BEREA,Ohio – The Browns introduced first-round draft pick Barkevious Mingo at the team headquarters on Friday. Mingo was accompanied by his mother, Barbara, and his girlfriend, Lauren. Mingo was dressed in a brown jacket and an orange tie as spoke about coming to Cleveland and getting ready to work. “I just want to get back […]
CLEVELAND – Anthony Sowell’s attorney filed a reply brief of errors in his case on Thursday, recommending the convicted killer face a life sentence rather than execution. “We know from his behavior in prison and the marines that Sowell pose no danger if he serves a life sentence,” the brief reads. “And there is no […]
CLEVELAND – Most Browns fans might have been hoping the team would trade back into the first round and pick up another second-round pick in this year’s draft. I say another because the Browns were able to let the second-round pick play last year in Josh Gordon, who many think would have been a first-round […]
CLEVELAND – A large fight at a vocational school on Cleveland’s east side prompted multiple ambulances to be dispatched to the scene. The incident happened just after 11 a.m. Friday at Jane Addams Business Career Center on East 30th Street. Cleveland police said officers were called to the school for a large fight, and EMS […]
*Essence Atkins is telling the rest of Hollywood to take heed of the film “Temptation,” because Tyler Perry messed up. Kinda. The actress mentioned during an interview that it was quite ironic how social media and most covers of tabloids feature Kim Kardashian, but the movie sorta flopped (for a Tyler Perry production). “I found […]
CLEVELAND – Cleveland police arrested a mother for beating her daughter with a belt, then tying her to a chair naked. Officers said the girl 9-year-old had both her arms and legs tied with welt marks across them and belt marks across her forehead. Authorities said the girl also had a black and blue left […]
CLEVELAND – Thursday night, not only can Browns fans watch the NFL Draft at a local bar, they can be in a major motion picture starring Kevin Costner. “Draft Day” is starting production and while Costner will be shooting scenes in New York City, Browns fans are welcome to head to the Tilted Kilt in […]
DETROIT – During a discussion on Detroit’s future at the annual “Pancakes & Politics” breakfast, savvy businessman Dan Gilbert suggested that the Detroit Pistons move to downtown Detroit. Gilbert is the Chairman and founder of Quicken Loans and is the majority owner of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. The Michigan Gaming Board also approved Gilbert’s plan […]
Utah man David Whipple has managed to hang on to a hamburger from McDonald’s since 1999. The extraordinary part isn’t the fact that he didn’t throw the burger out, though — it’s that the burger barely looks like it has aged. Appearing by phone on the TV show “The Doctors” recently, Whipple explained that the […]
The brothers who allegedly detonated pressure cookers bombs at the Boston Marathon had rudimentary plans of traveling to New York for an attack on Times Square, according to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, told interrogators that he and his older brother Tamerlan intended to set off explosives in Manhattan, according to […]
CLEVELAND — City officials held a news conference Wednesday regarding the administrative review of the fatal Nov. 29 police pursuit. Mayor Frank Jackson joined Safety Director Martin Flask, Police Chief Michael McGrath and Police Special Investigations Commander James Chura for the media presentation. The nearly two-hour presentation went from the time the suspects car was first pulled […]
CLEVELAND – In his losing bid for re-election in 2010 Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland won Cuyahoga County over Republican challenger John Kasich by 102,640 votes. Two years earlier, in 2008, President Barack Obama carried the county over John McCain by 258,442 votes. If Strickland had been able to simply split the difference and carry the […]