CLEVELAND — After 5 On Your Side Investigators spent more than a year fighting for transparency, city officials have been forced to release an unredacted copy of its nearly $4 billion failed bid to bring Amazon’s second headquarters to Cleveland following a ruling in favor of News 5 Cleveland by the Ohio Court of Claims. […]

CLEVELAND –  We are getting our first look at part of the bid to lure Amazon’s second world headquarters to Northeast Ohio. Cleveland did not make the cut, and the city has been fighting to keep its proposal secret. The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency, known as NOACA, reluctantly released part of the bid after a court […]

CLEVELAND – As the debate over renovations to Quicken Loans Arena has waged on, one of the arguments in favor of putting taxpayer money toward ‘the Q’ has been that it would help bring an NBA All-Star Game to Cleveland. Those plans, however, appear to be on hold. Last month, NBA deputy commissioner Mark Tatum told […]

The NFL has denied Cleveland Browns receiver Josh Gordon’s recent reinstatement petition, but he may apply again this fall, a person with knowledge of the situation told USA TODAY Sports on Thursday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the league had made no announcement about Gordon, who hasn’t played since the 2014 season […]

*Toni Braxton lost ownership of more than two dozen tunes that made her famous because someone acquired them when she filed for bankruptcy, according to TMZ. Braxton struck a deal in her bankruptcy case, in which she settled with her various debtors. Part of the deal allows Toni to buy back 27 songs from her […]

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 […]