Hobbs convicted of murder in strangulation case
Clifton Hobbs was found guilty of murder and tampering with evidence in Nancy Brock's strangulation death. He received consecutive 15 years to life for murder and 1.5 years for evidence tampering. The jury acquitted aggravated murder and rejected voluntary manslaughter.
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Julie Wallace
C-T
Elyria
Clifton Hobbs
Hobbs
28Th St
Lorain
Lorain County
Nancy Brock
Norwalk
Brock
Ohio
Nagy
USX official urges caution on Kobe deal in Lorain
USX Corp official Thomas C. Graham warned during a Lorain luncheon that the council must approve a 100 percent abatement on a $50 million Lorain Works modernization project. He said profitability must be shown before further capital upgrades and investment decisions in the new partnership with Kobe Steel are made.
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Lorain
USX Corp
Thomas C. Graham
USX
USS Steelmaking
Elyria Country Club
Graham
Kobe Steel Ltd
Lorain Works
Thomas J. Usher
USS
Sokichi Kametaka
Kobe Steel
Kobe
Kobe to boost technology at Lorain Steel Works
USX Lorain Steel Works lines up Kobe Steel Ltd for quality control advances. Ed Bueche notes Japanese expertise in non destructive testing and energizing equipment to reveal and remove imperfections. Improved steel bars will support components like sway bars and screws.
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Lorain
USX
State approves loan for Sponge Inc expansion to Elyria
The state Controlling Board approves an $8.4 million loan to Sponge Inc to purchase 46 acres on Lowell Street, build a 113,400 square foot plant, and buy manufacturing equipment for cellulose sponges. The move adds 70 jobs, with 106 current employees. A Lorain County tax break orients tax relief in the first year.
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Columbus
Cleveland
Elyria
Sponge Inc
Lowell Street
Fisher Guide
Robert Wnettley
R+ Laura
Lorain County
Education crackdown targets high loan defaults new rules announced
The Education Department unveils measures to penalize schools with high loan default rates, focusing on for profit vocational programs. In Lorain County the offending rates include Lorain Business College 31 percent and Lorain County Community College 16.7 percent, Oberlin College 5.7 percent, with Ohio institutions like Baldwin Wallace 4.6 percent and Cleveland State 4.1 percent showing lower defaults. John Carroll and others rank among the top ten of 134 Ohio schools.
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Washington
Education Department
Lorain County
Education
Lauro Cavazos
Lorain Business College
Lorain County Community College
Oberlin College
Cuyahoga County
Baldwin-Wallace College
Cleveland State University
John Carroll University
John Carroll
Bowling Green State University
University of Toledo
Ohio
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Janine Exner
Dave Pavlak
South
Oberlin
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Robert Nagy
Kimberly Barth
Council
G-T
Janine
United States
Bueche
John V. Bara
Bara
Foreman
Tyson
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