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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.

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.”

University officials from around Ohio spoke with Gov. Mike DeWine Tuesday in support of hazing reform, as lawmakers in Columbus consider drafting a proposal to create legal penalties for hazing on college campuses. Gov. DeWine included a plea to eliminate hazing in a regular coronavirus update Monday following the death of a Bowling Green University student during a hazing incident. The governor said he supports proposed changes to legislation from Ohio Sen. Stephanie Kunze (R-Hilliard).

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?”

The president of the Cleveland Warriors, the local amateur football team made up of police and corrections officers and first responders, appears to have resigned. That’s what team president and coach, Bill Sofranko, texted Randy Knight, an ex-player protesting the team’s inclusion of Timothy Loehmann, the former Cleveland police officer who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014.

Cleveland City Council approved Mayor Frank Jackson’s $1.8 billion budget Monday afternoon, increasing operating spending slightly after the COVID-19 pandemic dented last year’s revenues. The city’s income tax revenue took a hit last year and the pandemic wiped out much of Cleveland’s revenue from taxes on hotel rooms and event admissions. Revenue in those areas is expected to recover this year, but still fall short of 2019 levels.

Updated: 6:12 p.m., Wedensday, March 17, 2021 The FBI arrested a 20-year-old Lorain man Wednesday on charges that he attacked a Capitol Police officer while storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Authorities charged Clifford Mackrell with assaulting an officer, entering restricted grounds, obstruction of law enforcement and violent entry.

Wage gaps between Black and white laborers in Ohio have widened over the last two decades, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and a significant Black-white employment gap persists as well. Ohio tends to generally follow national economic inclusion patterns, said Cleveland Fed Senior Policy Analyst Kyle Fee, but the most recent numbers show the state is underperforming. “Most recently, in 2020, Ohio has a larger Black-white employment rate gap than the rest of the nation,” Fee said.