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(Oct. 31) -- Police in Cleveland say at least three bodies have been found at the home of a convicted rapist, and they expect to confirm three more. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that Anthony Sowell, 50, and a convicted rapist, has been arrested. Police are asking people with missing relatives to bring in items that might offer DNA samples, to help authorities identify the victims. Police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said Saturday that the bodies were found at the home of 50-year-old Anthony Sowell of Cleveland. He says officers have found three bodies and believe they have discovered three...

A search has been launched for a 50-year-old convicted rapist and suspect in the killings of six people whose bodies were found in and around a house in Cleveland, Ohio, police said Friday.

<p>None of the bodies has been identified; search of house to continue Saturday (CNN) -- A search has been launched for a 50-year-old convicted rapist and suspect in the killings of six people whose bodies were found in and around a house in Cleveland, Ohio, police said Friday.</p>

POOL REPORT CLEVELAND, Ohio — The U.S. economy is pulling out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression because federal stimulus measures are working, said Vice President Joe Biden during an appearance in Cleveland this afternoon. "We are recovering. We will recover. We are no longer talking about will there be a recovery, we are talking about what kind of recovery it will be," said Biden, during a fund-raiser for a pair of Democratic congressman, Zack Space of Dover and John Boccieri of Alliance. Biden thanked the congressmen for their support of stimulus measures that passed earlier this...

Unnecessary fear over swine flu is clogging up area emergency rooms. Three of Cleveland's major hospitals -- MetroHealth Medical Center, University Hospitals Case Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic -- said Tuesday they are seeing unprecedented numbers of people coming into their ERs with flu symptoms. The vast majority of these visits are unwarranted because the cases are mild and don't require emergency medical attention. After being seen by a doctor, most patients are being told to go back home, rest, drink fluids, take Tylenol and avoid contact with others. The emergency room at MetroHealth has seen a record number...

Cal Professor John Ogbu thinks he knows why rich black kids are failing in school. Nobody wants to hear it. The black parents wanted an explanation. Doctors, lawyers, judges, and insurance brokers, many had come to the upscale Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights specifically because of its stellar school district. They expected their children to succeed academically, but most were performing poorly. African-American students were lagging far behind their white classmates in every measure of academic success: grade-point average, standardized test scores, and enrollment in advanced-placement courses. On average, black students earned a 1.9 GPA while their white counterparts held...

Five fallen U.S. sailors from what has been described as America's first war on terrorism lie in a crumbling cemetery in Libya, their graves identified only by their heroism on a night more than 200 years ago. They represent a lingering legacy of the Intrepid -- a small ship used in a daring raid in 1804 to destroy the captured American frigate Philadelphia anchored in Tripoli Harbor, denying the enemy use of the former U.S. warship. Much the same tactic was attempted six months later when the Intrepid sailed into the same harbor, packed with gunpowder for use as a...

DAYTON, Ohio -- Here's an idea for saving Rust Belt cities: Tell bloggers and radio stations to stop calling your town a basket case. That was one suggestion from representatives of eight of the 10 cities labeled last year as America's fastest dying. They met at the Dayton Convention Center last weekend to swap ideas about how to halt the long skid that's turned cities like Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo, N.Y., into shorthand for dystopia. The city representatives lunched on $6 sloppy Joes and commiserated through Power Point strategy sessions: Lure back former residents, entice entrepreneurs and artists, convert blighted...

SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio -- President Barack Obama, facing a blown deadline in health-care legislation and some skepticism in the audience, made his pitch for a national health plan to this affluent Cleveland suburb Thursday, saying he no longer sees political disaster if the House and Senate fail to produce health bills before August. The president took to the stage of Shaker Heights High School after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid officially conceded that the Senate wouldn't act on a health-care bill before the August recess. As long as he sees "folks working diligently and consistently," Mr. Obama said he is...

For four years, Cuyahoga County taxpayers have asked questions about the commissioners' controversial $40 million purchase and renovation of the Ameritrust complex downtown, questions that have grown louder since federal investigators revealed a massive government corruption probe a year ago. A Plain Dealer review of county records and federal plea agreements shows a lawyer and construction firm accused of paying bribes in several corruption schemes also played key roles in the purchase of the Ameritrust complex. The Ameritrust deal has been a debacle for the county. The involvement of lawyer Anthony O. Calabrese III and R.P. Carbone Co. in the...

