ELYRIA — Elyria school teachers are hoping the community steps up to support a program that will succeed only if funding is provided through grants and donations from community members. Mark Sutter, director of academic services at Elyria schools, said 59 Elyria teachers have applied to receive grants that could fund educational programs the teachers [...]

AVON — Avon police have charged a 40-year-old man who allegedly believed he was meeting up with a 15-year-old girl for sex. Charles T. Milhous Jr., 40, of Garfield Heights, was charged with importuning, attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and possession of criminal tools after police said he solicited sex online from someone [...]

COLUMBUS — A privacy consultant who set out to test the security of Ohio’s publicly available voting data says he has been able to determine how some people voted on a yes-no issue. The findings James Moyer reported on the Internet concerned election officials and prompted them to work with the state Legislature to fix [...]

BRIGHTON TWP. — Red flags that could have indicated a teenage boy was on the verge of violence just weren’t present in 16-year-old Wellington High School student Daniel Petric, according to those who knew him. The preacher’s son allegedly shot and killed his mother and shot his father in the face Saturday evening. Daniel Petric [...]

LORAIN — Lorain City Council’s Police and Fire Committee still wants to iron out some issues with a proposed pit bull ordinance before sending a recommendation to Council. Mike Mattei, the city’s animal control officer, told the committee that pit bulls are becoming more of a problem every day and pulled out numbers to support [...]

SHEFFIELD — Village Council on Monday approved plans to bring a 106-room Holiday Inn to the state Route 254 exit off Interstate 90. In a 4-2 vote, Council agreed to allow the hotel to be built on a three-acre plot of land near Giant Eagle. Construction will begin in spring 2008 with the hotel opening [...]

LORAIN — Lorain Schools Treasurer Ryan Ghizzoni said Monday night that the district may be forced to ask voters to approve a levy to become financially solvent. Ghizzoni’s statement, that the district needed additional funding “including but not limited to” a levy, came during a school board meeting that included a presentation from representatives of [...]