A 10-year-old girl was kidnapped in broad daylight. Hours later, two garbage collectors saw something that stopped them in their tracks. It was the silver car police were searching for, sitting alone in the middle of a field. Dion Merrick and Brandon Antoine realized the missing girl could still be inside, so they pulled their garbage truck across the only way out, blocked the car from leaving and called 911. For the next few minutes, they stayed there with the suspect trapped while police raced to the scene. When officers arrived, they rushed in, arrested the kidnapper and found 10-year-old Jalissa alive inside. Dion and Brandon were just doing their normal route that morning. But because they were paying attention and refused to let that car leave, a missing 10-year-old girl made it home safely. Some stories deserve to travel just as far as the bad news does. This is one of them.

A gorgeous day at Dix Stadium…It’s time for MAC play!🏈 @KentStFootball hosts Ball State as the Flashes look to improve to 5-2 at home in the Mark Carney era @RobPolinsky and I upstairs, @lucasfooteCLE on the sidelines. Pregame at 11, kick at noon⚡️ 📻 1350thegambler.iheart.com

It’s @KentStFootball from the shoe!🏈 The Flashes take on #6 Ohio State in the fourth all time meeting between the two clubs Listen in to pregame starting at 11, kick at noon! @RobPolinsky and I in the booth, @lucasfooteCLE on the sidelines⚡️ 📻 1350thegambler.iheart.com

It's the Nick Abraham Saturday Sports Wrapup Show live online at weol.com and the @YourChronicle YouTube page coming up from 9:00-11:00.

𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗘 📺 tinyurl.com/4xv878ec 📻 tinyurl.com/4sx8p9vv 📊 tinyurl.com/2nsxeyy5 📱 tinyurl.com/yvwu8veu (game program) #GoFlashes⚡️ | #HAB1TS

“Go, I say go away, boy, you bother me."

On September 17, 1972, 54 years ago today, the M*A*S*H pilot episode premiered on CBS! #ClassicMASH

Happy 101st heavenly birthday to the legendary King of the Blues, B.B. King. He was a major influence on Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and many others.

FOOTBALL IS BACK AT DIX STADIUM⚡️‼️ The Flashes host Wofford as they go for win number one in 2026 @RobPolinsky and I from the booth with @lucasfooteCLE on the sidelines. Pregame at 11, kick at noon, let’s rock!🏈 📻 1350thegambler.iheart.com

Home opener today for.@KentStFootball vs. @Wofford_FB kickoff at 12:02 pm. Listen.@FoxSports1350AM or on the I Heart radio app. @DaneRichardso16 and I have the call.

Tonight we have @ECHSAthletics vs. @TheSailorNation pregame at 6:30 pm, kickoff at 7 pm. I’ll be joined by @CHS_Super77 in the booth. Listen on WEOL.com stream 2.

GAMEDAY on WEOL.com and the @YourChronicle YouTube channel!🏈 Tonight's matchups👇 1⃣Euclid @ Lorain 📺piped.video/watch?v=6jVKWVqM… 2⃣Elyria Catholic @ Vermilion (audio only) 🎧weol.com/live-content/stream… 3⃣Bay @ Buckeye 📺piped.video/watch?v=9JkkEtvM…

Jan Demczur clocked in at 6 a.m. on September 11, 2001, the same way he had for years: green bucket, rags, brass squeegee. He was a window washer from Poland who had made the World Trade Center his workplace. That morning he finished the high floors early, grabbed coffee in the 44th-floor sky lobby, then stepped into an express elevator with five other men. The plane hit. The car jerked, dropped, then stopped in the shaft. Smoke came in. They pried the doors open and found a blank wall marked “50.” The elevator wasn’t meant to stop there. There was no door. No knife. Only Demczur’s squeegee. He used the blade first, scraping through Sheetrock until his hand gave out and the blade fell down the shaft. Then they used the handle, fists, and feet. They cut a hole just big enough to crawl through, one by one, into a bathroom. Firefighters told them to run. They walked down 50 flights. They left the North Tower at 10:23 a.m. Five minutes later it fell. Demczur never wanted the word “hero.” He said he was just a window washer who happened to have a squeegee. The handle is in the Smithsonian now. The men who crawled out with him lived. That is the whole story, and it is enough. Remember him not as a symbol, but as the man who kept cutting when the only tool left was a piece of brass.

On 9/11 the FDNY lost 343 of their own. Not statistics. Sons, fathers, husbands from 75 firehouses across the five boroughs. 121 engine companies and 62 ladder companies answered the call. Every Rescue company in New York went in. They knew the buildings were coming down and they went in anyway. That’s who they were. That’s who we lost. Never forget.

Stephen Siller, 34, an FDNY firefighter, had finished his shift and was driving home to his wife and five children when he heard a plane had hit the World Trade Center. He turned around. The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel was blocked, so he left his car, put on nearly 60 pounds of gear, and ran through it on foot. He reached the towers, went in with other firefighters, and was killed when the South Tower collapsed. His family later created the Tunnel to Towers Foundation in his honor.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Never Forget 🙏🏻🇺🇸

𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗞 The Golden Flashes are back in Dix Stadium on Saturday as they face the Wofford Terriers! ⚡️ #GoFlashes⚡️ | #HAB1TS

📺DEBUT: ‘The Banana Splits Adventure Hour’ premiered 58 years ago, September 7, 1968, on NBC

Back at it this week after the holiday weekend!🏈 Who's ready for Week 4 of high school football? Check out our matchups for this Friday night on WEOL.com and the @YourChronicle YouTube channel👇

Start of another Golden Flashes football season. We open in Columbia SC today with Dane, grateful for another season.

Week one for @KentStFootball!🏈 The Flashes visit South Carolina to open 2026 in year two of the Mark Carney era Pregame starts at 11:45, kickoff at 12:45! @RobPolinsky have you covered the whole the way. Let’s roll!⚡️ 📻 1350thegambler.iheart.com