Archive for October 15th, 2008
Maureen O’Connor audio interview
Maureen O’Conner, Ohio Supreme Court cadidate. (To hear the audio, click on the play button at the bottom left of the Flash Player above.)
Betty Sutton audio interview
Betty Sutton, 13th District, US Congressional candidate. (To hear the audio, click on the play button at the bottom left of the Flash Player above.)
ALCS: Rays pound Red Sox, take 3-1 series lead
BOSTON — They fluttered in and rocketed out: Three more homers sent sailing over the Green Monster to help the Tampa Bay Rays blow out Boston for the second straight game and move within one win of their first AL pennant. Evan Longoria hit his rookie-record fifth home run of the playoffs, and Carlos Pena [...]
Crennel cuts celebration short, said Browns have a lot of work to do
BEREA — Romeo Crennel opted against any celebratory backflips, cartwheels or somersaults. (Braylon Edwards took care of that in pregame introductions.) Sure, the 35-14 win over the New York Giants on Monday night was a stunning upset with the potential to turn around the season, but Crennel doesn’t have the luxury of drinking in the [...]
Browns notes: Winslow may play against Redskins
BEREA — Coach Romeo Crennel didn’t give any details about tight end Kellen Winslow’s undisclosed illness, but he’s hopeful he can play Sunday at Washington. “Kellen is at home and he’s resting,” Crennel said Tuesday. “He asked us for his privacy, so I’m not talking about it until he chooses to talk about it or [...]
Ohio State tight end Ballard a fan of two-QB offense
COLUMBUS — Ohio State coach Jim Tressel has no doubt that Terrelle Pryor is his quarterback. Not all of his players agree. Tight end Jake Ballard believes Tressel should reintroduce sixth-year senior Todd Boeckman back into the offense to share the job with Pryor. Pryor has shown flashes of skill but also has been hesitant [...]
Elyria Catholic volleyball team rolls over Laurel School in sectional opener
ELYRIA — Elyria Catholic got off to an impressive start in the Division III volleyball sectional tournament at Elyria High on Tuesday with a three-game sweep of Shaker Heights Laurel School. The Panthers used several nice runs and the powerful slams of junior Zoe Zwegat to dominate the match. The scores of 25-20, 25-14 and [...]
Zambo’s six goals lead Elyria Catholic boys soccer to win in sectional opener
ELYRIA — With a name like Zambo, you know he’s got to be good. Orville, the home of Smucker’s jellies and Bobby Knight, sent its high school soccer team to town Tuesday night with one victory in 16 games. Here, the Red Riders had the misfortune of running into Elyria Catholic’s boys and junior scoring [...]
Cavaliers reserves can’t find way to win against Celtics in preseason matchup
PITTSBURGH — The defending champion Boston Celtics had four proven NBA players on the floor down the stretch. The Cavaliers had one, at most, in training camp invitee Ronald Dupree, and even he has only an outside chance of making the team. That could be why Boston emerged with a 90-86 exhibition victory Tuesday night [...]
Ohio State men’s basketball feeling optomistic about upcoming season
COLUMBUS — Here is the Ohio State men’s basketball team in a nutshell: no seniors, missing its top three scorers, but lots of promise. For the third year in a row, coach Thad Matta will be overseeing a Buckeyes team that has more newcomers than veterans, more freshmen than upperclassmen, more questions than answers. “I [...]
Keystone student killed in two-car crash on Rt. 303
LAGRANGE TWP. —With a hand over her mouth and a catch in her voice, Rhelda Kuzak watched Tuesday night as LaGrange Township firefighters circled what was left of an overturned Toyota RAV4. Inside the vehicle’s twisted metal and shattered glass was the lifeless body of 16-year-old Molly Webber of LaGrange, a junior at Keystone High [...]
Cooey is put to death
LUCASVILLE — The first inmate to die by lethal injection in Ohio in more than a year argued to the end that his obesity would make it difficult for prison staff to find suitable veins in his arms to deliver the deadly chemicals. During preparations for his execution Tuesday, Richard Cooey shouted for one of [...]
Cooey victim`s family: System finally worked
The McCreery family’s long wait for justice came to an end Tuesday with the execution of Richard Cooey, one of two men convicted with killing Dawn McCreery 22 years ago. “The system has finally worked,” said her brother, Rob McCreery. “We can move on from here.” Bob McCreery Sr., Dawn McCreery’s father, echoed that sentiment. [...]
