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A plan for the future of a local arts center and public park in Cleveland Heights is on the table this month.

The nonprofit Cleveland Tenants Organization formed more than 40 years ago to help renters in the city resolve disputes with landlords. This week, the group announced that it will shut down. Money isn’t coming in like it used to, and the board of directors no longer saw a way forward.

By Nick Evans, WOSU The Columbus suburb of Westerville is reeling after two of its police officers were shot and killed responding to a 911 hang-up emergency call over the weekend. Police have charged 30-year-old Quentin Lamar Smith with two counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of the two veteran officers.

Manufacturing jobs may be declining, but at least two Northeast Ohio industries are expected to buck the trend in 2018. That's according to Jacob Duritsky, Vice President of Strategy and Research at the nonprofit economic development organization, Team NEO. For years, Duritsky has focused on trying to understand the forces that shape Northeast Ohio’s economy. And in an interview with ideastream, he forecasted a few economic stories he expects to play out over the next year.

Live music is one of the favorite activities of residents at Menorah Park nursing home in Beachwood. 81-year-old Elaine Miller has been living here for nearly 2 years. It took a fall and an injury a few years back to spur her realization that she would soon need to rely on nursing home care as she aged. "I couldn’t imagine myself in long-term care," Miller said. "But that’s what it came down to. I can’t take care of myself. I can’t go to the bathroom on my own, I can’t shower on my own, I can’t do any of those things on my own."

In a time when anyone can snap a picture on a smart phone some Northeast Ohioans are getting their pictures taken the old-fashioned way. Once a week for the past decade, the Pretentious Artists of Cleveland have used paint, pencil and pastel to capture hundreds of local faces.

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson faced a skeptical crowd last night in his bid for re-election. At an East Side forum with the mayor, supporters of one of his challengers packed the audience. Roughly half the people in the basement of Mt. Gillion Baptist Church wore t-shirts that either bore the name of Councilman Jeff Johnson or displayed messages in favor of raising Cleveland’s minimum wage, a cause Johnson has supported.

Artwork doesn't go on display right away when the Cleveland Museum of Art acquires it. The first stop is the conservation department. Some pieces move through quickly, and others require work. Yi-Hsia Hsiao and her colleague speak to one another in Chinese as they work on smoothing out the creases on a wet piece of patterned, silk spread on the table in the Asian painting lab on a recent afternoon. “I’m an art doctor. I save art[‘s] life,” said Hsaio, an assistant conservator of Chinese paintings.

Brian K. Vaughan [photo: Kevin Knight] Every art form seems to have its equivalent to the Oscars. In the comic book world it's the Eisner Award. Cleveland native and St. Ignatius grad, Brian K. Vaughan, recently took home the Eisner for "Best Writer" and "Best Continuing Series" for his popular, graphic novel, Saga, which is for mature audiences.

After prayers in both English and Spanish asking for guidance for local and national leaders, nearly 50 members of the Forest Hill Presbyterian Church and surrounding community stood on the steps of the Cleveland Heights chapel in support of Leonor Garcia. The mother of four recently lived and worked in the Akron area, but now calls the church itself her home. Garcia came to the U.S. illegally as a teenager some 20 years ago, but had recently been contacted by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency and was slated to be deported Thursday.