Shaker Heights News

The Heights Youth Theatre will present "Oliver!", the British musical, Friday through Sunday in the auditorium at Wiley Middle School, 2181 Miramar Blvd., University Heights.

SHAKER HEIGHTS The Shaker High grads of '69 were not your average class, and their 40th reunion was by no means "typical." More than 200 graduates of a class of 600 convened Oct.

Campaign signs to the contrary, voters are not "Feeling/Bliss" like they used to, if Tuesday's election results are any indication.

U nder the direction of retired Shaker Heights French and Spanish teacher Edna Duffy , the Duffy Liturgical Dance Ensemble will celebrate 25 years with "Wading in Muddy Waters: Swimming Up Clear Streams." It's a performance of live music and dance at 6 p.m. Nov.

On Saturday, more than 225 volunteers will help almost 80 needy residents rake leaves and do other yard work.

Fugitive Jonathan "Cheeks" Ward was captured last week to face armed robbery and weapon charges.

Fire houses are being shut down, jobs are going up in smoke, and lives are being put at risk.

9. THEFT, ST. MARGARET: A Village Council candidate reported Oct. 15 that he left his car in the parking lot three days earlier, and when he returned campaign literature was missing from inside.

Bialosky + Partners Architects of Cleveland won the prestigious AIA Ohio Gold Medal Firm Award this year for projects such as the Progressive Insurance Campus II in Mayfield Village, designed by William Bialosky and completed in 2004.

THEFT FROM AUTO, RICHMOND ROAD: A woman, 19, of South Euclid, went to the police station to report that, between 6:30-8 p.m. Oct.

Police near Cincinnati are looking for a Shaker Heights native who has been missing since Thursday night.

RAPE, SUTTON ROAD: A woman reported Oct. 12 that she was raped by an acquaintance.

SHAKER HTS. It took Tocomba Murphy years to find out what exactly was ailing her, then even more time to find an effective treatment for Crohn's disease.

AGGRAVATED ARSON/BURGLARY, LOCHMOOR COURT: Police are investigating a report of a small fire being set in an attached garage about 2:15 a.m. Tuesday, after a father woke up and smelled smoke, checked on his family, then discovered the fire.

Life Insurance Agents Flock To EAGiL Woodcliff Lake, NJ - October 21, 2009 -- Guy E. Runyon, President and CEO of Eagil Life Settlements, LLC, announced today that Eagil has been approved as a Life Settlement Provider in the state of Ohio.

Backers of the competing ballot issues for reforming Cuyahoga County government accused each other Tuesday of being unable to uphold promises to create a code of ethics for county officials Those on both sides of the debate agree a code of ethics policy is needed in county government, where elected officials, staff and contractors remain the focus ...

Paul Newman was perfect. You could almost have called him the Queen Mother of Hollywood .

U.S. Senate candidate and Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher says he will weigh in the fight over county reform.

THEFT, CHAGRIN BOULEVARD: A Cleveland Heights woman, 31, and a Shaker Heights man, 33, were arrested Oct.

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