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  • Planes are carrying medical personnel, essential workers and people returning from abroad or visiting critically ill relatives. Airlines are blocking middle seats and taking other safety measures.
  • The beloved singer-songwriter who influenced generations of folk, country and Americana artists died Tuesday at the age of 73.
  • One of the most often-posed questions from both vendors and customers about the future of Cleveland's West Side Market, has been about site management. Instead of the City of Cleveland they ask, should operations be converted to a dedicated nonprofit, focused solely on the market’s improvement and success? There is an example of the impact of just such a change. It happened 17 years ago, in Cincinnati.
  • Nursing homes banned all visitors and nonessential workers from their facilities in mid-March to stop the spread of COVID-19. Advocates and families want that ban to end.
  • It’s been years in the making, but this month plans for a Lake Erie wind farm took a step, or at least a half-step, forward. The staff of the Ohio Siting Board conditionally approved plans to put wind turbines 8 to 10 miles offshore. Developers would have to monitor danger to bats and birds from spinning turbine blades, for example, if the site is to run at night.
  • For as long as he can remember, Angel Benavides, 14, has moved with his parents to follow the harvest. He splits his school year between Texas and North Dakota — and keeping up hasn't been easy.
  • The nation's 41st president loved horseshoes, went skydiving, and of course, was a self-proclaimed "sock man."
  • About 400 parents and kids load up their trays with dinner from Swensons and settle into the I Promise School cafeteria and gym for a quick guide to managing money, a pitch for flu shots and a student performance on messages hidden in old spirituals. These kinds of family gatherings happen once a month and at least 80 percent of the I Promise families participate, according to Nicole Hassen, the Akron Public Schools liaison to the LeBron James Family Foundation.
  • TLC's 1999 smash was a song women loved about the men they wouldn't put up with. Two decades later, fans still take its message to heart when scrubs run amok.
  • Japan and the United States have a long history of not only economic competition, but also cultural exchange. In the U.S., for instance, sushi and anime are popular. And the Japanese long ago adopted baseball and jazz. If that’s old news to you, here’s one America-to-Japan export that might surprise you: U.S. convenience stores. This story is about one of those stores: an iconic Ohio chain that went extinct here decades ago, only to become one of the most ubiquitous convenience store brands in Japan.
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