Police seize 25 firearms from felon’s Elyria home
Elyria detectives and Ohio Adult Parole Authority agents searched the Oberlin Road residence of 66-year-old Samuel Dabney on Wednesday and Thursday, finding 25 firearms including handguns, rifles, shotguns, a World War II replica MP-40 and ammunition. Dabney is under parole supervision for an assault with bodily injury conviction in Texas and forbidden from firearm possession. No charges against him tied to the guns were listed.
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Elyria
Ohio Adult Parole Authority
Oberlin Road
Lorain County Common Pleas
James Miraldi
Common Pleas Court
Miraldi
Samuel Dabney
Dabney
Lorain County
Elyria Municipal
Texas
Ohio
Connect to a Cause campaign boosts 65 local nonprofits
The second annual Connect to a Cause crowdfunding drive aims to raise 250000 in a 12 hour window from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. donors browse at peoplewho care.org and support groups like Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lorain County and Blessing House. Golden hours offer a $1000 donor drawing entry. 42000 in matches from 20 business champions boost participating nonprofits. The Mermaids Tale, an Amherst boutique, partners with Judy Recknagel to raise funds Sept 16–17 with 20 percent of sales benefiting connected groups.
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Amherst
Community Foundation of
Lorain County
Peoplewhocare.org
Big Brothers Big Sisters of
Blessing House, Cornerstone Pregnancy Services
The
Firelands Association For the Visual Arts
Friends of
Elyria Public Library
Legal Aid Society of
Cleveland
Genesis House
Neighborhood Alliance
Paws
Community Foundation
Brittany Lovett
Nord Center
Lorain
Betsey Kamm
Foundation
Judy Recknagel
Council weighs future of closed Two Falls Bridge
Elyria council weighs options to repurpose the Two Falls Bridge at Cascade Park after its closure as residents call for use. Council members Callahan Mitchell and Simmons discussed the bridge, built with a 2005 ODNR grant and opened around 2006 07, closed due to hazard from twisting and geological shifts.
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Council
Two Falls Bridge
Elyria
Two Falls
Cascade Park
Twin Falls
Tom Callahan
Donna Mitchell
6Th Ward
Diane Simmons
5Th Ward
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Lorain County
Elyria grandmother reports 3-year-old grandson killed in Korea
Donna Calhoun of Elyria says her grandson Noa Calhoun was fatally beaten near Camp Humphreys in South Korea where his father James Calhoun serves in the Army. The alleged babysitter, a 30-year-old Filipino national, is unnamed. Noa’s 7-year-old brother Xaidyn cried outside the home as neighbors alerted police.
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Elyria
South Korea
Cuyahoga County
Camp Humphreys
Donna Calhoun
Noa Calhoun
Noa
James Calhoun
Philippines
Stars and Stripes
Xaidyn Calhoun
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Cascade Falls
Dylan Reynolds
Abbewood
Ohio Department of Health
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