Lorain News

Sterling "Shorty" Behnke, 83, of Elyria, died on Friday, May 17, 2013 at Mercy Hospital Emergency Room in Lorain, Ohio.

Applications are being accepted for two openings on the Board of Trustees of the Lorain Public Library System.

The celebration will take place beginning at 7 p.m., May 18, at DeLuca's Place in the Park, 6075 Middle Ridge Road, Lorain.

Essie "Chee-Chee" Johnson , 63, of Elyria, passed away unexpectedly at her home Monday, May 13, 2013.

Robert J. Smaldino, 75, of Avon Lake, formerly of Lorain, passed away Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at Ames Family Hospice House, surrounded by his family.

The St. Joseph Senior Choir and the Patriots Symphonic Band will join forces to present "Organ Transplant," a concert to begin the summer season and raise funds for St.

LORAIN, Ohio - State troopers said a Lorain County traffic stop netted $11,000 in ecstasy pills and other drugs and sent two people to jail.

Joseph Mahalow, 86, of Lorain, died Sunday, May 12, 2013, at University Hospital in Cleveland, after a sudden illness.

Get ready for the big warm-up.Temperatures that dropped as low as 33 degrees this week should bounce back to the 70s and 80s the next couple days, according to the National Weather Service."Warm air is just on our doorstep," meteorologist Martin Thompson said Tuesday.Monday's low of 33 was 3 degrees short of the record low of 30 recorded for that ... (more)

A deputy clerk of courts in Lorain Municipal Court was arrested this morning during a drug raid at a Columbo Lane home.

LORAIN - A deputy clerk of courts in Lorain Municipal Court was arrested this morning during a drug raid at a Columbo Lane home.Sierra Dozier, 25, was charged with possession of marijuana, endangering children and permitting drug abuse, Lorain police Lt.

Former Lorain County Community Action Agency Director Robert Gilchrist pleaded guilty Monday to four felony counts of illegal voting, but those charges will be dropped if he completes a year-long diversion program.

Betty Danna , beloved mother of Joni and mother-in-law of Jim Marra, died peacefully on May 10, 2013 at the age of 90 at her home in Avon Lake.

To those who have heard her story, Amanda Berry is the girl who disappeared at age 16 on April 21, 2003.

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LORAIN - A Lorain man faces charges after being accused of leading police on a chase just before midnight Friday.A driver, whom police later identified as Anthony A. Davis, was speeding west on West 33rd Street near Amherst Avenue, according to police Officer Wesley Fordyce's report.

LORAIN - The Success for All reading improvement program may not be living up to its name.With Lorain Schools in academic emergency and controlled by a state Academic Distress Commission, the district is considering dumping the program.Several alternative programs will be considered by staff in a combined five exhibitions in the next two weeks ... (more)

LORAIN - Working with longtime Street Department employee Danny Wyatt, new workers Tim Shinsky and Joseph Taylor patched a pothole on Hickory Hill Avenue on Thursday within 10 minutes of arriving.On Lorain's notoriously bumpy roads, the department's pothole-patching crew has its work cut out for it.

The Lorain County General Health District's Vital Statistics Office houses the birth and death records beginning in 1908 to the present.

The Lorain County General Health District's Vital Statistics Office houses the birth and death records beginning in 1908 to the present.