Archive for March, 2011
Bounty at Akron foodbank: Baby born in parking lot
AKRON — An ambulance crew in Ohio delivered a baby in the parking lot of a foodbank as the staff watched and cheered. The healthy 5-pound baby girl was born Wednesday to 30-year-old Erika Ostapowicz. While speeding toward the hospital, her husband pulled off the road at the last minute at the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank. [...]
Ohioans go green to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day
CLEVELAND — St. Patrick’s Day in Ohio will be marked by parades, parties and patrols. What’s billed as the state’s largest and oldest St. Patrick’s Day parade steps off at a little after 1 p.m. Thursday in Cleveland. Thousands of marchers will make their way to downtown’s Public Square as part of an event that [...]
Sudden-death win sent Elyria basketball to state 50 years ago
Sudden-death overtime? In basketball? Yeah, right. No, seriously, there was such a thing in high school basketball once upon a time. And one of the area’s true Cinderella tournament teams knew the term well. The team: The 1961 Elyria High boys. You see, in 1961, tie basketball games were decided a little differently than today. [...]
Leading man: Rothgery has won big at EC
Eric Rothgery, whose full-time occupation is clerk of Elyria Municipal Court, became Elyria Catholic’s girls basketball coach in the fall of 2008. It was not necessarily an enviable situation in which to place oneself. The previous season — Rothgery’s last as the Panthers’ JV coach — EC went 11-10. It was a modest winning record, [...]
Tribe’s Josh Tomlin not about to let good spring start go to his head
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Josh Tomlin isn’t putting much stock in his quality spring training performance thus far. The numbers say Tomlin (0-0, 1.13 ERA in three exhibition appearances) is leading his race with Jeanmar Gomez (0-1, 6.31, four games) and David Huff (1-0, 7.45 ERA, four games) for the final spot in the Indians’ rotation. [...]
State to close 7 tax centers, lay off 99 employees
COLUMBUS — Ohio’s tax department is moving to close seven regional taxpayer service centers and lay off 99 employees at those locations. Notices were e-mailed to the workers on Wednesday, a day after Gov. John Kasich unveiled a two-year budget proposal that seeks to plug an $8 billion shortfall. The tax offices will close June [...]
Cavaliers 97, Kings 93: Rare road win ends Cavs’ skid
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Ramon Sessions scored 20 points to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers to a rare road victory, 97-93 over the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday. Cleveland opened the season by winning three of its first four road games, but had only a March 4 win in New York since. Cleveland, which snapped a four-game losing [...]
Secret tapes show police chief doubted Head Start case
LORAIN — In secret recordings made by Nancy Smith’s daughter, Amber Bronish, Lorain Police Chief Cel Rivera can be heard questioning whether there was enough evidence to convict Smith and co-defendant Joseph Allen in the controversial Head Start child molestation case. “We just felt like there wasn’t enough evidence,” Rivera can be heard saying on [...]
NCAA tournament: Big players, big games, big fun
The NCAA Tournament has a new look this year, with a 68-team bracket and a matchup of First Four teams vying for spots in the main draw. If you’re in a bracket that ignores that first batch of games, the tournament doesn’t really start until today. For those who had to pick the First Four [...]
Elyria Catholic girls basketball heads to Columbus for state Final Four
ELYRIA — With the strains of their school’s alma mater ringing in their ears, Elyria Catholic’s girls basketball players left Wednesday afternoon for Columbus and the Division III Final Four. The Panthers (24-2) were sent off enthusiastically by other students, faculty, family, friends and the Panthers pep band after a rally in the Coliseum. They [...]
County offices expect the worst: More than $3.5M may need to be cut
ELYRIA — The Lorain County commissioners are mulling just how deep cuts will need to be in the wake of the release of Gov. John Kasich’s two-year budget, which would slash state funding to local government. Commissioner Ted Kalo had county Budget Director Lisa Hobart draw up what the cuts would look like at 3 [...]
Woman stole morphine from elderly cancer patient, police say
LORAIN — Police arrested a woman who they say stole morphine from an elderly cancer patient. Police charged Andrea Stafford, 52, of Lorain, with possession of a Schedule II drug and possession of drug paraphernalia after officers found a pill bottle filled with a dark green liquid that Stafford said was morphine. Police had pulled [...]
