Gamers wait in line, plan day off to play shoot-’em-up ELYRIA — Please excuse my son from school today. He has “Halo 3” fever. It’s a plea many parents won’t dare utter to school officials today, but likely the reason behind at least some of the absences. After all, who can possibly think about school [...]

Clearview teacher run over, police say SHEFFIELD TWP. — A Clearview teacher who went into the high school parking lot in hopes of averting a much-talked-about fight Friday afternoon ended up being struck by a vehicle driven by a 22-year-old Lorain man. Joel Gleason was hit by a car driven by Victor Smith, the older [...]

LORAIN — The 21-year-old man charged with killing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son said the boy was accidentally injured, his attorney said. Damien Hiley, 21, told police that he was baby-sitting Nicolas Shaw on Sept. 10 when the boy fell in two separate incidents, striking his head both times, according to attorney James Gay. “He told [...]

LORAIN — The Lorain school district hopes to use its newly acquired federal grant money within a few weeks, schools Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson said Monday. The district learned Friday it would be receiving more than $10 million —$3.4 million each year for the next three years — from the U.S. Department of Education’s Magnet Schools [...]

COLUMBUS — Ohio’s death penalty system is so flawed it should be immediately suspended while the state conducts a thorough review of its fairness and accuracy, a team of lawyers concluded in a study released Monday. The system is full of racial and geographic imbalances, too many defendants don’t get adequate legal help and too [...]

ELYRIA — Two 13-year-old boys are being accused of pilfering thousands of dollars worth of goodies from the Apple Festival and then selling the ill-gotten gains to others in their neighborhood, a police report said. The teens told their parents they were spending the night at one another’s home, and when the festival closed Friday [...]

CLEVELAND — An Avon Lake woman whose ex-boyfriend e-mailed nude pictures of her to her co-workers was awarded $200,000 in damages by a Cuyahoga County jury last week. John Burke, the woman’s attorney, said William Barlock Jr., of Columbia Township, became angry with the woman after a friend told him he had seen her and [...]