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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland Metroparks Zoo will say goodbye to its seal and sea lions this year. An 11-year-old harbor seal named Onion and two 17-year-old sea lions, Annabelle and Hera, are to be shipped out this year - destination unknown. They won’t be replaced. Their fate will...

NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio – Theft: Country Club Boulevard. A Dillard’s department store loss prevention officer called the police department at 3:38 p.m. on Dec. 28 to report that a man had just stolen $275 worth of Polo clothing items by concealing them in his pants. An off-duty police...

SUMMIT COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - A 72-year-old woman has died from her injuries, after being stuck by a car driven by a 90-year-old woman in a Coventry Township church parking lot. This accident happened at 12:05 p.m. Sunday at St. Francis de Sales Church in the 4000 block of Manchester...

AMHERST, Ohio – Larry Esper’s previous work experience had nothing to do with beer. But it all positioned him to open a brewery. Esper, from Lorain County, was a welder-fitter who built everything from skyscrapers to prisons. He also poured a lot of concrete. In a later-in-life career change, he became a medical...

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CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A Cleveland police officer spotted a house fire on the city’s West side early Monday morning. The officer was on patrol in the 1200 block of W. 104th St. around 2:30 a.m. when they spotted smoke coming from a duplex. Cleveland firefighters were immediately called...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Reward money is now available for information leading to the arrest of the fugitive accused of shooting two people in Cleveland Heights. According to police, Leroy Kedar Jackson Jr. shot both victims on Dec. 26, 2024. Jackson, 19, is 5′9″ and 130 pounds. The...

PARMA, Ohio – Paczki is a pre-Easter staple in Northeast Ohio. And Lidia Trempe of Rudy’s Strudel & Bakery in Parma is its biggest cheerleader. For 2026, Trempe’s flavor of the year comes from a collaboration with another Cleveland category leader – Malley’s Chocolates. Known...

OHIO — Corpus Christi Academy in Cuyahoga County will be closed on Monday, January 12, 2026, due to illness, school officials announced. The closure applies to all students and staff at the school, and no in-person classes or on-campus activities will take place for the day. Officials did not release specific details...

When “Miss Barbara” picked up the Magic Mirror, her little friends at home so desperately wanted to hear their names. “Romper, bomper, stomper, boo. Tell me, tell me, tell me do.” Barbara Plummer, the host of “Romper Room” on WEWS-TV (Channel 5) , was one of the most beloved TV personalities in Northeast Ohio in the...