East Cleveland News

Here are some of this week's weird calls and charges from Northeast Ohio. All information was provided by police reports from departments in Patch communities.

Sylvetta Williams speaks for hundreds of Cleveland families, when she talks about the pain of losing a loved one.

A 64-year-old man was arrested and charged with attempted burglary after police said he tried to force his way into at least two homes in Cleveland Heights.

EASTLAKE, Ohio - Authorities are on the lookout for a suspect believed to have robbed banks in Willowick, Willoughby and Wickliffe.

Protest signs are seen outside of the main Cleveland Post Office at 2400 Orange Ave.

Municipal workers reinstalled a toppled stop sign at the oddly configured intersection where East 152nd Street meets Coit Road.

The board of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority voted this week to join the NASA Glenn Research Center in operating a bus that would emit only water from its tailpipe.

''We are an ahistorical people,'' Cleveland attorney Leslye Huff says. ''The number of lesbians in this town, who are under 40, who don't know that we had a monthly newsletter called What She Wants , that was run purely on volunteer energy and was just as present in our community as the Gay People's Chronicle ,'' she says about the LGBT newspaper ... (more)

Engineers at GEs NELA Park in East Cleveland, Ohio, have spent a century building better light bulbs.

Shine a-new: GE's new lightbulb will last long enough to cover a childhood, and will be released next year With the exception of the introduction of the energy-saving lightbulbs a few years back, lightbulb technology has not changed too much in 100 years.

A seven-count federal indictment names 12 people accused of fraudulently gaining $1.5 million from lenders in an elaborate mortgage scheme in Cleveland and East Cleveland.

GE announced today that an LED replacement for the 100-watt incandescent bulb will reach store shelves early next year.

Baiju Shah leads BioEnterprise, which helps locals innovate. He also chairs the new Global Cleveland, which draws talent to town.

Landlords told Plain Dealing that CEI used the contracts to try to bully them into paying electric bills that tenants accrued long ago - in some cases, even after they had sold their rental properties.

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio - East Cleveland city council voted on Tuesday to increase the city's budget by $2.5 million that would cover healthcare insurance for city employees and restore crossing guards to their posts.

Attorneys will be available form 9:45 to 11:45 a.m. Saturday at the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Health Center, 13944 Euclid Ave.

The city's other 34 intersections controlled by traffic signals -- including four equipped with ticket-generating red light cameras -- just aren't busy enough to require the stop-and-go devices, according to a study released last week.