Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for October 6th, 2009
Corrections for Oct. 6, 2009
Courtroom View Network will cover the trial in the Manna Storehouse lawsuit set to begin Thursday. The network was listed incorrectly in a story Saturday.
Antonio Theodoropoulos lives in the 6100 block of Orchard Hill, Lorain. His address was incorrect in a blotter item Monday.
Demjanjuk trial to begin Nov. 30
MUNICH — A lawyer for John Demjanjuk says his client’s trial on charges of being an accessory to the murder of thousands at a Nazi death camp will begin Nov. 30.
Demjanjuk lawyer Guenther Maull said today the Munich state court has set aside 35 trial days through to early May 2010.
The 89-year-old former Ohio auto [...]
Everything on the table as Ohio reviews lethal injection
COLUMBUS — Ohio is considering using lethal injections into inmates’ bone marrow or muscles as possible alternatives or back-up measures to the traditional intravenous execution procedure.
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction spokeswoman Julie Walburn said today that everything is on the table as officials research ways to adjust the state’s method.
Romell Broom’s execution was suspended [...]
Best paprikash in Cleveland is homemade in Lorain County
AMHERST — Debbie Dixon always was hearing that her chicken paprikash was too good to be kept at home.
Dixon has been selling her homemade recipe for a few years at Your Deli in downtown Amherst, the business Dixon and her family have owned and operated for 20 years.
A week ago, the 47-year-old South Amherst native [...]
Obituaries for Oct. 6, 2009
Wanda D. Keffer
Philip E. Delp
Helen B. Nickeson
Candise S. Sooy
Walter Lawrence Winchel
Annie Laurie Barfield
Read the full obituaries on The Chronicle E-edition at:
http://www.chroniclet.com/ChroniclEdition/
Rash of cat killings worries Wakeman
WAKEMAN — An estimated 20 cats have been poisoned with antifreeze in the past several weeks in this Huron County village and a cat was found Monday shot through the head with an arrow, according to Wakeman Police Chief Tim Hunker.
“It’s become open season on cats,” Hunker said.
The latest victim was a cat shot in [...]
County judge seals murder suspect’s letters
ELYRIA — Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Mark Betleski won’t be reading any of murder suspect Neil Simpson’s correspondence any time soon.
The judge agreed with prosecutors and Simpson’s lawyers Monday to begin sealing the letters and motions that Simpson has been sending to him without reading them.
The decision came the same day another missive had [...]
Strickland delays 2 executions to review injection procedures
COLUMBUS — Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday delayed the state’s next two executions to allow a full review of lethal injection procedures, the latest in a series of unprecedented capital punishment developments in Ohio.
Strickland ordered the reprieves for condemned inmates Lawrence Reynolds, scheduled to be executed Thursday, and Elyria killer Darryl Durr, scheduled to die [...]
The Chronicle needs king and queen photos
ELYRIA — The Chronicle-Telegram will publish all of the area schools’ homecoming pictures together when the celebrations are concluded.
We first tried that approach last year, and it worked well because it allowed all of the photographs to be not only together, but in color, too.
We have been contacting schools to collect the photographs, but if [...]
Browns respond to Mangini ‘Light,’ but did Braylon blow it?
BEREA — Coach Eric Mangini went against his taskmaster nature last week and tried a softer touch with his players. He moved practice inside to get out of the rain Wednesday and went without pads Thursday.
The players appreciated the gesture and responded with an improved performance Sunday in a 23-20 overtime loss to the Bengals.
“He [...]