LORAIN — The Lorain Police Department wants to read Lorain City Councilman Dennis Flores’ emails and review his phone records as part of an investigation into how information on misconduct allegations against police officers became public. The city has served Flores with a subpoena for the names of his phone and email service providers. Geoffrey [...]

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Kathleen Ann Sutula has cleared a North Ridgeville man who took a loaded handgun and four knives into a movie theater last year of having weapons under disability, a decision that opens the door for the 20 guns seized by police to be returned to Scott A. Smith. The verdict [...]

LORAIN — U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Avon, is asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to commit money to repair the Lorain Harbor after it was ravaged by superstorm Sandy in October. The Corps of Engineers estimated that the harbor amassed $1.44 million in damages from the storm, which caused $17.7 million in damages to [...]

A bill co-sponsored by state Sen. Gayle Manning, R-North Ridgeville, seeks to give local school boards the authority to put levies on the ballot that would ask voters to approve tax hikes to be exclusively used for school safety and security. State law does not have any provision to allow school districts to put such [...]

ELYRIA  — A faulty gas furnace forced residents to vacate their home. Elyria Fire Department Capt. Jamison Norris said a heating system malfunctioned at 7:10 p.m. Friday in the 700 block of Case Avenue. “There was not a structure fire, but the malfunction created a smoke condition,” Norris said. According to the Lorain County auditor’s [...]