Archive for April, 2010
Lorain Schools to cut 167 jobs
LORAIN — The collective bargaining units for Lorain City Schools employees were sent notices Tuesday that up to 167 positions in the district are up for elimination. Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson said Tuesday that not all of those eliminations will be layoffs, but many positions may end up being eliminated through retirement and attrition. Any employee [...]
Kennedy packs up, takes poker dream to Wakeman, says Lorain drove him out
Mike Kennedy won’t reopen his private club on West Fourth Street in Lorain. Instead, Kennedy’s Players Club will open today at 5 p.m. at 10 E. Main St. in Wakeman, Kennedy said. Kennedy said he and co-owner Stan Moon simply got tired of fighting with the city over whether they could legally operate the club, [...]
Nurse convicted of assault on staff, but not working at EMH
ELYRIA — An Elyria nurse convicted of misdemeanor assault of a 63-year-old woman last year at a western Cuyahoga County hospital is on the staff of EMH Regional Medical Center but is not treating patients pending the outcome of an appeal of that conviction. “She has not been working with patients since we were first [...]
Elyria looks at how to keep safety forces long term
ELYRIA — The head of the City Council Safety Committee wants City Council to form another committee pegged with the responsibility of developing ways to find adequate long-term funding for the safety forces. Council’s Safety Committee is a five-member group made up of Council members, but the proposed new subcommittee will be a Blue Ribbon [...]
Man says armed robbers looted home
ELYRIA — A Cambridge Avenue man told police he was robbed at gunpoint late Monday night by two Hispanic men. Reports said the 23-year-old victim told police he was called about 10 p.m. Monday by a Hispanic man who said he was on he way over to the victim’s house to discuss a trade of [...]
Police search Ridgeville homicide victim’s computer
ELYRIA — Police and prosecutors are reviewing thousands of computer files taken from computers and other electronic devices looking for evidence that Duane Hurley may have molested Daniel Kovarbasich, the 16-year-old North Ridgeville boy accused of killing him Jan. 22. According to a Jan. 26 search warrant unsealed Tuesday that dealt with the electronics, Daniel’s [...]
Have you seen it? Red fox roaming downtown Lorain
A red fox that’s been spotted multiple times around the downtown and near west side of Lorain recently is probably just passing through and not a cause for concern, according to Jannah Tucker, a naturalist at the French Creek Nature Center. But it is a sight to see, according to Jim Balog, custodian at Irving [...]
Man set to die in Elyria girl’s death files suit for DNA testing
COLUMBUS — The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio has filed a federal lawsuit that seeks to delay next week’s execution of a death row inmate who wants DNA testing. Darryl Durr is scheduled to die April 20 for raping and strangling a 16-year-old Elyria girl in 1988. The ACLU says a Cuyahoga County court [...]
Mike Kennedy gives up on Lorain, takes poker efforts to Wakeman
LORAIN — Mike Kennedy has folded. The Lorain businessman said he is giving up his fight to keep Kennedy’s Player’s Club, where he hosted poker, pool and other games for members, in the city of Lorain. Instead, he said, he will reopen the club at 5 p.m. Wednesday at 10 E. Main Street in Wakeman. [...]
Power back on in Sheffield and Sheffield Lake
Power has been restored in Sheffield and Sheffield Lake after problems at a substation in Lorain left some areas of the cities without power for a little under two hours this morning. In all 2,178 homes and business were affected, according to a FirstEnergy spokesman. Of those, 794 customers had their power back on by [...]
Lorain considers turning vacant lots into neighborhood gardens
LORAIN — The city is considering turning vacant lots left behind after other blighted properties are demolished into neighborhood gardens. Mayor Tony Krasienko told Councilman Greg Holcomb, D-6th Ward, during a Federal Programs Committee meeting Monday night that the administration has already considered neighborhood gardens after seeing what other cities are doing. The city has [...]
3 workers injured when cement truck boom collapses near statehouse
COLUMBUS — Authorities say three workers were hurt when a cement pumper truck’s 188-foot boom collapsed at a construction site near the Ohio Statehouse. Columbus fire department Battalion Chief David Whiting says the injuries were not life-threatening. He says one man was trapped briefly and suffered a broken leg, while the other two were taken [...]
