The Wellington preacher, who police say was shot by his son, has been released from the hospital. Rev. Mark Petric, 45, was discharged from MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland Friday , according to a hospital spokeswoman. Petric`s house on Peck Wadsworth Road in Brighton Township, where the bloody scene took place last month, was empty Tuesday [...]

LORAIN – City Council passed the controversial “pay as you throw” trash plan Monday, just two weeks after rejecting it and slamming the lid on millions of dollars in recycling grant money for the city and the rest of Lorain County. Lorain`s approval gives the county Solid Waste Management District the green light to implement [...]

Officials in Lorain plan to reopen the city jail between mid-December and New Year`s Day. The city has spent $350,000 over the past three months to renovate the old jail on the third floor of the police station on West Erie Avenue, dividing it into five blocks of seven cells each and 34 beds. There [...]

LORAIN – City Council`s approval wasn`t needed to give Riverview Realty Management Co. an option to buy land at Riverbend Commerce Park, according to city planner Don Romancik. During a meeting Sunday where eastside residents raised concerns about the proposed development of a limestone grinding factory at Riverbend, Councilman Tony Krasienko said he planned to [...]

LORAIN – The Lorain County Community Action Agency is making some changes to help steer the agency and the people it serves in the right direction, according to executive director William Locke. The agency, which came under fire in 2006 after accusations of inflating enrollment numbers and misusing grant money, hopes some new services will [...]

ELYRIA – City, county, state and federal offices will be closed Thursday and Friday in observance of the Thanksgiving Day holiday. Exceptions are safety services, such as police and fire departments, which will be on duty. Sanitation collections by Elyria and Allied Waste Services will not be made on Thursday, but will resume on Friday, [...]

Village is a stop on statewide cycling tour this summer  WELLINGTON – The roads around Wellington will resemble rivers of bicycles when an estimated 3,000 people descend on the Lorain County Fairgrounds for the 20th annual Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure in June. The cyclists arrive June 14, camp overnight and start cycling an average of [...]