Funeral services for Kermit R. Thompson, 56, a lifetime resident of Lake County, will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Spear-Mulqueeny Funeral Home, 667 Mentor Ave., Painesville.

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson briefed city managers yesterday with a cost-savings plan to keep Cleveland in the fiscal black.

One October evening 12 years ago, two homeless men walking down East 30th Street in Cleveland discovered the nude body of Alfreida Day.