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Ohio high school students who want to take college courses on the state’s dime will have some additional restrictions to consider starting with the summer term. Friday is the deadline for students at Ohio private schools or homeschoolers to apply for the state’s College Credit Plus program. Public school students faced an April 1 application deadline. The program allows high school students to work on college degrees before they receive their diploma. Starting this summer, though, students’ course choices will be slightly more restricted.

On Friday alone, there were 195,000 new confirmed cases of the virus and 1,878 deaths. The U.S. has been adding 1 million cases every six days.

Shoppers kept buying electronics and home improvement supplies, but sales overall rose only 0.3% in October.

Preliminary data show the infant mortality rate has dropped for every demographic in Cuyahoga County in 2019 except white babies, for which it increased slightly. The overall rate in 2019 (not counting December) was 7.75 per 1,000 live births, compared to 8.65 in 2018. Although the African American infant mortality rate dropped from 15.49 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2018 down to 13.97 in 2019, Cuyahoga County Board of Health statistician Richard Stacklin said black babies are still more than 3.5 times more likely to die than white babies.

Updated on May 1, 2020 at 12pm Athersys, a biotechnology company in Cleveland, has been developing a possible therapy for serious medical conditions such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) – one of the more concerning complications caused by COVID-19. The company announced in a press release on Friday May 1, 2020, that University Hospitals is starting a clinical trial testing the effectiveness of this treatment on patients with COVID-19 induced ARDS.

Hamilton County departments and elected officials have found ways to cut $20 million to $30 million so far from this year's budget. That's about half of...

Hue Jackson's failed, flawed tenure with the Cleveland Browns is finally over.The team fired its embattled coach on Monday, ending a run of futility…

A wave of emotions washed over the Cleveland Browns and their fans this week after the team introduced star wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. Beckham was...

In a turnaround, congressional analysts are no longer recommending a phaseout of paper dollars in favor of a dollar coin. Paper money is lasting longer because of cashless transactions.

The U.S. bank and two of its former bankers face criminal charges in connection with Malaysia's 1MDB scandal, which involves billions of dollars allegedly stolen from a development fund.