Fire left rental uninhabitable  LORAIN — Another landlord could be in hot water for not scheduling a rental inspection on a property that caught fire because of an electrical problem Sunday evening. Records from the city’s Building Department show that Landlord Leasing Inc., which owns the now uninhabitable home at 1724 E. 32nd St., has [...]

SHEFFIELD TWP. — County Engineer Ken Carney’s inflated campaign war chest may have scared away potential opponents in the 2004 election, an investigation by the Ohio secretary of state has concluded. The state’s report, completed Monday, recommends that the county Board of Elections, which requested the review of Carney’s campaign finance reports from 2000 through [...]

EATON TWP. — Thieves that have been stealing from unlocked cars scored a police radio and a pair of handcuffs last week when they got into a sheriff’s deputy’s car. Capt. Jim Drozdowski said he parked his county vehicle outside his  home last Wednesday but apparently forgot to lock the door. The next morning, he [...]

LORAIN — The attorney for a Lorain man accused of hosting a cockfight inside his Sheffield Township chicken coop pleaded not guilty on his client’s behalf Friday in Lorain Municipal Court. Attorney Michael Barkus entered the plea for 83-year-old Felix Rosario, who is charged with three counts each of cruelty to animals and animal fighting. [...]

LORAIN — A Lorain man who allegedly walked into a local bank Aug. 6 and robbed it of about $2,000 is in federal custody facing three counts of federal unarmed bank robbery after the FBI blamed him for that robbery and for two other bank robberies in Cleveland two days earlier, a U.S. District Court [...]

A Lorain man died Saturday from injuries he sustained in an automobile accident in which Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers said he was driving the wrong way on a major interstate. Charles Bennington, 65, was driving east in the westbound lanes of Interstate 70 at 3:25 a.m. Saturday when the accident happened, said Sgt. Don [...]

ELYRIA — The mother of a Portville, N.Y., boy who was cut on a ride at the Lorain County Fair two years ago is suing the amusement company that ran the “Tower of Terror Slide” at the fair. According to the lawsuit, filed Monday in county Common Pleas Court, the boy cut his arm on [...]