Cleveland police break up skirmishes among demonstrators
Police broke up scuffles between groups of demonstrators a few blocks from the Republican National Convention as crowds in the hundreds gathered Tuesday afternoon.
Chief: Cleveland taking steps to thwart terrorist attack
Cleveland’s chief of police said Sunday barricades have been placed at key streets and intersections in the city’s downtown before the start of the Republican National Convention to thwart the type of attack that occurred in France when a man drove a large truck into crowds, killing 84 people.
Cleveland firing 6 officers involved in 137-shot barrage
Cleveland officials said Tuesday they’re firing six police officers involved in a 137-shot barrage that killed two unarmed black people after a high-speed chase.
Protests, arrests after Ohio officer’s acquittal in 2 deaths
Police in riot gear made numerous arrests overnight as protesters took to the streets after a judge found a city police officer not guilty in the deaths of two unarmed black suspects killed in a barrage of police gunfire.
Ohio patrolman acquitted in 2 deaths
A white Cleveland patrolman who fired down through the windshield of a suspect’s car at the end of a 137-shot barrage that left the two unarmed black occupants dead was acquitted Saturday of criminal charges by a judge who said he could not determine the officer alone fired the fatal shots.
Cleveland seeks outside probe of boy’s shooting by police
The city is hoping to hand over the investigation of a 12-year-old boy’s fatal shooting by police to an outside agency.
Woman held captive in Cleveland has book deal
NEW YORK — One of three young women held captive for years in a Cleveland house has a book deal. Michelle Knight’s memoir is scheduled
Kidnapper said police missed chance in 2004
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A man who held three women for a decade in his Cleveland home said authorities missed an opportunity to catch him in
Demolition begins on Ohio house in kidnapping case
With several swipes from the arm of an excavator and a smattering of applause from spectators, demolition began this morning on the Cleveland house where three women were held captive and raped over a decade.
Former captive says she knew she’d escape
CLEVELAND — Free and safe, one of three women kidnapped and raped over a decade in a ramshackle home smiled lightly as her tormentor was
Prosecutor: Kidnapped women kept diaries
CLEVELAND — Three women held captive in a run-down home for a decade kept diaries documenting the horrific physical and sexual abuse they suffered on
Charges expected in grisly Ohio bodies discovery
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — A suspicious odor unearthed one body in a trash bag in a rundown neighborhood here, and then two more were found
Kidnapping, rape suspect pleads not guilty
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A man accused of holding three women captive for a decade was scolded repeatedly by a judge to raise his head and
Hundreds of new charges filed in kidnap case
The litany of charges against a Cleveland man outline in numbing detail the crimes his victims allegedly suffered over 10 years of imprisonment: August 2002, kidnapping. September 2004, kidnapping. November 2006, aggravated murder.
Ariel Castro pleads not guilty in kidnap case
CLEVELAND — A man accused of holding three women captive in his home for about a decade pleaded not guilty Wednesday to hundreds of rape
DNA shows suspect fathered girl
CLEVELAND — A DNA test confirmed another dark twist in the story of three women imprisoned in a house for about a decade: Kidnapping and
Suspect in Ohio helped neighbors look for missing
CLEVELAND — In the years after his friend’s daughter vanished while walking home from school, Ariel Castro handed out fliers with the 14-year-old’s photo and
Frantic 911 call leads to three missing women in Ohio
The woman’s voice was frantic and breathless, and she was choking back tears. “Help me. I’m Amanda Berry,” she told a 911 dispatcher. “I’ve been kidnapped and I’ve been missing for 10 years and I’m, I’m here, I’m free now.”
Guns N’ Roses, Chili Peppers in Rock Hall
NEW YORK — Welcome to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Guns N’ Roses.
The seminal rock band of the late 1980s and early ’90s, best known for hits such as “Welcome to the Jungle,” “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and “November Rain,” leads the 2012 class of inductees announced Wednesday.