Around the Patch: Firefighters Fighting Cancer & Man Steals Veteran's War Medals

1. A man is accused of stealing a veteran's Marine Corps medals in Solon.

The suspect said he stopped by the Solon home of his ex-girlfriend's father because he saw a Marine Corps flag on the ground and wanted to pick it up.

But Solon Police think he had a more unpatriotic reason for stopping, and arrested 48-year-old Michael Sidoti, of Garfield Heights, and charged him with breaking and entering, a felony, 

2. Kent Patch Blogger Don Beckett is a firefighter who is also fighting cancer.

Recently,  from what he considered his calling.

"I feel like I am no longer needed," he wrote. " I feel I have lost my identity that I was placed here for. Yes, I am weeping as I type this blog. Do I feel depressed now? Yes. Not because of the disease, but because of the position the disease has put me into rendering me incapable of being a firefighter."

3. Copley police released the name of the officer and former officer who stopped Michael Hance after Hance killed seven during a shooting spree.

Get that information and more on the Copley shootings 

4.  for production companies this summer.

Fun Size was filmed all around town in places like , Cleveland  School and on . Now another movie, I, Alex Cross, is filming on Bellfield Avenue.

I, Alex Cross is based on a book by James Patterson and stars Tyler Perry. That is all you need to know.