ELYRIA – With the brand-new, $10.4 million Elyria Municipal Court nearing completion, Judge Lisa Locke Graves can hardly wait to shed the current courthouse`s checkered history. After all, it`s not easy to maintain the proper judicial decorum when folks still refer to one of the courtrooms as a former lingerie department. The new city courthouse [...]

LORAIN – About 100 people who are worried about dust, odor and truck traffic from a proposed limestone grinding factory grilled representatives of Oglebay Norton Co. on Sunday about plans to build the plant in the 200-acre Riverbend Commerce Park south of Missouri and Colorado avenues. People toured the site across the Black River from [...]

DETROIT – In another blow to the Motor City`s tarnished image, Detroit pushed past St. Louis to become the nation`s most dangerous city, according to a private research group`s controversial analysis, released Sunday, of annual FBI crime statistics. The study drew harsh criticism even before it came out. The American Society of Criminology launched a [...]

VERMILION – Three men were playing “truth or dare” when they broke into a home and caused more than $50,000 in damage, police said. Justin Hoag, 21, of Lorain, Steven Mahl, 18, and Joshua Mason, 18, both of Elyria, were arrested Saturday night after they bragged about it and tipsters saw stolen items in their [...]

What started out as a hobby for Grant Davis quickly turned into a family business. Need we mention that Grant is only 11? Grant said he always knew he was cut out to run a business. It was him, after all, who encouraged picking bunches of strawberries when the family headed out on a fun [...]