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James Harrison is one of around 150 people now able to vote thanks to registration drives aimed at making sure the democratic process is accessible to everyone, regardless of housing status.

The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority is recommending reductions in passenger fares as the result of a fare equity study completed last year. The reductions, which would include lowering the price of adult day passes by 50 cents and senior or disabled day passes by 25 cents, would bring those passes in line with the cost of two trips.

Cleveland City Council on Wednesday voted to impose fines on people and businesses who flout the city’s COVID-19 mask requirements. The ordinance requires masks inside non-residential buildings, outdoors when 6 feet of social distancing isn’t possible, and in taxis and ride shares. Violators will receive a warning the first time and a $25 fine after that.

At first, Wayne Owens was uncertain about the idea of a playground occupying the exact spot where his son, Cleveland Police Officer Derek Owens, was fatally shot in November 2008. “I said to myself, ‘Oh boy, I don't know’,” Wayne Owens says, remembering the day several years ago when the Cleveland Police Foundation and several neighborhood groups first approached him with the idea.

After spending nearly a decade researching and writing about legendary gunfighter Doc Holliday in her books '"Doc" and "Epitaph," Lyndhurst author Mary Doria Russell now turns her attention to another larger than life character. In her new novel, "The Women of the Copper Country," Russell digs into the history of "Big Annie" Clements, the Michigan labor leader whose story has been lost to history. The best-selling novelist discovered "Big Annie" in the PBS documentary "Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913."

Amid countless sales at big box stores over the post-Thanksgiving shopping weekend, some of Cleveland's newest retailers will be offering their own deals — from decidedly smallerboxes. BoxSpot, at Kinsman Avenue and East 81st Street, is a collection of 10 shipping containers, painted yellow and gray and repurposed to hold seven independently owned stores. Tenants include everything from a candy shop to an eyeglass store. There's also an outdoor picnic and performance space with tables and benches.

Taken just nine days apart, two images illustrate the impact a recent warm period had on the Antarctic Peninsula. NASA says such warmth "has become more common in recent years."

Updated: 4:29 p.m., Friday, May 8, 2020 The Cuyahoga County Board of Health is asking residents to familiarize themselves with new rules and guidelines before going out as Ohio’s restaurants, salons and retailers prepare to reopen next Friday.

Thailand was the first country outside of China to record a coronavirus case. Now, it is set to reopen after having slightly over 3,100 cases and recording no new infections in nearly a month.

County fairs around Northeast Ohio are debating whether to ban sale or display of the Confederate flag. The grass-roots movement comes after state legislators killed a proposal that would have banned the flag across all fairs last month. Portage County is the latest to face calls to remove the Confederate flag from its county fair. A petition from Portage County Young Democrats urges the fair board to take the “necessary steps” of banning the sale and display of the flag at the Portage County Randolph Fair.