Brook Park News

The first of this year's winners of Beautification and Pride Awards have been selected.

Sixteen-year-old Darnell Lewis was sentenced to life in prison, with eligibility for parole after 29 years, for killing a Brook Park man who owed him $7. He was sentenced Thursday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, Lewis pleaded guilty on June 3 to the murder of Alan Kropog, 35, on Dec.

OVI: A Parma man urinated in the street after being warned not to by police. Officers had pulled him over on West 147th Street for driving intoxicated.

BROOK PARK Several years ago, Jake Lantz was invited to St. Mary's Elementary School in Berea by then-Chargers hoops coach and longtime Sun News sportswriter Joe Stitt .

Three people were indicted today for selling cars that did not belong to them, prosecutors said.

BROOK PARK The Snow Road railroad underpass is nearing a completion date. The project began in 2007, and is expected to finish up in August.

American Red Cross Bloodmobile , donors must be at least 17 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds and be in good health.

Well, Assumption of Mary Parish will soon merge with St. Peter the Apostle, so someone came up with a great idea.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT: A male juvenile was arrested after chasing a woman inside a Smith Road gas station.

I know it's hard to believe, but it's time for the 20th reunion of the Midpark class of 1989 and plans are under way now for an Aug.1 get together.

Two clubs from the former Tri-City Senior Center have found a home at the Middleburg Heights Library.

Two local communities are applying for more federal stimulus dollars through the county.

Members of a local, fledgling arts council were pleased this weekend with the outcome of their first attempt at running a longtime street fair in downtown Port Clinton.

It wasn't the big bad wolf, but rather the city who huffed and puffed and found three little pigs at a home within city limits.

Hopes of a new fire station on Holland Road have rekindled. The city and Cleveland are jointly applying for federal stimulus dollars to construct a new, primary fire station in Brook Park, which could also serve as an alternate emergency operation center for Cleveland.

I was reading the information about the Medina Community Band and its members when I ran into this quote.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT: A Brook Park man sleeping near a trash bin was found to be intoxicated and unable to care for himself.

I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank all the people and organizations that helped to make our "Remember the Military" yard clean-up and flower planting for the American Legion Post 610 on Sheldon Road, the Marine Reserve 3/25 on Smith Road, the Army National Guard on Engle Road, and the Kennedy Memorial on Sylvia Drive a success.

An off-duty Cleveland police officer was injured Saturday after trying to intervene in a fight between a couple outside his West Side home.

UPDATE: BROOK PARK, OH - Developing automotive news this hour. Weeks after it's grand re-opening, Brook Park's Ford Engine Plant Number Two forced to shut down due to a minor operational glitch.