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After being investigated for complaints of racial discrimination, Cleveland’s health department has been reorganized to better focus on addressing issues such as racism, crime and violence as public health crises, Mayor Frank Jackson said Thursday. That's why, he said, the department is now under the city’s Office of Prevention, Intervention and Opportunities for Youth and Young Adults, which was created in 2017 to improve the quality of life for children in impoverished neighborhoods.

A collection of Northeast Ohio transgender and LGBT advocacy groups on Friday discussed the death of Lea Rayshon Daye, a Black transgender woman, in the Cuyahoga County Jail. Daye was found unresponsive by corrections officers at the jail Sunday morning, according to a press release from the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless. She had been in custody for 105 days, according to the release.

Shaker Heights City School District has reversed plans to bring students back for in-person instruction next week as the coronavirus case count spikes in Cuyahoga County. But the district is considering options for a return in the near future. Shaker school officials are launching a weekly communications effort to keep parents in the loop about an eventual return, Superintendent David Glasner said Friday. Families will be notified of the return to on-site learning a minimum of two days in advance, he said.

Hurricane Zeta came ashore in Louisiana on Wednesday as a Category 2 storms. The hurricane strengthened before landfall and is expected to bring a storm surge up to 11 feet.

The Commerce Department reported record-setting economic growth during the most recent quarter. But the economy is far from healthy, after a record-shattering collapse earlier this year.

U.S. GDP grew at a record 33.1% annualized pace in the third quarter, erasing some but not all of the damage done by the coronavirus recession.

Statewide polls opened at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and Ohio was already on track to continue its record breaking voter turnout. By Monday, the Ohio Secretary of State reported more than 3 million Ohioans had already voted early or absentee before Election Day itself, a number representing 60 percent of the total votes cast in the entire 2016 general election.

Ohio set a new record this week, with more than 4,000 new COVID-19 cases for the second day in a row, according to the Ohio Department of Health. Throughout the pandemic, nursing homes have been hotspots for the virus, with a large percentage of the deaths, but workers and their unions have complained they don't have proper protective equipment.

Ohioans receiving unemployment benefits can expect an additional $300 weekly starting mid-to-late September. The payments will be retroactive, going back to Aug. 1. Ohio Restaurant Association (ORA) President John Baker told ideastream those additional funds are “really a lifeline” for many restaurant employees, whose industry has been particularly hard hit by the pandemic.

Updated: 5:50 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020 Cleveland’s Indian American and African American communities are celebrating the inclusion of a woman of color on a presidential ticket with Sen. Kamala Harris joining former Vice President Joe Biden as his running mate.