Archive for July 26th, 2008
Another Cliff Lee win, naturally: Lefty notches No. 14; Perez saves shaky bullpen
CLEVELAND — The Indians did what they normally do when Cliff Lee is on the mound — win. With Lee at the forefront once again Friday night, Cleveland won for the first time in three games, holding on to beat the Twins 5-4 in front of 33,512 fans at Progressive Field. The American League Cy [...]
Tribe notes: Fausto Carmona to return to mound today, make first start since May
CLEVELAND — There haven’t been many positives surrounding the Indians, but one is expected to arrive today with the return of Fausto Carmona. Carmona, a 19-game winner last year, will leave the disabled list to make his first start since sustaining a strained left hip May 23. It is expected to provide a lift on [...]
Big man, big talent: Browns new defensive lineman is an athlete who is being counted on to shut down run game
BEREA — Lawrence Vickers is a 6-foot, 250-pound fullback. On Friday, he looked like a little kid trying to tackle his dad in the backyard. That’s what happens when the guy carrying the ball is 6-4, 350-pound defensive lineman Shaun Rogers. Rogers made the play of training camp when he tipped a Brady Quinn pass [...]
Browns notes: Wendell Davis one guy who truly knows what Gary Baxter is facing in his comeback bid
BEREA — Gary Baxter got a visit from the one guy in the world who can truly empathize with him. Wendell Davis was at Browns headquarters Thursday and Friday as part of the team’s apprentice program. Davis had been the only NFL player to tear both patellar tendons before Baxter did so during a game [...]
Bruell fights back for title: Despite bad cold, stages late rally to win Ohio Women’s Amateur
ELYRIA — Worn out and about ready to collapse from the dual effects of a bad cold and a marathon golf match, Frederique Bruell came up with a fantastic wedge shot to within 2 feet of the cup to cap an unbelievable comeback in the 85th Ohio Women’s Amateur at Elyria Country Club on Friday [...]
High school basketball: Elyria Catholic bounces girls coach Higley, who says he doesn’t understand why
Ken Gottlieb The Chronicle-Telegram Elyria Catholic girls basketball coach Pat Higley is out of a job, and he’s not sure why. Higley says he unexpectedly got a phone call Monday from EC athletic director Barb Salata telling him his services were no longer needed. “I’m really at a loss,” Higley said Friday night. “I still [...]
Softball notes: OGSO state finals in Wellington today; Elyria Little League tourneys also begin
There’s no lack of championship fastpitch softball this weekend right in our own backyards. Little League state tournaments in two age groups kick off this afternoon at Elyria’s Vic Janowicz Memorial Park and the Ohio Girls Softball Organization state finals are this afternoon at Wellington Community Park. Elyria is hosting Little League softball state tourneys [...]
Steve Byrne on horse racing: Was someone horsing around with Gold Cup winner’s birthplace?
There’s a Danny Almonte-style scandal swirling around Ohio thoroughbred racing at the moment. Unlike Almonte, the tarnished Little League sensation of 2001, this mess involves place of birth, not date of birth. Marble Cliff, the winner of the $100,000 Cleveland Gold Cup for Ohio-breds on July 3 at Thistledown, might not have been born in [...]
Gas USA seeks new liquor permit
ELYRIA — Less than three weeks after a 27-year-old Lorain woman was gunned down in a botched robbery at Gas USA, the owners of the south side gas station filed an application for a new liquor permit. El Ham Harb, managing partner of Liberty Gas USA, applied July 2 for a Class C1, C2 and [...]
Victimized shop owner finally ‘gets’ his man
Man suspected of robbing Lorain store five times arrested by police
Prisoner indicted on conspiracy charges
ELYRIA — A state prisoner who police believe was plotting to kill an eyewitness whose testimony could send a Cleveland man to death row has been indicted on conspiracy to commit murder charges. Angel David, 36, has been transferred from the Trumbull Correction Institution to the Lorain County Jail, where he was being held Friday [...]
Dinner gathering helps county’s homeless
LORAIN — For 31 years, Paul Brown of Elyria worked as a truck driver and he squirreled away money for retirement. But a bad investment left him nearly penniless. Now he is homeless and waiting for a chance to move into public housing. Brown, 68, said he was grateful for a chance to have a [...]
