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New developments in the Thanksgiving day slaying of a Cleveland convenience store owner.

Scott Carpenter, project director at the Western Reserve Fire Museum and Education Center, in front of its antique alarm board.

November 2008 brought snow to Northeast Ohio, like this storm on the 10th of the month, but could November 2009 be snowless? Our warm November to remember -- possibly snowless for the first time ever in a century of Cleveland weather records -- may turn both cold and white tonight.

In this Feb. 28, 2005 file photo, John Demjanjuk arrives at the federal building in Cleveland, Ohio.

CLEVELAND -- For a carefully prepared meal to have its desired emotional impact, the presentation is essential.

These are some of the cases due in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court this week.

The menu features a large selection of traditional Middle-Eastern appetizers, as well as yummy homemade soups, inventive salads, rolled pitas, and pita "pitzas". They also have a kid's menu.

The Cleveland School District wants more parental involvement and will use stimulus dollars to encourage it.

The 26th Annual Public Square Lighting Ceremony and fireworks show is today! And, the fun doesn't stop there.

A 30-year-old charter school teacher was indicted on sexual battery charges after prosecutors said she had sexual relations with a 17-year-old student .

The Cleveland Clinic on Tuesday, Nov. 24, plans to break ground on its $98 million Avon Family Health & Surgery Center.

There's an effort being made to get people who live in the six surrounding neighborhoods of University Circle back to work and increase the median household salary of $18-thousand. The University Circle initiative is being funded in part by the Cleveland Foundation.

Just in time for the busy Thanksgiving travel and shopping weekend, the Ohio Department of Transportation has reopened lanes and ramps on the Innerbelt Bridge that had been closed for more than a year.

CLEVELAND -- Police have turned to a leading anthropologist and a forensic artist to help identify the remains of an 11th woman found inside the home of a suspected serial killer.

Store clerk Moussa Salpi, 34, of Strongsville, was shot and killed this afternoon while working at the Little Eagle Market, 3111 East 93rd Street.

A 34-year-old Strongsville father of four was fatally shot while working Thanksgiving day at a corner store on Cleveland's East Side.

A Greek immigrant family grateful for opportunities in America resumed a quarter-century tradition Thursday by offering free Thanksgiving dinners at its restaurant, welcoming anyone who wanted a holiday meal and company.

An early-morning police chase ends with two Akron police officers in the hospital.

A 31-year-old Cleveland man was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for stabbing a woman 74 times, killing her.

We may soon have more information on the eleven bodies found at the home of a suspected serial killer in Cleveland.

One woman died Tuesday morning in a fire at a two-family home on Clybourne Avenue, Fox 8 News reports.

Avon Middle School art teacher Anne Maiden has been indicted in four cases for a total of 30 charges including theft, forgery, criminal damaging, receiving stolen property, misuse of credit cars and possession of criminal tools.

Good news for travelers who use the Innerbelt Bridge. The Ohio Department of Transportation reopened the Ontario Street ramp from Downtown Cleveland and the West 14th Street ramp from Tremont.

A group of central Ohio lawmakers is advancing a plan to beef up cities' rights against four casinos that Ohio voters authorized in November.

A Cleveland woman will spend 15 years behind bars for beating her 6-year-old niece to death last year.

The Americans United for Separation of Church and State organization complains that opening prayers for the Cleveland City Council are too often said by Christian clergy.

A house fire in the 4200 block of Clybourne Avenue has left one woman dead... Cleveland fire spokesman Larry Gray says, firefighters responded to a two story house fire Tuesday morning at 6:50. They quickly put the flames out and found a woman on the first floor of the house dead.

A peregrine falcon that lived for years among Cleveland's downtown skyscrapers has died after apparently striking a building.

Sonja Jackson, of Detroit, holds a Employment Guide while attending a job fair in Livonia, Mich.

