Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for June 18th, 2008
Tiger Woods to have season-ending knee surgery
Tiger Woods is done for the year, but not without one last major that he said might have been his best ever.
Woods explained why Wednesday when he revealed he will have season-ending surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left knee that he injured 10 months ago.
He also suffered a double stress [...]
Elyria soldier killed in Iraq
21-year-old killed by IED a month before he was to return home on leave
ELYRIA — A 21-year-old Elyria man was killed by an improvised explosive device in Iraq on Monday morning, a month before he was scheduled to return home on leave.
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“We don’t know if anybody else was involved or killed with him,” [...]
Park attack victim Shawn Stevens in her own words
CLEVELAND — Shawn Stevens doesn’t have much forgiveness for Matthew Plas, the man accused of brutally attacking her and leaving her paralyzed from the waist down.
“I think whatever his peers in prison decide is right for him (would be appropriate punishment),” Stevens said Tuesday in an interview with hospital officials at MetroHealth Medical [...]
Gas USA suspect had shot man in head in Ill.
ELYRIA — The man charged with killing Gas USA clerk Qiana Walton with a shot to the head served more than eight years in prison for shooting someone else in the head, according to authorities in Illinois.
Vincent W. Jackson Jr., 27, was 16 on Sept. 10, 1997, when he shot a man in [...]
Local woman tricked by faux sweepstakes
CAMDEN TWP. — Carol Matcham thought the call was a godsend — she’d won $500,000 in the Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes.
To get the money, she just needed to clear up some tax liabilities, the caller told her, so she got a $4,200 money order and sent it to an address in Tel Aviv, Israel. [...]
Men flung from SUV after it flips 3 times
BROWNHELM TWP. — Fish, handtools and mangled Jeep parts littered the roadside Tuesday night after a Grand Cherokee rolled three times and threw two men 10 yards from the vehicle.
Michael King, 27, of Lorain, was driving the sport utility vehicle south about 9:40 p.m. on Gore Orphanage Road when he veered off the [...]
Driver passes out, hits Ruskan building
CARL SULLENBERGER / CHRONICLE
A Lorain fireman stands by after a Cadillac ran into a corner of the Ruskan Law Building on Tuesday severing a natural [...]
NBA Finals: Celtics leave no doubt in Game 6, thrash Lakers to wrap up 17th NBA championship
BOSTON — With Russell and Havlicek sitting courtside, and Red surely lighting up a victory cigar somewhere, these Boston Celtics returned to glory like the great teams before them. Dominant in every way. On a new parquet floor below aging championship banners hung in the rafters two decades back, the Celtics [...]
NBA Finals: Kobe can’t solve Celtics’ defense, gets little help in season-ending loss
BOSTON — The best player was no match for the best team. Even Kobe Bryant couldn’t solve Boston’s suffocating defense in the NBA Finals, which ended Tuesday night when the Celtics crushed the Los Angeles Lakers 131-92 in Game 6. “I’ve seen some pretty stiff ones and this was right up [...]
Coast Guard searches for man off Lorain lakeshore
LORAIN — A man spotted floating east in Lake Erie late Tuesday sparked an hours-long rescue mission.
The U.S. Coast Guard, Lorain firefighters and police searched for the drifting man starting after 10 p.m. off the shoreline near the Beaver Park Marina on West Erie Road.
Several people watching the rescue operation said [...]