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When Claire McMillan was looking for inspiration for her new novel The Necklace she found herself climbing her husband's family tree. McMillan married into Cleveland's Mather family and today lives on the family farm outside of Cleveland. Digging through the Mather family archives, McMillan discovered the travel journals of Amasa Stone Mather from 1907.

The Columbus Division of Police is working to recover tens of thousands of lost cruiser video files that the department believes were "inadvertently…

Cleveland’s police chief says the manhunt now reaches across the country for Steve Stephens, the suspect in a fatal shooting that was recorded and posted on Facebook. “Our federal partners, our local partners have reached out to their contacts all over the country, and this is what we would consider a national search,” Chief Calvin Williams said at a news conference Monday afternoon. Stephens worked as a vocational specialist for youth and young adults at Beech Brook, a children’s behavioral health center, according to the agency.

Cleveland city councilman Zack Reed says police are not doing enough to control dirt bike riders illegally using city streets. And he says that is leading to more brazen behavior from the riders. Police officials say a new policy is on the way. From Ohio Public Radio station WKSU, Kevin Niedermier reports. For safety reasons Cleveland police are not allowed to chase riders who driven recklessly, but now a growing number of them are aggressively harassing drivers. Reed says it’s time to crack down on this behavior.

A monitoring report says Cleveland police have made progress updating policies but face a backlog in investigations of complaints against officers. The six-month review was released Tuesday by the monitoring team overseeing the city’s consent decree with the Justice Department. The monitors wrote positively of the city’s new training guidelines for its use-of-force and crisis intervention policies. Both were submitted for a judge’s approval in recent weeks.

Video Game Composer Eimear Noone will be conducting the London Symphony Orchestra this weekend in Paris. She's best known for her work on the hugely popular "Overwatch" and "World of Warcraft" games.

The president of the American Medical Association visited Cleveland today to launch a campaign lobbying Senate Republicans on healthcare. Joining the AMA in this effort are the AARP, the American Hospital Association and other health advocacy groups. They’ll also hold events in Nevada, Colorado and West Virginia. AMA president Dr. David Barbe said any healthcare plan should preserve the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid and ensure that low and moderate-income patients can afford coverage.

Operating revenue at MetroHealth increased by $70 million dollars last year and a new Cleveland public high school for science and health opened inside the hospital system in the fall. But the focus of the annual meeting was the new Metro campus. The $855 million project will involve a new parking garage and building. Though President Trump’s proposed federal budget includes $800 billion cuts to Medicaid, MetroHealth officials say any potential changes in federal healthcare won’t impact the new hospital and transformation.

Online vandals yesterday defaced 11 state government websites with messages purporting to be supportive of the so-called Islamic State group. State officials have since restored the sites, and federal officials are investigating.

About 100 supporters of a Youngstown businessman who was deported to Jordan Monday rallied near Cleveland's West Side Market to protest President Trump's immigration policies. Though he was 6,000 miles away, 57-year-old Amer Adi addressed the crowd by way of his daughter’s cell phone, encouraging people to embrace the cause of young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. “For the people there I say keep the fight going. This fight is for a lot of people out there that are living fear," said Adi.