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For the past few years, a flaming fish has lit up the Lorain night as it floats along the Black River for the annual Fire Fish Festival. It's the artistic brainchild of Lorain County Community College's Joan Perch and local arts impresario James Levin. The past two festivals have sparked with a civic rebirth in Lorain with retail stores, dance studios and art galleries popping up throughout downtown.

The city's largest health care employer is making moves to attract health tech startups to the city.

The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in a Miranda rights case from Cleveland. The court says being questioned in the front seat of a police car is not the same as being interrogated while in custody. In 2014, a Cleveland motorist nearly struck a state highway patrol car at night. The patrolman pulled him over, had him get in the front seat of the cruiser and asked how much alcohol he’d been drinking. The driver said he’d had four mixed drinks at a wedding.

After the shootings at Sandy Hook and in San Bernardino gun sales soared. Just ask Diane Donnett, owner of the Stonewall Gun Shop and Shooting Range in Broadview Heights. "Gun sales go up when somebody starts talking about taking away your right to own a firearm," she said. After those shootings, Donnett said President Obama's calls for new gun control legislation actually motivated people to buy more.

It can be difficult to put feelings to words, but greeting card writers take on the challenge of writing on behalf of everyone. For Valentine’s Day it’s all about love, and writers at American Greetings headquarters in Westlake craft messages for a wide variety of relationships. “Everyone has their own definition of what love is,” said writer Anne McEvoy. “It is a very individual thing and love comes in all different stages.”

While some smaller Ohio school districts are reportedly worried about overcrowding, Northeast Ohio’s largest districts say they’re prepared to take in ECOT students should the online charter close. The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow’s charter sponsor pulled its support Thursday, which could leave as many as 12,000 students looking for a new school as soon as next week.

The mayor of Akron says he asked for the police chief’s resignation this past weekend after learning of “conduct unbecoming of an officer.” Mayor Dan Horrigan his deputy mayor for public safety learned from senior police command about evidence of “serious misconduct” by Chief James Nice. “Including making derogatory statements about fellow officers, inappropriate contact with a city employee, and allegations of potential criminal conduct related to the ongoing criminal case involving his nephew,” Horrigan said.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency says major cleanup work is done at the Arco Recycling dump site in East Cleveland. Work crews have cleared more than 300,000 cubic yards of debris from the property on Noble Road, according to a news release from the Ohio EPA. While the piles of material are gone, contractors are still working, agency spokeswoman Heidi Griesmer said. “They’re going and getting all of the small pieces of waste that weren’t part of the big pile,” she said. “Then once that’s done they’re going to bring in a street sweeper.”

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has decided to include Western Lake Erie in a list of impaired waters, due to the harmful algae blooms that plague the region every year. The agency’s move comes after years of calls from environmentalists and a federal lawsuit. Some politicians in Ohio and in Congress have long called for the designation. The “impaired” term triggers a process that includes finding sources of pollution and limiting pollution.

When Inlet Dance Theatre artistic director Bill Wade was in need of an idea for a new dance, he found himself at a local bookstore. A children's book caught his eye. He picked it up and began to read. "So two thirds of the way through the book, I'm not going to lie, I started crying. I'm like 'oh my gosh this is amazing, this is my life story,"' Wade said.