Dozens of Ohioans who were ripped off by their own attorneys are being sent some money as compensation. It comes from a special "Client's Security Fund". (more )

A Cleveland city council committee has pledged $1.2 million in loan guarantees to a film studio in Northeast Ohio. (more )

Summa Akron City Hospital is in for a major expansion. (more )

Four Republican candidates for a key swing congressional district in Northeast Ohio preached the small-government gospel last night to an auditorium in Stark County full of people who believe that may be the only way to save America. (more )

Kent State University and The University of Akron are the favorites at the MAC basketball tournament at the Q starting Thursday. The MAC's winner gets an automatic berth in the NCAA tournament. The runner-up likely will get nothing. The Plain Dealer's Terry Pluto talks to WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz about why the MAC conference gets overlooked when the at-large bids are handed out. (more )

The Coast Guard is beginning its busiest time of the year cutting ice on the Great Lakes. And with the shipping season opening in two weeks, an extra ship is helping to ram through Lake Erie's massive ice pressure ridges. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz spent a day aboard the Penobscot Bay cutter and has this report. (more )

But, they are indeed tied together in the complex tale of a troubled Northeast Ohio company called Fair Finance....and how the decades old seller of investment certificates changed after a new owner, once high-flying Indianapolis entrepreneur Tim Durham, took over (more )

Ohio legislators are wrapping up work in a bill letting teenagers who are being threatened, stalked, or abused by other teens to get restraining orders from juvenile courts. The Ohio House of Representatives okayed one version of the measure last June and today, the Senate approved a slightly different version. (more )

The planned overhaul of the Cleveland public school system will go forward....at least as far as funding will take it. Tuesday night, the school board voted nearly unanimously in favor of the sometimes controversial plan. (more )

When Chrysler was forced into bankrputcy in 2009 the Twinsburg plant was among assets to be eliminated from the new, restructured company (more )

Derek Anderson is done with the Cleveland Browns. The team released the quarterback today with a statement from Coach Eric Mangini that thanked him for his service.

Anderson was with the team for five years and made the pro-bowl once as an alternate. He would have made a 2 million dollar bonus if he'd remained on the roster through March 19.

The release came the day after the Browns traded for backup Seattle quarterback Seneca Wallace, and the Plain Dealer's Terry Pluto says Anderson just wasn't worth the money.

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Three giant soft drink companies say they slashed the beverage calories they've been delivering to schools in Ohio and across the nation. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports. (more )

Dozens of Ohioans who were ripped off by their own attorneys are being sent some money as compensation. It comes from a special "Clients' Security Fund." Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports. (more )

The Ohio death row inmate whose drug overdose delayed his lethal injection by a week, remains in a Youngstown hospital today. Lawrence Reynolds Junior was found unconscious in his prison cell late Sunday night, but now he's conscious. Medical personnel now have the unusual job of getting Reynolds health enough to be executed. Julie Walburn of the Ohio Corrections Department gave this update to Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen. (more )

Three giant soft drink companies say they slashed the beverage calories they've been delivering to schools in Ohio and across the nation. Pepsi, Coca-cola, and Dr. Pepper paid for a study by an independent research company, and it reports that since 2004, there's been a dramatic change. Kimberly McConville is director of the Ohio Soft Drink Association. She talks about that change in an interview with Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen. (more )

President Barack Obama will be back in Northeastern Ohio Monday, this time to talk about health insurance reform.

The White House isn't releasing details yet.

The president was last here in January, when he appeared at Lorain County Community College to promote his jobs program. Since he was inaugurated last year, the president also has visited the Cleveland Clinic, which he touts as a model of high-quality medicine with costs well controlled.

Mr. Obama visited suburban Philadelphia yesterday and will be in St. Charles, Mo., tomorrow to push Congress to pass a Senate version of health reform. (more )

- Ohio has postponed the execution of an inmate who overdosed on polles from tuesday to March 16
- The Justice Department is signing off on Election Systems & Software purchase of Diebold's electronic voting business
- The Cleveland Cavaliers beat the San Antonio Spurs 97-95 last night without LeBron
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A new statewide poll shows Republican Rob Portman ahead of his Democratic challengers in the race for George Voinovich's U.S. Senate seat.

The Rasmussen poll shows Portman leading Ohio Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher 44-to-39 percent, and a six point lead over Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner 43-to-37 percent. The numbers have remain virtually unchanged from last month.

