Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for August 11th, 2008
No streaming audio for Elyria Junior All-Stars softball game
Online streaming coverage of the Elyria Junior All-Stars Little League softball game is not available. The game is being aired on 930-AM WEOL. Future games will also be aired on WEOL. For a complete schedule, see www.weol.com.
No clear winner in ex-N.J. Gov. McGreevey’s divorce
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Dina Matos took a calculated risk and lost.
Offered a settlement said to top $300,000 early in divorce talks with her gay ex-husband, former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey, Matos turned it down. The epic, four-year drama that ensued cost each a half-million dollars [...]
NYC `preppie killer’ pleads guilty to drug charges
NEW YORK (AP) — The “preppie killer” who served 15 years behind bars for strangling a woman in Central Park during what he said was rough sex is headed back to prison for a drug offense.
Robert Chambers pleaded guilty Monday to criminal sale of a controlled substance and assault on a [...]
LA authorities: Rockefeller is actually German
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokesman says a Boston kidnapping suspect who went by the name “Clark Rockefeller” is actually a German man wanted for questioning in the 1985 disappearance of a San Marino couple.
Steve Whitmore told The Associated Press on Monday that [...]
Hartford imposes emergency curfew after shootings
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Hartford officials said Monday that they will impose a 30-day citywide curfew on everyone under 18 in response to recent violence, including a shooting over the weekend that left one teen dead and six young people wounded.
“We must do this because we cannot [...]
Inmate found dead at southeast Ohio jail
NELSONVILLE, Ohio (AP) — An inmate being held at Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail on an abduction charge has been found dead in a jail restroom in an apparent suicide.
Lt. James Eddy says 18-year-old Johan Londono of Cleveland Heights was found early Saturday.
Eddy says it appeared that Londono hung himself. [...]
Mich. AG: Detroit mayor violated bail terms again
DETROIT (AP) — A prosecutor on Monday accused Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of violating his bond in an assault case by spending time over the weekend with his sister, one of 11 witnesses listed by authorities.
Kilpatrick and Ayanna Kilpatrick were together at their mother’s house Saturday, a day after he was released from jail [...]
Retrial begins in Ohio microwave baby-death case
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in the retrial of a woman accused of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave oven.
Defendant China Arnold appeared in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court with her attorneys, six months after a judge declared [...]
Cleveland Councilwoman Fannie Lewis dead at 82
CLEVELAND (AP) — A Cleveland city councilwoman who devoted decades to rebuilding her riot-scarred inner-city neighborhood has died.
Fannie Lewis was 82. She died Monday morning at University Hospitals Case Medical Center.
Mayor Frank Jackson called Lewis an outstanding public servant who loved [...]
Slamming start: LeBron James scores 18 as U.S. men’s basketball team puts on a show in Olympics opener
BEIJING — In one heartpounding minute in the first half, LeBron James dunked off a nifty underhanded feed from Dwyane Wade. Then Kobe Bryant flew in and jammed. Then it was Chris Bosh’s turn to rattle the rim. As the backboard swayed, some might have recalled the fabled Dream Team. The final [...]