Archive for March, 2011
Man charged with raping girl
LORAIN — A Leavitt Road man has been arrested after allegedly molesting a young girl. Mark Ward Jr., 32, has been charged with raping a victim younger than 13 years of age, according to police. He is in the city jail. The girl’s mother went to the police station about 2:56 a.m. Friday and said [...]
BLOTTER: March 19, 2011
Elyria police Wednesday, March 16 6:56 p.m. — 700 block East River St., Nintendo Wii stolen during apparent home burglary. Thursday, March 17 8:47 a.m. — Dr. Hersberger offices, 319 Washington Ave., thieves broke into the offices through a window and stole a computer as well as at least $22,000 in dental pliers and orthodontic [...]
Bright moon, clear night, big event
County viewers should have good view of ‘Supermoon’
Girls basketball: Elyria Catholic doomed by 2nd half in state semifinal loss
COLUMBUS – Fate played a cruel trick on Elyria Catholic and its basketball fans Friday afternoon. Cynically, it allowed the Panthers a 16-point lead on Oak Hill, the state’s top-ranked, undefeated basketball team, late in the first half of their state semifinal in Value City Arena. It was the largest deficit the Division III front-runners [...]
Girls basketball: Elyria Catholic walks away frustrated by loss
COLUMBUS – There was plenty of talk that Elyria Catholic would be satisfied to just play in the state tournament. Not so. “We came down here with the intention of winning the thing,” said coach Eric Rothgery. “That’s the thing about being an underdog,” said senior Emily Taylor. “This is the first time the whole [...]
College basketball: Beep, beep … OSU runs over Texas-San Antonio
CLEVELAND – Texas-San Antonio thought it had a good enough game plan Friday night to stay close to Ohio State and maybe become the first No. 16 seed to knock off a No. 1 seed. The Roadrunners were wrong. Really wrong. UTSA tried to hold the ball on offense in an attempt to limit the [...]
Indians: Veteran Orlando Cabrera welcomes position change
GOODYEAR, Ariz. – When you’ve played the game as long as Orlando Cabrera has, sometimes you need a little extra push to get going for another 162-game season. “I always look for something to motivate me, a challenge,” said Cabrera, who will enter his 15th season in the majors as the Indians’ new second baseman [...]
College basketball: OSU freshman Deshaun Thomas impressive in Tournament debut
CLEVELAND – Ohio State freshman bench player Deshaun Thomas made the most of his NCAA Tournament debut. Entering Friday’s game midway through the first half, Thomas helped spark a late run that put the game away for the Buckeyes. Thomas finished with 13 points and eight rebounds in a 75-46 victory over Texas-San Antonio. “I [...]
Split-squad Indians roll past Rangers
INDIANS (8-11-2) 12, RANGERS (9-11-1) 6 HITS: After being hit in the head by a pitch in the opening inning, right fielder Shin-Soo Choo not only stayed in the game, he threw a runner out and went 2-for-4 with a three-run triple in the Indians’ decisive seventh inning. … Shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera went 2-for-3 with [...]
Sizemore to debut Sunday but ruled out of season opener
Debut day Grady Sizemore cleared the final hurdle in his quest to return to the field, running the bases for the third time and sliding for the first time Friday in Goodyear. He is scheduled to make his exhibition debut Sunday against the Diamondbacks at Goodyear Ballpark, serving as the designated hitter for two at-bats. [...]
Royals 6, (split-squad) Indians 5
ROYALS (14-6-1) 6, INDIANS (7-11-2) 5 HITS: Third baseman Lonnie Chisenhall left minor league camp to help the split-squad Indians and continued his impressive big league exhibition performance. Cleveland’s top prospect reached base in three of his four trips to the plate with two singles and a walk. He scored two runs and drove in [...]
Veteran Orlando Cabrera looking forward to second base challenge
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — When you’ve played the game as long as Orlando Cabrera, sometimes you need a little extra push to get you going for another 162-game season. “I always look for something to motivate me, a challenge,” said Cabrera, who will enter his 15th season in the majors as the Indians’ new second baseman [...]
