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Children with toxic lead exposure will soon have fewer roadblocks to qualify for Ohio’s Early Intervention program. State lawmakers on the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review today paved the way for the Department of Developmental Disabilities to automatically include children with elevated blood levels in the program. This will include children with a blood lead level of 5 micrograms per deciliter or higher, said Gabriella Celeste, the policy director of Case Western Reserve University’s Shubert Center for Child Studies.

A Cuyahoga County grand jury did not indict Cleveland Police Sgt. Dean Graziolli in the January 2018 off-duty shooting death of Thomas Yatsko, according to the Franklin County attorney who was brought in as a special prosecutor on the case. The grand jury spent two days reviewing evidence from the evening of Jan. 13, 2018, outside the Corner Alley in University Circle that left 21-year-old Yatsko dead, said Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien in a Thursday statement. The grand jury concluded no crime had been committed.

Local residents interested in understanding issues faced by LGBTQ members of their communities can learn more on Wednesday, when the City of South Euclid holds its "AllyShip 101" workshop. It's the second in a series of four diversity forums conducted by the city.

A dock at Cleveland's port is out of commission indefinitely because it's not structurally sound. At a roundtable discussion with maritime industry executives and representatives of several elected officials this week in Cleveland on the infrastructure challenges facing the Great Lakes' aging ports, Port of Cleveland CEO and president Will Friedman said that engineers discovered during an annual inspection that the dock's steel wall had rusted away at the base.

The U.S. Men's National Soccer Team (USMNT) lost to the Venezuelan national team on Sunday, 3-0, in the team's first-ever game in Cincinnati .

Members of the Lorain Board of Education were presented with two potential paths to remove the district’s CEO earlier this week, but the head of Lorain’s schools said he doesn’t report to the board and doesn't have any legal obligation to attend their meetings. Monday, gubernatorial candidate Dennis Kucinich presented members with two potential legal options to get rid of schools’ CEO David Hardy Jr.-- a petitioned referendum by voters or a legal challenge to House Bill 70.

One Northeast Ohio school district is graduating students at a higher rate this year largely due to a change in state law for the Class of 2018. Ninety-three percent of Akron City Schools’ seniors are expected to graduate this year, up from an estimated 54 percent who were on track to graduate at the beginning of the school year.

When Ohio’s scores on the National Assessment of Education Progress, or NAEP, exam were released last month, they showed almost no academic growth for Ohio fourth and eighth graders, much like the rest of the country. In fact, Florida was one of the only states to show progress, especially with low-income and black students.

Tickets go on sale today for Coach House Theatre 's first production under its new artistic directors – the third creative team to run the theater in...

Three states in the country's northwest bore the brunt of the rain-and-dust storm, with most of the deaths believed to have been in Rajasthan.