PAINESVILLE — Convicted murderer Danna Weimer will spend a minimum of 44 years in prison for the death of 77-year-old Eleanor Robertson, Lake County Common Pleas Judge Eugene Lucci ruled Wednesday.
Read more about the sentencing, including statements from the victim’s family, in Thursday’s Star Beacon.
Ashtabula man drowns saving grandson
Ashtabula CPA Paul Demshar drowned shortly after noon today saving his 10-year-old grandson, who got pulled under water in a rip current, while swimming in Jacksonville, Fla.
Drivers on Route 534 watched in horror as a speeding car launched over an embankment Wednesday and crashed into a tree, killing a Ashtabula man and ejecting his 2-year-old son, Ashtabula County Coroner’s Investigator Rich Mongell said.
Police have arrested a suspect after a substitute teacher's aide was shot while walking near McKinley Elementary School in Erie, Pa., this morning. The aide had taken a break outside when she was shot. Her condition is not known. The school is no longer on lockdown as worried parents who went to the school are allowed to take their children home.
Jodi Arias convicted of first-degree murder
Jodi Arias was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday in the gruesome killing of her one-time boyfriend in Arizona after a four-month trial that captured headlines with lurid tales of sex, lies, religion and a salacious relationship that ended in a blood bath.
Ashtabula Area City School District’s 6.2 mills emergency levy went down by 122 votes, despite Superintendent Patrick Colucci’s pleas that it was needed to bring back busing and eliminate pay-to-play.
Voters in the Jefferson Area Local School District renewed a 20-year-old operating levy Tuesday, 1,042, or 58 percent, for the levy to 750 against, or 42 percent, according to the unofficial results fromthe Ashtabula County Board of Elections.
Police: 3 more in custody in Boston bombings
Three more suspects were taken into custody in the Boston Marathon bombing case, including two college friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who came to the U.S. from Kazakhstan, authorities and a defense attorney said Wednesday.
Lakeside High School students were released at 11:30 a.m. Friday after school officials discovered “non-specific scribbling” on a bathroom stall, Superintendent Patrick Colucci said.
A Madison High School student was killed Tuesday morning in a car vs. cement truck accident on Route 534.
Bombing suspect charged, could face death penalty
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged in his hospital room Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill, and he could get the death penalty.
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