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Updated: 5:32 p.m., Aug. 19, 2019 The former warden of the Cuyahoga County Jail pleaded guilty Monday to two misdemeanor charges related to his time running the troubled facility. Eric Ivey faces jail time after agreeing to the guilty plea on charges of obstruction of justice and lying — and could get a sentence ranging from probation to up to a year behind bars in the jail he once supervised.

The years-old backlog of citizen complaints against Cleveland police officers is expected to be eliminated later this month, according to a report filed in federal court by the city’s law department Monday. The monitor overseeing the city’s police reform agreement has pushed city leaders for years to clear the backlog of cases. Cleveland hired Chicago-based risk management firm Hillard Heintze to investigate the old cases, while city staff focused on new complaints.

Some working to coordinate efforts combatting the opioid crisis were shocked by an Aug. 22 announcement from former Ohio State University President Gordon Gee and former Governor John Kasich, who are forming a nonprofit to steer any money from a national opioid settlement to hospitals and health-based research.

SPACES wants visitors to come into “Room” in order to escape from it.

Patton Oswalt is a very funny man. But the humor drained from his life when his wife of more than a decade – writer Michelle McNamara – passed away in 2016. It was almost a year before the comedian and actor returned to television work on shows like "VEEP" and "A.P. Bio" or began talking and joking about his life onstage. "It was a huge blow to my reality, and then I just didn't know what to do with myself after a while, and then I started going back on stage," he said.

Tracy K. Smith thought her research into documents from the Civil War and the preceding Antebellum years would feel remote. Instead, she found the voices in letters from that era quite recognizable. Smith shares some of those voices in addition to her own in “Wade in the Water.” The poetry collection combines letters from African-American soldiers and their family members, including pleas to President Abraham Lincoln, along with comments from a slave owner.

The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority approved a resolution Friday for the agency to be involved with a plan to redevelop the site of the...

Updated: Wednesday, Sept. 25, 12:30 p.m. Two Northeast Ohio senior living facilities have had to shut down their water systems and bring in the Cuyahoga County Board of Health after a pair of confirmed cases of Legionnaire’s disease cases. A patient at the Altenheim Senior Living Facility in Strongsville contracted Legionnaire’s after a 10-day stay in the rehabilitation center. The patient’s name has not being released and the water system has been shut down while health officials investigate.

Demolition began Monday at Irishtown Bend, the Cuyahoga River overlook in Ohio City targeted for stabilization to protect the river’s shipping channel and create a new park. Two now-vacant Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) properties along West 25th Street are the first slated for demolition, the former administration building and a housing complex known as “Big 8.”

In response to a prompt at a writing workshop, Laura Maylene Walter imagined a world where moles and freckles on the bodies of women and girls predict the future. “There would be a lot of tension over who gets to control the future, who gets to read the future,” Walter said. “It's on women's bodies, but are they really controlling it?”