A Cuyahoga County Sheriff's transport vehicle sits in the sally port where inmates first arrive to the Justice Center in downtown Cleveland. (David Petkiewicz, cleveland.com) |
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Inmate transport: In the last five years, Cuyahoga County has transferred over 950 people from its downtown jail to facilities in other counties to await trial or serve short sentences of less than one year, but it has never offered them a way back home. People exiting the jail in downtown Cleveland are more likely to have the benefit of family living nearby who can pick them up, Kaitlin Durbin reports. Those exiting jails elsewhere, like Geauga County, where the vast majority of people end up, can have a harder journey home. DeWine veto: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday announced he has vetoed controversial legislation that would prohibit minors from receiving gender-affirming medical treatment and ban transgender athletes from playing women’s high-school and college sports, Laura Hancock and Jeremy Pelzer report. Advocates for LGBTQ youth celebrated the decision, but it doesn’t close the door on a range of potential policy changes. |
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Redistricting: Republicans at the Ohio Statehouse currently hold the largest supermajorities that either party has had had since the Ohio legislature went to one-member districts in the 1960s. And under the new House and Senate redistricting maps, passed in September by the GOP-controlled Ohio Redistricting Commission, it’s all but certain that Republicans will keep firm control over both chambers after next year’s legislative elections, Jeremy Pelzer reports. Reading lawsuit: As Ohio schools and districts prepare to change how they teach students reading, an education group has sued the state, saying the effort is illegal. Laura Hancock reports the Reading Recovery Council of North America, which supports 2,400 elementary schools in Ohio and across the country in their work to assist struggling readers, wants a Franklin County judge to toss out reading requirements that legislators inserted into the two-year budget bill passed over the summer. Gas cutoffs: Utility companies cut off gas and electric service on Ohioans more than 355,000 times last year over a combined $275 million in debt, state data shows. The data shows that of all the large gas and electric utilities operating, American Electric Power cuts off electric service far more frequently than any other, Jake Zuckerman reports. |
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Judge booted: The Ohio Supreme Court has kicked longtime and controversial Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul off the bench he has served on since 1991, Cory Shaffer and Jake Zuckerman report. The Ohio Disciplinary Counsel, which investigates the state’s attorneys involving complaints of misconduct, said Gaul made derogatory comments to several defendants, improperly jailed a defendant for disrespecting him in court and coerced a man to plead no contest to a murder that the man would later be found not guilty of committing. Prosecutor ruling: A former federal prosecutor has received a two-year, fully stayed suspension from practicing law in Ohio from the Ohio Supreme Court for sexually harassing an intern, Molly Walsh reports. |
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Resolutions: What does it take to finally follow through on these perennial goals? Eileen Anderson, director of Bioethics and Medical Humanities at Case Western Reserve University, tells Hannah Drown that the formula for success is actually much simpler than you might think. |
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Robberies: Akron police are trying to determine if the same person was responsible after a GameStop and a Denny’s were robbed over the weekend, Cliff Pinckard reports. |
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2024 concerts: While there are plenty of big acts, young and old, coming to the Cleveland area in 2024, Northeast Ohio seems to be taking a backseat to our southern metropolitan neighbors down in Columbus and Cincinnati, and even to cities like Indianapolis and Pittsburgh, Malcolm X Abram reports. |
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Parma boy, 8, Ohio woman die in New Year’s Eve crash in Florida, reports say Read more Rocky River Schools improves communications due to recent events Read more Avon Lake Library prepares a treasure trove of activities for January and February Read more John Carroll University adds info for Fairmount Circle zoning changes before Shaker planners Read more Parma Law Director Tim Dobeck takes over as Parma Municipal Court judge Read more Shaker Heights council approves 2024 budget, plus year-end closeouts Read more |
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