Lorain/Elyria, OH
'Local and State'
Elyria/Elyria Township notebook: Nov. 15, 2009
Eastern Heights Neighborhood Watch meets
The Eastern Heights Neighborhood Watch is getting together at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Elyria police station in the community room. Residents are welcome to come and discuss the issues that they believe are affecting the neighborhood.
Basketball program seeks Lil Pioneers
A basketball program designed for young athletes, “The Elyria Lil Pioneers [...]
Police investigate theft at Elyria store
ELYRIA - Police are investigating whether two men stole jewelry from one downtown store Thursday and then tried to pawn it at a second store, stealing more jewelry in the process.
“Until we look into it further, it’s hard to say,” police Sgt. Lee Frank said.
The first theft took place just after 1 p.m. at New [...]
Man arrested for rape, kidnapping
LORAIN - A 30-year-old Lorain man was arrested early Monday on charges of rape and kidnapping.
Tracey Henry Hale is accused of dragging the
20-year-old Lorain victim from her friend’s car to Hale’s friend’s apartment in the 1000 block of Oberlin Ave. There, according to police, Hale’s friend let them inside and Hale raped the woman in [...]
Deliveryman robbed of $400 in Elyria
ELYRIA - A deliveryman was robbed of $400 at gunpoint Thursday evening while delivering food to the Midview Crossing apartments in the 1800 block of Middle Ave.
China Wok took a food order around 6:15 p.m. for an apartment in M building, but when the 38-year-old deliveryman arrived, he was confronted by three men wearing black [...]
Man accused in killings arrested last year
CLEVELAND - A woman told authorities in December that a man now accused of killing 11 women had beaten her and tried to rape her, and police and prosecutors are blaming each other for abandoning a case that could have led them months earlier to the bodies scattered around the suspect’s stench-filled house.
The woman’s complaint, [...]
Grafton mom is a one-woman USO
GRAFTON — Marilyn Riddle has been providing positive morale through care packages for hundreds of men and women who are serving overseas in the United States Armed Forces.
For nearly six years, Riddle has transformed her home in Grafton into a mini warehouse fully loaded with toiletries, gum, candy, wet wipes, hand sanitizer, lotions, magazines and [...]
County OKs cost-cutting measures
ELYRIA — County investment income dropped from $8.3 million in 2007 to $5.8 million last year and is expected to be $2.9 million this year, Lorain County Treasurer Daniel Talarek said Thursday.
In an attempt to squeeze every dollar possible from the public funds, the county’s investment advisory committee agreed to two of Talarek’s proposals, which [...]
Firm to check North Ridgeville bridges
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — The city must have four of seven major bridges inspected by Dec. 1 to keep alive a shot at federal money for projects including the long-sought widening of Center Ridge Road isn’t jeopardized.
The city is hoping to secure about $15 million of the projected $35 million needed to widen a 1.3-mile stretch [...]
Libraries’ collaboration earns award
ELYRIA — Housed in a new three-story building on the campus of Lorain County Community College, the Mike and Barbara Bass Library/Community Resource Center is unique in Ohio.
Because of the innovative collaboration of a college library with a public library, representatives from the college and the Elyria Public Library System were honored Monday with the [...]
No charges filed in Elyria Catholic threat case
ELYRIA — The investigation into threats made against four Elyria Catholic High School students by a fellow student is closed, officials said Thursday.
No criminal charges will be filed against the 16-year-old Lorain boy who reportedly made the remarks while working on a school religion project with three other students at a Lorain home, said Lorain [...]