Rapist pleads not guilty to sex-offender registry failure
MEDINA — A man who served 10 years in prison for raping a 6-year-old girl pleaded not guilty Thursday to failing to register as a sex offender. The charge against Roger W. McMaster, 39, of 545 W....
View ArticleHard work pays dividends for Bees in gymnastics
HILLIARD — Megan Kerrigan remembers the exact moment when Medina began its journey to the 2013 state team gymnastics meet. It came one year ago at the Painesville Riverside District, the same spot...
View ArticleGirls basketball: Meteors go deep to beat Bees
PARMA HTS. — For all its incredibly gutsy efforts against Midpark in the Valley Forge Division I District semifinals Thursday, the second-seeded Medina girls basketball team failed time and again to...
View ArticleWrestlers Sebastian Vidika, Mike Hozan looking solid
COLUMBUS — Black River wrestlers Mike Hozan and Sebastian Vidika have different resumes, but the goals are the same. Hozan is out to become the Pirates’ first three-time state placer, while Vidika is...
View ArticleGirls basketball: Grizzlies can’t be slowed down
MEDINA — The Wadsworth girls basketball team successfully met its goal of early energy Thursday night, which allowed the casual fan to make an early exit. Playing the second game of the All-Medina...
View ArticleMarlee Profitt nails game-winner for Hornets vs. Blue Devils
MEDINA — Senior guard Haley Roddy and freshman forward Marlee Profitt will forever be linked in Highland girls basketball history. Roddy deflected an inbounds pass under the basket, which Profitt...
View ArticleSandridge Food Corp. holding job fair this weekend
MEDINA — A local food supplier plans to hire more than 60 people in the coming weeks and interviews will be conducted at a job fair this weekend. The Sandridge Food Corp. job fair will be 9 a.m. to 1...
View ArticleMan can’t be banned from Ohio, court rules
From staff and wire reports AKRON — An appeals court overturned a Medina County judge’s decision in a criminal case to ban a Florida man from Ohio for life. A three-judge panel of the 9th Ohio District...
View ArticleBrunswick woman escaped her captor, but her ordeal persists
Bandages and splints cover her swollen hands, but Rahna Fahringer manages a smile. The mother of two still struggles to overcome the emotional and physical pain of being shot and held hostage for 30...
View ArticleRockets blast past Bucks
Richard Doyle The Gazette WESTLAKE — The Buckeye boys basketball team started the season on fire and fizzled towards the end. The opposite held true in the Westlake Division II Sectional finals Friday,...
View ArticleTrial set in $61K theft case
MEDINA — A May 13 trial date has been set for an Elyria man accused in the theft of more than $61,000 worth of guitars, music equipment and clothing from a Liverpool Township warehouse. Stephen C....
View ArticleHomicide database targets cold cases
Rachel Johnson was 24 when she was sexually assaulted, stabbed and set on fire on an Akron street in 1991. Her murder remains unsolved, but that doesn’t mean Akron police have stopped looking for her...
View ArticleArrest nearing in burglary spree
LIVERPOOL TWP. — An arrest is expected soon in a trio of burglaries on Columbia and Neff roads around New Year’s Day, according to a Medina County Sheriff’s Office detective. A shotgun, .22-caliber...
View ArticleNurturing creativity
Nancy Finesilver walks Friday morning north on Lester Road in York Township. Finesilver walks at least eight miles a day. (STEVE GRAZIER / GAZETTE) Nancy Finesilver loves walking every day in all types...
View ArticleHinckley resident indicted in bank robbery case
MEDINA — A Hinckley Township man police say robbed nearly $30,000 from a bank and led police from five different agencies on a high-speed chase through Medina County last month has been indicted on...
View ArticleTelemarketer InfoCision delivers for NRA
InfoCision, the second-largest privately held telemarketer in the nation, is headquartered at 325 Springside Drive in Bath Township. (LOREN GENSON / GAZETTE) Loren Genson and David Knox The national...
View ArticleThomas Jay Hord
Thomas Jay Hord, 68, of Spencer, passed away Thursday, February 28, 2013, at Hospice of Medina County. He was born in Akron, January 3, 1945, to Elmo and Janet E. (Courter) Hord and lived in the...
View ArticleOrissa Rae Namoski
Orissa Rae Namoski (nee Ludwig), 78, passed away on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 in Jefferson City, Tennessee. She was preceded in death by her parents, Raymond and Orissa Marie; and her beloved husband,...
View ArticleJames S. Roberts
James S. Roberts, 72, a resident of Medina, passed away Sunday, February 24, 2013. He was born July 3, 1940, in Shelbyville, Illinois, to Paul and Salome (nee Hiebert) Roberts. James served with the...
View ArticleIndians: Ryan Raburn’s power surge, versatility keep him in mix
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — There’s no lower status in spring training than a non-roster player signed to a minor league contract with an invitation to major league camp. On the other hand, certain non-roster...
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