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Jury Selection Begins in Opioid Trial Despite Delay Request
By: Mark Gillispie | Julie Carr Smith | AP
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Jury selection began Wednesday in the first federal trial over the opioid epidemic despite a last-minute request from lawyers to delay it because of news reports on… Read More

Cuyahoga County Jail Official Pleads Guilty to Misdemeanor Charges
By: Associated Press
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CLEVELAND (AP) – A troubled county jail system’s associate warden accused of ordering a corrections officer to turn off his body camera after an inmate’s fatal overdose and lying to… Read More

Inspection Finds Persistent Problems at Northern Ohio County’s Jail
By: Mark Gillispie | AP
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CLEVELAND (AP) — A state inspection of a troubled county jail in Cleveland in early July found that problems with medical care, sanitation and inmate lockdowns persist months after they… Read More

Coroner: Fatal Overdoses From Heroin Substitute On the Rise
By: Associated Press
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The coroner in Ohio’s largest county is seeing a rise in deaths from the powerful painkiller fentanyl. The Cuyahoga County medical examiner’s office in northeast Ohio says deaths from the… Read More