District may rehire some laid-off teachers LORAIN — Lorain School District officials, who have endured plenty of hard knocks these past few months with a massive deficit and teacher layoffs, discovered Friday the district will receive $3.43 million in federal money. The money was awarded from the U.S. Department of Education’s Magnet Schools Assistance Program. [...]

What’s the weather going to be like? Depends who you ask. ELYRIA — Get ready for driving snows and long bouts of freezing temperatures this winter. Wait — make that warmer-than-average temperatures and light flurries. What? Predictions for winter 2008 are helter-skelter, depending on who’s being asked, and even competing almanacs are coming up with [...]

Mother: Friend gave son antidepressant LORAIN — Police are investigating a Lorain woman’s complaint that her 11-year-old son’s friend gave him a prescription antidepressant because he was feeling down, a Lorain police report said. The woman told police that a 12-year-old girl gave her son an unknown quantity of generic Paxil pills. The woman said [...]

COLUMBUS — The president of a technical college whose school is under investigation by the state attorney general’s office charged more than $25,000 in travel expenses to a credit card, a newspaper reported Saturday. Hocking College President John Light totaled $9,909 in charges for three trips to Chicago, along with other trips to Nashville, Philadelphia, [...]

COLUMBUS — Traveling carnival companies in Ohio would have to provide police with the names of all employees under proposed legislation. The bill comes after a court-ordered check of a carnival company by Athens County Prosecutor David Warren last year revealed many of the company’s workers had prior felony convictions, back child support orders and [...]