The nonprofit Famicos Foundation secured approval from the Cleveland City Planning Commission to demolish the 1954-vintage Sterle's Country House building in the St. Clair-Superior neighborhood, with plans for senior citizen housing on the site.
Edmund John Turk, a co-founder and chairman of United Americans for Slovenia (UAS), a Cleveland-based group of Slovenian Americans that pushed for Slovenia's international recognition in the 1990s, has died at the age of 97.