Cuyahoga County News

A stone contractor has been charged in Cleveland with bribing a high-ranking elected official.

A woman indicted on charges of aggravated murder, murder, endangering children, and felonious assault was arraigned today.

Federal prosecutors have charged two building suppliers with bribing public officials who match the descriptions of Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora and Auditor Frank Russo.

The Cuyahoga County Public Library has been named one of America's Star Libraries by Library Journal's 2nd Annual Index of Public Library Services.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued tough orders Wednesday to the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority's board of directors: come up with $158 million or else.

The Independence branch of Cuyahoga County Public Library is looking for a few good teens who are creative, like to share ideas, or want to have a say in programming.

See pictures from the scene - The Division of Police has re-established a Command Post on site at E.123 St.

A 19-year-old Cleveland man pleaded guilty today to setting a fire that destroyed three houses, including the home of a disabled woman who had to be rescued from the blaze.

A former RTA bus driver was sentenced to six months in jail after a jury convicted her of vehicular homicide for killing a man in a downtown crosswalk.

Barbara Pieretti, 24, of Cleveland, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. She was charged with murder.

CLEVELAND a ' A North Olmsted man has been charged with sexual battery amid accusations he had sex with a 17-year-old student of his when he taught at a private Cleveland school.

Now that most of the bodies found at the home of a suspected serial killer have been identified, Cleveland is turning attention to the living.A nonprofit rape crisis center has set up a hot line in hopes of hearing from any women who survived encounters at the home of Anthony Sowell.But shame, checkered backgrounds and mistrust might make it tricky ...

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Nancy Fuerst will assume the role of the court's administrative judge at the start of the new year.

Angel Glass, 24, was indicted today in the beating death of her 5-year-old son. She is charged with aggravated murder, child endangering and felonious assault.

Two years ago, the social-activist group BREAD labeled truancy a major problem, urging the Franklin County prosecutor's office to help keep kids in school by notifying their parents when they weren't. The KEY Truancy Program was begun and has since reduced chronic truancy in six pilot schools by 55 percent.

People have come together in Cleveland to thank the coroner's office for quickly identifying women whose remains were found at the home of a suspected serial killer.

The Discovery Channel's "Behind Bars" show has arrived to begin shooting at the county jail in Cleveland, but it's unlikely viewers will see its high-profile inmate.

An 8-year-old girl who was struck by a car on Lakeshore Boulevard Thursday afternoon died of her injuries Sunday at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, said a spokesman for the Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office.

Arcadio Flores Santiago is wanted by the U.S. Marshals and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office on charges of attempted murder The Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force is offering a reward for information which would lead to the capture of fugitive Arcadio Flores Santiago.

They fight for us on the front lines. So why don't they have a chance to fight in foreign courts when it involves their paychecks - or even their children? A wrinkle in the law has meant that many soldiers who have had their pay docked by foreign courts, have later learned that it was Cuyahoga County that enforced the order that reduced their ...