Help available for victims of HIV-positive Vermilion man
The Lorain County AIDS Task Force is offering free HIV testing for anyone who believes they might have had sexual contact with a Vermilion man who has HIV. Brandon S. Shullick, 27, of Vermilion, has been charged with three counts of felonious assault after he admitted engaging in sexual intercourse with the women while knowing [...]
Girls basketball update: Elyria Catholic falls in state semifinal
COLUMBUS — The best season in Elyria Catholic girls basketball history ended Friday with a heartbreaking loss. The Panthers (24-3) held a double-digit lead in the first half, but watched No. 1-ranked Oak Hill claw all the way back and hold on for a 53-49 win in the Division III state semifinal at Ohio State’s Value [...]
Ohio House testimony on union bill wraps up — for now
COLUMBUS — Testimony has wrapped up for now on an Ohio bill that restricts the collective bargaining rights of public workers. An aide to House Labor Chairman Joseph Uecker said Friday that no hearings had been scheduled for next week. The legislation would prohibit strikes and limit other rights of roughly 350,000 police, firefighters, teachers [...]
Ohio inmates to pay $1 a month for electricity, get fewer beverage choices
COLUMBUS — Ohio inmates paying their debt to society also will have to pay $1 per month for electricity and deal with less variety at meal time, including fewer beverage choices, under prisons department spending cuts intended to help the state close an expected $8 billion budget hole. The new electricity fee and the changes [...]
Lorain man indicted for sex with teen girl
ELYRIA — A Lorain man is facing an 18-count indictment for allegedly having a two-year sexual relationship with a teenage girl and taking nude photographs of her. Joseph Discenzo Jr., 53, is charged with two counts each of gross sexual imposition, pandering obscenity involving a minor and pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor, seven [...]
Fire Department called overnight to car fire, car that struck house
ELYRIA — The Elyria Fire Department is investigating a car fire on Clinton Avenue overnight. Firefighters were called to 189 Clinton about 3:40 a.m. for a car on fire near a house. Firefighters extinguished the fire, which did not spread to the house, and were on scene a little over an hour. A fire official [...]
Jim Tressel’s appeal denied; he wants to sit out 5 games, too
COLUMBUS — Now that the NCAA has finalized its ruling that five Ohio State football players who took improper benefits are suspended for the first five games of the 2011 season, Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel says he wants the same punishment. On Thursday night, the NCAA denied Ohio State’s appeal on behalf of the players [...]
Indians’ Jason Donald still hurting, so third’s a pain
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — OK, now it’s time to start worrying. Jason Donald is. Donald, the front-runner to open the season as the Indians’ starting third baseman when camp began, was scheduled to take batting practice Thursday with hopes of returning to the lineup today. He did not take BP, playing six innings in the field [...]
Shining stars: Schuster and Taylor were expected to take EC places … and they have
Eric Rothgery said he has known for most of a decade that Elyria Catholic was in line for a shot at greatness. The Panthers’ basketball coach based that notion on the development of girls, now high school seniors, he was coaching when they were in fourth and fifth grade. “I knew then they were something [...]
NCAA tournament: Buckeyes confident, face Texas-San Antonio today
CLEVELAND — A No. 1 seed has never lost to a No. 16 seed in the NCAA Tournament, but Ohio State coach Thad Matta is among those who believe it’s just a matter of time. “I’ve been part of a 1-16 (matchup) that went down to the wire,” Matta said Thursday before the Buckeyes’ practice [...]
Kings Island announcing major new dinosaur attraction today
MASON, Ohio — It has something to do with dinosaurs and will be the largest of its kind in the world, but other details about a major new attraction for Kings Island will have to wait. The amusement park north of Cincinnati has planned the big announcement for this afternoon. Kings Island spokesman Don Helbig [...]
2010 numbers: Crime rate down in the city of Lorain
LORAIN — Recent crime statistics show a 13 percent drop in violent crimes for Lorain in 2010 compared with 2009. The statistics reported a: 57 percent decrease in homicides 17 percent decrease in sexual assaults 11 percent decrease in robberies 8 percent decrease in felonious assaults 27 percent decrease in burglaries/breaking and entering 14 percent [...]
Photo gallery: St. Patrick’s Day at the Irish Heritage Club
