Bedford Heights, Ohio

• Eight Democrats seek District 9 seat on Cuyahoga County Council
  

  Voters in District 9 of the newly-created Cuyahoga County Council will head to the polls Sept.

• James Mahan will be sentenced for 95 counts of child pornography
  

  Between December 2004 and July 2008, members of the Ohio ICAC Task Torce learned that Mahan, 58, of Bedford Heights, the Aquatics Manager for the City of Macedonia in the Recreation Department, possessed child pornography videos and made them available for sharing and downloading over the Internet on his home computer.

• Deputies look for 3 men accused of violence: Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Most Wanted
  

  Cuyahoga County Sheriff's deputies are looking for three more fugitives this week.

• Pizza shop worker assaulted during robbery: Orange Village Police Blotter
  

  AGGRAVATED ROBBERY, BRAINARD ROAD: Police responded Aug. 9 to a report of a "robbery in progress" at the Pizza Connection, where a female employee was struck in the back of the head with a ball peen hammer by a man who made off with about $120 in cash.

• Cuyahoga County: County Council District 9 candidates
  

  Eight Democrats but no Republicans are running for the District 9 Cuyahoga County Council seat.

• James Mahan will be sentenced for 95 counts of child pornography
  

  Between December 2004 and July 2008, members of the Ohio ICAC task force learned that James Mahan, 58, of Bedford Heights, the Aquatics Manager for the City of Macedonia in the Recreation Department, possessed child pornography videos and made them available for sharing and downloading over the Internet.

• Two-mile stretch of Interstate 271 closes when a gas-filled tanker truck collides with a fire truck
  

  A collision between a tanker truck and a fire truck spilled gasoline across northbound lanes of Interstate 271 in Oakwood Monday afternoon and forced emergency crews to close two miles of the normally busy highway.

• Both sides of I-271 closed after car-tanker crash
  

  Interstate 271 is closed in both directions for 10 miles after an early afternoon collision of a tanker truck and a car, causing a leak of an unknown substance.

• Twins celebrate twice as hard
  

  TWINSBURG: Pity the poor soul who unwittingly wandered into Twinsburg this weekend for the Twins Days Festival and didn't know the history.

• Father and son quarrel over cell phone: Orange Police Blotter
  

  DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/DISORDERLY CONDUCT, JACKSON ROAD: Police responded July 26 to a report of an incident in progress at a home and were met by a woman who told them she believed her son was dead inside the house.

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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