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WKSU teamed up with WCPN for a special episode of Sound of Ideas focused on what voters need to know to make sure their vote counts this year's elections.

The Willoughby-Eastlake School District closed all of its school buildings and shifted its students to remote learning Monday. In a letter to families over the weekend, Superintendent Steve Thompson said the district had learned of COVID-19 exposures at Longfellow Elementary School and Jefferson Elementary School.

Local health officials are warning that without big changes, the area will see a huge number of new COVID-19 cases in the next two weeks. During a video...

Jury trials in Cuyahoga County won’t resume until at least Sept. 21 after Common Pleas Court judges on Monday voted to extend a moratorium that was expected to be lifted next week. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Administrative and Presiding Judge Brendan Sheehan said the recent resurgence in COVID-19 numbers convinced the judges that Aug. 10 was too early to bring back juries.

The Jordan Community Resource Center (Jordan CRC) in Cleveland Heights received a $500,000 federal grant to continue its work providing safe housing and services for human trafficking victims. The Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime is granting a total of $35 million to 73 organizations nationwide to help offer short-term housing assistance for trafficking victims, as well help locating permanent housing, securing employment and receiving occupational training and counseling.

Students in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) will remain in remote learning through Jan. 22, the end of the second quarter. In a recorded message to families Monday, CMSD CEO Eric Gordon said he’s concerned about an increase in COVID-19 cases following the winter holiday break. “Public health experts anticipate this spike will continue to worsen through the holiday and into January, and possibly through February, before finally beginning to subside in early spring when COVID-19 vaccines are expected to begin reaching our communities,” he said.

California is joining some other states in lowering the age of eligibility. It has distributed just shy of 900,000 doses and has more than 2 million doses on hand.

Dr. Thomas Gilson, Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner, announced Friday he has requested refrigerated trucks in preparation for a surge in COVID-19 deaths. The request is part of the county’s pandemic plan, which requires them to ask for refrigerated units if the county reaches three sustained days of 30 or more deaths. The county reached that threshold in the last week, Gilson said. “In conversations with funeral homes, they are reporting they are busy but not overwhelmed. There is not a storage issue right now,” Gilson said.

The City of Akron and Mayor Dan Horrigan will not pursue an extension on the current limits for private gatherings, Horrigan announced Thursday, due in large part to the lack of cooperation and coordination from surrounding cities. The private gathering ordinance passed Nov. 17, which prohibits residents from having more than six people from outside their own household in their home at any time, will expire Dec. 16.

The French jazz pianist was best known for his 1975 collaboration with classical flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal. It stayed on the Billboard charts for more than ten years.