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Opioid Industry Presses for Settlement as Trial Looms
By: Mark Gillispie | Geoff Mulvihill | AP
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CLEVELAND (AP) — With a trial looming, major drug distributors and manufacturers are pressing to settle thousands of claims against them related to the nation’s persistent opioid crisis. The companies are negotiating with state attorneys general as jury selection is expected to wrap up on Thursday in the first federal trial over an overdose epidemic… Read More
Jury Selection Begins in Opioid Trial Despite Delay Request
By: Mark Gillispie | Julie Carr Smith | AP
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Jury selection began Wednesday in the first federal trial over the opioid epidemic despite a last-minute request from lawyers to delay it because of news reports on a settlement offer. Two Ohio counties claim drug companies that made, distributed and sold prescription painkillers engaged in a deadly conspiracy that has inflicted massive… Read More
City Asks Ohio Supreme Court to Reconsider Local Hiring Laws
By: Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Cleveland has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to reconsider its decision invalidating the city’s local hiring law for construction projects. The city filed its motion Friday and the state filed an objection Monday. The court in a 4-3 decision in September said the Legislature has authority to enact laws invalidating Cleveland’s… Read More
Bond Set at $1M on Murder Charges for Gymnast’s Brother
By: Associated Press
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CLEVELAND (AP) — The brother of Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges in a shooting that left three men dead at a 2018 New Year’s Eve party in Cleveland. Attorney Joseph Patituce entered the pleas for 24-year-old Tevin Biles-Thomas during a video arraignment Friday in Cuyahoga County…. Read More
Probe: Guards, Gang Members Smuggled Drugs Into Jail
By: Associated Press
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CLEVELAND (AP) – Prosecutors say guards at the troubled county jail in Cleveland worked with gang members to sell drugs to inmates. State prosecutors on Wednesday charged two corrections officers and one gang member with running a criminal enterprise inside the Cuyahoga County jail. The indictment says the two guards, Stephen Thomas and Marvella Sullivan,… Read More
Cleveland Hires its First Police Inspector General
By: Associated Press
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CLEVELAND (AP) – The city of Cleveland has hired its first police inspector general to provide oversight of city police policies and practices. A city statement announced Tuesday that Solon police Chief Christopher Viland has accepted the civilian position that was created through the city’s court-mandated police department reform efforts. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson’s office… Read More
Judge Will Reconsider Jail Sentence for Woman Who Fed Strays
By: Associated Press
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GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio (AP) – A judge wants to take a second look at a 10-day jail sentence given to a 79-year-old woman for refusing to stop feeding stray cats in her suburban Cleveland neighborhood. Garfield Heights Municipal Court Judge Jennifer Weiler wants to hear the case herself after a jail sentence handed down to… Read More
Cleveland Judge Threatens Jail Staff With Contempt Charges
By: Associated Press
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CLEVELAND (AP) — A judge in Cleveland has threatened to charge county jail staff with contempt if they fail to bring inmates to court for hearings. Cleveland.com reports that Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Administrative Judge John Russo put that option forward in an email to the county’s public safety director last month. Carney said in a… Read More
Inspection Finds Persistent Problems at Northern Ohio County’s Jail
By: Mark Gillispie | AP
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CLEVELAND (AP) — A state inspection of a troubled county jail in Cleveland in early July found that problems with medical care, sanitation and inmate lockdowns persist months after they were first cited in federal and state inspections, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press. Officials from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and… Read More
Cleveland Area Rocks After Earthquake Reported in Lake Erie
By: Associated Press
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CLEVELAND (AP) – Federal geologists say an earthquake with an estimated magnitude 4 has been detected just northeast of Cleveland in Lake Erie. There were no reports immediately of damage, and the U.S. Geological Survey is collecting responses from people who felt the tremors. A magnitude 4 earthquake can cause moderate damage. The 10:50 a.m…. Read More
Lawsuit Settled Over Flag-Burning Arrest at GOP Convention
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CLEVELAND (AP) – The city of Cleveland will pay $50,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a protester arrested during a flag-burning at the Republican National Convention in 2016. Steven Fridley of Cleveland was one of more than 15 people arrested near the site of the GOP convention. A judge threw out the charges against… Read More
Researcher Compares Cleveland’s Lead Levels To Flint, Michigan
By: Lecia Bushak | Ideastream
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Children in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County have a higher risk of lead exposure than other parts of the state, according to a report out of Case Western Reserve University this week. The report found 10.7 percent of kids born in 2012 who were screened for lead in Cuyahoga County had an elevated blood lead level by age 5. In… Read More
Was Something In The Water? Cleveland Seeks Answers After Air Passengers Fall Ill
By: Amy Held | NPR
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Six passengers were stricken on the Tampa-bound flight, prompting Cleveland airport officials to shut down and clean water fountains.
Former Judge Pleads Not Guilty In Ex-wife’s Stabbing Death
By: Associated Press
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CLEVELAND (AP) – A former Cleveland-area judge and state lawmaker has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and other charges in the fatal stabbing of his ex-wife. Lance Mason’s bond was set Tuesday at $5 million. Messages seeking comment were left for his appointed attorneys, Kevin Spellacy and Thomas Shaughnessy. Mason was arraigned in Cuyahoga… Read More
Cleveland Browns Win A Game For First Time Since Obama Presidency
By: Bill Chappell | NPR
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“We WON!!!” the Cleveland Police Department tweeted of the comeback victory, before adding, “Wait….Oh God. The free beer thing…Ok Cleveland. Stay calm.”