Archive for July, 2010
Indians keep dealing veterans: Westbrook traded to Cardinals, Wood shipped to Yanks
CLEVELAND – The Indians have been out of contention since the 2007 season, but they’ve become quite efficient at trading off veteran players the past three years. A day after dealing outfielder Austin Kearns to the Yankees, two more veterans left the building Saturday, with Cleveland trading starting pitcher Jake Westbrook to the Cardinals and [...]
Updated: Browns rookie Joe Haden agrees to deal, with $26M guaranteed
BEREA — Rookie cornerback Joe Haden agreed to a five-year contract Saturday afternoon, agent Malik Shareef confirmed. Shareef said Haden hopes to have the deal signed in the next couple of hours, which would allow him to join the team for the evening practice. Haden missed a week of rookie sessions and the first full-squad [...]
Browns RB Montario Hardesty out, will miss weeks
BEREA — Rookie running back Montario Hardesty, a second-round pick expected to compete for a starting job, didn’t practice Saturday morning as the Browns opened training camp. He twisted his knee during rookie practices earlier in the week and will be re-evaluated in a couple of weeks. “He twisted his knee in a drill the [...]
Joe Haden absent at start of Browns camp
BEREA — Cornerback Joe Haden, the No. 7 overall pick, wasn’t on hand Saturday morning when the Browns began training camp. Haden is the team’s only rookie unsigned. Haden flew into Cleveland on Thursday, according to his Twitter account, so he could join practice soon after he signs. That could mean the second practice Saturday [...]
Browns training camp preview: Keep your eyes on these guys
he jerseys, helmets and numbers never change. The players inside switch almost every year. No. 17 now belongs to Jake Delhomme, not Brian Sipe or Braylon Edwards. Benjamin Watson, not Ozzie Newsome or Steve Heiden, is No. 82. Colt McCoy wears No. 12. President Mike Holmgren is the most prominent name within the organization, and [...]
Indians crushed by Blue Jays; Kearns traded to Yankees
TORONTO – Jose Bautista doesn’t want to get traded by Toronto. The way he’s hitting right now, his Blue Jays teammates are just as eager to keep him around. Bautista hit a grand slam, his major league-leading 31st home run, Fred Lewis added a solo shot and the Blue Jays beat the Cleveland Indians 8-1 [...]
Sore back lands Indians’ Talbot on DL
The Indians placed right-hander Mitch Talbot on the 15-day disabled list with a lower back strain Friday and optioned right-hander Jess Todd to Triple-A Columbus. Cleveland also recalled right-hander Jensen Lewis and purchased the contract of righty Justin Germano from Columbus. “We were looking for a guy who could give us minimum three innings today [...]
Taking flight: Crash took motocross away from local teen, but he’s back now with renewed focus and trip to nationals
As Todd Krieg flies 70 feet through the air on the homemade motocross track in his backyard in Amherst Twp., the 250cc engine on his bike lets out a roar. “Thank God we’ve got good neighbors,” his father, Todd J. Krieg, said. “How’d you like to listen to that all the time?” Putting up with [...]
Little League baseball: Hamilton Westside hammers North Canton to win Majors state title
ELYRIA – Ken Coomer said Wednesday, after his Hamilton Westside team beat North Canton, that he wanted his hitters to be more aggressive when they played for the Ohio Little League Majors state championship. Coomer got his wish. Hamilton’s bats came out roaring in a 13-0 victory over North Canton on Friday afternoon in the [...]
Cavaliers sign defensive-minded swingman Joey Graham
INDEPENDENCE – The Cavaliers now have had both Graham twins under contract. Cleveland signed swingman Joey Graham to a two-year, $2.1 million contract Friday, with the team holding the option for the second year of the deal. Graham, 28, is the twin brother of Stephen Graham, who played for the Cavaliers in 2005-06. Joey Graham [...]
Lorain defers workers’ pay
LORAIN – A plan designed to save the city $500,000 by deferring two weeks’ worth of salary for the city’s roughly 500 hourly employees is not sitting well with the city’s firefighters. “The city is not working with us on this,” John George, president of the city’s firefighters union, said Friday. “There was no dialogue [...]
Lorain officer suspended for contacting teen
LORAIN – An 18-year veteran of the Lorain Police Department faces a monthlong suspension for violation of department rules barring police officers from contacting for personal reasons people with whom they had previous dealings while on the job. Patrolman John Kovach, 43, will be suspended without pay starting Sunday and continuing through Sept. 1, according [...]
