Maple Heights News

They seemed at first like a most unlikely pair of criminal defendants, Jimmy Dimora, once one of the most powerful and beloved figures in Cuyahoga County politics, and Michael Gabor, a low-level county worker, a virtual unknown.

Traveling east or west, or north or south, it didn't matter.A Motorists found wild, wintry conditions on the roadways Saturday.A A Bill Balewski, of Maple Heights, can attest to that.

Just after 1 p.m. Tuesday, former D-A-S President Steven Wayne Pumper took the witness stand in Jimmy Dimora's public corruption trial.

PEDESTRIAN HIT, CHAGRIN BOULEVARD: A Giles Road woman, 74, is recovering from serious injuries after she was hit by a car while crossing Chagrin from north to south about 6 p.m. on Jan.

One of the prosecution's two key witnesses, J. Kevin Kelley, returned to the witness stand, giving clear, concise, rapid-fire testimony about bribes, favors, and Jimmy Dimora's co-defendant in this trial, Michael Gabor.

Brenda McCulley, Spartan Road, Salineville, reported at 12:40 a.m. Tuesday there is an ongoing problem with someone discharging their gun in the area between midnight and 1 a.m. On Tuesday she heard two shots right before she called, but did not see anything.

Police and the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities are seeking public help in finding a man who has been missing since last Thursday on Jan.

Director Marquette Williams, left, talks to H. Gray Underwood of The Cut Beauty School in Cleveland before filming a segment on fatherhood.

On the shores of Lake Erie in January, the weather may be cold and the sky dreary; but in the Cleveland music scene there are a few bands that can take you straight to another set of shores - the Jamaican shores dancing with the Reggae vibe.

THEFT, SHAKER BOUELVARD: Two separate incidents of catalytic converters being stolen from vehicles parked at the RTA stop at Shaker Boulevard and Warrensville Center Road were reported on Jan.

Salacious and obscene testimony from the federal corruption case against Jimmy Dimora has kept people reading, watching and listening to news updates on the trial.

FELONY DRUG ABUSE, AURORA ROAD: After a Maple Heights woman, 48, came to the station on the afternoon of Jan.

JAWs completed the last two weeks of the regular season with victories over Kenston and Maple Heights .

Thanks to reader and wrestling mom Justin Kresevic for sending in the photos from Solon High's home wrestling match against Maple Heights.

It's believed that he left Akron and is hiding around East 35th Street in Cleveland, Deputy Marshal Brian Fitzgibbon said.

Suzanne Failing , 73, of Elyria, passed away Tuesday, January 17, 2012, at Presbyterian Hospital, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, following a sudden illness.

Fourth and fifth graders in Maple Heights started the new year off in their new school building named after President Barak Obama.