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• Attorney General Jeff Sessions says feds will take action in Cleveland opioid lawsuits

  27-02-2018 23:42
  
  The U.S. Department of Justice will get involved with a federal case in Cleveland that consolidates hundreds of government lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and distributors, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday.
  
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• Cuyahoga County's 2018 and 2019 road resurfacing proposals announced; lawsuit settlement approved

  27-02-2018 23:34
  
  Cuyahoga County has identified roads that will be repaired in the next two years.
  
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• Summit County Children Services works to reunite families as opioid crisis continues

  27-02-2018 23:30
  
  With the opioid epidemic fueling record numbers of children in its custody, Summit County Children Services is hoping a small grant to help reunify families will make a big difference. The monthly average of children in custody, which means they are taken from their homes, has shot from an average of 601 in 2015 to 737 today.
  
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• Cleveland judge to Heartless Felon: 'you are exactly what is causing our hardships'

  27-02-2018 23:26
  
  "You are exactly what is causing all our hardships that we're having in our city and others," the judge told Larry Fluellen, alluding to the city's high rate of gun violence and homicide.
  
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• Cleveland lighting company Mr. Beams soon to be part of Amazon

  27-02-2018 23:20
  
  Reuters reported Tuesday that Amazon is expected to acquire Ring Inc., a California-based home security company that announced in January that it had purchased Mr. Beams for an undisclosed price.
  
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• Patterns persist in the unsolved murders of Cleveland women: Update

  27-02-2018 23:17
  
  A special task force is looking into some of the cases identified in a 2017 analysis of unsolved murders done by The Plain Dealer and the non-profit Murder Accountability Project.
  
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• Watch Cleveland cop with $1,500 in parking tickets drive away from fellow officer

  27-02-2018 23:10
  
  Watch body camera video of an off-duty Cleveland police officer speeding away from a fellow officer after he said her van needed to be towed because of $1,500 in unpaid parking tickets.
  
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• Mariska Hargitay film "I Am Evidence" about Cleveland rape kits scheduled for HBO (trailer)

  27-02-2018 23:06
  
  The city of the Cleveland has a lead role in the new documentary "I Am Evidence," about the shocking number of untested evidential rape kits in the United States.
  
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• Brecksville-Broadview Heights schools may trade Central Elementary School plus second parcel to city of Brecksville for Blossom Hill land

  27-02-2018 22:41
  
  The city of Brecksville has offered the Brecksville-Broadview Heights City School District land on the municipally owned, 185-acre Blossom Hill property for a proposed new elementary school. In exchange, the city wants the school district's Central Elementary School property on Royalton Road and a second parcel containing athletic fields and a community garden on Stadium Drive.
  
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• Ohio secretary of state announces write-in candidates for Ohio's May primary

  27-02-2018 22:24
  
  The Green Party announced Kelli Prather as its write-in candidate for secretary of state on Monday, but the Cincinnati native was left off the statewide write-in list for May's primary ballot, according to the Ohio secretary of state's office.
  
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• Wanted Akron pimp shot through the ear in Cleveland

  27-02-2018 22:19
  
  An Akron man wanted in a prostitution case was shot through the ear over the weekend in Cleveland. Police say he was in a car that was recently stolen from an Akron home.
  
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• Ohio EPA completes cleanup of four-story mountain of rubble at illegal East Cleveland dump

  27-02-2018 22:14
  
  The Ohio EPA has completed an $8.8 million cleanup at the Arco dump in East Cleveland, removing more than 300,000 cubic yards of illegally disposed construction rubble.
  
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• Reaching 50s again, clouds returning with chance for stray showers Wednesday in Akron: Weather forecast

  27-02-2018 22:00
  
  Check out Wednesday's weather forecast for Akron.
  
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• LeBron James-backed Blaze Pizza is going global

  27-02-2018 21:26
  
  Blaze Pizza features the familiar assembly line setup, similar to Chipotle, where diners go down the line, creating their own pies, which are then slid into a huge stone-hearth oven for three minutes.
  
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• Dennis Kucinich says Richard Cordray is the NRA's 'boy' as guns increasingly become an issue in governor's race

  27-02-2018 21:26
  
  Guns are increasingly becoming a bigger issue in the Democratic gubernatorial primary.
  
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• I tasted McDonald's Szechuan Sauce from 'Rick & Morty' so you don't have to

  27-02-2018 20:55
  
  20 million packets arrived at McDonald's restaurants across the country this week, giving fans their first chance to see if the sauce was actually worth rioting over.
  
