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Updated: 5:51 p.m., Tuesday, March 31, 2020 An appeals court decision in Butler County Monday throws Ohio's program for arming teachers into doubt. According to the decision in the lawsuit challenging Madison Township’s armed teacher policies, state law requires a school employee undergo the state’s peace officer training program or have experience working as a police officer to serve in a security role.

Gov. Mike DeWine said he plans to ask for the early release of 141 inmates under Ohio's Overcrowding Emergency statute in order to help reduce and stop...

All K-12 students in Ohio are now staying home from school through May 1 to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, Gov. Mike DeWine announced at his Monday press conference. Gov. Mike DeWine originally mandated a three-week "extended spring break" that would have extended through April 3 — this Friday.

Updated: 5:05 p.m., Friday, April 3, 2020 Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson has extended the city’s Proclamation of Civil Emergency through the end of April, and is already bracing for the possiblity that mass gatherings and special events may be put on hold for the summer. “We can expect to have social distancing and enforcement of that,” Jackson said at a Friday morning pandemic response briefing. “Anywhere that there is a potential mass gathering, we will not issue a permit for.”

Updated: 10:56 a.m., Tuesday, March 10, 2020. The Plain Dealer will lay off 22 staffers later this month, including 18 members of the Cleveland newspaper’s union, Local 1 of the Northeast Ohio Newspaper Guild. The layoffs are “strictly financial,” Editor-in-Chief Tim Warsinskey said in a statement published on cleveland.com, news website that is also owned by the paper’s sister company, Advance Local.

Powerful storms and tornadoes roared across middle Tennessee overnight, killing at least 22 people throughout the state. Rescue crews spent the day searching for victims and cleaning up.

An NPR analysis of 1,200 counties across five key demographics offers a first look at how a diverse swath of the country is voting so far in the Democratic presidential primary race.

The day after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced all K-12 schools would be closing for “an extended spring break,” Will Goldstein, a father-of-three from Orange, started a Facebook group. “I created it over breakfast on a whim,” Goldstein said. “I’m thinking that a few of my friends would join me and that we would share ideas for keeping our kids entertained and keep ourselves sane.”

Northeast Ohio’s local governments are sending home hundreds of workers in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. The Summit County Executive’s Office is placing 147 employees on paid administrative leave and allowing another 101 to work from home, according to communications director Greta Johnson. Another 448 essential employees will continue to work on-site, Johnson said. The county has ordered additional work stations to allow more employees to work from home.

Updated on May 5, 2020 at 4:30 p.m.