Reverend Al Sharpton, the National Action Network, and community members across the country lead national outrage day rallies Monday to call attention to the violence in our neighborhoods.

A former Portage County resident is in a Cleveland hospital fighting for his life after being struck by the H1N1 flu virus.

This holiday season, buy local. Your gifts don't have to come from Walmart. We have so many great places to shop in Northeast Ohio.

Now that everyone has vented -- again -- and perhaps done a little public negotiating, it is time to focus once more on what's really important: designing and building a medical mart and convention center complex that can boost Greater Cleveland's economic future.

An 18-year-old Cleveland man was indicted Friday on a robbery charge in connection with an incident that occurred at an East Cleveland bus stop.

A Cleveland Police cruiser was involved in a crash at 176 and I-71 Sunday afternoon.

Things are looking bad, Cleveland, real bad. Our beloved Browns are a dismal 1-8 this season after getting shut out by the Ravens last night.

Ohio's most populous county has just two sheriff's deputies to check regularly on 1,416 of the worst sex offenders, an issue highlighted by charges against a serial murder suspect who was living in a house with 11 bodies.

Police arrested a Cleveland man last week after he failed to appear at his arraignment in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

UPDATED: The missing 2-year-old Cleveland girl who was the subject of an Ambert Alert has been found safe.

The Cleveland Police Department, SWAT Team and Crisis Negotiators, were stationed at a home on Hamlet Avenue in connection with a home invasion for several hours Saturday.

Friends, family and members of the community will gather at locations around northeast Ohio today to say their final goodbyes to four victims found murdered inside a home on Imperial Avenue.

The body of an East Cleveland man was found in a Canton area creek on Thursday, Nov.

CLEVELAND -- The kidnapping and rape case against a registered sex offender who was living with 10 dead bodies and a skull was put on hold Thursday while a grand jury pursues the homicide investigation.

A bronze statue of a girl with pigtails, valued at $6,000, has been stolen from the memorial garden at a Cleveland hospice.

It's that time again. Holiday shopping madness is upon us. Think outside the big box stores this year and turn your attention to the vendors at these Cleveland Christmas Markets.

A house fire has turned deadly in Cleveland. Police say three of the four people rushed to the hospital have died.

Anthony Sowell's alleged murders have brought back memories. When Donnita Carmichael, the daughter of Tonia Carmichael, was looking in a photo album finding photos for her mother's funeral she found a picture of Carmella Prater.

A pre-trial is slated for the suspected Cleveland Strangler this morning. Today's hearing is for the charges on the woman who survived an attack by Anthony Sowell in September of 2008.

A 29-year-old man and 3-year-old twins died in a tragic house fire Wednesday night in the 1700 block of Clark Avenue, Fox 8's Stacey Frey reports.

A Cleveland man busted after robbing a Streetsboro bank Thursday morning. The heist happened at 10AM at the First Merit Bank branch on State Route 14.

CINCINNATI -- Cincinnati police are putting criminals on notice: crime fighting 2010 style has arrived in the form of video cameras in the downtown business district and high-crime areas in other neighborhoods.

Three people are dead after flames ripped through their Clark Avenue home Wednesday evening.

As part of the investigation into the remains of 11 women found inside and outside the Cleveland, Ohio, home of a registered sex offender, police have turned to the self-described "bug guy." Joe Keiper, curator of invertebrate zoology from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, started consulting with law enforcement in 2001.

A Cuyahoga County Common Pleas jury found a former RTA bus driver guilty of vehicular homicide, negligence.

A 19-year-old Cleveland man pleaded guilty today to setting a fire that destroyed three houses, including the home of a disabled woman who had to be rescued from the blaze.

Developers of the casinos that voters approved for Ohio want a rule that would block communities from "unreasonably" holding up building permits or other local action.

Two years ago, the social-activist group BREAD labeled truancy a major problem, urging the Franklin County prosecutor's office to help keep kids in school by notifying their parents when they weren't. The KEY Truancy Program was begun and has since reduced chronic truancy in six pilot schools by 55 percent.

