Lorain News

The retail world is brimming with uncertainty given the dismal economy, but for now Midway Mall is not in peril, its owners say.

Everyone knew Dave Davies must be slipping when he missed his first Operation Open Heart camp in a couple of decades.

Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge will announce his verdict at 9 a.m. Monday in the aggravated murder trial of 17-year-old Daniel Petric of Wellington.

Lorain police Officer Corey Earl is facing misdemeanor criminal charges for allegedly making harassing phone calls to his ex-wife.

Budget cuts may force the county's judges to trade their gavels for toilet brushes.

Thursday marked Anthony Krasienko's one-year anniversary as Lorain's mayor. On Wednesday, he reflected on his first year in Lorain's top job in his office on the top floor of City Hall.

A Cleveland Clinic spokeswoman dismissed a Morning Journal report that the hospital is interested in buying Midway Mall in Elyria.

Former Chief Deputy Lorain County Recorder Phil Betleski pleaded guilty today to a felony charge of theft in office, which could send him to prison for up to 5 years.

The Lorain mother who poisoned her children and was planning to drive them off a cliff before a change of heart led her to take them to a hospital instead was sentenced today to three years of probation.

Unless an 11th hour sale of his home is approved by banking officials, county Board of Elections Director Jose Candelario Jr. could soon find his Lorain home on the auction block.

Heading the government planning agency that steers money toward transportation and environmental projects in the region could bode well for Elyria, if Mayor Bill Grace assumes the position of president of the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency.

How about some good economic news? Several nonprofit business development groups devoted to transforming Northeast Ohio have issued year-end newsletters replete with silver linings.

In 2008, Ohio may have had a record drop in traffic fatalities, but Lorain County experienced a spike.

It's time to get to work.

That's what new 58th district Rep. Terry Boose (R-Norwalk) said Friday after an emotional swearing-in ceremony at Sheri's Coffee House.

The developer on the $500 million quarry project in western Lorain County has filed paperwork to annex 442 acres of land in Amherst Township into the village of South Amherst.

If you’re wondering where the strays have gone, they might be with David McClelland.

McClelland is president of the mobile spay and neuter organization LifeSavers, which began the city-sponsored and -funded Trap, Neuter, Release program Christmas Day. McClelland, with volunteer help, gathers all stray cats in a given area, and has them spayed or neutered, vaccinated and then released at the location where they were picked up after they recover.

The city of Amherst has settled a lawsuit with the family of a woman whose cremated remains were moved in 2002 without their permission.

New Year's Eve, a night known for rowdy parties that keep police officers busy for hours, came and went with no major incidents in Elyria, but a bar brawl poured out into the street in Lorain.

While people everywhere were still reveling in the festivities of the new year, 25-year-old Mary Spradlin of Lorain was busy working on her top goal for 2009: delivering a healthy baby.

The bad economy and crime collided early Thursday morning when a 19-year-old Lorain man was arrested for breaking into a school, a crime he told police he committed because he wanted to feed his family.