DAYTON — Most large and medium-sized cities in Ohio lost population over the past two years, even as many cities across the country saw gains, according to new U.S. census numbers out this week. The figures show that 14 out of 15 Ohio cities with at least 50,000 people had slight population declines from 2010 [...]

CLEVELAND — The man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for a decade in an Ohio house will never have to pay for another burger in his hometown. Charles Ramsey has been promised free burgers for life at more than a dozen Cleveland-area restaurants. The Plain Dealer [...]

LAGRANGE — Pittsfield Township Trustee Mark McConnell was again removed from the Rural Lorain County Water Authority board Wednesday after questions were raised about the legality of a secret ballot process used to vote him off the board last week. The revote was closer than the first vote last week, when the 26-member board voted [...]

Each night since 13-year-old Kaitlin Hall won the Regional Finals Spelling Bee, earning a ticket to the 86th National Scripps Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., she and her father have had the same bedtime routine. Kaitlin, a seventh-grader at Avon Middle School, gets ready for bed and then her father would come to tuck her [...]

ELYRIA — Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge is removing Bob Childers from the Lorain County Veterans Service Commission after complaints were raised about him by the Disabled Amearican Veterans chapters in Elyria and Lorain that he represented on the board. The removal will take effect May 31, Burge wrote in a May 14 [...]

State Rep. Dan Ramos, D-Lorain, has been named deputy whip of the Ohio House Democratic Caucus. The vote by his fellow Democrats on Tuesday places the former legislative staffer into the leadership of Ohio House Democrats, the first Hispanic to hold such a role. Ramos’ ascension to a leadership position comes as former Minority Leader [...]

ELYRIA — The Elyria mother whose 3-year-old child was found walking down the road alone four times was found guilty Tuesday of child endangering in Elyria Municipal Court. Latasha Andrewski, 33, was sentenced to pay $444 in fines and court costs, according to court records. A 30-day jail sentence was suspended on the condition that [...]

LORAIN — Democrats and Republicans will face off this summer, not at the ballot box, but across the ball diamond. Lorain County Commissioner Tom Williams, a Republican, and Lorain Mayor Chase Ritenauer, a Democrat, said Wednesday they are putting together a charity softball game that will pit their respective party elders and elected officials against [...]

ELYRIA — Albert Fine assaulted two other women before he allegedly killed and dismembered Catherine “Kat” Hoholski last year, according to court documents filed by prosecutors, who plan to use those incidents as evidence of past bad acts during Fine’s capital murder trial. Defense attorney Dan Wightman objected to the information because he said it [...]