The FBI said a top supervisor was charged with taking thousands of dollars in kickbacks.

Mary the giant tortoise came out of her shell in a very unladylike way last week at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo.

Former Cleveland Browns wide receiver Braylon Edwards was due in court this morning on misdemeanor assault charges.

Angel Glass, 24, was indicted today in the beating death of her 5-year-old son. She is charged with aggravated murder, child endangering and felonious assault.

People have come together in Cleveland to thank the coroner's office for quickly identifying women whose remains were found at the home of a suspected serial killer.

CLEVELAND -- The Discovery Channel's 'Behind Bars' show has arrived to begin shooting at the county jail in Cleveland, but it's unlikely viewers will see its high-profile inmate.

Germany is bestowing a high civilian honor on an Ohio man for his efforts more than 60 years ago to save German World War II military records.

Arcadio Flores Santiago is wanted by the U.S. Marshals and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office on charges of attempted murder The Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force is offering a reward for information which would lead to the capture of fugitive Arcadio Flores Santiago.

Beth Gatlin, Regional Hospital Coordinator for the Center for Health Affairs, spends many of her days at an undisclosed storage facility.

Patrolman Thomas Butler, 49, was arrested Nov. 6 and suspended without pay after the 19-year veteran was accused of disabling the automatic vehicle locator inside his police car so that dispatchers and supervisors would not know where he was.

CLEVELAND -- Forty-year-old Gladys Wade is one of the few survivors who lived to tell of her encounter with suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell.

A task force is looking for Ray Miller III and Brandon Smith, accused of attempted murder and felonious assault in Cleveland.

Carrying candles and singing hymns, more than 400 people walked the very streets on Cleveland's eastside where accused serial killer, Anthony Sowell, may have found his victims.

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson is considering charging fees on nonprofit organizations to help close the city's budget gap.

ONN affiliate WEWS-TV in Cleveland contributed to this report: Police on Wednesday identified the 10th victim in the Imperial Avenue slayings.

The awful stench emanating from a home in Cleveland, Ohio, where the bodies of 11 murdered women have been found, has been overwhelming for neighbors and law enforcement officials -- but not for Joe Keiper.

Brother Joe Kamis Brother Joe Kamis, S.M., Superintendent of Schools and Director of the Department of Educational Services for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati since 2002, has been appointed to become assistant provincial of the United States Province of his community, the Society of Mary .

CLEVELAND, OH The Cleveland father accused of killing his little boy was in court Friday morning.

CLEVELAND -- Eight people, including three former Ohio Department of Transportation employees, have been indicted in a public corruption investigation.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is saluting late blues singer Janis Joplin with a week-long series of events and a star-studded concert in her honour.

Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath, right, and Cuyahoga County Coroner Frank Miller address the media on Nov.

A judge has rejected a plea deal for a former Cleveland bus driver, so the woman is now on trial in the death of a pedestrian.

Mayor Frank Jackson made his bid for a second term look easy as he was re-elected by a large margin over former City Councilman Bill Patmon on Tuesday, Nov.

A registered sex offender from Cleveland has pleaded not guilty to an alleged attack that prompted a search and the discovery of 11 bodies at his home.

Parma police say they've arrested three adults and two children wanted for thefts in Greater Cleveland and Chicago.

Inez "Brownie" Fortson cries as she is helped from Grace Missionary Baptist Church during her daughter Telacia's funeral Thursday, November 12, 2009 in Cleveland.

A boyhood home of writer Langston Hughes has been purchased after foreclosure by a nonprofit community development group in Cleveland that seeks to preserve it.

A 17-year-old Cleveland boy died of a gunshot wound this morning. Brandon Young, of Sable Road, was pronounced dead at 2:43 a.m. at MetroHealth Medical Center, the coroner's spokesman said.

