HOUSTON (AP) — The tropical weather season revved up Thursday as the Atlantic’s first hurricane formed and quickly strengthened, and as Tropical Storm Erin’s remnants soaked rain-weary Texas, snarling rush-hour traffic and killing at least two people. Even as they fetched dozens of stranded drivers, authorities in Houston and San Antonio looked over their shoulders [...]

ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. (AP) — Jurors hearing the homicide case against a couple who own a nursing home where 35 people died after Hurricane Katrina saw photos Thursday of bodies lying in muck and storm-tossed debris. The pictures were shown over the objection of lawyers for Salvador and Mabel Mangano, owners of St. Rita’s nursing [...]

LaGrange police Thursday, Aug. 9 11:20 a.m. – 100 block Harmon Court, Abigail White, 19, 200 block Forest St., LaGrange, possession of drugs and drug abuse instruments and two counts of endangering children after she allegedly was found passed out in the bathroom of a house where she was baby-sitting two young boys. A neighbor [...]

A landlord’s ‘bug bomb’ at a condemned house sends insects scurrying for a new place to hide … neighbors’ reisdences.

LORAIN — Representatives from Steelworkers Local 1104 worked past a strike deadline late Wednesday to try to negotiate a new contract with Republic Engineered Products. As of press time, negotiations were still under way in Pittsburgh, union officials said. But during a brief break from the negotiating table late Wednesday, union President Don Golden seemed [...]

ELYRIA — Officials at a Lakewood construction firm, Regency Construction Services, said Wednesday it made the short list of companies that could serve as construction manager for the new Elyria High School project. Regency President Tari Rivera told Elyria school board members Wednesday that her company is among two being considered to oversee the $68 [...]