Bedford Heights, Ohio

• Man has to deal with opossum and falling ice: Russell and Bainbridge Police Blotters
  

  RESCUE, RIVERSIDE DRIVE: While responding to a man's complaint about an opossum bothering his dogs, police had to call EMS March 4. The officer tried to help the 75-year-old man remove a large icicle.

• Businesses make efforts to put ties to county corruption probe behind them
  

  You might not recognize some of the businesses that have been connected to the public-corruption investigation in Cuyahoga County.

• Iraq War Veteran Accused of Strangling Fiancee
  

  A 21-year old Iraq War veteran is accused of strangling his fiancee in spite of a protection order, Fox 8 News reports.

• Bedford Heights woman, 21, found dead in her apartment; boyfriend arrested
  

  A 21-year-old woman was killed this morning in her apartment on Bearcreek Drive.

• Woman Strangled in Bedford Heights; Boyfriend in Custody
  

  A spokesperson for the Bedford Heights Police Department tells Fox 8 News that a woman found dead in her apartment Monday morning had been strangled.

• 21-Year-Old Murdered in apparent Domestic Dispute
  

  Police are investigating the murder of a 21-year-old woman Monday morning. Bedford Heights Police were called to the scene around 3 a.m. at 5977 Bear Creek Drive.

• Cuyahoga County: Bedford Hts. businessman to plead guilty in corruption case
  

  A Solon man with a Bedford Heights business will plead guilty to doing construction work at the home of a Cuyahoga County public official, in exchange for helping a relative obtain a county job and two teaching jobs.

• Book it! ODOT to add guardrails at I-480 trouble spot: Road Rant
  

  Guardrails? Oh, they're not required to help keep Interstate 480 eastbound traffic from tumbling down an embankment and onto Interstate 271 south, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation.

• Samantha Wadsworth will be arraigned for identity fraud, theft, and forgery
  

  Samantha Wadsworth, 23, of Mantua, was indicted on charges of identity fraud, theft, misuse of credit cards, and forgery.

• What Works: Family's generations of leadership
  

  Last year, Jason Lucas moved his successful funeral home -- Lucas Memorial Chapel -- from Bedford Heights to new quarters in Garfield Heights.

• Nothing says love like a White Castle slider
  

  Reservations only. Candlelight. Flowers on the table. A photographer approaches and offers to capture the moment.

• 3 acquitted in Ohio teen's restraint death
  

  A jury on Tuesday acquitted three former employees of an Ohio treatment center for troubled teens of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 17-year-old girl who suffocated and choked on her own vomit after being restrained facedown on the floor.

• Brown pushing extension of clean energy tax credits
  

  A tax credit passed through the Recovery Act has already provided $125 million to help Ohio manufacturing companies produce components for clean energy.

• Cold Case: 14 Year Old Girl's Murder Unsolved
  

  A suburban mother is making a last appeal to solve the murder of her daughter 25 years ago.

• JoAnn Heifner
  

  SHILOH: JoAnn Heifner, age 64, resident of Shiloh went home to be with the Lord Friday, February 5, 2010 in The Ohio State University Medical Center following a brief illness.

• Railing for an I-480 improvement: Road Rant
  

  An old complaint received new attention last month. Why? Well, a big rig rolling off one highway and dropping onto another tends to draw a wee bit of notice.

• Suspects in alleged shoplifting ring are busted: Solon Police Blotter
  

  RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY, KRUSE DRIVE: A tip from a Pier One employee Jan. 20 led to the arrest of three suspects in a shoplifting ring, when police responded and found their car loaded with clothing, part of which was believed to have been stolen from Aurora Farms shopping outlets, as well as cutters for retail clothes hangers and a shopping bag ...

• Bedford Heights man is facing drug charges
  

  Jan. 22 was not a good day for Joseph Z. Terlizzi. The Bedford Heights man pleaded guilty that morning in Portage County Municipal Court-Ravenna on a Streetsboro traffic ticket and was ordered to pay $247 in fines and court costs.

• Bedford Heights: Civil service exam scheduled for available jobs
  

  A civil service examination for jobs in the departments of Service, Water Reclamation and Community Life is scheduled for 9 a.m. Feb.

City Description

Bedford Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. The population was 11,375 at the 2000 census. Bedford Heights is located at 41°24′17″N 81°30′23″W / 41.404821°N 81.506409°W / 41.404821; -81.506409. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.5 square miles (11.8 km), all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 11,375 people, 5,119 households, and 3,004 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,507.4 people per square mile (967.4/km). There were 5,577 housing units at an average density of 1,229.4/sq mi (474.3/km). The racial makeup of the city was 27.89% White, 67.42% African American, 0.20% Native American, 1.90% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.54% from other races, and 2.04% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.60% of the population. The second largest ancestry reported by residents of Bedford Heights, after African-American, is Italian. There were 5,119 households out of which 24.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.5% were married couples living together, 18.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.3% were non-families. 36.0% of all

City Contained By:

• Cuyahoga County
• Ohio

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 11.6549464965 km squared

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