Lorain NAACP MLK Day event urges ongoing fight for equality
At Grace Community Church Lorain members officials and artists gathered to honor Martin Luther King Jr and reaffirm the pursuit of equality. Speakers including Yvonne Johnson Earl Head and councilmember Pamela Carter urged civic engagement and sustained work toward housing healthcare education diversity and inclusion through community action. Artwork and poetry highlighted the theme of ongoing struggle and empowerment.
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Yvonne Johnson
Grace Community Church
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Earl Head
Duane Anderson
Anderson
Pamela Carter
Carter
Jeff Pye
LaTonya Fenderson-Warren
Emerald Valley clubhouse to be razed in Lorain
The former Emerald Valley Golf Club at 4397 Leavitt Road sits on Lorain’s demolition list. The Demolition Board of Appeals unanimously approved razing the vacant clubhouse. Owner RN III Inc’s Scott Ritenauer was absent. The building has been vacant since the mid-2000s with no delinquent taxes, but extensive disrepair and vandalism were noted.
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Emerald Valley Golf Club
Lorain County
Andy Arocho
Arocho
Lorain man accused after drug arrest strip search
Lorain police say a man identified as Harris resisted during a weapons check after an SUV linked to a high drug area left the scene. He was restrained and a medical search followed revealing a white item at the entrance of his anus. Harris has prior pleas in 2022 and 2023 for cocaine offenses and tampering with evidence.
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Harris
Lorain
Lorain County Common Pleas
Mercy Health case raises ethical questions in jail search
In Lorain a federal civil rights suit questions a Mercy Health request to perform an invasive search on inmate Tony Harris. Bioethicist Dr. Mark Aulisio warns health professionals are not obliged to violate patient rights or medically inappropriate orders even to aid law enforcement. He contrasts patient consent with provider conscience rights and notes public health risks if medicine becomes an extension of policing.
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Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Bioethics Department
Mercy Health
Lorain
Tony Harris
Aulisio
Harris
Lorain County
Mercy
Jim Gordon
Set
Chelsea Insh
Irish
Gordon
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