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AT @KINGJAMES www.twitter.com/kingjames Twitter just added another enormous name to its repertoire of celebrity tweeters – LeBron James. According to Chris Paul’s (verified) Twitter, you can find LeBron @KingJames. UPDATE: We’re hearing some chatter on Twitter that the @KingJames account has been active for a few months already. So, a few possibilities. Either 1) LeBron took over […]

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland, we found out this past week, has been named one of four finalists to host the Democratic National Convention in 2012. Based on past efforts to land this big of a show, as well as on the logistical challenges involved, experts say it’s best not to get our hopes too high for this […]

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland teachers union reached a tentative contract agreement with Cleveland Municipal School District Monday night. The agreement must now be approved by teachers and the school board. Details of the tentative agreement will not be disclosed until both teachers and board members review it, officials said. Teachers union officials said the […]

Cuyahoga County taxpayers could take a nearly $18 million hit as commissioners resurrect efforts to sell the long-vacant Ameritrust complex in downtown Cleveland.   Commissioners are considering new staff-recommended asking prices ranging from $22.5 million to $28 million for the century-old rotunda, 28-story tower and surrounding buildings at the southeast corner of East Ninth Street […]

CLEVELAND — Police are looking for a 20-year-old Cleveland man who fatally shot Brian McGrady, a West side resident, early Friday morning. An aggravated murder arrest warrant was obtained for Joshua Browning, whom police say approached a home at 2:10 a.m. in the 3100 block of West 44th Street where McGrady was sitting on a porch […]

Salvador Dali with A. Reynolds Morse and Eleanor Morse. Knoedler Gallery, New York 1943 Liz Navratil, The Plain Dealer ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA — Eleanor Reese Morse, a Cleveland native who with her husband amassed one of the world’s largest collections of Salvador Dali artwork, died of natural causes in St. Petersburg, Fla., Thursday. She was […]

MEDINA, Ohio – A partnership between local law enforcement groups resulted in a first-time raid, nabbing twenty drug suspects. Medina police partnered with the Medina County Drug Task Force and the U.S. Marshals Service for Operation Bear Trap 1. Authorities arrested 18 suspects on Wednesday in a drug raid after an ongoing investigation. Police took […]

  Zachary Lewis, The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio –When Handel’s “Music for the Royal Fireworks” premiered in London in 1749, part of the stage caught fire. The music, though, newly composed, was a hit. It was a similar story Thursday night on Public Square, only without the fire. Just as in Handel’s day, a fireworks […]

NORWALK, Ohio – The spirit rock outside South Central HIgh School in Greenwich reads, “Come Home Abbi.”  17-year-old Abbi Obermiller has been missing since the morning of June 7. Norwalk police and Abbi’s parents believe her 20-year-old boyfriend knows where she is. “I think the boyfriend wanted her away from us,” her mother Rose Obermiller […]

Laura Johnston and Everdeen Mason / Plain Dealer Reporters   CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cuyahoga County Board of Revision frequently and anonymously altered official tax records with correction fluid, violating policies designed to prevent county workers from illegally reducing assessed property values, The Plain Dealer has found. The newspaper discovered property values inexplicably blotted out […]

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The federal housing agency has pulled the plug on a deal that helped keep some of Cleveland’s worst foreclosed homes out of the hands of negligent owners. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has ended a program that allowed the city and nonprofits to take control of the homes, and […]

NORTH RIDGEVILLE, Ohio – Firefighters said gasoline leaking from a motocycle appears to be what caused an explosion at a home in North Ridgeville late Thursday night. The fire started just before 11 p.m. in the 5900 block of Eastview St. Assistant Fire Chief John Reese of the North Ridgeville Fire Department said several 911 […]