Archive for August 7th, 2008
Detroit mayor ordered jailed after bond violation
DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been ordered to the county jail after a judge found the mayor violated the terms of his bond by going to Canada and not informing the court. The ruling by Judge Ronald Giles came after the mayor apologized to the court, saying it won’t happen again. The [...]
La. trooper IDs body unclaimed since his boyhood
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — From the time he was 9, Dennis Stewart was haunted by a boy eight years his elder. For Stewart, now a state trooper, Danny Dewey’s funeral last month laid to rest the ghost of a slight young man who was murdered and dumped near Stewart’s boyhood home nearly three decades [...]
Ohio woman gets 2 years for stealing from mom
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Akron area woman sentenced to two years in prison for stealing tens of thousands of dollars from her elderly mother says she deserved the money for all she’s done. During Wednesday’s sentencing hearing, 60-year-old Jerelyn Sue Estright of Barberton apologized but also told a Summit County judge that her life [...]
OU football player from Westlake wins lottery
ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — The season doesn’t open for a couple more weeks, but already an Ohio University football player has made a very big score. The Ohio Lottery says Bobcats offensive lineman Mike Eynon (EYE’-nuhn) matched five numbers to win $250,000 in Tuesday night’s Mega Millions drawing. After taxes, the senior from the Cleveland [...]
Favre headed to Cleveland; now with Jets
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Brett Favre’s journey from retirement and back has ended in New York. The Green Bay Packers traded their three-time MVP and Super Bowl-winning quarterback to the Jets on Wednesday, ending an emotionally grinding month of indecision over Favre’s future. The move ends a remarkably ugly split between Green Bay [...]
Kids are found in squalor; mom is charged
ELYRIA — An Elyria woman was charged with four counts of child endangerment Tuesday after police found her children alone and living in squalor. Melody Reed, 23, told police she was “around the corner” from her children — ages 7, 6 and 2 years old, and 7 months old — when an unidentified person alerted [...]
Lawsuit: Doctor didn`t report abuse
ELYRIA — When he was 8 months old, Jayden Davidson died a violent death. But he didn’t have to, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Lorain County Common Pleas Court that accuses Jayden’s doctor of failing to report signs of child abuse on the dead boy and his older brother. Dennis O’Toole, who represents [...]
Amherst councilman chosen to run for Barrett`s old seat
AMHERST — Democrats plan to name Amherst City Councilman Terry Traster as their candidate in the race to replace state Rep. Thomas Heydinger. Heydinger, D-Norwalk, announced last month that he wouldn’t run in November. The former Huron County juvenile and probate judge was appointed in May to fill former state Rep. Matt Barrett’s seat after [...]
Elyria school lunches will eat up more cash
ELYRIA — Mom and Dad, save all that loose change. Your sons and daughters will likely need it later this month when school resumes and lunch prices go up. Rising food, fuel and operating costs are forcing the Elyria Schools’ food service contractor to ask school officials to approve a 10 percent increase on all [...]
Vermilion woman sues over fenceless pool in which her son drowned
ELYRIA — The mother of a Vermilion toddler who drowned in a swimming pool is suing the owners of the house for more than $2 million. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Lorain County Common Pleas Court, accuses Barry and Phyllis Anderson of negligence for failing to have a fence around their pool. [...]
CDC puts average ER treatment time at about an hour
ATLANTA — The average time that hospital emergency rooms patients wait to see a doctor has grown from about 38 minutes to almost an hour over the past decade, according to new federal statistics released Wednesday. The increase is due to supply and demand, said Dr. Stephen Pitts, the lead author of the report by [...]
Two injured in state Route 83 motorcycle wreck
EATON TWP. — A motorcyclist and his passenger were thrown from their bike Wednesday night and suffered head injuries, according to Trooper Jeff Kaess of the Ohio Highway Patrol. Steven Kereszpesi Jr., 60, of Cleveland, and Robin Brewer, 40, of Brunswick, were flown to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. Brewer was quickly discharged from the [...]
