NORTH RIDGEVILLE — Outspoken defense attorney Chris Crobaugh died of a massive heart attack Tuesday at the age of 61. “He was a loving and caring person, he really was, beneath that rough exterior,” said Susan Crobaugh, his wife of 25 years. Lawyers remembered him fondly Tuesday as news of his death spread through the [...]

LORAIN — The police officer who used a Taser to subdue a 14-year-old autistic boy acted within police policy, a police official said. Police Lt. Thomas Mize said he was not there Sunday night when officers made the decision to bring the teen under control with two short cycles from a Taser; however, a review [...]

COLUMBUS — After a summer full of political wrangling and fingerpointing over the sudden proliferation of gaming machines, House Republicans said Tuesday they will introduce a plan they previously opposed: allowing game players to win modest prizes but not cash. The mind-boggling complexity of regulating machines with names like Tic Tac Fruit has House Republicans [...]

AVON LAKE — Helen Garbash could only watch helplessly Tuesday afternoon as an elderly man pulled out of a parking spot in front of her eatery and plowed through two pillars on the front of her building, crashing to a halt on a tree trunk some 30 feet away. “With all the smoke and screeching, [...]

LORAIN — A partnership between Oberlin College and Lorain Schools may be the key to putting instrumental music programs back in the elementary schools. Lorain Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson said Tuesday that she may seek the help of college students to teach the program if the district doesn’t receive a federal grant to restore the program. [...]

15-year-old Elyria boy again charged with BB gun attack ELYRIA — One day after police charged a 15-year-old boy with cruelty to animals for shooting his mother’s dog with a BB gun, the teen was back at it again — this time hitting a 19-year-old woman in the leg, a police report said. On Tuesday [...]