Archive for June 14th, 2008
Indians Coast to victory: Rain delay forces extra-late restart, but Tribe rolls past Padres for fourth win in last five games
CLEVELAND — Other than the rain, which according to the song by Albert Hammond, never falls in Southern California, the San Diego Padres must have felt right at home Friday night. The majority of games on the West Coast begin at 10:05 EST, which is about the time the Indians-Padres interleague series opener at Progressive [...]
Tribe notes: Martinez has surgery, starts long road back
CLEVELAND — Victor Martinez underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow Friday at Cleveland Clinic. Now, he begins the road to recovery, while the Indians start hoping their all-star catcher will return to the lineup before the season is complete. Martinez is expected to be sidelined for six to eight weeks, vowing Thursday to do [...]
U.S. Open: Tiger takes a stand, fires 68 to move within a stroke of lead despite sore knee, long layoff
SAN DIEGO — Tiger Woods looked like any other player trying to survive a U.S. Open, head bowed in frustration with each shot that found trouble and kept him farther from the lead. One hole changed everything. With his metal spikes on a cement path and a tree over his head, he fired an 8-iron [...]
U.S. Open: Can Tiger be caged? Those in contention know keeping him at bay won’t be easy
SAN DIEGO — Just give him the trophy? Hard to imagine that thought didn’t creep into millions of minds Friday, to say nothing of how Stuart Appleby, Rocco Mediate and Robert Karlsson might have felt after they moved into contention in the U.S. Open. Forgive them if it just doesn’t feel that way, if it [...]
U.S. Open: Hicks, Streelman follow up first-round success with second-day struggles
SAN DIEGO — Justin Hicks scurried around Torrey Pines Golf Course on Friday, his 15 minutes of fame slipping away as he tried so desperately to stay off the clock. The surprising co-first round leader at the U.S. Open melted down with a second-round 9-over-par 80 after being told on the first green that his [...]
Softball notebook: West Park has new fields, is ready to branch out with first fastpitch tournament
The resurfaced diamonds at Elyria’s West Park are a huge hit. “We’ve had nothing but compliments,” said parks and recreation director Frank Gustoff. “Everybody loves it. The new dirt infields look sharp. We also bought new temporary fences, like wind screen. We’ll set them up 200 feet from the plate for the fastpitch tournaments.” The [...]
Junior bowlers honored for banner years: Eight named best in their divisions, two named to hall of fame
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — Patrick Connor doled out the thanks for his latest bowling awards Friday. “It means a lot to me,” he said, “and my bowling career.” Career? He’s still in high school, for Pete’s sake. Still, the North Ridgeville High School junior-to-be has assembled a pretty impressive resume, as shown by the honors he [...]
NBA Finals: Lakers trying to come to grips with the game that got away
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — A day after the Lakers’ colossal collapse in Game 4 of the NBA Finals, coach Phil Jackson canceled practice. For psychological reasons. “You know, just in the checking out of how the guys were and how they felt, I just felt it was a good idea,” Jackson explained Friday at the [...]
Off the beat: Incredible shrinking waistlines
The Chronicle may be getting bigger, but the people inside the building are getting smaller — well, some of them, anyway. Mike Nowak before contest: Mike Nowak after contest: In a 12-week “Biggest Loser” contest that ended last week, 20 employees lost combined 415 pounds. Mike Nowak, an assistant in the IT Department, lost 55 [...]
Lorain/Sheffield Notebook: June 14, 2008
St. Peter student receives award Hannah Ernst, an eighth-grade student at St. Peter School in Lorain, received the 2008 Distinguished Graduate award from the Sisters of Notre Dame. The award is presented to an eighth-grader who is “the most authentic witness to the spirit of the sisters of Notre Dame.” In addition to being an [...]
Diabetics depend on swimming pool
LeeAnn Mullen The Chronicle-Telegram SHEFFIELD LAKE — For the past 25 years, Volunteer Services for Diabetics has lent a helping hand to Lorain County residents with the disease. But in a tight economy, the organization’s well of generosity has almost run dry — just like the swimming pool at Carousel Swim Club on Lake Breeze [...]
Complex provides a new Key to treat
LORAIN — A new residential treatment center for alcohol or drug-dependent women will help ensure that these women, including mothers with small children, get the treatment they so desperately need. Officially opened with an afternoon-long reception, The Key is a $700,000 facility capable of housing up to 16 women, some of whom will be able [...]
