Archive for April, 2010
Twins 9, Indians 3: Carmona struggles in loss
CLEVELAND – For the first time this season, Fausto Carmona looked like the pitcher he was the past two years. That was bad news for him and the Indians, and great news for the Minnesota Twins. Carmona sputtered early and Cleveland’s offense followed suit. That was all the Central Division-leading Twins needed to take the [...]
Olmsted Falls’ Robby Parris gets shot with the Browns
Scott Petrak The Chronicle-Telegram BEREA – Robby Parris wasn’t invited to the scouting combine and didn’t get drafted, but he hasn’t given up on his NFL dream. He’s starting it five minutes from where he grew up. The Olmsted Falls resident is at Browns rookie minicamp on a tryout. He attended meetings Thursday night, practiced [...]
Carmona struggles in loss to Twins
CLEVELAND – For the first time this season, Fausto Carmona looked like the pitcher he was the past two years. That was bad news for him and the Indians, and great news for the Minnesota Twins. Carmona sputtered early and Cleveland’s offense followed suit. That was all the Central Division-leading Twins needed to take the [...]
LeBron to be honored as MVP on Sunday; Stern to present trophy Monday prior to Game 2
INDEPENDENCE – LeBron James, the 2009-10 NBA Most Valuable Player, will likely be in Shaquille O’Neal territory. Now one of James’ teammates, O’Neal earned the lone MVP award of his illustrious career with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2000, falling one vote shy of being a unanimous selection. That is the closest any player has [...]
Lorain County storm water plan a finalist for grant
A countywide storm water management proposal is one of 10 finalists for an EfficientGovNow award from The Fund for Our Economic Future, the agency announced today. Three winners will be determined by a public vote to be held from May 1 through May 31, with the fund reserving the option to award a fourth grant [...]
Invacare CEO taking temporary leave after stroke
ELYRIA — Mal Mixon, the chairman and CEO of home medical equipment company Invacare, will take a temporary medical leave after suffering a mild stroke, he said today. Mixon said his condition was stable, and doctors have told him he has a good chance at a full recovery. Invacare said President and Chief Operating Officer [...]
Princess profiles: Meet Puerto Rican princess Terra Soto
Name: Terra Marie Soto Age: 16 Nationality: Puerto Rican Sponsor: Sacred Heart Chapel Parents: Ricardo and Terri Soto High School: Lake Ridge Academy, class of 2011 Costume: “My costume is a customary Puerto Rican party dress used for special occasions. It’s a classic all white gown with three tiers of fabric. To emphasize the a-line [...]
Obituaries for April 30, 2010
Rebecca S. Dennis Catherine M. Kuebler Charles T. Wingard Russell Clark Nottingham Loretta Arline Bratton Read the full obituaries on The Chronicle E-edition at: http://www.chroniclet.com/ChroniclEdition/
High school baseball: Walks kill EC
ELYRIA — “Ball Four! Ball Four! Ball Four!” Those words were shouted over and over again — and then some more — by the umpire in the walk in the park that was Holy Name’s 11-5 North Coast League victory at Elyria Catholic on Thursday. Elyria Catholic’s three pitchers gave up 16 walks, and hit [...]
Forget ‘Elbowgate’; LeBron vows he’ll play Saturday
INDEPENDENCE — With “Elbowgate” in its third day, Cavaliers small forward LeBron James promised to be on the floor Saturday in Game 1 of an Eastern Conference semifinal series with the Boston Celtics. “I will be ready for Game 1 and I will be a productive player,” James said Thursday following a light practice at [...]
Union halts cheap labor for Route 57 landscaping
ELYRIA — The city Streets Department will add to its list of duties the upkeep of the landscaping on state Route 57 as soon as next month now that city officials have conceded it has to give up on the idea of using prison inmates to do the work. Members of the local chapter of [...]
Grafton Correctional names officer, employee of the year
GRAFTON — Two employees with a combined 16 years of experience are this year’s correction officer and employee of the year at the Grafton Correctional Institution. Frank Garcia Jr. is the corrections officer of the year and James Paul Hendrix is the employee of the year. Garcia, who will celebrate 10 years at the institution [...]
Daniel Kovarbasich is facing up to 10 years in prison
ELYRIA — A county judge Thursday found 16-year-old Daniel Kovarbasich guilty of voluntary manslaughter and aggravated assault in the Jan. 22 beating and stabbing death of Duane Hurley. Daniel, who was tried as an adult, could get up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced later this year. Had be been convicted of [...]
