Archive for August, 2009
Local roundup for Aug. 11, 2009
License checkpoint Wednesday in Lorain LORAIN — The Lorain Police Department will be conducting a driver’s license checkpoint Wednesday. Police have not said what time or where the checkpoint will be, but it will stay within city limits. The checkpoint is intended to nab drivers who are either unlicensed or whose licenses are under suspension. [...]
Police log for Aug. 11, 2009
Lorain police Sunday, Aug. 9 6:42 p.m. – 500 block of Broadway, 2002 Chevy Impala stolen. 8:05 p.m. – 1000 block W. 14th St., a man reported he was threatened by the man to whom the victim had sold a car. He was being threatened because he’d been caught breaking into that vehicle in July [...]
Amherst police log: Aug. 11, 2009
Amherst police Monday, Aug. 3 8:55 p.m. – 704 North Leavitt Road. Calvin Parker charged with receiving stolen property, tampering with evidence, possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Parker was arrested after police verified through Cleveland police that a Ford Escape he was driving had been stolen in Cleveland. Tuesday, Aug. 4 7 p.m. – [...]
Amherst & Vermilion calendar: Aug. 11, 2009
Today Child immunization clinic, 4 to 6 p .m. at Firelands Elementary School, 10779 Vermilion Road, Henrietta Township. Immunizations offered for families with children ages birth to 18 years old. There is a fee for each immunization, but no one will be denied an immunization due to inability to pay. For information, call (440) 322-6367, [...]
Amherst & Vermilion notebook: Aug. 11, 2009
Duck Dash returns This weekend marks the return of a Vermilion tradition … the annual Duck Dash 500. This yearly summertime race features thousands of little yellow ducks all racing along the Vermilion River for cash prizes of $1,000 (1st place), $500 (2nd) and $250 (3rd). Spectators can watch the action from the Vermilion River [...]
Teen gets 30 to life for role in botched robbery
ELYRIA — Nineteen-year-old Justin Chapman was sentenced today to 30 years to life in prison for a botched robbery that left a friend dead and a small-time drug dealer with six bullets in his body. Chapman was 14 at the time he took part in an April 26, 2005 robbery with his cousin, Julian Smith [...]
Driver plows through Elyria Alltel store
ELYRIA — An elderly driver who apparently got her foot jammed on the accelerator plowed through an Alltel store in Elyria this morning. The accident was around 11:30 a.m. at the Alltel store at 1533 West River Road N., across from Midway Mall. The driver, who declined treatment, plowed her car, a red Ford Taurus, [...]
Woman taken to hospital after rollover accident on SR 2
BROWNHELM TWP. — A woman was taken to the hospital with minor injuries after she flipped her car in the median of state Route 2 this morning. The accident, around 9:30 a.m., happened just east of Baumhart Road. The woman, who was westbound in a construction zone, drove off the left side of the road [...]
Obituaries for Aug. 10, 2009
HELENE L. DESOUZA DAVID N. NULL KENNETH E. WISNIESKI ROBERT ROLLER RICHARD C. REIDEL RUTH M. BROSCHK CONSTANCE M. KLESTA VERNA L. TRENT CORA L. ARWOOD Read the full obituaries on The Chronicle E-edition at: http://www.chroniclet.com/ChroniclEdition/
ODOT weekly construction report: Aug. 10, 2009
State Route 2 between state Route 58 (Leavitt Road) and Baumhart Road is reduced to one lane of traffic in each direction from 6 p.m. each night until 5 a.m. the following morning for resurfacing. The project is expected to be completed by Sept. 15. The state Route 2 and Oak Point Road and the [...]
3 people shot overnight outside Lorain bar
LORAIN — Three people were treated and released from a Cleveland hospital after being shot last night near a Lorain bar. Police were called to Darmos Cafe on East 28th Street just before 11 p.m. Sunday. They found Brandi Basch, 23, of Lorain, several streets away from the bar bleeding and screaming in pain with [...]
Browns Family Day scrimmage: QBs have highs, lows
CLEVELAND — The first landmark in the quarterback competition arrived Sunday in the form of the Brown and White Scrimmage at Cleveland Browns Stadium. When the 14,314 fans left on a sunny, sticky afternoon, no clear-cut leader had emerged. The preseason starts Saturday night in Green Bay. The regular-season opener is Sept. 13 on the [...]
