Around the Patch: Josh Cribbs, Time Warner & the Shaq App

1. Josh Cribbs plans to take on the Cleveland Heights Police Department over a $15 parking ticket.

Cribbs insists he still had time on the meter, and he's taking it to court. 

"I was at the barber, and I went outside to put a quarter in the meter. I saw I had a parking ticket. But there was eight minutes left on the meter, I was highly upset," said Cribbs in a story on . 

Cribbs wrote several tweets about the incident on his Twitter page.

One tweet included a link to a photo that shows him holding a ticket that matches the meter number, and the meter still has eight minutes remaining. 

Cleveland Heights Police Chief Jeffrey Robertson said someone must have put a quarter in Cribbs' meter after the ticket was placed on his car or turned the meter back to give him extra minutes.

2. Speaking of (former) Cleveland athletes, Shaquille O'Neal has a new cellphone app for law enforcement.

Shaq has a starring role in Project Shaq Shield, a campaign to protect kids when they go online, according to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason, who chairs the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

The basketball superstar encourages parents to keep tabs on their kids' Internet use. The app includes Internet safety tips, a glossary of online terminology and lingo used by children. 

“Shaquille O'Neal’s law enforcement experience and his commitment to helping children made him the perfect ambassador for this campaign and the iPhone app," Mason said in a news release.

Get more information on the .

3. The to extend its internal Internet and telephone network, bypassing Time Warner Cable and saving about $200,000.

The network, called I-Net, provides telephone and Internet service to city-owned buildings and Beachwood City Schools. This construction will add the new municipal service building to the network.

Time Warner has built the existing network and provides Internet service to the city, which the new building will access by connecting to the existing network.

The move alleviates some of the city’s dependence on Time Warner Cable, said Finance Director David Pfaff, and will cost the city $107,000 instead of Time Warner’s more than $300,000 price tag.

4.  following a crash on Interstate 90 around noon Wednesday in Lakewood.

According to police at the crash — near the McKinley Avenue exit — a dump truck driver died at the scene.