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Mayor Frank Jackson won a second four-year term by a landslide margin Tuesday, capitalizing on his campaign boast of maintaining city services and avoiding tax increases amid a recession that hurt the city's manufacturing-dependent economy.
Vice President Joe Biden told an Ohio audience that the federal economic stimulus package is helping to revive the U.S. economy and has helped stabilized the financial markets.
The banking company KeyCorp said Wednesday its loss widened in the third quarter as it set aside more money for possible loan losses as borrowers are having a tough time repaying debts amid the recession.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said Tuesday that a new national contract with the United Steelworkers union will save the company $215 million over the four-year life of the agreement.
National contract talks between the United Steelworkers union and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. have reached an intense stage focused on protecting jobs, keeping plants open and addressing health care costs, the union said Friday.
Eaton Corp., which makes parts, hydraulics and electrical equipment used in a range of industries, reported a 92 percent drop Monday in second-quarter earnings as the global recession drove down its sales especially in its key automotive markets.
A northeast Ohio teen who shot and killed his mother and wounded his minister father was sentenced Tuesday to 23 years to life in prison for crimes rooted in his obsession with video games with violent themes. Daniel Petric, 17, who could have gotten life without parole, shook his head slightly, sniffled and held back tears but sat down without saying a word when given the chance by Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge.
Lawyers for an autistic teenager charged with the fatal beating of his mother entered a not guilty plea on his behalf Friday.
A heavy-metal band has turned to an online audience to fight the parole of the man who killed one of its guitarists in 1988, the latest use of Internet petitions to attempt to influence parole boards.
Terence Haynes kept alive a decades-old dream by shedding 200 pounds and earning a spot to wrestle against collegians half his age.
The crime spree lasted two months, and the robber's face appeared on surveillance images that sparked chatter in the blogosphere.
Arctic air extended its grip Wednesday with below-zero temperatures stretching from Montana to northern New England and frost nipping the Gulf Coast. A few ski areas in Vermont and northern Minnesota closed for the day because of the cold — 38 below zero at International Falls, with the wind chill during the night estimated at 50 below.
The auto industry's enviable tradition of holiday breaks has lost its luster with extended shutdowns that leave workers and car dealers wondering what's ahead in 2009.
A longtime reviewer sued his newspaper and the Cleveland Orchestra Thursday, charging that he was removed from his beat because of critical coverage of the conductor.
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The reassignment of a newspaper reviewer critical of Cleveland Orchestra conductor Franz Welser-Moest left a dissonant trail of questions about censorship and the risk of panning a hometown arts icon.
A man indicted this month on charges of setting a fire that killed a woman and eight children at a birthday sleepover said he would never do anything to harm a child, and that he felt the same pain as relatives of the victims.
By the time deputies came to escort Addie Polk out of her home of 38 years, the 90-year-old had taken out her life insurance policy and placed it next to her pocketbook and keys in the neatly kept house.
A double murderer scheduled to be executed next month in Ohio said Tuesday he has not deliberately gained weight to rule out his death by lethal injection.
Kent State University is offering financial bonuses to professors if they help student retention numbers and attract more research dollars, an incentive usually given to school presidents and top administrators.
Some people dub it "stools for schools," yet a plan to lease the city's sewage system gets high marks from others.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters lobbied Democratic leaders Sunday to include the failed presidential candidate's ideas on health care, even as officials fine-tuned the party platform for nominee-in-waiting Barack Obama.
Brad Kaster donated a kidney to his father this week, and he barely has a scar to show for it.
Two men arrested in the curbside killing of a Marine who was robbed of $8 while on leave from Iraq were indicted Thursday on aggravated murder charges and could face the death penalty if convicted.
On leave from the violence he had survived in the war in Iraq, a young Marine was so wary of crime on the streets of his own home town that he carried only $8 to avoid becoming a robbery target.
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