Archive for November, 2009
Browns’ Shaun Rogers placed on injured reserve, needs surgery, Mangini says
BEREA — Things can get worse for the 1-10 Browns. Nose tackle Shaun Rogers is headed to injured reserve with a lower leg injury that will require surgery, coach Eric Mangini announced this afternoon. Mangini didn’t give the specific injury. Rogers, who went to the Pro Bowl last season, was engaged with a Bengals lineman [...]
Woods withdraws from tourney
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Tiger Woods withdrew Monday from his own golf tournament, citing injuries from a car crash near his Florida home. He said he would not compete again until next year. Woods said in a statement on his Web site that his injuries prevented him from playing in the Chevron World Challenge. He [...]
A goodbye to Lorain High at ‘wake’ for former school
About 40 people gathered on Washington Avenue on Friday night to tell their stories and say goodbye to Lorain High School, currently under demolition, in what they were calling a “wake” for their old high school. Attendees brought candles, walked around the school site and sang the Lorain High alma mater. Purchase a print.
Lorain Countians get outside over warm weekend
Temperatures were unseasonably warm yesterday (temperatures in Elyria got up to 60 degrees, according to Weather.com), and people around the county took advantage of the opportunity to get outside. In Avon Lake, Bill Green of Avon took a stroll along the boardwalk at Avon Lake Village Park while Erin and Lauren Bruss walked Bazley the [...]
Seattle police-slaying suspect not in home police had surrounded
SEATTLE — The suspect in the slaying of four police officers gunned down in a coffee shop was not found this morning in the Seattle home where he was thought to have been holed up overnight, likely wounded from his bloody encounter with the officers. Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said the location of [...]
Ohio’s deer-gun hunting season opens season opens
COLUMBUS — Ohio wildlife officials expect hunters using guns will bag as many as 125,000 deer during this year’s hunting season. It opened just before dawn today and continues through Sunday, then picks up again later in the month with a weekend hunt Dec. 19-20. The state Division of Wildlife estimated a pre-season population of [...]
Indians say they ‘fully support Grady’ over racy photos
CLEVELAND — Indians center fielder Grady Sizemore has contacted investigators from Major League Baseball to stop publication of steamy photographs that he says were stolen from his girlfriend’s e-mail account and then posted online. Sizemore took the photos, which first appeared Sunday on a Web site, with a cell phone standing in front of a [...]
Obituaries for Nov. 30, 2009
Charles D. Hamrick Stella Jane Nieding Kiersten Elise Sump Ada V. Brennan Sherman Cox Sylvester Cooper Cleo W. Phillips Ruby A. Hicks Read the full obituaries on The Chronicle E-edition at: http://www.chroniclet.com/ChroniclEdition/
Bengals 16, Browns 7: Beaten and bruised
CINCINNATI — Carson Palmer completed just 13 passes for a pedestrian 110 yards. Don’t try selling that as a silver lining to Browns linebacker David Bowens. “They didn’t pass the ball,” he said. “They came out and ran the ball 75 times.” Bowens was exaggerating, but he got his point across. The Bengals ran the [...]
Quinn, offense struggle in another lackluster loss
CINCINNATI — At least the Browns lead the league in something: untimed downs. Of course, they also lead in points allowed in those untimed downs. So don’t get carried away. A routine 16-7 loss to the AFC North-leading Cincinnati Bengals featured a subplot interesting to impartial observers but infuriating to Browns coach Eric Mangini. For [...]
Browns notes: Cribbs shut out
CINCINNATI — Joshua Cribbs has resorted to begging. The Pro Bowl kick returner was a non-factor in the return game again Sunday in the 16-7 loss to Cincinnati. He’s averaged fewer than 23 yards on kickoff returns for four straight games and hasn’t had a return touchdown in five weeks. Teams aren’t kicking him the [...]
First day of John Demjanjuk’s trial wraps up in Germany
MUNICH — A German court put John Demjanjuk on trial today to face charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at a Nazi death camp, and his lawyer immediately accused the court of bias. The 89-year-old retired Ohio autoworker arrived at the opening of the trial in a wheelchair to face [...]
Photo gallery: Tiger Woods speaks out, calls crash ‘private matter’
WINDERMERE, Fla. — Despite presenting his side of the car-crash story and asking that it remain “a private matter,” Tiger Woods may still not be in the clear. Troopers arriving at his Isleworth home requesting an interview were turned down for a third straight day, but the Florida Highway Patrol said it will continue to [...]
