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Archive for November 10th, 2008
Excited for inauguration? Here’s how to get tix
Tickets, parade bands, balls: An inaugural how-to
WASHINGTON (AP) — Looking for one of the 240,000 tickets to President-elect Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2009? Want your marching band to play in the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue? Seeking a ticket to one of the many glitzy inaugural balls?
Here are some [...]
Circuit City files for bankruptcy
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Circuit City Stores Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday heading into the busy holiday season as analysts question whether the nation’s second-biggest electronics retailer will be able to survive.
The company said it decided to file for bankruptcy protection because it was facing [...]
New VA clinic announced for NE Ohio
WASHINGTON — The federal government has awarded a 20-year lease for a new veterans outpatient clinic in the Cleveland suburb of Parma.
The clinic will cover an area that includes Brecksville, 8 miles away, where a similar clinic is slated to close.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich says the clinic is expected to open in November 2010 and handle [...]
Browns ability to finish? A little dull
BEREA — Where to begin when discussing the Browns’ frustrating finishes? We know how they blew double-digit leads in consecutive games at home. Fourth-quarter turnovers and dropped passes on offense, no pass rush and big plays allowed on defense. But the deeper question is: Why did the season slip away in five [...]
Group wants to remake rail station into museum
VERMILION — Traffic hurries by the old, white-washed building that sits a few hundred feet from the railroad tracks it once served.
This one-time train depot fell out of use decades ago when trains faded into memory as a major means of transporting people for work and pleasure.
But now the old Nickel [...]
OSU’s Pryor bounced back in decisive win over Northwestern
EVANSTON, Ill. — After the gut-wrenching loss to Penn State, Terrelle Pryor sat by himself on the Ohio State bench, his head bowed, his eyes red. The loss, the quarterback told his teammates, was his fault. It was his fumble that led to Penn State’s go-ahead touchdown, and his interception that sealed the [...]
Woman dies in lunch-hour accident
CLEVELAND — A 48-year-old North Olmsted woman who may have been distracted by eating food as she drove, died Sunday afternoon after her car struck concrete barriers at a sharp curve in Warren Road and flipped over.
Ellen M. Satink of Spruce Drive was pronounced dead at Fairview Hospital in Cleveland at 1:15 p.m., [...]
Study suggests healthy people benefit from cholesterol drugs
NEW ORLEANS — People with low cholesterol and no big risk for heart disease had dramatically lower rates of heart attacks, death and stroke if they took the cholesterol pill Crestor, a large study found.
The results, reported Sunday at an American Heart Association conference, were hailed as a watershed event in heart [...]
Buckeye periscope: What bowl will Ohio State get?
Buckeyes buzz
It’s one of the best times of the year for football fans — all that speculation about where their team is headed in a bowl game. Keep in mind that the unthinkable will likely happen over the next few weeks. After all, it has before: Remember a year ago when West Virginia [...]
Obama`s first actions will likely undo many of Bush`s executive orders
WASHINGTON — President-elect Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas.
John Podesta, Obama’s transition chief, said Sunday that Obama is reviewing President Bush’s executive orders as he [...]