ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) — Chef Emeril Lagasse says he felt so bad when he heard a woman lost one of his trademark pans while warding off home intruders that he’s replacing the item.

Lagasse (leh-GAH’-see) is sending 70-year-old Ellen Basinski a whole new set of his signature cookware.

She used her favorite pan to fight the intruders at her home west of Cleveland on Tuesday. Police then took it from her to be used as evidence.

Basinski was on the phone with her husband when the teens pushed their way into her home.

Her husband, Lorain County Judge David Basinski, overheard the scuffle, called 911 and raced home. Meanwhile, his wife says she grabbed the 5-quart saucepan and hit one teen, who was going through her purse.

The four were arrested. The judge said his wife was upset that her pan was seized by police.

SOURCE: CLEVELAND.COM

An woman from Ohio plead guilty to reckless homicide for exercising her 73-year-old husband to death in a swimming pool. She refused to let him leave the water according to The Star Tribune.

The family had a surveillance video which showed Christine Newton-John, 41, pulling James Mason around the pool.

The police counted over 40 times that Newton-John wouldn’t let her husband leave in spite of his gasping for breath.

The husband had a heart attack last June after this incident. There were other complaints that this man was being abused.

The story gets even more interesting as we learn that Mason was a longtime friend of his wife’s family. Mason knew Christine as John Vallandingham before she had gender reassignment surgery in 1993 and changed her name in honor of the singer and star of the hit movie version of the musical “Grease.”

The couple were wed in 2006 in Kentucky, where people can change their gender on their birth certificate.

SOURCE: THE EXAMINER

ROSSFORD, Ohio (AP) — Workers at an Ohio pet shop are used to worried pet owners bringing their animals in to be treated in the store’s clinic.

But an unaccompanied visit Saturday by a deer to the PetSmart in Rossfield was a first for the store.

Manager Trudi Urie says the wounded doe was hanging out behind the store and then ran through an open door into a stockroom.

Staff members made sure the animal couldn’t enter the shop area and called police and a veterinarian.

Agustin Cuesta had the deer brought into the clinic and closed a wound on its hind leg with dissolvable stitches as assistants held it down.

He says he couldn’t tell how the animal got hurt.

The door was reopened and the animal ran back into the wild.

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say they have arrested an Ohio woman who told them she set fire to at least 10 homes and garages because she was angry. Hamilton fire and police officials arrested 42-year-old Gina Ann Gray on Tuesday. She is charged with seven counts of aggravated arson and three counts of arson.

Fire investigator Tom Angst said Gray told authorities she set the fires at homes and garages in Hamilton, about 30 miles north of Cincinnati. The fires occurred between September 2007 and November 2008.

Angst said Gray sometimes sought revenge against people. He said at other times she spotted something flammable near a house, lit it with a lighter and then walked away.

Gray remains in the Butler County Jail. It was not clear whether she had an attorney.

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

JACKSON, Ohio - Police say a 4-year-old boy in southern Ohio shot his babysitter because the sitter accidentally stepped on his foot. Police said 18-year-old Nathan Beavers and several other teenagers were babysitting several young children in a mobile home in Jackson on Sunday when the shooting occurred.

Witnesses told police the 4-year-old retrieved the shotgun from a bedroom closet and shot Beavers. Police said the child was angry because Beavers accidentally stepped on his foot.

Beavers was hospitalized with minor pellet wounds to his arm and side.

Police say another teen was also injured with shotgun pellets.

Jackson County Sheriff John Shashteen said authorities are investigating the shooting. The child has not been charged.