It's courtroom drama crossed with "Sesame Street," as a television station barred from using cameras during a high-profile corruption trial covers the highlights with a nightly puppet show. It stars a talking squirrel "reporter" who provides the play-by-play in an exaggerated, "you won't believe this" tone.

Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert has bought the Cleveland Gladiators of the Arena Football League.

An Ohio man has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for strangling a woman whose body was dumped along Interstate 90 and later mistaken by Cleveland police for a deer carcass.

 In a defiant display of executive power, President Barack Obama on Wednesday will buck GOP opposition and name Richard Cordray as the nation's chief consumer watchdog. Outraged Republican leaders in Congress suggested that courts would determine the appointment was illegal.