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Abby L. Vandiver has self-published stories about amateur sleuths solving crimes since 2013. A bit of a sleuth herself, she followed the example of other writers to learn the ropes of how to self-publish and market the books. “I’d find people that were selling their books and I'd stalk them online,” she said. “I'd buy their book, I'd sign up for their newsletter, and I do things just to find out: How are they doing this?” Writers may study her now instead, since she landed a book deal with a large publisher.

The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority is considering a plan that would prioritize bus frequency in the downtown area at the cost of low-population zones. A consultant gave the final presentation on the system redesign study to the RTA board Tuesday.

Legal battles over the opioid crisis will carry on into 2020, as several more cases begin to move toward trial in federal courts around the country. After overseeing thousands of opioid lawsuits from his Cleveland courtroom for the past two years, U.S. District Judge Dan Polster has begun sending cases to other federal judges. Polster has recommended that suits brought by the Cherokee Nation, city of Chicago and San Francisco be moved to federal courts in Oklahoma, Illinois and California.

For the 50th anniversary of May 4, 1970, Kent State University is offering a series of events, from panel discussions and film showings to museum and art exhibits. It’s part of a yearlong observance of the day that four students were shot to death by Ohio National Guard troops during the course of an anti-war protest. The commemoration is managed by a former member of the student-run May 4th Task Force, Rodney Flauhaus.

U.S. stocks fell sharply Monday as investors worried about a growing number of coronavirus infections outside China, and possible fallout for the global economy.

George Rodrigue will step down as editor-in-chief of the Plain Dealer next month. Rodrigue will transition to work at the paper’s sister company, Advance Local. Rodrigue will step down March 1, according to his column on cleveland.com. He’ll be replaced by the paper’s current managing editor, Tim Warsinskey, who has worked at the Plain Dealer for 30 years.

With nearly one million podcasts to choose from, how can anyone be successful?

TripAdvisor has suspended postings for an unlikely attraction in Ilkestone, England: a hole in a brick wall.

Michael Tilson Thomas is one of the most renowned living American conductors and composers. The music director of the San Francisco Symphony renews his relationship with the Cleveland Orchestra onstage at Severance Hall Thursday night. Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the Cleveland Orchestra in 2018 [Roger Mastroianni / Cleveland Orchestra]

People in greater Cleveland are more likely to attend arts and cultural events than in other cities in Ohio and across the U.S, according to a recent National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) study. “In Cleveland, about 62 percent of adults in the course of a year attended some kind of performing arts event, dance, theater, music,” said Sunil Inyengar, director of research and analysis for the NEA.