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In early March, ideastream's Chief Marketing Officer Todd Mesek lost his brother Tim suddenly to a heart attack. As the family made arrangements to remember their lost loved one, the coronavirus changed their plans to grieve with family and friends. The Mesek family is now searching for ways to mourn and remember Tim from their homes.

It’s time for my annual crowdsourced commencement speech, every word coming from friends who commented on my Facebook post asking for advice for the Class of 2020. This year’s speech is clearly shaped by the current coronavirus pandemic and has a decidedly hopeful tone — something we could all use right about now, graduates or not. So, tighten up your mask, sit six feet away from any other graduate, and enjoy this crowdsourced commencement speech. To the Class of 2020: Wash your hands!

Business owners in Downtown Cleveland and Ohio City are raising concerns about whether a lengthy lockdown in the aftermath of Saturday’s protest against the death of George Floyd is necessary. Just off of West 25th Street in Ohio City, Michael Kaplan had the doors of the Glass Bubble Project, his glass studio and shop, open on Monday morning while all the other businesses on this usually busy commercial strip were closed. “I’m an artist, so where else would I go?” Kaplan said.

Casinos is Las Vegas are reopening Thursday, after being shuttered for more than two months. Workers there are eager to start getting paid again, but they're also worried about their health.

Lisa Kenion lives in Euclid, right off of Lake Erie. She’s a member of the Moss Point Beach Club, a neighborhood with a private little patch of lakefront property. “Every Friday night, if the weather is good in the summer, there’s a group of people that come down and we watch the sunset together,” Kenion said. But a recent storm threatened the beach club’s lakefront oasis. A chunk of land fell off their bluff and right next to the lake. Caution tape wraps around a bench and a fence along the lakefront.

Democrats around the country are mobilizing around the issue of gerrymandering. But whether it's enough to excite voters who often sit out midterm elections is another question.

Shootings are up by 20 perecent because of the rash of shootings in Cleveland over the past week when compared to a year ago, according to the Partnership for a Safer Cleveland. So far this year, Cleveland police say there have been 64 homicides. A majority of the shooting deaths in the city have taken place in the predominantly-black neighborhoods on the East Side, the group reported — a stark reminder that people in these communities are often exposed to gun violence at a greater rate than other parts of Cleveland.

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After a grand jury report alleging mass child abuse in the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania, some parishioners skipped Mass, including a family who says their identity and community are in question.

Jim Thome has become the first home-grown Cleveland Indians player since Larry Doby to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. It had been...