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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb will begin working as vice-chair of Climate Mayors, a bipartisan organization for mayors across the country.

Longtime state legislator and influential Medina conservative William Batchelder has died at age 79; President Joe Biden will visit Cleveland, Lorain on Thursday; COVID-19 metrics continue to drop in Ohio; and more stories.

COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to climb in the state; Ohio’s capital city has tallied a record number of homicides for the second straight year; the Dayton will demolish a 129-year-old historic building that once was the site of the Wright brothers’ first bike shop; and more stories.

Akron City Council is considering a law that would require police to automatically post body camera footage within a week of an officer using deadly force; Dennis Kucinich will seek another bid for Cleveland mayor more than 40 years later; several Northeast Ohio municipalities are speaking out against an amendment slipped into the Senate’s state budget proposal that limits public broadband projects and cuts all broadband-related funding; and more stories.

Here are your morning headlines for Wednesday, Jan. 30:Ohio prepares for polar vortex;Grammy-Winning Akron Native James Ingram dies;Winter weather closes…