There’s a new coach in Laker Land, and his name isn’t Phil Jackson. Since the Zen Master was apparently “asking for the moon,” according to Mike Bresnahan, the Los Angeles Lakers went in another direction and hired Mike D’Antoni. Lakers fans let the organization know who they wanted during Friday night’s game against Golden State […]
CLEVELAND – Wind and rain have again knocked out power to regions battered by Superstorm Sandy two weeks ago. Some customers who were without power for more than a week from Sandy are back in the dark. Areas hit hardest by Monday’s wet and windy conditions include: Bay Village – 615 Westlake – 468 North […]
KENT, Ohio – Police are searching for a man they say exposed himself on the campus of Kent State University. At about 1:15 a.m. Monday, Kent State police reported a man exposing himself outside the Centennial Court Residence Halls. They said he is white, 40-50 years old, with brown hair and wearing a blue button-down […]
CLEVELAND – March Madness is returning to Cleveland and this time the stakes will be even larger. The NCAA announced on its website Monday that Cleveland will host the Midwest Regional at Quicken Loans Arena in 2015. Sweet 16 games will be played Thursday, March 26, 2015 and the Elite 8 regional final will be […]
Former GOP vice-presidential nominee and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is blaming President Barack Obama’s win on his turnout in cities. In one of a series of first interviews following the loss by Ryan and Mitt Romney last Tuesday, Ryan told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, “Well, he got turnout. The president should get credit for achieving record-breaking […]
Mitt Romney could have easily won the presidential election if he and his party had realized that they were turning people off, according to Matt Taibbi. “If they were self-aware at all, Mitt Romney would probably be president right now,” Taibbi wrote in a blog post for Rolling Stone late Thursday. He argued that Republicans’ […]
The Lakers announced Friday that Mike Brown has been fired as head coach in the wake of the mega-team’s 1-4 start. “This was a difficult and painful decision to make,” said general manager Mitch Kupchak in a statement. “Mike was very hard-working and dedicated, but we felt it was in the best interest of the […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – 19 Action News has learned RTA is testing shields or enclosures that surround drivers. This comes after an attack on an RTA driver as he was in his seat Thursday afternoon, and the viral video where an RTA driver punched a female passenger after she spit on him and assaulted him. […]
AKRON, OH (WOIO) – Friday, November 9, Brogan Rafferty’s was sentenced to life without parole. The Stow teen convicted in a Craigslist murder plot will be sentenced to prison today. Last week, jurors found 17-year-old Brogan Rafferty guilty of murder and attempted murder. According to prosecutors, Rafferty and 52-year-old Beasley lured men to a remote farm […]
CLEVELAND – Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District customers should expect an additional few dollars on their bill starting at the beginning of the year. On Thursday, sewer officials said they started out sending out more than a quarter of a million letters alerting people of the new charge that will go towards an $35 million […]
Officials from Miami-Dade County say they have finished counting absentee ballots and will begin counting the county’s 2,800 provisional ballots on Thursday afternoon. Election officials worked overnight to finish counting the outstanding ballots – votes that are largely to blame for holding up the process of declaring a presidential winner in Florida. Penelope Townsley, supervisor […]
CLEVELAND – A Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District crew rescued an alligator from the shallow waters of the Big Creek on Thursday. “We have a lot of interesting things that come through the sewer system and we see a lot of things out and about. An alligator though is certainly a surprise,” said NEORSD spokeswoman […]