AKRON — The Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office and the Akron police are investigating the death of 11-week-old Avionna Helms, of Delia Avenue, in Akron.
On April 28, the infant was admitted to Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Akron with multiple injuries. She died from her injuries on May 4.
The child’s death is under investigation. The autopsy was completed late Thursday and the cause of death has been determined as ”blunt force trauma to the head” and her death was ruled a ”homicide.”
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CLEVELAND – Authorities today charged nearly three dozen people in connection with an auto theft ring operating on the West Side that prosecutors say stole more than 100 cars and then dismantled them for parts.
Members of a task force that included Cleveland Police, the FBI, the Ohio State Highway Patrol and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office began making arrests early Tuesday morning, following an 18-month investigation.
At least 26 people were arrested on charges, including conspiracy, corruption, fraud and theft.
Two of the accused, Victor Padilla and Juan Hernandez, also face involuntary manslaughter charges in the death of Calvin McMahan, 76, said a spokesman for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason. <
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CANTON – Diamond Singleton, 16, was shot and killed at a home on Shorb Avenue N.W. just before midnight Wednesday.
Police responded to that address and found the teen with a gunshot wound to her chest.
Detectives say four shots entered the home. There are not suspects.
Diamond was taken to Aultman Hospital by Canton paramedics.
She died shortly before 1 a.m.
Police are asking anyone with information regarding the shooting to call the Canton Police at 330-489-2144.
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CLEVELAND — Four suspects charged with kidnapping a Cleveland man are being held on $1 million bond after pleading not guilty in Cleveland Municipal Court today (Friday).
In court were Umar Clark, 19, Jay Hillsman, 24, Ron Brunson, 34, and Duane Gibson, 39, all of Cleveland.
In addition, Clark faces aggravated murder charges as well because he was in the car with another suspect, Leon James, when police shot and killed James.
This all unfolded about 11:30 a.m. Monday, when a Cleveland man, 58, was allegedly kidnapped from his house. His brother called police after a ransom demand was made.
Police ended up on Herrick Road and found the victim in the front seat of his truck, restrained by duct tape.
One of the alleged kidnappers was in the driver’s seat as police pulled up behind the truck. That’s w
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COPLEY — Summit County Sheriff Drew Alexander said a Canadian man was arrested following a three-month undercover investigation involving the international trafficking of MDMA from Canada into the United States.
Early Saturday morning, officers from the Summit County Drug Unit and the Cleveland resident Office of the DEA arrested Junior Dobson 41, of Toronto, as he met with an undercover officer to receive payment for a prior drug shipment of 2,000 MDMA tablets, better known as the street drug “Ecstasy,” in the Copley area of Summit county.
During the investigation, Dobson, a Jamaican-born Canadian citizen met with undercover investigators from the Summit County Drug Unit and provided detailed information on how to go about receiving shipments of the drugs and disguising payments so as not to raise suspicion or be detected.
Dobson indicated that his trafficking scheme also reached into the New York City area. I
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Jodie and Mary are conjoined twins. They each have their own brain, heart and lungs and other vital organs and they each have arms and legs. They are joined at the lower abdomen. Whilst not underplaying the surgical complexities, they can be successfully separated. But the operation will kill the weaker twin, Mary. That is because her lungs and heart are too deficient to oxygenate and pump blood through her body. She is alive only because a common artery enables her sister, who is stronger, to circulate life sustaining oxygenated blood for both of them. Separation would require the clamping and then the severing of that common artery. Within minutes of doing so Mary will die.
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WASHINGTON
The Obama administration on Tuesday launched a national campaign for U.S. military families that calls on companies, individuals, civic and religious groups and schools to find ways help veterans, reservists and their families navigate work, school, psychological stress and day-to-day life.
Think of the new Joining Forces initiative as the military version of first lady Michelle Obama’s campaign against child obesity. It’s a largely nonlegislative effort that puts the imprimatur of the White House and Cabinet agencies behind a nonpartisan cause and rewards organizations that step up by publicizing and praising their efforts.
The initiative is meant to outlast the war in Afghanistan and Barack Obama’s presidency, and to create a permanent support network for a volunteer force that these days is only about 1 percent of the U.S. popul
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