Archive for September 29th, 2008
Ohio Supreme Court upholds early voting window
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two courts on Monday upheld a weeklong period in Ohio in which new voters can register and cast an absentee ballot on the same day. Another court decision was expected later in the day over the early voting window, which begins Tuesday and has become a highly partisan battle in a [...]
U.S. House rejects bailout of financial system
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue for the nation’s financial system, ignoring urgent warnings from President Bush and congressional leaders of both parties that the economy could nosedive into recession without it. Stocks plummeted on Wall Street even before [...]
Last defendant pleads in Lorain murder case
ELYRIA – With a jury waiting in the wings for his trial to start, Tyrone Young took a plea bargain this morning in the 2006 shooting death of retired steelwork Michael Smith. Young, 20, pleaded guilty to murder, felonious assault, aggravated robbery and tampering with evidence charges in exchange for prosecutors dropping aggravated murder and [...]
Bush confident bailout bill will stabilize economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional supporters of a $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill pleaded with fellow lawmakers on the House floor Monday to approve the plan, with a leading architect there conceding its unpopularity. “Many of us feel that the national interest requires us to do something which is, in many ways, unpopular,” said [...]
Union believes Ohio GM plant to close soon
MORAINE, Ohio (AP) — A union official says he expects General Motors’ SUV plant in the Dayton suburb of Moraine to close in January or February based on inventory and projected sales. Harry Bogan, director of Regional 7 for the International Union of Electronic Workers-Communication Workers of America, said Monday that the automaker hasn’t set [...]
Judge slams government tactics in Stevens case
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge angrily rebuked the Justice Department on Monday for mishandling a witness against Sen. Ted Stevens, a dispute that delayed and initially threatened to derail the case against the Alaska senator. The dustup didn’t yield the mistrial or dismissal that the Republican senator was hoping for but, with Stevens running [...]
Cleveland says bye to losing streak: Win over Bengals far from pretty, but Browns not complaining
CINCINNATI — Braylon Edwards bounded through the tunnel and into the locker room, the smile plastered to his face. Derek Anderson wore flip-flops and expressed his love for left tackle Joe Thomas, who recovered a botched handoff inside the 5-yard line. Joshua Cribbs was so overjoyed, he said tears nearly ran down his cheeks. The [...]
Brian Dulik: Win over Bengals is good, but truth is, Browns really weren’t
It would be easy to say the Browns took a major step forward Sunday in winning their first game of the season. But it would also be inaccurate, considering how their 20-12 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals played out. Throughout the first three quarters at Paul Brown Stadium, Cleveland performed at the same lowly level [...]
D.A. repays team’s confidence in him: Quarterback overcomes ugly start, leads team to first win
CINCINNATI — Derek Anderson recognized the coverage immediately, called an audible and hurried the snap. “Nope. Don’t go there,” he said Sunday in a postgame news conference. The reporter hadn’t finished the question, but Anderson knew what was coming. Did he think coach Romeo Crennel was going to bench him during the 20-12 win over [...]
Browns notes: Defense turns up the heat to make Bengals’ backup quarterback sweat
CINCINNATI — The Browns’ defense did its best to make Ryan Fitzpatrick’s first NFL start in three years a miserable experience Sunday, coming up with three interceptions, forcing two fumbles and sacking Fitzpatrick three times in a 20-12 win. “He is the backup quarterback, so I think he got frazzled a little bit and just [...]
Browns 20, Bengals 12: Breaking it down
THUMBS UP Kamerion Wimbley and Alex Hall, Browns outside linebackers Wimbley finally awoke from his season-long slumber and made quite an impact. He had three tackles, a sack, a tackle for loss and a forced fumble that set up a touchdown. Hall, in his second start, had a strip-sack and a tackle for loss. With [...]
Loss leaves Indians at .500, but keeps White Sox alive for a possible playoff berth
CHICAGO — Mark Buehrle gave the White Sox the veteran performance they needed on short rest. Now it’s up to a youngster to keep their season going against a familiar foe. Buehrle pitched seven strong innings and, backed by four double plays, beat the Cleveland Indians 5-1 on Sunday to keep Chicago in the race [...]
