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Cleveland has seen a spike in new coronavirus cases in June, public health officials told city council on Monday. For 103 new patients, initial symptoms trace back to the third week of June, according to a city health department presentation. That was a jump over the prior two weeks, but below symptom onset numbers for earlier in May. The city reported 75 new cases on Sunday, the biggest daily increase in Cleveland's case count to date. Health Director Merle Gordon said those numbers were not reflected in her presentation to city council.

Ongoing impeachment proceedings in Washington, D.C., may not have much of an impact on the local level in 2020 elections, even as House Democrats announced two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump Tuesday. The impeachment process hasn’t changed many minds, in Northeast Ohio or elsewhere, said Baldwin Wallace University Political Science Professor Tom Sutton.

Ohioans mailed in ballots, drove them to boards of elections and even cast votes in person while wearing facemasks as the state’s rescheduled primary election concluded Tuesday. Six weeks after state officials postponed the March 17 primary to avoid spreading the coronavirus, voters arriving at boards of elections were met with temperature checks and workers wearing gloves and masks.

The COVID-19 pandemic halted the entire sports world from the NCAA Final Four to Major League Baseball's Opening Day to arguably the biggest sporting event in the world — the 2020 Olympic Games. On March 24, the International Olympic Committee postponed the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo to 2021.

Brecksville City Council will hold a final vote later this month on millions in proposed incentives to bring home the new Sherwin-Williams research and development facility. Six ordinances related to the proposed development passed a second reading Tuesday. The Sherwin-Williams R&D center, set to be built in Brecksville’s Valor Acres project, is expected to bring hundreds of jobs to the city as part of a larger regional expansion that includes a new headquarters in the heart of Downtown Cleveland.

Northeast Ohio local governments are weighing whether to join Attorney General Dave Yost’s One Ohio plan for dividing state opioid settlement money from drug companies. The proposal would create a statewide foundation, run by both state and local appointees, to distribute 55 percent of any settlement dollars. Another 30 percent would go directly to local governments. The attorney general’s office would receive 15 percent.

Updated: 3:55 p.m., Friday, March 20, 2020 A Lucas County man has died of the coronavirus, the first in Ohio to lose his life to the global pandemic, Gov. Mike DeWine announced at a Friday afternoon news conference. The announcement comes as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ohio rises to 169, with 39 hospitalizations. DeWine described the man, Mark Wagoner Sr., as a well-liked and respected Toledo attorney who was prominent in the state Republican Party.

A new study found people age 50 and older are around 2-and-a-half times more likely to develop a severe case of COVID-19. Being male raised the odds 1.3 times.

Cuyahoga County is struggling to acquire needed protective gear for first responders, and other employees who must enter private homes as part of their work, said County Executive Armond Budish. Speaking at the county’s daily news briefing on the coronavirus pandemic, Budish said there is a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) needed to keep workers safe who have personal contact with the public.

Before Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine ordered barbershops and hair salons closed, Black Cat Barbershop on Cleveland’s West Side wrestled with what do to do. “Every day was this weird tug of war, of like, ‘Should we be open? Is it responsible to be open?’” co-owner Ryan Hardwick said. “It was heavy, it was heavy. I was glad he shut us down. To be honest, it was like, he did it for us. He made the decision for us. And I guess that’s really what we were waiting for.”