All of Jeni’s Locations, including their Cleveland area store in Chagrin Falls, have temporarily shut down.   COLUMBUS, Ohio — In a release on its website, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams has initiated a voluntary recall of all ice creams, frozen yogurts, sorbets, and ice cream sandwiches for all flavors and containers because of the possible […]

CLEVELAND – Cuyahoga County Judge Brendan Sheehan issued a temporary restraining order, closing the Club Fly High on Superior Avenue in Cleveland. The club is now boarded up at the request of Cleveland Councilman T.J., Dow who has been trying to close the bar for the past two years. The restraining order was issued just […]

  CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A Cleveland staple is going away. After nearly six years of business, the Big Fun Cleveland toy store on Clifton Blvd. is shutting its doors. “It’s not easy in retail these days and we want to put our energy into making Big Fun Coventry even better,” according to the store’s […]

  CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Listen up White Castle lovers — you better get those sliders while you can. The hamburger chain is leaving northeast Ohio for good. Two Cleveland locations, one in Bedford Heights, East Cleveland and Akron will shut down on Christmas Eve.   READ MORE: 19ActionNews.com Article and Picture Courtesy of WOIO […]

  SANDUSKY, OH (WOIO) – It’s the “last stand” for one of Cedar Point’s steel scream machines.  On Tuesday, the park announced the Mantis roller coaster will soon give its final rides. Mantis was billed as the tallest, fastest and steepest stand-up roller coaster in the world when it opened on May 11, 1996. Featuring […]

  The influx of new dollar stores across the nation showed signs of slowing down Thursday as Family Dollar announced plans to close 370 stores. But even with the store closings, Family Dollar expects to increase its overall number of locations in 2014 as the company sheds older, less profitable stores and builds more stand-alone […]

  It is not known which locations will be affected, including ones in Ohio and the Greater Cleveland area.   (CNN) – Radio Shack is planning to close as many as 1,100stores. That’s nearly 20-percent of all of its locations. The electronics retailer reported sales at stores open at least a year fell 19 percent […]

  STOW, Ohio – A manufacturing company in Stow announced today that it will close a Stow plant in May. Bemis Company, Inc., will close the manufacturing part of its plant in Stow, eliminating 115 jobs. The headquarters will remain open,  which Stow city officials said employs 160 people.   READ MORE: NewsNet5.com Article Courtesy […]

  CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) will close six of its field offices; including, the one in Cleveland. Air Marshals travel undercover on domestic and international flights to prevent terrorist attacks. CBS News obtained an internal email sent to staff on Friday by Federal Air Marshal Director Robert Bray. The […]

If you have to cancel school because of bad weather, two administrators showed us how to do it with style. Michael Ulku-Steiner, principal of Durham Academy, in North Carolina, and Lee Hark, assistant head of school, created a YouTube announcement inspired by Vanilla Ice‘s classic “Ice, Ice Baby.” They changed the lyrics to notify parents, […]

  CLEVELAND – More than 300 schools were closed or on a delay Friday morning. The Cleveland Metropolitan School District made the decision early to close. NewsChannel5 received a written statement explaining the protocol used to close CMSD: 1. We use a threshold of “when the wind combines with the temperature to make it feel […]

  WESTLAKE, Ohio – The Kmart store on Detroit Road in Westlake is closing in late April because the lease on the building was not renewed. The store will begin its liquidation sale on February 9. It currently has 57 employees and most are part time/hourly workers. According to company officials, associates that are eligible […]