NASCAR: Off-the-wall finish can’t stop Johnson from grabbing win, Chase lead
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Well, it worked in the video game. Carl Edwards did everything he could Sunday, including purposely bouncing off the concrete wall at Kansas Speedway, but it wasn’t quite enough to beat two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson. “Where’d he come from?” Johnson asked after Edwards shot underneath him in the [...]
Golf roundup: Villegas takes a grand Tour, defeats Garcia in playoff for second straight win
Too far behind to do anything about the FedEx Cup, Camilo Villegas put together a stirring rally Sunday that was good enough to win the Tour Championship in a playoff over Sergio Garcia for his second straight victory. Villegas overcame a five-shot deficit by making six birdies over his last 11 holes for a 4-under [...]
Bush, Congress reach $700 billion bailout deal
WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders and the White House agreed Sunday to a $700 billion rescue of the ailing financial industry after lawmakers insisted on sharing spending controls with the Bush administration. The biggest U.S. bailout in history won the tentative support of both presidential candidates and goes to the House for a vote today. The [...]
Top area chefs prepare meals for benefit at food bank warehouse
LORAIN — Second Harvest Food Bank was transformed into a gourmet buffet Sunday evening for its third annual Generous Helpings benefit. In addition to the usual racks of food, the warehouse featured 13 serving stations of restaurant-quality dishes that let everyone in attendance know they were at the tastiest fundraiser around. This was the first [...]
Palin got favors as mayor
WASILLA, Alaska — Though Sarah Palin depicts herself as a pit bull fighting good-old-boy politics, in her years as mayor she and her friends received special benefits more typical of small-town politics as usual, an Associated Press investigation shows. When Palin needed to sell her house during her last year as Wasilla mayor, she got [...]
Lorain woman fends off attacker
WESTLAKE — A nursing home employee fought off a would-be abductor with her purse early Sunday. The Lorain woman, an employee of the Lutheran Home senior assisted-living facility on Dover Center Road, told police she was approached by a man as she arrived at work shortly after 5 a.m. The man tried to force her [...]
Volleyball team hosts cancer event
ELYRIA — The goal is to send a message to the community about breast cancer awareness … and to win a few volleyball games in the process. The Elyria High School volleyball team is hosting its second annual Volley for the Cure on Thursday in the Elyria High School gymnasium. Since the start of the [...]
Council may lower price on vacant home that isn`t selling
ELYRIA — A city-owned and -renovated house on East 12th Street continues to sit vacant after being on the market for more than 13 months, prompting city officials to renew talks of how to unload the property once and for all. When the home was purchased in 2005, the intention was to renovate the property [...]
Police looking for gas station robber
AVON LAKE — Police are searching for an armed man who robbed a BP station on Avon Belden Road on Sunday morning. Police say a gas station attendant reported that a man with a gun came into the gas station around 6:30 a.m. and took money from the cash register. The clerk was not hurt [...]
Lorain woman shot during robbery
LORAIN — A Lorain woman was shot during a robbery at a West 17th Street home by a man who ordered her to take off her clothes and give up her money and valuables, a police report said. The 45-year-old woman was taken to Community Regional Medical Center with a gunshot wound to her upper [...]
Congress approves Great Lakes cleanup bill
WASHINGTON — Congress has approved a bill that would extend for two years a federal program to clean up areas of pollution and contaminated sediment in the Great Lakes. The House voted 411-9 Sunday in favor of the measure authorizing the Environmental Protection Agency to spend $54 million a year over the next two years for [...]
Protesting pastors back their candidate
WEST BEND, Wis. — Pastor Luke Emrich prepared his sermon this week knowing his remarks could invite an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service. But that was the whole point, so Emrich forged ahead with his message: Thou shalt vote according to the Scriptures. “I’m telling you straight up, I would choose life,” Emrich told [...]
Obama targets Ohio’s young voters, homeless
COLUMBUS — Barack Obama’s presidential campaign blitzed bars while advocates for the homeless have lined up vans to ferry potential voters from shelters. The prize could be thousands of traditionally elusive voters in hard-fought Ohio who would have the chance to register and vote on the same day. The contentious early voting window is before [...]