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Jonathan Leissler, 44, of Stow, Ohio, pleaded guilty to wire fraud.

Kids grow fast, winter’s here— and it’s the holidays. So, Citadel of Faith Ministries in Maple Heights is opening its doors to families who need a lift for a children’s coat-and-shoe giveaway.

Marilyn Burns sat at her kitchen table on a cold December afternoon. As I entered her home, she greeted me with a hug. She was in the process of planning a brunch for some of her closest friends. “We are going to have salmon, salad, fruit, dessert and so many...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - An attorney representing Tamir Rice’s mother announced Friday that another law enforcement agency has fired Timothy Loehmann. Earlier this week, Samaria Rice’s attorney Subodh Chandra shared a report by Dragline which stated Loehmann was joining two departments in West Virginia. In the days...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Copper thieves plunged part of Slavic Village into darkness by ripping the wires out of streetlights. But it turns out the problem is more widespread. Cleveland Metroparks confirmed that thieves have pulled the wire from streetlights along the Red Line Greenway on multiple occasions. And officials...

CLEVELAND — Two members of Cleveland City Council are calling for a closer look at the judicial process that allowed Donnie Allen, the 25-year-old man accused of killing Benjamin McComas of Avon Lake in a shooting at an RTA station, to be out on bail for an unrelated alleged crime just days before McComas' death.

MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio – A wanted Bedford man, 51, was arrested at about 4:30 p.m. Dec. 1 on Engle Road. At about 4 p.m., police saw a Honda Odyssey turn onto Engle from Sonesta Simply Suites, 17525 Rosbough Drive. They checked the license plate and learned that the van owner, the Bedford man, was wanted in...

A clinical trial of a vaccine to prevent breast cancer is showing early promise, prompting Cleveland Clinic researchers to move ahead with a second stage of testing. Most participants tolerated the vaccine well, and the majority showed a strong immune reaction, a key early sign that the vaccine is working as...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland man robbed a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier at gunpoint and stole a blue-box key that he used to steal checks across East Side suburbs, according to federal investigators. Je’Vion Tolliver-Maddox, 21, cashed at least five forged checks after stealing checks from blue boxes,...

SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio -- Officers checked on a plow truck clearing snow in the former CVS parking lot Dec. 10 without a valid permit displayed and found the driver to have no license or any identification. The Painesville man, 19, gave different names during the investigation. He later admitted that...