It's time to dig down deep. The city will drill three holes along the Paper District's shoreline as early as next week to determine if the coal tar plume has seeped into the bedrock beneath Sandusky. The plume is a potentially hazardous, molasses-like blob lurking beneath the Paper District and surrounding areas.

Welcome to the maelstrom from the hailstorm. Local business leaders are warning area homeowners to be on guard as they hunt for contractors to repair damages caused by last week's wicked storm. After marble-sized hail pummeled the windows of hundreds of homes and blistering winds blew off roof shingles, some contractors may be trying to take advantage of desperate residents.

On the evening of March 27, 2009, something awful happened in a small upstairs apartment at 1044 Camp St. Nearly 14 months later, police and prosecutors acknowledge it was a criminal act, but they can't definitively say who caused it. The death of 7-week-old Logan Bain has been ruled a homicide, but officials have yet to make an arrest.

A vandal smashed the windows of The Zinc Brasserie, Cesare Avallone's restaurant, over the weekend.