Amherst News

Columbus-based American Municipal Power Inc., which supplies power to Oberlin, Wellington, Amherst and Grafton, announced plans Wednesday for the likely conversion of a controversial $3.9 billion coal-fired power plant to be built on the Ohio River to natural gas and other cleaner fuels.

Larry Carroll and his wife, Mary Anne, frequently hauled colorful plastic tote bins filled with dollhouse miniatures from their home in Valley City to flea markets, conventions and festivals across Ohio and adjacent states.

The arrest last month of a man wanted for a violent home invasion in Elyria helped the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force reach a milestone.

The Lorain County commissioners on Thursday voted to give the county Board of Elections $106,500. It was far less than the $172,000 elections board Director Jose Candelario had asked for, but it will be enough, he said, to get through the end of the year.

MANSFIELD: Helen V. Milli-Higgins , 93, of Mansfield and formerly of Amherst and Lorain, died Sunday November 15, 2009 at The Wedgewood Estates Assisted Living in Mansfield.

LORAIN a ' An Elyria man is facing several charges after leading police on a chase through Amherst and Lorain Tuesday that ended with a foot chase and the suspecta TMs arrest, according to a sheriffa TMs report.

ASSAULT, INTERSTATE 90: Prosecutors are considering charges against a 47-year-old Ravenna man after his ex-girlfriend says he assaulted her Nov.

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A 42-year-old Amherst man was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison for burglarizing two Amherst homes in March, assaulting the owner of one home and setting the house on fire in the second.

Community Regional Medical Center has formed a partnership with Tri-City Family Medicine.

Three separate crashes killed three Northeast Ohio men yesterday. The first crash happened at 7:30 a.m. in Amherst Township.

Police say there's only one way for the families of missing women to know for sure if their loved ones are among the victims found in suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell's house: Give DNA samples.

Amherst councilmen, frustrated by losing money due to a property-tax abatement deal in a Lorain neighborhood that is part of the Amherst School District, served notice during a town hall-style meeting Thursday night that a class-action lawsuit was in the works.

One person was killed and one flown to a local hospital after a two-car crash in Amherst Township.

AMHERST TOWNSHIP a ' One person was killed and another has been LifeFlighted to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland after an accident this morning.

Parents are being asked to leave their children at home when visiting patients at either EMH Regional Medical Center or Community Regional Medical Center.

1:48 p.m. - 100 block Broad St., James Gehm, 41, of Elyria, charged with the theft of $69.95 worth of condoms from Rite Aid.

All four flu vaccination clinics held throughout the county Saturday had hundreds of people from all over waiting for hours for their H1N1 and seasonal flu shots.

PITTSFIELD TWP. a ' A man who fled the scene of an accident Monday with a toddler, reportedly because the girl was not in a car seat, faces a citation for obstruction of official business, according to the Ohio Highway Patrol.

One of several shops destroyed last summer in a fast-moving strip-mall fire is getting a fresh start.