CLEVELAND — Federal prosecutors this morning charged a Cleveland construction contractor with bribing Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora with $33,000 in cash, lawn work, Cavs and Indians tickets and hundreds of dollars in meals and drinks for county contracts. The charges said an unnamed public official whose description matches Dimora helped Steve Pumper's company, D-A-S Construction, obtain work on county projects, including brownfield and public housing projects. The bribery charges were filed in U.S. District Court, and they allege that Pumper also used bribes to win contracts in Parma schools. They say he paid former board President J. Kevin Kelley...

CLEVELAND -- Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora on Monday accused the U.S. Department of Justice of launching its local public corruption probe two years ago in a conspiracy with Republicans to undermine the Democratic turnout for Barack Obama. • Earlier version of story.Dimora said he and his lawyers will ask the Justice Department and Congress to investigate the motives behind the corruption probe, which became public last July when FBI agents raided the commissioner's home and office and the home and office of political ally Frank Russo, the county auditor. "This is a Republican-driven prosecution," Dimora said during a late-afternoon...

The Cleveland Cavaliers and the Phoenix Suns have come to an agreement on a blockbuster trade that sends Shaquille O'Neal to Cleveland to team with LeBron James, according to sources. The deal has been agreed to in principle and is expected to be finalized Thursday, according to sources. Cleveland will send Ben Wallace and Sasha Pavlovic to Phoenix for the future Hall of Famer. Sources said the Suns will also receive the 46th pick in Thursday's NBA draft and $500,000. The trade gives the Cavs a player they've coveted since February. With center Zydrunas Ilgauskas starting to break down, adding...

Teenager: I Registered To Vote 73 Times Ohio ACORN Lands In Hot Water POSTED: 3:01 pm EDT October 13, 2008 UPDATED: 3:31 pm EDT October 13, 2008 A Cleveland teenager who claims he registered to vote 73 times over a five-month period has set of alarm bells among election officials in Ohio's most populous county. The bipartisan Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Cleveland voted unanimously Monday to ask Prosecutor Bill Mason to investigate multiple registrations by four people, including 19-year-old Freddie Johnson. All four said they signed forms at the behest of a community organizing group, the Association of...

(CNN) -- Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth has been suspended indefinitely by the National Football League, days after he pleaded guilty to killing a pedestrian while driving under the influence of alcohol, the NFL said. Stallworth, 28, pleaded guilty in a Florida court Tuesday to DUI manslaughter charges in the March death of construction worker Mario Reyes. Under terms of a plea agreement, he will serve 30 days. Prosecutors said he began serving his sentence immediately. "The conduct reflected in your guilty plea resulted in the tragic loss of life and was inexcusable," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told Stallworth...

Accepting responsibility for the drunk-driving crash that killed a pedestrian on Miami Beach, NFL player Donte' Stallworth pleaded guilty Tuesday and was sentenced to serve one month in a Miami-Dade County jail. Stallworth, 28, was immediately taken into custody. After he gets out, Stallworth will serve two years of house arrest followed by eight years' probation, according to his plea deal. He will also lose his driving privileges for life and have to perform 1,000 hours of community service. Stallworth has also agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to the Reyes family. ''I will continue to bear this burden the...

Buckeye Firearms Association is pleased to report that Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray's office has filed a Motion to Intervene in a lawsuit filed by Buckeye Firearms Foundation, Inc. against the City of Cleveland. The lawsuit was filed by the Ohio not-for profit foundation, to stop the City of Cleveland from prosecuting law-abiding gun owners under local ordinances that restrict gun ownership and concealed carry (CCW). The lawsuit also asks the Court to declare 20 different local ordinances unconstitutional on the grounds of state preemption of firearm laws, on the grounds that the ordinances are in conflict with R.C. 9.68....

CLEVELAND -- Former Cleveland Indians owner Dick Jacobs, 84, has died after a long illness, NewsChannel5’s news partner WTAM reported. Jacobs is responsible for turning the Indians into a dynasty during the 1990s. The team won two American League Pennants and six Central Division championships. Under Jacobs' ownership, the Indians made two World Series appearances, in 1995 and 1997, and set a record 455 consecutive sellouts at Jacob's Field. Jacobs sold the team to Larry Dolan and family for $320 million in 2001.

