Don’t look now, but we may finally be close to a resolution to the seemingly endless DeflateGate saga that has dominated NFL headlines for much of the past eight months. After Tom Brady and Roger Goodell failed to reach a settlement in federal court, Judge Richard M. Berman wrapped up the proceedings by nullifying Brady’s four-game suspension. The NFL will […]
CLEVELAND- The city of Cleveland plans to appeal an arbitrator’s ruling that just overturned discipline handed out for four supervisors in a chase that turned deadly in 2012, the Fox 8 I-Team has learned. Four sergeants had received suspensions ranging from 10 to 30 days. But an arbitrator ruled those punishments were too harsh. The […]
The case against Ricky Jackson and Wiley Bridgeman has been dismissed. The two were wrongfully convicted of murder in 1975 when a 12-year-old boy fabricated an account of a deadly attack on a Cleveland grocery store employee. Jackson, Wiley and Wiley’s brother, Ronnie Bridgeman, never stood a chance when young Eddie Vernon boldly went […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – An Ohio appeals court has overturned the hate-crime convictions of a rogue Amish group convicted in a series of beard cutting attacks. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati agreed Wednesday with attorneys for the Amish, who have been in jail since 2013. It said the jury’s instructions on how to weigh the […]
AKRON, OH (WOIO) – After spending nearly 15 years in prison, a former Akron Police Captain is now a free man. Douglas Prade was released from the Madison Correctional Institution Tuesday, around 4:30 p.m. This after the court overturned his conviction and a judge ruled Prade is innocent of aggravated murder. Prade was convicted in the 1997 murder of his […]