Ohio Auditor Mary Taylor is telling Cleveland to do something about a ballooning number of broken water meters forcing the city to guess what some customers owe.

Krystal Krause, 25, of Cleveland, was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday in connection with the drowning death of her 3-year-old son.

A basketball coach and three students were arrested during a drug sweep. No drugs were found on the coach, but drugs were found in the sweep.

A group says what it calls "Godless billboards" in Ohio's biggest cities are aimed at raising awareness about people who don't believe in God.

The corpses of at least 10 women were found in various stages of decomposition throughout his home and property.

Two 16-year-old boys were shot on Public Square late Tuesday evening. The double shooting happened around 10:30 p.m. Cleveland Police say the teens, one from Cleveland and one from Bedford Heights, got off an RTA bus after arguing with at least two males on the bus.

Cleveland City workers load debris into a dump truck from the back yard of the house at 12201 Imperial Ave., next door to the Anthony Sowell house, in Cleveland today.

Fox 8 News has learned that a drug sweep at Shaw High School has lead to the arrest of Leon Hines, the school's popular basketball coach.

A third murder victim has been identified, as Cleveland, Ohio police continue to look for more bodies at the home of a convicted sex offender.

A Cleveland woman was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison in her 3-year-old sona TMs drowning death.

A Cuyahoga County jury found 23-year-old Demonte Merriweather not guilty last week of gunning down three men playing dice.

A Cleveland firefighter in treatment after he was arrested for drunk driving and suspected pot possession.

A brother and sister accused in the New Year's Day killing of 26-year-old Djuan Newsome are no longer a team.

On October 31st authorities in Cleveland, Ohio arrested a man for multiple murders.

Marshals are asking for help to find fugitive Omar Williams, who they say may be hiding in Cleveland after being charged with murder in Orlando, Fla.

The family of Janice Webb didn't get the call they had feared on Monday, instead it was a knock on the door.

Fort Hood mourns, looks for answers A A Nov. 8: Msnbc's Alex Witt speaks with Killeen Daily Herald's Olga Pena about the latest in Fort Hood.

Authorities are investigating whether a man whose home and yard harbored the remains of at least 11 people is connected to any killings in places he lived while in the military, including Japan, California and the Carolinas.

The Cleveland Rape Crisis Center is holding a community forum Tuesday for those affected directly or indirectly by the Anthony Sowell case.

Suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell may be connected to a rape case in California.

CBS Authorities say Anthony Sowell lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood, killed them - most by strangulation - and scattered their remains throughout the inside and buried some in the backyard.

CLEVELAND -- The Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office has positively identified the fifth, sixth and seventh victims found at 12205 Imperial Avenue.

Authorities in Cleveland, Ohio, are working to identify the remaining bodies discovered inside and around the home of 50-year-old convicted sex offender Anthony Sowell.

Becca Britton, with the Friends of City Kennel in Cleveland, stopped by Channel 3 Studios with one of the dogs available at the kennel for adoption.

Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones said Thursday that the county must abandon plans to buy Public Auditorium for the medical mart and convention center project.

Police are looking into cold case files to see whether there is a connection between serial murder suspect Anthony Sowell and several unsolved murders in the late 1980s.

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Police Chief Michael McGrath were among those at a community meeting late Friday afternoon to address those most affected by the Imperial Avenue killings.. ideastream's Dan Bobkoff has more.

After four failed tries, casino gambling is finally coming to Ohio and to downtown Cleveland in particular.

An unidentified man was severely burned after a two-alarm fire gutted a boarding house and spread to a neighboring home in the 1700 block of West 32nd Street this morning.

THIS JUST IN : A Cleveland judge has set bond at $5 million dollars for Anthony Sowell.

The man who lived in the house of rotting corpses never gave people a reason to wonder what he was really doing behind closed doors.

Authorities have identified a second victim of suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported Thursday.

