Sheffield police investigating SUV in high-speed chase
Sheffield police are investigating a high-speed car chase overnight that went into Elyria. Sheffield police Capt. William Visalden said that an officer on patrol saw a black sport-utility vehicle...
View ArticleProbation Department collecting donations for ‘Project Backpack’
ELYRIA — The Lorain County Adult Probation Department is gathering donations for its “Project Backpack” holiday event that will help the homeless staying at St. Joseph Overnight Shelter in Lorain....
View ArticleMistrial for Baltimore police officer in Freddie Gray death leaves both sides...
BALTIMORE — As jurors deliberated the fate of one of six police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, Baltimore braced for a possible repeat of the protests, destruction and dismay that...
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Attorney accused of hypnosis faces more charges
ELYRIA — The former Sheffield attorney accused of hypnotizing his female clients faces 17 new kidnapping charges in an indictment handed down by a Lorain County grand jury this week. Michael Fine...
View ArticleRecovered funds finally distributed
ELYRIA — After more than a decade of languishing in a bank account, money received by the city as partial reimbursement in the case of an Elyria police officer who stole from the Police Department’s...
View ArticleMore porn charges for Robert Ray
A former Lorain city official accused of possessing a massive collection of child pornography also was producing child pornography, according to a new federal indictment handed down this week. Robert...
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Kids get chance to ‘Shop With a Cop’ at Lorain Wal-Mart
LORAIN — Kids whose only interactions with police have been the times 911 has been called to their homes saw police in a different light Saturday during the annual Shop with a Cop event. ANNA...
View ArticleLorain police investigating toddler’s death
LORAIN—Lorain police are investigating the suspicious death of an 18-month-old child on Dec. 13. Police say Summer Shalodi, 30, has been charged with endangering children and tampering with evidence,...
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Lorain police investigating 18-month-old’s death
LORAIN — A Lorain woman has been charged with endangering children and tampering with evidence after an 18-month-old child died while in her care Dec. 13. Summer Shalodi Summer Shalodi, 30, called...
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Lorain woman whose car plunged into Lake Erie faces charges
LORAIN — A Lorain woman who allegedly led police on a high-speed chase that ended with her driving her car into Lake Erie has been charged, according to Lorain Municipal Court records. Kimberely...
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Driver in fatal crash indicted
ELYRIA — The driver of a car that crashed into an Amherst Township home and killed a mother sitting on a couch inside has been indicted. Adrianna Young Adrianna Young, 24, of Oberlin, is charged with...
View ArticleTexas prosecutor says no indictments in jail death of Sandra Bland; grand...
HEMPSTEAD, Texas — A grand jury decided on Monday that no felony crime was committed by the sheriff’s office or jailers in the treatment of a black woman who died in a Southeast Texas county jail last...
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Two Norwalk residents killed in crash
PITTSFIELD TWP. — An Elyria resident was flown to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland on Tuesday and two Norwalk residents died after a motor vehicle accident Tuesday. BRUCE BISHOP /...
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Lorain men sentenced for attempted murder of Oklahoma man
ELYRIA — Just before they were sentenced to lengthy prison sentences Tuesday, two 19-year-old Lorain men denied they were responsible for shooting an Oklahoma man last year in what prosecutors have...
View ArticleMan gets 25 years in fraud that took down credit union
CLEVELAND — An Avon Lake man was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in federal prison for obtaining nearly $11 million in fraudulent loans that authorities said helped cause one of the biggest credit union...
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Driver hospitalized after North Ridgeville crash
BRUCE BISHOP/CHRONICLENorth Ridgeville police officers investigate an accident scene on Bainbridge Road. NORTH RIDGEVILLE — A head-on collision between two cars on Bainbridge Road on Tuesday sent the...
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Pair arrested after two-car shootout in Elyria
ELYRIA — Police arrested two Lorain men after gunshots rang out about 4:23 p.m. Monday at Garden Street and Infirmary Road. Kacy Thorpe, 28, and Robert Beane III, 24, were arrested after police say...
View ArticleWoman accused of fatal Las Vegas Strip crash due in court today
LAS VEGAS — A woman from Oregon accused of intentionally plowing her car with her 3-year-old daughter in the back seat through crowds of pedestrians on a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk faces a judge...
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2 men indicted in string of break-ins
ELYRIA — Two men believed to be responsible for a string of break-ins in several townships have been indicted. Chad Blackburn Chad Blackburn, 28, of Lorain, and Shannon Matheny, 25, of Elyria, each...
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Defendants in 3 high-profile cases enter pleas
BRUCE BISHOP / CHRONICLEAdrianna Young appears in court Wednesday for her arraignment. ELYRIA — Three high-profile criminal defendants, including an Oberlin driver accused of crashing into a house and...
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