By Diane DiPiero, Associated Content It could have been a summer cookout that drew all of the cars to Walden Avenue in Cleveland’s Lee-Harvard neighborhood. Or it might have been a young child’s birthday party that coaxed neighbors out of their neatly kept two-story homes just around dinnertime. Indeed, the teddy bears that dotted the front […]

Two veteran Cleveland Metroparks managers overseeing the Rocky River Reservation “misappropriated” about $1,200 in scrap metal money that wasn’t deposited in a park account, a park official said. As a result, Metroparks spokeswoman Jane Christyson said park manager Keith Kessler, 54, of Medina and grounds maintenance administrative assistant Penny Darwish, 56, of Cleveland have been […]

Republican Matt Dolan has raised more than $500,000 — more than half from his father, Cleveland Indians owner Larry Dolan — in his bid to be the first Cuyahoga County executive. And wealthy businessman Ken Lanci, until recently a political unknown, dug $385,400 out of his own pockets to build his independent campaign and introduce […]