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About 150 protesters gathered outside the First District police station in the West Park neighborhood of Cleveland Tuesday afternoon to speak out against the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and excessive force by police across the country.

East Cleveland plans to scale back jail operations as part of its plan to get out of fiscal emergency. The city is following a trend among Northeast Ohio communities. Cuyahoga County has taken over local jails in recent years in Euclid, Bedford Heights and Cleveland. “We’ve met with the county maybe half a dozen times over the course of the last eight months to discuss moving our jail and our dispatch over to the county,” Mayor Brandon King said. He said the county “could manage it much more effectively and efficiently than we can here locally.”

Ireland is experiencing its worst heat wave in more than 40 years with temperatures hitting almost 90 — which is really hot for Ireland.

From old collections to family keepsakes, people can accumulate a lot of stuff. Inevitably, a time comes when people need to move or pare down collections and keepsakes. It can be daunting to sort through boxes of family photos or seek a new home for unneeded antiques or artwork.

When Katti Sorboro began to lose her hearing, she did not stop heading to the movies. Instead, she sat close to the speaker inside the theater and asked her daughter what was going on if she missed something. More recently, theaters have expanded services for the hearing impaired and she has tried different technology, like glasses that display closed-captioning. “It’s different, but like anything you get used to it,” she said.

The EPA has announced a six-year freeze in fuel efficiency standards with no exceptions for states to set their own standards. It is a rebuke for California, which along with at least a dozen other states, has higher fuel standards than the national requirements. Under Obama administration rules, fuel efficiency standards would have increased over time.

Lake County Commissioners are considering a resolution expressing support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. That and another resolution on immigration drew dozens of people to commissioners’ chambers for a meeting on Thursday. After a lengthy hearing, commissioners tabled the measures until the next meeting on Aug. 16.

The trade war that's already squeezing Ohio farmers is ratcheting up another notch. In response to the Trump administration announcing $16 billion in new tariffs against China on Tuesday, Chinese trade officials on Wednesday promised to retaliate with their own tariffs.

The President of the Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA), an organization with over 20,000 lawyers and judges among its membership, is speaking out against Issue 1, the statewide November ballot measure aimed at reducing penalties for low-level drug crimes.

Known for his surprise endings, American short-story writer O. Henry amazed readers in 1905 with his now-beloved Christmas tale "The Gift of the Magi." Fast forward to the early 1980s, when Painesville native Peter Ekstrom adapted the story of a young, married couple for the musical stage. "It's a Christmas story, but it's not heavy on religion, which is unique. They talk about Christmas, and it's a gift giving [story.] So that's what it is. Unselfish giving is what makes it appealing," he said.