LORAIN — Police have arrested the 21-year-old boyfriend of a Lorain woman on charges of killing the woman’s 2-year-old son.Police Capt. Russ Cambarare said Damien Hiley, of Cleveland, was charged Thursday afternoon after he was interviewed by detectives at the police station about the injuries that led to the death of Nicolas Shaw of Pin [...]

Now that an autopsy has determined that a Sheffield Township toddler’s death was a homicide, family members want justice and closure. Zyairre Zyairre DaShaun Pasenow was laid to rest three days before his second birthday, but his great-grandmother, Ann Hydock of Lorain, said he suffered long before he died. He spent the last four months [...]

ELYRIA — The scene: Broad Street in downtown Elyria. It’s Thursday afternoon and the sun is shining, but Loomis Camera employee Tom Peters looks as though his thoughts are dark and brooding. Across the street in Ely Square, a few filmmakers are working on a scene for an independent film. Peters pouts his lip, shoots [...]

MOUNT HOPE, W.Va. — In his darkest moments, Jack Whittaker has sometimes wondered if winning the nearly $315 million Powerball game was really worth it. The jackpot that was the stuff of dreams turned into a nightmare: His wife left him and his drug-addicted granddaughter — his protege and heir — died. He endured constant [...]

TRENTON, N.J. — The state Supreme Court has dealt with gay marriage, education funding and abortion rights — and now, it can add "inflatable rat” to the list.    The case is about whether a town can ban a 20-foot inflatable rat. The super-sized rat — on its hind legs and bearing fangs — had [...]

WASHINGTON — President Bush, defending an unpopular war, ordered gradual reductions in U.S. forces in Iraq on Thursday night and said, "The more successful we are, the more American troops can return home.”    Yet, Bush firmly rejected calls to endthe war, insisting that Iraq will still need military, economic and political support from Washington [...]