Years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a local high school culinary program is getting back to business as usual. With new technology in hand, Lighthouse Grill at Lorain High School (LHS) has opened its doors to lunch customers. This year we got the new Toast system, said Chef and Culinary Instructor Terra Dahlhausen. If you go out to eat, you see the server come to the table with the tablet, they take the order, it goes right back to the kitchen and then the receipt prints and they can pay and do everything at once. Dahlhausen said it was important students were able to learn on the ..read more

News 5's overnight newstracker went to Lorain County early Monday morning, where a car went off the road, hit a pole and ended up in the woods. The crash happened on Elyria Avenue in Sheffield Township. It is unknown if anyone was injured. Our overnight newstracker said the Lorain County Coroner was at the scene ..read more

Community members in Lorain will be able to keep dry during Northeast Ohio weather storms. Councilwoman JoAnn Moon and the Lorain Metropolitan Housing Authority teamed up to give umbrellas to homeless shelters and nonprofit organizations in Lorain. The homeless shelters mostly just feed them, and sometimes people drop off socks or T-shirts. But when they close and the homeless leave at eight o'clock in the morning, they're outside all day long. And theyre walking in the rain, and I just didn't like seeing that, said Moon. Judith Carlin is the executive director at Lorain Metropolitan Housing A ..read more

News 5 continues to Follow-Through on the stories impacting your community. When others leavewe return to check on the progress and see how things played out. Back in March, News 5 told you about Brunswick City Schools' efforts to fill the school bus driver shortage. Test drive a school bus and get a job RELATED: Test drive a school bus and get a job, Brunswick City Schools hosting driver hiring event this weekend They hosted a test-drive event and a hiring fair. District leaders say they experienced a tremendous turnout and found multiple candidates. Avon Lake is hosting a similar event this ..read more

U.S. Marshals shot and killed a Lorain man who attacked them while the Violent Fugitive Task Force force was serving an arrest warrant at his Lorain home on Thursday morning, according to a spokesperson for the federal agency. Marshals say the task force arrived at a home near the corner of West 21st Street and Beech Avenue around 8 a.m. to arrest 34-year-old Derrick Smith. They said that when a relative let officers into the home, Smith barricaded himself inside an upstairs bedroom. According to Marshals, Smith attacked three officers with a wooden table leg. Thats when investigators said at ..read more

Lorain City Schools expanded its arts program in all 14 of the districts schools and said it's making a big difference. Three and half years ago, we started planning, we did some research, we interviewed a number of other school districts, we read some articles, and then we did surveys. We surveyed our families, we surveyed our students, and then based on everything that we learned then we designed our implementation, said Ross May, assistant superintendent of Lorain City Schools. There is music, art, and dance at each school. May said Lorain is the only district in the state to have dance in ..read more

Avon Police confirm they are investigating the death of 18-year-old Paul L. Allen after police say the teen jumped on the side of a car as part of a game of tag. Around 3:40 p.m. Saturday, Avon Police said that officers responded to a call about a vehicle striking a pedestrian on Crown Colony Drive in Avon's Red Tail neighborhood. Upon arrival, police said they saw someone performing CPR on the teen. EMS transported Allen to a nearby hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries. The preliminary investigation showed that Allen and the driver of the vehicle knew one another and were playin ..read more

There is a new trifecta in Avon Lake. The NCAA Women's Final Four, Guardians home opener and the eclipse have nothing on all three bald eagle eggs being hatched in Avon Lake. The third egg hatched Thursday at 2:41 p.m. The second eaglet hatched around 7:30 a.m., according to the Avon Lake Bald Eagles Nest Facebook page. The first eaglet hatched Tuesday around 6:41 a.m. Proud parents, Stars and Stripes, laid three eggs this year. The first egg was spotted on March 1. Take a first look at the new bald eagle egg in Avon Lake To watch the eagles anytime you want, click here ..read more

For the second time in two days, a bald eaglet hatched at Redwood Elementary School in Avon Lake. The second eaglet hatched around 7:30 a.m., according to the Avon Lake Bald Eagles Nest Facebook page. The first eaglet hatched Tuesday around 6:41 a.m. Proud parents, Stars and Stripes, laid three eggs this year. The first egg was spotted on March 1. Take a first look at the new bald eagle egg in Avon Lake To watch the eagles anytime you want, click here ..read more

Some small towns across northeast Ohio are seeing a big boost from the Women's NCAA Final Four Tournament and the eclipse. The thousands of visitors who converged on Cleveland for both events boosted the local economy, and not just in Cleveland. At Susie's Homestyle Cafe in Vermilion, it was busier than a holiday weekend. "We had started to run out, I ran out of biscuits, I ran out of sausage gravy, I ran out of bacon," explained Susie Borso, owner of Susie's Homestyle Cafe. Two Iowa Lady Hawkeye fans who traveled more than 700 miles to watch the game drove a little more for breakfast on Frida ..read more