Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for August 6th, 2008
NFL notes: Reports say Favre traded to Jets
Brett Favre left Green Bay on Wednesday, most likely for good. While he has gone home to Mississippi for the time being, he could end up in New York very soon. Fox Sports reported on its Web site late Wednesday night that the Packers have traded the quarterback to the Jets. The report [...]
Goats slip past security fence near NYC bridge
NEW YORK (AP) — It was a report calculated to send chills through those charged with anti-terrorist vigilance in New York City: Bearded intruders secretly penetrate heavily guarded transportation site.
But it turned out the would-be trespassers were goats imported by the National Park Service to clean up poison ivy [...]
Preacher stole, then killed to cover his tracks
HICKMAN, Calif. (AP) — Friends of an elderly millionaire who was killed by a local pastor sensed something was wrong long before his death.
The agricultural museum that the Rev. Howard Douglas Porter had promised to establish using the old man’s life savings wasn’t being built, so one day Les Orr drove 85-year-old Frank [...]
Fire Department overtime down, but not by enough, some say
ELYRIA — Almost a year after staffing levels dropped from 17 to 14 firefighters at the city’s four fire stations, and weeks after the city saw its largest industrial fire in history, overtime costs in the Fire Department have dropped only $50,000, city figures show.
Dropping minimum manning requirement was a decision Mayor [...]
Passer-by puts out house fire
NEW RUSSIA TWP. — Michelle Polen and her family were camping at Mohican State Park over the weekend when their house caught fire.
An empty house plus a fire spells disaster.
Unless some guardian angels are standing by, that is.
Strangers driving by their house saw the smoke, called 911, pounded on [...]
Mall gets a bite from Wasabi
ELYRIA — The owners of a new Japanese restaurant are turning up the heat on the hibachi grills at Midway Mall.
Mall officials confirmed Tuesday that Wasabi Japanese Steakhouse is moving into the mall in the same location as the defunct Tokyo Steakhouse, between Harry Buffalo and Best Buy. The restaurant, complete with sushi [...]
State Supreme Court says couple has right to land with their fence
COLUMBUS — Forty-one years ago, William and Roselyn Evanich of Elyria made a mistake and put up a fence and landscaping on their neighbors’ property.
The blunder went undiscovered until 2002, when the neighbors had the land surveyed — and, finding out it was theirs, wanted it back.
On Tuesday, the Ohio Supreme [...]
Heckler badgers Obama in Berea
BEREA — A man who wore press credentials and took photographs from a platform interrupted Barack Obama’s town-hall meeting Tuesday by shouting complaints that the Democratic presidential candidate had not called for the audience to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
Obama invited the heckler to lead the audience in the pledge, and he did. [...]
Booger the pitbull commercially cloned by South Korean company
SEOUL, South Korea — Booger is back.
An American woman received five puppies Tuesday that were cloned from her beloved late pitbull, becoming the inaugural customer of a South Korean company that says it is the world’s first successful commercial canine cloning service.
Seoul-based RNL Bio said the clones of Bernann McKinney’s dog [...]
Greek restaurateur to open chain`s 11th on West Erie
LORAIN — Stratos Kyrkos got a little dreamy-eyed Tuesday evening talking about the olive oil, tomatoes and oregano he remembers eating as a boy in Greece.
“It’s the healthiest diet in the world, and nothing tastes better,” he said, chuckling in the dining room of his new West Erie Road restaurant, Stratos on the [...]