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Authorities say a loaded handgun and knife were found in a carry-on laptop case at a Cleveland Hopkins International Airport security checkpoint. Police say 60-year-old Richard Buxman, of Poland in suburban Youngstown, was arrested and charged Monday with carrying a concealed weapon. He was released on $1,000 bail and faces a Friday common pleas court hearing.

A Cleveland police officer says he found a loaded 9mm handgun, two loaded clips, a folding knife and a loose bullet in the case after a transportation officer saw the gun and knife on an x-ray.

One man is dead following an officer-involved shooting on Cleveland’s east side. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office identified Willie Sudduth, 23, as the victim in a shooting Cleveland police said happened near East 93rd Street and Raymond Avenue just before 10 p.m. Tuesday

Officers at the scene said four Cleveland vice detectives spotted two men running from a store. One of the men stopped and squatted and began firing at a third person.

Cleveland Clinic marked its 90th anniversary in robust fashion, seeing a record number of outpatient visits, improving patient care through clinical and research achievements, opening new outpatient health and surgery centers, and enhancing the system’s already-sound financial health.

In his annual “State of the Clinic” address, Cleveland Clinic CEO and President Delos M. “Toby” Cosgrove, M.D., reported that the health system’s total revenue in 2011 increased 5 percent over 2010, reaching $6.18 billion. Operating income rose 22 percent to $305 million, and investments were up 10 percent, reaching $4.3 billion.

Police arrested several Cleveland Independent School District students on Thursday in an ongoing investigation into narcotics trafficking at one of their schools. Cleveland ISD police began rounding up the students about 10 a.m. at Cleveland High School, 1600 E. Houston.

They are facing charges ranging from delivery to possession of a controlled substance, officials said.

A judge sentenced the parents of an 8-year-old Cleveland boy who died from Hodgkin lymphoma to a maximum term of eight years in prison. Willie Robinson died in March, 2008, after suffering for months from undiagnosed swollen glands. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Michael Astrab handed down the sentences Thursday for Monica Hussing, 37, and William Robinson Sr., 40, of Cleveland.

“If anybody, anybody didn’t know this kid was sick,” Astab thundered from the bench, “they are seriously, seriously disturbed.”

Prosecutors said Thursday they plan to appeal a judge’s order granting a new trial for a Cleveland man convicted of setting a fire that killed eight children and a woman in the deadliest house blaze in the city’s history.

A federal jury convicted Antun Lewis, 28, last year of using gasoline to set the 2005 fire that killed Medeia Carter and the eight children, aged 7 to 14, who were attending a birthday sleepover at her house. He faced a possible life sentence.

City leaders unveiled a plan Tuesday aimed at reinventing public education in Cleveland’s schools. Mayor Frank Jackson, Schools CEO Eric Gordon along with leaders from the Greater Cleveland Partnership, Cleveland Foundation, The Gund Foundation and The Breakthrough Charter Schools unveiled the plan.

The group says the plan recognizes that the current public schools model for Cleveland is not working.