By CHRIS ASSENHEIMER
Staff Writer
CLEVELAND — The Indians are a win away from sweeping the last-place Kansas City Royals, with Cy Young candidate Cliff Lee on the mound today.
Break out the brooms.
Cleveland finds itself in that prime position thanks to another win over the Royals on Wednesday night, an 8-5 decision powered by four home runs.
It [...]

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By ADAM FERRISE
Special to the Gazette
GRANGER TWP. — The Highland and Olmsted Falls girls soccer teams both walked out of the stadium disappointed Wednesday night.
Bulldogs midfielder Erin Rogers scored a goal with 4:15 remaining to help Olmsted Falls escape with a 1-1 tie in the non-league season opener, but coach Kelly Yurick thought her team [...]

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By SCOTT PETRAK
Staff Writer
BEREA — The third preseason game is the one in which the starters get the most playing time as a dress rehearsal for the regular season.
The Browns (0-2), however, will be without many of their starters when they head to Detroit on Saturday.
Running back Jamal Lewis (hamstring) was added to the injury [...]

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By LISA HLAVINKA
Staff Writer
“There’s nothing like being in the wind,” motorcyclist Gary Queseda said Friday night during Rally in the Alley, which he sponsors in Medina. “The wind is everything. I call it the cleansing.”
Queseda, the owner of Main Street Café, has ridden motorcycles for about 40 years, since he was 17 years old. He [...]

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By ALLISON WOOD
Staff Writer
CLEVELAND — The Regional Transit Authority hopes the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency transit council will vote today to allocate $10.5 million of unspent federal transit funds for transit operations to the agency.
However, Medina County Commissioner Stephen D. Hambley is rallying officials from Lorain, Geauga and Lake counties, who also are [...]

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CHATHAM TWP. — A former Medina County sheriff’s deputy died following an accident in his pond Wednesday morning.
Dan Norton, 61, was working on his pond aerator when he fell off his boat, sheriff’s Lt. John Detchon said. His wife was home and she called 911, he said.
Cars and trucks lined the street by Norton’s home [...]

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By BRAD BOURNIVAL
Staff Writer
ASHLAND — Somewhere, Corey Kline is beaming.
The last national champion at Ashland University just watched one of his understudies from Black River transfer to the Eagles following a year at Ohio State.
Jesse Campbell, a 2007 Black River graduate and Division III state champion, will start classes in the fall at Ashland after [...]

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MEDINA TWP. — A Grafton woman was in serious condition Wednesday night after her car was hit head-on that afternoon on Fenn Road.
State highway patrol Trooper Jeffrey Hirsch reported:
About 12:30 p.m., Cynthia Ramsey, 51, was driving east on Fenn when her Chevrolet Impala was struck head-on by a westbound Ford Expedition driven by Heather Tye, [...]

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Joseph W. Bubna, 80, of Brunswick, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, in Middleburg Heights.
He was born March 24, 1928, in Cleveland. Mr. Bubna was a lighting consultant for Superior Electric Supply. He served in the Army during the Korean War.
He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Caroline (nee Mathews) Bubna of Brunswick; [...]

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By SCOTT PETRAK
Staff Writer
BEREA — Disappointed? Yes. Disheartened? No.
The Browns returned to practice Wednesday, less than 48 hours after a 37-34 preseason loss to the Giants on Monday night that featured a 30-3 deficit after 16 minutes.
The scheduled two-hour practice stretched into hour No. 3. The laughter, common throughout training camp, was nowhere to be [...]

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