Archive for February, 2009
NFL: Recent Super Bowls have live up to hype
TAMPA, Fla. — Super Super Bowls are becoming a habit. The Steelers’ 27-23 win Sunday night over Arizona was another classic in an era of great games — “a game for the ages,” commissioner Roger Goodell called it. Indeed, with a few of exceptions (notably Ravens 34, Giants 7 in 2001) fans have been treated [...]
Girl wounded in shooting remains critical at hospital
ELYRIA — An 8-year-old Elyria girl remained in critical condition Monday at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland after being shot in the head Sunday by her brother, a hospital spokeswoman said. The family has refused all picture and interview requests. Amy Higgins, communications coordinator for the Elyria City Schools, said counselors were at McKinley Elementary [...]
High school roundup: EC girls edge VA-SJ
Elyria Catholic’s Emily Taylor and Ashley Schuster combined for 33 points to lead the Panthers to a 48-46 victory Monday night over host Villa Angela-St. Joseph. Taylor, who had 17 points, made three free throws in the final 20 seconds to secure the victory for EC. ELYRIA CATHOLIC (48): Wilden 1-0-2, Flowers 3-1-7, Rothgery 1-0-2, [...]
Committee reconsiders allocations of block grants
ELYRIA — The mathematics of divvying up the city’s federal grant allocation has balanced in favor of local nonprofit organizations. Just one week ago, the growing consensus among City Council Community Development Committee members was to use money from the Community Development Block Grant program to save the city pools from a dry season. However, [...]
Blotter: Feb. 3, 2009
Elyria police Sunday, Feb. 1 5:55 p.m. — 500 block Walnut St., pellet gun shot at window. 7:15 p.m. — Wal-Mart, Christie O’Neal, 21, Lorain, theft of makeup. 9:11 p.m. — Giant Eagle, Kevin Woisnet, 24, Avon Lake, theft, $117 in groceries taken. Monday, Feb. 2 6:55 a.m. — 400 block 12th St., car broken [...]
Ohio State: Offensive lineman Boone busted in California
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. — Ohio State offensive lineman Alex Boone was arrested after being subdued with a Taser during an alleged drunken tirade, authorities said Monday. Boone, 21, was taken into custody late Sunday for investigation of resisting arrest after Orange County sheriff’s deputies responded to a disturbance call outside of a home in Aliso [...]
Strickland wants fee hikes
COLUMBUS — Ohioans will pay more to farm, drive, enjoy the outdoors, keep the environment clean and do business under Gov. Ted Strickland’s proposed budget released Monday. Strickland plans to balance his two-year $55 billion spending plan with help from increases in 120 state fees. Money raised through fee increases will help fund some of [...]
Mom guilty in ‘Baby Grace` murder trial
GALVESTON, Texas — A mother was convicted Monday of capital murder in the beating death of her 2-year-old daughter during a daylong discipline session in which the toddler was whipped with belts and flung across a room like a rag doll. A jury deliberated less than two hours before convicting 20-year-old Kimberly Dawn Trenor, formerly [...]
Oberlin College subsidiary to buy the Apollo Theater
OBERLIN — Oberlin’s historic Apollo Theater is being purchased by a subsidiary of Oberlin College, and a star-studded group that includes husband-wife actors Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman plans to renovate it so it can also serve as a venue for live performances. “It will always remain a cinema theater,” said Sandra Hodge, a college [...]
Court denies murder appeal
CLEVELAND — An appellate court has upheld Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Christopher Rothgery’s decision to reject a convicted killer’s request for a new trial. Alfred Cleveland, who has been trying to clear his name in the 1991 murder of a crack addict and prostitute, appealed the decision, contending that a county judge and prosecutors [...]
Macy`s to slash 7,000 jobs, cut dividend
NEW YORK — Macy’s Inc. announced Monday that it will cut 7,000 jobs, almost 4 percent of its work force, reduce its contributions to its employees’ retirement funds and slash its dividend to preserve cash amid a severe pullback in consumer spending. The Cincinnati-based department store chain also delivered bleak earnings and sales forecasts for [...]
Biology professors play in Darwin`s stomping grounds
VERMILION — Oberlin College biology professors Keith Tarvin and Mary Garvin can forever boast a bond of sorts with Charles Darwin, the famed 19th-century British naturalist whose studies became the basis of modern evolutionary theory. The couple, who call Brownhelm Township home, experienced the Galapagos islands during a week-long voyage in June 2008. The volcanic [...]
