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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.

A longtime Cleveland City Council member accused stealing $127,000 of city and federal money has been indicted on multiple federal charges; new coronavirus cases ticked up Tuesday to more than 2,700; shares of Canton-based TimkenSteel soared on Tuesday following a “buy” recommendation from a stock analyst; and more stories.

We learn even more about a country by what it chooses to forget: its mistakes, its disappointments, and its embarrassments.

The latest blast of winter shut down several COVID-19 vaccination sites in Ohio and could delay vaccine shipments by a day or two; Gov. Mike DeWine says the rollout of an online vaccine appointment scheduling tool is still two to three weeks away as the state recruits providers; TimkenSteel is idling its Harrison plant in Canton, and more stories.

Gov. Mike DeWine unveiled a two-year state spending budget with a $1 billion initiative to help bring the state back from the economic downfall of the pandemic; Ohio's largest electric utility has agreed in a settlement to forgo collection of a guaranteed profit subsidy provision in a now-tainted energy bill; Ohio’s daily tally of new coronavirus cases continues to trend downward; and more stories.

According to the Center for Community Solutions, the problem has reached crisis levels.

Wednesday saw more than 10,000 new cases under the state’s new measuring system. It includes both confirmed and probable positive tests; the mother of a Black man fatally shot by an Ohio sheriff's deputy is demanding answers about her son's death; 78 inmates were infected with the coronavirus at the Cuyahoga County Jail as of Wednesday and nearly 400 more inmates are quarantining in specialized areas of the jail.

The public health directors of three Ohio cities and the surrounding counties have issued stay-at-home advisories to slow the spread of the coronavirus; Daily COVID-19 numbers were delayed on Wednesday, as the state said “thousands of reports are pending review” due to technical glitches; Aultman Hospital in Canton will be the first site in the 12-county region to distribute any upcoming coronavirus vaccines; and more stories.

Ohio has surpassed 250,000 COVID-19 cases with another record-breaking day over the weekend; Biden is the first in 60 years to win the presidency without Ohio; The University of Akron is making contingency plans as the number of COVID-19 cases rise in Summit County and on campus.

Early voting in Northeast Ohio continued to draw long lines at county boards of elections over the weekend, Joe Biden will spend part of his final campaign push in Cleveland Monday, Ohio reported around 3,300 COVID-19 cases on Sunday, and more stories.