Courts and Justice
Fired East Cleveland police chief hit with new charges
Gardner, 48, is accused in the indictment handed up Tuesday of writing thousands of dollars in checks he knew wouldn’t clear from a police union account to his private security company that employed off-duty police officers.
Cleveland police sergeant charged criminally with failing to intervene in officer shooting
Sgt. Antwuan Wells, a 10-year veteran of the force, is the focus of an internal affairs investigation involving a shooting at Belinda's Night Club.
State Issue 1′s ballot language corrected after state supreme court ruling: Capitol Letter
On Aug. 8, voters will vote on Issue 1, which would make it harder to amend the Ohio Constitution.
Cleveland husband gets life sentence for killing girlfriend after suspecting she was cheating on him, burying her body in Pennsylvania
A judge Tuesday ordered a 43-year-old Cleveland husband to spend life in prison after he admitted to murdering his 23-year-old girlfriend and burying her body in Pennsylvania.
Cleveland mental health nonprofit owner gets prison in $4.5M fraud for billing for services he didn’t provide
Alfonzo Bailey, who ran a mental health clinic in Cleveland called Eye for Change, was sentenced to prison on Tuesday for purposefully overbilling Medicaid for some $4.5 million for work that the company never performed.
Akron tax prep business owner scammed dozens in tax, COVID-19 relief scam, feds say
Mustafa Ayoub Diab, who once ran a tax prep business in Akron, is accused of running a tax and COVID-19 relief scam that included stealing from as many as 200 people.
‘You knew what you did to her’: Cleveland man convicted of murdering ex, then helping family search for her gets life sentence
Bennie Washington Sr. spoke to then-18-year-old Audreonna Barnes' mother nearly every day after her July 2021 disappearance while prosecutors said her body was beneath a blanket on the balcony of Washington’s apartment.
Man who escaped from Summit County deputies sentenced to prison
Jason Conrad, 39, of Akron, will spend 18 to 25.5 years in prison for trafficking in cocaine, having weapons under disability, unlawful possession of dangerous ordinance, and escape.
Corrupt former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora released from prison, will remain on house arrest for seven years
Corrupt former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora was released from prison on Wednesday and will remain on house arrest for the next seven years.
Lutzko sworn in as interim U.S. attorney for northern Ohio
Federal judges made Becky Lutzko the interim U.S. attorney for northern Ohio, just days after President Joe Biden nominated her to become the leader of the office.
Spontaneous combustion of popular wood stain product caused Cleveland Heights fire, lawsuit says
A Cleveland Heights woman filed a federal lawsuit against Rust-Oleum, accusing one of its wood-stain products of spontaneously combusting and causing her home to burn down.
East Palestine charity accused of fraud will turn money over to local food bank, state attorney general says
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said Wednesday that the Ohio Clean Water Fund has agreed to turn over $131,000 to Yost’s office.