By CASSANDRA SHOFAR
Staff Writer
MEDINA TWP. — Four Cleveland residents were charged with forgery after two reportedly attempted to cash fake payroll checks at Wal-Mart Monday afternoon, police said.
Township police arrested Minyon Matthews, 38, Janell Calloway, 38, Freddie Deveaux, 25, and Jeremy Scott, 22, after Matthews and Deveaux allegedly tried cashing the checks at 3:11 p.m., [...]

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By ADAM FERRISE
Special to The Gazette
BRUNSWICK — Badly in need of a win, the young Medina boys soccer team was lifted by a pair of sophomores Tuesday against a seasoned Brunswick team.
Tenth-graders Randy Brown and A.J. Krause each netted goals as the Bees scored a 2-0 win over the Blue Devils in Northeast Ohio [...]

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By SCOTT PETRAK
Staff Writer
Syndric Steptoe not only played himself onto the roster during the preseason, he’s in position to play a key role in the opener Sunday versus the Cowboys.
Steptoe will likely be the third receiver behind Braylon Edwards and Donte Stallworth. He will also return punts and kickoffs if Joshua Cribbs’ high ankle sprain [...]

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By CHRIS ASSENHEIMER
Staff Writer
CLEVELAND — Aaron Laffey’s season is over.
The left-hander, who spent close to four months in the Indians’ rotation and was expected to be one of the roster additions arriving Tuesday, has been shut down with inflammation in his pitching elbow.
According to Cleveland head trainer Lonnie Soloff, Laffey has experienced soreness in the [...]

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By LISA HLAVINKA
Staff Writer
MEDINA TWP. — The Lorain and Medina posts of the state highway patrol centralized their dispatch centers Monday, merging both into Medina.
All calls to the Lorain County highway patrol post in Elyria will be dispatched through the Medina location, Medina post commander Lt. Joshua Swindell said.
“Our operations will remain the same, we [...]

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By CATERINA GUINTA
Staff Intern
Orange fencing lines the parking lot of Wal-Mart at 4141 Pearl Road, Medina Township, as the store starts the transformation into a Wal-Mart Super Center.
Wal-Mart is in the process of transforming the store to accommodate a 50,000-square-foot grocery section, store manager Chorey Howell said, and the store will be rearranged to [...]

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By ALLISON WOOD
Staff Writer
MEDINA — A Brunswick woman who told beauty school supervisors and classmates her 1-year-old daughter was ill so they would give her money will spend the next 30 days in the Medina County Jail.
Amanda Zolnowski, 20, 3705 Edgebrooke Drive, Apt. 312, also was sentenced Tuesday to 200 hours of community service [...]

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AKRON — A Chatham Township man who was sentenced to eight years in prison for abusing his infant son in 2006 must be resentenced, the 9th District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
Mark Bigley, 28, pleaded guilty to three counts of child endangering, a third-degree felony, for breaking his son’s ribs over a period of several [...]

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Lucille F. Heinz, 94, of Medina passed away Monday, Sept. 1, 2008, in Medina.
She was born July 13, 1914, in Cleveland. She formerly lived in Cleveland until 1960, then in Euclid until 1999 when she moved to Medina. Mrs. Heinz was an active member of Euclid Lutheran Church in Euclid for more than 40 [...]

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- Three males were arrested and a fourth escaped after running away from police during a traffic stop on Fixler Road in Sharon Township on Aug. 22. When a deputy went to approach the car at 11:43 a.m., the males fled toward Colonial Hills Drive and allegedly left a cell phone, bag of marijuana and [...]

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