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HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Kohl’s loss prevention reported April 27 that there were four people inside the store who were known to have stolen from other locations. Responding officers waited in the parking lot and detained all four as they exited the store. One was a Twinsburg man, 33,...

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio — The Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District confirms it has laid off 21 employees to help address a projected budget shortfall. In a press release issued late Thursday afternoon, the district said it will be making at least $5 million worth of budget cuts over the next two years. As part of those cuts, a total of 32 workforce positions...

What does it look like when a government entity tries to quietly buy judicial cooperation, gets caught, pretends it didn’t happen, and then attempts to quietly resurrect the same deal under a different name?. It looks a lot like what’s happening right now with Cuyahoga County’s courthouse renovation saga...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Brecksville-Broadview Heights school administrators failed to provide safeguards against a healthcare aide who stole prescription pills from elementary school students, a new lawsuit says. The mother of a student accused school district officials of failing to safeguard against the theft by former health care clinic aide...

Two East Cleveland brothers received lengthy federal prison sentences after prosecutors connected them to a massive fraud operation worth more than $21 million. According to federal officials, the scheme involved stolen identities, fake business transactions, and fraudulent financial activity that stretched across multiple years. Prosecutors said the brothers moved money through accounts connected to the […]

A grim discovery at a Cleveland motel has left two men dead and a third injured after the owner unlocked a room on Wednesday and found what first responders later described as a blood-soaked scene. What Crews Found at the Scene. According to the Cleveland, Ohio Remembrance Page on Facebook,...

Video released to the FOX 8 I-Team shows how an RTA bus driver found himself threatened with a gun targeted in road rage.

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -“This is the last of the stuff we’re going through,” said Shelli Slapnik March, walking through the store for one of the last times with her husband, Bob. “Lotta stuff. Lotta memories here. My life, my life is here.”. Since 1920, Slapnik Florist...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - A statewide violent crime reduction initiative led to 10 felony arrests and the recovery of eight illegal guns during operations in Cleveland and Cincinnati on Wednesday night, according to state officials. Gov. Mike DeWine said the operations are aimed at preventing future violence by removing illegal firearms...

Subscribe to the Wake Up, cleveland.com’s free morning newsletter, delivered to your inbox weekdays at 5:30 a.m. Cuyahoga County’s Justice Center needs work. The 50-year-old tower, as reporter Kaitlin Durbin writes, “has long been plagued by a leaking roof, unreliable elevators and outdated fixtures.”. Judges want to...