Saturday, Aug. 18 5:43 p.m. — 5900 block of Lear-Nagle, theft of a four-wheeler, valued at $7,000. Sunday, Aug. 19 9:45 a.m. — 34600 block of Plantation Place, a vehicle hit a house and a man was found passed out inside the garage. Michael Frazier, 48, North Ridgeville, was charged with driving under the influence, [...]

JASON MILLER / CHRONICLE Local artist David Pavlak in his Elyria home, where he is working on completing a series of murals that will hang on the walls of the North Ridgeville branch library. NORTH RIDGEVILLE — Strategically placed inside David Pavlak’s art studio are huge paintings so real, you feel a part of them. [...]

  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The woman who paid $7,400 on eBay for 22 Michael Vick football cards, chewed up and slobbered on by two Missouri dogs, acknowledges she hadn’t heard of the star football player before he was indicted for dogfighting. But Laura Norton-Dye, 40, of Cape Girardeau, wanted to send the message [...]

ATLANTA (AP) — Richard Jewell lived for more than a decade with the shame caused by being wrongly linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing. The former security guard died Wednesday without closure with the newspaper he accused of starting the frenzy. Jewell, who had diabetes, kidney problems and was on dialysis for several days recently, [...]

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Large grocery and discount stores across the country have been targeted by a caller who threatens to blow up shoppers and workers with a bomb if employees fail to wire money to an account overseas, authorities said. Frightened workers have wired thousands of dollars — and in one case took off [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — NASA’s images from the Apollo moon landings, the Voyager planetary flybys and the many space shuttle missions will be accessible through a central, searchable Web site under a partnership between the space agency and the nonprofit Internet Archive. The archive will spend millions of dollars to consolidate images that are already [...]