Wellington Gasoline Spill Evacuates 75, Largest Yet
A leak from a Sunoco Logistics gasoline line forced 75 residents from Brookside Mobile Home Park in Wellington. About 125000 gallons leaked into a parking lot and White Ditch. crews dammed the ditch and contained the spill within a hour and a half. Cleanup uses vacuum trucks and buses several dozen vehicles.
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Wellington
Maple St
Mike Wetherbee
Brookside Mobile Home Park
White Ditch
Wetherbee
Tom Kelley
Lorain County
Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security
Mobile Home Park
Kelley
Toledo
Alleghany, Pa
Subpoena Extends Lorain Contractor Records Inquiry
Federal subpoena to Lorain officials demands documents on city dealings with contractor Don E. Buchs and seven Firmen names dating to 2006. The action mirrors a 2009 FBI inquiry tied to public corruption in Cuyahoga County. Buchs denies wrongdoing as investigators keep status undisclosed.
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Lorain
Don E. Buchs
Law
Pat Riley
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Inspector General
FBI
Cuyahoga County
Bucks
All American Demolition
D&j Investments
Sandusky Salvage
American Trucking
City of
Duffaid
Buchs
Sandy Prudoff
Snowstorm coats Lorain County with heavy traffic impact
Lorain County endured its first major snowstorm of the season with 2.6 inches in Elyria and up to 4 inches in Sheffield Lake and North Ridgeville by Friday morning. Ohio Highway Patrol logged dozens of weather related calls as spinouts and ditches cluttered roads, easing only after the storm subsided late afternoon.
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Lorain County
National Weather Service
Elyria
Sheffield Lake
North Ridgeville
Ohio Highway Patrol
Prince Charming's seeming happiness fades in cryptic line
A terse verse from Johanna Orozco states that the expected happily ever after is not for Prince Charming, and hints at a defiant claim that the speaker remains alive despite beliefs of death.
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Prince Charming
From fairy tale to horror story to mock trial
Cindy Leise reports on Johanna Orozco of Cleveland who endured a violent relationship with Juan Ruiz Jr. After Ruiz raped her at knifepoint and later attacked her with a shotgun, she survived extensive reconstructive surgeries and spoke publicly in an award winning Plain Dealer series.
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Oberlin
Johanna Orozco
Cleveland
Juan Ruiz Jr
Ruiz
Orozco
the Plain Dealer
Chuck Humel
Chronicle
Oberlin High School
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Bruce Bishop
Kiera Manion
Fischer
the Chronicle-Telegram
Grant Cypher
Lorain County Ambulance District
Feds
Mike Duff
Patrol
Lisa Roberson
Chronicle-Telegram
Steve Manheim
Aplow
Center Ridge Road
Cindy Leise
The
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