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There’s a lot up in the air for the new joint venture to build a $2.3 billion electric battery production plant in Lordstown. But companies at least have nailed down a location. General Motors plans to hold public hearings with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency in March on their proposed battery plant with LG Chem in Lordstown, breaking ground by the spring if permits are secured.

Union workers at the Cleveland Public Library will go on strike on Feb. 4 if negotiators cannot agree on a new contract. The union issued a 10-day strike notice Tuesday. Members of Service Employees International Union District 1199 (SEIU) have been without a contract since Dec. 31. Sticking points in the negotiations have centered on security concerns, wages and staffing issues.

Both involve patients who had traveled to Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak.

Updated: 6:07 p.m., Tuesday, Jan 14, 2020 The Ohio Attorney General’s Office has taken 14-year-old Harley Dilly off the missing and endangered child list after a body was recovered in an abandoned house near Dilly’s home in Port Clinton. Tuesday evening, the Ottawa County Coroner's Office released a preliminary autopsy report, having determined Dilly died from compressive asphyxia after being trapped in the chimney. Police believe Dilly’s death was an accident and no foul play is suspected.

Cuyahoga County is taking steps to protect adults with disabilities from abuse or neglect. The Guardian Partner Program aims to assess the care being provided to nearly 7,000 wards of the county. Guardians currently provide a report every two years on any changes in diagnosis, care plan or living arrangements for adult wards, said Probate Court Magistrate and Deputy Court Administrator Jennifer Alexander. But the court doesn’t usually interact with the adults themselves outside of an initial hearing or service, she said.

Updated: 11:28 am Friday January 24, 2020 The Cleveland Clinic has begun screening all patients who have traveled to China for symptoms of the coronavirus, according to a spokesperson. MetroHealth confirmed Friday that they are also screening patients for symptoms if they've been to China in the past two weeks. University Hospitals reports they are working on a travel screening protocol for their ERs, as well as putting out guidance for clinicians on screening and patient/employee safety.

Electric scooter use around Cleveland has sparked safety concerns for some residents, particularly those with visual impairments. National Federation of the Blind of Ohio (NFBO) members met with city planning commission officials and electric scooter vendors Thursday to discuss ways to alleviate those worries.

Deborah Goodrich Royce was drawn to Lake Erie College in Painesville in the late 1970s for its study abroad program. The travel experience and the school were so important to Royce that she included them in her debut novel, “Finding Mrs. Ford,” published by Post Hill Press. “Every aspect of my life, and I would say everybody's life, comes into who we are now and it affects us completely,” Royce said. Lake Erie College honored Royce with a Distinguished Alumni Award during homecoming last weekend.

Ohio’s childcare workers rank among the state’s most economically vulnerable employees, according to a factsheet released Friday by Groundwork Ohio, which lobbies for childcare workers. The profession employs more than 53,000, and most are women. Half of those workers rely on some kind of public assistance. That’s because wages are rock bottom: the average Ohio childcare worker makes roughly $20,000 a year – even though they are likely to have credentials beyond a diploma. The state's average wage is $54,000 annually.

Shaker Heights native Anita Hollander has spent her career acting, singing and advocating for people with disabilities. She personally lost her leg to cancer at age 26. Hollander returns home to perform a one-woman show featuring selections from her latest solo musical, “Spectacular Falls,” at Fairmount Temple in Beachwood Saturday. “It’s a show about the many ways we use the word fall,” Hollander said. “It starts with the event of my falling and breaking my hand four years ago after already having lost a leg long, long ago.”