A developing story tonight on America's newest serial killer. The 11th body has now been discovered at the home of convicted rapist Anthony Sowell in Cleveland, Ohio.

One of these days I want to go to an art party where a real party breaks out -- not just a plate full of raw carrots and cheese, with wine on the side.

Tonight at Eleve - Years before the Cleveland Strangler terrorized our streets, another serial killer left his mark on our city...one body at a time.

LIMAVILLE, Ohio - Elections officials say poll workers made a mistake and provided the wrong ballot to all 42 people who voted Tuesday in a small town in northeast Ohio.

The Rev. Thomas P. O'Malley, who served as president of two Jesuit universities, Loyola Marymount and John Carroll, has died.

Detectives have finished digging in yard, after uncovering graves of five victims, and further six were found inside house Anthony Sowell stands behind public defender Kathleen DeMetz during his court appearance in Cleveland, Ohio.

A Lake County man gunned down during a drug-related robbery on Cleveland's Eastside.

Location, location, location - and jobs. That twist on the real estate agent's motto sums up why Ohio voters approved the four-casino plan on Tuesday, Nov.

A spokesperson for the Cleveland Police Department tells Fox 8 News that a man was shot to death in the driveway of his home on Sunday night, and the unknown men believed to be responsible have not yet been apprehended.

The family of a Connecticut woman mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee is seeking to sue the state of Connecticut for $150 million.

The suspect in a gruesome mass killing in Cleveland, Ohio may be responsible for the attack on a woman in San Diego.

Administrators in one Ohio school district will now have to answer to a high school senior elected to the school board.

Dr. Marianne Alciati, the head of research science for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, visited Cleveland last week to see what local researchers are doing to fight breast cancer.

Ohio's most populous county is remaking its government to replace an administration targeted by a federal corruption investigation.

A 22-year-old man was shot. Two men confronted 22-year-old Donald Staxx Williams Jr.

One of the three Cleveland men accused of killing 26-year-old Travis Humphrey by setting him on fire pleaded guilty this morning to aggravated murder and will be sentenced to 30 years to life in prison.

Mayor Frank Jackson's campaign for election to a second four-year term has focused on maintaining city services and avoiding tax increases amid a recession that hurt the city's manufacturing-dependent economy.

Investigators trying to identify the bodies of six women found in the Cleveland, Ohio home of a convicted rapist are focusing the inquiry on eight or nine missing women, the coroner said.

Fugitive Jonathan "Cheeks" Ward was captured last week to face armed robbery and weapon charges.

A 25-year-old Cleveland man who tried to sell a stolen, prized violin at a flea market pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property and obstructing justice for the crime.

Investigators trying to identify six female bodies found in the home of a convicted rapist in Cleveland are focusing the inquiry on eight or nine missing women.

Six women whose badly-decomposed bodies were found at the home of a convicted rapist had been murdered, medical experts have said.

Tough decision? Take both - together --if you go to Cleveland, Ohio. Sleep and stay in luxury, plus stroll the aisles of the West Side Market with the Ritz Carlton chef, selecting items for your dinner.

A bronze sculpture from his garden that a Cleveland man almost let an antique dealer take for $3,000 a few years ago has sold at auction for $118,000. The 4-foot tall sculpture of a woman carrying a water vessel on her head was in the yard when the man bought his house on the city's west side 40 years ago.

A 30-year-old Cleveland man will be arraigned Thursday for robbing clerk with a knife at a gas station earlier this month, according to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutors office.

Marv Conner is one of the comedians who supplied Election Day zingers. This week brings with it an annual ritual, one that we citizens need to view as an important duty.

None of the bodies has been identified; search of house to continue Saturday -- A search has been launched for a 50-year-old convicted rapist and suspect in the killings of six people whose bodies were found in and around a house in Cleveland, Ohio, police said Friday.

She was never seen or heard from again. Cobbs is a mother of three children and a grandmother.