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This is one of a series of interviews highlighting the winners of the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Find morehere.

Akronite Sage Lewis and his organization, The Homeless Charity LLC, lost their latest attempt to build a tent city for homeless people. The Akron Board of Zoning Appeals turned down a request on Wednesday for a variance to allow the encampment on Lewis’s property at 15 Broad St. in the Middlebury neighborhood of east Akron.

Robin Hood has made great fodder for storytelling for centuries. The English folk legend fist was the hero of a 15th-century ballad. He then commanded a 19th-century childrens book before starring in the 20th-century silver-screen classic. Zack Powell as Robin Hood [photo: Roger Mastroianni]

The prominent Republican lawyer, confirmed by the Senate Thursday, will lead the Justice Department for a second time. He first served as attorney general under George H.W. Bush in the early '90s.

Three months after a report detailing problems at the Cuyahoga County Jail, the U.S. Marshals Service says it has not returned its detainees to the downtown jail. In November, the U.S. Marshal’s office in Washington released a report on the county jail system that described a long list of what it called “inhumane” conditions. U.S. Marshal Peter Elliot, head of the Cleveland office, stopped bringing detainees to the jail downtown.

A Northeast Ohio judge says it’s not the right time to talk about consolidating the roughly dozen municipal court systems in Cuyahoga County. The idea of fusing the county’s 13 separate municipal courts has circulated for years, and two common pleas judges floated the notion anew in a story this week in Cleveland.com.

State and federal law enforcement raided Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish’s office Thursday afternoon, a move that Budish denounced as “without justification.” About nine agents from the FBI and the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation arrived before noon and spent several hours in the county headquarters building, leaving just before 4 p.m., county spokeswoman Mary Louise Madigan said. They left with five boxes, an envelope of equipment and two hard drives, one of which belonged to Budish, Madigan said.

Local rockers in the band Herzog are adjusting to life changes. Not just grey hairs, but specifically raising children. For the band, it means changes to their way of touring, recording and songwriting. Herzog [photo: Dan Price of Suzuran Photography]

A national transit expert hired by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority said the system and its riders must make tough choices between widespread bus coverage and frequent service in busy places. Jarrett Walker addressed RTA’s board and the public Tuesday afternoon. Walker and RTA are gathering public input on that question and plan to come up with possible service maps over the course of the year. The idea is to focus the agency’s limited resources.

A Bail Project employee is suing the city of Cleveland and police officers over his arrest last year, saying his Downtown residency exempted him from the curfew order imposed after the May 30 demonstrations and rioting.