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The Labor Day weekend is shaping up to be a beauty for weather. Forecasts call for mostly sunny skies through Sunday and partly sunny skies on Monday. Highs today will be around 70, but will be in the upper 70s Saturday and Sunday before reaching 80 on Monday. Read more.
Police shooting: A Cleveland police officer and an unknown man are dead after a shooting and car crash Thursday night on the city’s West Side, Adam Ferrise reports. Det. James Skernivitz, 53, was killed in the shooting, according to three sources with knowledge of the investigation. The shooting happened about 10 p.m. on West 65th Street near Storer Avenue in the city’s Stockyards neighborhood. Cleveland police spokeswoman Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia said no arrests have been made and investigators are still searching for the shooter or shooters.
COVID at college: About 35% percent of Ohio’s coronavirus cases in the past week were in the 18-22 age group, with many public universities across the state significantly contributing to their county’s coronavirus level, Emily Bamforth reports. DeWine continued the consistent message he’s issued on college partying — if students want to have a fall semester, they need to be careful.
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This Week in the CLE: Why does the Ohio Senate not want to measure what students are learning while they’re in online school? We’re talking about a move to stop school testing and report cards that would give Ohioans an idea of what kids are learning during the pandemic on This Week in the CLE, cleveland.com’s daily half-hour news podcast.
Testing at wastewater treatment plants, like this Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District facility, could help public health experts predict outbreaks of the coronavirus, research says. (Photo by Lisa DeJong, The Plain Dealer)
Wastewater monitoring: After months of work, state and federal officials have set up a coronavirus wastewater monitoring network in 22 Ohio cities to detect early-warning signs of possible COVID-19 cases, Jeremy Pelzer reports. Under the initiative, researchers at sewage treatment plants in Toledo, Akron, Dayton, Sandusky, Newark, and Lancaster, among other cities, will look for gene copies or fragments of non-infectious RNA from the coronavirus. Sampling efforts have also been underway in Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati.
Halting evictions: Local advocates for landlords and tenants are worried about how President Donald Trump’s move to halt evictions until the end of the year will play out. Eric Heisig reports that while housing advocates are happy that more people might not lose their homes in the middle of the pandemic and the corresponding recession, they said the administration’s order postpones the inevitable and leaves tenants owing even more money to landlords in the end.
Coronavirus vaccine: Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday he was confident that federal officials would not release a coronavirus vaccine before one was ready, despite public pressure mounting from President Donald Trump amid a heated re-election campaign. Seth Richardson reports DeWine said he was confident that when a vaccine for the virus – which is currently being fast-tracked – is released, it will be done so with proper safety.
Seven counties are red on this Ohio Public Health Advisory map. (Ohio Governor’s Office)
Color-coded map: Ohio has seven red-alert counties in its new coronavirus map: Lucas, Putnam, Mercer, Butler, Montgomery, Preble and Wayne. Laura Hancock reports Lorain County dropped two levels, from red to yellow.
New numbers: The Ohio Department of Health on Thursday reported 1,345 new cases, above the 21-day rolling average of 1,033, Laura Hancock reports. Fifty people have died since Thursday’s report, bringing the total to 4,226 deaths. In all, 127,112 people have had COVID-19 in Ohio, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
Cleveland numbers: Twenty-four new cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed among city residents, along with one death, a woman in her 70s, Cliff Pinckard reports. There have been 148 deaths attributed to the COVID-19 coronavirus and 5,061 confirmed cases overall since March.
Nursing homes: At least 2,710 patients of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities have died with coronavirus, an increase of 79 deaths this week, Rich Exner reports. Sixty-five percent of the 4,176 reported coronavirus-related deaths in Ohio have involved long-term care facility patients. Another area of concentration has been Ohio’s prisons, home to 90 inmate deaths and five staff.
Ballot applications: Millions of Ohioans are receiving unsolicited ballot applications in the mail this week, leading some voters who have already requested a ballot to wonder why they’re getting another form. Andrew Tobias reports the reason for the duplication is a disconnect between all the parties involved with promoting elections and voting — candidate campaigns, third-party groups, county elections officials and state elections officials. You don’t have to send in a second application if you’ve already submitted one.
Hyphenated names: The decision to remove hyphens and other special characters from the names of Ohio voters dates back to 2015, but Secretary of State Frank LaRose has continued the practice, meant to ensure data uniformity. Andrew Tobias reports that the practice differs from data at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, which includes hyphens while maintaining records that frequently are used to verify voters’ identities.
Householder plea: Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder on Thursday entered a not guilty plea in a $60 million bribery scheme designed to pass House Bill 6. John Caniglia reports Householder appeared with Cleveland attorney Steven Bradley via video before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephanie K. Bowman in Cincinnati.
Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was arraigned Thursday on charges he led a $60 million bribery scheme to get House Bill 6 passed. Patrick O’Donnell, The Plain Dealer
Householder plea: Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder on Thursday entered a not guilty plea in a $60 million bribery scheme designed to pass House Bill 6. John Caniglia reports Householder appeared with Cleveland attorney Steven Bradley via video before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephanie K. Bowman in Cincinnati.
Death row: A judge in Cuyahoga County declared that former death row inmate Joe D’Ambrosio, who spent two decades on death row, was wrongfully imprisoned due to prosecutorial misconduct at his 1989 murder trial. Cory Shaffer reports the designation is one in a long line of legal procedures that now allows D’Ambrosio to seek money from the state for his time behind bars.
That’s Rich: Until the state gets the extra short-term unemployment benefits of $300 a week in the hands of unemployed Ohioans, there will continue to be a lot of anxiety. Rich Exner answers readers’ questions about unemployment.
Russian sanctions: U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio on Thursday joined the top Democrats on several U.S. Senate committees in urging the U.S. Treasury Department to sanction Russia for its efforts to interfere with the 2020 election by “using a range of measures to primarily denigrate former Vice President Biden and what it sees as an anti-Russia ‘establishment,’” reports Sabrina Eaton.
Willow Street Bridge: Mayor Frank Jackson’s administration has quietly eliminated an option to repair or replace the 56-year-old Willow Avenue Lift Bridge, which neighborhood residents feel is the best solution for redirecting industrial truck traffic. The bridge provides the only connection to industries on the south side of the Whiskey Island peninsula. Steven Litt reports the decision on the bridge will have huge consequences for residents of the Lakeview public housing complex, but they didn’t get a chance to voice their opinion.
Hotel occupancy: Hotels in Northeast Ohio continue to struggle during the pandemic, Susan Glaser reports. Occupancy was 41.3% for the six-county Greater Cleveland region during the week ending Aug. 29. For downtown Cleveland, it was a dismal 31.7%, down from 71% a year ago. The Ohio Hotel and Lodging Association said hotels in cities are faring particularly poorly during the pandemic because of their reliance on business and convention traffic.
Downtown stay: Susan Glaser has missed downtown – summer baseball games, meeting friends for lunch, a drink after work. So she spent a glorious summer evening eating, drinking, walking, people watching on an overnight trip, motivated by Destination Cleveland’s Rediscover CLE campaign – which aims to inspire Clevelanders to support the city’s ailing tourism industry.
Girl in cage: A Canton couple is accused of keeping a 7-year-old girl, who weighed only 28 pounds, in a dog cage in the basement of their home, Robin Goist reports. Lillian Cottrell, 29, and her boyfriend, Derek Mayle, 30, were arrested Tuesday at their home by a U.S. Marshals task force.
CBD warning: The Ohio Department of Agriculture, which regulates hemp and CBD products in the state, has issued a public health warning for all Limitless CBD LLC products. Laura Hancock reports although there have been no reports of illness involving Limitless’ cannabidiol, the products were made outside of Ohio Department of Agriculture inspection.
Film Fest: The Chagrin Documentary Film Festival will look a little different in its 11th year, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The annual festival, set to take place Oct. 6-11, will incorporate drive-in documentary screenings, outdoor showings and at-home streaming options with more than 100 documentary films, Anne Nickoloff reports.
Home sales: The cleveland.com database of recent Cuyahoga County home sales and other property transfers has been updated with August 2020 transactions by Rich Exner. You can search the database to find home sales in your neighborhood and across the county for last month and for each year going back to 2007.
Geraldo Rivera: Geraldo Rivera started out as an investigative reporter in the early 1970s, became a network star on ABC’s “20/20,” hosted his own syndicated talk show and served as a war correspondent for Fox News. Joey Morona reports Rivera is still going strong at 77, hosting a daily radio show on WTAM AM/1100 and working as a correspondent-at-large for Fox News, both from his home studio in Shaker Heights.
Food Truck Challenge: Crocker Park’s sixth annual Food Truck Challenge is set for Saturday, Oct. 3. Marc Bona reports the challenge – 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. – will pit food trucks in a variety of categories.
Grill-ready: While Labor Day is the traditional end to summer, there will still be plenty of warm weather left to fire up the backyard barbecue and enjoy dinner on the grill. Yadi Rodriguez and Brenda Cain spent a month testing more than 80 BBQ sauces. Here’s that they found.
What to do: It’s the last long weekend of summer, and Anne Nickoloff has 17 ideas of how you can spend it, from floating the Cuyahoga River to a performance of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.”
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