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New Orleans has “Mardi Gras,” a last hurrah before Lenten fasting begins. Cleveland has “Dyngus Day” -- the day after Easter, when celebrations recommence. Tonight, the man who brought Dyngus Day to Northeast Ohio premieres his new comedy show based on his alter ego.

An arbitrator upheld the firing of a Cleveland police officer who took part in a fatal shooting of two unarmed people after a chase in 2012. The terminations of five other officers were overturned. The mayor’s office released a copy of the arbitration decision on Tuesday.

15-point-eight-billion-dollars: that’s what the Northeast Ohio Area-wide Coordinating Agency says is needed for the next twenty years of transportation...

Despite intervention from Congress, Amer Adi Othman remains in a federal prison about three miles from his downtown grocery store and hookah bar in Youngstown. That’s where his wife, daughters, friends, customers and other supporters gathered to argue in the letters they wrote what hundreds of protesters had argued in the streets over the weekend: That the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement cannot justify holding him.

A Youngstown businessman who had planned to leave the country voluntarily two weeks ago was jailed at his meeting with immigration officials Tuesday. Amer Adi Othman, 57, had faced deportation earlier this month after 40 years in the U.S. because of allegations his first marriage was a sham. He denies that, and U.S Rep. Tim Ryan (D- Howland) had sponsored a bill to allow him to remain.

The Ohio EPA is planning this week to issue new notices of violations against the company building the 700 mile natural gas Rover Pipeline across the state. From member station WKSU M.L. Schultze has more. EPA Director Craig Butler says more drilling fluid has been spilled into streams and wetlands along Rover’s diagonal path across Ohio. He says Energy Transfer Partners is supposed to be avoiding such spills by doing its horizontal drilling underground, instead of digging trenches to lay the pipeline.

The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s budget for 2018 has an $18 million deficit, largely because of a reduction in payments from the State of Ohio. Another $10 million from the state will be lost after 2018. The transit authority is planning a service reduction in August, in addition to next year’s already-approved fare increase. Akshai Singh of Clevelanders for Public Transit says the county and RTA need to find a way to improve the system, then maybe its funding can be fixed.

Akron’s effort to reduce the flow of sewage into streams and rivers was one of five projects that earned "exceptional" honors earlier this month by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Project engineers showcased its new storage basin Tuesday. The Howard Storage Basin got its first big workout last weekend when heavy rains that would have carried millions of gallons of sewage overflow into the Little Cuyahoga River stopped in this massive, 30-foot-deep concrete rectangle instead.

Work is underway for the first big growing facility for medical marijuana. The Cresco facility in Yellow Springs is one of a dozen that were awarded licenses two weeks ago. Illinois-based Cresco Labs’ new 50,000-square-foot, $7 million greenhouse will produce cannabis-based pharmaceutical products. Cresco’s high-tech facility will be built on nearly 10 acres of village-owned land near Antioch University. The company expects to create at least two dozen new jobs next year, and add more employees as the facility expands.

On December 11, 1918, 54 musicians tuned-up their instruments in a downtown Cleveland concert hall and launched into history. The Cleveland Orchestra has ambitious plans for it its 100th birthday celebration this year. Chief Artistic Officer Mark Williams says it’s been a five-year process, developing special concerts and booking guest performers.