Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for July 10th, 2008
Toledo police: father tried to kill self, daughter
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Police in Toledo say an estranged husband tried to kill himself and the couple’s 3-year-old daughter by sending tailpipe exhaust gas into the passenger compartment of his sport utility vehicle. A man saw the hose contraption and called police.
Forty-six-year-old Thomas Bragg of [...]
BREAKING NEWS — State rep. bows out of race
State Rep. Thomas Heydinger will not run for a full term in November.
Heydinger, D-Norwalk, was appointed in May to finish out the term of former state Rep. Matt Barrett, D-Amherst, who resigned after it was revealed pornographic images he accidentally displayed to a Norwalk High School class were his.
Barrett had originally blamed his teenage son [...]
Ohio official mulls new voting machine rule
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s elections chief is reconsidering a plan to prohibit poll workers from taking voting machines home for safekeeping in the days before the November presidential election.
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner announced plans in February to scrap the practice known as “sleepovers” because of [...]
Child born to Baby Grace’s mother to stay in foster care
HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston family court judge ruled Wednesday that a baby boy born to a woman while she was in custody in the death of her 2-year-old daughter will remain in a Dallas foster home.
Kimberly Dawn Trenor, 19, gave birth to Shawn Trenor on June 26 at [...]
Study shows Ohio car thieves target 1994 models
COLUMBUS (AP) — A new study shows Ohio car thieves favor older, American-made vehicles over newer models, echoing a nationwide trend.
The 1994 versions of the Dodge Caravan, Oldsmobile Cutlass and Buick Century led a list of the state’s most frequently stolen vehicles last year, in a study by the National Insurance [...]
Reports: 11 injured by fireworks in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State officials say reports show Fourth of July fireworks injured 11 people this year in Ohio, including a man in Brown County who lost parts of both hands.
Spokesman Shane Cartmill with the State Fire Marshal’s office says while there were several injuries he describes as “scary and [...]
Tires save Ohio toddler in fall
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio toddler who fell 30 feet from a window is recovering thanks to a stack of tires that softened his fall.
Twenty-month-old Jaelin Lewis bounced through the screen of an open apartment window in Columbus while playing on a bed with his [...]
Christie Brinkley settles NY divorce case
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Christie Brinkley’s lurid divorce trial came to an abrupt end Thursday when lawyers for the supermodel and her fourth husband reached an out-of-court settlement that gives her custody of their two children.
The settlement was reached at 6:15 a.m. after an all-night session [...]
Ohio State football lottery outrages alumni
COLUMBUS (AP) — The new football tickets lottery for Ohio State alumni is angering longtime fans who say it unfairly ignores their Buckeye loyalty.
Until this year, the alumni association allowed members to apply to buy tickets to certain games based on an alphabetized system. It considered seniority when [...]
Indians: Skid hits 10 as Tribe finishes road trip 0-8
DETROIT (AP) — Not even a six-run lead was enough for the Cleveland Indians to stop their freefall. Especially not facing Miguel Cabrera. The Tigers’ star homered again, this time in the bottom of the ninth to give Detroit an 8-6 win over Cleveland, which has lost 10 in a row. [...]