Police: Man admitted to oral sex with 5-year-old
VERMILION — Police arrested a 53-year-old man who they say admitted to having oral sex with a 5-year-old boy multiple times. Vermilion police charged Jessie J. Glover of Vermillion with five counts of rape and six counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor. During their investigation, police seized Glover’s laptop, desktop computer, floppy disks and [...]
Man accused of infecting women with HIV
VERMILION — Police arrested a man who they claim infected several women with 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 he had HIV. He did not disclose his infection to the women, police said. [...]
Grafton prison buyer has room to grow
GRAFTON — There would be plenty of land for a fourth prison in Grafton if the state sells Grafton Correctional Institution and North Coast Correctional Treatment Facility to a private operator, according to the chief spokesman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections. Grafton Correctional and North Coast Correctional will be sold in a [...]
Lorain electrician is disciplined for unauthorized inspections
LORAIN — A Lorain Building Department electrician was suspended without pay for one week for conducting an electrical inspection despite being prohibited to do so. Lorain Safety Director Phil Dore said David Velez, 54, of Lorain, was placed on unpaid suspension from Feb. 24 to March 2 after police investigated whether Velez had inspected an [...]
Barbara Blake
Barbara Blake, of Winchester, Virginia, passed away Tuesday, March 15, 2011, at the age of 70. She was born June 4, 1940 in Amherst, to Harry and Irene Neitzke. She graduated in 1958 from Keystone High School in LaGrange. She was employed by the Quad-State Business Journal as advertising manager for 15 years and owned [...]
Mary Lou Cieszynski
Mary Lou Cieszynski, 65, of North Ridgeville, passed away Tuesday, March 15, 2011, at EMH Regional Medical Center, following a long illness. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the David Bogner Family Funeral Home, North Ridgeville.
Mary Alice Penton Kovach
Mary Alice Penton Kovach, 88, currently of Wesleyan Village in Elyria, went peacefully in her sleep, to be with the Lord, on Monday, March 14, 2011. Born in Lorain December 3, 1922, she was the daughter of Harold and Nina Penton. Mary Alice graduated from Amherst High School and went on to obtain a degree [...]
Agnes R. Kurek
Agnes R. Kurek (nee Radzevick), 97, of Elyria, passed away Monday, March 14, 2011, at the Center Ridge Health Campus in North Ridgeville, following a long illness. She was born January 16, 1914 in Wheeling, West Virginia and was an Elyria resident since 2002, coming from Claridge, Pennsylvania. Agnes was a member of St. Barbara [...]
Dorothy C. Patchin
Dorothy C. Patchin (nee Paynowski), 90, of Elyria, died on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, at NewLife Hospice Center of St. Joseph in Lorain, following a short illness. Mrs. Patchin was born February 27, 1921 in Elyria, and lived here for most of her life. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Mary Catholic [...]
Delores Piesen
Delores “Elaine” Piesen, beloved wife of David E., loving mother of Amy Foye (Scott), Tammy Petronzio (Russell), and Scott Piesen (Vicki); grandmother of Kaitlyn and Andrew Foye, Allison and Nathan Petronzio and Nicholas Piesen; sister of Dr. Byron Hawbecker and Melvin Hawbecker (Lynne). Memorial Service is at Lakewood United Methodist Church, 15800 Detroit Road, Lakewood, [...]
Margaret B. Schalk
Margaret B. Schalk, 75, a resident of Avon for the past 40 years, died of cancer Tuesday evening, March 15, 2011, at St. John’s & Westshore Hospital. Survivors include her children, Tammy (Ahrens) of Avon, Cyndi (Wilson) of Columbus, Chuck of Maine, Katrina (Farren) of Iowa, David of Avon, Charissa of Avon, Zach of Ashland; [...]
Timothy A. Taylor
Timothy A. Taylor, 46, of LaGrange, passed away Tuesday, March 15, 2011, in EMH Medical Center, after an apparent heart attack. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the Blackburn-Duke Funeral Home, 1021 Main St., Grafton.
Tomlin zeroing in on final rotation spot
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Josh Tomlin isn’t putting much stock in his quality spring training performance thus far. The numbers say Tomlin (0-0, 1.13 ERA in three exhibition appearances) is leading his race with Jeanmar Gomez (0-1, 6.31, four games) and David Huff (1-0, 7.45 ERA, four games) for the final spot in the Indians’ rotation. [...]