LORAIN — Two people were arrested after officers were sent to control a situation with a Nord Center patient. At 6:38 p.m. Tuesday, police were sent to the 800 block of G Street for a large fight with a man who allegedly had a gun. Officers arrived to find Richard Moore in the street yelling. [...]

LORAIN — Eighteen workers are being laid off in the latest round of cuts by Mercy Regional Medical Center. Mercy spokesman Janis Yergan said Tuesday she didn’t have the job titles of the workers or how long they’d been employed at the hospital at 3700 Kolbe Road, but said that the layoffs would occur in [...]

LORAIN — Plans for the $73 million new Lorain High School are on budget and on schedule, Board of Education members were told Tuesday. “It’s all good news,” said Dana Strizzi, senior project manager for Hammond Construction, the Canton-based company managing the project. “Everything you have seen here, our budget will accept. It’s pretty exciting [...]

LORAIN — A mother and her 8-month-old baby suffered smoke inhalation after a fire Tuesday. The fire, at 3259 Lincoln St., left the family of three without a home. Assistant Lorain Fire Chief Roy Cochran said firefighters arrived at the scene at 10:40 a.m. and found the building on fire. They put it out 10 [...]

LORAIN — A deputy clerk of courts in Lorain Municipal Court was arrested this morning during a drug raid at a Columbo Lane home. Sierra Dozier, 25, was charged with possession of marijuana, endangering children and permitting drug abuse, Lorain police Lt. Roger Watkins said. Also arrested during the raid in which roughly 6 pounds [...]

ELYRIA — Former Lorain County Community Action Agency Director Robert Gilchrist pleaded guilty Monday to four felony counts of illegal voting, but those charges will be dropped if he completes a year-long diversion program. The program gives Gilchrist the chance to emerge from the long-running controversy over where he voted in four separate elections without [...]

LORAIN — A city man was charged with child endangering after he was arrested for allegedly driving drunk with a 14-year-old relative in the car. At 1:17 a.m. Sunday, police received a report from a caller that a driver was traveling recklessly on Broadway and that he had almost struck a telephone pole. Police stopped [...]

LORAIN — Working with longtime Street Department employee Danny Wyatt, new workers Tim Shinsky and Joseph Taylor patched a pothole on Hickory Hill Avenue on Thursday within 10 minutes of arriving. On Lorain’s notoriously bumpy roads, the department’s pothole-patching crew has its work cut out for it. Or rutted out. But voters have made the [...]

LORAIN — The Success for All reading improvement program may not be living up to its name. With Lorain Schools in academic emergency and controlled by a state Academic Distress Commission, the district is considering dumping the program. Several alternative programs will be considered by staff in a combined five exhibitions in the next two [...]