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FBI: Anarchists Tried to Trigger Fake Bombs

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:12:13 CDT

The five men charged with plotting to blow up an Ohio bridge actually did attempt to detonate what they believed were real explosives, the FBI alleges. The men, unknowingly working with an FBI informant, repeatedly tried to use a text-message detonation code to blow up the fake bombs, which they...

Feds: 5 Anarchists Plotted to Bomb Ohio Bridge

Kevin Spak — Tue, 01 May 2012 10:51:36 CDT

The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested five men yesterday for their role in an alleged plot to blow up a bridge near Cleveland, officials revealed today. This isn't a case of international terrorism; at least three of the men are home-grown, self-proclaimed "anarchists," officials said, according to Fox News...

Axl Rose to Cleveland: Sorry, You Rock

Rob Quinn — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:24:19 CDT

Axl Rose wants the people of Cleveland to know his decision to shun Guns N' Roses' Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction over the weekend was nothing personal. "I would like to apologize to Cleveland, Ohio, for not apologizing to them beforehand for not attending [the ceremony] in their...

Forget Dennis Kucinich

Kevin Spak — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:38:05 CST

Dennis Kucinich's 16-year stint in Congress is about to end , and Alex Koppelman, for one, does not care. "Liberals lost one of their favorite elected officials, and the press lost one of its favorite sources of comic relief," he writes for the New Yorker . "But Congress did not lose a...

Ohio Election Worker Bites Voter's Nose

Rob Quinn — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:49:00 CST

Cops in Cleveland are looking for a rogue poll monitor who attacked a voter who attempted to intervene in a dispute with a campaign worker. The poll supervisor "was trying to intimidate a woman who was less than 5 feet tall and he's probably 6 feet," said voter Dennis Flanagan,...

Amish Seek Help Over Hair, Beard Attacks

Neal Colgrass — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:35:53 CDT

America's Amish have rarely gone to police for help—only over extreme cases like murder, rape, or a multi-million-dollar investment deal gone wrong. Now Amish leaders in Ohio are bending their rules and cooperating police to stop a spate of hair-cutting attacks, the AP reports. Five men from a breakaway...

Ohio Serial Killer Convicted of Murdering 11 Women

Tim Karan — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:59:46 CDT

An ex-Marine and newly convicted serial killer who had the bodies of 11 women in his Cleveland home will face the death penalty. Anthony Sowell , 51, was convicted of aggravated murder after a three-day jury deliberation, reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer . Now the trial moves into the mitigation phase during...

Jimmy Carter Hospitalized

John Johnson — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:52:40 CDT

Looks like nothing more serious than a case of air sickness for Jimmy Carter: The former president, just days shy of his 86th birthday, was taken to a hospital in Cleveland today immediately after his plane touched down, reports WOIO . Carter "developed an upset stomach" during the flight and was...

Ten Dead American Cities

Nick McMaster — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:19:29 CDT

It's another cities-in-trouble list, although this one from 24/7 Wall St declares these "desolate urbanscapes" not just dying but dead. (For the usual reasons of population loss, manufacturing exodus, crime, etc.) Here's the top 5: Buffalo: "Wounded irreparably by the de-industrialization of America." Flint: It's simple: "In 1960, GM...