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  • Updated 6:02, 6/6/19 Four Northeast Ohio nursing homes are on a list of troubled facilities that has been released to the public by two U.S. Senators. Canton Christian Home, Eliza Bryant Village in Cleveland, Hudson Elms Nursing Home and Stow Glen Health Care Center, were all found to have serious health, safety or sanitary problems according to the federal government.
  • The U.S. Department of Commerce announced Monday that it will reinstate a question on citizenship status to the 2020 Census. It says it is doing so to help enforce the Voting Rights Act.
  • Middle school is not necessarily an easy time of life to live, but cartoonist Terri Libensen depicts the struggles and joys kids experience through graphic novels. “Weirdly enough, I find it to be kind of natural for myself,” she said. “I think part of me just never grew up (laughing), which is probably part of the reason I’m a cartoonist.” “Positively Izzy,” published by HarperCollins, captures the drama of middle school and explores what happens when two very different characters' lives intersect.
  • Najib Razak was found guilty in the first of multiple trials related to the siphoning of billions of dollars from the country's 1MDB sovereign wealth fund.
  • The Cuyahoga County jail is seeing a rise in intake after months of trying to keep the inmate population down during the coronavirus pandemic. The jail has added an average of 44 people per day so far in July, according to jail administrator Rhonda Gibson, compared to roughly 36 per day in June. “The courts are doing a slow rollout, trying to get back to some sort of normalcy in their operations, so that doesn’t surprise me,” Gibson said.
  • The celestial visitor should be visible just after sunset for anyone who wants to see it. Bring along the binoculars for an even better view.
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler concluded his tour of Northern Ohio Tuesday with visits to Akron and Cleveland and announcing more than $2 million in federal grants. Akron will receive more than $1 million for the Gorge Dam removal project as part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
  • Updated: 10:08 a.m., Friday, Aug. 28, 2020 The University of Akron and Cleveland State University may soon merge law schools. The two Northeast Ohio schools announced a joint exploratory group Thursday to consider the creation of a unified school housed on both campuses. Such a merger would create the largest law school in Ohio and one of the largest public law schools in the country.
  • Statues honoring certain historic figures are coming down across the country as a nation reckons with its past. The Cleveland Restoration Society is looking to flip that script by installing a series of public markers to trace the Civil Rights struggle in Northeast Ohio. They’re conducting a survey to help determine likely sites.
  • When it comes to larger-than-life characters, writer Edward McClelland, author of “Folktales and Legends of the Middle West,” said our region of the country takes a backseat to no one. For example, long before there was a “man of steel,” there was a man “made of steel” who lived in Pittsburgh and worked in the mills 24 hours a day, every day.
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