EC in title game at Normandy hockey tourney
Elyria Catholic advanced to the championship game of the Normandy tournament on Sunday, winning games against Massillon Jackson, 6-5, and Normandy, 8-2. The Panthers (2-1-1) will face North Olmsted in the title game tonight at 8:30 in Normandy. EC opened the tourney with a 3-all tie against Brecksville on Saturday. The Panthers rallied from a [...]
Amherst pair compete in Footlocker cross country event
Junior Miles Pittak and sophomore Adrien Hall of Amherst Steele competed at the 27th annual Foot Locker Midwest Regional Cross Country Championships on Saturday in Kenosha, Wisc. Pittak finished 180th in 17:44 in the seeded race. Hall ran in the freshmen-sophomore race and was 65th in 18:22. Sophomore Lukas Verzbicas of Illinois won the seeded [...]
15 minutes: Get to know musician and businessowner Kevin Jones
Kevin Jones Age: 50 Lives: Oberlin Occupation: Owner of The Woodshed Lesson Studio 15½ W. College St., Oberlin How long have you been the proprietor of the Woodshed? I will have been here four years on April Fool’s Day. Why should someone take music lessons? You hear something you like and you want to be [...]
Avon brother and sister perform with Cleveland’s Singing Angels
AVON — An Avon brother and sister will be making the holidays merry for many with their gift of music. Carina Chavez, 15, and her brother, Ramon, are part of the Cleveland-based Singing Angels. Carina will be part of the group performing at 3 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Palace Theatre in Lorain. She’ll be [...]
Vermilion man charged after bar fight in Lorain
LORAIN — A Vermilion man is facing several charges after an incident outside Gil’s International Lounge in Lorain early Saturday morning. Lowell Holbrook, 62, was charged with assault, resisting arrest, intimidation of a public servant, obstructing official business, aggravated menacing, disorderly conduct persisting, disorderly conduct by intoxication and ethnic intimidation. According to the report from [...]
Police log for Nov. 30, 2009
County sheriff Friday, Nov. 6 11:02 a.m. – 42500 block Adelbert St., Elyria Township, three air conditioning units worth $9,000 stolen from Community of Christ church. Wednesday, Nov. 11 1:00 p.m. – 38100 W. Capel Road, Eaton Township, car damaged in parking lot at Midview High School. Thursday, Nov. 19 11:17 a.m. – 780 block [...]
The Dash Between: Craig Behrend put family first, working hard a close second
When Craig Behrend was a student at Avon Lake High School, he foresaw what he believed would be his ideal life. “My future will be pretty good, if it goes as planned,” the teenager prophesied in his autobiography. “I plan to graduate from Ohio Tech, purchase my own house with a big garage and have [...]
Girls basketball: Elyria does it again, downs Admiral King for 11th Lorain County Holiday Classic title in 11 tries
LORAIN – With a young team and an offense that’s a work in progress, Elyria needed solid defense and strong rebounding to win its 11th straight Lorain County Holiday Classic. The Pioneers got both. They forced 25 turnovers and destroyed Admiral King on the backboards Saturday night in rolling to a 45-26 victory in the [...]
An all-around good night as Cavaliers blast Mavericks
CLEVELAND – About the only person who didn’t have a great night was the guy who had been on the floor in a Cavaliers uniform 723 times before. With an extremely rare “did not play-coach’s decision” in the final box score, Zydrunas Ilgauskas did not break the franchise record for games played, but the Cavaliers [...]
Tough enough? Browns know these Bengals built to slug it out
CINCINNATI – The Cincinnati Bengals are second in the NFL in rushing defense, allowing 84.3 yards a game. They have held their opponent under 100 yards a team-record six straight games. Gone is the soft defense that could be pushed around by the big boys in Pittsburgh and Baltimore. The Cincinnati Bengals are ninth in [...]
Tiger accident still a mystery: Woods, wife again delay talk with troopers
WINDERMERE, Fla. – The mystery over Tiger Woods’ car crash intensified Saturday when his agent called state troopers on their way to Woods’ house and asked them to wait another day before speaking to him. It was the second straight day Woods was unavailable to talk. His wife told troopers on Friday afternoon, after the [...]
Girls basketball: Elyria Catholic bounces back, beats Keystone in holiday classic consolation game
LORAIN – Friday night’s loss to Elyria in the opening round of the Lorain County Holiday Classic wasn’t just hard for Elyria Catholic to digest because it was a loss. It also hurt because the team had spent the previous six months gearing up for and preparing to play their crosstown rivals for the first [...]