CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A Reverend was sentenced to prison on more than 80 counts of child porn. Reverend Mark Griggs was sentenced to six years behind bars after pleading guilty last month. The 48-year-old Reverend traded child porn over the Internet from his house and church between July 2008 and November 2010. He downloaded […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Former Cuyahoga County Commissioner, Jimmy Dimora reportedly collapsed in prison and was knocked unconscious. Allegedly, a lump was discovered in his throat and doctors are checking it to see if it is cancerous. After the lump was found, Dimora’s lawyers filed another motion Friday asking the judge to release him from […]
Chicago (CNN) — A Chicago jury has found William Balfour, Jennifer Hudson’s former brother-in-law, guilty of three counts of murder and four other counts related to the 2008 slayings of the entertainer’s mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. Balfour’s lawyer had argued that there was no forensic […]
Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law has been at the center of the Trayvon Martin case because former neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman, 28, claims that he acted in self-defense and, under the law, he had every right to meet force with force. SEE ALSO: Will Trayvon Swing Florida’s Vote? The nation watched as Zimmerman […]
Roger Ailes made a jaw-dropping comment about CNN’s Soledad O’Brien during a college lecture on Thursday night. The Fox News chief was speaking to journalism students at the University of North Carolina. In the question-and-answer segment of the talk, he referred to O’Brien as “that girl that’s named after a prison.” Ailes was referring to […]
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OH (WOIO) - New court documents just filed in the Cuyahoga County corruption scandal. In the motion, prosecutors respond to Jimmy Dimora's lawyers request to have him released from jail pending appeal. In their reasons for keeping him locked up, there are hints of other crimes. The filing refers to a sealed government claim that Dimora tried to fix 8 more court cases. And that his wife, Lori, took phone messages from people wanting Dimora's help in getting cases fixed.
The zoning laws that are in place aim to keep children in their rightful school seats where no one can take them away. But in scenarios where students end up in the wrong zone either from a parent knowingly using the wrong address or from someone living with another to get their child in their […]
A new study by M. Marit Rehavi of the University of British Columbia and Sonja B. Starr of the University of Michigan Law School shows that Black Americans receive almost 60% long prison sentences than white Americans who committed the same crime. The study covered 58,000 federal criminal cases and found that there was a […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - Despite a 22-year prison sentence, former Cuyahoga County Auditor Frank Russo remains a free man. One year ago on December 15, Frank Russo was sentenced to nearly 22-years in prison stemming from the Cuyahoga County corruption investigation. Why is this guy not in jail?
CLEVELAND - A Cleveland judge said because Rev. C.J. Matthews showed remorse in court, he will spend only 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion charges earlier this year. After Matthews serves his time, the Mount Sinai Baptist Church and Ministries pastor will be placed on three years supervised release and will have to cooperate with the IRS for restitution.
BELLEFONTE, Pa. – Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky posted bail Thursday after spending a night in jail following a new round of sex-abuse charges filed against him. Sandusky secured his release using US$200,000 in real estate holdings and a $50,000 certified check provided by his wife, Dorothy, according to online court records. Sandusky […]
(WOIO) – A convicted killer has just been moved to his cell at the death chamber for his final hours before he is executed. Reginald Brooks is scheduled to die tomorrow at 10AM. The Cleveland man was convicted in 1982 for killing his three sons after his wife served him with divorce papers. Brooks waited […]