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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.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces Tuesday, in a nationwide address, that he's putting the entire country on a 21-day lockdown in response to the coronavirus.

With museums and cultural organizations closed indefinitely, area institutions face financial losses from the coronavirus. Beyond daily admissions, museums count on revenue from parking, cafes, gift shops and location rentals for events. All of that is at a standstill, and leaders of Cleveland museums are trying to guess when businesses will reopen.

Updated: 5:05 p.m., Friday, April 3, 2020 Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson has extended the city’s Proclamation of Civil Emergency through the end of April, and is already bracing for the possiblity that mass gatherings and special events may be put on hold for the summer. “We can expect to have social distancing and enforcement of that,” Jackson said at a Friday morning pandemic response briefing. “Anywhere that there is a potential mass gathering, we will not issue a permit for.”

Woodland Cemetery is one of Cleveland’s oldest, but it’s located in a neighborhood that doesn’t get a lot of love. After years of neglect, the front door of this 167-year-old site is getting a facelift. Surrounded by housing projects and battered real estate along Woodland Avenue on the East Side of town, Woodland Cemetery is the final resting place for a cross-section of Clevelanders, from the city's richest families to some unknown indigents.

This year's Highland Square PorchRokr Music and Art Festival is Saturday, August 18 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. It features about 130 musicians and artists...

Kids acting up in school is nothing new. But teaching artists from Cleveland Play House help Cleveland students act out their emotions in the safe space of the classroom. CPH recently received a $2 million federal grant to expand its CARE program, Compassionate Arts Remaking Education, which puts teaching artists into K-8 classrooms in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

At the end of 2017, Disney announced that it would acquire large parts of 21st Century Fox. On Wednesday, shortly after midnight eastern time, the $71.3 billion deal finally was completed.