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College students usually study Shakespeare if they're English or Theater majors. But this week at John Carroll University students from those areas along with other departments are reciting the words of the great "Bard." Actor Ffion Jolly works with John Carroll University students this week [photo: Sally Al-Qaraghuli]

For some in government, one of their major tasks is trying to anticipate the future and understand the present in global affairs. Such was the case for Mathew Burrows, who is now director for the Atlantic Council's Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative. “I grew up in Rocky River through high school, and then I went off to college,” Burrows says during a recent visit back to Cleveland for an event with the Cleveland Council on World Affairs.

Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan touted numerous improvements and goals in his State of the City Address today(Wednesday) and it appears Akron and Cleveland share some common ambitions. Voters approved recent income tax hikes in each city and both have been cranking up services. Horrigan notes two new fire stations are being built and last year saw a 174% increase in roads repaved, and 1,000 new housing units. He says the city is hiring experts to determine potential new sites for the main police station although it may not be a single building.

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson spent three hours talking budget with the city council Finance Committee Tuesday. He said an income tax hike voters approved in 2016 is paying for beefed up services. He reeled off the numbers from 2018: more police officers, more EMS, more tree trimming, more road services. It’s a far cry from the layoffs the city made in 2004 and 2008. But Jackson warned council to curb their enthusiasm. The mayor said he hasn’t forgotten the recession years.

Cleveland Clinic researchers have potentially detected a COVID-19 variant in Ohio related to the predominant strain of virus that has been linked to the outbreak in India.

COVID-19 vaccination rates have slowed in Ohio and across the country, and combined with new mutations of the virus circulating, health officials fear herd immunity may be out of reach.

At the Olympics, some countries have athlete rosters that are hundreds strong. And then there's the south Pacific island nation of Nauru, with a population of 10,000 and two athletes at the games.

Cooper Stadium, once a thriving center for minor league baseball in Columbus, sits abandoned in Franklinton after its last game was played in it, in…

Archaeologists have discovered a tunnel dug by Jews to escape the Nazis in Lithuania — a sign of resistance in a land where 90 percent of the Jewish population perished during the Holocaust.

The suspect, identified as Cedric Ford, is believed to have started shooting 90 minutes after he was served. Three people were killed and more than a dozen wounded before Ford was killed, police say.