Part of ongoing probe of corruption in Cuyahoga County government. (Cleveland) - Two more Cleveland building inspectors are now facing extortion charges. James McCullough and Juan Alejandro have been suspended without pay. Cleveland FBI Special Agent In Charge Frank Figliuzzi says McCullough and Alejandro would take money for posting violation notices on homes. That lowered their value. The notices would then be removed, and the houses sold at a higher price. Figliuzzi says they were nabbed by an undercover FBI agent who posed as a real estate investor from New York. According to the FBI, McCullough took $1,530 in cash...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Cleveland Cavaliers have agreed to allow an investment group from China to become a minority owner of the basketball franchise and its arena. The group, which includes JianHua Huang, a Chinese businessman who has brokered sponsorship deals with the New York Yankees and other sports franchises in the U.S., could acquire as much as 15% of Cavaliers Operating Co., the entity that owns the team and operates Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.

Crushed by debt, Cleveland Urban League will close Tuesday, May 19, 2009 4:57 PM CLEVELAND -- The Urban League of Greater Cleveland says it has lingering debt and will close after 92 years of serving the city's inner-city residents and businesses. It is suspending services Friday and closing on May 29. The agency's 15 full-time employees are losing their jobs. Chief Executive Officer Johnathan Holifield says the affiliate of the National Urban League has $2.75 million in debt, mostly on the purchase of its headquarters in 2002. He says that makes the nonprofit organization unable to run its programs to...

This story in the May 17th Cleveland.com edition of the Cleveland Plain Dealer tells the sad tale of a man who called the local 911 emergency line when his 28 YEAR OLD son — who lives with his parents and is a Bedford, Ohio school board member — refused to clean his room. According to reports, Andrew Mizsak (pictured above) — upon being told by his 63-year old father to straighten up his pig sty of a room — threw his plate of food across the kitchen and “balled up his fist at his dad.” Also according to this news...

RALLY FOR THE TROOPSThe seventh annual Rally for Troops was held in Cleveland, Ohio on Sunday, April 19, 2009, on Public Square from 11 a.m. to noon.  It featured tributes to military personnel and veterans.  Motorcycle processions from various Harley-Davidson dealerships in Northeast Ohio arrived downtown at 10 a.m.  Organizers said last year an estimated 5,000 motorcyclists attended the event, which is held regardless of the weather. Here are some pictures of this event.

Thousands of protesters, most waving signs with anti-tax slogans, gathered in Mall C in downtown Cleveland for a rally modeled after the original Boston Tea Party. Similar rallies were held across the country.

The event was a success! The people and the speakers were great, it even stopped raining and didn`t restart till the event was over.DoliCali and JustaNobody were there and we all took pictures but I don`t know how to download digital photos,can anyone help?

COLUMBUS -- A new plan to overhaul Cuyahoga County government would go before voters in November, under a bill introduced Tuesday by a powerful state senator. State Sen. Tim Grendell, a Chester Township Republican, wants to give voters a choice between the current, three-commissioner system and a new one composed of an elected county executive, two at-large county council members, five district council members, an elected financial officer and an elected prosecutor. Grendell's plan is a variation of one he floated last year that cleared the Senate before dying in the House. A different plan adopted by the House died...

On March 24, 2009, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson took part in a live Internet chat hosted by NewsNet5.com (Cleveland's ABC affiliate, WEWS). It was clear from many of the questions that Cleveland's crime problem in general, and the city's continued enforcement of illegal gun control laws in particular, were of major concern to chat participants. But Mayor Jackson largely avoided these issues, and by the end of the chat participants were expressing their frustrations. Five of the first twelve questions (42%) approved by the moderator were focused on crime or gun control. (Note: the transcript [.pdf format] provided by NewsNet5...

The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that Cuyahoga County Sheriff Gerald McFaul, a long-time opponent to gun rights in Ohio, has tendered his resignation after months of allegations about his misconduct in office. McFaul has been under fire since the beginning of the year over questions of improper fund-raising activities, including having deputies sell tickets for his fund-raisers while on county time, for doing special favors for friends and relatives, and most recently for not reporting gifts he is reported to have accepted from employees. The anti-gun Sheriff has long-been an anathema to Ohio gun owners. In 2004, McFaul had...

