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Cuyahoga County’s interim sheriff could stay in that role for another year, despite not meeting the new qualifications for the position. An extension of Sgt. David Schilling’s appointment as interim sheriff was approved by the county’s Public Safety & Justice Affairs Committee Tuesday. The resolution now goes before the full council.

Updated: 8:24 p.m. Dec. 2, 2019 The City of Cleveland will delay adoption of Cuyahoga County’s ban on retail plastic bags, but only by six months instead of the full year originally proposed. Under the amended city council legislation easily approved Monday night, a Cleveland working group will have until July 1, 2020, to propose possible citywide rules for disposable bags. That’s also when Cuyahoga County plans to begin collecting fines from retailers for giving out plastic bags to customers.

Marci Rich grew up in Elyria in the 1950s and 60s, an era she describes as the city’s “golden age.”

Megan McKnight moved to Cleveland's Clark-Fulton neighborhood a few weeks ago. And while she says she likes living there — she finds her daughter's school effective, the commercial district walkable — there are some missing elements that could make life better. "Nicer housing," she says. "A lot of what's here is really old. And we could use a few more stores, because you can't get everything you need without walking or driving a long way."

Oscar-nominated Ohio documentarian Julia Reichert has 50 years of experience in filmmaking. Her latest collaboration with longtime partner Steve Bognar is “American Factory.”

Cleveland’s police headquarters will move from Downtown to a new campus along the under-construction Opportunity Corridor road project in the Kinsman neighborhood. The Thursday announcement at a city council safety committee meeting offered clarity to the headquarters search for the first time since September 2018, when the city abruptly backed out of plans to use cleveland.com’s building at 1801 Superior Ave. “It will be the largest project that the city has done in decades,” interim Chief of Staff Sharon Dumas told council.

At first, Wayne Owens was uncertain about the idea of a playground occupying the exact spot where his son, Cleveland Police Officer Derek Owens, was fatally shot in November 2008. “I said to myself, ‘Oh boy, I don't know’,” Wayne Owens says, remembering the day several years ago when the Cleveland Police Foundation and several neighborhood groups first approached him with the idea.

Update: Nov. 8, 2019; 1:22 p.m. Newly formed Lordstown Motors has acquired the former General Motors Lordstown plant, according to statements from both companies Thursday. Terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed.

After spending nearly a decade researching and writing about legendary gunfighter Doc Holliday in her books '"Doc" and "Epitaph," Lyndhurst author Mary Doria Russell now turns her attention to another larger than life character. In her new novel, "The Women of the Copper Country," Russell digs into the history of "Big Annie" Clements, the Michigan labor leader whose story has been lost to history. The best-selling novelist discovered "Big Annie" in the PBS documentary "Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913."

Amid countless sales at big box stores over the post-Thanksgiving shopping weekend, some of Cleveland's newest retailers will be offering their own deals — from decidedly smallerboxes. BoxSpot, at Kinsman Avenue and East 81st Street, is a collection of 10 shipping containers, painted yellow and gray and repurposed to hold seven independently owned stores. Tenants include everything from a candy shop to an eyeglass store. There's also an outdoor picnic and performance space with tables and benches.