Father and daughter are competing on NBC weight-loss reality show Few people want to be known as losers. But North Ridgeville native Lynn Westphal, 60, and his 31-year-old daughter Jenni, an Elyria native now living in Lakewood, have battled with their weight for years. Now they not only want to be known as losers, they [...]

Elyrian charged in two robberies at Subway ELYRIA — Maybe it was the smell of the cold cuts, or more likely the scent of cold-hard cash that drew a man suspected of robbing the same Subway restaurant twice in the past month to try again. Johnie McCormick, 23, of Elyria, was charged with two counts [...]

ELYRIA — One day after county Common Pleas Judge James Burge released state documents detailing the state’s lethal injection protocols, a murder suspect is asking another county judge to throw out the death penalty as a possible sentence in his case. Simpson Neil Simpson is the only one of three men charged in connection with [...]

AVON LAKE — When political novice Rob Berner walked into City Hall many years ago, he knew he faced an uphill battle proving to residents he was not like his predecessors. CHUCK HUMEL / CHRONICLE Outgoing Avon Lake Mayor Rob Berner talks about his accomplishments in his office Friday. Avon Lake could not take another [...]

Elyria police Wednesday, Dec. 26 7:45 a.m. – 100 block West Ave., two propane tanks stolen. 7:50 a.m. – Meadow Drive and Abbe Road, Felix Roldan, 40, Lorain, warrant. 9 a.m. – 100 block Charles Court, storm windows stolen. 9:57 a.m. – 1000 block N. Abbe Road, copper wire stolen. 11:50 a.m. – Horizon Daycare, [...]

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — For nearly seven years Melina Salazar did her best to put on a smile and tend to the every need of her most loyal and cantankerous customer. She made sure his food was as hot as he wanted, even if it meant he burned his mouth. And she smiled through his demands [...]

MANSFIELD — Police were digging Friday in the backyard of a home where two northeast Ohio people were allegedly killed about eight years ago, a detective said. The search team also was at the site Thursday, when police recovered bits of clothing, fingernails and long blond hair, the Mansfield News Journal reported. “We did a [...]