Cleveland news

• Medina Twp PD looking for missing girl, 17

  25-03-2016 23:43
  
  Medina Township police are looking for a 17-year-old girl who is believed to have run away from a group she was with Thursday evening. 
  
  Read more

• Microsoft apologizes after AI chatbot goes from zero chill to racist troll in 24 hours

  25-03-2016 22:58
  
  Tay's cautionary tale goes back to Wednesday, when Microsoft unleashed the AI chatbot on Twitter, Kik and GroupMe to "conduct research on conversational understanding," the company said in a release.
  
  Read more

• Richfield Police, BCI investigate body found

  25-03-2016 22:53
  
  Richfield Police, Fire, and the Bureau of Criminal Investigation responded to a home in Richfield Village Friday.
  
  Read more

• Ohio BMV computers down

  25-03-2016 22:49
  
  Driver license services affected by problem with BMV computer system.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Lincoln Heights man charged in 2008 homicide

  25-03-2016 22:35
  
  A 24-year-old Lincoln Heights man was indicted Thursday on a murder charge stemming from a 2008 homicide.
  
  Read more

• Parma man faces possible felony for making parody Parma Police Department Facebook page

  25-03-2016 22:02
  
  A 27-year-old Parma man faces criminal charges that accuse him of creating a parody Facebook account that mimicked the official Parma Police Department's official page.
  
  Read more

• HBO releases new photos from 'Game of Thrones' Season 6

  25-03-2016 21:35
  
  HBO releases new images from the upcoming sixth season of 'Game of Thrones.'
  
  Read more

• Domestic abusers must be stopped before they get started: Phillip Morris

  25-03-2016 21:34
  
  October is recognized nationally as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Maybe every month should bear the designation, or the body count will continue to rise.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Woman found dead in Richfield home

  25-03-2016 21:27
  
  A woman was found dead Friday afternoon inside a home on Harold Drive in Richfield, but police were unable to confirm more details Friday evening.
  
  Read more

• Ohio medical marijuana amendment moves forward

  25-03-2016 21:20
  
  Marijuana Policy Project's proposed Ohio medical marijuana amendment was certified Friday by the Ohio attorney general.
  
  Read more

• Lakewood Harrison Elmentary School fourth-grader accused of pulling knife on classmate

  25-03-2016 21:18
  
  A 10-year-old boy is facing criminal charges after he pulled a knife on a fourth-grade classmate at Harrison Elementary School in Lakewood.
  
  Read more

• Richfield police, state agents investigating after one person found dead in home

  25-03-2016 21:13
  
  Richfield police are investigating after someone was found dead in a home.
  
  Read more

• Trio faces attempted murder, arson charges in Parma house fire

  25-03-2016 21:05
  
  Three are charged with attempted murder and arson in Parma house fire.
  
  Read more

• Good Friday procession in Cleveland's West Side (photos)

  25-03-2016 21:03
  
  CLEVELAND, Ohio --  Hundreds of worshippers participated in the annual Good Friday procession, carrying a statue of the body of Christ through West Side neighborhoods in Cleveland, OH.  The event started at St. Michael Church at noon, traveled to St....
  
  Read more

• Drunken driver arrested after he parks behind Westlake police conducting traffic stop

  25-03-2016 20:50
  
  A drunken driver was arrested after he pulled up behind a Westlake police cruiser parked on the side of the Detroit Road while officers were conducting a traffic stop with another vehicle.
  
  Read more

• Franklin County man who stabbed mother to death sentenced to prison

  25-03-2016 20:38
  
  A Franklin County man who long struggled with mental health issues received a 15 years to life sentence in prison Thursday for the 2014 stabbing death of his mother.
  
  Read more

• Heartless Felon charged in Warrensville Heights killing police say was payback for barbershop slayings

  25-03-2016 20:37
  
  Marcus Ladson is charged with participating in the Heartless Felons gang in connection with a shooting attempt plot prosecutors say was revenge for the Warrensville Heights barbershop shooting.
  
  Read more

• BrewBoat CLE holds contest to name boat

  25-03-2016 20:33
  
  Cleveland's only paddle party boat is putting its vessel's name in the hands of the internet. 
  
