Updated: 12:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021 Cleveland’s Major League Baseball club has reached a deal with Cleveland and Cuyahoga County to extend the team’s lease for another 15 years, with the possibility of a 10-year renewal after that. The agreement will cost the city and county $17 million annually, according to a news release from the team and local governments. The state will chip in $2 million a year, and the team will pay $10 million annually. All told, the deal will cost about $435 million over the 15-year life of the lease.

Shontel Brown will next face Laverne Gore, who won the GOP primary. The winner will replace former Rep. Marcia Fudge, who now heads the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Over the past few years, police departments across the country have grappled with what to do when a video in their possession captures the use of deadly force by a police officer.

Like the name or not, here come the Cleveland Guardians. Cleveland fans were still taking stock of the new name before the game Friday, just hours after the ball club announced it would shed the name Indians for a new identity as the Guardians.

Ohio’s COVID-19 cases are sharply climbing, and with the increased spread of the more contagious delta variant in the state, the state’s top doctor says Ohioans have two choices at this point in the pandemic.

All students and staff with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) will be required to wear masks for at least the first five weeks of the fall 2021 semester.

Officially, the new docket in Administrative Judge Brendan Sheehan’s Cuyahoga County courtroom is called the violence intervention program. Unofficially, it’s the gun docket.

The Cleveland police union’s years long pursuit to get Timothy Loehmann his job back has come to an end.

Many Ohioans will have a blast this weekend setting off fireworks for the Fourth of July, even though it’s technically illegal to shoot them off in the state. A bill recently approved by Ohio lawmakers could change that. If signed into law, Senate Bill 113 would allow Ohioans to set off fireworks on certain holidays, including the Fourth of July, New Years Day and Labor Day.

Localized internet has been helpful for residents and businesses alike. In Ohio, opponents say the government should stay out of competitive markets where service providers are already at work.