Archive for June, 2010
Man charged with flashing motorists
EATON TOWNSHIP — An Eaton Estates man who exposed himself to motorists along state Route 82 last week turned himself in to sheriff’s deputies over the weekend. Ronald Rowe, 44, met with a Lorain County sheriff’s deputy at a Route 82 ice cream shop at 7:30 p.m. Saturday where he told the deputy he was [...]
Lorain police seek bank robber
LORAIN — Police have released pictures of the man accused robbing a Lorain National Bank branch on Saturday. Lorain police Detective Dennis Moskal said the robber, who made off with about $4,000, walked into the bank and handed a teller a note written in orange magic marker that said, “Robbery give me money.” The note [...]
Melendez, Hamilton spark Ironmen in 15-inning win
LORAIN — A couple of Lorain County residents ended Lorain County’s longest game of the season. Evan Melendez of Amherst and Ashland University singled home Nick Hamilton of Avon Lake and Kent State University in the 15th inning to lift the Lorain County Ironmen to a 3-2 victory over the DeKalb County Liners in Prospect [...]
Ohio tornado cleanup over, recovery starting, police chief says
MILLBURY — The police chief in an Ohio community hit hard by a deadly tornado this month says the cleanup is ending and the recovery is beginning. Lake Township Chief Mark Hummer lost his police offices in the tornado that killed six people near Toledo on June 5. Lake High School also was destroyed, along [...]
Browns restricted free agents sign
Scott Petrak The Chronicle-Telegram The Browns are full again. All five restricted free agents signed their second-round tenders Monday, beating the deadline set for today, a Browns spokesman confirmed. Linebackers D’Qwell Jackson and Matt Roth, safety Abram Elam, running back Jerome Harrison and fullback Lawrence Vickers were tendered by the Browns in March and had [...]
Police find loaded weapon tied to Lorain shooting last week
Lorain police now have a handgun suspected of being used in a June 7 shooting in Lorain that saw a man wounded twice by gunfire. The handgun, a black, .25-caliber automatic pistol, was found three days after the shooting, in a wooded area behind a Days Inn motel at 934 North Leavitt Road in Amherst, [...]
Ohio set to be latest state to ban free drinks at casinos
COLUMBUS — The quintessential Las Vegas or Atlantic City casino experience comes with card dealers in ties, feather-festooned showgirls and the most coveted amenity: the free drink. Yet as casino gambling has migrated to middle America, the complimentary cocktail hasn’t automatically survived the trip. Ohio approved casinos last year and soon will join four other [...]
State looks at advertising in rest stops
COLUMBUS — Looking to raise money, Ohio is considering selling ads inside highway rest stops. Transportation Department spokesman Scott Varner says the agency is looking into how much money the ads could generate and what kinds of companies would be interested in advertising. The state now uses free space at rest areas for public service [...]
Ohio tornado claims another victim; toll up to 6
TOLEDO — The death toll from a tornado that hit northern Ohio just over a week ago is now at six. A 37-year-old man whose wife and son were killed in the storm died on Sunday at a Toledo hospital. A spokeswoman for Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo says just one person remains [...]
Family hurt in crash locates missing puppy
OBERLIN — A Medina family of five injured in an accident over the weekend is doing OK. Their westbound vehicle went off Parsons Road and struck a drain pipe in a ditch, according to Trooper Allen Marcum of the Elyria post of the Ohio Highway Patrol. They were happy this afternoon to locate their dog, [...]
Ohio governor lands NRA endorsement in campaign
COLUMBUS — The National Rifle Association publicly endorsed Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday in his race against Republican John Kasich. Strickland accepted the endorsement at a Monday event at a sporting goods store in Proctorville, near the Ohio-West Virginia border, which the NRA publicized to its members over the weekend. The NRA’s Ohio representative, [...]
Slow progress pursuing unpaid Ohio election fines
COLUMBUS — The state’s progress collecting the unpaid fines of political candidates has been slow since Ohio launched a crackdown a year ago. The state has collected about $14,500 of an estimated $32 million owed when the Attorney General’s office and the Ohio Elections Commission announced an effort to recoup the fines. The total unpaid [...]
