Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for July 3rd, 2009
Cavaliers: Shaq makes good first impression, wants to get LeBron a title
INDEPENDENCE — Shaquille O’Neal wasted no time making his 7-foot-1,
325-pound presence felt.
Clad in a black suit, pink dress shirt and bright pink tie, the 37-year-old center was both serious and funny in his first news conference since being acquired by the Cavaliers.
“My motto is very simple: Win a ring for ‘The King,’” O’Neal said Thursday [...]
H.S. Softball: Sito named All-American; Pioneers ranked 29th in nation
Tess Sito, who pitched and batted Elyria to the Division I softball state championship June 6, has been selected a first-team All-American by ESPN RISE Magazine and EA Sports, Inc.
In addition, the magazine and sports videogame maker ranked the Pioneers 29th in their final nationwide poll.
Of the 28 teams ranked ahead of Elyria, 27 are [...]
Indians: More options, but little success in outfield
CLEVELAND — There are few things Eric Wedge could have predicted about this disappointing season, but the Indians manager did see into the future during his club’s spring training debut in Goodyear, Ariz., when he had a handful of career infielders try their luck in the outfield.
Wedge played Ryan Garko, Jamey Carroll and Josh Barfield [...]
Wimbledon: Serena, Venus set for Sister Act IV
WIMBLEDON, England — Richard Williams refuses to watch his daughters Venus and Serena play each other. Says he simply can’t bear to see it, no matter the setting, no matter the stage.
So once again, the patriarch of the greatest sister act in tennis history is heading home to the United States before the Wimbledon final. [...]
Browns: Judge refuses to release video of Stallworth accident
MIAMI — A judge refused Thursday to release surveillance video depicting the moment a car driven by Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth struck and killed a pedestrian in a drunk-driving crash.
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Dennis Murphy said the privacy interests of the family of victim Mario Reyes outweighed the public’s right to view the video. [...]
Deal saves Lorain police jobs
LORAIN — Eleven police officers who were facing layoffs had their jobs saved Thursday when the city and the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3 reached an agreement to pay their salaries and benefits with money generated by the police levy rather than from the general fund, Safety Director Phil Dore said.
In 1995, the FOP [...]
Smith, Allen off sex offender registry
ELYRIA — Nancy Smith and Joseph Allen will soon be off the list of registered sex offenders.
Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge last month acquitted the pair of charges they molested 4- and 5-year-old children on Smith’s Head Start bus route in the early 1990s. And on Thursday he issued an order to remove [...]
Fourth of July fireworks listings
It’s a grand old flag.
And a pretty grand country, too, as attested to by the number of Fourth of July celebrations going on around the county this holiday weekend. While the city of Elyria won’t be having its annual fireworks show, you can see the nighttime sky lit up elsewhere. Here’s a look:
Friday, July 3
North [...]
Transit cuts less painful, but $330,000 still must be cut
ELYRIA — This year’s unexpected one-time cash infusion into Lorain County Transit isn’t going to stave off cuts like the extra funds the county managed to obtain last year.
County commissioners, who say they need to deal with an $880,000 shortfall in LCT’s budget, have already made some cuts and will make more next Thursday.
But a [...]
Crash sends bicyclist to the hospital
ELYRIA — An Elyria bicyclist was in fair condition after being hit Thursday morning by a truck at Second Street and West Avenue.
Samer Fontanez, 25, was riding a Roadmaster bicycle west on Second Street and may have run a red light just before he was hit at 9:57 a.m. by a Conrad’s Tire Service truck, [...]