Archive for October 13th, 2008
Giants, national spotlight offer Browns chance at redemption: Win over Super Bowl champs could turn season around
CLEVELAND — For those unfamiliar with “Monday Night Football” — it has been five looooong years since the Browns played on the unique stage — Hank Williams Jr. opens every telecast by screaming: Are you ready for some football? When it comes to the Browns’ matchup with the Giants tonight on ESPN, he should tweak [...]
Browns vs. Giants: Breaking down the game
MARQUEE MATCHUP Giants QB Eli Manning vs. Browns pass defense Eli Manning is the toast of New York after being named Super Bowl MVP in the Giants’ first championship in 17 years and opening this season with four straight wins. Just 11 months ago, he was a month-old onion bagel headed to the dumpster. “It [...]
Brown says defense is still Cavaliers’ top priority
INDEPENDENCE — There’s a part of Cavaliers coach Mike Brown that is never going to change. While much has been made of Cleveland’s increased offensive tempo after the addition of lightning-quick point guard Mo Williams, Brown does not want his players to forget where their bread is buttered. That’s why the Cavaliers, who didn’t return [...]
Motorsports: Elyria’s Connolly overcomes blown engine, grabs win, moves from sixth to third in NHRA postseason standings
DINWIDDIE, Va. — It wasn’t pretty, and it wasn’t easy, but it was just what the doctor ordered for Dave Connolly. Needing a victory Sunday to stay alive in the NHRA Countdown to the Championship points race, the Elyrian overcame a blown engine to win the Virginia Nationals Pro Stock championship for the second consecutive [...]
Golf: Five-time major champion Ballesteros battling brain tumor
MADRID, Spain — After a career full of miraculous shots — including one from a parking lot during his first British Open win — Seve Ballesteros was preparing for the “hardest challenge” of his life Sunday after announcing he has a brain tumor. The 51-year-old Ballesteros was set to undergo a biopsy Tuesday before doctors [...]
NLCS: Dodgers fight back, pound Moyer, Phillies
LOS ANGELES — Manny Ramirez and the Los Angeles Dodgers were tired of getting brushed back in the NL Championship Series, so they came out ready to fight back against Philadelphia. Blake DeWitt’s bases-loaded triple off Jamie Moyer capped a five-run first inning, and the feisty Dodgers beat the Phillies 7-2 in a testy game [...]
ALCS: Lester emerging as ace of Red Sox staff
BOSTON — This is Jon Lester unleashed: unhittable in May, a stopper in October, the emerging ace of the Boston Red Sox. The 24-year-old lefty will start Game 3 of the AL Championship Series against Tampa Bay tonight, facing Matt Garza at Fenway Park under the championship banner Lester helped raise with a World Series-clinching [...]
Smith’s late goal lifts Monsters to 2-0 start
CLEVELAND — Nathan Smith scored the game-winning goal off a cross-crease feed from Chris Durno with just 57 seconds to play Sunday as the Lake Erie Monsters downed Toronto 4-3 at The Q. The Monsters improved to 2-0 on the season, winning both games by the identical score. Saturday, however, Tyler Weiman was on the [...]
As her killer nears execution, Dawn McCreery`s loved ones remember her zest for life
A few months ago, Rob McCreery dreamed his sister, Dawn McCreery, was sitting on the couch with his 5-year-old daughter. As vivid as the dream was, he knew something was wrong. His sister and daughter could not possibly play and laugh together. Dawn McCreery has been dead for 22 years. She was brutally murdered in [...]
Report: Man tried to force people to do drugs
LORAIN — An apparent case of mistaken identity led to a Lorain man being arrested Sunday after he tried to force two people in a Hamilton Avenue apartment to do drugs with him. The two people in the apartment told police that Jose Veliz Jr., 31, had come to the apartment looking for “Sarah” shortly [...]
Sheriff looking for auxiliary deputies
ELYRIA — The Lorain County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a few good auxiliary deputies. The sheriff’s office will be accepting applications through Dec. 21 for the next training class for auxiliaries, which is slated to begin in late January. The class requires 110 hours of training in subjects ranging from self-defense to police procedures [...]
