LaGrange boy dies after Rt 10 head-on crash
A five year old from LaGrange died from head injuries after a Sunday morning head-on collision on state Route 10. He died at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland at 8 PM. His mother and a 6-year-old brother were treated for minor injuries at EMH Regional Medical Center. An Oberlin man driving the other vehicle was in stable condition. Police withheld names. the crash remains under investigation. The Cuyahoga County coroner had not yet received the boy by midnight Sunday.
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Truck crashes into Grassie's Inn on Oberlin Road
A 1988 Ford Bronco driven by 21 year old Nathan Nichols of Elyria hit Grassie's Wayside Inn on Oberlin Road causing a large front hole. Nichols suffered non life threatening injuries. speed and wet roads cited but BAC details unavailable. The inn planned to reopen Tuesday after Memorial Day.
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Grassie
Wayside Inn
Oberlin Road
Nathan Nichols
Memorial Day Reveres World War I Veteran at Ohio Veterans Home
Vermilion native Mike Gebhardt, 103, is the lone World War I veteran among 656 residents at the Ohio Veterans Home in Sandusky Columbus Avenue. He notes Memorial Day carries strong memories as TAPS plays at bases during 1918 and 1919 while shortages affected buglers. Dorothy Corso Smith, 77, a WAC veteran, says Memorial Day also honors World War II veterans and that Vietnam era arrivals are growing among residents.
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Chronicle-Telegram
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Ohio
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Washington, D.C
United States
Ohio Veterans Home
Dorothy Corso Smith
Women’s Army Corp
Wacs
Smith
Chronicle
Siblings Reunited After 74 Years in Pennsylvania
Irene Spitko, 83, and her brother Jim Beatty, 74, were reunited in Schnecksville after 74 years apart following his adoption as an infant in 1926. The meeting concluded years of family searching by Spitko and Arthur Spitko, her son, at their family home.
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Schnecksville
Irene Spitko
Jim Beatty
Spitko
Arthur Spitko
Irefie
Family hopes to get remains after 55 years
Gladie DeFouw kept writing a letter to her WWII pilot brother, 2nd Lt Harvey Bos, missing when his C 46 vanished in 1945. Now, 55 years later, the family believes remains lie in an unmarked Philippine grave and seeks their return.
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Harvey Bos
China
India
DeFouw
California
Bos
Philippines
Truck rollover injures 3 on Indian Hollow
Three people were injured when a semi driven by a northbound trucker left Indian Hollow Road, rolled into a ditch near Parsons Road. All three were transported to EMU. one victim possibly has a broken wrist. The 1983 Ford was registered in Elyria. Slick roads possibly a factor. speed not believed to be.
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Indian Hollow
EMU
Elyria
Set
Jeff Lynch
State Highway Patrol
Lynch
Parsons Road
Rebels free remaining hostages in Sierra Leone crisis
Sierra Leonean rebels released what appeared to be the last of some 500 UN hostages, signaling a positive change of direction for the RUF. Eighty five former captives arrived in Freetown from Monrovia as more evacuees were expected.
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Monrovia
Liberia
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Sierra Leone-Liberia
Wimhurst
RUF
Revolutionary United Front
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