Scott Shaw/The Plain DealerThe city will give the Cleveland Browns $5.8 million for repairs to the city-owned football stadium, shown at its opening in 1999. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The city has agreed to give the Cleveland Browns a $5.8 million...

Consultants hired for $2.85 million by the state would look at a range of options for the Ohio Turnpike, including putting it under ODOT's authority.

After 17 days and 110 hours of testimony, jurors in the racketeering trial of Jimmy Dimora now have heard something about all the criminal schemes that prosecutors are trying to prove.

On Monday, pet owners from Northeast Ohio joined U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown in calling for faster Food and Drug Administration action to investigate the pet treats at issue, and withdraw them from the market.

Just 19 percent of the staffers who worked for Sutton during the third quarter of 2009 remained with her through the third quarter of 2011, said the Sunlight Foundation study. The average retention rate for U.S. House of Representatives offices was 64.2 percent.

Rosaura Oquendo, who would have celebrated her 17th birthday on Thursday, fell to the pavement near her West 81st Street home. Cleveland police said it is unclear whether a piece of her clothing got caught in the car or she was intentionally dragged down the street.

Plain Dealer reporter Rachel Dissell updates you on what happened during the afternoon session of the county corruption trial of former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora in Akron.

Two more contractors joined a parade of workers federal prosecutors have sent to the witness stand in the Jimmy Dimora federal racketeering trial -- all saying they did work for free at the former commissioner's house.

Two subcontractors who worked on the home of Jimmy Dimora on behalf of a contractor who has said he bribed the former Cuyahoga County commissioner testified this afternoon in his federal racketeering trial.

A lawyer who represented contractor Steven Pumper when he was sued by a subcontractor in a dispute over work on Cleveland Browns stadium took the witness stand today in the federal racketeering trial of Jimmy Dimora.

The former bailiff for Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Bridget McCafferty testified this morning in the Jimmy Dimora federal racketeering trial that the former county commissioner called the judge's office in regard to a lawsuit involving a contractor associate.

A prosecution witness in the Jimmy Dimora federal racketeering trial this morning began to recount what prosecutors say was a scheme by the former Cuyahoga County commissioner and a county Common Pleas judge to give preference to a contractor associated with Dimora.

Former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora and co-defendant Michael Gabor arrive at federal court in Akron with their legal teams for the start of the fifth week of testimony in their county corruption trial.

Cleveland researchers used the game of bingo to show how fine-tuning visual acuity of playing cards improved performance of people with mind-degenerative diseases. Sight issues could be making the memory loss in some people appear more advanced than it really is, they concluded.

Erik Ingram, 19, is wanted on retaliation and intimidation charges. He is accused of firing multiple shots Nov. 1 outside a barbershop on Fleet Avenue.

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What's happening around the state today.

After second-place finishes in Florida and Nevada, the Republican presidential hopeful is looking to Ohio and other Super Tuesday states to breathe new life into his campaign.

Headlines from news websites around Northeast Ohio this morning.

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