LOS ANGELES — Ohio had the nation’s 12th highest foreclosure rate during the first three months of the year, amid signs that foreclosure activity may be starting to creep higher nationwide.

Foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac Inc. said today that the number of properties repossessed by banks rose 13 percent between February and March, the highest increase in a year. And homes receiving their first notice of default climbed 16 percent.

RealtyTrac said one out of every 206 Ohio households received a foreclosure notice in the first quarter. Nevada had the nation’s highest foreclosure rate for the quarter, with notices going to one in every 35 households.

Many of the factors that have contributed to the foreclosure crisis are likely to continue driving foreclosures this year, including high unemployment and a weak housing market.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Once again, Fausto Carmona pitched well enough to win. Unfortunately for him, Dan Haren did even better.

Haren threw a one-hitter, allowing only Shin-Soo Choo’s clean single in the fourth inning, and the Los Angeles Angels beat Cleveland 2-0 Tuesday night to snap the Indians’ eight-game winning streak.

“Haren was on his game. He was in complete command of the ballgame from inning one,” Indians manager Manny Acta said. “It was just an outstanding pitching performance. I thought Fausto did a tremendous job, too. He did everything you could ask for – go deep in the game and give your team a chance. He only allowed two runs.”

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The Indians’ winning streak was their longest since a 10-game string in August 2008. Cleveland is off to a surprising 8-3 start despite the defeat.

“That’s baseball. Sometimes you’re going to run into a guy who has a performance like that,” Indians designated hitter Travis Hafner said after going 0-for-3 with a strikeout. “He was throwing four pitches and locating all of them and changing speeds. He was throwing a lot of off-speed stuff for strikes, and nothing was really in the middle of the plate.”

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Carmona gave up four hits in 7 2/3 innings. The right-hander struck out six and walked three, but gave up home runs to Peter Bourjos and Mark Trumbo.

It was the second strong start in a row for Carmona, having pitched seven shutout innings in a no-decision against Boston the last time out. Much better than Opening Day, when he surrendered 10 runs and 11 hits in just three innings against the Chicago White Sox.

“Fausto threw the ball great tonight,” Hafner said. “It’s good to see. That’s two really good outings in a row for him, so it looks like he’s back on track and he should have a great season.”

Haren (3-0) struck out eight and walked two in his third major league shutout. Choo’s single to center field came with one out in the fourth.

The righty threw 125 pitches in his 12th complete game in 225 career starts. Haren was never in trouble and helped himself. After Orlando Cabrera reached on an error by Angels third baseman Alberto Callaspo, he was caught stealing when he took a big lead and broke for second before Haren went into his motion.

“I was going at them pretty much the whole night,” Haren said. “I was pitching with a controlled aggressiveness. It was such a close game, I didn’t want to leave anything out over the plate – but I didn’t want to get burned with walks, either.”

Haren’s third start of the season was pushed back a day after he threw 13 pitches in a perfect 14th inning on Saturday night against Toronto and got credit for the Angels’ 6-5 victory. That relief appearance ended his string of 203 consecutive starts.

“He just told me he’s ready for the ‘pen on Friday if we need him,” manager Mike Scioscia said with a grin. “But hopefully, we’re past those days.”

After giving up a leadoff single to his first batter, Carmona allowed only one other ball to be hit out of the infield through the fifth inning – a leadoff homer in the third by Bourjos that landed in the lower seats in the left-field corner.

In the seventh, Trumbo hit a drive just inside the left-field pole for his first big league home run. All but one of the Angels’ 14 homers this season have come with the bases empty.

Angels left fielder Vernon Wells, acquired in a trade from Toronto in January, got the day off after going 4-for-44 over his first 10 games with his new club. In his previous five seasons with the Blue Jays, the 13-year veteran and three-time All-Star had a cumulative average of .332 in his first 10 games.

EATON TWP. — A Grafton woman died as the result of extensive injuries received in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday evening at Durkee Road and state Route 82.

Suzanne Johnson, 48, died at the scene from severe multiple blunt force trauma, according to Lorain County Coroner Paul Matus, who said Johnson sustained internal chest and abdominal injuries.

Matus said there was no indication that alcohol or drugs were a factor in the crash, which occurred at 5:40 p.m., according to the Elyria post of the State Highway Patrol.

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According to statements from witnesses, a woman later identified as Johnson, who was westbound on Route 82 in a dark green 1998 Pontiac Bonneville, failed to stop for a red light at the intersection with Durkee Road and slammed into the driver’s side of a 1999 Honda Odyssey minivan driven by Laura Haywood, 44, of Elyria, according to Sgt. Paul March of the Elyria post of the Ohio Highway Patrol.

The van was southbound on Durkee Road and was entering the intersection when it was struck by the car driven by Johnson, according to March. Witnesses indicated Haywood had a green light as she approached the intersection, according to Highway Patrol reports.

The impact of the collision forced both vehicles off the road and down into a ditch and field southwest of the intersection. It could be seen from a distance that the light blue airbags in the van had deployed during the crash. Both vehicles appeared to have sustained substantial damage.

Both women were alone in their vehicles. It was not immediately known whether either woman was wearing a seatbelt.

Medical personnel with a MetroHealth Medical Center Lifeflight helicopter from Cleveland worked on Johnson for a time at the scene before she died, Matus said.

Haywood was taken to EMH Regional Medical Center by an Eaton Township ambulance. Haywood was treated and released, according to the hospital.

Contact Steve Fogarty at 329-7146 or sfogarty@chroniclet.com.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s three remaining space shuttles will go to Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles and suburban Washington when the program ends this summer, the space agency said Tuesday.

The announcement came on the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle flight and the 50th anniversary of man’s first journey into space.

Shuttle Atlantis will stay in Cape Canaveral at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, just miles from the pair of launch pads where it was shot into space. Endeavour is headed to the California Science Center, miles from the plant where the shuttle was built; and Discovery’s new home will be the Smithsonian Institution’s branch in northern Virginia.

The Smithsonian is giving up the prototype Enterprise, which NASA said Tuesday will now go to New York City’s Intrepid museum. Enterprise was used for test flights in the 1970s.

“For all of them, take good care of our vehicles,” said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a former astronaut, as he choked up.

“They served a nation well, and we at NASA have a deep and abiding relationship and love affair with them that is hard to put into words.”

Twenty-one museums and visitor centers around the country put in bids for the spaceships. NASA is giving shuttle simulators and other parts to some of them.

From the International Space Station, American astronaut Catherine Coleman told space center workers at the ceremony that the retirement of the space shuttle program should not be viewed as an end.

“It represents the next step in extending humanity’s reach further into space,” said Coleman, one of six people living on the orbiting outpost.

The shuttle program is winding down with only two more flights left. Endeavour is set to launch on April 29 and Atlantis will close out the shuttle program with a summer liftoff.

Russia spent Tuesday celebrating its space accomplishment in 1961 — the first human spaceflight by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. President Dmitry Medvedev said Russia must preserve its pre-eminence in space. But critics there complained the government has paid little attention to the space program in recent years.