'Local and State'
Heart attack ruled homicide in bar fight
LORAIN - The death of a Lorain man who collapsed after an assault outside a Lorain bar on Oct. 18 has been ruled a homicide.
Lorain County Coroner Paul Matus on Friday ruled the death of Eric Witcher, 32, a homicide, saying he died as a result of cardio pulmonary arrest.
Witcher was one of more than [...]
Brookside High School teen rules the blacktop
PENFIELD TWP. - Just call Jessica Twydell queen of the road.
On Friday, Jessica, 17, of Brookside High School, beat out 22 other teens to win $500 in what might become an annual driving competition sponsored by AAA Insurance.
To do so, she successfully tackled an obstacle course set up at the Lorain County Joint Vocational School [...]
Lorain/Sheffield/Sheffield Lake notebook: Nov. 7, 2009
Singing Angels holiday concert
The Singing Angels will perform a holiday concert at 3 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Palace Theater, 617 Broadway, Lorain.
Pete Schneider will be at the Mighty Wurlitzer organ at 2:30 p.m.
Tickets are $11 for adults and $6 for children younger than 12. Tickets are available at the Palace Box Office, (440) 245-2323, [...]
Union leader denies bribery charges
An Avon man who has been placed on leave from his job as president of a national railroad workers union has pleaded not guilty to federal bribery, embezzlement and other charges.
Edward Rodzwicz denied the allegations against him during a hearing earlier this week in the U.S. District Court in St. Louis. He was arrested at [...]
Getting a kick out of a schoolyard classic
Adam Wright
The Chronicle-Telegram
LORAIN - A lot has changed since these 22 Lorain residents were last in grade school.
But there’s one thing that hasn’t: Kickball is still the most fun part of the day.
The men and women who make up Lorain County’s adult kickball team, the Sharks, went undefeated this past summer and won in a [...]
Brunner, Fisher to speak in Oberlin this weekend
OBERLIN - Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher and Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner - the two Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate seat held by George Voinovich - will be speaking this weekend at the Power Shift Ohio Summit.
Fisher and Elizabeth Kucinich, the wife of U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Cleveland, will speak at 8 p.m. today [...]
3 victims of Cleveland serial killer ID’d, but some relatives reluctant to come forward
CLEVELAND — 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. But relatives with checkered pasts in the hardscrabble neighborhood seem reluctant to come forward.
Area pastors are urging families [...]
Elyria loses fight to halt sewer project
ELYRIA — The city lost its efforts Thursday to temporarily halt work on the Lorain County Rural Wastewater District’s sewer project before it began.
Lisa Eschleman, chair of the Ohio Environmental Review Appeals Commission, said the board unanimously rejected the city’s request for a stay on the LORCO project. A full hearing on the city’s request [...]
Lorain Community hospital, physician’s group form partnership
LORAIN — Community Regional Medical Center has formed a partnership with Tri-City Family Medicine.
The partnership will mean a Tri-City office will be located in a new facility that Community Health Partners, the hospital’s parent company, has planned for about 33 acres of land it recently purchased in Avon near the state Route 611 interchange off [...]
Lorain superintendent tells of district’s advances
LORAIN — In her State of the Schools address Thursday, Lorain Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson made just one mention of Tuesday’s failure of the district’s 6.43-mill levy designed to eliminate a $7.3 million projected deficit.
“Good afternoon — after last Tuesday it could be a better afternoon,” Atkinson said.
The remainder of her speech to several hundred people [...]