New ‘flex body shop` will cost at least $350 million AVON LAKE – Just days after the Ohio Assembly Plant was on the chopping block during union contract negotiations, Ford Motor Co. is investing at least $350 million in the plant, county officials said. Avon Lake Mayor Rob Berner said Ford could potentially invest as [...]

ELYRIA – Elyria Mayor Bill Grace had the luxury of name recognition as an eight-year incumbent, not to mention being an Elyria native, a former councilman and a Democrat in a largely Democratic city. But on Tuesday night, a first-time political candidate running without party support came within a few hundred votes – roughly a [...]

LORAIN –Council plans to meet tonight to reconsider approving the controversial “pay as you throw” program it effectively vetoed for the entire county Monday. But whether the meeting will make any difference remains to be seen. In order to even reconsider the issue, nine Council members must be present for the meeting. Of those nine, [...]

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AVON LAKE –  It took three times, but Karl “KC“ Zuber finally will be known as mayor. After unsuccessfully running for mayor in 1993 and 2001, Zuber bested incumbent Mayor Robert J. Berner on Tuesday night. Zuber collected 3,268 votes to Berner`s 2,307 votes, or 58.6 percent to 41.4 percent, according to unofficial election results. [...]

ELYRIA – County voters overwhelmingly shot down a sales tax hike Tuesday, defeating by a 4-to-1 margin a measure that county commissioners insisted was vital to avoiding budget cuts and layoffs in the coming years. “You can talk until you`re blue in the face, but some people aren`t going to be receptive,” Commissioner Betty Blair [...]

AVON – When Chad Brant moved to Avon from Middleburg Heights three years ago, he was upset that there was no public recreation center for his family to use. “When we got here, we figured we were pretty much out of luck as far as physical fitness goes,” he said. That will change soon. Voters [...]

LORAIN – A California woman wanted by police for kidnapping her own child from Santa Rosa, Calif., was arrested in Lorain late last week along with the child`s father, a Lorain police report said. The girl, 3, was taken by police and placed into protective custody. Renee Badger, 31, and William Clark, 40, both of [...]