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When Phyllis Gorfain retired from teaching English at Oberlin College she didn’t really retire at all. Her next act was creating and running a theater program for men in prison.

In light of a cyberattack nearly three weeks ago that continues to disrupt services, the city of Akron is spending $100,000 for protection against malware. And the expense of the attack and recovery is expected to grow exponentially. The city believes the attack was launched at least in part by a phishing email, and the goal was to transfer city money into fraudulent credit cards. Chief of Staff James Hardy says none of the money left city coffers, but that’s about the only piece of good news.

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson is endorsing Nina Turner in the race to succeed Marcia Fudge in Congress, Turner’s campaign said in a news release Wednesday.

A U.K. parliamentary committee says the former PM's lies over COVID rule breaches were "unprecedented," and recommends he be denied a pass to ever enter the parliament building again.

Cleveland has passed Detroit to become the mid-to-large-sized city with the highest poverty rate in country, according to new annual U.S. Census Bureau estimates released this week. Both cities have seen their poverty rates fall over the past few years, but in 2019, Detroit caught up with its smaller Midwest peer. At 30.8 percent, Cleveland’s poverty rate is just 0.2 percentage points higher than the Motor City’s, a difference within 2 percent the margin of error.

The call is growing louder for the Lorain County Fair to ban the Confederate flag. The Community Foundation of Lorain County will boycott the fair as long as the flag is permitted onsite. The foundation is latest in a list of entities pushing for a ban, including grassroots group Lorain County Fair Minded Coalition and local and state officials.

Akron voters will decide next week on a charter amendment that would require police release video from body or dashboard cameras in cases of fatal or serious use of force. Issue 2, proposed by a citizen-led charter review commission, is among six proposed amendments to the Akron city charter on the ballot this year. State and federal regulations prohibit the release of some footage due to privacy concerns, said city spokesperson Ellen Lander-Nischt. But even the footage that is not covered by those protections often isn’t released, Lander-Nischt said.

Two ballot initiatives are asking Mentor residents to allow changes to the local marina and lagoons and to loosen restrictions for future changes. City officials currently need to seek approval from voters to make significant changes to the city-owned marina and lagoons, including the proposed construction of an Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant boardwalk an observation deck.

Riders can now bring electric bicycles into Cuyahoga Valley National Park as part of a change in nationwide policy by the U.S. Park Service. Rob Wallace, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks at the US. Interior Department formally announced the change during a short ceremony at CVNP on Thursday. “E-bikes have been appearing in national parks with more frequency, but until now, there has been no regulation that directly addressed their use,” he said.

A real-estate tour isn’t supposed to include missing radiators, graffiti on the walls and blood stains on the floor. Author D.M. Pulley didn’t buy the foreclosed Shaker Heights mansion she toured in the wake of the nation’s 2008 housing crisis. Instead, she imagined a history for such a place and created her latest mystery, “No One’s Home” (Thomas & Mercer).