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SOLON, Ohio — A small patch of land at Aurora and Liberty roads has been transformed with the planting of about 1,100 native trees and shrubs, kicking off a long-term effort to establish a new woodland in the heart of Solon. The city’s new Mini Forest packs as many...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland City Council jokingly adopted the “Gulf of Cleveland” name for part of Lake Erie this month, but Ohio lawmakers are not the first to experiment with renaming familiar bodies of water. Similar proposals have surfaced in Mississippi, West Virginia and, most recently, Pennsylvania....

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -The City of Cleveland and Cleveland Public Power (CPP) announced today two former landfill sites will be turned into solar farms. First, the former Bradbury Landfill near W. 11th and Spring Road will be getting a smaller 2 megawatt (MW) solar site. The energy produced here will...

CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio — We have a special, exciting update about Finn Sheets, a 15-year-old with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, whom we first introduced you to over the summer. In 2024, Kasey Sheets told me she began fighting for basement accessibility for her son following a pattern of severe...

A man who assaulted two cyclists and then caused a SWAT standoff at his home in the Mentor Headlands has been sentenced to 24 years to 28 years in prison. Lake County Common Pleas Court Judge Jeffrey W. Ruple imposed the sentence on Michael Leppelmeier for an incident that occurred on June 3.

SOLON, Ohio -- A Marc’s store employee was arrested for the assault of a delivery driver, an assault that occurred, the suspect told police, simply becuase the driver was in his way. At 10:05 a.m. Sept. 24, Solon police officers responded to the Marc’s store at 6231 SOM Center...

SOLON, Ohio -- Underage consumption of alcohol: Michael Drive. At 11:35 p.m. Sept. 26, officers responded twice to a residence for noise complaints. On their second visit, they observed juveniles outside and evidence that they had been drinking alcohol. The homeowners were contacted and it was learned that they had...

A shooting was reported overnight on Cleveland's east side.

BEREA, Ohio (WOIO) - A dump truck exiting the Cleveland Browns practice facility left some without power on Monday afternoon, according to Berea Police Department. While the dump truck left the facility, the flat bed was left raised and was caught by the overhead power lines. According to BPD, no...

SUMMIT COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) officials said recent inspections of the State Route 82 bridge had “identified advanced deterioration in key structural components.”. According to ODOT, ongoing maintenance efforts have addressed urgent deficiencies, but a long-term solution is neede