Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for August 13th, 2008
Cavaliers pick up point guard Mo Williams in three-team trade
CLEVELAND — The Cavaliers are getting some help for LeBron James.
Cleveland has acquired Milwaukee Bucks point guard Mo Williams in a six-player, three-team trade to be completed Wednesday, the Akron Beacon Journal reported on its Web site citing an unnamed NBA executive.
The Cavaliers declined comment on the report.
The [...]
Haul of fame: Phelps adds two more golds to become winningest Olympian ever with 11 career gold medals
BEIJING — A daily double. Michael Phelps swam into history as the winningest Olympic athlete ever with his 10th and 11th career gold medals — and five world records in five events at the Beijing Games. [...]
Little League softball: Elyria East bounces back from opening loss in World Series, pounds Netherlands, 13-0
What a difference a day makes. Elyria East Little League rebounded from a heartbreaking 3-2 loss in Monday’s first game of the 2008 Junior Softball World Series with a 13-0 trouncing of Windmill Den Bosch, a team from the Netherlands, on Tuesday in Kirkland, Wash. Cynthia Woodard hit a [...]
Indians win fifth straight: Offense comes through again, stages late rally to down Orioles
CLEVELAND — Here’s something that hasn’t been said often if at all this season: The Indians are on a roll. On the same day they waved goodbye to another one of their veteran players — pitcher Paul Byrd — the Indians again showed their post-trade resiliency by hanging a 7-5 loss on the Orioles [...]
Bye, bye Byrdie: Indians trade veteran pitcher to Boston
CLEVELAND — Paul Byrd, one of the more classy players in the Indians clubhouse, is taking his act to Boston. In a move to send the veteran right-hander to greener pastures while saving money in the process, the Indians traded Byrd to the Red Sox on Tuesday for a player to be [...]
Toxic spill sparks panic at gas station
AVON — Potentially lethal fumes sent a trucker to the hospital and closed down a gas station Tuesday after 35 gallons of a toxic, syrupy liquid leaked out of a New Jersey-bound semi.
Emergency crews evacuated everyone in a 165-foot radius from the back parking lot of the Pilot station on state Route 611 [...]
Lorain County Health and Dentistry could close after missing out on grant
LORAIN — Lorain County Health and Dentistry, a safety net for the poor and uninsured, is in danger of closing its doors after it was denied a highly competitive federal grant worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The announcement Monday sent organization officials into a panic as they questioned whether they could continue without [...]
Business lands $40M NASA contract
ELYRIA — A downtown Elyria business got a huge boost recently when NASA awarded it a contract that could reach $40 million.
Information Dynamics, a management and technology consulting firm that helps to coordinate business objectives with information technology solutions, beat out a group of larger competitors to secure the contract, which could hit [...]
Mom won`t have to return kids to dad in Mexico
A Columbia Township mother who fled from Mexico with her four children to escape from her husband won’t have to return.
Following an appeals court ruling, U.S. District Judge Christopher Boyko last month reversed an earlier order that would have required Claire Simcox to return to Mexico with two of the children. Boyko already [...]
Woman hits guardrail after wrong-way ride
SHEFFIELD — An elderly woman’s wrong-way trip Tuesday night down state Route 2 ended with her car crushed up against a guardrail, Sheffield police Sgt. Brian Clark said.
Martha Gomersall, 78, of Bay Village, was found in her wrecked 2005 Hyundai Accent about 9:45 p.m. just west of the state Route 611 interchange. Clark [...]