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Millions of federal stimulus dollars poured into competing Great Lakes ports over the last year, but the financially troubled Port of Cleveland missed the boat. The reason: Officials at the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority asked for only one stimulus grant — $45 million to buy and retrofit a container cargo ship — and received not […]
Shaquille O’Neal is out of surgery and it was successful, which is the good news. The bad news is that the procedure Dr. Thomas Graham and Cavs team physician Dr. Richard Parker performed Monday morning in Baltimore on O’Neal’s right thumb ended his regular season. In announcing that O’Neal was out of surgery, the Cavaliers […]
The George Gund Foundation will give $2.5 million to help launch a Cleveland schools “transformation plan” and will add another $4 million over the next two years if it likes what it sees. The full commitment would give the struggling district a good jump on raising nearly $72 million that officials say they need for […]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The unsolved killings of 61 women in Cleveland and East Cleveland are being examined to see if there is a link to accused serial killer Anthony Sowell, prosecutors said Thursday. The Cuyahoga County prosecutor’s cold case unit has identified 61 killings on the East Side between 1979 and 2007 where women […]
A Calamity In The Making by Bill Boyarsky A major reason for enacting health reform is the fate of elderly and disabled patients—especially the indigent—in nursing homes and assisted-care facilities. Except for the visits of relatives and thoughtful friends, they’re out of sight, out of mind, all but ignored by politicians and media tuning up […]
Ohio Supreme Court Sanctions Juvenile Court Judge Joseph Russo But Allows Him To Remain On The Bench
– The Ohio Supreme Court suspended a juvenile court judge’s law license for a year on Thursday, but stayed the suspension.Full Story Cleveland.Com
The Wizards have reached a buyout agreement with center Zydrunas Ilgauskas, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations. The 7-foot-3 Ilgauskas is expected to pay back between $1 million and $1.5 million of his $11.5 million contract, the person said. Ilgauskas agreed to the terms late Wednesday night. A formal announcement will likely […]
The region’s Asian-American community is abuzz with talk of the most recent outrage to alarm Asiatown, the colorful neighborhood east of downtown. On Feb. 13, a Saturday, a 33-year-old University Heights man was carjacked by two hooded teens at about 1:30 p.m. on East 27th Street near Asia Plaza, the busy mini-mall on Payne Avenue. […]
Two men who terrified a Cuyahoga County jury by pointing cameras at them last week during an aggravated murder trial were jailed Wednesday for contempt of court. One of the men, a friend of aggravated-murder suspect Dwayne Davenport, recorded images of the jury and prosecutors for eight minutes last Wednesday before jurors noticed, and Common […]
Everyone knows misery loves company, so Positively Cleveland, the tourism folks for what Forbes.com calls America’s most miserable city, has created a place for all of us miserable Clevelanders to gather on the Internet. But whattheforbes.com is not a cyber bunker to shield us from the slings and arrows of outrageous list-makers. The site, which […]
The Browns and former general manager George Kokinis have resolved their grievance stemming from his dismissal. Kokinis was fired by the Browns on Nov. 2 of last year for what the team termed “just cause.” Kokinis, who had been hired in February of 2009, later filed a grievance asking for $4 million in compensation and […]
Nicholas A. Zavarella has been charged with bribing Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora with free masonry work in exchange for favors that included helping a relative of Zavarella’s obtain two different teaching jobs in the county. The charge, the latest in the ongoing probe in public corruption in Cuyahoga County, was filed this morning in […]