CLEVELAND (AP) — Police say a 22-year-old exotic dancer was seriously injured when she fell from a second-floor balcony while performing at a club in Cleveland. The Plain Dealer newspaper reports that a witness told police the woman was dancing for him when she tried to perform a move or jump and fell over the [...]
By Tom Withers AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Nick Swisher is starting over not far from where his baseball career began. Swisher passed his physical with the Cleveland Indians on Thursday and signed the four-year, $56 million, free-agent contract he agreed to last month. The 32-year-old Swisher, who was born in Columbus, Ohio, [...]
CLEVELAND (AP) — Authorities say a northeast Ohio man who fatally shot a burglar in his home in November shot another man who broke into his home this week. Police say the latest intruder was shot Monday morning in Miodrag Burgarcic’s house in Cleveland. He was taken to the hospital with an arm wound. Burgarcic [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The New Year arrived violently in some parts of Ohio, with a woman stabbed to death in Toledo, men shot to death in Cleveland, Dayton and Lorain and three people shot in Columbus. The fatal shooting of a man on Cleveland’s east side just before 3 a.m. came as the city [...]
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An unusually warm winter followed by a hot spring and summer turned 2012 into one of the hottest years on record across Ohio. Cleveland and Columbus both had their highest average annual temperatures this past year while the state’s other big cities just missed out on breaking their records. Toledo, Cincinnati [...]
By CHUCK MURR AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND — General manager Chris Antonetti knows it is going to take more than a new manager and a few added players to get Indians fans fired up. If nothing else, though, the franchise is taking the proper steps. “We still have work to do,” Antonetti said Wednesday, less [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Calls to Ohio’s problem-gambling hotline have increased with the opening of casinos in Cleveland, Columbus and Toledo. A report of about 3,200 people have called the line this year, and there was a noticeable increase from September to October, the month Ohio’s third casino opened in Columbus. An Ohio Casino Control Commission [...]
CLEVELAND (AP) — Jimmy Haslam has officially owned the Cleveland Browns for three games. It must seem longer than that to him. Since buying the floundering franchise for $1.05 billion, the truck stop kingpin has sat in his luxury loge and witnessed one win, two narrow losses and a bundle of mistakes by one of [...]
