Midview scare leads to ‘off the charts’ readings in Carlisle Twp. BRUCE BISHOP / CHRONICLE An Eaton Township rescue truck sits outside the Midview High School after a reported mercury spill there on Wednesday. CARLISLE TWP. — Local and state emergency response officials walked into a Butternut Ridge Road home Wednesday scanning for levels of [...]

ELYRIA — Defense attorneys hoping to have county Common Pleas Judge James Burge declare the state’s lethal injection process unconstitutional have a lot of reading to do. On Wednesday, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction turned over nearly 700 pages of information on how it carries out executions — information that Burge had ordered [...]

NEW YORK — More than at any time over the past 30 years, the future of capital punishment is in limbo. The Supreme Court will hear arguments next term in a momentous lethal injection case. While it’s widely expected that executions will resume in some form following that case, the moment gives Americans a chance [...]

Burglars have had it pretty good in the western portion of Lorain County of late. Since Nov. 28, eight homes near Russia Road and state Route 113 have been broken into, and items including jewelry, guns, electronics and cash have been stolen. The burglaries are similar to two others along Gifford and Gore Orphanage roads [...]

LORAIN — Two men were stealthy enough late Tuesday to creep into a local Goodwill store, rob it at gunpoint, hold up a woman at knifepoint and leave — all without letting most of the store’s employees know anything was afoot. The men escaped about 8:15 p.m. with a total of $1,220 from the Cooper [...]

ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. — When a thief started taking cash from his register over the weekend, Dunkin’ Donuts employee Dustin Hoffmann fought back by clobbering the man with a ceramic mug. But Hoffmann admits he was less worried about the stolen cash than how he might look on the video-sharing site YouTube. “What was going [...]

Car fire destroys Chrysler in Elyria ELYRIA — There was nothing firefighters could do to save a Chrysler Sebring engulfed in flames just after 1 p.m. Tuesday, according to Elyria fire Lt. Robert Majoras. The car, an older model with temporary tags, melted on the side of 12th Street near West Avenue. Majoras said the [...]