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A planned celebration at the Polish American Cultural Center Saturday night turned into a memorial observance. The death of the president of Poland and other top officials in a plane crash today set off a flurry of condolence calls and memorials in the Warszawa Historic District, a former Polish stronghold south of E. 55th Street and […]

Police have found the car they believe was used to drop Angel Bradley-Crockett’s body on Interstate 90. It’s her mother’s car, a royal blue 2007 Chrysler Aspen. Police found it about 1 a.m. today near East 66th Street and Charter Avenue, a dispatcher said. The car was towed and will be searched for blood, fingerprints and other […]

                CLEVELAND, Ohio — The woman found dead along Interstate 90 west Monday morning died of strangulation and blunt-force trauma. The Cuyahoga County Coroner’s office said Angel Bradley-Crockett had been beaten on her head, trunk and extremities and was strangled with a ligature. Her body was left on the […]

Tiffany Morland said it wasn’t supposed to turn out like this. Morland and her 12-year-old nephew are now facing false alarm charges after a April Fools’ Day joke went wrong. The two planned to prank Morland’s mother, who was working at the time. The nephew phoned his grandmother and told her his mom had been […]

If you’re hoping to get a hearing before a federal judge in Ohio so you can qualify for Social Security disability benefits, you have to be patient. Waits in Ohio are longer than they are in any other state. That’s according to a report released today by Allsup, a for-profit company that helps Americans file […]

From the moment he took office, Gov. Ted Strickland put his stamp on the Department of Public Safety by hiring a civilian director to pull the State Highway Patrol back into line. While the patrol is one of eight state divisions under public safety, it had largely operated autonomously, free of heavy oversight from its […]

Thomas J. Moyer, who led Ohio’s Supreme Court for nearly a quarter-century and was the nation’s longest-serving active state chief justice, died unexpectedly Friday afternoon. Moyer, 70, had been admitted to Columbus’s Riverside Methodist Hospital Thursday morning with a gastro-intestinal ailment that was not thought to be life-threatening, according to court spokesman Chris Davey. Moyer […]

    Cleveland To Break Ground On Croatian Cultural Garden By Mark Gillispie, The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio — Nearly 200 years after Croatians helped the British in their fight against the French during the Napoleonic Wars, Great Britain is returning the favor, albeit on a much smaller scale. Cleveland City Council’s City Planning Committee on Wednesday approved an agreement to […]

UPDATE: CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Shaun Rogers posted bail on Friday, and was released from jail, just hours after being charged with carrying a concealed weapon.

ELYRIA TOWNSHIP, Ohio – Lorain County authorities are out Wednesday morning to search for clues after a gruesome discovery Monday night.

Sgt. Pablo Emilio Moncayo, held by Colombian FARC rebels as a hostage for more than 12 years, was reunited with family members Tuesday after being released and handed over to the Red Cross. Bad weather slowed the planned handover, but Moncayo eventually was transported to the city of Florencia, where his family, Red Cross personnel […]

The Defense Finance and Accounting Service has agreed to suspend a controversial policy of terminating workers for credit reasons while it reviews whether it was necessary to upgrade their security clearances in 2005. “I have been getting calls all afternoon, people are ecstatic,” says Angelo “Troy” Marshall, who heads the union that represents the facility’s […]