Civil rights issue court trial over police confrontation
Jurors hear defense urge verdict of innocence claiming justice should be color blind as eight whites and four blacks deliberate after days of testimony in a case tied to a February clash between funeral mourners and two white officers. Prosecutors say the defense aims to obscure truth. judges previously acquitted on two charges for lack of evidence.
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Baby
Ohtomander
Solomon Seay
Warie Taylor
Warren
Montgomery County
Jimmy Evans
Randall Thomas
Thomas
Taylor
Ohio
Michigan
Troy Massey
Woman missing in Cleveland possibly eaten by dogs
Police and coroner investigate bones found at Annie Elko's Cleveland residence after neighbors report she had not been seen for about two weeks. Twenty two dogs in the house, some emaciated and diseased, were taken to an animal shelter. Detectives and authorities confirm a human skull was found and bone fragments are under review.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
Annie Elko
Elko
Pat Hennings
Lester Adelson
Lorain County theft probe tied to murder case at Elyria Auto Service
Lorain County Prosecutor Gregory A. White investigates theft of parts from murder victim Lewis Kale's 1980 Cadillac stored at Elyria Auto Service. Police say Charles A. Faight was arrested on petty theft charges. he and two employees allegedly removed a battery and heater blower motor. The case links to a broader controversy over a city tow contract with Elyria Auto Service, owned by Daniel Billman, and Faight is Billman’s son-in-law. Four men charged in Kale's murder and related cases await trial.
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Lorain County
Gregory A. White
Lewis Kale
Elyria
Lake Ave
Charles A. Faight
Oakwood Drive
Kale
White
Faight
Elyria Auto Service
Daniel Billman
Kalo
Dora Kinney
John Kitchen
Karen Balmer
Appeal panel upholds murder case dismissal
An Ohio appeals court unanimously upheld the dismissal of murder charges against Shefield Lake Keenewite Kat Katherine Drummond Luck for the 1987 beating stabbing and shooting of Soyaliie Hellen M. Tietjen in a Gold Coast high rise. The panel found a 15 year delay between the crime and charges shocking and unjustified. Mrs Luck, known as Kitty Drummond, had been a suspect since the case reopened decades later.
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Cleveland
Sheffield Lake Keenewite
Kat Katherine Drummond Luck
Lakewood
Soyaliie
Hellen M. Tietjen
Howell St
Cuyahoga Common Pleas
James F. Kilcoyne
Mrs. Luck
Sth
Ohio Court of Appeals
Kilcoyne
Luck
Kitty Drummond
Tietjen
Gold Coast
Cleveland approves grant for steel mill in flats
Cleveland City Council approved a $7.5 million federal Urban Development Action Grant for Bar Mill Development Group of Muskogee to build a steel mill on the industrial flats. The plan promises 389 jobs but faces union concerns over local job losses amid recession and imports. Three councilmen urged the company to bear the financial risk without subsidy.
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Cleveland
Company
Meteal
Bar Mill Development Group
Muskogee
Oklo
Frank J. Valenta
District 28
United Steelworkers of America
Valenta
Dennis J. Kucinich
Bar Mill
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