Senate candidates squaring off today in debate
CLEVELAND — The leading Democratic candidates in Ohio’s May 4 U.S. Senate primary are meeting face-to-face in a campaign debate at the City Club of Cleveland. The debate this afternoon features Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher and Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, the state’s top elections official. It was moved to a hotel ballroom to [...]
Demjanjuk statement read to court; calls self victim of Hitler
MUNICH — John Demjanjuk says in his first statement to a German court that he is himself one of Hitler’s victims. Demjanjuk on Tuesday blamed Germany for starting the war that left him unable to return to his native Ukraine. He says as a Soviet prisoner of the Nazis he was used for slave labor [...]
Obituaries for April 13, 2010
Congetta Rose Falasca Edward G. Flegel Esther Gale Towner George (Juray) M. Dilik Harry W. Davis Henry Kazimierz Blaz Joseph J. Kortan Melvin L. Cody, Sr. Patricia Boylan Ronan Read the full obituaries on The Chronicle E-edition at: http://www.chroniclet.com/ChroniclEdition/
Choo lone offensive bright spot for Indians
CLEVELAND — The Indians heard plenty of “boos” at their home opener Monday afternoon, but there also were quite a few fans chanting “Choo.” Right fielder Shin-Soo Choo — the object of the sellout crowd’s affection — was the lone offensive bright spot for Cleveland as it lost 4-2 to the Texas Rangers in 10 [...]
Great start, bad ending as Tribe drops opener in extra innings
CLEVELAND — A day that started with such promise — the sun never left Progressive Field, a giant American flag stretched across the outfield before the game, balloons floated into the blue sky — ended in heartbreak. The Indians lost their home opener 4-2 to the Texas Rangers in 10 innings Monday in front of [...]
Indians fans already frustrated by another ugly start to season
CLEVELAND — It didn’t rain Monday. Or snow. That used to qualify as a success for the Tribe home opener. It no longer satisfies a fan base that started the season restless. Need proof? The opener didn’t sell out until last week, and although the crowd was announced as 42,061, plenty of seats in the [...]
Rangers 4, Indians 2: Losing streak at four
CLEVELAND — There were plenty of fond memories from Monday’s home opener, but in the end, it was a day to forget for the Indians and the sellout crowd at Progressive Field. Fausto Carmona offered up another positive performance, and rising star Shin-Soo Choo enjoyed a highlight-filled game, but Cleveland still lost, dropping a 4-2 [...]
High school baseball: One inning carries Clearview
LORAIN — Lutheran West threatened to score in just about every inning. Clearview did that in only one inning, but the Clippers made good on that threat and scored all their runs in the fifth inning in a 5-3 victory over the Longhorns in a Patriot Athletic Conference Stripes Division game Monday. “They did and [...]
Shaq OK to play, possibly in finale
INDEPENDENCE — It was cute, funny and lighthearted, but in an exaggerated way it also symbolically represented exactly what the Cavaliers are trying to avoid. Backup forwards Leon Powe and Jamario Moon and trainers Max Benton and Mike Mancias wrapped LeBron James in a huge black tarp — it almost looked like the 25-year-old superstar [...]
Lorain OKs stalking settlement
LORAIN — City Council approved a settlement Monday night with a woman who accused a city police officer of stalking her in 2001 and 2002 — something Mayor Tony Krasienko called a “business decision.” Sarah Long will receive $175,000 under the agreement reached in January and approved in a 9-1 vote. Councilman Bret Schuster, D-4th [...]
More testing needed on leg, coroner says
ELYRIA TWP. — Additional DNA testing is needed before investigators can determine whether the severed limb found near an abandoned railroad trestle on March 29 belonged to a missing Lorain woman. Lorain County Coroner Paul Matus said the Cuyahoga County Coroner’s Office, which had hoped to complete its analysis by Monday, needed until today to [...]
BASF to cut 20 jobs in Elyria
ELYRIA — BASF is announcing plans to cut about 20 jobs by 2011 as the global corporation moves to streamline operations. The affected employees work in the company’s complex inorganic color pigments division at the Pine Street facility and are being eliminated because the company plans to move the division to Besigheim, Germany. However, the [...]
Two Elyria homes shot with BB gun
ELYRIA — Two homes in the 900 block of Bennett Drive were shot with what appears to be a BB gun Sunday afternoon. Police were called to 932 Bennett Drive at 12:46 p.m. when a woman reported her rear sliding patio door was shattered while she was at church, according to police reports. Officers were [...]