Journalist Tim Russert dies at 58
WASHINGTON — Tim Russert, a political lifer who made a TV career of his passion with unrelenting questioning of the powerful and influential, died of a heart attack Friday in the midst of a presidential campaign he’d covered with trademark intensity. Praise poured in from the biggest names in politics, some recalling their own meltdown [...]
Tony time for Midview graduate in New York
You would think the bright-lights-and-red-carpet thing would be getting old for the Knechtges family. Not on your life, according to Ingrid Knechtges, mother of 1990 Midview High grad Dan Knechtges, who’s following up his Broadway success as a choreographer of the Tony-nominated “25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” with his first-ever Tony nomination as a [...]
Arrest made in Lorain shooting
LORAIN — Police charged one man with felonious assault and are looking for two others in connection with an incident in which two men were shot Wednesday night. Cory Patfield-Briggs, 21, of Cleveland, was arrested on Lorain’s east side about 10 p.m. Thursday, according to Lorain police Det. Steyven Curry. Police have issued warrants for [...]
Lorain man convicted of raping girl
ELYRIA — A 26-year-old Lorain man is facing life in prison after being convicted Friday of molesting a 7-year-old girl last year. Abraham Melendez had denied touching the girl, whom he knew through her mother. The girl, now 8, testified during the trial about what Melendez did to her on two separate occasions in June [...]
Sexual predator returing to prison
ELYRIA — A sexual predator is heading back to prison after pleading guilty Friday to an 18-count indictment that he carried on a 1½-year relationship with a 15-year-old girl. Howard Hewitt III, 41, told Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Christopher Rothgery that he had a problem after he entered guilty pleas to rape and 17 [...]
Donation fund set up for struck teen
ELYRIA — A fund has been set up to help the family of 13-year-old Amber Johnson, who was seriously injured in a June 3 accident in which she was thrown against a beam in the East Bridge Street underpass. Arneatha Shannon said she and her 14-year-old daughter, Akacia, vowed to do something after visiting Amber [...]
SUV crash takes out power pole
A woman told authorities she blacked out Friday afternoon, causing her to overturn her van and crash into a Murray Ridge Road utility pole. Trooper Jeff Kaess of the Ohio Highway Patrol said Melissa Rosemond, 43, of Elyria, hit the pole head-on at 2:37 p.m. in her 2007 Dodge Nitro and suffered minor injuries. CARL [...]
Lorain woman charged after drug raid
LORAIN — Narcotics and SWAT officers raided a suspected drug dealer’s home 4 p.m. Friday and seized a small amount of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia, Lorain police Sgt. Roger Watkins said. Shirley Davis, 54, of Lorain, was charged with trafficking in drugs. Watkins said he was able to get a search warrant for an [...]
Vatican treasures on exhibit
Northeast Ohio residents are getting a special treat this summer with a touring exhibit of some 200 rare, priceless objects loaned from St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican Museums and Vatican City. Valued conservatively in the millions, the items making up Vatican Splendors exhibit include paintings, jewelry, vestments, armor, swords, and papal gifts from Napoleon Bonaparte [...]
Roundup: June 14, 2008
Man selling knives busted at Jamie’s AMHERST TWP. — Undercover deputies arrested a weapons dealer Wednesday at Jamie’s Flea Market, a sheriff’s report said. The vendor, Robert J. Schornik III, 31, of Brooklyn, was selling brass knuckles and spring- and switchblade knives, the report said. He agreed to turn them over to be destroyed but [...]
Chief Justice won’t get involved in Family Court issue
ELYRIA — Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Moyer said Friday he isn’t standing in the way of efforts to derail a planned merger next year of the county’s Domestic Relations and Probate courts. Moyer said while he supports a Family Court, he views the issue as a local budgetary decision. “When it becomes a [...]
Blotter: June 14, 2008
Lorain police Wednesday, June 11 4 p.m. – 1600 block E. 32nd St., copper plumbing stolen. 4:44 p.m. – 3600 block Clifton Ave., copper plumbing stolen. 7:34 p.m. – 2300 block E. 33rd St., a woman received a phone message saying someone would rape her, kill her and cut up her body. 9:11 p.m. – [...]
Michael A. Rogers
Michael A. Rogers, 56, of Oberlin, died Friday, June 13, 2008 at his home, under the care of New Life Hospice. He was born March 18, 1952 in Oberlin and was a 1970 graduate of Oberlin High School. He was employed by The Oberlin City School District from 1983 until retiring in 2005 as head [...]