Multiple thieves target Lorain store
LORAIN – Police are looking for the public’s help in identifying three shoplifters who stole clothing and shoes within a few hours of each other from A.J. Wright earlier this week. In separate incidents, a man is seen on surveillance footage putting on a pair of shoes at the Meister Road department store and then [...]
Jury vindicates North Ridgeville’s ‘Chicken Man’
NORTH RIDGEVILLE – The “Chicken Man” is innocent. Richard Monaco was found innocent Thursday in Elyria Municipal Court of violating city statutes over chickens he raises just down the road from City Hall. The owner-operator of an antiques business on Avon Belden Road just south of City Hall, Monaco was acquitted by an eight-person jury [...]
Roundup: July 31, 2010
Woman shot after fight earlier in day LORAIN – A 23-year-old Lorain woman was shot in her lower back early Friday in what police believe was retaliation for a fight she had with another woman in Elyria earlier. A witness told police a red SUV had pulled up to the intersection of West 13th Street [...]
EMH opens new ACE unit for seniors
ELYRIA - Retired Keystone Schools’ teacher Carl J. Mandoke of Elyria couldn’t stop smiling Friday at an open house for the new Acute Care for the Elderly unit on the 11th floor of EMH Regional Medical Center. Not only is his daughter, Laura Piar, the nurse-manager in charge of the new unit, she helped decorate [...]
Lorain cops get legal adviser
LORAIN – The Lorain Police Department will now have a legal expert on staff following the decision to appoint assistant law director Linda Webber to serve as police legal adviser. Webber will have a desk at the Police Department and will continue working as a prosecutor, said Law Director Pat Riley. A memo from Riley [...]
Obituaries for July 31, 2010
Carl Potter Charles Michalec Earl Whitney Piper Evelyn Sasack-Vance Floyd Miller Gladys M. Seelig Jason Scott Justen Thomas Daniel Orseno, Sr. William Allen Barnhart Read the full obituaries on The Chronicle E-edition at: http://www.chroniclet.com/ChroniclEdition/
Photo gallery: Ride along with the CT for a shift with Elyria PD
On Thursday evening, Reporter Lisa Roberson spent nearly six hours riding alongside Patrolman Nick Eichenlaub for an up close and personal look at what his job is like from behind the wheel of a police cruiser. This narrative is told from those observations. Read Sunday’s Chronicle for more on the night as well as details [...]
Women say gunman robbed them in Lorain home
LORAIN — Police were called to a Lorain home yesterday morning after a man reportedly forced his way in and robbed the occupants at gunpoint, according to a police report. Two women who had been in the home, an 18-year-old and a 20-year-old, were on a neighbor’s porch when police arrived at the East 39th [...]
Rent-A-Center employee says man struck him with golf club
LORAIN — Officers were called to a Meadow Lane home yesterday after a Rent-A-Center employee said a man attacked him with a golf club when he tried to retrieve some property. According to a Lorain police report, Ward Farmer of Rent-A-Center went to 4604 Meadow Lane to retrieve items from a 39-year-old Lorain man who [...]
Teen with gun robs Elyria man of cell phone, iPod
ELYRIA — An Elyria man said he was robbed of his cell phone and iPod at gunpoint overnight, according to an Elyria police report. The 20-year-old man said he was walking on Oak Street about 11:30 p.m. when he was approached by a black male, about 14 years old and 5 feet tall, wearing a [...]
Lorain man arrested for pulling gun on Elyria teen, fleeing police
ELYRIA — A Lorain man was arrested early this morning for a variety of charges after he allegedly pulled a gun on someone and demanded money and then fled police, according to a report. Brandon Keith, 20, of Lorain, was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon, having weapons under disability, using weapons while intoxicated, tampering [...]
Man arrested after Midway Wal-Mart chase had just robbed Chestnut Commons store
ELYRIA — A Lakewood man arrested after leading Wal-Mart security and Elyria police on a chase Wednesday night, had already been successful in pulling off the same stunt at the Chestnut Commons Wal-Mart, according to an Elyria police report. Regis Ferron, 35, was charged with theft, possession of criminal tools, obstructing official business and resisting [...]
12-year-old Grafton boy hurt after go-cart, car crash
GRAFTON TWP. — A 12-year-old Grafton boy is in good condition after being LifeFlighted to a Cleveland hospital last night following a go-cart accident, according to a hospital spokeswoman. According to the State Highway Patrol, James Mulkey, 12, was pulling his go cart out of a field and attempting to go south on Neff Road [...]