Stolen scooter sinks fun of boat trip
LORAIN — Bud and Carol Ward’s trip on the riverboat The Pride of Lorain has left them disappointed. The couple boarded the boat about 6:30 p.m. Thursday to take a wildlife tour of the Black River, but Bud Ward was forced to leave behind the three-wheeled electric scooter he uses to get around because it [...]
Local officials attend health in schools conference
Healthy kids get better test grades. At least, that’s what many schools in Lorain County are hoping as they adopt more extensive health education programs, increase intramural sports, and create “zoned” recesses for their students. School officials have been learning about these ideas at annual Coordinated School Health Conferences. This year, staff members from Oberlin [...]
Roundup: July 26, 2008
$2,000 in items stolen from house LORAIN — Someone entered two cars and broke into the home of industrialist Patsie Campana Jr. early Friday morning on Rosecliff Drive. Campana told police he was awakened by an alarm at 2:10 a.m. and saw on an alarm keypad that a basement door leading to a pool access [...]
Blotter: July 26, 2008
Elyria police Thursday, July 24 8:46 a.m. – 600 block Boston Ave., vehicle stolen. 11:20 a.m. – 900 block Duffey St., Little League concession stand broken into. 4:33 p.m. – 200 Sixth St., air-conditioning unit stolen from window of home. 7:45 p.m. – 200 block West Ave., criminal damaging. Friday, July 25 6:53 a.m. – [...]
Man arraigned in Akron in officer`s slaying
AKRON — The man accused of killing a suburban police officer during a traffic stop yawned while officials on Friday read an indictment against him. Prosecutors formally arraigned Ashford Thompson, 23, of Twinsburg, by video hookup from jail. If convicted in the July 13 shooting death of a Twinsburg police officer during a traffic stop, [...]
Maybe he likes it there
ELYRIA — The finicky feline stuck in Rick Chester’s Delaware Avenue tree would without question be a terrible chess player — if cats played chess. Sure, it’s common for a cat to instinctively climb a tree and then realize that it doesn’t know how to get down. But to climb it twice, and then get [...]
Off the beat: July 26, 2008
If you got the cash, Ted Kalo will splash Whether you like Lorain County Commissioner Ted Kalo or not, he still wants you to take a shot at getting him all wet today. Kalo has agreed to take a turn in the dunk tank at the American Cancer Society’s annual Relay for Life in Lorain, [...]
Oberlin College considers arts district
OBERLIN — Oberlin College is studying the feasibility of a green arts district that could bring up to $200 million of development downtown, including a world-class conference center. The goal of a green arts district is to renovate or build buildings that are friendly to the environment and support the arts, theater, opera and music. [...]
Lake Erie`s unsung jewel
LORAIN — When most people think of area tourist destinations, they envision trips to Geneva-on-the-Lake, Sandusky or Put-in-Bay. That’s the kind of thinking that Michael Challender, executive director of the Lorain Growth Corp., wants people to forget, because many of the reasons people travel outside of Lorain County for entertainment are available right here — [...]
Matilda Dougan
Matilda “Tillie” Dougan (nee Lukesic), 94, of Lorain, died Wednesday, July 23, 2008, at Avon Oaks Nursing Home. Tillie was born March 14, 1914, in Lorain and had been a lifelong Lorain area resident. She was a longtime member of St. Vitus Catholic Church in Lorain, a member of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church [...]
Marilyn A. Roof
Marilyn A. Roof (nee Martin), 73, of Elyria died Thursday, July 24, 2008, at Golden Acres Nursing Home in Amherst, following a short illness. Mrs. Martin was born in Elyria March 7, 1935, and lived in Elyria for the past four years, moving here from Warrensville Heights. She was employed as a clerk in a [...]
B. Ruth Groves
B. Ruth Groves (nee McConkey), 86, of Lorain, passed away Friday, July 25, 2008, at Amherst Manor Nursing Home, following a short illness. She was born July 27, 1921, in a small suburb of the Columbus area where she was raised. Lorain County had been her home for over 50 years. Ruth worked as a [...]
Edward Thompson
Edward Thompson, 75, of Elyria, died Wednesday, July 23, 2008, at EMH Regional Medical Center, following a long illness. He was born June 1, 1933 in Brooklyn, N.Y., and was an Elyria resident for 10 years, coming from the Bronx. Mr. Thompson was a facility director at Samaritan Village Inc. in New York, N.Y., for [...]