Archive for July, 2010
Midview grad Overy grabs victory in Canton
Jay Overy turned a two-stroke lead into a three-stroke win Tuesday at the Ohio Public Links Boys Junior State Golf Championship at Tam O’Shanter Golf Course in Canton. Overy, a Midview High graduate and Ashland University junior, led by two shots Monday after firing an opening 1-under 69 on the Hills Course, then wrapped up [...]
Z is Miami-bound
MIAMI — Zydrunas Ilgauskas is following LeBron James to the Miami Heat. The veteran center, who started playing for Cleveland in 1997 and has never suited up for another NBA team, expects to sign a two-year contract with the Heat later this week, agent Herb Rudoy said Tuesday. The two-year deal would come with a [...]
Oberlin water safe, boil alert lifted
OBERLIN — The city of Oberlin has determined that the city’s water is safe to drink and has lifted a boil alert for residents and businesses in the city that has been in effect since the weekend. Key customers, including nursing homes, the hospital, restaurants and Oberlin College were being notified. The boil alert was [...]
Caged dog survives after owner, friend take turns shooting him
TOLEDO — Two Ohio men have been charged with shooting a dog six times while he was locked in a cage. Witnesses told police in Toledo that the dog’s owner and another man took turns shooting the German shepherd while he howled. The dog, named Sarge, survived bullets to his head and chest. His owner [...]
Vermilion athletic director going to Bay
The athletic director and assistant principal at Vermilion Schools is leaving to take a similar post in Bay Village. According to an e-mail from Bay Schools, Matthew Spellman will be the district’s new athletic/activities director. The e-mail says he was hired at last night’s school board meeting. According to Bay, Spellman had been with Vermilion [...]
Man executed after saying he’s ‘heartily sorry’
LUCASVILLE — An Ohio man said he was “heartily sorry” before he was executed this morning for the murders of five children in a 1992 Cincinnati apartment fire he set in an attempt to destroy evidence of a burglary. William Garner, 37, died by lethal injection at 10:38 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. [...]
Thieves take thousands of dollars in electronics from home
ELYRIA — An Elyria couple returned from an overnight trip over the weekend to find their home ransacked and thousands of dollars in electronics taken, according to an police report. Police were called to the home, in the 400 block of Jefferson Street, Sunday afternoon. The victim, a 40-year-old woman, told police she and her [...]
BREAKING NEWS: George Steinbrenner dies at age 80
NEW YORK — George Steinbrenner, a former Lorain businessman who rebuilt the New York Yankees into a sports empire with a mix of bluster and big bucks that polarized fans all across America, died this morning. He had just celebrated his 80th birthday July 4. Steinbrenner had a heart attack, was taken to St. Joseph’s [...]
Auditor: Lorain $1.4 million in hole
LORAIN — The city got the mid-year report from the auditor’s office at Monday’s finance committee meeting. The news was not good. According to the report from Auditor Ronald Mantini, the general fund is more than $1.4 million in the red. Two factors combined to make this problem, Mantini said. The first is that revenue [...]
Crash leaves scared pet monkey atop pole
MEDINA — Police say a truck crash left animal carcasses all over an Ohio road and the truck driver’s pet monkey stranded atop a utility pole. The State Highway Patrol says the frightened monkey scampered up the pole after the truck, hauling carcasses for a meat processing plant, flipped over while going into a curve [...]
Senate candidate Rob Portman to have surgery today for biking injury
CINCINNATI — Republican Ohio U.S. Senate candidate Rob Portman has fractured his right collar bone while mountain biking and needs surgery. Campaign spokeswoman Jessica Towhey describes Tuesday’s scheduled surgery as minor and declines to say where it will be done. She acknowledges that the former congressman returned to his Cincinnati area home Monday from Jackson [...]
Obituaries for July 13, 2010
Shieliea M. Fields Maria M. Perez Reverend Thomas R. Smith Bernice D. Dent Justin Tyler Patrick Bardsley Ethan Timothy Turnick Richard H. Gow Shelia Marie Phelps James H. Carpenter Myron L. Brand Read the full obituaries on The Chronicle E-edition at: http://www.chroniclet.com/ChroniclEdition/
All-star game: NL ready to snap streak; Boston’s Ortiz HR king
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Ryan Howard is sick of all the talk about the American League’s dominance in the All-Star game. The Phillies slugger knows all too well it’s been 13 years of AL bragging rights. And, no, that wacky 7-7 tie in 2002 did little to boost NL morale in baseball’s Midsummer Classic. In this [...]
