their underlings will be working. Working industriously on an election that only one can win. With 11 weeks to the start of [...]
Ohio lawmakers obtained $305M for pet projects
CLEVELAND — Members of Ohio’s congressional delegation inserted $305 million into 2008 spending bills for projects in the state that include building a factory to convert coal into diesel fuel and researching whether black raspberries can fight cancer, a newspaper reported Sunday. Budget watchdog groups say the practice of earmarking taxpayer dollars for pet projects [...]
Man on crack quest has car stolen
LORAIN — A car was stolen out of a crack house driveway Sunday when a man left the keys in it while making a drug purchase, police said. The man had borrowed the 1999 silver Ford Taurus from his ex-girlfriend’s mother, and told police he drove to several areas in the city until a dealer [...]
Golfers get rowdy on the 18th green
GRAFTON — Two men had to be separated at a local golf course when one golfer hit into a group of men putting on the 18th green, according to a sheriff’s report. Sheriff’s deputies were called out on Memorial Day to Mallard Creek Golf Club after 37-year-old John Fegan claimed a golfer from another party [...]
Bars gamble on new Tic-Tac-Fruit
Prizes are gas cards, not cash, but state officials insist they’re still illegal CLEVELAND — Tic-Tac-Fruit, a gaming machine banned by the state in a gambling crackdown, is back in Cleveland bars — only this time, winners are taking home gas cards as prizes. City bar owners, who received the machines about six weeks ago, [...]
6 die in crash of plane piloted by former lawmaker
FREMONT — A small plane crashed Sunday afternoon in a residential area and killed all six people aboard, including the pilot, a former state lawmaker who had offered joyrides to airport visitors after a charity breakfast. Gene Damschroder Sr., 86, was flying the fixed-wing, single-engine Cessna when it crashed about 1 p.m., the State Highway [...]
Lake Erie snake making comeback
KELLEYS ISLAND — The nonpoisonous Lake Erie water snake, deemed endangered by the state and threatened by the federal government almost a decade ago, has greatly increased in numbers in recent years, leading biologists to predict that it will soon be removed from the lists. The water snake once inhabited 22 islands and rock outcrops [...]
Officials try to cut vehicle idling
CLEVELAND — Officials across Northeast Ohio are synchronizing traffic lights and updating truck stops in an attempt to wipe out vehicle idling, a habit that scientists say spews greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. In Cuyahoga County — named the fourth-worst U.S. county for carbon dioxide emissions in a recent Purdue University study — eliminating [...]
Christene Wood
Christene "Chrissie" Wood of Elyria died on Saturday, June 7, 2008. She was a secretary for Lever Brothers. Survivors include her beloved husband, Robert M. Wood; step-son Michael D. (Shari) Wood; step-grandchildren, Alex, James, Alicia and Helen; and sister, Rebecca "Ruby" Brown. She was preceded in death by sister, Malvina Esswein; and brother, Charles Henry [...]
Dean L. Tilberg
Dean L. Tilberg, 64, of Elyria died Saturday June 7, 2008 at New Life Hospice Center of St. Joseph in Lorain, following a brief illness. He was born December 23, 1943 in Elyria and was a lifelong Elyria resident. He was a 1962 Elyria High School graduate. Dean was a truck driver for United Parcel [...]
William C. Page
William C. "Heavy" Page, 34, of Lancaster California formally of Elyria passed away Tuesday June 3, 2008 in the Mt. Cedar Sinai Medical Center in California following a long illness. He was in Elyria July 25, 1973 and attended the Elyria School system. He enjoyed playing Dominos, fantasy football, card games, music and computers. He [...]
Isabel D. Brachok
Isabel D. Brachok (nee Gardinsky), 84, of Elyria, passed away Friday evening, June 6, 2008 at the Wesleyan Village in Elyria following a brief illness. She was born October 17, 1923 in Valley Township, Guernsey County, Ohio. She has resided in Elyria for over 60 years. Isabel was a homemaker and enjoyed crocheting, knitting, flower [...]
Clementna R. Hawley
Clementna R. Hawley, 87, of Grafton passed away Saturday, June 7, 2008 in New Life Hospice Center of St. Joseph in Lorain after a long illness. Arrangements are incomplete and will be annoucned by the Blackburn-Duke Funeral Home 1021 Man St. Grafton.