LORAIN — A $3 million loan to keep Lorain Schools from going broke in the spring and being taken over by the state was approved Thursday night by Board of Education members. Despite passage last month of a levy that will raise about $3.1 million annually and $7.3 million in cuts earlier this year, the [...]

COLUMBUS — Ronald Post’s attorneys argued to the Ohio Parole Board today that the convicted killer should be spared because of lingering questions over his guilt in the 1983 murder of Elyria motel clerk Helen Vantz. Assistant Ohio Public Defender Rachel Troutman said Post doesn’t deny involvement in the Vantz killing, but insists he waited [...]

BOARDMAN — A thief who made off with cash from a Salvation Army red kettle at an Ohio mall this week apparently has had a change of heart. Police near Youngstown say that two days after the kettle was emptied out, someone left $130 and an apology at the Salvation Army. A note found at [...]

Herbie — his new name — is being nursed back to health after a police officer found him emaciated and barely alive this weekend. He’s in the care of the Lorain Animal Clinic, where a spokeswoman said she doubted he’d be put up for adoption because the clinic staff had taken such a liking to [...]