Commissioner says LeBron within rights; fines Gilbert $100,000
NBA commissioner David Stern doesn’t like the way LeBron James or Dan Gilbert have conducted themselves of late, but he only penalized one of them Monday. Stern fined the Cavaliers’ owner $100,000 for inflammatory statements he made about James in his “open letter.” Gilbert’s comments were posted on the team’s website exactly 90 minutes after [...]
Gilbert issues a terse reply to Jesse Jackson
CLEVELAND — Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert is always quick to speak his mind, especially when it involves his beloved NBA team. But he’s also too smart to be baited into a war of words with Rev. Jesse Jackson. Gilbert issued a one-paragraph response to Jackson on Monday afternoon, stating: “I strongly disagree with Rev. Jesse [...]
Paints 11, Ironmen 3: When it rains, it pours
LORAIN — On Sunday, the league-leading Chillicothe Paints used two huge innings to crush the host Ironmen. Monday, it was déjà vu all over again. Back-to-back four-run innings following an hour rain delay propelled the Paints to their second straight lopsided win at The Pipe Yard, defeating the Ironmen 11-3 in front of 132 water-logged [...]
Little League baseball juniors: West rallies past North
ELYRIA — The defense was tough when it mattered most. The Elyria West All-Stars found themselves behind 4-2 and 5-3 before rallying to defeat the Elyria North All-Stars 6-5 in a District 3 Juniors (ages 13-14) tournament game Monday night at North Park. The victory puts West on the verge of a state tournament berth. [...]
12 new Elyria firefighters sworn in
ELYRIA — When Christopher Smith was laid off from his firefighter’s job in Lorain in April, he spent a few weeks wondering what he would do. Luckily, that concern ended quickly. That’s because he learned Elyria was the recipient of a $3.7 million federal grant to increase staffing in the Fire Department by 23 firefighters, [...]
Alumni gather, reminisce as crews begin to demolish crumbling EHS
ELYRIA — With a crashing boom, the first part of old Elyria High School came crumbling down Monday morning. Dozens of people watched, many snapped photos and others reminisced about the old building as crews used a huge claw to tear away chunks of the boiler room. “I just had to come and take a [...]
Deal will let Sheffield Lake’s Shoreway Lanes reopen
SHEFFIELD LAKE — The city has reached a tentative settlement that could reopen the bowling alley at the city-owned Shoreway Shopping Center as early as Wednesday, city officials said Monday. But the deal — which could see the recently evicted North Coast Shoreway Lanes Inc. resume control of the bowling alley — still needs to [...]
Official: People on boat have cooperated in woman’s disappearance
CLEVELAND — A state official said Monday that people aboard the boat on which Emma Nahas was last seen before she went for a swim in Lake Erie last week have cooperated with investigators looking into her disappearance. “We did talk to quite a few people as part of our investigation, and we will continue [...]
Avon’s Joanne Collins just masterful at Lorain triathlon
LORAIN — Avon’s Joanne Collins had good vibes about Sunday’s 24th annual Lorain Summer Triathlon. The 51-year-old masters athlete translated those positive feelings into a positive performance as she defended her title at Lakeview Park. A 1977 graduate of Olmsted Falls, Collins posted a winning time of 1:12:20.4 for the event sponsored by North Coast [...]
Local news roundup for July 13, 2010
Part of South Abbe to close Wednesday ELYRIA — South Abbe Road between East Broad Street and Cornell Avenue will be closed for road improvements Wednesday. The road will be closed at 7 a.m. and won’t reopen until Friday between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. All local traffic will be maintained to the local businesses. [...]
Police log for July 13, 2010
Elyria police Saturday, July 10 10:24 a.m. — 100 block Pratt Blvd., thieves entered an unlocked door and stole a 25-inch TV and computer tower. 10:52 a.m. — 400 block Middle Ave., miter saw, silver necklace, hearing aid, GPS unit and 30 CDs stolen from vehicle. 3 p.m. — First block Kerstetter Way, wallet, four [...]
Man to be executed tomorrow for setting fire that killed 5 kids
COLUMBUS — A man who burglarized a Cincinnati home in 1992 then set it on fire, killing five children he knew were inside, has one court appeal remaining a day before his scheduled execution. William Garner was moved Monday to the prison in southern Ohio that houses the state’s execution chamber. The 37-year-old Garner awaits [...]