LORAIN — A plan to remove Lorain Schools from academic emergency and avoid a state academic takeover in three years was outlined by Superintendent Tom Tucker Tuesday. Tucker told Board of Education members at their meeting that the school district is intensifying math and reading tutoring and increasing accountability and efficiency of administrators. The district [...]

LOS ANGELES — Christopher Dorner was engaged in a shootout with federal authorities in the Big Bear, Calif., area Tuesday, a law enforcement source told the Los Angeles Times. The shooting occurred after Dorner burglarized a home, tied up a couple and stole their car, the source said. It was not immediately clear whether Dorner [...]

CLEVELAND — Cleveland is one step closer to prohibiting drivers from talking on cellphones without using hand-free devices. WEWS-TV reports that a bill is moving through the city council. It goes to another committee later this month and would make it illegal for drivers to talk with a cellphone to their ear. The law would [...]

LAGRANGE — Keystone buses lined the newly black-topped parking lot as middle school students had their faces plastered to the windows — eager with anticipation for a glimpse at their new school. On Monday, Keystone Middle School Principal Tim Jenkins held a cup of coffee, smiled and opened the doors to the new middle school. [...]

ELYRIA — Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge’s recent affidavit explaining his dealings with a neurologist in the case of convicted killer Melissa Dovala contained “material inconsistencies,” a court filing quoted the attorney who worked with Burge on Dovala’s 2005 trial as saying. Dovala’s current attorneys are pushing to have her case given a [...]