Protesters gather at RTA hearings
CLEVELAND — Proposed mass transit cuts in Cleveland are drawing big crowds of protesters at public hearings. Nearly 1,500 people have turned out since Monday at hearings on the proposed cuts aimed at trimming a budget deficit. The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority blames skyrocketing fuel expenses. The turnout at public hearings on the cuts [...]
Decision coming on Lorain high school(s)
LORAIN — Build a huge new high school or two smaller ones? It’s been a hot-button issue with Lorain residents for months, and after hearing from angry factions on both sides, a subcommittee set up by the Lorain Board of Education is expected to decide Aug. 20 which option will be the best use of [...]
Strickland gets educators talking
ELYRIA — In an ideal world, Elyria students would learn through specialized instruction where creativity and innovation is lauded and teachers would not be required to teach to a state-mandated test. Parents would be more involved in the education of their children and teachers would not be required to teach youngsters how to say “please” [...]
Lorain cuts the grass when owners don`t
LORAIN — When Service Director Robert Gilchrist drives around the city, it’s with a keen eye for the unsightly. Gilchrist was on his way to work Wednesday when he decided to notify several home and business owners that the grassy jungles sprouting in their yards needed to be trimmed, or the city would do it [...]
LCCC receives financial aid grant
ELYRIA — Lorain County Community College will receive a grant of $50,000 from a scholarship program funded by the Wal-Mart Foundation designed to assist students in financially depressed areas, according to an LCCC representative. The grant will allow the Dreamkeepers Emergency Financial Assistance program to assists students in need, said Stephanie Sutton, LCCC’s director of [...]
23 of illegal workers have been sent back to Mexico
OBERLIN — Twenty-three of the 58 employees of eight Casa Fiesta restaurants arrested by immigration officials on July 23 have been voluntarily deported to Mexico, according to immigration spokesman Greg Palmore. Palmore said 23 of the 54 men and four women have been deported, while others are waiting hearings before a federal immigration judge. Four [...]
Annual Corn Festival offers rides, classic cars, entertainment and more
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — The newest ride at the North Ridgeville Corn Festival is cheap, quick and less likely than the Tilt-a-Whirl to give you motion sickness. That ride is a shuttle bus that will ferry patrons from the satellite parking area at Wilcox Elementary to the festival grounds at South Central Park. It is provided [...]
North Ridgeville notebook: Aug. 7, 2008
Rotary speaker It should be anything but dull. When Cathy Leroy met Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones recently at a Rotary affair, she invited him to speak at the North Ridgeville Rotary Club’s weekly Friday noontime lunch meeting Aug. 22 at the North Ridgeville Senior Center. Jones accepted the invite. “All of a sudden [...]
North Ridgeville blotter: Aug. 7, 2008
North Ridgeville police Monday, Aug. 1 1:10 a.m. — U.S. 20 at Case Road. Police locate and pursue vehicle from a high-speed chase begun by Lorain County Sheriff’s deputies. The vehicle drives over a series of stop sticks, which deflate three tires before finally stopping the vehicle on state Route 83 south of Aurensen Road. [...]
Wayne Whyte
Wayne A. Whyte, 84, of Amherst, passed away Tuesday, August 5, 2008, at Kingston of Vermilion. He was born July 16, 1924 in Amherst. Wayne was a lifetime resident of the Amherst area and a graduate of Brownhelm High School. During World War II, Wayne served in the United States Army, 14th Armored Division under [...]
Robert D. Bozman
Robert D. "Boz" Bozman, 57, of Lorain, died unexpectedly at his residence Tuesday August 5, 2008. He was born in Elyria on February 26, 1951 and had been a resident of Lorain for the past 21 years. Mr. Bozman was a graduate of Elyria High School as a member of the Class of 1969. While [...]
Frieda Konnerth
Frieda Konnerth, (nee Schaller), 87, of Amherst, died Wednesday, August 6, 2008. Arrangements will be announced by the Gluvna-Shimo-Hromada Funeral Chapel, Lorain.
Fred L. Black
Fred L. Black, 78, of North Ridgeville, passed away Tuesday August 5, 2008 in the Emergency Room of St. John West Shore Hospital in Westlake following a lingering illness. Arrangements will be announced by the Liston Funeral Home, North Ridgeville.