After a few days of relative inactivity at Anthony Sowell's Imperial Avenue house, police homicide detectives and cadaver dogs are back on the scene. Two cadaver dogs went into an abandoned school building on East 125th and Abell Street about a block and a half from Imperial Ave. at around 12:30pm Monday. Neighbors say that the school building has been abandoned for about twenty years.

So far, a total of eleven victims have been found in Sowell's home and backyard, but police had also searched the areas around his home for more potential victims and evidence.

The Cuyahoga County Coroner says that eight victims were strangled, and seven of them still had something around their neck. One victim was manually strangled, and the other two were killed by homicidal violence. The cause of death of the last victim is undetermined.

FBI profilers were also in town over the weekend, meeting with police about Sowell. Currently, they are putting together a timeline of all of the places he lived. The FBI has offered to assist the Cleveland Police in following up on any leads on unsolved crimes outside of the Cleveland area.

Nidal Malik Hasan, who savagely opened fire on his fellow servicemen in Fort Hood, Texas last week, killing 12 and injuring dozens others, may have a link to 9/11. Hasan attended a Virginia mosque at the same time as two of the 9/11 hijackers, and the FBI is now investigating whether there is a connection between the men.

Major Hasan, a psychiatrist for the Army, had held his mother's funeral at the Dar al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va. during May 2001. At the time, the mosque's imam was the ultraradical Anwar Aulaqi, who was believed to have ties to Osama bin Laden. After the events of September 11, 2001, Aulaqi admitted to the FBI that he had met with Nawaf al-Hazmi, one of the hijackers who crashed a jet into the Pentagon. Al-Hazmi and another hijacker, Hani Hanjour, had attended his mosque in early April 2001 - at the same time Hasan's family worshipped there.

The Falls Church mosque is one of the largest on the East Coast, with thousands attending prayers and services there. However, Imam Abdul-Malki, the mosque's outreach director, said that it is a mistake to tie regular attendance at a mosque to extremism.

After 11 bodies were found at the home of Anthony Sowell on Imperial Ave. in Cleveland, Sowell's face was plastered over the country's television news broadcasts and newspapers. It has thus far been determined that all of his victims were black women, and most were caught up in drugs and prostitution. Some were not even reported missing by their families because of the lifestyles they led. And as police in Cleveland uncovering the bodies, detectives from other cities began to wonder if Sowell might be responsible for some of their unsolved murders. Police in East Cleveland, OH; Coronado, California, and North Carolina are now investigating Sowell's possible links to crimes in those areas.

In East Cleveland, police are looking to see whether he could have been involved in the "Strawberry Murders" of the late 1980's. Sowell is suspected because he lived in East Cleveland at the time, and once he was incarcerated in 1990 on rape charges, the murders stopped.

A woman from Coronado, California, upon seeing Sowell's face on TV, called up the Coronado Police and identified him as the man who had brutally raped her in the late 1970's. A former member of the US Marines, Sowell was stationed in the area on and off during his 8-year-military career.

On Friday, the Labor Department revealed the latest jobs report and the picture was not pretty. Their broadest measure of unemployment and underemployment has reached its highest level in decades, and if their statistics went back so far, it would most certainly be at its highest level since the Great Depression.

One out of every six workers, or 17.5%, were unemployed or underemployed in October 2009. The previous record high was set in December 1982 at 17.1%. WIthout an end in site to our economic woes, the figures could go even higher in the coming months.

That 17.5% figure includes the officiall unemployed, which are those who have looked for work in the last four weeks. It also includes discouraged workers who have looked in the past year, and millions of part-time workers wanting to be full-time.

The official jobless rate is at 10.2% for October, and remains lower than the early 80's peak at 10.8%. But again, this latest figure continues the upward trend, and isup from 9.8% in September 2009. It is highest in those states which had big housing bubles, such as Arizona and California, and those with large manufacturing sectors, including Ohio, South Carolina, Rhode Island, and Oregon.

During their 11 o' clock broadcast, WKYC reported that suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell may be linked to a handful of murders that occurred in East Cleveland prior to his incarceration in 1990. The murders involved prostitutes who were also linked to drug use and the circumstances are eerily similar to the victims on Imperial Ave.

Sowell happened to live in East Cleveland at the time. All of the victims also died by strangulation, and the deaths stopped around the same time he began to serve his 15-year prison sentence.

Two detectives are now working on re-opening the cold case files. All of the detectives that worked on the case at the time are now retired, but will be contacted and consulted about the cases.

Tanja Doss, 43, went up to suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell's third-floor bedroom for a beer and said that he seemed like a "civilized person", until, she says, he leapt up and began choking her and threatening to killer. Doss says she survived the night with him through a combination of calm, prayer, trickery and cajoling.

Doss says that she met Sowell in 2005 after his prison release, but did not know the real reason for his sentence. She said that she found him to be "a civilized person, siting outside drinking beer, a nice person." So she didn't hesitate to join him for a drink. However, things quickly turned ugly.

"And then he just clicked. I'm sitting on the corner of the bed and he just leaped up and came over and started choking me," she said.

In a state of shock, Doss said that she laid back and tried not to struggle. She said:

"He said, 'If you want to live, knock three times on the floor.' And I knocked on the floor."

With his hands still around her throat, Doss says that he then told her using a string of profanities that she could be "dead in the street" and no one would care. He then made her strip and lay on the bed. But she says that he did not attempt to rape her.

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.

A mass shooting at Fort Hood on Thursday has thus far resulted in the deaths of twelve individuals and as many as 31 wounded. Officials confirmed that three shooters were involved. One has been killed and the other two have been apprehended.

A spokesman for the Army at the Pentagon said the shootings began around 1:30pm. The first of the two shootings took place at a personnel and medical processing center called a Soldier Rating and Processing Center, which handles administrative details for soldiers. The second shooting incident took place at a theater on the base, the Howze Theatre.

All three shooters were said to be US military soldiers. The suspects were in military uniform. The shooter-at-large had a high-powered sniper rifle. Officials have not yet confirmed whether those killed and injured were civilians or military personnel.

Following the attack, the base has been locked down. The Fort Hood website has posted an alert reading "Effective immediately Fort Hood is closed". The site also says, "This is not a Drill. It is an Emergency Situation." and indicates that units at the base have been ordered to account for all personnel. The FBI is also sending agents to the scene.

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.

The biggest story this day after the election isn’t approval of County government reform or approval of a monopoly casino for a billionaire.

No. The biggest story is about the numerous murdered bodies found in the middle a city neighborhood. In fact, not far from famous Shaker Square in the new 4th ward.

That it could happen with little notice says so much more about Cleveland, its priorities and what it cares about than any election issue. Residents count little in this world.

The question is how does this happen? Why did it happen? Why did it happen so easily? Why did it escape notice so easily? For so long?

Where were the police? Where were health officials? Social workers? Community development personnel? Community activists?

Let’s build a new convention center. Let’s build a new casino. Can we build any new stadiums? Theaters? Fancy restaurants?

Anyone can see reform and casinos don’t answer what really ails Cleveland. You can’t hide it behind glitz or change for the sake of change.

Poverty and its relatives are eating away at the very life of the city. Giving recognition to this is step one.

But we are being sold shoddy goods instead.

The Pee Dee won big yesterday. The newspaper – surely looking for relevance – piggybacked on a vile corruption scourge in County government to change its form. Not its nature.