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In a rebound from its record plunge, the Dow gained more than 1,000 points as the White House planned a massive stimulus package and the Fed set up a new loan program to boost the economy.

In a recent letter to the community, Willoughby-Eastlake City Schools Superintendent Steve Thompson, said the district is “at a crossroad.” It is a fiscal situation so dire that if the operating levy on the March ballot is not passed, there will have to be $5 million in cuts, on top of the millions cut from the schools that operating levies were voted down in August and November of last year.

Cuyahoga County Council took a deeper look Monday into the $23 million plan to fund drug treatment, a new drug court, a jail diversion center and other with the first wave of money paid out by drug companies to settle lawsuits over the opioid crisis.

The retired Archbishop of the Cincinnati Archdiocese, Daniel E. Pilarczyk, who retired in 2009 as the longest tenured archbishop in the country, died...

Following Gov. Mike DeWine's order for Ohioans to stay at home except for essential trips, a growing number of Northeast Ohio grocery stores have altered their hours or are offering "elderly-only" shopping windows for customers over the age of 60.

The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections voted to allow some polling stations’ classifications to reduce staffing requirements as part of the effort to meet staffing needs ahead of Tuesday’s primary. The board is usually required to have four precinct election officials (PEO) per precinct. In Cuyahoga County, the 975 precincts require around 3,900 PEOs, said BOE Director Tony Perlatti.

Most of Ohio’s Bureau of Motor Vehicle locations will close indefinitely at the end of the day Wednesday, under the latest public health order from Gov. Mike DeWine. Five BMV locations will remain open to continue issuing commercial drivers’ licenses (CDLs) — which DeWine said is considered essential to keep fighting the virus — but the other 181 will close. “We have to keep moving the food, we have to keep moving the medical supplies,” DeWine said of the need to continue issuing and renewing CDLs.

Most Downtown Cleveland sidewalks are finally clear of broken glass and clean after protests turned violent Saturday night. Now, the Downtown Cleveland Alliance (DCA) is talking with business owners and the city about next steps. Graffiti removal is next on the agenda, said DCA President Joe Marinucci. But that will take days, he said, and there is a longer-term recovery to discuss.

"It was under a canopy of stars in the lush, forested vegetation of the Rocky Mountains and had not moved from the spot where I hid it more than 10 years ago," millionaire Forrest Fenn says.