Lorain County News

This is our first installment of Names in the News, where you'll be able to find out a little more about newsmakers in Avon and Avon Lake.

AMHERST - An empty section of lawn at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial of Lorain County played host Saturday to 98 empty chairs, each placed in honor of a local soldier who never came home.The empty chairs were in stark contrast to the people standing just a stone's throw away, there to pay homage to their lost lives and to publicly say "Thank you" ... (more)

ELYRIA - An Elyria police officer has sued the city and the Elyria Civil Service Commission over being denied a promotion to sergeant.Officer David Ross contends in his lawsuit, filed Friday in Lorain County Common Pleas Court, that he should have been named a sergeant before Officer JamesKerstetter, who was promoted posthumously as part of a ... (more)

SHEFFIELD LAKE - Police are investigating an 85-year-old man for allegedly raping his 23-year-old housekeeper at gunpoint when she came to his apartment for a weekly cleaning.Police Capt.

11:15 a.m. - 600 block Broad St., Gina McKee, 23, 400 block 10th St., arrested and charged with drug abuse, driving under suspension and changing course - signaling.

ELYRIA - Lorain County officials have reached a deal to maintain prescription drug coverage for those under the county-run health plan - at least until next week.The county originally had until noon today to make good on a $280,289.42 bill that was due May 13 to EnvisionRxOptions, the Twinsburg-based company that handles the prescription drug ... (more)

ELYRIA - A Lorain man was indicted on charges of vehicular assault and driving under suspension for allegedly running over an 18-month-old boy March 18 in Lorain.John Carter, 37, wasn't charged with fleeing the scene of the accident because he initially had stopped, Lorain County Prosecutor Dennis Will said.The evidence, Will said, indicated that ... (more)

Mitchell LORAIN - U.S. Marshals arrested a Lorain man who was on the county's most-wanted list after about two weeks of following up tips on his whereabouts.Marcus Mitchell, 25, was arrested about 10 this morning on warrants for failure to register as a sex offender and contempt of court for a charge of unlawful sexual conduct with a ... (more)

Avon Police responded to a call for assistant May 20 at Village at Avon Apartments on Chester Road at 11:26 p.m. Police arrested Crystal Buford, 44 and charged her with domestic violence, a felony, and resisting arrest.

Below is a list of Free Fun Friday events you, your family, and friends can take part in today Friday May 25, 2012.

The school board approved a resolution to place on the November ballot a levy to raise about $4.3 million annually for 10 years.

Michael Molnar had a tough time making the decision to leave Beachwood City Schools, he said Thursday.

This scene is somewhere in the West Shore Sun/Sun Sentinel area . This week's photo is in tribute to Memorial Day.

Veto Lopez has been practicing his spelling in hopes of doing well in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., next week.

ELYRIA - Lorain County has a major stake in the future of the Ohio Turnpike, county commissioners told representatives of the Ohio Department of Transportation and a Texas consulting firm that is studying whether the toll road should be privatized.The county has six exit ramps off the Turnpike, the most of any county the road runs through, and ... (more)

The new Avon Lake Goodwill store in Learwood Plaza in Avon Lake is the seventh Goodwill location to open in Lorain County.

Five fifth-grade junior girl scouts from Avon Lake Troop 157 recently carried out a donation drive for Genesis House, a Lorain County women's shelter.

The Ohio Department of Development has rejected the central portion of a deal backed by the city of Lorain and Lorain County commissioners that would have pumped $600,000 in local taxpayer funds into the cash-strapped St.

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

An air quality advisory has been issued to Lorain County, along with Cleveland and Akron for Wednesday by the Ohio EPA.