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If you're looking for a summer read and don’t know what to pick up, then your local librarian is a great place to start. Helping people find books is Jessica Breslin’s favorite part of the job as manager of the Bay Village branch of the Cuyahoga County Library. Breslin said that James Patterson novels are currently the most-popular picks in the system, and she offered a few suggestions for summer reads.

The U.S. job market picked up steam in June. Employers added 224,000 jobs, more than triple May's numbers. The unemployment rate inched up to 3.7% as more workers entered the job market.

An estimated 30,000 Ohioans live within 650 feet of an underground natural gas storage well, according to a study published this week in the journal Environmental Health. The study examined storage facilities in six states, finding that 65 percent of wells are in urban and suburban areas. The wells hold natural gas before delivery to businesses and households.

Updated 3:02, July 12, 2019 Five years after Cuyahoga County took over the Euclid jail, county officials are in talks with the city about closing it. The move would allow the county to transfer guards to the overcrowded downtown facility, which was the subject of a scathing U.S. Marshals’ Service report last year.

A Cuyahoga County grand jury has indicted the former warden of the troubled Cuyahoga County Jail and two corrections officers, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s office announced Thursday. Prosecutors accused former warden Eric J. Ivey of ordering an officer to turn off his body camera during an incident involving the death of an inmate. Yost’s office accused Ivey of lying to investigators about the incident.

In addition to ordering Shkreli to stay in prison, a federal appeals court also affirmed that he must forfeit more than $7.3 million and pay restitution of $388,336.

Not every wife would write a song, let alone a song cycle, dedicated to her mother-in-law. But composer and soprano Patrice Michaels' mother-in-law is unique. She's Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Thursday at 7 p.m. Cleveland State University welcomes Michaels and her record-producer husband James Ginsburg, Justice Ginsburg's son, for a performance of Michaels' "The Long View: A Portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Nine Songs."

Pet lovers are suckers for animal stories, especially when it's about a rescue. Knowing that, local illustrator and former Plain Dealer book editor Karen Sandstrom has combined that with her love of storytelling and artistic talent. It's all on view in the Heights Arts exhibit, "Such Agreeable Friends," about the relationship between people and animals. The show features illustrations from Sandstrom's "Rescue Pet Project," featuring portraits of people and their rescue animals combined with text telling their stories.

Cuyahoga County is facing a $33.5 million deficit in its Health and Human Services budget before its levy is up for renewal next year. The county is running out of money due in large part to the high numbers of children entering foster care as part of the ripple effect of the opioid crisis. The cost of foster care in Cuyahoga County is close to $5 million per month and growing, according to county officials at a Monday briefing.

The mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was killed by Cleveland Police officer Timothy Loehmann in 2014, delivered petitions to the Cleveland Police union Monday asking they stop their efforts to get Loehmann his job back, but the union has no plans to pull their support. Samaria Rice says Loehmann is reckless and a danger to the community as a police officer.