Police said that the Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office identified the body of Tishana Culver, 31, on Thursday. Culver also lived on Imperial Ave., and was not reported as a missing person. Telacia Fortson, 31, was also identified earlier on Thursday. Fortson, who resided in East Cleveland, was the mother of three young children and had been missing since May 31.

Culver's family said that they had not spoken with her in more than a year, indicating that they thought she was staying with her boyfriend in Akron. Fortson's family initially filed a missing person's report with East Cleveland police over the summer, and contacted Cleveland's 4th district on Sunday.

Fortson's body was one of two found on the upper floor of Sowell's home. Fortson's 6-year-old son supplied a DNA sample Thursday morning, which was used to determine her identity.

Cleveland Congressman Dennis Kucinich earned the highest highest civilian award presented by the Republic of Hungary in a ceremony today. The The Prime Minister of Hungary gives the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit based on their achievements and outstanding efforts in support of the Hungarian Community.

A ceremony was held for Kucinich at the Hungarian Embassy in Washington, D.C. earlier today.

It's been a ceremonious couple of weeks for the liberal Democrat as he was awarded Thomas Merton Award for work in social justice late last month.

Anthony Sowell, who has been indicted on charges related to a string of murders in Cleveland, Ohio, may also be responsible for an attack on a woman in San Diego. After 11 bodies were found in the home and backyard of Sowell's Imperial Ave. home in Cleveland, the story and his photos have been plastered on the news across the world. A San Diego woman recognized his photo on TV, and promptly called the Coronado Police Department and said that she was raped in Coronado in 1979 by Sowell.

Sowell joined the Marine Corps. at the age of 18 in 1978. During the eight years he was in the Marines, Sowell was stationed in San Diego part of the time.

Coronado Police have confirmed that they are attempting to learn more about the unsolved crime dating back 31 years ago. However, they have run into some roadblocks. They have been unable to find any records related to the crime, and are now checking with other law enforcemnt agencies in the area to see if they might have handled the case.

On Monday, investigators continued to search the property and surrounding area for additional bodies. Authorities say that they are going to go "bit by bit, piece by piece" as they look for more evidence and bodies in the Sowell case.

Cleveland Browns fans may be angry with Randy Lerner and the Cleveland Browns football team but that didn’t stop them from contributing $10.9 million to help him this year.

In October, Cuyahoga County taxpayers slipped another $1.2 million to pay for the Browns Stadium.

The Browns are 1-7 this season. And a pretty putrid 1-7 from what I hear.

This year, sin tax contributors – all we purchasers of wine, alcohol and cigarettes in Cuyahoga County only – have paid $10,900,768.11 to help Lerner. It helps pay for the Browns Stadium. Lerner pays $250,000 a year to rent the place. The city pays more than $400,000 each year for taxes on the land. The stadium is tax exempt. Free for Lerner.

Thank you taxpayers. Don’t mention it Randy.

Did you catch the so-called interview Tony Grossi did with Lerner in today’s Pee Dee. Talk about consumer fraud.

The headline says: Lerner discusses GM’s firing; reaffirms support for Mangini.” Should have said, “Lerner WON’T discuss ANYTHING.”

According to a report issued Thursday by the Columbus Chamber, the Columbus Blue Jackets could leave central Ohio if the team can't turn around its economic prospects. Currently, the Blue Jackets are operating under an economic model that is causing losses of $12 million per year. A deal to keep the hockey team in Columbus and the area around the arena afloat will likely include asking for public dollars, and is likely to happen soon.

The team and the district around the arena generated $30 million in taxes last year. A loss of that magnitude would be devastating to the city.

Ty D. Marsh, chamber president and CEO says explains that there is a sense of urgency, and that they are "looking for a solution or progress by the end of the year." Already into November, that gives the team less than two months to come up with some kind of workable solution.

Marsh says that the goal would be a financial package that would help the team be rid of some significant costs. Included in that could be $4 million in operational losses and $5 million in arena rent per year.

Roger Stone, a Republican PR hit man, took quite a shot at Pee Dee editor Susan Goldberg, on the Issue 3 coverage: “PD Editor Pimps for Casino Gambling.”

She claims “to be an objective and principled journalist but her actions during Ohio’s recent campaign over casino gaming demonstrates that she is neither,” writes Stone in his blog “StoneZone.”

He was a hired gun against Issue 3.

He also calls Dan Gilbert a “nouveau rich loud mouth.” Pithy stuff.

You can read how Goldberg distorted a poll, giving Issue 3 some needed boosting. It worked.

The full posting can be found here.

As I’ve said before, the Pee Dee allowed editorializing to spread across its front news page on Issue 3 and, of course, on Issue 6.

The following lines on every high school playoff game in Ohio this weekend are for information and conversational purposes only. Any other use of this information is strictly prohibited.

Favorites on the left. The number in the middle. The over and under for selected games on the right. Enjoy the information. Next week Bernie will release his odds to win championships.

What kind of mother doesn’t shed even one tear as her 29-year-old only son is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole? A very strong — albeit tired — one named Jeannette Halton-Tiggs. Her son, Timothy Halton, Jr. received the sentence on Oct. 30 in the courtroom of Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Ronald Suster for gunning down Cleveland Heights Police Officer Jason West in cold blood on May 25, 2007.

“I felt that it would have been disrespectful to the memory of Officer West for me to be seen by his mother and the media crying in the courtroom for my son, when her son is dead,” said Halton-Tiggs, “and it could be that I’m just cried out … I simply don’t have any tears left.”

The media portrayed her son as a monster, but, in truth he was mentally ill — suffering from a severe form of paranoid schizophrenia. “If my Timmy is a monster, than I guess that makes me the monster’s mother,” said Jeannette, “but he isn’t a monster, at the time he was just very sick.”