BEREA – Outside linebacker Marcus Benard was treated and released from the hospital Thursday night at 8:15 after collapsing just before noon in the locker room.
The Browns said he underwent tests and will undergo further evaluation today.
The players were finishing getting dressed for practice when Benard collapsed. He was sitting in a chair talking on […]

CINCINNATI — A young Ohio man’s fatal auto accident has helped at least seven other people.

The family of 22-year-old Richard Wieland Jr. says when the Cincinnati area man left last summer for Army National Guard basic training, he asked never to be put on life support and that his organs be donated if something serious happened.

He suffered severe brain injury when he wrecked his car early Saturday in a suburb west of Cincinnati. His body parts were used to help others: his heart went to New York, his lungs, liver, pancreas and one kidney went to help others in Ohio, and the other kidney went to Washington. Tissue and other parts also are being used.

His parents tell The Cincinnati Enquirer Wieland is a hero, just as if he had died saving another in combat.

LaGRANGE — This morning’s death of Sam DiFrancesco, a Lorain County Drug Task Force member, was suicide according to Lorain County Coroner Paul Matus.
LaGrange police were called to Taylor Boulevard just before 7 this morning after a female in the house heard a gunshot.
DiFrancesco, 51, was found dead on a recliner in the basement.

ELYRIA — Three people were arrested over the weekend after the fought about damage to a vehicle, according to a police report.

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Edith Baker, 23, of South Amherst was charged with assault, Johnathen Graham, 19, of Elyria was charged with criminal damage, and a 17-year-old Elyria girl was certified to juvenile court for assault.

According to the police report, the dispute began when Baker’s car, which was parked in front of a home on Sixth Street, was struck by another vehicle that left the area.

Graham, who is Baker’s boyfriend, became mad because he believed a female in the residence either had caused the damage or knew who had and wasn’t saying.

He then reportedly went to the female’s car and began damaging it, causing damage to the side lights, the roof and several other dents in both sides. Graham later told police he used a brick to break the lights and damage the roof but insisted the rest of the damage was already there.

While Graham was in a “fit of rage,” his father came out and tried to calm him down, and the two began to wrestle, the report said.

While his father was restraining him, the 17-year-old came out of the home and kicked Graham in the head, causing him to lose consciousness briefly.

LifeCare was called to the scene for Graham, but he wound up refusing to go to the hospital.