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12/18/2025

Time to check your Powerball tickets as the drawing has been held for a jackpot estimated at $1.25 billion.

12/18/2025

The floundering Cavs lost to the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night, 127-111, inside the United Center. It’s Cleveland second straight loss against a below .500 opponent. The seventh setback in the last 10 games.

The Cavs have spent the last month searching for internal solutions. They’ve tried anything and everything to snap out of this prolonged funk.

12/18/2025

A group of Ohio Republican lawmakers wants incoming federal health care dollars steered to 13 rural hospitals — instead of large hospital systems in Ohio’s biggest cities.

Ohio lawmakers argue that independent, rural hospitals without "creative revenue streams" need direct payments to survive.

12/18/2025

Ohio’s five Democratic Congress members are pressing the Trump administration after federal funding for the state’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership was suddenly suspended, threatening six centers that support more than 14,000 manufacturers statewide.

Six centers supporting Ohio's small and medium manufacturers face financial crisis after Commerce Department abruptly halted federal dollars during an ongoing audit. The state's congressional Democrats want answers.

12/18/2025

Attorney General Dave Yost is looking to give Ohio police departments a lift with acquiring more – and more powerful – surveillance drones.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Columbus Republican, says that drones can be a “game-changer” for police facing circumstances like hostage situations.

12/18/2025

Ohio Bobcats head football coach Brian Smith has been fired for “serious professional misconduct,” the program announced Wednesday.

Ohio University head football coach Brian Smith has been fired for "serious professional misconduct," the school announced Wednesday, weeks after he was placed on indefinite leave.

12/18/2025

Imagine checking into your hotel and taking an elevator up to a room with curved walls that was once part of a grain silo dating back to the 1800s. That could happen in the Flats in the not-too-distant future.

The Flats hotel plan was one of a dozen Greater Cleveland projects to win Ohio historic tax credits

12/18/2025

Governor Mike DeWine’s reading education revolution has taken an extreme turn, according to hosts of Today in Ohio, who criticized a recent state audit that penalized colleges for merely mentioning alternative teaching strategies.

Cleveland State and other universities penalized for even mentioning non-state-approved teaching approaches, undermining the very purpose of higher education

12/18/2025

AI is now answering Akron police’s non-emergency calls ⤵️

12/18/2025

🥅👏 Congratulations to Bruno Berlin of Brecksville-Broadview Heights — the top overall vote-getter in the 2025 Ohio HS boys soccer All-Stars!
See who else made the fan-voted team ⬇️

Check out the boys soccer players fans chose as the best of the best in 2025.

12/17/2025

A four-course meal will blend chef Liu Fang’s passion for Chinese cooking with Jeremy Umansky and Allie La Valle’s expertise in Jewish deli and baking.

The Dec. 21 event features a $95 four-course Chinese-Jewish fusion meal, mahjong games and a "Home Alone" screening.

12/17/2025

🔗: https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2025/12/police-officer-who-shot-tamir-rice-hired-by-west-virginia-departments-report-says.html

Should an officer involved in the killing of Tamir Rice be welcomed back as a police officer? Records show Timothy Loehmann has been hired by two departments in West Virginia, years after Cleveland fired him in 2017 — not for the 2014 shooting, but for lying on his application.