Archive for March 19th, 2008
Men’s NIT: Hot-shooting Dayton ends Cleveland State’s season
DAYTON — Brian Roberts scored 21 points to lead third-seeded Dayton to a 66-57 win over Cleveland State in the first round of the National Invitational Tournament on Wednesday. Roberts scorched sixth-seeded Cleveland State on 7-of-10 shooting, and the undersized Vikings had no answer for 6-foot-10 Kurt Huelsman inside, especially with Cleveland State […]
Former Elyria Mayor Reichlin dies at 90
ELYRIA — Former Mayor Leonard P. Reichlin, 90, who helped Elyria through growing pains in the 1960s and 1970s and was in charge during the Elyria race riots of 1975, died Wednesday at his home.
“He made a lot of enemies because he didn’t always say what was expected,” said his daughter, Bonnie Reichlin-Roberts. “But he […]
Cold temperatures ease flooding fears
ELYRIA — Snowflakes were the sign from above Wednesday that everything would be OK, Tom Kelley said.They meant the floodwaters would recede soon, he said.
Kelley, who runs the county’s Emergency Management Agency, said a sudden dip in temperature caused the snow the start about 4 p.m. — replacing the rain that had threatened to raise […]
Alleged shooter also faces divorce trial
ELYRIA — With their divorce trial set for today, Pamela and Herminio Carrasquillo still had no answer about whether she would be convicted of shooting him in his bed in Avon last January.
An eight-woman, two-man jury deliberated about two hours Wednesday before telling the staff of county Common Pleas Court Judge James […]
Michael Ross associate freed from prison
ELYRIA — When Randall Gordon was sent to prison last year, he was wearing a shirt and tie and was clean-shaven.
When the 67-year-old former president of a Cleveland architectural firm returned to county Common Pleas Court for a judicial release hearing on Wednesday, he wore […]
Man thinks twice about robbery
LORAIN — Lorain police are looking for a man who walked up to the door of a pizza shop with a gun Sunday apparently to rob the place before changing his mind and walking away.
An employee at Little Caesars Pizza on the 3000 block of Broadway told police that she […]