Two-for-one on stolen cars: Orange Police Blotter

Red light violation, impaired driving, obstructing official business, resisting an officer, driving under suspension (12-point): Brainard Road, Harvard Avenue. A patrol officer waiting at the traffic light Jan. 25 just after midnight watched an eastbound 2018 Buick roll into the intersection on a yellow signal, stop briefly and then turn left onto Brainard on the red.

Police were called to a trailer park at 6:02 p.m. for two evicted former residents seen on the property. The couple was told they had 10 days to remove their belongings from the trailer or they faced trespassing charges. Drugs, Marks Road. A Valley City woman was cited for expired...

A woman turned in a blue bag containing a stethoscope and a blood pressure monitor to the police Jan. 10 after reportedly finding it in the middle of West 130th Street. The bag contained no identification of its owner. Traffic crash, Ridge Road. A driver southbound in the 600 block...

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CLEVELAND, Ohio— Three men admitted Friday to carrying out two carjackings-- including one of a rabbi-- and an attempted carjacking in Northeast Ohio in a two-hour span. Donteze Congress and Thomas D. Williams, both 18 of Maple Heights, and Kenneth Franklin, 19, of Akron, all pleaded guilty during a virtual hearings in front of U.S. District Judge James Gwin to multiple counts of carjacking, aiding and abetting a violence crime and possessing a gun during a violent crime.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Strangulation is finally a crime in Ohio. The legislation was part of the criminal justice bill Governor Mike DeWine signed on January 3. Under Revised Code 2903.18 strangulation is a felony offense; offenders may be charged depending on the severity of injuries and the relationship to the victim.

Results from 6-year-old Anastasia Weaver’s autopsy may take weeks. But online anti-vaccine activists needed only hours after her funeral this week to baselessly blame the COVID-19 vaccine. A prolific Twitter account posted Anastasia’s name and smiling dance portrait in a tweet with a syringe emoji. A Facebook user messaged...

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ORANGE, Ohio — Workers at the REI Co-op in Orange went on strike Friday morning, leaving their shift in the middle of a hearing between the retail workers union and the company. Workers announced on Jan. 11 that they had filed for a union election, and are looking to...

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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Northeast Ohio has so many exceptional high school students, and Advance Ohio, which includes cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer, wants to celebrate them with the 2023 High School Standouts Awards. The program is accepting nominations through Sunday, Feb. 26 and will recognize Northeast Ohio high school...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A feared “triple-demic” with high levels of coronavirus, RSV and influenza hasn’t yet happened this winter, but Ohio Department of Health Director Bruce T. Vanderhoff warned Friday that influenza and COVID-19 still infect many Ohioans and are “driving hospitalizations and deaths, particularly among our most vulnerable.”

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio General Assembly is set to begin debate this week on the state’s two-year operating budget, which includes funding to educate Ohio’s 1.6 million students. Gov. Mike DeWine proposed in last week’s State of the State address that the legislature direct money to...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Powerball jackpot is climbing up the record book, reaching an estimated $747 million for the drawing on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. That would make it the fifth-largest Powerball jackpot ever and the ninth-largest lottery jackpot overall. The Powerball jackpot rolled after no ticket matched the...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The field for this season’s OHSWCA state wrestling duals is set after district duals for all three divisions took place statewide Saturday. With Aurora and Ashland, two of last year’s final four teams, now in Division I, some new and old faces stepped up in Division II. St. Vincent-St. Mary advanced into the state dual, while Louisville, a final four team in each of the past two seasons, joined them from the Perry District.

WASHINGTON — Appearing before a federal judge after pleading guilty to a felony charge in the deadly Capitol riot, former West Virginia lawmaker Derrick Evans expressed remorse for letting down his family and his community, saying he made a “crucial mistake.”. Less than a year later, Evans is...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A gray winter day is in the forecast for Northeast Ohio, but although it will be mostly cloudy, no rain or snow is expected. It will be a bit colder than Sunday, with highs in the upper 30s. The wind will be calmer, staying in the range of 5 to 9 mph. Temps will drop to around 30 degrees overnight and it will remain cloudy.

CLEVELAND -- Recently, The Plain Dealer had a front-page article headlined, “GOP fracture spills into the chamber.” The article detailed a fight over Ohio House rules, while giving another indication of how our ever-more-right-leaning Republican Ohio House of Representatives is slipping deeper into the pit of incongruous hypocrisy.

The Plain Dealer’s in depth reporting and analysis of the Householder scandal and trial demonstrate the need for local investigative reporters and the vacuum that would be created without such detailed probing. One thing that doesn’t appear to be part of the trial is the role of Gov. Mike...