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Cuyahoga County Job and Family Services is scrambling to ensure victims of fraud have enough food for the holiday.

Ohio’s political map-making panel has voted to approve legislative maps while being ordered to appear at a Supreme Court hearing; the Ohio Supreme Court is considering whether a Northeast Ohio company that suffered financial losses as a result of a COVID-driven business shutdown can be compensated for those losses by its insurance company; Ohio's health leader warns against complacency as COVID situation improves ; and more stories.

The latest figures from the Ohio Department of Health show Cuyahoga County now has the highest coronavirus transmission rate in the state; the remaining members of a Holmes County-based missionary group who were kidnapped two months ago in Haiti have been freed; a Democrat who helped lead the effort to expel former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder after his federal indictment in a bribery scheme is running for attorney general next year; and more stories.

Fueled by the delta variant, cases of COVID-19 in Ohio have soared to a statewide average of 125 per 100,000 people according to the Ohio Department of Health; Summa Health is the first hospital in Akron to announce it is requiring that its employees receive the COVID-19 vaccine; the state health department continues to report strong numbers of vaccination this week; and more stories.

The state credits the P3 Project, a partnership between public and private organizations, with a reduction in claims for unemployment compensation.

The number of doses is the most the state has received so far during the pandemic, DeWine says.

Over 120,000 claims for traditional unemployment were filed in Ohio in the last week. At least 21,000 are suspected to be fraudulent, bringing the total of claims flagged for fraud to 127,000 in the last month. But it may be a while before it’s known how big the fraud really is, and who can be blamed for it.

The top leader of the Ohio Senate addresses the system's challenges and talks about what's being done to overcome them.

Ohio is the first state to challenge the U.S. Census Bureau’s decision to push back the release of 2020 census figures; Four Ohio counties have dropped from level 3 red to level 2 orange on the COVID-19 alert map; Gov. DeWine says sports and entertainment facilities can reopen with limited attendance; and more stories.

ODJFS has identified 77,000 claims in the past two weeks as fraudulent, adding to the thousands of claims already marked as fake in the unemployment compensation system.