The U.S. ended a probe of a newspaper closing.

The Justice Department has closed its investigation into possible antitrust violations in the closing of the Cleveland Press, and no indictments have been returned, an official said. Until it was closed five years ago, the Press, an afternoon paper, competed against the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Justice Department spokesman Mark Sheehan said: “We closed this investigation for the same reason we close any investigation, and that is that we did not find sufficient evidence to proceed any further.”