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GM’s Lordstown plant affected by cutbacks
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Corp. will extend its holiday shutdown or make other production cuts at five factories at as it deals with a continued U.S. auto sales slump and fights to stay solvent.
Also Friday, the company announced changes at five other factories that could increase production of some […]
Distraught teen talked down at Wellington High
WELLINGTON — Law enforcement and school officials talked down a distraught male high school student who climbed into the rafters of the Wellington High School gymnasium and threaten to jump.
School officials stopped short of saying the teen was suicidal when he climbed up on Thursday morning.
“He just needed to talk,” Superintendent Francis R. […]
Experts: Adults must be aware of signs of teen depression
The emotional stresses of teenage life can sometimes lead to thoughts of suicide, but parents and adults play a key role in preventing tragedy.
Before teenage angst morphs into emotional distress, signs of impeding danger always are there, said Sherrell Conrady, vice president of the Lorain County Schools Crisis Counseling Team and a guidance counselor at […]
With deficit projected, county sales tax hike considered
ELYRIA — Lorain County workers might have to be laid off to help erase a $10 million deficit next year, according to the county commissioners.Commissioner Betty Blair said the dire budget projections might call for a combination of layoffs and new revenue, most likely an increase in the sales tax.
She said the commissioners […]
Savage loses cool in e-mail with fan
Scott Petrak
The Chronicle-Telegram
BEREA – Browns general manager Phil Savage sent an e-mail response to a fan early Tuesday morning that included an implied profanity, the team acknowledged Thursday.
The fan, who didn’t give his name, told WKNR 850-AM that he had sent Savage an angry […]
Bipartisan group works to revive auto bailout
WASHINGTON (AP) — Aides to a bipartisan group of auto-state senators, including Ohio Republican George Voinovich, say they have reached a compromise to speed emergency loans to Detroit’s Big Three car makers.
Republicans and Democrats plan to present the proposal at a mid-afternoon news conference Thursday. But it was not immediately clear whether the compromise […]