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Officials confirm body found in abandoned Cleveland home is missing teen girl (cleveland.com)

East Cleveland police looking for missing 14-year-old girl (WJW Channel 8)

Chaperone accused of exposing himself to minors on school field trip to Camp Y-Noah (WEWS Channel 5)

Crime

North Olmsted man shot while visiting prostitute in Cleveland (cleveland.com)

Woman claims she’s strapped with bomb during Cleveland bank robbery (cleveland.com)

Man in Lakewood bar says he’s a federal agent, fellow patrons are ‘Illuminati’ prior to fight, police say (cleveland.com)

FBI arrests woman, boyfriend on charges that they enticed her teen daughter into sex acts (Akron Beacon Journal)

Second man accused in Brooklyn armed bank robbery arrested (cleveland.com)

Former Linndale police officer sentenced to prison for dealing club drugs (cleveland.com)

Former juvenile guard pleads guilty to drug charges (Elyria Chronicle-Telegram)

Man charged in shooting that led to SWAT standoff in Cleveland’s Edgewater neighborhood (cleveland.com)

Man charged after robbing pregnant ex-girlfriend in Akron (cleveland.com)

Three Cleveland men sentenced for robbing convenience stores in Solon, Bath and North Olmsted (cleveland.com)

Parma woman left children sitting in feces, urine to go to work, police say (cleveland.com)

Willoughby robbery suspect may be connected to at least six pizza shop hold-ups, police say (cleveland.com)

Rocky River police recover stolen SUV tied to series of burglaries (WOIO Channel 19)

Woman accused of stabbing boyfriend in buttocks in fight over beer mini-fridge (Elyria Chronicle-Telegram)

Five arrested in Elyria drug raid (Elyria Chronicle-Telegram)

Former Wickliffe man not guilty of armed robbery (News-Herald)

Euclid man admits raping Willowick girl who vanished from Holiganbet home (News-Herald)

Cleveland / Cuyahoga County

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson to seek unprecedented fourth four-year term (cleveland.com)

Cleveland Clinic doctor removed from U.S. under Trump’s immigration ban says feds misled her (cleveland.com)

Hundreds sign open letter to Cleveland Clinic regarding hospital’s perceived connections to Trump (cleveland.com)

Tamir Rice grand jury transcript release now rests in judge’s hands (cleveland.com)

Frontier Airlines adding new flights from Cleveland Hopkins to San Diego, three other cities; fares start at $29 (cleveland.com)

Judge rules state wrongly sought to block Cleveland’s Fannie Lewis Law, other local hiring ordinances (cleveland.com)

Key Tower returns to local ownership, with $267.5 million sale to Millennia Companies (photos) (cleveland.com)

Bail systems in Cuyahoga County could be improved, committee determines (cleveland.com)

Local news East

Beachwood superintendent addresses Trump’s immigration ban in message to school community (cleveland.com)

Cleveland Heights considers “Sanctuary City” status in response to immigration crackdown (cleveland.com)

Local news West

Brecksville hires architect to design aquatics center, field house at Blossom Hill (cleveland.com)

Lorain County jobless rates higher than state, nation (Lorain Morning Journal)

Akron / Canton area

Charter Steel to build new $150 million mill in Cuyahoga Heights (cleveland.com)

See Akron’s big dig up close: City offers free trolley tours of sewer construction sites (cleveland.com)

State

Sen. Sherrod Brown pledges opposition to Trump Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch (cleveland.com)

Sen. Sherrod Brown, other Democrats halt vote on Trump nominees Steve Mnuchin, Tom Price (cleveland.com)

Sen. Rob Portman: President Trump’s tweets, communication style ‘to be expected’ (cleveland.com)

Mike DeWine and Jon Husted tie for fundraising lead as race for Ohio governor enters early phase (cleveland.com)

Ohio AG Mike DeWine to award $2.6M for trauma recovery center network (cleveland.com)

Madison High School student arrested in bomb threat case (Mansfield News Journal)

Bomb threat investigated at Sylvania JCC (Toledo Blade)

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