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 details on tickets, applications [...]
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 pressure from vendors who threatened to withhold [...]
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 [...]
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 fateful days? Is [...]
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 Plate Train [...]
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 Nittany Lions’ [...]
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., according [...]
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 disease prevention. [...]
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 only [...]
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 works to [...]
Voters went for whoever bugged them the most
COLUMBUS — Ohio phones rang, doorbells buzzed and mailboxes brimmed during the presidential campaign’s final weeks. And for good reason. Ohio voters contacted by the campaigns voted for the candidate that pestered them the most, according to exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and the networks. Almost half of all Ohio voters said they [...]
Couple accosted on their doorstep
LORAIN — An Elyria Avenue couple told police they were accosted at their apartment door by two men wielding a shotgun Friday afternoon. Lorain police reports said the incident occurred in the 2300 block of Elyria Avenue when a man and woman answered a knock on their rear door and were confronted by two men, [...]
Jimmie Johnson wins again, on brink of third straight NASCAR title
AVONDALE, Ariz. — They popped the champagne in Victory Lane and celebrated as if Jimmie Johnson just captured another title. Almost. But not quite there. Johnson moved inches closer to his record-tying third straight NASCAR title Sunday, trouncing the field at Phoenix International Raceway to deliver a near-knockout punch to Carl Edwards’ championship hopes. Johnson [...]
Woman says she was beaten on East 28th
LORAIN — A 33-year-old Strongsville woman told police she was assaulted by one of two men riding bicycles as she walked on East 28th Street on Friday night. The woman told police she was walking near Seneca Avenue about 8:45 p.m. when two black men wearing hooded sweatshirts rode up and yelled for her to [...]
Man accused of burglary at ex`s home
ELYRIA — A 24-year-old Elyria man accused of harassing a former girlfriend pregnant with his child and who made repeated attempts to enter her family home has been charged with burglary. Robert M. Miller, 24, of Elyria, was arrested Friday after police confronted him as he attempted to gain entry to the Eastern Heights Boulevard [...]
Teen charged with hitting bus monitor
ELYRIA — A 14-year-old Elyria boy faces charges of assault and aggravated menacing following a disturbance on a school bus Friday afternoon in which he punched a fellow student and repeatedly struck a 55-year-old bus monitor who tried to break up the scuffle. Police reports said the incident occurred on an Educational Alternatives school bus [...]
NFL roundup: Titans stay perfect with win over Bears
Kerry Collins threw for 289 yards and two touchdowns, and the visiting Tennessee Titans beat the Chicago Bears 21-14 Sunday to remain undefeated despite rushing for just 20 yards. That was just one more than their franchise-low, a stunning performance for a team that was third in the league entering the game. Even so, the [...]
Golf roundup: 2008 season ends with Love (III)
Davis Love III hit into the rough and a bunker on the last two holes. Then he hit the jackpot. Scrambling for pars on both holes, Love shot an 8-under 64 to win his first tournament in more than two years, holding off a late challenge from Tommy Gainey for a one-shot victory Sunday in [...]
Robert David Nagy: From steelworker to acclaimed opera singer
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — If Errol Flynn had ever made a movie called “The Singing Steelworker,” Robert David Nagy would have gone to see it over and over. The Lorain native, who worked at the old Lorain National Tube Co. as a young man, has the hands-down distinction of being the city’s only steelworker to wind [...]
Joe Calzaghe mulls retirement after decisive win over Roy Jones Jr.
NEW YORK — Joe Calzaghe remembers fighting in small halls in Britain, ducked by the world’s best fighters, unable to get unification bouts and big paydays that he always believed he was due. It was just a couple of years ago. But now that the undefeated Welsh icon has ventured to America, dethroning two of [...]
High school playoff football: Regional pairings
Regional football pairings Seedings in parentheses DIVISION I All games 7 p.m. Saturday Region 1: (1) Cleveland St. Ignatius (11-1) vs. (2) Strongsville (11-1), Parma Byers Field Region 2: (1) North Canton Hoover (11-1) vs. (2) Canton GlenOak (10-2), Massillon Paul Brown Tiger Stadium Region 3: (1) Hilliard Davidson (11-1) vs. (3) Pickerington Central (12-0), [...]
Clinic monitors patients on the Web
CLEVELAND — Nancy Pae, a 48-year-old with hypertension that is difficult to treat, has a pioneering tool to help monitor her high blood pressure and keep her doctor informed. The suburban Chagrin Falls woman has suffered from high blood pressure for more than three years and agreed to be part of a pilot program that [...]
N.Y. building could threaten Cleveland medical mart
CLEVELAND — Advocates of a proposed medical mart in Cleveland are concerned that a similar $1 billion New York skyscraper could be built first. Backers of this city’s proposed facility say there’s no room in the medical field for both facilities. The medical mart — an exhibit hall dedicated to medical products and trade shows [...]
Man robbed at gunpoint while pumping gas
LORAIN — A man was robbed at gunpoint Saturday morning while pumping gas, according to a Lorain police report. The report said the 44-year-old Lorain resident was filling up about 7:30 a.m. at BP on Grove Avenue when two men in their early 20s approached. The victim told police one of the men pushed him [...]
Visitors Bureau earns award for printed guide
AMHERST TWP. — The Lorain County Visitors Bureau was honored Oct. 23 in Canton by the Ohio Travel Association during its annual conference on tourism. The bureau received the RUBY Award Citation of Excellence for creating a printed guide to the county. It was also a finalist for the print advertisement category for a “Fill [...]