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• Few Winter Warmer Fest tickets remain; Akron Art & Ale sells out

  27-02-2018 20:49
  
  Thinking of going to Winter Warmer Fest? A few tickets remain. Meanwhile, Art & Ale is sold out.
  
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• Senators want to limit opioid prescriptions to three days for many pain treatments

  27-02-2018 20:20
  
  States have struggled to agree on time limits for addictive prescriptions. Congress might do it for them.
  
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• Cuyahoga County's Hilton Cleveland Downtown Hotel exceeding expectations

  27-02-2018 19:44
  
  Cuyahoga County administrators have declared the taxpayer-financed Hilton Cleveland Downtown a good investment.
  
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• Pentatonix to sing at Blossom Music Center in September

  27-02-2018 19:30
  
  Pentatonix will perform at Blossom Music Center on Sept. 13.
  
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• Jersey Mike's Subs offers gluten-free sandwich bread nationwide; Is it tasty?

  27-02-2018 19:22
  Find out if Jersey Mike's gluten-free sub sandwich is a tasty choice.
  
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• Cleveland worker sues over right to speak about on-the-job animal attacks, other hazards and harassment

  27-02-2018 19:20
  
  The worker, an employee at Cleveland's garbage transfer station says city policies that forbid her from talking violate her free-speech rights.
  
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• Chardon sex offender exchanged sexually explicit pics with 13-year-old he met on Facebook, feds say

  27-02-2018 19:20
  
  A sex offender from Chardon is charged with receiving child pornography after federal investigators uncovered a series of sexually explicit text messages between him and a 13-year-old from Pennsylvania that he met on Facebook, according to court filings.
  
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• Mercedes or Maserati? Bernie Moreno brings car subscriptions to Northeast Ohio

  27-02-2018 19:13
  
  The program works like this: for a monthly fee, subscribers can drive a car like a Mercedes or Lexus for as long as they want. If they want another car for whatever reason, they can swap it out for another car as many times as they wish.
  
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• Parody Twitter accounts are increasingly a semi-official part of political campaigns

  27-02-2018 19:01
  
  One account teases a Democratic governor candidate for his quirky, idiosyncratic tweets. Another, purporting to be run by the dog of a state representative candidate, frequently encourages his owner to set him free. They're parody political Twitter accounts, and they're increasingly a semi-official part of the campaign playbook for races across Ohio.
  
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• 'Silver Surfer' and 'Doctor Doom' movies are on the horizon, reports say

  27-02-2018 18:48
  
  20th Century Fox plans to make a "Silver Surfer" and a "Doctor Doom" movie, reports said Tuesday.
  
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• Ohio Department of Transportation to widen Wallings Road bridge over I-77 in Broadview Heights

  27-02-2018 18:47
  
  In Broadview Heights, the state of Ohio plans to add a third lane and rebuild the deck on the Wallings Road bridge over Interstate 77.
  
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• Man shot after bar brawl in Cleveland's Old Brooklyn neighborhood

  27-02-2018 18:14
  
  A 32-year-old man was shot after a bar brawl in Cleveland's Old Brooklyn neighborhood, police said.
  
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• Cleveland mayor's grandson pleads guilty to felony gun charges, gets diversion

  27-02-2018 18:03
  
  Frank Jackson Jr., 20, will have his guilty pea to two felony gun charges wiped clean if he completes the year-long program.
  
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• Watch live: Dennis Kucinich speaks at the City Club of Cleveland

  27-02-2018 18:00
  
  Kucinich is one of six Democrats running for governor.
  
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• Kent State graduate Jacob Derwin on 'Survivor: Ghost Island'

  27-02-2018 17:53
  
  Kent State University graduate Jacob Derwin is in the field of contestants for 'Survivor: Ghost Island,' the 36th edition of the CBS reality show.
  
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• Cleveland rocker Madeline Finn to appear in 'American Idol' auditions

  27-02-2018 17:51
  
  Madeline Finn, the singer-guitarist The Whiskey Hollow, auditioned for "American Idol" in Nashville. She will appear in one of the first episodes of the series, singing in front of judges Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie.
  
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• GrooveRyde's boxing express delivers swift one-two punch: Stretching Out

  27-02-2018 17:48
  
  Quick but highly effective, the noontime express boxing class at GrooveRyde's new downtown location left me feeling completely spent, wondering what, exactly, had hit me.
  
