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Warrants have been issued for three suspects and Akron police have located the vehicle used in the murder of Na’kia Crawford. The black Chevy Camaro was found in Cleveland, said Akron Deputy Police Chief Jesse Leeser at a Thursday press conference. The vehicle was located and transported to the Akron Police Department for processing. Warrants were issued against 18-year-old Jaion Bivins, 24-year-old Janisha George and a 17-year old male suspect, Leeser said. All three suspects are from Summit County.

The University of Akron is planning on resuming in-person classes in the fall. An announcement released Friday by the university’s president, Gary Miller, said the fall 2020 semester will be a mixture of in-person and online instruction. Residence halls will be reopened and operate with all rooms as single occupancy.

Eighteen Northeast Ohio church congregations are joining forces to offer free, on-site COVID-19 testing. In addition to getting more people tested, the effort also aims to address racial disparities in coronavirus response. Greater Cleveland Congregations is launching the Color of Health Initiative, with an emphasis on the African American community and other higher-risk groups. The initiative is a partnership with the Cuyahoga County Board of Health and MetroHealth.

The World Health Organization is calling 2020 the “Year of the Nurse” to commemorate Florence Nightingale, a nursing pioneer born 200 years ago. In a virtual City Club of Cleveland forum Friday, May Wykle, a long-time nurse and former dean of the Case Western Reserve University School of Nursing, discussed the evolving roles of nurses. “It’s ironic that in the ‘Year of the Nurse,’ the nurses have been the standout caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic,” she said.

As many cities cancel Fourth of July celebrations in light of the coronavirus pandemic, illegal backyard fireworks use is on the rise in parts of Northeast Ohio. The Euclid Police Department has received 142 fireworks complaints since May 1. That's almost four times the number of calls received in the same period last year. The COVID-19 pandemic could be contributing to an early start on July Fourth celebrations, according to Prevent Blindness Northeast Ohio Regional Director Darcy Downie.

More than 3,300 people have died of COVID-19 in China since the coronavirus surfaced there late last year. On Saturday, residents expressed their grief for the neighbors they've lost so far.

Updated: 9:28 a.m., Wednesday, March 18, 2020 Courts in Cuyahoga County have moved more than 200 prisoners out of the jail since Saturday, with the help of extra hearings over the weekend and on Monday. The extra hearings are one of several measures meant to prevent a coronavirus outbreak at the courthouse and in the jail. "The expedited hearings are sending people on to prison or releasing them if they don't need to be in jail," Administrative Judge Brendan Sheehan said. "All so there's room to quarantine people."

President Donald Trump has nominated the U.S. attorney in Cleveland, Justin Herdman, to the same position in Washington, D.C. If confirmed by the Senate as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Herdman would oversee cases referred by Robert Mueller’s investigation of foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election. The office has also been at the center of the recent decisions to lessen presidential ally Roger Stone’s prison sentence and drop charges against Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn.

MetroHealth reports it has seen a more than 50 percent drop in child wellness visits, and it’s not the only health system to see declines. Health officials are warning that not taking children to wellness visits could lead to long-term health issues, such as delayed diagnoses of illnesses and flare-ups of chronic conditions like asthma. Many wellness visits were postponed during the state’s initial response to COVID-19, but now that offices have opened back up, health officials are concerned that there’s still a drop in such visits.

A line of cars circled the Cuyahoga County Jail, honking horns and holding signs with “Free Them All” and “A Jail Sentence Is Not A Death Sentence,” while more protesters gathered at the bottom of the stairs on Lakeside Avenue. Local activists called for the release of inmates from state prisons during the coronavirus pandemic at a rally today outside the Justice Center in Downtown Cleveland. There have been 75 confirmed coronavirus deaths at state prisons in Ohio, including 14 at Marion Correctional Institution and 35 at the Pickaway Correctional Institution.