Cleveland

Holiday season is upon us, but Downtown Cleveland's Galleria mall is mostly empty. Developers hope renovations will revitalize the once-bustling building.

The new members of Cleveland's Board of Education will face challenging decisions, with the district's budget forecast showing it quickly running out of money.

The decision comes almost two years after a local nonprofit had been granted a variance to build the center, which would have provided meals and other help for struggling young people.

Jones, who represented Cleveland's Ward 7 in 2018 and 2019 and ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2021, is charged with fraudulently using his role as a public official for personal financial gain.

The new Second District Commander, Timothy Maffo-Judd, apologized and said he wants to rebuild trust after a 2022 complaint over his use of an anti-gay slur surfaced.

Antoine Tolbert maintains his innocence on charges of extorting protection money from two gas stations on Cleveland's East Side. He was indicted on several felony counts in August.

Often planned in advance on social media, street takeovers frequently involve souped-up or muscle cars doing doughnuts in intersections for crowds of people.

Police and city officials are responding to several incidents involving cars and groups of bystanders taking over busy intersections to perform tricks and post videos on social media.

This summer, some suburbs like Lakewood and Parma Heights restricted their public outdoor pools to just residents for the first time, following heatwaves in June. Are city pools enough to cool off residents?

The tenants say conditions at the building on Hampton Road began deteriorating about a year ago. They're getting support from a group involved in a successful 2023 campaign to hold absentee landlords accountable.