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• Fan banned from Quicken Loans Arena for racial taunts at Spurs player

  27-02-2018 17:43
  CLEVELAND– Staff at Quicken Loans Arena identified the fan who yelled racial slurs at San Antonio guard Patty Mills.
  The incident happened late during the Cavaliers’ loss to the Spurs on Sunday. The taunts, which included, “Hey Mills, Jamaica just called, they want their bobsledder back!,” could be heard during the live broadcast.
  On Tuesday, a Cavs spokesman said the fan has been banned indefinitely from the Q.
  Mills, who is of Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Isl
  
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• Lakewood police dispatcher stayed on job for months after indictment in rape case

  27-02-2018 17:41
  
  City officials first learned of the Nov. 28 indictment against Andre D. Walden on Friday morning, and immediately placed him on unpaid administrative leave, Lakewood Law Director Kevin Butler said in a statement.
  
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• Talk It Out: Should cell phones be locked away or banned from concerts?

  27-02-2018 17:34
  
  Some artists, like Jack White, The Lumineers and Misfits, have altogether banned cell phones at concerts. What do you think?
  
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• Cleveland-area house prices ended 2017 up 3.5 percent, Case-Shiller finds (interactive graphics)

  27-02-2018 16:38
  
  House prices in the Cleveland area rose notably last year, but nowhere near as much as they did in many other major metropolitan areas.
  
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• Cleveland man dead after car flips off Interstate 490 bridge

  27-02-2018 16:32
  
  A Cleveland man is dead after his car went over a bridge on Interstate 490 near the Interstate 77 on-ramps, police say.
  
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• Take a trip with RocktheLake to Grand River Valley wineries, prepping for Ice Wine Festival

  27-02-2018 16:16
  
  As Ohio's Grand River Valley wineries prep for the 14th annual Ice Wine Festival, take a trip with RocktheLake to check out participating vineyards.
  
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• Employee charged in deadly shooting of boss at Cleveland business

  27-02-2018 15:50
  
  Dennis Perrien Jr., 50, is accused of fatally shooting his boss, Donald Vanhorn III, at a business office in Cleveland.
  
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• Oscars 2018 picks and predictions: Who's going to win at the 90th Academy Awards

  27-02-2018 14:50
  There were so many quality films last year there isn't one that stands out heads and shoulders above the rest. Even the two frontrunners for Best Picture -- "The Shape of Water" and "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" -- have divided audiences and critics alike.
  
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• Ohio drops five spots in U.S. News rankings, remains first in affordability

  27-02-2018 14:30
  
  Ohio ranked #35 last year in the U.S. News and World Report Rankings. It lost the top spot in government digitalization and budget transparency, and dropped five spots in the rankings.
  
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• Elves end, Brad Meltzer and Art Spiegelman speak: Journey Into Comics

  27-02-2018 14:27
  
  After 40 years of writing about magic quests and pointy-eared elves, Richard and Wendy Pini are tossing in the sword. Author Brad Meltzer and artist Art Spiegelman, who have nothing to do with elves, will speak in separate events next week.
  
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• CBS launches 24/7 streaming sports network, CBS Sports HQ

  27-02-2018 14:22
  
  When CBS Sports HQ went on the air for the first time on Monday, there was a familiar face anchoring the new 24-hour streaming sports network: former WEWS Channel 5 sports anchor Hakem Dermish.
  
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• Rock Hall starts construction on new Hall of Fame experience

  27-02-2018 14:16
  The museum has mostly gutted its third floor as it plans to create an in depth Inductees showcase.
  
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• Wizard World Cleveland 2018 features actors, comics pros (photos)

  27-02-2018 13:58
  
  Actors, comic writers and artists, costumed fans and comic dealers gear up for Wizard World Cleveland that opens Friday.
  
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• Apple to release largest iPhone ever in 2018

  27-02-2018 13:36
  
  Apple will present three new iPhones before the end of the year. The most advance model will be bigger than Samsung's new Galaxy S9.
  
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• 'Annihilation' and the evolution of science fiction movies

  27-02-2018 13:30
  A look at the way science fiction movies have evolved and led to movies like "Annihilation."
  
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• Nike giving away special LeBron James 'Equality' sneakers

  27-02-2018 13:19
  
  Nike is giving away 400 pairs of the shoes as part of a special promotion.
  
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• When does severe weather season typically begin again in Cleveland? On the Radar with Kelly Reardon (video)

  27-02-2018 13:15
  
  When do severe thunderstorms and tornadoes start sparking up again in Cleveland? Meteorologist Kelly Reardon has the answers in this week's episode of On the Radar.
  
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