  Read more

• Grand jury indicts Euclid man accused of egging house more than 100 times

  25-03-2016 20:17
  
  A Cuyahoga County grand jury has indicted a Euclid man accused of egging a former neighbor's house more than 100 times in a single year.
  
  Read more

• Glitch affecting Ohio BMV

  25-03-2016 20:07
  
  The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles is experiencing issues with the system used to renew driver's licenses.
  
  Read more

• 'Criminal Minds' original cast member Shemar Moore leaving show after 11 seasons

  25-03-2016 20:05
  
  After 11 seasons portraying special agent Derek Morgan on the CBS crime procedural 'Criminal Minds,' actor Shemar Moore is leaving the show.
  
  Read more

• Microsoft's AI chatbot goes from zero chill to racist troll in 24 hours

  25-03-2016 19:58
  
  Tay's cautionary tale goes back to Wednesday, when Microsoft unleashed the AI chatbot on Twitter, Kik and GroupMe to "conduct research on conversational understanding," the company said in a release.
  
  Read more

• Akron men accused of ordering 2 pounds of cocaine via FedEx

  25-03-2016 19:54
  
  Anthony Ramos Jr., 26, and Sixto Vega-Nezario, 27, are accused of ordering a two-pound shipment of cocaine that shipped to their home through FedEx.
  
  Read more

• Cuba gears up for historic Rolling Stones concert Friday in Havana

  25-03-2016 19:45
  
  Cuba is gearing up for an historic free concert by The Rolling Stones on Friday night in the country where rock and roll music was once silenced. The band arrived Thursday evening in the Cuban capital where the concert will be held.
  
  Read more

• Cleveland Cavaliers joins food bank in Harvest for Hunger campaign

  25-03-2016 19:45
  
  Cleveland Cavaliers' hosts food drive for 'Harvest for Hunger' campaign
  
  Read more

• Breaking news -- John Kasich used to be mean, now nice: TL;DR (Too Long, Didn't Read)

  25-03-2016 19:33
  
  So much great political analysis out there. It's deep, elegantly written, full of insights. If you only had all day to read it! So we'll break it down for you. Today's deconstructed analysis is based on a story from The New York Times.
  
  Read more

• Woman calls 9-1-1, asks for eye drops; shopper nabs wallet thief in Walmart: Parma police blotter

  25-03-2016 19:28
  
  Parma police cited a woman who called 9-1-1 and asked for eye drops. Also, a shopper at Walmart nabbed a wallet thief.
  
  Read more

• Rich Regovich becomes mayor of Willowick, succeeds Richard Bonde who died last week

  25-03-2016 18:49
  
  Council unanimously chose Rich Regovich Wednesday to fill the nearly four years left in the term of Mayor Richard Bonde, who died Saturday.
  
  Read more

• Suspect in Chagrin Falls shooting identified

  25-03-2016 18:32
  
  The man who allegedly shot and killed two of his co-workers at a Chagrin Falls assisted living center Thursday has been identified.
  
  Read more

• Legitimate ballots weren't counted; flawed ballots were, witnesses in Ohio voting rights case say

  25-03-2016 18:20
  
  Witnesses in a voting rights case in federal court said this week that in 2014 some legitimate ballots were rejected, while in other cases flaw ballots were counted. The case involves a lawsuit by advocates for the homeless and Ohio Democrats who are challenging the constitutionality of some Ohio election laws.
  
  Read more

• David Hasselhoff, The Rock pose for epic 'Baywatch' photo

  25-03-2016 18:15
  
  The 'Baywatch' movie won't be released for more than a year, but photos from the set has fans already excited.
  
  Read more

• Painesville man to be deported for selling guns to undocumented immigrants

  25-03-2016 18:12
  
  A Painesville man on Friday was sentenced to prison and ordered deported for selling firearms to undocumented immigrants.
  
  Read more

• Stray bullet strikes grandma in head inside home

  25-03-2016 18:07
  
  A 63-year-old woman was struck in the head by a stray bullet while she was sitting in her Akron home Thursday evening. 
  
  Read more

• Suit: Landlord discriminates against men

  25-03-2016 18:04
  
  A Wicklifee landlord, accused of discriminating against men and the disabled, will now have to pay up.  
  
  Read more

• Devotees crucified in Philippines' annual Good Friday ritual

  25-03-2016 17:48
  
  Ruben Enaje and 14 other men, some screaming in pain, were nailed to wooden crosses by actors dressed as Roman centurions in San Pedro Cutud and two other rice farming villages in Pampanga province north of Manila.
  