Browns notes: Wide receiver duo excelling
CLEVELAND — Joshua Cribbs and Lance Leggett are no longer afterthoughts in the competition at wide receiver. Both continued their strong starts to training camp with good performances Sunday in the scrimmage at Cleveland Browns Stadium, and are in the mix to get serious playing time come September. Leggett caught two passes for 62 yards, [...]
Firestone goes just like clockwork for Tiger
AKRON — The battle was everything Tiger Woods expected. The finish was nothing anyone imagined, except for Woods hoisting another World Golf Championship trophy at Firestone. Woods was in trouble in the trees on the famous par-5 16th hole, one shot behind Padraig Harrington, trying to figure out how he could squeeze out a victory [...]
Indians 8, White Sox 4: Hot Tribe makes Chisox wilt
CHICAGO — On a steamy day, Jamey Carroll and the Cleveland Indians rallied for a win by wearing down Jose Contreras during a long fifth inning. Carroll hit a go-ahead RBI double in the fifth and added a solo homer in the seventh, leading the Cleveland Indians to an 8-4 victory over the Chicago White [...]
High school football preview: Keystone Wildcats
LAGRANGE — A win in last year’s opener against perennial playoff qualifier Monroeville gave the Keystone Wildcats hope they could build on the success of 2007, when they went 8-2. Then a number of injuries to key players hit, sending the season into a downward spiral that culminated in a 3-7 record. But while the [...]
Little League softball: Two games, two romps
ELYRIA — Mercy, what power. What pitching. Elyria’s Little League Juniors have a loaded softball team. The Elyria girls posted their second consecutive mercy-rule victory Sunday afternoon at West Park. It moved them a step closer to their third Central Regional championship in four years and another trip to the Junior World Series in Kirkland, [...]
Police: Man swung bat at doors
LORAIN — A Lorain man was arrested for allegedly pounding on two apartment doors with a baseball bat while drunk early Saturday. A woman in a West Erie Avenue apartment told police she was sitting in her apartment when her 18-year-old son ran in, frantically shouting for her to shut and lock the door because [...]
Police: Driver had 4 times legal limit
LORAIN — A Lorain man had nearly four times the legal driving limit of alcohol in his system when he drove off the road and sheered a pole before rolling his sport-utility vehicle. A urine sample showed that Antoine Ross, 29, had a blood alcohol level of more than .300 when he crashed the 1999 [...]
Ex-girlfriend charged in Lorain attack
LORAIN — A Lorain man told police a knife was held against his neck by the friend of his ex-girlfriend Thursday night. The man called 911 about 12:16 a.m. Friday, about 30 minutes after the alleged attack occurred, and said his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child approached him with a male friend at Oakwood [...]
Man hits trees with parents’ minivan
AMHERST TWP. — An Amherst man was charged with DUI after the minivan he was driving struck several trees off Leavitt Road in Amherst Township early Saturday. Jason Peterson, 26, was northbound on Leavitt Road just north of Russia Road when he veered off the left side of the road, struck several trees and then [...]
Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda comes home
LORAIN — Lorain native and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Dirda is coming home to discuss his autobiography about growing up in Lorain as part of a program sponsored by county libraries to encourage reading. “An Open Book” details how reading and libraries shaped Dirda’s life. “I would spend the day riding all over, trying to [...]
Avon & Avon Lake notebook: Aug. 10, 2009
Get snacks at Veterans Park Ever have a hankering for a snack while at Veterans Park? Well for the rest of this month, ice cream novelties, pop, water and packaged snacks will be sold to beachgoers 6 p.m. to sunset weekdays to help support the restoration of the Folger Home, which is at the park [...]
Woman assaulted outside Lorain home
LORAIN — A Lorain man came home early Sunday to find his wife being assaulted outside their home, according to police. The man said he pulled into the driveway of his Oakdale Avenue home about 1:35 a.m. and heard his wife yell just outside their home. He looked up and saw a black male, wearing [...]
Avon & Avon Lake police log: Aug. 10, 2009
Avon police Thursday, July 23 11 a.m. — 36800 block Lakeland Drive, thieves nabbed jewelry totaling more than $1,400 during home burglary. 1 p.m. — 38400 block Renwood Lane, Kafi McClure, 35, same address, charged with domestic violence. 4:20 p.m. — Wal-Mart, Hector Escalera, 42, Cleveland, charged with theft of more than $500 in electronic [...]