Amanda Rabinowitz

The NFL draft hasn't always been the star-studded, primetime televised event it is today, and players often have been left waiting and wondering.

The team continues to contend with change and build experience as its veteran players are sidelined.

The Indians open their season Thursday in Detroit and are scheduled to play 162 games following a pandemic-shortened season last year.

The legal battle between Summit County Republican Party chair Bryan Williams and Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose is intensifying; Summit County health officials are still working to get a mass vaccination clinic set-up at the county fairgrounds ahead of its tentative Monday opening; the mass vaccination site at the Wolstein Center in downtown Cleveland is getting $8.7 million dollars from The EMA; and more stories.

Commentator Terry Pluto reflects on Paul Dolan's Akron Roundtable discussion last week, which touched on everything from changing the team’s name to the future of ownership.

Visitations at Ohio's nursing homes and assisted living facilities will now be required; Ohio is the seventh state to reach 1 million coronavirus cases; a mass vaccination site at The Kent State University Field House begins today for Portage County residents; and more stories.

Gov. Mike DeWine is expanding vaccine eligibility; Cleveland’s mass COVID vaccine clinic opens to the public today at the Wolstein Center; billionaire investor Carl Ichan has reached a deal with Akron-based FirstEnergy to add two board seats; and more stories.

Terry Pluto reports from Spring Training in Goodyear, Ariz., where the Cleveland Indians are gearing up for the beginning of a rebuild season.

Recognized in the Northeast Ohio music scene as the animated alto-sax player in soul groups Wesley Bright and The Honeytones and Nathan-Paul and The Admirables, the jazz musician is releasing his own lo-fi songs as a solo artist.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is reportedly seeking two seats on the FirstEnergy board of directors; Cuyahoga County Council has unanimously approved Christopher Viland as the new county sheriff; university officials from around Ohio spoke with Gov. Mike DeWine Tuesday in support of hazing reform; and more stories.