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The mayor of Maple Heights says she’s hoping the state will release her inner-ring suburb from fiscal emergency early next year. The comments come after the state-appointed commission overseeing the city’s finances approved a new recovery plan Thursday. “We believe that we’re in a good position to ask the first of the year to formally make the announcement that we’re released,” said Mayor Annette Blackwell, a Democrat who took office in 2016 and is seeking another term this year.

Sonia Sanchez's work as a groundbreaking poet will be honored in Cleveland Thursday night with the lifetime achievement honor from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The prize was created in 1938 to celebrate literature that explores issues of race and diversity. Past winners have included such notables as playwright August Wilson, novelist Toni Morrison and civil rights leader Rev Martin Luther King, Jr.

Students at Akron Public Schools will begin a return to in-person learning a week ahead of schedule, but still after the state’s March 1 deadline. The school board approved the decision Monday. The original reopening plan had students back in the classroom March 22.

Jessica Watkins, a central Ohioan who participated in the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, will remain in jail until her trial. The Washington, D.C. federal district court judge’s decision to hold Watkins, despite the pretrial release of other alleged participants in the riot, focused on her leadership role in an antigovernment militia.

Dominion is seeking damages of $1.3 billion. According to the complaint, Lindell knowingly spread disinformation that Dominion's voting systems rigged the 2020 presidential election.

The combined efforts of the City of Cleveland, the Cuyahoga County Board of Health and MetroHealth System have already gotten the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to 100 people at the largest homeless shelter in Ohio — and hundreds more are at the ready. MetroHealth received about 1,000 vaccine doses for the effort, which began Friday at the Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry Men’s Shelter and will completely vaccinate 500 people, said MetroHealth family physician Dr. Michael Seidman.

Updated 4:55 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021 Cleveland is considering a lawsuit against FirstEnergy, accusing the Akron-based utility of undermining city-owned Cleveland Public Power, Mayor Frank Jackson said during a Tuesday budget presentation to city council. Jackson alleged that FirstEnergy sought to create a monopoly at CPP’s expense. Both utilities provide service to customers in the city.

Before approving a $3 million design and construction contract, Cuyahoga County Council members want assurances that a new centralized booking facility at the Justice Center in Downtown Cleveland would be used by Cleveland Municipal Court. “Is this a ‘if we build it, they will come,’ or is it ‘if we build it, they might come?’” asked Michael Gallagher, chairman of Cuyahoga County Council’s public safety committee, during a meeting Tuesday. Council members criticized county officials for seeking to move ahead without addressing the court’s concerns.

Gov. Mike DeWine’s proposal to cut public transit funding by nearly 90 percent could mean fewer capital improvements for the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority over the next two years. DeWine’s proposal, released last week, recommends a funding line for public transportation be cut from $70 million a year down to $7 million.

This week, Catholic leaders expressed moral concerns about the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine because it was produced in part using fetal cell lines from an abortion. They say Catholics should first opt for Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, which also used a fetal cell line in research, but not in production.