Archive for October, 2010

Longtime friends relive the old days at Farewell to Whittier

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

LORAIN – If you ask longtime friends Samantha Szabo, Rebecca Deaton, Toni Rees and Bart Hamrick to point to the time that solidified their friendship, they say 1981 to 1983, when they were students at Whittier Junior High School.

There, the four met and made memories to last a lifetime. (more…)

Woman in critical condition after crash traps her under car

Friday, October 29th, 2010

AVON — A 26-year-old Maple Heights woman is in critical condition after she crashed on Interstate 90 overnight and became trapped underneath her car.

The Avon Fire Department responded to the accident on I-90 eastbound near Nagel Road a little before 11 p.m. and found the woman pinned between her car and a property fence, Capt. Mike Emling said.

Mindy Ramsey was taken to St. John West Shore Hospital in Westlake and then LifeFlighted to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, according to Avon police.

According to Emling, “somehow she was outside her car,” and firefighters found her under it.

Emling said her right arm was pinned underneath the car, and she suffered head and arm injuries. She is in critical condition today, according to a MetroHealth spokeswoman.

Three children in the car were taken to St. John West Shore. They are Shemiah Carroll, 3; Emmanuel Carroll, 4; and Frank Newkirk, 6.

Neither Ramsey’s nor any of the children’s condtions were immediately available.

An adult passenger in the car, Noelle Nelson, was unhurt.

Retired cop arrested for trying to have sex with 12-year-old

Friday, October 29th, 2010

CLEVELAND — A retired Cleveland police officer has been charged with attempted rape for traveling to have sex with someone he believed was a 12-year-old girl, according to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason. (more…)

Woman shot overnight; says she was walking into party

Friday, October 29th, 2010

LORAIN — A 33-year-old Lorain woman told police she was shot as she and her boyfriend were walking into a party overnight. (more…)