Lorain businesses dying as bridge sits unfixed
LORAIN — The Charles Berry Bascule Bridge, once renowned as one of the world’s largest drawbridges, has become a symbol of doom and despair for many business owners in downtown Lorain. The bridge’s upright sections, which have pointed skyward over the Black River since June 9, were supposed to be lowered and opened by early [...]
North Ridgeville Council approves 550-house site plan
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — Planners of the 218-acre Hampton Place, a massive single-family and cluster home development set to be among the city’s biggest planned community developments, cleared a hurdle Tuesday night when the city planning commission approved preliminary plans. The commission’s 4-1 vote also rezoned the site from an R-1 residential zoning classification to a [...]
County wants help in finding car thiefs
AMHERST TWP. — Sheriff’s detectives are seeking help in identifying suspects who allegedly stole two 2009 Dodge Chargers last week from Sliman’s Dodge on state Route 58. “These are older guys. They’re not younger kids,” Detective Mike Lopez said. “We have real clear video of them. We just don’t know who they are.” The cars, [...]
Lorain robbery-murder trial opens
ELYRIA — Samuel “Freddie” Walls died when a deer slug from a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun tore into his back on Aug. 14, 2004. The man who pulled the trigger was Manuel Nieves, Assistant Lorain County Prosecutor Laura Swansinger told a three-judge panel Tuesday in the first day of Nieves’ aggravated murder trial. Nieves could get [...]
Krazy Mac`s sign decision heads to board
ELYRIA — With a grand opening planned in the coming weeks, a sign stands in front of Krazy Mac’s Cafe. But whether it will remain is still being debated. Tuesday’s meeting of the city’s Design Review Committee did not resolve whether the 4-by 6-foot white illuminated sign with green and orange coloring and brown lettering [...]
State: Eaton Township`s bookkeeping sloppy
EATON TWP. — The state’s audit of Eaton Township released Tuesday indicates that the township needs to do a better job of record-keeping. Fourteen of the 47 nonpayroll expenditures in 2007 and five of the 31 non-payroll expenditures tested for 2007 and 2006 were not properly certified by the township’s fiscal officer to ensure there [...]
Committee pushes uniforms for Oberlin elementary schools
OBERLIN — Children at Eastwood and Prospect elementary schools will wear uniforms next year if a citizen committee has its way. But the committee, led by retired General Motors executive Glenn Hodge, did not recommend uniforms for students in junior high and high school. Instead, the older students could benefit from a beefed-up dress code, [...]
Timothy M. Tomes
Timothy M. Tomes, 66, of Grafton, passed away Friday, October 10, 2008 at the Cleveland Clinic after a short illness. He was born September 7, 1942 in Cleveland, living in Strongsville until 1964 when he moved to Grafton. He was a previous part owner of Atom Blasting and he retired from Blast Abriad in Grafton. [...]
Richard W. Coffey, Sr.
Richard W. Coffey, Sr., 74, of Clyde and formerly of Columbia Station, passed away Friday, October 10, 2008 at the Bellevue Care Center in Bellevue. He was a Heavy Equipment Mechanic with the Cleveland Metro Parks and a member of the Columbia United Methodist Church. Richard is survived by his daughters, Susan (Carl) Reiderman of [...]
Oberlin/Wellington notebook: Oct. 15, 2008
New Oberlin logo Check out the new Oberlin city logo, which incorporates the historic elm tree where John Shipherd and Philo Stewart founded the community and college 175 years ago. The tree was a symbol of Oberlin until it fell victim to disease and was cut down in the 1960s. The logo also has a [...]
Robert S. Andrews
Robert S. Andrews, 83, of Lorain, died Monday, October 13, 2008 at the Ohio Veterans Home in Sandusky. Mr. Andrews was born July 6, 1925 in Berea and lived most of his life in Lorain. He worked as a Stationery Engineer for the Lorain City Schools. Prior to that, he drove a truck for Sealtest [...]
Feds say they`ve busted huge computer spam ring
CHICAGO — E-mail inboxes may be clogged with a little less spam — at least for a while. Authorities said Tuesday they have shut down one of the largest spam operations in the world, a vast network involving countries from New Zealand to China and the United States. The spammers sent out billions of e-mails [...]