ROCKY RIVER -- Cleveland Cavaliers forward J.J. Hickson racked up three speeding tickets in five months last year, including one for going 95 mph in a red Maserati. But prosecutors downgraded the violations, so the rising star only had to pay a "no-point" $50 fine for each offense.
CLEVELAND -- It was supposed to be a lasting memory to a Cleveland police officer killed in the line of duty.
CLEVELAND -- She claims to be suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell's thirteenth victim and that she was lucky enough to survive.
CLEVELAND -- The City of Cleveland is making taxpayers foot the bill for more than 600 parking and traffic tickets issued to city employees in city vehicles.
CLEVELAND -- The Internal Revenue Service plans to require tax preparers to pass a competency test and register with the govenrment. The agency estimates that there are more than a million paid tax preparers in what the IRS says is a largely unregulated industry.
CUYAHOGA COUNTY -- Timothy Russo spent years as a political consultant, advising foreign countries about democracy. Now, he wants to lend his expertise to the reformed government in Cuyahoga County.
CLEVELAND -- It's a nice turn of events for nearly 2,500 Ohioans during tax season -- the Internal Revenue Service actually owes them money. The trouble is, they don't even know their name's on the list.
FINDLAY -- It's the last flight of the day at Findlay Airport in western Ohio. In fact, it's the only one of the day.
CLEVELAND -- The man who convinced a judge to send a Bainbridge man to jail for texting while driving called Cleveland's texting and driving ban a "toothless tiger."
CLEVELAND -- They have been described as phony fees, junk fees and fees you shouldn't have to pay.
CLEVELAND -- They're snatched from their families -- through violence, threats and manipulation -- and forced into prostitution or hard labor. It's called human trafficking, and Ohio's been identified as a major market for years.
CUYAHOGA COUNTY -- Three illegal immigrants leave Detroit in a boat with no serial number. Their intentions are unclear, but their actions raise the suspicions of local authorities who issue an all-points bulletin in case it's related to terrorism.
CLEVELAND -- Cleveland Municipal Court Clerk Earle Turner has filed lawsuits against 34 drivers who haven't paid thousands of dollars worth of traffic camera and parking tickets. The largest arrears is $8,085, according to court documents.
CHARDON -- William Miralia, of Bainbridge, was sentenced by Geauga County Common Pleas Judge David Fuhry Friday to 6 months in jail and fined $2,000 for injuring a pedestrian May 5 while texting and driving.
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS -- Problems began as soon as Brynna Fish got the keys to her Cleveland Heights home -- clogged drains, mold. Then there was the roof.
CLEVELAND -- Public corruption, government misspending, consumer fraud, and major crime were the main subjects of investigations for The Investigator Tom Meyer in 2009.
BAINBRIDGE -- The township has settled a civil lawsuit that accused three paramedics of failing to use a defibrillator to shock the heart of a woman in cardiac arrest, leaving her with brain damage as a result.
CUYAHOGA COUNTY -- Two of the worst offenders of Ohio's three year old smoking ban continue to be fined for allowing smoking inside their businesses.
CUYAHOGA COUNTY -- Prosecutor Bill Mason has begun returning the roughly $72,000 in campaign contributions he received from employees since 2007, his office said today.
STARK COUNTY -- The family of a mentally ill man who hanged himself with a telephone cord in the Stark County Jail has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the sheriff, jail staff and the contractor that provides medical and psychological services.
