Summit County Republicans and Lorain County Democrats are suing after Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose blocked nominees to their local boards of elections.

The federal government dropped charges against two Pennsylvania men they originally said traveled to Cleveland on May 30 to participate in a riot.

They say the wheels of justice grind slowly. One Cuyahoga County resident can confirm the cliché, with resolution finally in sight for her 26-year-old foreclosure case. After the county foreclosed on Mary Lynn Gattozzi’s house in 1995, she sued, claiming she was entitled to the difference between what she owed and what the property was sold for in a sheriff’s sale: $15,000. It took 15 years, but the county eventually paid up.

Thousands have received COVID-19 vaccines at the mass vaccination clinic inside the Wolstein Center since its opening a week ago, and thus far, people are sharing positive reviews of the process. Lauren Tatum, a small business owner from Cleveland, received her shot there Sunday and did not have a single complaint.

The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Board of Trustees elected Rev. Charles Lucas as its new president Tuesday. The vote comes after former President Dennis Clough said he would not seek reappointment to the board last year. Clough had held the position since 2018, and had served on the board since 1999. Lucas was appointed to the board in 2016, following in the footsteps of his father, who was the first African American to be appointed to the agency’s board in 1968.

George Zeller, the meticulous Cleveland economist who tracked the fortunes of Northeast Ohio’s poorest residents through industrial upheaval and painstaking recovery, died over the weekend after a fire at his West Side home. He was 71. The blaze was an accidental electrical fire, Cleveland Division of Fire spokesman Lt. Michael Norman said.

People across the world, and here in Northeast Ohio, have been stuck in their homes for the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but for some who are suffering from domestic violence, what’s inside the house can be just as dangerous as what’s outside. Deaths resulting from domestic violence incidents increased by 35 percent in Ohio from July 2019 through June 2020, according to the Ohio Domestic Violence Network. This increase in violence, during the pandemic, has also led to record numbers of people seeking help from shelters across the state.

Wage gaps between Black and white laborers in Ohio have widened over the last two decades, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and a significant Black-white employment gap persists as well. Ohio tends to generally follow national economic inclusion patterns, said Cleveland Fed Senior Policy Analyst Kyle Fee, but the most recent numbers show the state is underperforming. “Most recently, in 2020, Ohio has a larger Black-white employment rate gap than the rest of the nation,” Fee said.

Updated: 4:50 p.m., Monday, March 22, 2021 Former Cleveland City Councilman Zack Reed launched a second bid for mayor, making the announcement in a video tweet Monday morning

More than 31,000 people have already received a COVID-19 vaccine at the Wolstein Center mass vaccination clinic in Cleveland, Gov. Mike DeWine said Monday. The site is in its second week of operation, and more appointments may open soon. Sometimes people have to refresh the site or check back at a different time to see if any slots have opened. But for people who do not have computer access or the Internet bandwidth to do so, another option might be to visit one of the local libraries this week.