AltWeeklies Wire
Skirmishes in Ohio's War on Natural Healthnew
Ski-masked cops rushed into the office of a man who claims to do mechanotherapy and arrested him for allegedly practicing chiropractic without a license. Such aggressive tactics have pushed natural-health providers underground.
Cleveland Scene |
Chris Maag |
05-11-2005 |
Science
Eating Mr. Ednew
No one in America wants Black Beauty for dinner. The meat of the horses auctioned off in Sugarcreek, Ohio, is nearly all sold to countries like France, Belgium, Italy and Japan, where horse is a delicacy.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
05-11-2005 |
Animal Issues
Smucker's Denied Crustless-Sandwich Supremacynew
Regan Quaal remembers well the day he received a letter from the J.M. Smucker Company demanding that he stop peddling his peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches -- the ones with the crusts cut off. Smucker's, the letter read, already owned the U.S. patent for crustless sandwiches.
Cleveland Scene |
Rebecca Meiser |
04-26-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Expose Ends in Legal Tussle Over Lionnew
Al Guart, a New York Post reporter, set out to show how easy it was to buy exotic animals in Ohio. The story generated a custody battle over a lion.
Cleveland Scene |
Rebecca Meiser |
04-19-2005 |
Animal Issues
Lure of Haunted House Gets Teens in Troublenew
Teens who checked out a house thought to be haunted found a forgotten old man. After they ventured inside, they faced criminal charges.
Cleveland Scene |
James Renner |
04-19-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: camcorder, trespassing
21-Year-Old Takes On Microsoftnew
For the past four months, David Zamos has been fighting four Microsoft attorneys who claim he violated trademark and copyright laws by selling two unopened pieces of software on eBay for $203.50.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
04-08-2005 |
Science
Unorthodox Priest Ran Racket on the Sidenew
Prison looms for the Reverend Sava Latovljevic, who admitted to running a scam in which he and a partner illegally profited from instant-bingo tickets sold on behalf of his church.
Cleveland Scene |
Joe P. Tone |
04-02-2005 |
Religion
Security Company Takes Law Into Its Handsnew
Despite having no police powers, employees at Cuyahoga Valley Patrol have nonetheless been arresting people and conducting heavily armed raids, behaving like Marines in the Cambodian jungle.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
04-02-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Lawsuite Puts Shopping Mall Titan on a Hot Seatnew
Business magnate Dick Jacobs' nephew has filed a lawsuit accusing his uncle of taking or misspending as much as $448 million from family trusts, much of it to prop up failed real-estate investments in downtown Cleveland.
Cleveland Scene |
Chris Maag |
03-23-2005 |
Business & Labor
Discrimination Settlement Yields Little to Complainantnew
Darnay Cheeks was awarded $30,000 after Ford Motor Company agreed to settle regarding his complaint that it discriminated against blacks on a promotion test.
Cleveland Scene |
Kevin Hoffman |
03-22-2005 |
Race & Class
Football Player Responds to Rape Allegationsnew
The prosecutor declined to file criminal charges after a woman accused Cleveland Browns offensive lineman Ross Verba of rape. Now a second woman has made startingly similar allegations.
Cleveland Scene |
James Renner |
03-22-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Can a Gay Man in Akron Be Raped?new
Though slow in starting, the investigation yielded results. But even DNA evidence couldn't convince a jury that "Alan" was raped.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
02-11-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Corporate Leeches Eye Clevelandnew
Development deals have little to do with morality. They are matters of dollars and cents. And when you look strictly at the numbers, Wal-Mart will be a disastrous play for Cleveland.
Cleveland Scene |
Pete Kotz |
01-26-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: hottopic
Enduring a Modern-Day Witch Huntnew
It's difficult for someone who's always been a "he" to find acceptance as a "she." But it's an especially difficult change to make in Salem, a conservative factory town. Making the switch around firefighters is even tougher.
Cleveland Scene |
Chris Maag |
01-26-2005 |
Sex
Homemade Wine, Hillbillies and Fireworks Don't Mixnew
The fireworks exhibitors at the catastrophic Founder's Day Fair in Hubbard, Ohio, have been arraigned in federal court in Cleveland on several counts of felony conspiracy.
Cleveland Scene |
James Renner |
01-17-2005 |
Crime & Justice
