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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. 

Posted: August 11th, 2008 in Top Stories by NorthCoastNOW.
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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 [...]

Posted: August 11th, 2008 in Top Stories by Associated Press.
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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 [...]

Posted: August 11th, 2008 in Top Stories by Associated Press.
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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 [...]

Posted: August 11th, 2008 in Top Stories by Associated Press.
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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 [...]

Posted: August 11th, 2008 in Top Stories by Associated Press.
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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. [...]

Posted: August 11th, 2008 in Top Stories by Associated Press.
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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 [...]

Posted: August 11th, 2008 in Top Stories by Associated Press.
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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 [...]

Posted: August 11th, 2008 in Top Stories by Associated Press.
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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 [...]

Posted: August 11th, 2008 in Top Stories by Associated Press.
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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 [...]

Posted: August 11th, 2008 in Sports by Associated Press.
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