  Read more

• Cleveland poll worker accused of pulling gun inside West Side school indicted

  25-03-2016 17:39
  
  A Cuyahoga County grand jury has indicted a poll worker accused of pulling out a gun and threatening to kill another worker at a polling station inside a West Side elementary school.
  
  Read more

• How Garry Shandling's 'The Larry Sanders Show' changed comedy

  25-03-2016 17:37
  
  Garry Shandling's groundbreaking series, "The Larry Sanders Show," ran from 1992-1998 on HBO. It wasn't a ratings success, even though it had a coveted spot airing right before "The Sopranos." But it nevertheless became one of the most influential shows on TV in the past 25 years.
  
  Read more

• Local Golden Tee golf "pro" is golden again as he takes home another world championship: Michael K. McIntyre's Tipoff

  25-03-2016 17:00
  
  Andy Haas of Macedonia once again is the world champion of the popular bar game, Golden Tee golf. And he's making a lot of money playing.
  
  Read more

• Woman struck by bullet while sitting in home

  25-03-2016 16:58
  
  A 63-year-old woman was struck in the head by a stray bullet while she was sitting in her home in Akron Thursday evening. 
  
  Read more

• Ohio State grad Zuri Hall owned the red carpet during the Academy Awards

  25-03-2016 16:51
  
  Toledo-native Zuri Hall hit the red carpet for the Oscars, Grammys and Golden Globes as a correspondent for E!
  
  Read more

• Nick Jonas teases new album, drops sexy video with Tove Lo

  25-03-2016 16:45
  
  Nick Jonas is back with a new album "Last Year Was Complicated" along with a new single "Close" featuring Tove Lo.
  
  Read more

• Cleveland International Film Festival 2016: What's new, what's happening, what you need to know

  25-03-2016 16:42
  
  You can start watching movies shortly after 9 in the morning, and keep watching them until midnight on some days -- and a lot of film festival regulars will do just that.
  
  Read more

• Akron fatal bar shooting suspect charged in restaurant break-in

  25-03-2016 16:38
  
  Willie Hicks III, 41, who is accused of fatally shooting a man at an Akron bar, is now accused of breaking into a restaurant in 2014.
  
  Read more

• 'The Walking Dead': First look at Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan

  25-03-2016 16:36
  
  Lucille is there as well. Be afraid, be very afraid.
  
  Read more

• North Royalton creates separate fund for YMCA maintenance and repairs

  25-03-2016 16:33
  
  North Royalton has established a separate fund for future upkeep of the city-owned YMCA, which opened in 2012.
  
  Read more

• Mother of slain Cleveland man: 'he was killed by his best friend of 13 years'

  25-03-2016 16:16
  
  Cleveland police arrested a 20-year-old man Thursday in connection with the killing of Antony Henderson on East 80th Street near Cedar Avenue in Cleveland.
  
  Read more

• Five for Friday: Matchmaker Mike Green picks first-date restaurants

  25-03-2016 16:00
  
  Since 1995, Green has been personally meeting and fixing up men and women in Cleveland. He believes certain restaurants are better settings for those first dates.
  
  Read more

• Best jukeboxes in Cleveland-area bars? Check out these 18 classics (photos)

  25-03-2016 16:00
  
  We've put together a guide, in alphabetical order, of some of the well-stocked jukeboxes in Northeast Ohio bars. Most keep it old-school with CD set-ups, but we had to include a few our favorite longstanding bars that have made the leap into the future with digital. Fear not, that's all they've changed - they're still Cleveland classics.
  
  Read more

• 7 must-see films from CIFF programming director Mallory Martin: Cleveland International Film Festival 2016

  25-03-2016 15:59
  
  CIFF programming director Mallory Martin recommends all the films in the Cleveland International Film Festival, of course, But we asked her to pick 7 best bets for fest-goers in need of a bit of guidance. We've included dates and times; go to clevelandfilm.org for locations and ticket information.
  
  Read more

• WWE's Sting versus Undertaker dream match could still happen

  25-03-2016 15:53
  
  Sting says rumors of his retirement have been exaggerated.
  
  Read more

Follow @Cleveland_Newsl on Twitter!