The Chronicle-Telegram

Forecasters say Ohio should be spared the heavy snow that has buried the Upper Midwest, but a storm is expected to leave the state wind-whipped. A high wind warning is posted for most Ohio counties, with the National Weather Service saying gusts of up to 60 mph are possible beginning Wednesday afternoon. Lorain County has a high [...] Full Story »

BEREA — Brady Quinn wraps up his third season with the Browns in less than a month, but Thursday night will be his first shot against the Steelers. The stunted start to his career remains a sore point for Quinn. But for a kid who grew up in the Columbus area cheering for the Browns, the [...] Full Story »

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — With the game on the line, it’s hard to imagine Memphis point guard Mike Conley was the first offensive option. And as he drove to the basket, with Shaquille O’Neal shifting Conley’s way, it looked even more troublesome. But the Memphis guard slipped by O’Neal, scooped a shot off the glass and through the [...] Full Story »

ELYRIA — Brett Larrick, Elyria’s second-year coach, nodded in agreement at the notion. His basketball team would not have won a game like Tuesday’s opener a year ago, but the Pioneers found a “Will” and “Chased” away Berea, 66-61, to start the season on the right foot. The “Will” came in the form of 6-foot-6 senior Will [...] Full Story »

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LAGRANGE — Overtime loomed when Keystone senior Sam Bailosky put up an off-the-mark 3-point shot as time was seriously running out Tuesday night. But Caleb Schillace, his sophomore teammate, was in the right place. Schillace got the rebound and put the ball back up and in at the buzzer and the Wildcats (2-1) went home with [...] Full Story »

ELYRIA — Danny Montgomery got an early look at Elyria Catholic’s Coliseum and liked what he saw. The 6-foot North Ridgeville junior’s fondness for EC’s home court obviously rubbed off on his teammates, who opened their season Tuesday night with a 53-44 win over the Panthers in a non-conference game. Last weekend, Montgomery attended Elyria Catholic’s opener [...] Full Story »

ELYRIA — Old traffic signals are coming down and new traffic signals are going up on state Route 57 and with them come traffic pattern changes. The changes affect the intersections of Taylor Street and West River and Abbe roads. City Engineer Mukund Moghe said the changes are being made to improve traffic flow in high-volume areas. The [...] Full Story »

ELYRIA — Lorain drug dealer Terry L. Little, who is on trial on charges he killed a rival dealer at a Lorain McDonald’s, will testify that he shot the victim once to warn him and fired two more shots in self-defense, his attorney said Tuesday during opening arguments of Little’s murder trial. Little’s DNA was found [...] Full Story »

LORAIN — Layoffs are likely and reduced hours are a certainty at Lorain Public Library System branches throughout the county as the library system tries to offset a budgetary shortfall more than $1 million. The library’s Board of Trustees met Monday night to discuss how to deal with a loss of more than $1.1 million from [...] Full Story »

HENRIETTA TWP. — A Wakeman woman was flown from the scene of a single-car crash in Henrietta Township on Monday night. Charmain Ingold, 39, was driving south around 9:13 p.m. on Vermilion Road in a 2005 Chevrolet Equinox when the vehicle went off the left side of the road and struck a ditch and the embankment [...] Full Story »

ELYRIA — An electrical fire forced the owner of a Bell Avenue home to stay with family for the night Tuesday. A neighbor alerted the homeowner about 7 p.m. that smoke was billowing from the back of his home at 562 Bell Ave., allowing him to escape unharmed. “He was pretty lucky that someone noticed it,” Elyria [...] Full Story »

NORTH RIDGEVILLE — The city hopes to draw more baseball and softball tournaments with a planned expansion of the Shady Drive Baseball Complex. The complex on Sugar Ridge Road will be growing by an undetermined number of diamonds with the purchase of 22 acres of land from Forest City Enterprises. “It’s pretty significant,” Mayor David Gillock said. [...] Full Story »

LORAIN — About 60 fifth-graders at Durling Middle School were on the edge of their seats Tuesday morning as a local meteorologist brought weather down to earth and into their classroom. “Atmosphere Adventures,” a program offered through the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center in Bay Village, teaches students in various grades the basics of what [...] Full Story »

ELYRIA — Health officials tested more than 1,800 students for the tuberculosis bacteria Monday and Tuesday at Elyria High School, after a student was diagnosed with the respiratory disease last month. Teachers were tested last week and so far none has tested positive for the bacteria that causes an infection of the lungs. “Nearly everyone in the [...] Full Story »

ELYRIA — Power came back on about 7:30 a.m. for downtown Elyria. Most of downtown was without power for about four hours, starting about 3:30 a.m., according to the Elyria Fire Department. School has been canceled for Elyria High, but all other Elyria schools will be in session today, according to the district. The outage was likely [...] Full Story »

LORAIN — Layoffs are likely and reduced hours are a certainty at Lorain Public Library System branches throughout the county as the library system tries to offset a more than $1 million budgetary shortfall. The library’s Board of Trustees met Monday night to discuss how to deal with a loss of more than $1.1 million from [...] Full Story »

Bernard M. O’Donnell Martha (Peg) Roberts Maxine Ellen Simonson Edward H. Cray, Jr. Hazel Eckenrode Carl L. Fuchs Wilbur J. Gruver Essie L. Williams Ronald P. “Santino” Hook Diane E. Damore Read the full obituaries on The Chronicle E-edition at: http://www.chroniclet.com/ChroniclEdition/ Full Story »

VERMILION — Going green will hopefully earn the city’s Ritter Public Library the distinction of being the first library in Ohio with a gold certification for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) from the U.S. Green Building Council. The library plans to do this with a bioswale in front of the library’s soon-to-be-completed addition [...] Full Story »

AVON — Police said an Akron man was arrested after allegedly traveling to Avon to meet and have sex with what he believed to be was a 15-year-old girl he met online. According to an Avon police report, Leon Markham, 37, instead had been communicating online with, and solicited sex from, an undercover Avon police officer. Markham [...] Full Story »

The last round of The Chronicle’s “Star Wars” auctions ended Monday. Out of the 162 individual items Adam Shields donated to The Chronicle-Telegram, all but 14 sold on eBay, bringing in a total of $695.08 before eBay and Paypal fees are taken into account. One buyer, from Mount Vernon, Ohio, bought more than 50 of the [...] Full Story »

OCOEE, Fla. — Tiger Woods’ mother-in-law was admitted to a hospital with stomach pains early this morning, a hospital spokesman said. Someone called 911 from the golfer’s Orlando-area mansion about 2:35 a.m. Barbro Holmberg was taken by ambulance to Health Central Hospital, where she was in stable condition later Tuesday, hospital spokesman Dan Yates said. He said [...] Full Story »

Joe Craven’s swimming career spans eight years, but it’s blossomed the past two. Once fairly unmotivated in the pool, the Westlake High junior has transformed himself into a four-time Division I state qualifier. “My dad (Paul) put me on a swim team when I was 8 or 9,” Craven said. “I really didn’t like it too much. [...] Full Story »

COLUMBUS — State officials say hunters bagged more than 114,600 white-tailed deer during the seven days of gun hunting that ended Sunday. The Ohio Division of Wildlife said Monday that the total was lower than the 116,800 deer killed during the same period last year. Tuscarawas County in eastern Ohio reported the most deer brought to check [...] Full Story »

BEREA — When Eric Mangini met San Diego’s Norv Turner at midfield Sunday for the traditional postgame coaches’ handshake, Turner asked Mangini to deliver a message to the Browns. “The first thing he said was how impressed he was with the way the guys fought and he wanted me to tell the group that,” Mangini said [...] Full Story »