Lorain County News

A Lorain business and six Lorain County residents were charged as part of a $582,000 food stamp fraud operation.

The slow trickle of residents who are opting to leave Lorain and Elyria, the two major cities of Lorain County, has continued at a pace of hundreds per year since the 2010 census was taken.

Josephine "Jo" Aldrich, 88, of LaGrange, passed away Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, after a short illness.

Meet Skeeter. He is extremely intelligent, but a little ADHD. He seems to pick people he likes, but once he picks you, you are a friend for life.

Grafton man faces alcohol charges A man from Grafton has been charged following a fatal crash involving a teen in March.

Pittsfield Township Trustee Mark McConnell was again removed from the Rural Lorain County Water Authority board Wednesday after questions were raised about the legality of a secret ballot process used to vote him off the board last week.

Gerald Lee "Jerry" Mitchell, 76, of Elyria, passed away Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at Mercy New Life Hospice Residential Center in Lorain.

Midpoint Campus Center is the site of a plethora of programs and degrees offered by Lorain County Community College and the University of Akron .

North Ridgeville resident Ashley Starkey was surprised May 18 by her husband, Kyle Starkey, at Lorain County Community College's 49th commencement.

Courtney A. Ross, 31, of Elyria, passed away unexpectedly Saturday, May 18, 2013.

Republic Services, the waste management company, has expanded the list of items that can be recycled by residents in a five-county Northeast Ohio region serviced by the company.

ELYRIA - A court order has temporarily shuttered an Elyria business that police said was involved in drug sales and fraud, and that the city called a nuisance to the community.

Autopsy results are due for a 17-year-old boy whose body was found by a roadside in northern Ohio.

ELYRIA - Lorain County Community College awarded 1,362 degrees Saturday - the most in the school's 50-year history, said LCCC President Roy Church during the college's commencement.

Mary Pajak was named Avon Lake's 2013 Citizen of the Year for her significant involvement in, and dedication to, the community.

The resting place of dozens of Avon Lake's forefathers as well as numerous veterans will be dedicated as an Avon Lake Historic Landmark on May 19 at 1 p.m. at Lake Shore Cemetery The city's only cemetery is on the north side of Lake Road near the SR 83 intersection near Veterans Park.

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

The Rural Lorain County Water Authority board's use of secret ballots in a vote Wednesday to remove Mark McConnell from the board violated Ohio's Sunshine Laws, according to an open meetings expert and a 2011 opinion issued by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine.

Lorain County law enforcement officers gathered in Ely Square in downtown Elyria on Thursday at the Police Memorial Service to remember the county's fallen officers.

In a secret vote, the Rural Lorain County Water Authority board voted 17 to 9 Wednesday night to remove Pittsfield Township representative Mark McConnell after four other board members brought charges that McConnell had tried to get some members removed from the board.McConnell, who remains a Pittsfield Township trustee, said afterwards he was ... (more)