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Local Elyria Bar burns to the ground
Anita Blazsen
The
Chronicle-Telegram
ELYRIA —
Elyria
fire fighters battled a grease fire
at a local
Elyria
bar. BW3’s is a local restaurant and
bar located near Midway Mall.
The
blaze which caused an estimated
$320,000 in damages, according to a
fire department report, and took
firefighters almost two and a half
hours to subdue. BW3’s
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U.S. attack
focuses on top Iraqi forces
Los
Angeles Times
WASHINGTON —
The U.S. decision to engage the
Republican Guard with ground troops
signals commanders’ confidence that
heavy bombing has damaged top-level
Iraqi forces so badly that the
Americans will soon be able to
overcome them and head to Baghdad.
Monday’s action illustrates that, despite repeated firefights, sniper
attacks and suicide bombings, the
campaign is focused on grinding down
the four heavy divisions that Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein has thrown
across a 100-mile perimeter south of
the city. |
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Route 57 bridge
west to reopen
Brad
Dicken
The Chronicle-Telegram
ELYRIA — The damaged state Route 57 bridge crossing the Black River will
be reopened to two-way traffic in
about two weeks, Ohio Department of
Transportation officials said Monday.
The bridge was briefly closed last month after a 50-foot by 40-foot steel
and concrete slab slammed into its
structural supports. The bridge was
later reopened to eastbound traffic.
Tom O’Leary, ODOT District 3 director, said repair work to reinforce the
structure will allow a westbound lane
to be opened. Work will begin Friday
and crews will work six 10-hour days
a week until it is completed.
“We hope to bring closure to this unexpected inconvenience,” O’Leary said.
Specialized pieces of steel are being manufactured to create “steel
band-aids” that can be used to patch
the “minor” structural damage to the
bridge, which will be demolished next
year, O’Leary said.
The damage occurred when Cleveland-based B&B Wrecking and Excavating
workers lost control of the slab as
they were sliding it down the side of
the 70-foot ravine on a day filled
with freezing rain and ice. |
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The damaged portion of the state
Route 57 bridge over the Black
River will be repaired. The
structure will be reopened to
westbound traffic when the work is
complete. |
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Thieves
take $500 after holding gun to baby's
head
Dan
Harkins
The Chronicle-Telegram
LORAIN — Two armed men barged into a downtown home late Sunday and held a
gun to an infant’s head, threatening
to kill the baby if the residents
didn’t hand over money they kept in a
lock box in the home.
The intruders fled with $500 in cash and remain at large.
“Usually when things like this happen, it seems the people know what
they’re looking for,” said Lorain
police Sgt. Detective Mark
Carpentiere. |
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Judge
applauds LCCAA board for making
decision
Dave
Perozek
The Chronicle-Telegram
ELYRIA — Common Pleas Judge Mark
Betleski said he would have made a
decision on the Anna Taylor-Carter
situation last Friday had the Lorain
County Community Action Agency board
of trustees not resolved its
differences among themselves the day
before.
Betleski presided over the lawsuit filed last month by a faction of board
members who sought to overturn the
Feb. 27 decision to rehire
Taylor-Carter as president. |
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Phone line
set up to identify possible outbreaks
Kristin Yarbrough
The Chronicle-Telegram
ELYRIA — Health officials are
confident that a new telephone
hotline for doctors will streamline
efficiency regarding reporting
communicable diseases and help them
quickly identify any outbreak.
The system is a project of Lorain County General Health District, Elyria
City Health Department and Lorain
City Health Department. |
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Avon
commission member to stay
Brad Dicken
The Chronicle-Telegram
AVON — After weeks debating whether he will resign from the city’s Charter
Review Commission, Larry Hoekstra has
decided to stay with the already
under manned group.
Hoekstra is the only remaining member of the Commission who does not share
membership in the Avon Historical
Society. He threatened to resign
unless Commission chairman and
society president Jack Smith
abandoned proposals for building
height restrictions and creation of a
road grid system in the city. |
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Mistakes
cost Tribe a win
Chris
Assenheimer
The Chronicle-Telegram
BALTIMORE — The Indians’ regular-season opener Monday at Camden Yards had
a little bit of everything.
The game featured 13 innings of baseball, good pitching, poor pitching,
good defense, bad defense, big hits,
big plays, freezing cold and a snow —
not rain — delay.
Unfortunately for the Indians, it all added up to a 6-5 defeat at the
hands of the Baltimore Orioles, who
didn’t exactly beat the Tribe — they
just made fewer mistakes.
The three-hour-and-45-minute marathon ended when Baltimore’s Gary Matthews
Jr. lifted a line drive over the head
of Indians center fielder Milton
Bradley, who misjudged the ball,
allowing pinch runner Jose Leon to
score the winning run.
“Things happened tonight that usually happen over the course of five or
six games,” said rookie manager Eric
Wedge, whose team committed four
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Omar Vizquel looks up during a
snowstorm Monday afternoon in
Baltimore. The Tribe lost 6-5 in 13
innings. |
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Villanova’s Jana Rediger (left) and
Tennessee’s Kara Lawson fight for a
rebound Monday night. |
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Tennessee
returns to Final Four
The Associated Press
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee can finally pack its bags. The Lady Vols are
headed to the Final Four again.
Gwen Jackson scored 20 points and Kara Lawson had 15 as the top-seeded
Lady Vols advanced to their 14th
Final Four by beating No. 2 Villanova
73-49 in the Mideast Regional final
Monday night.
Shyra Ely added 14 points and nine rebounds for Tennessee (32-4), which
hosted both the subregional and
regional and improved its home record
in NCAA Tournament games to 44-0. |
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Novak's
shooting is golden for Eagles
The Associated Press
MILWAUKEE
— The message finally got through to
Steve Novak.
Marquette’s 6-foot-10 freshman drew the ire of his teammates during the
regular season by passing up open
outside shots.
With their prodding fresh in his mind, Novak has gone 14-for-20 from
behind the 3-point line during the
NCAA Tournament, despite making only
21 of 49 threes in the team’s first
20 games. |
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