Shaker Heights Lawyer Loses License After Voting Twice in Two Elections
A Shaker Heights attorney convicted of casting ballots in both Ohio and Florida during two separate general elections has now lost his law license entirely. The Ohio Supreme Court suspended James Saunders, 60, after he failed to respond to a disciplinary complaint stemming from his felony election-fraud convictions, and ordered him to immediately stop practicing law, representing clients in court, giving legal advice or performing any other legal services.
Dozens report chemical smell in Lakewood, air quality officials investigating
LAKEWOOD, Ohio (WOIO) — A chemical odor reported by dozens of residents in Lakewood’s Birdtown neighborhood has prompted an investigation by the Cleveland Division of Air Quality, though officials have not yet determined the source. Lakewood City Councilman Matt Bixenstine said he began receiving reports from Birdtown residents...
Food delivery driver believed among 3 shot and killed in Cleveland
Three men have been killed in two separate shootings in Cleveland, including a man believed to have been delivering food.
Cleveland Hopkins begins $1.6 billion upgrade project
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Cleveland Hopkins International Airport has begun construction on a $1.6 billion upgrade project the airport director says will change the look and function of the airport by 2032. Bryant Francis, Cleveland’s director of port control, said new construction is the way to improve the traveler experience...
Cuyahoga County Paid MetroHealth $1.13M in Perks Officials Claim They Never Knew About
Source: The original uploader was Aivazovsky at English Wikipedia. / Wikimedia Commons. Cuyahoga County paid MetroHealth $1.13 million in employee parking stipends, signing bonuses and other incentive payments between July 2022 and July 2026, and the county employees responsible for overseeing the jail medical contract say they had no idea those charges were being reimbursed. Roughly $325,670 of that total landed in 2025 alone, according to findings from the county's own watchdog office.
Cleveland City Council rejects paying Browns for repairs to downtown stadium
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Cleveland City Council votes not to pay the Cleveland Browns nearly $1.2 million dollars for emergency repairs to Huntington Bank Field, according to a press release from council. The city of Cleveland owns Huntington Field, and the Cleveland Browns operate it. The October 23, 1998, lease...
Case Western Reserve Opens 300 Million Dollar Susi Research Building in Cleveland
Case Western Reserve University has opened the Roger E. Susi Interdisciplinary Research Building in Cleveland, a 189,000-square-foot, $300 million research hub that the university calls its largest single investment ever in research, according to the university’s newsroom. The building, on the Case Quad along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,...
After months of fighting, NEON workers are getting paid
After months of demanding the wages they were owed, current and former workers at Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services are getting their back pay. Nearly 20 workers won wage theft judgments against the financially troubled nonprofit in July. They have either received their money or still need to complete the necessary documents to receive it, a Cleveland Municipal Court spokesman told Signal Cleveland.
CMSD Flock audit shows 130,000 outside law enforcement searches largely unexamined
An internal audit of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s Flock camera system found no issues with searches after the district restricted access in July, but did not closely examine more than 130,184 earlier searches by outside law enforcement agencies. Signal Cleveland requested the audit in June and again following...
FIRST LOOK: A new vision for remaking Cleveland’s lakefront – without a stadium
New drawings of a reimagined downtown Cleveland lakefront show wide pedestrian paths, buildings that approach and recede from the water — and a football-field shaped park where the Browns now play.