Teens on bikes hit car at mall
ELYRIA — Two Elyria teenagers avoided serious injury Sunday when they collided with a car near Midway Mall. Elyria police Sgt. William Pelko said the boys, Brandon Ruckman, 16, and Joshua Lehman, 19, were in a crosswalk at the intersection of Market Drive and West River Road when they ran into a 2008 Ford Mustang. [...]
The era of easy credit may be gone for good
An inflatable gorilla beckoned from the roof of Don Brown Chevrolet in St. Louis, servers doled out free bowls of pasta and a salesman urged potential customers to “come on up under the canopy and put your hands on” a new set of wheels. But sitting across from a salesman in a quiet back room, [...]
A closer look at Obama`s, McCain`s old associates
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Scraping for any advantage in the presidential campaign’s waning days, John McCain and Barack Obama are introducing voters to a new cast of characters. McCain would like people to know about a former 1960s radical and a corrupt government insider — both with links to his Democratic opponent. And Obama is raising [...]
Artificial intelligence programs play fool the human
READING, England — Computers argued, cracked jokes and parried trick questions Sunday, all part of an annual test of artificial intelligence carried out at the University of Reading. Typing away at split-screen terminals, a dozen volunteers carried out two conversations at once: one with a chat program, the other with a human. After five minutes, [...]
Doctors double vitamin D recommendations
CHICAGO — The leading pediatricians group in the U.S. says children from newborns to teens should get double the usually recommended amount of vitamin D because of evidence that it may help prevent serious diseases. To meet the new recommendation of 400 units daily, millions of children will need to take daily vitamin D supplements, [...]
Alfred D. Mitchell
Alfred "Al" D. Mitchell, 73, who resided most of his life in Amherst, died unexpectedly Friday, October 10, 2008 at Amherst Hospital. Al was born in North Ridgeville, September 30, 1935. He served in the U.S. Army from 1958 to 1960, mainly at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. On August 5, 1961 he wed Kathleen A. [...]
Avon Heritage students release their butterflies
AVON — Around 150 third-grade students clamored and pushed toward a table in the yard of Avon Heritage South, vying for the best vantage point to see the stars of Friday’s show: painted lady butterflies. The butterflies were part of a six-week project for seven of the 13 third-grade classes at the elementary school. “We [...]
AAA: Ohio gas prices slip below $3
COLUMBUS — As Ohio gasoline prices continue their quick descent, the statewide average is back below $3 a gallon for the first time since last winter. The daily survey from AAA and the Oil Price Information Service on Sunday had regular averaging $2.99 and 9/10 of a cent in Ohio, down from about $3.06 the [...]
Evelyn D. Fanning
Evelyn D. Fanning, 84, of Litchfield, died Saturday, October 11, 2008 at Allen Medical Center in Oberlin following a lengthy illness. Evelyn was the daughter of the late Russell and Doris Schroeder. Evelyn was employed by the Allen County Recorders office in Allen County, Indiana. In Wellington, Mrs. Fanning was a member of the Golden [...]
Ira Lynn Cornell
Ira Lynn Cornell, 79, of LaGrange Twp. passed away Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Cambridge, Ohio. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the Blackburn-Duke Funeral Home 1021 Main St. Grafton.
Alice M. Temkiewicz
Alice M. Temkiewicz (nee McCarty), 87, of Sheffield Village died Sunday, October 12, 2008. Arrangements will be announced by the Gluvna-Shimo-Hromada Funeral Chapel, Lorain.
Hieronymus Robert Bueck
Hieronymus Robert Bueck, 41, of Avon Lake, passed away suddenly due to an accident in Avon, Friday, October 10, 2008. Robert was born January 18, 1967 in Dothan, Alabama and moved to Avon Lake from Olmsted Falls 13 years ago. He was employed as the computer network administrator for the Avon School system for the [...]
Palin talks economic woes in southeast Ohio
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Sarah Palin told voters in southeastern Ohio on Sunday that she and running mate John McCain would bring jobs back to this economically depressed piece of Appalachia. Using her folksy appeal, Palin highlighted her record as mayor of a city about the size of this small one near the West Virginia border. [...]
Magaret V. Michalek
Margaret V. "Margie" Michalek (nee Vargo), 94 of Lorain, died Saturday, October 11, 2008 at the New Life Hospice Center of St. Joseph in Lorain. She was born July 18, 1914 in Lorain and had been a lifelong resident. She worked as a private secretary for the Nelson Stud Welding Company and the Townsend & [...]