CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – RTA leaders met with Cleveland City Council on Wednesday to discuss the recent surge in assaults on drivers. In the end, RTA came under attack for not having cameras working, for not prosecuting attackers and not doing enough for safety as violence against drivers has escalated. There were nine attacks on drivers […]
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. […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – 19 Action News has learned that the RTA bus driver who punched a passenger back in October has been fired. The incident came to light when cell phone video of the incident surfaced shortly after it happened last month. The video went viral. The driver, Artis Hughes is facing charges stemming […]
BEACHWOOD, OH (WOIO) – The RTA bus driver at the center of a beating caught on tape speaks out. Artis Hughes walked out of Beachwood City Hall Monday after turning himself in. He’s charged with assault on a female passenger. Hughes says, “I’m hoping to get my job back. I’m praying to get my job back. That’s […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – “Give that man his job back!!!” That’s what one woman yelled at an RTA stop near Tower City in Downtown Cleveland. RTA police say that the video that’s now become a youtube sensation shows Artis Hughes, 59, being harassed, spit on and then hit. In the video Hughes loses it. He stops the bus and […]
SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio – The Rapid Transit Authority of Greater Cleveland (RTA) has filed a disorderly conduct charge against Shidea Lane of Shaker Heights, and an assault charge has been slapped against the bus driver. This, after the RTA rider approached the bus driver and an argument ensued. Lane is seen on cellphone video shoving […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The union for the bus drivers is defending the RTA driver at the heart of the viral video showing him punching an abuse passenger. William Nix from the Amalgated Transit Union says he will fight to save that driver’s job. Nix told 19 Action News that bus drivers are frequently assaulted and they can […]
PARMA, Ohio – A student at Parma Senior High School has been suspended after police found a fake bomb in his backpack. Administrators at the school first got word of the threat at about 8:55 a.m. Tuesday, and then alerted an off-duty police officer working security at the school. A student told a teacher that […]
C3H4E1A1T1E1R1. It’s a 12-point word if you played it in SCRABBLE. But now it’s a word that’s bringing a bit of shame and heckling after one of the top youth players in the country was kicked out of the National SCRABBLE Championship Tournament on Wednesday for cheating, according to John D. Williams Jr., the executive […]
Will Smith doesn’t like to be kissed on the red carpet — especially by male reporters. While promoting Men in Black 3 in Moscow, a Ukrainian reporter asked Smith for a hug, he obliged only to find that same reporter trying to give him an open mouth kiss. Smith lightly smacked the man and later […]
NORTH OLMSTED, OH (WOIO) - A man claiming to be a judge's son busted for shoplifting. 32-year-old Joseph Russo was arrested on February 7th at Marc's. Police say Russo was with a small child when he cut open a $99 DVD package, put it with his personal belongings and went to the check out line. After purchasing other items, Russo tried to leave, but a manager confronted him about the hidden DVD package.
When a store goes out of business, consumers are used to finding bargains at a “going out of business” sale. But that wasn’t the case when a chain of bridal shops went out of business last week. Spray painting expensive gowns “Priscilla’s of Boston,” a chain of 19 bridal shops across the country, was recently […]