Mayor Bibb’s Christmas gift: Making Cleveland’s permit process less of a ‘crawl’
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Getting a permit in Cleveland has come with a ritual so familiar it earned a nickname: the crawl. Applicants would show up at City Hall clutching forms, shuffling from department to department. A permit might need approval from Building & Housing, Zoning, Fire and Health. Not trusting the process,...
Man who was selling CDs outside Target’s doors arrested on county felony warrant: University...
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Warrant arrest: Cedar Road. At 1:50 p.m. Nov. 25, store security at Target, 14070 Cedar Road, asked a police officer to advise a male against soliciting customers to buy CD’s at the entry/exit doors. Target security had already requested the male to leave, but he...
Coco’s Selfie Space in downtown Cleveland turns selfie-taking into art
Want to show off on social media enjoying a fancy meal on an airplane? Or posing underwater as a mermaid? Or why not take a snapshot of your family visiting the fantasy land Narnia? You can do all that from downtown Cleveland. Coco’s Selfie Space is more than 25,000 square...
New cameras will automatically cite Cleveland drivers for parking violations
CLEVELAND — Next time you park in Downtown Cleveland, be careful. The city plans to install roughly 40 cameras in hopes to decrease parking violations. “The goal of this is to better enforce illegal stopping and parking activities, oftentimes and especially downtown,” said Mathew Moss, a senior strategist in Mayor...
REWARD: Ohio City murder suspect still on the run
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -This week’s Cuyahoga’s Most Wanted featured a man wanted for an August 2024 murder in Ohio City. According to Crime Stoppers of Cuyahoga County, two men were walking together on Detroit Avenue near West 25th. The two got into an argument that turned physical and...
Bernie Kosar out of hospital following E. coli infection
Browns legend Bernie Kosar announced he was out of the hospital after fighting an E. coli infection that came less than a month after receiving his liver transplant.
From rail titan to empty halls: Tower City Center in Cleveland, OH is unrecognizable
Tower City Center begins with the Van Sweringens' plan. Tower City Center exists because two brothers believed Cleveland should behave like a capital city. O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen were not theorists. They had already put their ideas to the test in Shaker Heights, where they insisted on strict planning,...
$1M bonds for 2 men accused of deadly shooting outside Angie’s Soul Café
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The two men accused of a deadly shooting outside Angie’s Soul Café in June were arraigned in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas on Wednesday. Zoom issues caused some rescheduling earlier this week. Dominick Newby, 20, was arraigned, and his bond was set...
Man accused of attempting to kidnap Strongsville teen found incompetent to stand trial
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The Strongsville man accused of trying to kidnap a teenager waiting for the school bus, has been found incompetent to stand trial at this time. Dominic Anthony Sacco, 27, was indicted on a felony count of abduction and a felony count of attempted abduction. Sacco will...
Rare animal seen in Ohio for first time in over 100 years in astonishing...
A wildlife camera captured a fisher in Ohio ’s Cleveland Metroparks, marking the species’ first confirmed sighting in Cuyahoga County in more than 100 years, officials said. The trail camera recorded a fisher, a medium-sized mammal related to weasels , mink and otters, earlier this year, marking the first verified...

















