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Updated: 1:49 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020 The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) won a major victory Tuesday night, with its tax levy pushed through by 61 percent of voters. Issue 68 includes a 15-mill levy renewal and a 5-mill increase that will stand for 10 years and cost taxpayers about $175 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value. The levy renewal comprised 12 percent of CMSD’s operating budget, or about $65 million, CMSD CEO Eric Gordon told ideastream Wednesday.

Though a record 3.4 million Ohioans cast ballots early by mail or in person, among those standing in lines to vote on election day was Republican Gov....

Updated: Oct. 16, 4:47 p.m. The second Blink festival was bigger than the first, expanding into Kentucky with more murals, and more projection mapping....

Cleveland City Council is considering an ordinance that would remove fines and prohibit jail time for possession of marijuana offenses. The proposed ordinance wouldn’t decriminalize marijuana in Cleveland. And state laws against possession still exist. Under the proposal, marijuana possession would still be a criminal charge in Cleveland. Up to 100 grams would be a minor misdemeanor, between 100 and 200 grams a 4th degree misdemeanor. All fines and court costs would be suspended.

Updated: 2:11 p.m. Following sandstone fragments breaking from the east side of the north tower of the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, the historic...

The City of Cleveland has agreed to pay $4.85 million to David Ayers, 20 years after he was wrongfully convicted of murder. The city tucked the settlement announcement into its daily coronavirus press release Monday night. The judgement appears to bring to a close a decades-long saga for Ayers.

In a 17-4 vote, an expert committee concluded that the scientific evidence supports the authorization of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech for emergency use during the pandemic.

The American troop presence will decline in Afghanistan from 4,500 to 2,500, and in Iraq from 3,000 to 2,500. Senior military leaders reportedly oppose the move.

Leap day only comes along every four years — and its rarity, advocates say, makes it the perfect day to focus on rare diseases. Tracy Greenberg has had mucopolysaccharidosis — Morquio syndrome or MPS4A for short — her whole life. But she was only properly diagnosed when she was 42 years old. She said she cried tears of happiness when she found out. "Some of my family members said, 'Why are you so happy? Are you happy that you have this disease?' And I said, 'No, I'm happy that I'm going to be treated for this disease because I have it no matter what.'"

The Democratic race for president reconfigured. Stepped up urgency on coronavirus. The Supreme Court takes on an abortion case. The news roundtable is here.