- A New Year’s party ended in two arrests Tuesday morning. Police were called to the 900 block of North Carpenter Road around 7:15 a.m. Tuesday to respond to a fight on a front porch.
When police arrived, three men ran, but two of them, Eli Kaminski and Michael Leonardi, were caught on a nearby street. [...]

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MEDINA — Flames from a vehicle in a driveway Wednesday afternoon spread to the house next to it, causing extensive damage to the south side of the two-story residence, Fire Chief Bob Painter said.
The call for a vehicle fire at 308 N. Jefferson St. came in around 4:40 p.m., Painter said.
Both levels of the house [...]

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Raymond D. Riley, 95, of Greenville, Pa., passed away Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2008, at St. Paul Homes, West Salem Township, Pa.
He was born April 26, 1912, in Erie, Pa., to Randall and Hazel (Martin) Riley. Mr. Riley was a 1930 graduate of Penn High School. He was a communications maintainer at Bessemer and Lake Erie [...]

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MEDINA — Several candidates for Medina County offices have filed election petitions in the days before Friday’s deadline, including a former lieutenant with the sheriff’s department and a Medina Township trustee.
David Centner filed his petitions Monday to run against current Sheriff Neil Hassinger in the March 4 Republican primary, board of elections Director Sue Strasser [...]

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Stephen G. Sevougian, 93, has passed away.
He was born Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, 1914. Mr. Sevougian graduated as valedictorian of his high school class in Bridgewater, Mass., in 1932 and won a scholarship to Harvard. However, because of the Depression, he was forced to delay his college career for a few years. He eventually got [...]

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CLEVELAND — For more than two quarters, LeBron James looked like he was still at the blackjack table in Las Vegas. When the chips were down, however, he was right on the money.
After using a day and a half off to play a little blackjack, the 6-foot-8, 250-pounder scored 32 of his 36 points in [...]

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After every game, Medina girls basketball coach Mark Loomis and his staff asks his players the same three questions.
Did you play hard? Did you play as a team? Did you play smart?
Through the first 10 games of the season, the Bees have consistently been able to answer the first two questions in the affirmative.
The young [...]

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Brunswick gymnast Jen Bruce has talent, a strong work ethic and most important of all, determination.
As a sophomore, Bruce sustained a lower back stress fracture which took her out of the sport for almost a year. But with drive fueled by her love of gymnastics, she has battled her way back to close to 100 [...]

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CLEVELAND — It probably wasn’t the 22nd birthday present Cedric Simmons was looking for, but the Cavaliers are billing it as an opportunity for the second-year power forward, not a demotion.
Cleveland assigned the 6-foot-9, 235-pounder, who turned 22 today, to the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA Development League on Wednesday.
Simmons, who would have [...]

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If it’s already broke why fix it? At least when it comes the Bowl Championship Series and the way things match up in the Orange, Sugar, Fiesta and Rose Bowls.
While conferences are locked into going to some of these overpaid, way over-hyped “title games,” the ultimate championship suffers as a result.
Every year someone cries foul [...]

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