CLEVELAND – Photos of kidnapping survivors Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight show the progress they have made just in three months. Berry, DeJesus and Knight were found alive on May 6 in Ariel Castro’s Seymour Avenue house in Cleveland. Castro was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole […]

  EAST CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – New details on triple murder suspect Michael Madison’s apartment. According to East Cleveland Police Detective Scott Gardner, there were decomposing bodily fluids on the walls, in the closet and on the floor. There were also maggots in the home. Detective Gardner tells 19 Action News Reporter Scott Taylor investigators found a […]

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio – A 35-year-old man has been charged with murder in connection with the deaths of women whose bodies were found wrapped in plastic bags. Michael Madison was arraigned in court Monday morning following a news conference announcing his charges and identifying one of his alleged victims. He was charged with three counts […]

UPDATED STORY: EAST CLEVELAND –Two more bodies have been found in a neighborhood where a woman’s decomposing body was discovered in a garage Friday. East Cleveland police and the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner are on the scene near Shaw and Hayden Avenue. According to East Cleveland Police Chief Ralph Spotts, the two bodies appear to […]

ASHLAND COUNTY, OH (WOIO) – Ohio Highway Patrol Troopers stopped a rented 2013 Ford Taurus, with Ohio registration, for a taillight violation on Interstate 71 southbound, near milepost 187 in Ashland County at 10:52 p.m., on July 17. Troopers observed several criminal indicators and a Ashland County Sheriff’s Department drug-sniffing canine alerted to the vehicle. […]

Although finding a packed marijuana pipe in a fast-food meal might make some people very happy, the Michigan customer who discovered the drug paraphernalia in his 4-year-old grandson’s meal was not pleased. The grandfather called police when he found the pipe in a Burger King Kids Meal purchased Tuesday at a franchise in Dundee, Mich., […]

MANSFIELD, Ohio – An escaped inmate from the Mansfield Correctional Institution has been captured in Ashland. Pete Elliott with the U.S. Marshals Office confirmed to NewsChannel5 that James David Myers, 47, walked into Olivesburg General Store at 4778 State Route 545 in Ashland around 7 p.m. Thursday. Store surveillance video shows a citizen in an […]

CLEVELAND – Police say a missing 8-year-old Cleveland boy has been found safe after an Amber Alert was issued Monday morning. The missing child, Kevin Criss Jr., along with the suspect, the boy’s non-custodial father Kevin Criss, and his vehicle were located on Cleveland Road in Huron by the Erie County Sheriff’s Office and Huron […]

CLEVELAND – Michelle Knight, one of the women who was rescued after being held captive at a home on Cleveland’s west side for years, has been released from the hospital. MetroHealth Medical System said she was discharged Friday afternoon. Prior to her release, the hospital issued a statement on behalf of Knight. The statement says: […]

CLEVELAND – After being held captive for 10 years in Cleveland, Gina DeJesus is back home with her family. Gina arrived to her west side Cleveland home at 2:42 p.m. to a cheering crowd of hundreds lining the streets. Her homecoming was emotional to say the least. Gina’s father, Felix DeJesus, hugged family and friends […]

AKRON, Ohio – Four people were found shot in the head in an Akron house Thursday afternoon, police say. The bodies were discovered in the basement of a house in the 40 block of Kimlyn Circle, which is off of Independence Avenue. Akron police sources told NewsChannel5 the victims are two men and two women […]

BOSTON, MA (RNN) – A man brought in for questioning on the Boston Marathon bombing has been cleared of any connection to the attack by authorities. CNN reported the man, identified as a Saudi national, was “in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Police noticed him running from the scene following the explosion, and […]