Amherst/Vermilion notebook: Feb. 3, 2009
Vermilion Marina wins honor Valley Harbor Marina in Vermilion is among four Lake Erie marinas recently honored as Certified Ohio Clean Marinas by the Ohio Clean Marinas Program. The honors recognize marinas with management practices designed to protect Lake Erie and its coastal environment by controlling pollution through the use of less-toxic winterizing chemicals, promoting [...]
Amherst/Vermilion blotter: Feb. 3, 2009
Amherst police Wednesday, Jan. 28 5:05 p.m. – Church Street, boy charged with unruly juvenile, domestic violence and aggravated menacing after he allegedly refused to do household chores and threatened his mother with a knife. Tuesday, Jan. 27 10:53 p.m. – Eastbound entrance ramp to state Route 2 from North Leavitt Road, Gregory Allen Kimbrough [...]
Verna B. Docy
Verna B. Docy (nee Byrd), 79, of LaGrange, died Sunday, February 1, 2009 at her home in LaGrange, following a long illness. She was born January 12, 1930 in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. She moved to the area in the 1940′s from San Diego, California. She was an accomplished business woman and entrepreneur. She was self [...]
Reta Bellamy
Reta Bellamy, 92, of Camden Township, died Monday morning February 2, 2009, at her home. She was born May 19, 1916 in Wellington. She was a 1924 graduate of Camden High School. She worked at Mueller’s Packing House in Oberlin, Standard Drug Store in Oberlin, and also at her father’s general store in Kipton. She [...]
Joseph Kovach
Joseph "Pops" Kovach, Sr., 88, of Bucyrus, died Sunday, February 1, 2009 at the Hospice of North Central Ohio Inpatient facility in Ashland. Mr. Kovach was born September 3, 1920 in Cleveland to the late, Mike and Mary (nee Valko) Kovach. He served in the United States Army from 1939 to 1945. He was a [...]
James Querin
James Querin, 89, of Wellington, died at his home Monday, February 2, 2009 after a short illness. He was born in Spencer. James (Jim) Querin was a master carpenter and served his country in World War II, rising to the rank of infantry captain. Upon returning from World War II, Jim and his wife, Jan, [...]
Gregory A. Shannon
Gregory A. Shannon, 55, of Avon Lake and formerly of Defiance, Ohio, passed away Saturday, January 31, 2009 at St. John West Shore Hospital, Westlake, following a sudden illness. He was born January 2, 1954 in Defiance, where he was raised and graduated from high school as a two sport athlete (basketball and baseball). Greg [...]
Geoffry Daryll Meng, Sr.
Geoffry Daryll Meng, Sr., 47, of Friendship, Maryland, died unexpectedly Friday, January 16, 2009 at Calvert Memorial Hospital in Prince Frederick, Maryland. He was born December 8, 1961 in Annapolis, Maryland and was raised in Friendship, Maryland while his father was in the military. Geoff was a 1980 graduate of Marion L. Steele High School [...]
Clifford E. Livelsberger
Clifford E. Livelsberger, 86, of Elyria passed away Sunday February 1, 2009 at the Golden Acres Nursing Home, Amherst, Ohio. He was born in Canton on April 29, 1922. He retired from Elyria Memorial Hospital as a member of the emergency room staff where he touched many lives and also from Conrail Railroad System where [...]
Charles Vitelli
Charles "Pizza Man" Vitelli, 54, passed away Monday, February 2, 2009, at his residence in Lorain, after a lengthy illness. Chuck was born November 17, 1954 in Lorain, a son of John and Phyllis (nee Telloni) Vitelli. He was raised in Lorain and graduated from Admiral King High School in 1973 and was a graduate [...]
Punxsutawney Phil sees shadow; winter to continue
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — The world’s most famous groundhog saw his shadow Monday morning, predicting that this already long winter will last for six more weeks. Punxsutawney Phil emerged just after dawn in front of an estimated 13,000 witnesses, many dressed in black and gold to celebrate the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Super Bowl victory the night [...]
Volunteers hope to have family back in home by spring
GRAFTON TWP. — The Hamilton house is starting to look a bit more like home. After a home “rebuilding” party on Dec. 14, local contractors who agreed to donate their time and/or materials began meeting at the home on state Route 57 to study blueprints of the house, which was built at a discounted price [...]
Ohio governor warns of 2011 prison closing
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohioans will pay more to farm, drive, enjoy the outdoors, keep the environment clean and do business under Gov. Ted Strickland’s proposed budget released Monday. Strickland’s $55 billion spending plan for next year and 2011 increases 120 state fees to raise an estimated $236 million to keep the budget balanced. Some [...]