Archive for March 12th, 2008
North Ridgeville police blotter: March 13, 2008
North Ridgeville
Friday, Feb. 29
3:18 p.m. – 32900 block Center Ridge Road, Dairy Queen, video camera recorded man taking several items from the facility. Marc Morley, 39, of North Royalton, charged with theft.
Tuesday, March 4
4:15 a.m. – 5800 block Lee Avenue, Douglas Pavelschak, 29, of North Ridgeville, charged with violation of temporary protection order and telecommunications […]
PGA Tour: John Daly kicked out of Arnold Palmer Invitational
ORLANDO, Fla. — John Daly woke up Wednesday morning to read that swing coach Butch Harmon fired him. Then he got a phone call when he was at the entrance to Bay Hill letting him know he had been kicked out of the Arnold Palmer Invitational for missing the pro-am. “Hasn’t been a […]
Toledo Libbey’s Buford named Ohio’s Mr. Basketball
COLUMBUS — Ask Toledo Libbey coach Leroy Bates what makes William Buford so special and his answer couldn’t be simpler. “He makes the players around him better,” Bates said. That’s an obvious reason why Buford is the 2008 Associated Press Mr. Basketball award winner. The 6-foot-5 Buford is a […]
Former Ohio Sen. Metzenbaum dies at 90
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat who was a feisty self-made millionaire, art collector and one-man roadblock against corporate tax breaks, has died. He was 90. His former chief of staff, Joel Johnson, says Metzenbaum died Wednesday night at his home near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. […]
BREAKING NEWS — Spitzer resigns N.Y. governorship
NEW YORK — Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned in disgrace Wednesday after getting caught in a call-girl scandal that shattered his corruption-fighting, straight-arrow image, saying: “I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people’s work.”
Spitzer will be replaced by Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who becomes New York’s first black governor, effective Monday. Spitzer’s minute-long statement made […]
BREAKING NEWS — Official: N.Y. Gov. Spitzer to resign
ALBANY, N.Y. — A top state official says New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has decided to resign amid a prostitution scandal.
The official tells The Associated Press the resignation would be effective Monday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement had not yet been made.
Allegations surfaced this week that Spitzer was […]