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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.

About 150 protesters gathered outside the First District police station in the West Park neighborhood of Cleveland Tuesday afternoon to speak out against the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and excessive force by police across the country.

East Cleveland plans to scale back jail operations as part of its plan to get out of fiscal emergency. The city is following a trend among Northeast Ohio communities. Cuyahoga County has taken over local jails in recent years in Euclid, Bedford Heights and Cleveland. “We’ve met with the county maybe half a dozen times over the course of the last eight months to discuss moving our jail and our dispatch over to the county,” Mayor Brandon King said. He said the county “could manage it much more effectively and efficiently than we can here locally.”

Ireland is experiencing its worst heat wave in more than 40 years with temperatures hitting almost 90 — which is really hot for Ireland.

From old collections to family keepsakes, people can accumulate a lot of stuff. Inevitably, a time comes when people need to move or pare down collections and keepsakes. It can be daunting to sort through boxes of family photos or seek a new home for unneeded antiques or artwork.

The Cleveland Orchestra has suspended its concertmaster, Bill Preucil. The move happened one day after the Washington Post published a story in which the renowned violinist is accused of sexually assaulting a student of his when he was a teacher at Miami's New World Symphony in 1998.

When Katti Sorboro began to lose her hearing, she did not stop heading to the movies. Instead, she sat close to the speaker inside the theater and asked her daughter what was going on if she missed something. More recently, theaters have expanded services for the hearing impaired and she has tried different technology, like glasses that display closed-captioning. “It’s different, but like anything you get used to it,” she said.