Cavs notes: Round 2 — Mo vs. Rondo
INDEPENDENCE — Life isn’t going to get any easier for Cavaliers point guard Mo Williams. Fresh off a series where he struggled to stay in front of Chicago’s explosive Derrick Rose, Williams will have to deal with the even quicker Rajon Rondo when Cleveland opens Eastern Conference semifinal action against the Boston Celtics on Saturday [...]
Coroner: Drowned man was higly intoxicated
ELYRIA — The 19-year-old Elyria Township man who drowned in a pond at an Elyria industrial park had a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit for driving, according to the county coroner. Lorain County Coroner Paul Matus said Jordan Ault had a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.226 percent. The legal limit of intoxication in [...]
Man assaulted and doused with gas flees
LORAIN — A man witnesses said was assaulted by a group of teens and doused with gasoline fled before police arrived Tuesday night. Lorain police were dispatched to Convenient Food Mart in the 2200 block of E. 42nd Street at 8:29 p.m. One witness reported seeing three teens attack the victim, a white male with [...]
Police log for April 30, 2010
Lorain police Monday, April 26 11:43 p.m. – 3700 block Canton Ave., rock thrown through kitchen window. Tuesday, April 27 1:29 a.m. – Lynette Russo, 18, of Lorain, charged with contributing to the unruliness/delinquency of a minor. Two minors in the car with Russo were charged with violating minor’s curfew. 8:45 a.m. – 2400 block [...]
Elyria Sports HOF: '92 West baseball team won state
Destiny is such an excessively used term when it comes to sports. Focus, chemistry and good fortune also overwork their way into the vocabulary of successful teams. But one can’t help throw in all those adjectives when it comes to Elyria West’s 1992 state championship baseball team — the only one in Lorain County history. [...]
Victim says hitchhiker who attacked him should be spared death
COLUMBUS — An Ohio man says the state should set aside the death sentence of a hitchhiker who attacked him in 1983 and later fatally shot another man. Bruce Graham tells the Ohio Patrol Board in a letter that he does not think one more life taken would solve anything. Graham was driving to Cincinnati [...]
Ohio Supreme Court rules on health care ballot issue
COLUMBUS — The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that a proposed amendment by groups seeking to exclude the state from President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul should appear as a single issue on the ballot. The decision today reverses a finding by the Ohio Ballot Board, which had split the issue proposed by the Ohio [...]
Hungarian community eager to share culture as spotlight nationality
The spotlight nationality for International Festival 2010 is Hungarian, and local Hungarians, who are being featured by the festival for the third time, are eager to share their culture. “We’ve lways been proud to share our food, our music and our culture,” according to Jill Murrell, chairwoman for the Hungarian Spotlight Committee. “We’re pretty well [...]
VIDEO: Guilty verdict, but not for murder, in Ridgeville teen’s trial
ELYRIA — Daniel Kovarbasich has been cleared of murder, but convicted of voluntary manslaughter and aggravated assault in the Jan 22. death of Duane Hurley. Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge handed down his verdict this afternoon after the defense and prosecution waived closing arguments. Daniel, 16, could face up to 10 years in [...]
Kovarbasich trial: Daniel describes killing Duane Hurley
ELYRIA — Daniel Kovarbasich testified this morning that he struck Duane Hurley once in the head with a pickle jar on Jan. 22 as Hurley lay face down in his bed because he didn’t want to have sex with the older man he said had been molesting him for months. Daniel, who took the stand [...]
‘Les in the Morning’ radio show ending in August
Les Szekely will end his popular “Les in the Morning” radio show on WEOL in August, he announced to coworkers in an e-mail yesterday. Szekely, of Bay Village, accepted a job as TV/Media teacher at Westlake High School. Szekely called the decision “one of the hardest decisions I have ever had to make in my [...]
Kovarbasich trial: Teen testifies about slaying, molestation
ELYRIA — Daniel Kovarbasich confessed to stabbing Duane Hurley moments after taking the stand this morning in his own defense during the fourth day of his murder trial. Daniel, 16, is accused of killing Duane Hurley by beating him with a pickle jar and stabbing him 55 times with a kitchen knife on Jan. 22. [...]