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GPS a popular target for thieves

ELYRIA — Getting to the grocery store or finding a new restaurant is pretty simple these days for anyone with a GPS unit. The electronic devices, often no larger than a paperback novel, use communications satellites to map out driving routes, and they ...

From JASON HAWK, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  16 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Steve Smith,  Best Buy Co., Inc.

Season’s 1st snowstorm arrives with car crashes

GRAFTON TWP. — While fighting a fogged up windshield Saturday during the first snowstorm of the season, 44-year-old Timothy Hinkel missed a stop sign and T-boned a passing car, Ohio Highway Patrol Trooper Charles Jackson said. The crash happened at 6:3 ...

From JASON HAWK, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  16 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Charles R. Jackson

Coroner: Woman was smothered for three minutes

AVON LAKE — Robert Shaw probably held a pillow or blanket over his ill wife’s face for about three minutes Wednesday morning before she slipped past the point of no return, county Coroner Paul Matus said. Even if paramedics had been able to revive 84- ...

From JASON HAWK, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  15 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Robert Shaw

Special prosecutor chosen for Rosenbaum shooting

ELYRIA — A special prosecutor has been appointed to look into the shooting of Jonathan Rosenbaum, the former chief assistant Lorain County prosecutor, by his son at a gun range. County Common Pleas Court Judge Christopher Rothgery on Friday appointed ...

From JASON HAWK, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  15 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Greg White

County maintenance worker suspended for hanging noose

ELYRIA — A county worker who strung up a noose at work was suspended for 30 days, county Administrator Jim Cordes said. Richard Reiman, a maintenance worker for more than 20 years, was the subject of a four-week investigation starting in October. He ...

From JASON HAWK, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  15 Nov 2008

Lorain apartment fire forces evacuation

LORAIN — A cigarette left on a mattress may have caused a fire that destroyed a 57-year-old Vietnam veteran’s apartment Friday night and forced about a dozen other residents to evacuate. Danny Hicks of Lorain was taken to Community Regional Hospital ...

From JASON HAWK, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  15 Nov 2008

Union to grill REP CEO over layoffs

LORAIN — Steelworkers are seeking answers from Republic Engineered Products President and CEO Jaime Vigil about the 300 to 400 layoffs looming as REP’s Lorain plant prepares to shut down its only operable blast furnace next month. Don Golden, president ...

From JASON HAWK, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  14 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Sherrod Brown,  United States Steel,  Betty Sutton

Prosecution says Head Start driver’s filing without merit

ELYRIA — County prosecutors took aim Thursday at former bus driver Nancy Smith, attacking her attorney’s attempt to get a court to re-examine her 30- to 90-year prison sentence because of a technicality. Smith, 51, was convicted in 1994 of molesting ...

From JASON HAWK, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  14 Nov 2008

Man tells 911 he killed ill wife

AVON — A man told police he killed his 84-year-old wife Wednesday morning in an apparent mercy killing. The man, whose name was not released, placed a call to 911 at 7:22 a.m. and told dispatchers he had “just killed his wife to put her out of her ...

From JASON HAWK, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  13 Nov 2008

Lorain won’t rush school levy back onto ballot

LORAIN — Slim though the chance might be, Lorain Board of Education members are still holding out hope that uncounted provisional and military ballots could save the 4.9-mill emergency levy voters rejected on Election Day. There are still several ...

From JASON HAWK, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  13 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Jim Smith

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