LORAIN — Repeal of a local hiring agreement to designed to increase employment for Lorain and Lorain County residents on city construction projects will be voted on at a meeting scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday. City Councilman Tony Richardson, D-at large, blocked a vote on the repeal at Wednesday night’s special City Council meeting. Richardson [...]

The Elyria Post of The Ohio State Highway Patrol reported the following OVI arrests over the past two weeks in Lorain County: Bradly Block, 20, Amherst – Refused BAC Test Jerome A. Caffey, 40, Sandusky – Tested .116 BAC Anthony Ruiz, 24, Lorain – Refused BAC Test Benjamin R. Clark, 21, Vermilion – No Test [...]

LUCASVILLE — Ohio has executed a man who fatally shot an adult bookstore security guard at the end of a multistate crime spree nearly 20 years ago. Frederick Treesh, sentenced to die for killing Henry Dupree in a 1994 robbery, was pronounced dead at 10:37 a.m. Wednesday. Attorneys for the 48-year-old Treesh argued he accepted [...]

STRONGSVILLE — Some students in a northeast Ohio school district are showing their displeasure with a strike that’s keeping teachers out of the classrooms. Around two dozen Strongsville students, some holding signs, demonstrated outside the board of education office Tuesday night in the suburb southwest of Cleveland. Some of the students said they were protesting [...]

CLEVELAND — A Cleveland judge who made a woman wear an “idiot” sign in public for driving around a school bus is calling for the public shaming of a man convicted of threatening police officers. In addition to sentencing 58-year-old Richard Dameron to 90 days in jail, Cleveland Judge Pinkey Carr ordered him to stand [...]

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Advocates are lobbying Congress this week to protect a Great Lakes environmental program from across-the-board cuts that will hammer many federal programs unless a budget agreement is reached. The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is designed to make progress on some of the region’s biggest environmental threats, such as invasive species, toxic [...]