Court orders reinstatement of Kipton Sunshine Law suit
An appeals court ordered the reinstatement of former Kipton councilman Rick Krueck's lawsuit against the Kipton Village Council over a meeting he says violated Ohio public meetings law. The 9th District court found disputed facts worthy of trial and overturned a lower court dismissal.
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Kipton
Kipton Village
Rick Krueck
Lorain County Common Pleas
Edward Zaleski
9Th District Court of Appeals
Krueck
Dennis Watson
Bob Meilander
Jim McManus
Meilander
Roundup: Teacher to stay on as case heard
A second grade teacher at West Elementary, Lisa Pirkel, will remain on the job while her assault case proceeds. She is accused of slapping scratching and pulling hair during a March bar incident in Grafton Township. Principal notes say she is a good teacher with positive evaluations since 2002. In Elyria, Melchiades Helton was sentenced to two months in jail after pleading no contest to a menacing by stalking charge for following a county worker into a women's restroom and making a lewd comment. Helton is barred from contact with Tiffany Barker for five years. He also pleaded no contest to a criminal damaging charge for kicking a door on January 17.
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Grafton
Midview
John Kuhn
Lisa Pirkel
West Elementary
Danielle Kelly
Trading Post
Grafton Township
Kelly
Pirkel
Kuhn
Elyria
Melchiades Helton
Lorain County Solid Waste Management District
Tiffany Barker
Lorain County Sheriff's Deputies
Helton
Barker
Lorain County Administration
Lake Erie ranks high in national toxic discharges
Environment America ranks Lake Erie 48th among U S waterways for cancer causing chemical discharges at 4907 pounds in 2010. It lists 15th for developmental toxicants and 21st for reproductive toxicants with 3733 and 1597 pounds respectively. The report notes 226 million pounds nationwide and 9.2 million in Ohio.
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Lake Erie
Environment America
U.S
Ohio
Black River
Shelley Winyard
Clean Water Advocate
Genoa
Avon Lake
Elyria detective fined after backing into car crash
Elyria detective and evidence officer Eric Van Kerkhove was fined 75 and given two license points after backing out from a driveway and causing a collision with Katherine Spurling’s 2002 Kia Spectra on Oxford Avenue. Both drivers escaped injury. Van Kerkhove pleaded guilty to improper backing.
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Elyria
Eric van Kerkhove
Oxford Avenue
Chris Costantino
Katherine Spurling
Oxford
van Kerkhove
Costantino
Spurling
Duane Whitely
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