
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 -- 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.