Sheriff Gerald McFaul *Democrat (*=lvd added) . Cuyahoga County Republicans have asked the governor to remove County Sheriff Gerald McFaul from office. "The need for McFaul to resign or be removed from office is now painfully apparent, yet not a single elected county officeholder has called for McFaul to step down," Republican Chairman Rob Frost said in a news release. "If the governor or his fellow Democrats will not act, the people of this county must take action." Frost called on Gov. Ted Strickland to remove McFaul for official misconduct. UPDATE: Amanda Wurst, a spokeswoman for Strickland, said the governor...

When they are not trying to make excuses for, or fund terrorism, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is usually looking for a way to make it easier to commit terrorism. In the heart of Rock and Roll (Cleveland, Ohio) the Airport Security has come up with a rule to make things more secure and convenient for airport customers. No Praying on the cuing line. If it was time for prayers you have to pull out of line and go pray and then get in line when you are all done. CAIR says the rule will result in a loss...

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Prayer and sheer persistence are pretty much all Brancatelli has to go on these days. Cleveland is reeling from the foreclosure crisis. There have been roughly 10,000 foreclosures in two years. For all of 2007, before it was overtaken by sky-high foreclosure rates in parts of California, Nevada and Florida, Cleveland’s rate was among the highest in the country. (It’s now 24th among metropolitan areas.) Vacant houses are not a new phenomenon to the city. Ravaged by the closing of American steel mills, Cleveland has long been in decline. With fewer manufacturing jobs to attract workers, it has lost half...

CLEVELAND — A man who killed himself a day after he killed his wife and four others told a judge in 2005 that he was ready to be a law-abiding citizen who would not let society down if he was released from prison. "I swear to you from the bottom of my heart that I 'WILL NOT' let you down. Let my wife or children down. Let my family down. Let society down. Or especially, let myself down," Davon Crawford wrote to Cuyahoga County Judge Michael Russo as part of a motion for release. ... "There was no standoff," Stacho...

As of now we are not aware of a conflicting site,therefore; This is a tentative call for a Cleveland Tea Party on the 15th of April at the Tower City site used for the last one from 12 noon till 1 pm.I have no idea if we`ll need a permit, would anyone know? I didn`t set up the last party.I`ll try and dogpile the links for maps and exact addresses in a follow up.If you have that info, please post a link.

I originally posted this on Friday afternoon. Since then I added a few more photos from the Cleveland Tea Party.

Check out the video below, where WKYC investigative reporter Tom Meyer spoke with Greg Steffey, whose wife, Hope Steffey called 911 after she was assaulted by her cousin. Things took a turn for the worst when the police arrived and treated Hope as the perpetrator. She was arrested, taken to jail, and subjected to a humiliating full-body strip search by both male and female officers, violating the sheriff department's own policy that a strip search be conducted by an officer of the same sex. Hope was then left naked in a cell for six hours. Included in the news segment...

Here are my photos of the Cleveland Tea Party. The weather was typically Cleveland for this time of year, low 40's and drizzle! The Patriots of Cleveland are troopers.

Buckeye Firearms Foundation, Inc., an Ohio not-for profit foundation, filed a lawsuit today in the Common Pleas Court of Cuyahoga County, Ohio seeking a temporary restraining order and permanent injunction to stop the City of Cleveland from prosecuting law-abiding gun owners under local ordinances that restrict gun ownership and concealed carry (CCW). The lawsuit also asks the Court to declare 20 different local ordinances unconstitutional on the grounds of state preemption of firearm laws. HB347 became effective in March of 2007. It operates to preempt a patchwork of varied and confusing local rules with "uniform laws throughout the state regulating...

This thread is intended for the Cleveland chapter of the Call to action tea party effort.As is still our right, for now at least, lets gather peacefully together to petition our gorvernment for a redress of grievences, namely:Stop the Pork!Please keep this professional and courteous as we`ll be representing the movement to return fiscal sanity to our government, so lets behave like conservatives.

Detective Robert Kole must ensure residents have moved out of their repossessed home, Cleveland

The Law Applies to the Little People in Cleveland, but Not Mayor Jackson? Fresh on the heels of a poll naming Cleveland the second least-desirable U.S. city to live in, Mayor Jackson appears determined to make a run at the top spot as Cleveland continues to be the only municipality in Ohio illegally enforcing local firearm laws. The victims? Cleveland's own taxpayers. Local firearm laws were preempted by HB347, as was affirmed by the Ohio Supreme Court. Despite this legal reality, Cleveland continues to throw the legal equivalent of a temper tantrum by filing charges against tax payers for possessing...