Lee Fisher says right now people have other things on their mind than the race for U-S Senate. (more )

Supporters who want a bike lane included in the reconstruction of the I-90 Innerbelt bridge in Cleveland now have a powerful ally. (more )

Outside observers give the Cleveland public schools' transformation plan high marks for vision...but there is a question about its funding. Overhauling the district will cost 70-million dollars over three-years. That's on top of a 50-million dollar budget deficit the district is already facing. This evening, the Cleveland school board votes on the ambitious plan to drastically change how teachers teach...how students learn...and how administrators run their buildings and the district. (more )

But some dealers may not want to return to the GM fold (more )

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing a fine of more than $3 million for safety problems at BP's refinery in Toledo.

According to an internal OSHA memo provided by Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur's office, some of the dozens of violations resembled conditions just before the massive explosion in 2005 of a Texas refinery. That explosion killed 15 people and injured 180.

In a statement, U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis says BP "often ignored or severely delayed fixing known hazards."

BP would not comment on tape. In a written statement, it says it is evaluating the citations, and that the Toledo refinery's 2009 rate of recordable injuries was more than 25 percent lower than the industry average. (more )

The feds and state attorneys general have attached some conditions to the sale of Diebold's troubled voting division to its chief rival. (more )

There's a life and death irony playing out in Ohio's prison system. Corrections officials have gotten hospital treatment for a prison inmate, so he can get better and be executed. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports. (more )

Plans to extend the Towpath Trail from Steelyard Commons to north of the I-490 bridge in Cleveland will be discussed at a public meeting tomorrow. The northern end of the trail currently ends at lower Harvard Avenue in Cleveland, but has a one mile stretch that's been completed to Steelyard Commons.

Ohio Canal Corridor Director Tim Donovan says planners need the public's approval for the proposed path through Cleveland's near west side. (more )

Cleveland's school board will decide tomorrow (Tuesday) night whether to commit to a massive overhaul of the state's second largest school system. The change would close and merge some schools and refashion others into smaller schools focused on specific disciplines.

It also would turn some of the schools over to private charter management, and hold teachers, administrators and the community more accountable.

The plan has drawn some protests from parents who fear the loss of neighborhood schools and whether new boundaries will target their children for gang violence. But it's also drawn strong support from community institutions, including the George Gund Foundation, which has committed at least $2.5 millionto the overhaul. The foundation's Ann Mullin says the school board faces a hard but rewarding task.

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A northeast Ohio man who was scheduled to be executed tomorrow (Tuesday) has been given an extra week to live.

Governor Ted Strickland has denied clemency to Lawrence Reynolds Junior, but did give him a temporary reprieve after Reynolds was found unconscious in his Youngstown prison cell shortly before midnight Sunday.

Reynolds was taken to a hospital while the state investigated whether he tried to overdose on pills, and Strickland rescheduled the execution for March 16th. He's reportedly regaining consciousness.

State prison spokeswoman Julie Walburn says the circumstances are unique. (more )

The Ohio Historical Society resumed its blog today with its fourth entry on the countdown of Ohio's most embarrassing historical moments. Here's the list from the historical society to date. (more )

A local waste management agency is looking for federal money to fund a pilot fuel cell project. (more )

Comedian Drew Carey says he knows how to get Cleveland back on the road to prosperity. (more )

The Cleveland school board votes tomorrow on the overhaul of the struggling district. The plan includes revamping how students are taught, installing smaller, specialized high schools, and closing or moving 18 under-performing and under-enrolled schools. One of the high schools slated to close is East High. People in that community are fighting to keep it open, but they are also making plans for its closure. (more )

More than two years into the so-called Great Recession, we're starting to get used to hearing about unemployment hovering around double digit levels. That's the national average but averages can be deceiving. In some sectors of the economy unemployment is double the national average. For blue collar workers, the Great Recession is more like the Great Depression. (more )

A Cuyahoga County jury has convicted a Gates Mills doctor of poisoning his wife to death.

Yazeed Essa was convicted today of aggravated murder. He laced the calcium tablets of his wife, Rosemarie Essa with potassium cyanide after falling ill in her car in late February 2005.

Essa fled the United States in that March and he was indicted in February 2006 He was arrested in Cypress and extradited in a year ago to Cuyahoga County.

The trial lasted for six weeks, and the jury deliberated for three days. No sentencing date has yet been set. (more )

There hasn't been much change in Ohio's unemployment picture the past month. At least, that's what new numbers on the jobs front show. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports on the updated unemployment rate. (more )

Akron city officials have given their unions an ultimatum...either accept concessions or there will be more layoffs. (more )

Hundreds of Cleveland workers at risk of losing their jobs will be getting support at this weekend's Academy Awards ceremony. (more )

- A proposal to ban texting while driving will be discussed in legislature this week
- State lawmakers are being urged to pass a bill regarding sex offenders
- Ohio may have missed out on thousands of jobs
- Ohio has been left out for federal grants to prevent home forclosures
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