CLEVELAND – A Cleveland mom was arrested after she drove with a suspended license to pick up her 9-year-old son hours after the daycare closed, telling police she would rather be drinking. When the 38-year-old mother didn’t show up Tuesday by 6:45 p.m. to the Puritas Avenue daycare center, workers there called police. Roughly two […]
CLEVELAND – The city of Cleveland has added a new speed enforcement camera on the city’s east side. The camera has been placed on Woodland Avenue near the intersection of East 45th. City ordinance requires the city to give a 30-day notice before a camera issues tickets, so the traffic enforcement device will not begin […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – We’re learning more about what happened in the report of a cop impersonator who sexually assaulted a woman during a bogus traffic stop Saturday afternoon. A woman said she was signaled to pull over at East 79th and Korman. She said that she looked in her rear view window and saw […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – RTA has confirmed that they will buy cameras and recording equipment for buses and trains, due to several occurrences of assaults on bus drivers last year. The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority board voted the morning of February 19, 2013 for a $2.5 million plan to install cameras on 230 buses […]
She kinda looks like Lena Dunham, creator of HBO’s comedy “Girls”…. Via Johnson City Press: If you were perusing social media this weekend, you may have seen the image of an employee at the Kentucky Fried Chicken on North Roan Street holding a plate of mashed potatoes close to her face, as if she was […]
CLEVELAND – The owner of the famous Cleveland restaurant “Hot Sauce Williams” has died. Barbara Williams, wife of Lemaud Williams, told NewsChannel5 her husband died from a massive stroke on Sunday. He was 73 years old. According to Barbara Williams, Lemaud has suffered from Alzheimer’s for the last 6 to 7 years. The funeral is […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Mayor Frank Jackson has just pitched his budget for all of 2013. The total for the city comes in at $1.3 billion and the Mayor is boasting yet another year of a balanced budget. Partially because of a surge of new jobs within the city the Mayor was working with a […]
LOS ANGELES – He used to hide being a veil when in public with his father. Now Prince Michael Jackson is about to put himself out in the public eye even more. At age 16, he is the newest reporter for “Entertainment Tonight.” After receiving an on-camera coaching session on journalism techniques from ET’s Brooke […]
(CNN) — When Microsoft introduced a preview version of a fresh and inventive webmail service it called Outlook.com last August, it was pretty clear that it was telling the world that it intended to start winding down its venerable Hotmail sooner or later. Now it’s official. The company is announcing that Outlook.com is coming out […]
CLEVELAND – Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald told a packed City Club in Cleveland that the county’s new form of government is working. FitzGerald said making the Cuyahoga County’s home appraisal process more efficient saved the county $5 million, $700,000 of which will be returned to local schools as the “spirit of reform” continues. FiitzGerald […]
CLEVELAND – It appears there is a serial Twitter hacker on the loose and the person is targeting national brands. On Tuesday afternoon, Jeep’s Twitter feed switched over featuring Cadillac’s logo while promoting the luxury brand. It appears the hack job started about 1:30 p.m. with a tweet sent out from the official @jeep Twitter […]
CLEVELAND – Former NewsChannel5 reporter Tony Gaskins has died. He was 56 years old. Gaskins’ family said he suffered a heart attack Sunday morning and was taken to Lakewood Hospital for treatment. He died Tuesday morning. Gaskins worked at WEWS NewsChannel5 from 1988 until early 2006. He was a general assignment reporter who late in […]