ELYRIA — Power came back on about 7:30 a.m. for downtown Elyria.

Most of downtown was without power for about four hours, starting about 3:30 a.m., according to the Elyria Fire Department. School has been canceled for Elyria High, but all other Elyria schools will be in session today, according to the district.

The outage was caused by wind knocking down wires at East and Depot streets, according to Ohio Edison..

At the time of the outage, Ohio Edison told the Fire Department power should be out about three or four hours. The Police Department said Ohio Edison declined to predict when power would be restored, saying they were operating in “storm mode.”

Fire Station 1 reported about 6 a.m. it was up and running under emergency power.

The Police Department had put out stop signs at a number of downtown intersections “as a courtesy” but stressed that the law requires that nonfunctioning traffic signals be treated as four-way stops. Officers were in the process of putting out flares at other interesections, according to the department.

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OCOEE, Fla. — Tiger Woods’ mother-in-law was admitted to a hospital with stomach pains early this morning, a hospital spokesman said.

This image taken from video provided by AP Television News shows an unidentified woman being taken into Health Central hospital in Ocoee, Fla.

Someone called 911 from the golfer’s Orlando-area mansion about 2:35 a.m.

Barbro Holmberg was taken by ambulance to Health Central Hospital, where she was in stable condition later Tuesday, hospital spokesman Dan Yates said. He said her condition was not serious but he could not be more specific because of privacy laws.

Holmberg, who arrived in the U.S. a few days ago, lives in Sweden and is the mother of Woods’ wife, Elin.

Health Central is the same hospital where Woods was treated after he crashed his sport utility vehicle outside his home last month.

Yates said Holmberg was in a private room and the family has hired additional security to keep the media away. He said family members have visited her, but he would say who.

“She’s in a wing that helps protect her privacy,” Yates said.

Media attention has been focused on the world’s No. 1 golfer since he hit a hydrant and a tree around 2:25 a.m. on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

The Florida Highway Patrol last week cited Woods for careless driving and fined him $164.

The accident — and Woods’ refusal to answer questions about it — fueled speculation about a possible dispute between him and Elin.

Just days before the crash, a National Enquirer story alleged Woods had been seeing a New York nightclub hostess, Rachel Uchitel, who has denied it. After the crash, Us Weekly reported that a Los Angeles cocktail waitress named Jaimee Grubbs claims she had a 31-month affair with Woods.

Last week, Woods issued a statement saying he had let his family down with unspecified “transgressions” that he regrets with “all of my heart.” He did not elaborate.

A police report on the crash released Monday showed that a Florida trooper who suspected Woods was driving under the influence sought a subpoena for the golfer’s blood results from the hospital he was taken to after the crash, but prosecutors rejected the petition for insufficient information.

A witness, who wasn’t identified in the report, told trooper Joshua Evans that Woods had been drinking alcohol earlier. The same witness also said Woods had been prescribed two drugs, Ambien and Vicodin.

The report did not say who the witness was but added it was the same person who pulled Woods from the vehicle after the accident. Woods’ wife, Elin, has told police that she used a golf club to smash the back windows of the Cadillac Escalade to help her husband out. His injuries were minor.

The sister of a neighbor who called 911 after the crash told troopers that Holmberg and Woods’ mother, were also at the scene, but the AP has not been able to confirm that.

Eva Malmborg, a spokeswoman for Holmberg, said she could not comment on Tuesday’s reports.

Malmborg confirmed Holmberg had taken a week’s leave from her job as Gavleborg county governor in central-east Sweden, but said she did not know where Holmberg had gone.

There was no sign of emergency workers later Tuesday morning at the Woods’ gated community, where luxury SUVs and cars drove in and out as a few reporters and television news trucks milled around outside.

Biros

COLUMBUS — A condemned killer scheduled to become the first person in the U.S. put to death with a single drug — in an execution that could take longer than previous procedures — arrived today at the Ohio death house.

Kenneth Biros, 51, was sentenced to die for killing and dismembering a woman he met in a bar in 1991.

It would be the first injection under Ohio’s switch from using three drugs to a new one-drug execution method.

A backup method allows executioners to inject drugs directly into muscles.

Ohio overhauled its execution procedure following the botched execution of Romell Broom that was halted by Gov. Ted Strickland in September. Executioners tried unsuccessfully for two hours to find a usable vein for injection, painfully hitting bone and muscle in as many as 18 needle sticks. Broom, 53, has appealed the state’s attempt to try again.

The state had two goals in changing its process. Switching to one drug was meant to end a five-year-old lawsuit that claims Ohio’s three-drug system could cause severe pain. Injection experts and defense attorneys agree the single dose of thiopental sodium will not cause pain.

The backup procedure involving muscle injection was created in case a situation similar to Broom’s execution happens again.

States are watching Ohio’s change but none have made a similar switch. Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia are among those saying they will keep the three-drug method.

Biros reached the holding area for death row inmates at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville shortly before 10 a.m. Monday. The small cell is about 15 feet away from the chamber where inmates are put to death.

It’s the second trip to Lucasville for Biros, who spent more than 30 hours in the holding cell in March 2007 before the U.S. Supreme Court stopped his execution. Biros was resting and appeared relaxed, said prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn.

Injection experts agree the execution will take longer with the single dose of thiopental sodium than the previous three-drug system. Ohio inmates have generally taken about seven minutes to die. Mark Dershwitz, an anesthesiologist who consulted with Ohio, estimates it could take 15 minutes.

Witnesses will be allowed to stay and watch for as long as it takes, Walburn said today.

Trumbull County Sheriff Tom Altiere, allowed a spot under Ohio law, will be the first sheriff to witness an execution since Ohio resumed putting people to death in 1999, Walburn said.

A federal judge earlier Monday refused to delay the execution and Biros immediately appealed to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.

The 6th Circuit on Friday rejected a related request to delay Biros’ execution, a decision he appealed Monday to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In Monday’s ruling, U.S. District Judge Gregory Frost in Columbus said Ohio’s execution system still has flaws that “raise profound concerns and present unnecessary risks.”

Frost also said he’s concerned about the competency of Ohio’s executioners and how much those executioners appear able to deviate from the state’s written execution rules.

But the judge also wrote, it appears unlikely that Biros can “demonstrate that those risks rise to the level of violating the United States Constitution.”

In asking Frost for a stay, Biros had argued that the new execution method still left vein access issues unresolved, subjecting him to the risk of severe pain, and had described the new one-drug approach as “impermissible human experimentation.” The judge in his ruling called the arguments “unpersuasive.”

All 36 death penalty states use lethal injection, and 35 rely on the three-drug method. Nebraska, which recently adopted injection over electrocution, has proposed the three-drug method but hasn’t finalized the process.

Biros killed 22-year-old Tami Engstrom near Warren in 1991 after offering to drive her home from a bar, then scattered her body parts in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

With the Browns facing what could be their first TV blackout since coming back to the NFL in 1999, Browns reporter Scott Petrak wants your input for a story he’s writing for the weekend.

Want to have your say? Just respond to any or all of the following questions. Leave your response as a comment or e-mail Scott directly at spetrak@chroniclet.com. If you want to be included in the story, please give him your full name, age and town where you live and have your response in by Friday. (An e-mail address would be helpful, too, in case he has followup questions.)

• Why aren’t you (or other fans you know) going to the game this week or this season?
• What will you do instead of watching the Browns on Sunday?
• Will you listen on the radio?
• Do you think it’ll be embarrassing for Browns fans if there’s a blackout?
• What are you most frustrated about when it comes to the Browns?