Brooklyn News

Settling on interview-appropriate attire can be an unnerving task for a job seeker - especially one trying to turn the page on a troubled past.

Twenty cats and three dogs may have to find new homes if the Brooklyn Animal Shelter has to close its doors in the near future.

James L. Berchak, 78, of North Ridgeville, passed away Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at Lakewood Hospital, following a lengthy illness.

Q: In the article about the personal checks written by President Abraham Lincoln and others found in a Huntington Bank vault in Columbus, Ohio: Who did these belong to, and what will happen to them? A: The check collection had belonged to a president of Union Commerce Bank, which was acquired by Huntington Bank.

It's being called the Cleveland Recycling & Energy Generation Center by Cleveland Public Power officials, but many residents in Old Brooklyn, Brooklyn and Parma still believe that the "gasification plant" being proposed for the Ridge Road Transfer Station is just an incinerator by another name.

Next Tuesday morning, the Academy Award nominations will be announced. Two documentary filmmakers with Triangle ties - Nancy Buirski and Michael Galinsky - may be around that morning to first receive the news.

Cleveland officials are discussing an ordinance introduced by Councilmen Terrell Pruitt and Matt Zone that would outlaw a common sight in the city -- dogs chained outside round the clock.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT, FOURNIER STREET: A 30-year-old resident was arrested after police responded to a call that the suspect, who was reportedly intoxicated, was trying to drive away from her home.

Acheck written by President Abraham Lincoln to himself from the First National Bank for $800 one day before he was assassinated is displayed at the Huntington Bank in Brooklyn, Ohio.

BROOKLYN, Ohio - Dozens of personal checks signed by presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, author Mark Twain and other famous people have been rediscovered by an Ohio bank and are being shared with the public.

The Trumbull County Coroner's Office ruled Thursday the death of a Brooklyn, Ohio, man was the result of a single penetrating gunshot wound to his chest and neck.