Lorain Mayor Craig Foltin will leave his job in August to take the top finance post at Cuyahoga Community College. City Republicans will choose a replacement to serve out the remaining months of Foltin’s term, which expires at the end of the year. Foltin, who announced earlier this year that he would not run for [...]

Homeowners voice concerns over bid to purchase properties ELYRIA — Less than half of about 40 property owners whose homes will be razed or land purchased to make way for a new Elyria High School showed up at a Tuesday meeting where school officials laid out their plans for the coming months. School officials made [...]

Three boys charged with tossing objects off Lorain bridge LORAIN — A 4-year-old Lorain boy suffered minor cuts on his leg after three Lorain boys threw bricks and an iron railroad spike off the East 28th Street overpass Monday, shattering the windows on two passing cars, a Lorain police report and victims said. The three [...]

Florida woman hurt by leaping sturgeon ROCK BLUFF, Fla. — A woman was injured over the weekend by a leaping sturgeon, the latest incident involving the flying fish on the Suwannee River, officials said. Tara Spears, 32, of Bell, was knocked unconscious by the animal on Sunday while boating on the river north of Rock [...]

CLEVELAND — Whether the Cavs win or lose the NBA Finals, they’ve already done something that might be even more astounding — made the entire Northeast Ohio community “Rise Up” as one. That fact was on pulsating display Tuesday afternoon when more than 1,000 people crowded into downtown Cleveland’s Mall B square for a Cavs [...]

LORAIN — Lorain teachers who didn’t lose their jobs last week won’t get a pay raise this year, but they’ll get three pay increases over the following two years. The raises are included in the Lorain Education Association’s new contract that was approved by the union’s membership last week and by the Lorain school board [...]