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CMHA police arrest suspect in shooting of 3-year-old girl

CMHA police arrest suspect in shooting of 3-year-old girl

CLEVELAND -- The Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority Police Department and the CMHA SWAT team have arrested Edward Pratt, 19, at a home on East 93rd Street for a March 7 shooting incident on Morris Black Avenue where a 3-year-old girl was shot.

Cleveland: Man who put daughter in clothes dryer sentenced to 8 years in prison

Cleveland: Man who put daughter in clothes dryer sentenced to 8 years in prison

CLEVELAND -- Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Joan Synenberg sentenced Steven McClairn to eight years in prison Thursday for putting his 7-year-old daughter in a clothes dryer and turning it on to punish her.

Yazeed Essa gets life in prison in wife's cyanide death

Yazeed Essa gets life in prison in wife's cyanide death

CLEVELAND -- Dr. Yazeed Essa, 41, found guilty of aggravated murder in his wife's death from cyanide poisoning, was sentenced to life in prison with possible parole after 20 years Tuesday afternoon. 

Focus: Family, friends of Rosemarie DiPuccio Essa speak out

Focus: Family, friends of Rosemarie DiPuccio Essa speak out

In tonight's In Focus, one after another, family and friends shared their memories of Rosemarie DiPuccio Essa with those in the courtroom at the sentencing hearing of Dr. Yazeed Essa.

Jury: Yazeed Essa guilty in wife's cyanide poisoning death

Jury: Yazeed Essa guilty in wife's cyanide poisoning death

CLEVELAND -- A jury has convicted Gates Mills doctor Yazeed Essa of aggravated murder in the 2005 poisoning death of his wife, Rosemarie DiPuccio Essa.  

Focus: Prosecution, defense in Dr. Yazeed Essa trial

Focus: Prosecution, defense in Dr. Yazeed Essa trial

CLEVELAND -- The jury came back with a guilty verdict in the trial of Gates Mills Dr. Yazeed Essa. Tonight's In Focus will have a look at both the prosecution and the defense in the trial.

Cleveland: Mother pleads not guilty in toddler scalding death

Cleveland: Mother pleads not guilty in toddler scalding death

CLEVELAND -- A Cleveland woman has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, who police say was scalded in hot water after she soiled bed sheets.

Cleveland: Jury completes third day of deliberations in Yazeed Essa trial

Cleveland: Jury completes third day of deliberations in Yazeed Essa trial

CLEVELAND -- The jury has completed a third day of deliberations in the aggravated murder trial of a Gates Mills doctor accused of killing his wife with cyanide. 

Akron: Police say DNA leads to charges in 1987 cold case murder

Akron: Police say DNA leads to charges in 1987 cold case murder

AKRON -- Police in Ohio say DNA evidence has helped them crack a rape and killing from 23 years ago.

Cleveland: Jury to return for second day of deliberations in cyanide murder trial

Cleveland: Jury to return for second day of deliberations in cyanide murder trial

CLEVELAND -- A jury will return Wednesday for a second day of  of deliberations in the murder case against Dr. Yazeed Essa.  The jury received the case mid-morning Tuesday.  

Prosecutor: Solon man sentenced to prison in child porn case

Prosecutor: Solon man sentenced to prison in child porn case

CLEVELAND -- Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason announced that Fred Siver, 42, of Solon, was sentenced Monday to 3 years and 9 months in prison for making child pornography available on the Internet.

Cleveland: Murder suspect claims police arrested wrong man

Cleveland: Murder suspect claims police arrested wrong man

CLEVELAND -- The defense team for murder suspect Joaquin Hicks told the jury Tuesday that police and prosecutors have the wrong suspect.

Ohio inmate who strangled Cuyahoga Falls woman wants death delay

Ohio inmate who strangled Cuyahoga Falls woman wants death delay

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Lawrence Reynolds, an inmate scheduled to die next month for strangling Loretta Foster, 67, wants his execution delayed while he challenges Ohio's injection procedures.

Euclid: Prison sentences for Euclid Mart robbery, shootings

Euclid: Prison sentences for Euclid Mart robbery, shootings

CLEVELAND -- Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason announced the sentencings for those convicted in the July 5 Euclid Mart robbery and shootings.

Cleveland: Bond set at $1M for mom in 2-year-old's death

Cleveland: Bond set at $1M for mom in 2-year-old's death

CLEVELAND -- A Cleveland woman arrested in the scalding death of her 2-year-old daughter has been ordered held on $1 million bond.

Cleveland: Former lover denies infatuation with Yazeed Essa

Cleveland: Former lover denies infatuation with Yazeed Essa

CLEVELAND -- The second woman in an Ohio love triangle says her affair with a doctor charged in his wife's cyanide death was casual, not an infatuation.

Cleveland: Former lover claims Yazeed Essa set her up

Cleveland: Former lover claims Yazeed Essa set her up

CLEVELAND -- A former lover of Dr. Yazeed Essa today testified that Essa set her up to take the fall for the murder of his wife, Rosemarie.  

 

Cleveland: Solon, North Olmsted men plead guilty in Internet child porn cases

Cleveland: Solon, North Olmsted men plead guilty in Internet child porn cases

CLEVELAND -- Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason said that Fred Siver, 42, of Solon, and James Toreky, 54, of North Olmsted, in separate cases pleaded guilty this week to felony charges for making child pornography available on the internet.

Cleveland: Agent testifies to search of Yazeed Essa's computer

Cleveland: Agent testifies to search of Yazeed Essa's computer

CLEVELAND -- U.S. Secret Service agent Jason Berryhill testified in court Thursday morning to what was found on Gates Mills Dr. Yazeed Essa's home computer hard drive.

Cleveland: Witness says brother-in-law Yazeed Essa acted odd

Cleveland: Witness says brother-in-law Yazeed Essa acted odd

CLEVELAND -- On the witness stand Tuesday, Deanna DiPuccio says her brother-in-law Dr. Yazeed Essa acted strange and displayed a bottle of calcium capsules after his wife, Rosemarie, was poisoned with cyanide and died in a car crash.

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