Lorain News

Lorain Officer Michael Hendershot heroically jumped into the 50-degree waters of the Black River Saturday morning and saved an 81-year-old man from drowning, officials said.

U.S. Coast Guard Station Lorain assisted the Lorain Police Department with the rescue of a recreational fisherman after he fell from a pier on the Black River, Saturday, at approximately 9 a.m. "We arrived on scene and a Lorain PD officer had a line tied to his hand, so we went bow-in and passed a life jacket to the man," said Boatswain's Mate 3rd ...

A Lorain police officer dove into the icy waters of the Black River where it empties into Lake Erie and rescued an elderly man who fell in around 9 a.m. Two elderly fishermen called police when they saw the man bobbing in the water, police said.

The Singing Angels will perform a holiday concert at 3 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Palace Theater, 617 Broadway, Lorain.

A 60-year-old Amherst man was killed when his car was collided head-on Thursday with the SUV of a Lorain woman.

After a two-year legal fight, Mayor Tony Krasienko and County Auditor Mark Stewart have reached an agreement over a tax-exemption program created under former Mayor Craig Foltin, officials announced Thursday.

LORAIN a ' Four people are facing charges after three people were robbed at gunpoint in a home invasion early Wednesday morning, Lorain police reported.

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

The city was served with a second FBI subpoena Monday that demanded documents relating to Lorain contractor Don E. Buchs and seven companies he operates.

A 24-year-old Lorain man was shot in the thigh around midnight Monday night. According to Lorain police, Delno Clayton's girlfriend picked him up in the parking lot of City Bar, which is closed while undergoing renovations, at 2802 Pearl Ave., and he asked her to take him to the emergency room because he'd been shot.

Shots rang out in three Lorain neighborhoods Sunday night and early Monday morning, and two Lorain teenagers ended up in the hospital with minor gunshot injuries from one of those shootings.

A 39-year-old man was the victim of a beating and robbery around 10 p.m. Thursday after a girl he met set him up, according to a police report.

A 43-year-old man told police a man held a gun to his head just before 6:30 p.m. Thursday as he was walking on West Ninth Street near Lovett Place.

Lorain police and the Lorain County prosecutor are offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to arrests in any of five unsolved homicides in the city since February.

A 20-year-old Lorain man who was hit by a car after getting off a bus Thursday afternoon was released from a Cleveland hospital Friday.

LORAIN a ' A 20-year-old man was transported to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland by helicopter Thursday afternoon after being hit by a car on Cooper Foster Park Road.

The South Shore Community Development Corp. board has offered to give the financially troubled St.

Lorain County has taken an economic beating in the last decade, according to the Census Bureau's 2008 American Community Survey, released Tuesday.

LORAIN a ' A Huron man involved in a car crash that killed 52-year-old Larry Durasin was charged with aggravated vehicular homicide Tuesday.

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