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PAINESVILLE, Ohio - Painesville Municipal Court Judge Michael Cicconetti, known for his very creative sentences, has handed down - or scooped out - another one. "You like to screw around with crap? That's what you're gonna do for 3 days." Bayley Toth of Painesville was found guilty of criminal mischief after a night with friends in a local park. Toth jumped on top of a van and placed a traffic cone on it. He then tipped over a porta-potty, knocked a WiFi bridge down and threw 2 lifesaving rings into the lake, one of which was never found. The Judge...

Razo was released after "border patrol" told deputies that there was no reason to detain him, Lake County Sheriff Daniel Dunlap said Tuesday at a press conference.

Harlan Ellison is still an angry young man, except he'll be 81 on May 27. He has used this anger, fueled by childhood anti-Semitism, throughout his extraordinary career as a writer of speculative fiction. This year saw the publication of his 116th and 117th (so far) books: The Top of the Volcano, a collection of his awardwinning short stories, and a graphic novelization of his original script for "The City on the Edge of Forever," widely considered the best Star Trek episode ever written. Although Ellison's hundreds of published stories contain a wealth of Jewish characters, his most complex creation...

GrassRoots Rally Team is announcing the following: WHEN: TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2007 WHERE: PAINESVILLE CITY HALL STEPS TIME: 8-9 PM WHY: TO COMMEMORATE THE 48,000 AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS SINCE 9-11. . .MOST RECENTLY THE 3 COLLEGE STUDENTS IN NEWARK ,NEW JERSEY WHO WERE EXECUTED FOR THEIR CELL PHONES BY AN ILLEGAL FROM PERU WHO HAD A VERY LONG RAP SHEET! WHAT TO BRING: YOURSELF, ANY OTHER FRIENDS YOU CAN THINK OF AND YOUR CANDLE!! SIGNS WILL BE PROVIDED WITH VICTIMS' NAMES OR YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN.

With the Bruce Springsteen song "Born in the USA" blaring in the distance, Painesville resident Sue Kramer stood at the edge of Veterans Park on Painesville square Saturday morning, waving an American flag and a sign bearing the message "Revolt, America, Rebel!" Trying to capture the attention of passing motorists, Kramer stood apart from about 60 other demonstrators at a rally to protest illegal immigration. The hour-long event was organized by a loose coalition of Lake County residents called the Grass Roots Rapid Rally Response Team. "I think everyone should be fed up that our government is giving up...