Deadly water emergency prompts rescue teams to warn about the dangers of frozen water
VALLEY CITY, Ohio (WOIO) - One person is dead after a water emergency at a pond in Valley City on Friday afternoon. According to a release from the Valley City Fire Department, firefighters responded to an emergency involving a reported drowning in a local pond. When they arrived, crews acted...
MORNING DIGEST: First child death is reported from the flu
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Woodhill Homes moves hundreds of units closer to transit
Woodhill Station East adds 69 housing units next to the 120 already available at Woodhill Station West. Previously, these blighted sites across from the Woodhill light-rail station held the remnants of a demolished Burger King and a vacant elementary school (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. Progress...
Nature has transformed Cleveland’s lakefront into a breathtaking ice sculpture garden that’s vanishing soon...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Thanks to a perfect mix of wind, waves, and freezing temperatures, Mother Nature has been busy sculpting some incredible ice formations along the shoreline near Cleveland. If you escaped to somewhere warm and sunny for the holidays, you missed out on a truly frigid - and windy...
Betty Boop, the Marx Brothers, and Gershwin are now fair game: Here’s what entered...
CLEVELAND — Last week, I could have been sued for butchering the classic American song "Georgia on my Mind" on broadcast television, but no lawyers can stop me now, because as of this week, this classic song now officially belongs to the public domain — meaning it’s now fair-use to adapt and share however I want.
‘Choose peace’: Community leaders launch campaign to combat violence following series of deadly crimes
A recent series of deadly crimes in Cleveland is prompting a group of community leaders to launch a campaign to combat the violence.
We now know Cleveland’s apex predator of the Devonian was so much more: editorial
About 1867, Jay Terrell was walking along the Lake Erie shore in Sheffield Lake when he noticed what appeared to be fossils in the shale cliffs above him that lined the lakeshore. They proved to be the fossilized remains of a “terrible fish” -- originally named Dinichthys Terrelli in his...
New rules at Highland Heights Sky Zone meant to deter unruly juveniles
Days after hundreds of juveniles flooded a local trampoline park, leading to fights and overcrowding, city officials announced new safety rules there.
‘It’s on fire’: EPA finds toxic sewer gas after Mentor residents say their complaints...
MENTOR, Ohio — The smell in Mentor’s Woodhill subdivision is so overpowering it feels like “walking with a dirty diaper on your face,” neighbors say, making them sick and forcing them indoors. Even their homes aren’t refuge. At times, the stench seeps inside, leaving them with...
Here’s why more people are buying gun silencers in 2026
Gun supply stores are seeing sales surge after the latest federal budget eliminated a $200 tax on silencer purchases effective Jan. 1.
