Garfield Heights News

Nevada Williams of Garfield Heights, Ohio, faces animal cruelty charges, animal abandonment, and filing a false report on Friday after an emaciated boxer was rescued on Wednesday and barely able to stand reported 19actionnews.com.

Amidst another arctic blast of freezing weather and snow blowing in all directions on Wednesday, an extremely emaciated boxer was found roaming along Osborne Road in Garfield Heights, Ohio reported fox8.com.

Cuyahoga County Public Library is teaming up with the Warrensville Heights, Garfield Heights, Bedford and Maple Heights school districts to provide free "Kindergarten Club" Kindergarten readiness programs at four branch locations.

Warrant arrest: While investigating a domestic dispute between a couple at a Shawnee Trail lodging facility March 1, an officer discovered the man involved was wanted on a felony warrant for larceny from Lakewood.

When a police officer came upon a snow plow stuck on Cochran Road near Aurora Road on Feb. 27, he might have known during a hard winter that such a scene was going to yield even more hard-to-believe facts.

In these half-day workshops, businesses and non-profits can learn how to start or improve a workplace recycling program and how to contract for waste hauling or recycling.

Domestic violence: A Bedford man was charged with domestic violence Feb. 23 after police said he punched his wife in the face and pushed her out of a car while it was moving on North Aurora Road near Fairview Drive.

Marlon Ricks, who was paroled in 2011 after serving time for killing his stepfather, was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for the murder of a woman he was to have dinner with, said a news release by the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office.

The NCCYHA Mite Steelers finished in second place at The Melt The Ice Tournament in Garfield Heights, Ohio this past weekend.

While the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District was locked in negotiations with federal regulators, devising a strategy to bore costly tunnels that alleviate sewer overflows after heavy rains, the district also weathered its own storm -- a corruption scandal that sent contractors and a sewer district attorney to prison.

Fraud Chagrin Boulevard: Police were preparing an arrest warrant for a Wadsworth man, 30, who walked into the Orange School Employees Credit Union on Feb. 5 claiming he was a new employee in the district who wanted to open an account with a $2,500 check.

Kyle Wirtz shared his story - then one of redemption - of overcoming his heroin addiction in October at a town hall in Solon.

Many people hate traffic cameras. They make you slow down or, if you don't see them in time, expose you to a possible stiff fine in the mail.

FirstEnergy's website reports more than 9,100 customers are without power statewide, with nearly 6,300 in Cuyahoga County.

Five candidates running this year for the Ohio General Assembly out of Cuyahoga County each rolled up 11 or more convictions for traffic violations over the last 20 years, state driving records show.