Couple Walking To Bus When Husband Shot CLEVELAND -- A family is grieving after a couple's walk to a bus stop Friday night ended in heartbreak. A 25-year-old man was shot and killed while trying to protect his pregnant wife during a [attempted] robbery. Images: Husband Killed During Robbery Two men, ages 18 and 20, are being held in the Cleveland Jail as the investigation continues. Meanwhile, a grieving wife needs help to give her husband a proper burial. John Bozich and his wife Stephanie, a couple with special needs, faced many challenges. They lived at a transitional apartment building...

CLEVELAND -- The aunt of President Barack Obama, who was living in Cleveland for a time, will get to stay in the United States for now. A judge issued a stay in the deportation case of Zeituni Onyango, 56. She fled to Cleveland from Boston last year when it was made known that she had been illegally in the United States since

January 15, 2009 # Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/January/09-nsd-041.html Chicago Cousins Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Terrorists WASHINGTON – Zubair Ahmed, 29, and Khaleel Ahmed, 28, both residents of Chicago, pleaded guilty today in the Northern District of Ohio to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists in connection with their efforts to travel abroad in order to murder or maim U.S. military forces in Iraq or Afghanistan. Today’s guilty pleas were announced by Matthew Olsen, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Security; William J. Edwards, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of...

Lakemore- Police Chief Kenneth Ray said he never would have believed it if he hadn't seen it: A murder suspect was shot in the head by police, and the bullet bounced off the man's skull.

High-profile community activist Art McKoy was arrested Wednesday and is accused of running a major drug-distribution operation from his East Cleveland barbershop. Police confiscated a pound of powder cocaine after searching the Superfly barbershop on Euclid Avenue and a Cleveland home on Brackland Avenue. Officers also arrested Leroy Sheets and Earl Nash, whose ages and addresses were not available. None of the three men was charged with crimes. In addition to powder cocaine, officers bought crack cocaine and heroin in the shop, Mayor Eric Brewer said. The investigation began in February. Police made numerous drug purchases in the barbershop, Police...

Five years ago, young Muslims across the United States began reading and passing along a blurry, photocopied novel called “The Taqwacores,� about imaginary punk rock Muslims in Buffalo. “This book helped me create my identity,� said Naina Syed, 14, a high school freshman in Coventry, Conn. A Muslim born in Pakistan, Naina said she spent hours on the phone listening to her older sister read the novel to her. “When I finally read the book for myself,� she said, “it was an amazing experience.� The novel is “The Catcher in the Rye� for young Muslims, said Carl W. Ernst, a...

CLEVELAND - The cities of Cleveland and Akron got more than 1,000 firearms off the streets in gun buy-back events this weekend. The city of Cleveland's 2008 gun buy-back program netted 324 firearms Saturday at the Cleveland Convention Center, Lt. Thomas Stacho said. Last year, police collected 421 firearms. In exchange for operable handguns, citizens got a $50 gas or food gift card, two tickets to a Cavs game and were entered into a raffle to win up to $1,000.

Groups unveil plans for Cuyahoga County cigarette-tax grants to individual artists by Karen Sandstrom / Plain Dealer Reporter Wednesday November 12, 2008, 6:05 PM The diciest part of distributing Cuyahoga County's cigarette tax for the arts is about to start. Beginning in mid-February, individual artists will be able to apply for fellowships worth $20,000 each. The fellowship program -- details of which were hammered out this week by two nonprofit organizations involved in creating it -- is aimed at building a strong arts community in Northeast Ohio by helping individuals with their development as artists. Up to 20 fellowships will...

With two days to go before the election, Barack Obama spoke with messianic zeal before an estimated 80,000 people in Cleveland this afternoon who were drawn by a free acoustic concert by Bruce Springsteen.AFP reports Obama riffed on Springsteen's closing song, The Rising, when he took the stage:"A rising is coming," Obama said after Springsteen exclaimed to deafening cheers: "I want my country back, I want my dream back, I want my America back!"The Rising was written about the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 and was the title song of Springsteen's cathartic album released the year after the attacks....