Northeast Ohio patients suffering from long-haul COVID have a range of symptoms. For some, symptoms can persist for about two weeks for mild cases. For more severe cases, it can take from six weeks to a year or more for people to recover. Long-haul COVID can be completely debilitating for people who have it.

Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team announced a name change over the summer – to the Cleveland Guardians. Friday morning, the name change became official. The Cleveland Guardians changed the team's website address and social media usernames Friday and started selling Cleveland Guardians merchandise at the team store.

Two appointees to the Ohio Board of Education have resigned ahead of an expected vote in the Ohio Senate to remove board members Laura Kohler and Eric Poklar.

Mansfield Frazier, the creator of Chateau Hough — Cleveland’s urban winery and re-entry program — died Saturday. He was 78.

“Old law inmates,” or those who committed their crimes before Ohio changed the parole board system in 1996, have little success in their parole board hearings.

The Cleveland Orchestra announced Thursday its biggest gift to date. The $50 million grant will help the century-old institution's financial picture as well as its plans for the future.

Nadia Zaiem was a 13-year-old 8th grader at a Westlake middle school on the day of the 9/11 terror attacks. She’d only started wearing a hijab, a Muslim head scarf, a month or two before, and was still “getting used to it and how people reacted to it,” she said.

The Cleveland Orchestra and Playhouse Square announced Tuesday they will require proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test for entry to performances.

Cuyahoga County’s lakefront is now a water trail, as designated by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources in a ceremony Friday. The trail stretches from Huntington Beach in Bay Village to Sims Park in Euclid.

Ohio is seeing a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases due to the highly contagious delta variant with a startling number of younger people getting sick, state health officials said Thursday.