Obituaries for June 14, 2010
Yvonne Sue Scarbrough Ruth Marie Normando Christopher J. Payne Marilyn Joan Hogue Mildred C. Hentges-Urias Mary C. Patek Ruth June Kay Cassell Read the full obituaries on The Chronicle E-edition at: http://www.chroniclet.com/ChroniclEdition/
No answer yet: Izzo texts that he is ‘still gathering’ information
INDEPENDENCE — Does he stay in a great situation and risk having regrets later in life? Or does he make the move and run the risk of later wishing he’d never left a great situation? Does he stay in college and tolerate the recruiting process? Or does he jump to the NBA and begin to [...]
Gas up 3 cents from last week
COLUMBUS — Ohio gasoline prices have risen 3 cents higher from last week, following several weeks of falling prices. According to a survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express, Ohio’s current average price for regular-grade gasoline is $2.65 per gallon, up from $2.62 last Monday. Oil prices rose above [...]
Ohio State president plans summer trip to China
COLUMBUS — The president of Ohio State University, the country’s second-biggest university, is leading a trip to China later this month. University President Gordon Gee will travel with Ohio State officials to four Chinese cities from June 25 to July 7 as part of the university’s outreach efforts. The university is expanding its international reach [...]
Crushers 5, Grizzlies 1: Win feels twice as nice
AVON — Officially it was “Country” night at All-Pro Freight Stadium on Sunday, but the Crushers had their own theme. Call it Double Your Pleasure Night. That’s definitely what the Crushers did in handing the Gateway Grizzlies a 5-1 loss in Frontier League play. Lake Erie had four doubles, turned a pair of double plays [...]
Believe it, he’s good: Tribe faces Strasburg and falls
CLEVELAND — Stephen Strasburg wasn’t as dominant as he was in his major league debut, but the Nationals’ right-handed phenom was still plenty good enough to beat the Indians in his second career start. Despite control issues that saw him walk five batters, Strasburg was still effective, helping Washington past Cleveland, 9-4, in front of [...]
Losing streak over for Lorain Ironmen
LORAIN — It’s been a little bit of a learning curve for the Lorain County Ironmen at the start of the Prospect League season. The players have been adjusting to the grind of playing baseball every day after a college season of two to three game a week. As a result, the Ironmen began Sunday [...]
Strasburg impressing everyone but himself
Nearly 33,000 people showed up at Progressive Field on Sunday, and it wasn’t because it was a sunny afternoon or because the Cleveland Indians were giving away their newest bobblehead doll. The second-largest crowd of the season was there to watch Nationals rookie Stephen Strasburg pitch and the 21-year-old right-hander didn’t disappoint. His fastball was [...]
County readies new recycling center in Elyria
ELYRIA — The county’s new recycling collection center will open for business Saturday. The sprawling center, which will take up about 44,000 square feet, is located in the former Elyria Flea Market just north of East Broad Street and South Abbe Road, which was donated to the Lorain County Port Authority after the building’s roof [...]
Soul to Sole 5K: Olmsted Falls grad Bement sets course mark
AMHERST — As they typically do, local runners Rick Bement and Laura Fenik brought their “A” games to Sunday’s third annual Sprint or Stroll for Soul to Sole 5K. A 1999 Olmsted Falls graduate, the 30-year-old Bement ran a course-record 15:54.4 to outrun the field of 220 athletes. Two-time defending champ Ray Armstrong Jr., a [...]
Oscar-nominated actor starring in film being shot in Lorain County
ELYRIA — An Oscar-nominated actor is in town shooting a movie. Michael Shannon, who was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role as troubled neighbor John Givings in the 2008 Kate Winslet-Leonardo DiCaprio film “Revolutionary Road,” is starring in an untitled film by writer-director Jeff Nichols that will be filmed [...]
Man allegedly swung ax at 4-year-old’s birthday party
ELYRIA — Bringing an ax to a 4-year-old’s birthday party is not something Miss Manners would approve of. And neither do police. Brian Andrews, 31, was charged with felonious assault, resisting arrest, carrying a concealed weapon and four counts of aggravated menacing after Saturday’s incident in the 200 block of Brunswick Drive, according to a [...]
LNB Lorain bank branch robbed
LORAIN — A Lorain National Bank branch was robbed of $4,000 Saturday morning. According to a Lorain police report, the suspect — a black male about 6 feet tall and 250 pounds, wearing black jeans, a long-sleeved white T-shirt, a black baseball hat, a half mask covering his face below his eyes and clear plastic [...]